CHRISTmas

Trying to get these blog posts that I have written late at night posted before the New Year! lol.

The Christmas season brought with it A Not So Silent Night Christmas Musical. The first our church has ever done and it was crazy busy fun! We had 23 children involved and all new costumes for each of them. Grace played a Scribe and Mary and Jeffrey was Palace Staff. We are still signing the songs.

Christmas day itself was quiet..which was good because after all the hustle and bustle of the last month I came down with a cold. It has knocked me on my hiney this past week but in all honesty I have needed to down time.

AWANA Games

This year I have taken the role as T&T director. It has been fun and with the AWAWA games in Redding we ended up having three teams quizzing! They all did great coming in 2, 3 and 4th places. We also came in 2nd place in the games with both our Sparky and T&T teams. Great day with some of our church family!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have so much to be thankful for! Just yesterday Jeffrey had a dentist appointment and dental bills can be expensive with insurance but without Yikes! So I get to the counter to check out and someone had paid the bill in full! I was so blown away! I couldn't bring myself to speak it at first because I just cried. Thank you Lord for special angels you place in our life!

This past Sunday one of our pastors had challenged our congregation to make a list of 50 things that we are thankful for. We will be making our list as we travel down the road to Grandma's house. We want to encourage you to do the same.

Have a blessed Thanksgiving!

Crafty Chatter

Let me start off by explaining what Crafty Chatter is. Crafty Chatter was born out of my friend Christie and I's love of crafts and desire to create a time of fellowship for other women. Our monthly goal is to create a craft under $5.00 something that one would want to display or gift and most important to be a Light for our Lord and Savior. Our first craft was a Fall Rag Wreath...here are a few pictures. We had a great turn out and we are looking forward the next one!

Princess Party

Some of the great women in our church put together a Princess Party for our girls ages 4th-7th grades. It was a time of sharing for the Mom's and an opportunity for a couple of really great young women to share with our girls the importance of modesty and what that means. Grace and I had such a great time and we are looking forward to the next one coming in January. Here are the beautiful princesses!

Kkrazy Busy!

Here we are mid September... AWANA starts back up tonight and I am now the T&T Director!

Christie, Kari and I did the first craft with the first grade class yesterday and I have been asked to do crafts for the upper grades Enrichment time. I love crafting with kids...well with anyone really!

First PTO meeting was also yesterday and we will have a fundraiser going come the end of October!

Christie and I are also preparing for our first monthly Crafty Chatter at church in another week. It looks like we will have a great turnout and we are really looking forward to it. We will be making a Fall Rag Wreath. I will post some pictures here soon of some of the crafts we have been up to lately.

We also have a weekly bible study starting in a little over a week at church. It's Beth Moore's study..A Woman's Heart. Doesn't that just sound great? I am looking forward to it. It's been a couple years since we have done one of her studies and I sure did enjoy Believing God. Highly recommend it! I still refer to my book.

Well, I hope everyone is enjoying the change in season. The kids and I have spotted some leaves changing and we are enjoying the milder temps. School for myself and the kids is going well and as you can see we are busy bees. The day is getting away from me so I better get back to the house. Before I know it, it will be time to get the kids from the bus. Happy Wednesday!

Busy Fall ahead!

Well, school is in full swing..which includes a lot of homework for Grace. She is feeling a bit frustrated with one of her classes as the teacher seems to move a bit fast for her. This bothers me because Grace is a great student always on the A honor roll. So we are praying things get into some sort of a groove for her. Jeffrey is loving first grade and his teacher is so sweet! I am looking forward to starting crafts with them soon.




As, for me I have had to drop one of my classes..the anatomy class was a drive to Weed twice a week and the financial aid office didn't get my VA submitted in time which means no funding from them...which means the cost in gas to high for me without it. So I will take it next fall. The reason for next fall is that Cassie is due in the spring and I hope to be spending a few weeks out there with them.




Other news..I have gladly taken over the roll of T&T director for our AWANA program. We will start that on the 15th and really look forward to learning all the T&Ters names..other than just my group of girls. I am excited as we have new leaders this year as well. Really looking forward to seeing what the Lord has in store for these young people.









Crafts! Christie and I will be doing crafts with the first grade once a week and once a month (the planning takes place tomorrow)at the church as a fellowship outreach. We are excited about both of these opportunities. Christie..just love her! My crafty friend! As I am typing she just text me a picture of a magnet she mod podged! We are becoming addicted to Mod Podge!









Bible Study! I hear that we are going to be doing another Beth Moore study this fall. I am so excited about this! Love Beth Moore! Looking forward to seeing what blessings will come from this study with a great group of women.




Oh and I don't want to forget the upcoming Montague Balloon Fair coming September 24-26 right here in our little town. It is a lot of fun watching those balloons go and up and the best part is inviting over friends for breakfast that Saturday morning. Love the fellowship and the noise from the kids!

So..yes we have a busy time coming up but i wouldn't miss any of it for the world!

AWANA Games

So Saturday the AWANA games were held in Redding and boy did we have fun! Our church came in first in games and we did well in quizzing also. Here are a few pictures from the games.

Children's Christmas Video

Yesterday we spent the day shooting pictures for this video. It turned out so well..Thank you Pastor John!

Camp #1

Grace came home today from her first of two camps this summer. She can't stop talking about how much fun she had swimming in the river and seeing tad poles, frogs, an eel, craw fish and a water snake! She loved the tent devotion time and the memory verses. However, she was most excited about telling me who came to Christ. I love seeing kids on fire for the Lord!! On our way home today Grace and my girlfriends son sang the worship songs from camp to us with Jeffrey joining in! So cute!

Thank you to all the adults and youth who made this possible. You are all such blessings!

Above is a craft they did at camp with the memory verse.... Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Went to Rome today!

Today we took a car load of kiddos to Rome! Well, Indian Scotty campground. Everyone that pulled this together deserves a great big THANK YOU and a lot of hugs! The kids will be visiting Rome this week as the study God's word with Paul and the Romans Road. It will be a great time of making new friends and memories. Here are a few pictures from today.

Benji our youth pastor and his new bride Chelsea

VBS

We had a great week at VBS our theme this year was Studio Go! and we had a great time! This was my fourth year in crafts and I feel so blessed that I get to spend time with all the kids. Here are a some pictures from the craft room..oh and Grace was the first game show contestant of the week!

Gideon's Torch

Game Show!
Esther's Crown
Pretty Girls!
Our Go Tell Megaphones!

We also decorated Go! Go! Yo Yo's and made Go! Serve necklaces. Lot's of fun and blessed by all these sweet kiddos!