VBS-The Egypt files

This years VBS curriculum was from Answers in Genesis. I really liked it. I thought it was very well organized and they gave you everything: papers, a skit, teaching info, snack ideas, game ideas, even the design ideas for the face painting. I was impressed.I just had to show you this picture. To start off the entire week, two guys had to open and EAT a banana with their feet. Of course the kids loved it.

And here is my illustrious pastor. Do you recognize him? Every night an offering was collected. If the kids brought in $400 Pastor Monte would get a pie in the face. The kids brought in $500! His son surprised him with a pie on the back of the head while his wife got him in the face. Then she kindly gave him a mowhawk. The kids loved it! So did most of the adults. What a good sport.

Our VBS always starts Sunday afternoon and finishes Thursday night. Three out of the 4 nights I was late to VBS. Monday night I went to sign the kids up for swim lessons (very un-efficient way to sign up, but that's another story). Tuesday my babysitting kids don't leave until at least 6:20. Wednesday C had a game. He played for one hour and then we left. (We still don't know if they won or not). Thursday we were all on time and all got to ride in the same car!

VBS: Jungle Safari

This year's theme for VBS was Jungle Safari. Some years our leader does good in making everything "match" with the theme. I think she could have done somewhat better, but who am I to judge? I"m not in charge (thank goodness!) She did rent some really nice costumes for the Bible story time and for the "backdrop" for pictures. Otherwise, there wasn't much.

Daddy is always in charge of taking the kids pictures, printing them, picking them up, and passing them out before the night ends. It usually works well. This way each kid gets their pix--just in case they can't be there the next night. Thursday night's pictures have yet to be delivered. It POURED right at the beginning of VBS and there was no back-up plan for what to do with the kids (the entire VBS night is usually outside). So Daddy wasted a lot of time at the beginning, so therefore the pictures weren't printed in time. Hopefully we will be able to find all the kids on Sunday (our VBS runs Sunday afternoon through Thursday evening-sooo nice to have Friday night off)

K and I missed Tuesday night (due to her ear surgery) and Thursday night (due to a VERY bad little girl--she needed early bed). K would have had her picture taken Thursday night, so I don't have one of her with the VERY LARGE animals. So here is C's picture.

Surgery and hard work

K had ear surgery Tuesday. She had her left ear tube taken OUT and both holes patched. We had to be at the surgery center at 7 am. I'm still not sure why they have you be there so early. Guess what we did? WAIT! Try doing that with a tired and hungry 2 year old with nothing to do. She actually did well, considering. And some of the time she got to watch cartoons so that helped. The surgery was very quick (we were home by 9:30) and everything went well. She was a little groggy and just wanted Daddy. She did well the rest of the day but just to be safe, she and I didn't go to VBS. Wednesday morning she seemed extra whiny, so I gave her some Tylenol and that mellowed her out. We go for a check up in 4 weeks and if all has healed, she can go swimming and dunk her head (hopefully we will have swim lessons too)

On to the hard work: our neighbor came over and helped (maybe Daddy helped him) fix the outlets in my kitchen. It took about 4 hours. What a mess! What a hassle! But they work! YEAH!

Our garage sale

Well we had our garage sale this past week. Sometimes I wonder why I go to all the trouble. We spent Tuesday and Wednesday out in the garage setting all the stuff up. The sale was Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Thursday we had to leave for about 2 hours for C's golf clinic. Saturday we had to close up early for C's game. I'm not sure if all that hurt me or not. All together we made about $140. The kids made $14! They sold candy and some of their old toys. We had our old HUGE tv cabinet that I wanted to sell. It is still sitting in our garage. UGH! Saturday after the sale, I pitched a lot of stuff. Stuff that hasn't sold in the past 3 garage sales or so. I figured that was a hint. I'm hoping to put our broken tv to the curb tomorrow. I tried to give it away for free, but no one wanted it. If we could just sell the cabinet, we could have our garage back. I've put it on Craig's List but haven't had any response. Anyone want a tv cabinet? :)

For those who are wondering, C won both of his games last week. As he said "I actually smoked the Rays."

We also started VBS yesterday (Sunday) so that will make for a very busy week. If I have any interesting stories, I'll be sure to share. K also gets her tubes out of her ears and the holes fixed tomorrow. (I'm not planning on VBS Tuesday night)

That is our week in review and pre-view. Hopefully I can keep up a little better in the future.