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We have had so much fun over the past two weeks with our cousins Sierra (11) and Kian (4). They come every year and stay with us and go to VBX. The kids have so much fun playing together. Grammy helps out a TON by making all of our breakfasts and lunches (she cleans up too ). We did lots of fun things like swimming at KlineLine and making sandcastles, face-painting, cake decorating, sewing and lots of other crazy things. The kids had so much fun this year just making up things to do.
We had another fun year this year at VBX. The theme was "Crocodile Dock." The kids learned to fearlessly shine God's light. We took our neighbors and our cousins each day so we had quite a car full. They were so cute, singing all the songs and doing the motions. It is for sure a tiring event but so worth it. There were over 250 kids and 80 workers. The kids raised money this year to buy orphans in Rwanda shoes and together brought in $1300.......enough to buy 326 pairs of Crocs! It was so exciting!
Oh my goodness! This is my new FAVORITE thing.....seriously it is! I waited three long years for this. This hammock was purchased on our 10 year anniversary trip to Cancun. The problem getting it hung up was that it didn't have the giant dowel to hang it on because I thought that there would be no way in the world that the airlines would let me get on the plane with a giant wooden weapon so I stashed it in the hotel room and figured we'd just find one when we got home. Yeah, so when we got on the plane, there were about 10 other people holding these hammock chairs in their laps. Good grief! So every Mother's day and birthday I ask to have my hammock chair hung up and finally this year.........he hung it up. I love my husband....and I love my hammock.
So, one Sunday at church Ben tells me that he volunteered me for our friend's Sam & Nathalie's wedding. I assumed he meant singing or something but oh no, he volunteered me to make their wedding cake. I was a bit taken back as I have only dabbled in cake making......and just for our kids really. Anything that is not a cake from Safeway looks good but come on, a wedding? On the flipside I was totally flattered and enjoyed that my man had such great confidence in me. After thinking it over I decided to do it. They decided on Red Velvet with Cream Cheese icing. It turned out great and they loved it, however, I will NEVER make a wedding cake again! So much pressure....I mean it's someone's biggest day and I don't want to be responsible for screwing it up (which I almost did).
We have had so much fun over the past two weeks with our cousins Sierra (11) and Kian (4). They come every year and stay with us and go to VBX. The kids have so much fun playing together. Grammy helps out a TON by making all of our breakfasts and lunches (she cleans up too ). We did lots of fun things like swimming at KlineLine and making sandcastles, face-painting, cake decorating, sewing and lots of other crazy things. The kids had so much fun this year just making up things to do.
We had another fun year this year at VBX. The theme was "Crocodile Dock." The kids learned to fearlessly shine God's light. We took our neighbors and our cousins each day so we had quite a car full. They were so cute, singing all the songs and doing the motions. It is for sure a tiring event but so worth it. There were over 250 kids and 80 workers. The kids raised money this year to buy orphans in Rwanda shoes and together brought in $1300.......enough to buy 326 pairs of Crocs! It was so exciting!
