Mt. Pleasant VBS

The girls had their last night of VBS at Mt. Pleasant tonight and got to share some of the songs they learned this week with us.  Charlotte was SO excited about singing "on stage". They had a great week and were ready to go every night!

Rotten cousins!

Charlotte was excited about showing me all the decorations in her room. Mrs. Kay was a fun teacher!

They had a boys V girls competition to see who could bring in the most offering money for the Children's Home. The girls won which meant that Brother Phil got water balloons thrown at him, but Aunt Robin let them throw a couple at her too so the boys wouldn't whine. She wouldn't let the parents throw any though...

VBS Day 4 - Crazy Sock Day

Today was Crazy Sock Day at VBS. Charlotte chose a pair of monster toe socks and Julia chose horse socks!

I love working in snacks because I get to see all the classes, including my girls!

 Tonight was family night at VBS which included hot dogs and the kids singing some of their VBS songs from this week.

The girls have had a fun week of VBS, but I'm ready to not have to get out of the house early in the morning. I've said that I want to get through VBS and then Rosemary can come whenever she's ready, so one more day and Baby Watch is in full swing!

VBS - Day 2

Today was a rainy day for day 2 of VBS.  Julia was so glad that Tucker was there today and that they were in the same group!

 

This afternoon I took Julia back out to Hair in Motion to let them try to get the tangles out of her hair form Saturday night. It was still so tangled and she wouldn't let me work on it anymore. It took two of the girls almost an hour of working on her, but they finally got all the tangles out! They washed and dried her hair and I think it's safe to say she enjoyed that part. She thought she was big time! 

 

We had to take our daily VBS picture this afternoon because it was raining this morning, but the sun came out this afternoon! 

This evening Charlotte was playing with her dolls. She came out with her Jasmine costume on and informed me that she and Elsa were going to the ball and asked if I would take their picture. This girl loves dress up, sparkles, and everything girly!

That's a wrap!

2014 VBS is officially over! While this is always a rewarding week it's a tiring week too! I took Charlotte back today, I sure hope the stomach bug is gone from the nursery! 

The girls wore their horse shirts today. Charlotte absolutely insisted on wearing her boots. It reminded me of Julia exactly one year ago. Of course Julia wasn't wearing sandals if Charlotte was wearing boots, but she chose her new horse rain boots, at least the colors matched!

Lilly & Julia at snack today

This years theme was secret agent, Agency D3, so they had these cardboard helicopters set up around church. I finally got the girls to let me take their pictures in them. Julia was pretty cooperative but I had to bribe Charlotte was chocolate and she wanted to eat it while I made her picture!

 

This afternoon Maribeth and I rode to Dothan to see Jenna and her sweet new baby boy. 

 I'm looking forward to sleeping in and having a lazy day tomorrow!

VBS:Day 5

We had a long day at VBS! We served cotton candy to over 300 kids! It was a long morning!

Pop walked the halls with Charlotte this morning!

Julia loved her cotton candy!

 

Julia had swimming lessons again today. She did ok, but seemed to do a lot of crying/whining. We're going to skip tomorrow and reschedule for one day next week. I hope she'll do better once she's well rested.

Do you see what I mean? Hopefully next week will be better!

VBS: Day 4

Today was "color day" at VBS. Julia's class color was blue. I pulled out 3 blue outfits for her to choose from. She looked at them and said "Mama, there's no Aubie out here!" HA! I told her she could wear her Aubie dress but she decided on Nemo.

Charlotte got up about 5:00 this morning. That's early even for her! She has been fighting an ear infection and has been super clingy so I decided to just take her with me today. I wore her in my Moby wrap for most of the morning. Brunson was a good helper with her too. I don't know very many boys his age who would willingly hold a baby! :)

Swimming lessons and VBS in one week have worn Julia out! She fell asleep on me while we were watching TV on the couch tonight. You know she's exhausted if she even gets still enough to fall asleep!

This little love has had a long week too. I took her with me to get my allergy shot and had Dr. Mike check her ears again. I suspected they were still infected and they were. Her gave her a new antibiotic so hopefully this one will do the trick.

We have one more day of VBS this week. Tomorrow we are serving cotton candy. It's going to be a *long* day of serving cotton candy to 350 kids!

VBS:Day 3

 Today was day 3 of VBS and day 2 of swimming lessons for Julia. Julia wanted to pose by the "broken fence" before we left this morning.

This is the face I usually get when I pull out the camera!

I see this face a lot too!

 

Today was hat day today at VBS. We were supposed to wear a hat from our favorite amusement park. It wasn't hard to figure out what Julia's favorite amusement park is!

We had sno cones for snack today!

(Gale, Julia & Henley)

 

Pop has been trying to catch an armadillo in her yard and Julia has been his little assistant. He called this morning before VBS to tell us there was one in the trap so we stopped by afterwards so Julia could see it. She told Pop that she wanted him to catch a pink armadillo next! 

 

 We got a quick nap in before swimming lessons today. Julia was so excited to go back to Mrs. Heather's and go swimming in her pool again. When I got there I tried to be sneaky and hid in the back and take some pictures without her seeing me. I  was semi successful, I got a few pictures in before she spotted me!

Charlotte has been so happy this afternoon. This sweet girl bring so much joy and happiness to our lives!

The Start of a Busy Week!

This little bright eyed beauty was up and ready to start the day at 6:45 this morning. That's actually a "late" morning compared to her normal wake up time of 5:45.

Today was a BUSY day! The girls and I got up, ate breakfast, got dressed and were at church for day 2 of Bible School at 8:30. It was after 12:30 when we left Bible School! We met Tracy and Hollye at Rodeo's for lunch and then headed home to try to get a nap in before Julia's first swimming lesson!

I promise she was really excited about swimming lessons!

 

 After swimming lessons we went to the church to start making some sno cones in preparation for tomorrow's VBS snacks. Julia got to eat a sno cone while we were working. She thought she was pretty special!

When we were done at church Michael picked up some pizza and met us at Nana and Pop's. Julia and Nana made dirt cake for dessert. Julia kept saying, "Mommy, we're eating dirt and worms"!

Cooking with Nana

 

This little love has been so happy today. She was asleep when we got home from lunch around 1:30 and I had to wake her up at 4:00 to go get my allergy shot and take Julia to swim lessons. Caddy's kennel has become one of her favorite places to hang out. I know it won't be long before she's walking all over the place!

Today was a long day and I am more than ready for bed but it looks like Charlotte is still going strong! Hopefully we'll both get some rest tonight because we get to do it all over again tomorrow!