The Summer time craziness continues

I'm SO sorry I haven't updated the blog in awhile. I have been crazy busy.

A couple of weeks ago me, Scott and Kimberly went with the youth to Kentucky for a World Changers mission trip. It was ALOT of work, but SO MUCH fun!! My crew resided a house. Scott's crew built a deck and helped us. Kimberly's crew painted and built a deck. It was great being out there helping others. I posted alot of pictures on Facebook so check them out.

Meanwhile here at home maw maw took care of the rest of the Rodgers gang. They about did her in, but everyone had a great time and she survived. LOL

Tomorrow me and Kirsten leave for Children's Camp in Lone Star. We're taking 56 kids to camp this year! Kirsten is so excited to go. I, on the other hand, am sick! I have a terrible cold. I'm not looking forward to dealing with this and camp life at the same time. Hopefully I will get over it soon so I can enjoy camp. Pray for me. :)

Youth Camp/5K walk/birthday parties

This past week Kimberly and I went to the Piney Woods youth camp. We had so much fun! I posted a bunch of camp pictures on Facebook.

This morning there was a 5K walk It Challenge. Alot of the Weight Watcher members got together to do it. I had planned on running, but it was way too hot.

After the walk we came back home and got ready for Katherine and Kyrie's birthday party. They had a swim party over at Ronnie and Sue Jones's house.

It's been a busy day full of alot of fun activities.

Day 2 of reunion

We began the day by going to Wal-Mart and getting new tires for the van and shopping for lunch supplies. Then we got to my friend’s house where we all met back up. The first thing we did was we all sat down and one by one told what we had been doing since college. Where we’d lived, our jobs, our kids, then a funny road trip we’d had. It was so neat to hear what all has happened in everyone’s lives over the past 17 years. Then we ate lunch and visited some more. About 3:00 we went to the neighborhood pool and swam. That was fun. Then we came back to the house for a group picture then we had to head out so we said our final goodbye’s.

Today was so much fun!! I enjoyed it more than I can put into words. I was sad to see it come to an end. Scott and I were talking about it was like being in Heaven sitting around for hours talking with good Christian friends who meant so much to us and had such an important part in our college lives. I thank God for them and can’t wait to see them again someday.

I have several pictures posted on Facebook of the weekend.

BSU reunion

We are in Denton right now for a BSU reunion. We got in town around 4:00. My mom met us at the hotel to pick up the 4 younger kids. She is taking them for the week since Kimberly and I will be going to youth camp Monday and Scott has to work all week.

After we got ready to go to our friends house we walked out to the van and noticed our back tire was really low. Thankfully there was a convience store right next to the hotel so we were able to air up the tire a bit and buy some Fix a Flat. We still weren't sure if there was a hole in the tire or if it just low so we drove to our friends house without putting the Fix a Flat in. Well when we got there we got out of the car only to hear a loud hissing coming from the tire and watched as it slowly became flat.

We went ahead and went inside to our friends house and visited with everyone for awhile. Then we went out and put the Fix a Flat in the tire and drove to another convience store to put more air in the tire. Two of our friends drove along with us this time in case we needed any help.

When we got to this place we realized real quick we definetly had a big hole in the tire and the Fix a Flat wasn't going to work. We figured we could make it to the restaurant though before it went totally flat. So we took off and made it just in time.

We went inside and had a wonderful time visiting with everyone and talking about old times. When we left the restaurant Scott went ahead and changed the tire and put on our donut. Tomorrow we'll go to Wal-Mart and get a new tire before we head back over to our friends house.

So it's been a fun, exciting trip so far. :)

Surprise birthday party for Scott

Tuesday is Scott's birthday. Since me and Kimberly will be at youth camp and the other kids will be at my moms we decided to surprise him with a little party.

This morning we got up and went into town to pick up the cake, decorations, and presents. Then we made it home and got everything ready with 15 minutes to spare before Scott came home for lunch.

The kids each picked out what they wanted to give him. (I have a feeling they were picking what they would want instead of what he would want. LOL) The present I got him was a bunch of old Justice League comic books. He used to love reading comic books when he was a kid. I thought this would be a fun gift for him.

Happy Birthday honeybaby!!

Vacation Bible School

Last week we had our VBS. It went really well. I worked with the 3rd-4th graders. My job was to do the Bible Study time then just take them to the different activities which included music, missions, recreation, snacks and crafts. The theme was the Australian Outback. Here were some pictures of our week.

It began with us decorating our room. We tried to make our room look like the outside of a sheep shack.

Here are before and during pictures of the decorating process.

Each morning the kids would line up outside then march in for the worship rally.

Worhsip Rally

Craft time

My class

I actually had a bunch more pictures I wanted to post, but I'm having trouble with the computer so I'll just stop for now.

Prayer Garden Phase 1 Complete!

A couple of weeks ago we decided we wanted to create a prayer garden in our backyard. We wanted to have a nice place where we could go to sit and have quiet times or just relax and read a book.

We have alot of plans on how we want the finished garden to look, but today we completed Phase 1. :)

This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago when we first began the big task of clearing out all the brush.

Then this is what we did today.