Mexico or bust...

Tomorrow is the big day....We are leaving town hopefully by 7am. Today I have to finish packing and get the house all cleaned. Last night I finished the last of the craft preparation. The village we are going to visit has other vbs groups this summer. In order to not repeat crafts and stories...we came up with all our own crafts. We based it all on the life of Joseph. His stories went along great with our theme, "Because of his love and faithfulness..." I am totally stressed about the crafts. I hope they all work and are liked.

For the first day we have the story of the coat of many colors...The craft is a grid like coat printed on card stock. We will glue small squares and rectangles on the grid...making a coat...of many colors.

Second day is the story of the Cup Bearer and Baker. Joseph interprets their dreams. We have the pull apart plastic cups and they will decorate the insert. Of course the insert has the memory verse printed in Spanish. I am really excited about this craft. They will be able to use their cup everyday and be reminded about this lesson.

Third day is the Pharaoh's dreams. Skinny cows eat fat cows...Skinny sheaves of wheat eat the fat ones. We are making cow sock puppets. Hopefully this works! It did at home....

The last day is Joseph forgiving his brothers and giving them food to eat. That day we will focus on forgiveness...Joseph forgave just like God forgave us and so we need also to forgive. The craft that day is the Wordless bead necklace. Same concept and the bracelet...it just hangs around your neck in the shape of a cross. I am really excited about this day also...

Of course there are a bunch of lose ends that never got addressed. Skits are one of them. We will see how story telling goes...

I am sure it will all come together...God will use us just as we are needed. I just really like to have everything planned out...down to the last letter. I will let you know how it goes. We will be back soon with lots of stories....Till then...

Stories, stories and more stories...

It's been FOREVER...I know! I've been lazy/busy/really beat! So, I'll start at the top!

I had a great mothers day! Jason made me breakfast in bed. We got a bunch of flowers to plant in the back yard, spent time with his family. I finished off the day watching DH with my gals. We had a blast...

Candle is still missing. We have no idea what happened. I feel like someone walked into my house when my back was turned and took her. Of course Amelia is still crushed. We have our good days though. I found a bunch if pictures of them together. That helped a little.

Shane is out of school for the summer. Amelia will be done at the end of this week. I can't believe I will have a first grader! No more kiddos in preschool! CRAZY!!!

Shane told me a funny story yesterday...He said he met a spider on the back patio. The spider's name was Billy. Billy was angry and wanted to bite another spider,Willy, a black widow. So Shane squashed Billy. Billy was a Daddy long-leg.By the way Shane LOVES spiders...they are his favorite!

I had another run-in with a spider this week. There was a giant Wolf spider having a party on my living room floor...He was huge! I was so brave! I dropped a giant glass bowl over him. Jason rescued me. As soon as he was in charge I jumped on a chair! There was NO way that arachnid was crawling up my leg. We enrolled him in the Spider relocation program. He now lives in the back yard.

We are nearing our Mexico trip....I'll write more on that later.

We had a blast with Liese and Danny! Of course the dummy that writes this blog didn't get any pics of her and her besty. I am ashamed of myself! One of the youth pastors from our church is going to the Ukraine in August...I'm gonna see if I can come in one of his carryons...

That's all for now...

Well, but upset....

We are missing our kitty Candle....Both of our cats are indoor cats. Somehow she got out of the house....Dilly is REALLY traumatized! For some reason I have decided that if I stay up really late then the cat will miraculously turn up at the front door. I wonder how late I have to stay up....
I really hope she comes home soon...She is far to cute to be wandering the streets this late at night...and alone....with no street wandering experience!!!
I tried driving around to find her...That did not work! No sign of the cute kitty! I am sad. I hope she turns up...

On a very happy note....I get to see my bestest pal Liese and her hubby Danny on Thursday...I am so excited!!! I can't wait! Oh, they are super amazing missionaries from the Ukraine...We haven't seen them in FOREVER! By forever...I mean a little over a year...EXCITED!!!!!

Medals of Honor for piles of puke....

We have sick Kiddos in our house. It seams to be a 48 hour bug. Shane is feeling much better, however Amelia is now puking. Luckily she makes it to the bathroom almost every time. Shane was mostly stand up and puke. Have you ever noticed how far vomit can bounce? Especially off of vinyl flooring? Yuck! It also amazes me how the pukes come on in the middle of the night. Why is that? Here you are sleeping peacefully, all of a sudden you here a scream and then a splatter...Then crying...Your stomach turns over fifteen times. You know what THAT means!
Then your Stomach of Steele kicks in. You take care of business. Just when you think you can relax... it happens again. I got smart. There is a trail of towels to and from the bathroom...It seems to magically cut down on the "accidental pukes".
Sometimes I wonder...Why did the Mommies get Stomachs of Steel? Why not Daddies?

Spiders...

I don't know if you know just how much I HATE spiders. THEY ARE CREEPY!!! Bunch of eight legged freaks crawling around, under things, up and down the walls. OH! Just the thought sends shivers up and down my spine! There was a huge on one the living room wall this morning. He wanted to eat me! He was watching me...following me around the room with his beady little eyes!(shivers again) I was Brave(shiver)....I wielded my weapon with masterful skill! The telescoping Dyson wand almost wasn't long enough...Then it turns out the spider was some sort of he-man. The super suction powers of my vacuum were clearly not working on him. I repositioned myself...So did the spider. I am still not sure if I got him. He could still be running around my house. I don't think I will sit on the couch for a few days...just in case(SHIVER). If I did get him...there is a chance he will regain his he-man spider powers. I can just picture next time I am vacuuming...Long spider legs reaching out of the top of the wand...Reaching towards ME!!!! (scream,shiver...then jump up and shake till all spiders that might be hiding on me are sure to fly off) Oy! I hate spiders!

Easter...

Easter was lots of fun....




Of course everyone LOVES pictures. I just can't take enough...It does help that my subjects are so beautiful!

Spring...

Don't you love this spring weather? I do! It makes me SO happy! It is the hope of many more bright cheerful days ahead...The beauty of a fresh new year! You don't get that feeling in January...New Years comes and goes, it will be frigid for weeks. But when those trees blossom and the sky turns blue...We are reminded that there is a reward for staying hopeful. Even if it is "just" better weather.

In other News.....

We had a second accident free day with the puppy.

We also turned in all our passport info for the youth mission trip to Mexico. We are going as a family....In June...To Ensenada! This should be VERY interesting!!!!!