What's Up?

So, what's been going on . . . hmmm. Ever feel like you're so busy, but when you sit and think about it, you can't remember what you've been so busy doing? That's me.

So, I'll share our summer with pictures of what we've been doing (in no particular order):

The classrooms. . . they are consuming my thoughts. It's all good and it's going good, but there's so much to think about and decide!! Emilie is working on some sketches for me right now and just with what I've seen so far, I'm in total amazement!! She is amazing! These are pictures of the other end of the hallway before and during the work day. Hopefully we'll get started on the children's church end of the hallway soon!

BEFORE:

DURING:
OUTSIDE DURING:Somehow I haven't gotten "after" pictures yet. Better go do that before we have another work day and everything changes!! I have a TON of pictures from the work day, but I'll just share a few for now.

Jaxon's taking swimming lessons. He's not all that fond of them. He likes to crawl out and jump back in, but that's about it. He's finally getting the concept of splashing and kicking. He'll do it outside of the pool, but once he gets in, that all seems to go out the window!

I found this in my garage. . . yes, I was scared. But, I'm glad that I didn't know they can jump!!

Here it is dead at the end of my driveway:
I went outside the other night to find this on my roof:

There is quite a funny story behind this, but maybe I'll share it later. I'm trying to keep this post short! ;)

Payton took this picture of Evan. I was pretty impressed!

Evan's been taking swimming lessons this week. He loves to jump in and when he does, his goal is to splash everyone in his class.

I took the kids to Mine By Design the other day and we had a blast! It was more expensive than I had planned on spending, but we had fun. Definitely a place I won't take Jaxon in the future!


This weekend, I'm planning a While You Were Out room transformation of my own. I'll be transforming Evan's "Two Horse Ranch" into the ultimate CARS room, complete with car beds for him and Jaxon. I'm really excited about it. He has no idea I'm doing it this weekend! ;)

I've been working out to P90X at 6 am. I didn't think I would like it at first, but I'm really enjoying it. I've lost 6 pounds in just over a week. I am pretty impressed. I've not had sweet tea in 10 days and counting! It's not easy, by any means, but I feel really good once I've done it. I pulled a stomach muscle last week and pulled a shoulder one last night picking up Jaxon. I guess I'll have to be more careful for the next week or so.

So, there's our summer so far in a nutshell. When I get a chance, I might share the story of Evan on the house. It was pretty funny!!

Movie Day Tuesdays

Just thought I would give everyone the list of $1 movies at Century 12 theaters this summer!

These are on TUESDAYS ONLY at 10:45 AM ONLY!! ;)

June 16th: Charlotte's Web
June 23rd: Igor
June 30th: Jimmy Neutron
July 7th: Horton Hears a Who
July 14th: The Tale of Despereaux
July 21st: Kung Fu Panda
July 28th: Kit Kittredge
August 4th: Madagascar 2
August 11th: Space Chimps

All shows start at 10:45 am!!

Summer schedule

Do you have a summer schedule? For example, during the school year, every day was something:

Monday: day at the office

Tuesday: coffee @ Pam's & I pick up the kids, which meant I went to town to run errands

Wednesday: watched Cherith's kids in AM ...didn't go anywhere, so I could clean, etc.

Thursday: coffee with Brandi & Krissy; picked up kids, so I stayed in town

Friday: home & backpacks

Now that school is out, I need a schedule! I have a babysitter for 1/2 day on Monday, so most of my work has to be done @ home, but I don't want to ignore the kids!

It's been the first real week of summer & I know that I wasted so much time, but I HATE wasting time! I want to have a schedule this summer, so I thought I would ask what others are doing.

Thank You!!

Thank you guys for praying for me!! I had so much fun on Sunday! I told the staff at our early morning meeting that I was expecting it to be great in the service, but what was going on inside of me was the thing that mattered the most.

First off, I finally believed that I could talk to adults. I always knew I could talk to kids and probably wouldn't have trouble talking to a room full of kids. But adults? That's a whole other ballgame for me. When people would give me prophetic words about me leading out in conferences, it was hard for me to receive it. I couldn't see a conference of elementary school kids, but I really couldn't see a conference of adults. I can now!

Secondly, I've always felt like an "understudy". Would I ever be an equal in a man's world? Let's face it . . . ministry is mainly a man's world. I am not a man. ;) Would I ever be treated as an equal? Now, I know so.

Thirdly, I now know that I can write a sermon. ;) I did use some of Deborah Reed's sermon, but a lot of that sermon was my own. That I am very proud of.

I was so nervous when I first got up there, but once I got going, it just felt so comfortable and normal. I am so thankful that I was given the opportunity. I know what an honor it is to speak behind the pulpit and I sure didn't take it lightly by any means, but I was amazed at how God used that sermon.

By the way, I'm speaking at WOW in June! Kids is my favorite subject to talk about and my WOW topic is my second favorite! You'll have to come to see what it's all about!! ;)

Tomorrow (almost today), we leave on vacation! I'm working on getting everyone packed -- not fun! ;)