Thursday, April 23, 2009

LTC

Each year over Easter Weekend the kids participate in Leadership Training for Christ competition at the Anatole in Dallas. They spend so much time preparing and rehearsing all their skits, songs and other talents!
Madison and her Puppet Group!

Saturn Road All Girls Chorus

A couple cuties I saw hanging out in between events!
How great to train our children in church leadership! They participate in tons of activities from Bible bowl, bible class teaching, bulletin board making, song leading, scripture memorization, puppets, drama, and more!! Greg and I love it b/c we get to see tons of our old friends from ACU and our young marrieds class at Saturn Road.



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Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Youth Retreat & Madison's Bday

This past weekend was our combined Jr High/High School Youth Retreat. Greg and I had been scheduled to go as chaperone's for months and been really looking forward to it.
Earlier in the week we had a scare with Greg's grandmother and thought his parents (our pre-arranged babysitters for the little kids) were going to make a trip to Indiana, plus McKenzie had a softball game, Maddox had a soccer game (and pictures!) and there was a girl scout campout...so we decided it would be best for Greg to stay home and tend to the flock. He did make a day trip out to retreat and was able to hang out with us for the day!
I have about 30 pictures of this exact jump shot.....they were sweating by the time we finished!
Happy Birthday to my girl!! She turned the 13...a TEENAGER!!!
We brought a HUGE cake and decorated her bunk with all kinds of fun party stuff and little presents! She was a good sport....having your mom around with 130 other teens I'm sure can get a little old...but we got along GREAT and were able to spend some good times together throughout the weekend.


Thanks to the youth ministers for letting me tag along! I think I earned my keep throughout the weekend! It was a BLAST and makes me remember how great youth retreats were as a kid! I broke out my old scrapbooks and looked up some old pictures on the old Altamesa vans, at DQ in Whitney and good ole Iron Springs! Fun times!! I'm thrilled my kids are able to experience the greatness of a big, strong youth group.

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

JBF Sale!

We just wrapped up our 14th Just Between Friends sale! Those of you who have known about the sale for a long time can remember the days when we had 5 strollers and a couple racks of clothes! Well....those days are behind us! This sale we had 850 registered consignors and 36,000 square feet of selling space! It was wild! All four Dallas News channels sent camra crews out to film the sale and interview us about what could be found! We also got 2 articles in different newspapers. I stand in awe myself of the magnitude of our sale! We spend so many years praying and praying for some kind of free publicity about the sale and BAM..this sale we got it all! It's because of the economy, everyone is looking for a way to save money, and make some extra money!

So....if you haven't heard of JBF check out the website: www.dallas.jbfsale.com for more info! We are planning for a Back to School Sale the end of July!