The Circus

June 16 2012

  As part of Noah's birthday present from Pops and Gigi we spent our Saturday afternoon at the Circus. It was so fun, and Noah was on an stimulation overload for the whole 2 hours.  SO much to look at. 

With Aunt Bryce on the motorcycle. 

The favorite of the day, he got a sword.

That spins and lights up. 

With our Nuhu.

The start of the show.

The camels.

The horse bowing with applause. 

Amazing. This kinda made me nervous, only holding on with her heels.

The side show.

8 ladies standing on a guy, lying on broken glass. 

Noah intently watching. 

The dogs dancing.

This thing was my favorite. It moved too fast to get great pics of them going round and round.  

Lifting 7 women.

Intermission pic.

The trapeze. 

Hanging around upside down.

Some bendy people.

AND the elephants (what Noah had been waiting on)

They were pretty great.

The bikes in the cage, this is what scared me the most.  

Then they put a girl in there, with 3 bikes.  NO mam' not for me. 

The Finale

Pinelake Sports Camp/ Day 3

June 13 2012

This is our combined group The CheeDogs: Cheetahs and Bulldogs.  We only had 3 kids today so we paired up with a group a grade younger.  

 Here they are on the tension wire, working together to make it across.  

 They were pretty proud of themselves.

 They all had to stand on this square and sing ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT twice before they could get off, with out anyone falling off.  

 Over the wall.  

 Our experiment, ketchup packet in the water bottle.  That sinks and rises, we talked about priorities and  what will rise and fall in our lives.  "What is important to Jesus should be important to me."

 The lesson, we talked about the Georgia Bulldog cheerleader Anna Watson. And how Christ is first in her life.

 Claire, Me, and DJ.

Pinelake Sports Camp/ Day 2

June 12 2012

 Our muddy day as I like to remember it,  It poured all day and then stopped just in time for us to trek into the woods and challenge course.  

Today we had Ethan, Vito, Claire, DJ, and Haden.  

Our student helpers Ryan and MK. 

Here we are doing the trolley, trying to pick up one leg at a time and step forward.  This was our 4th attempt.  They eventually got it and progresses about 8 ft.  

 The spider web, trying to get your whole team through without touching.  They decided to try and jump through.  This was a fail. 

 Ethan was the only one that could leap through and not touch, as long as Ryan caught him. 

 Marble Tubes

 Here we are doing our Experiment for the day.  Mentos in Diet Coke.

 It was pretty spectacular. 

 The lesson for today.

 Trying to gargle the bible verse.  2 Peter 1:3a  "His divine power has given us everything that we need for life and godliness."

Pinelake Sports Camp/ Day 1

June 11 2012

This is the 1st year we have been apart of Sports Camp,  Drew and I lead a Challenge course team.  Here are our kiddos. 3rd going into 4th grade.  They were great.  DJ, Ethan, Haden, Logan, Claire, and Emit.  They were so fun.  

 God gave us a beautiful day to be outside in his creation.  

We did our wind tunnel experiment. By letting the kids try to blow it up with several breaths.

 Then Drew showed them how to do it with just one breath. 

 We tested out their skills in untangling the human knot.

 Here the kids are trying to all stay on the tarp and fold it as many times as possible.  They mastered it at 9 times.  And all worked together.  

 This was the beginning of the night when Drew got called on stage to shoot a kid with and air gun.

 Can you believe they gave 2 Ole Miss fans the Bulldogs team?? We may have to think about a name change.  

 And today just happened to be our 7th Anniversary.  We celebrated with a lot of screaming kids, songs with hand motions, and sweating outside with our new challenge team.  

Making new friends

June 8 2012

I forgot to post this on Friday, but here is a glimpse of our Friday afternoon/ night.  We got to the park sometimes, to let the boys play but to meet new people too.  

On this particular night I met 8 ladies from Pakistan.  It was neat to talk to them and hear a little bit about their lives.  I have been meaning to be intentional about starting conversations with internationals around our area.  I remember what it was like to be the minority and not have many friends.  But these ladies seemed to have their own support system and were very confident.  

I was first drawn to them trying to hear what language they were speaking.  With Drew and I about to start learning Turkish we often listen to different cultures around us.  They were of course speaking Arabic and told me that Arabic was for sure harder than Turkish.  

I also met a Chinese lady from Beijing.  He was loving holding Luke.  

Noah made a new friend too.  He followed this girl everywhere.  I hope this isn't the beginning of being girl crazy.  Momma may have to nip that in the bud.  

 And here is a sweet video of my boys playing together.  

Raining buckets

June 9 2012

  Well the boys didn't have enough rainy day while slipping and sliding.  So we allowed them to play in the pouring down rain in the buckets being filled with water. 

 And we fully tested the capacity of a Target diaper, this is why we choose Target brand diapers. 

 Luke loved this.

 Noah was determined that he could fit in this bucket. 

 He finally found a way. 

 And got stuck.  

Jeremy's Birthday Lunch

 June 9 2012

Here he is the birthday boy.   

 And after our wonderful lunch, we dove into this yummy cheesecake.

 And I think he likes his presents.  

 The boys were not shy about trying out it out either.