New Things Good and Bad

Good

Emily started AWANA on Thursday. I think I was just as excited about her starting as she was. I have wonderful memories of being in AWANA. She loved it and was so excited about her AWANA bucks she earned! I'm also excited to work on Bible verse memorization. It comes so incredibly easy for her. If you haven't already, ask her to tell you all the verses she memorized for church. There are three pretty decent sized ones and she'll tell them all to you. I was never like that. I memorized ok, but it was kind of out with the old in with the new. We also have to learn the Sparks song...Ally LOVES it. It's a really cute song. Ally missed cubbies by a few months as she has to be three. But I think I'll try to put her after her birthday.

Emily also got Star of the Week at school. She got to take home the spanish/english speaking Elmo doll over the weekend and journal all of the things Elmo did with us this weekend. I'm not overly fond of Elmo, kind of think he's over the top but she had a great time, so we took some pictures.

Mike had to work all day Saturday so my mom and dad let us come hang out all day. It was nice to let them play outside and to have adult interaction and help with the kids.

Bad

Poor Rylee got an eye infection in both eyes, conguntivitis (spelling?), to be exact. So my mom and I had to switch off holding Rylee at church so she wouldn't expose everyone. She took her while she practiced singing and I set up kids church, then I took her for the opening of church and kids church, then she took her while I taught and so on and so on. It worked but I am thankful to the nursery staff who normally watch and play with them!

Right now my girls are eating ribeye Mike cut off from a huge prime rib and because of our diet we aren't even eating any of it with them. Somthing's wrong with that picture. It looks and smells amazing. They love steak though and have lived on grilled chicken, salmon and lean pork for too long.

Good and Bad

My mom couldn't take the kids home for our regular day off because Devon couldn't be exposed to Ry's eye infection. Bummer because we were going to bike ride and run today. The good though is that it was stinkin hot anyway and Emily and I, (and Elmo), got to go to Barnes and Nobles by ourselves and look at books. We had a fun time doing that.