Tuesday, July 19, 2011

dining deals....

Chili’s has released another FREE Kids Meal Coupon for today. It is good for 2 FREE kids meals per adult entree purchased. Go here to print your coupon.




Logo of Sonic Drive-In

If you plan to stop by your local Sonic for breakfast, lunch or dinner, simply place your order online at SonicOnTheGo.com, use the coupon code 5off at checkout to save $5 off your online order of $10 or more, and then go pick up your food. Keep in mind that only Sonic Restaurants in Texas, Arizona and Illinois currently offer online ordering.

Monday, July 18, 2011

New York City take 1

We have gone back and forth to NYC everyday this past week. (and let me tell you, we are EXHAUSTED!!!) ha.This year's theme for VBS was "The Big Adventure"I love VBS and our church does a fantastic job! This year I was in the snack section and prepared snacks for 3rd and 4th grade kids. It was so fun! I loved being able to see all of the kids each day and hearing the things that they liked about the day as well as listening to them pray and recite their memory verses.
Sam got to be a part of the "big kids" this year. He is old enough to join in with all the kids, and he LOVED it!!! (he also loved the fact that Molly had to stay in the "little kid" section ha)He had one tough day, but other than that he had a great week. He loved every aspect of VBS. He could not seem to remember everything he learned right after VBS, but a few hours later he could give me the play by play of everything! It is so neat to hear the Bible stories etc from the perspective of a 5 year old.

When you volunteer to help with VBS your littles get to go as well, so Molly thought she was a big kid just because she got to go. She loved taking her backpack and her lunch box and insisted on carrying them herself, everyday...and of course, she had to twirl and twirl and twirl with them, everyday, both with drop off and pick-up...She met a new friend this week. Her name is Nikki. Nikki is the little blond next to Molly. Molly was quite taken with her. I just had to meet this little girl as all we heard about each day was "Nikki was there" "Nikki sang songs" "Nikki played ..." So cute!! I found out she was the granddaughter of some friends of ours, when I told them how taken with Nikki Molly was she they told me that Nikki was quite excited about Molly's friendship as well. Apparently Nikki was having a hard time when being dropped off, but Molly would run and greet her yelling "Nikki" and hug her and all was well with the world again. Molly is very good with names and faces. She knew everyone in her class. In fact, when we were watching the video of her singing she asked me where "X,Y,Z" (she named like 5 people) were as they were not in the video. It was hard to say good-bye to NY, but we must get back to life in Texas. It was fun and I can not wait to see what adventure we will have next year!!!!

NEW YORK CITY take 2

So it would not be VBS if there was not singing right?! and it would not be me to not be super duper proud of my kids singing the songs, SOOOO here it is. There are several, but some are duplicates... you see, we have 2 services at our church. This means I have 2 shots to get the pictures and video...

I am amazed that he actually sang AND did the hand motions... this is a first!!! So cute, makes my heart swell to see him. You cn actually hear him singing too (if you focus and concentrate) I love that I can hear him. I am sure he will just love it too when his future wife sees and hears it ha ha!!!
Good things


help one another

Molly sings the same song

Now to be in the mind of a 5 year old... Sam sang in both services, I guess if you have already done it once, you become much more comfortable and a lot more "jiggy with it" I am behind the camera shaking my head and finger and saying, "no", but the goofy faces continue...

Sam sings good things take 2

and the theme song: Big Apple Adventure:

Sunday, July 03, 2011

While I was looking for the green marker...

Molly was in Sunday school, I was in service. I received a text (I know, during the message no less--- glad my phone was on vibrate) this is what I see:

Her teacher sent this to me. She apologized and stated she did not know how Molly got a marker or colored her face so fast... I did not think anything of if though--- we are used to it, that is our Molly and yes, she can get into trouble faster than you can say the word trouble!