Picnic, New Pastor, Date Night & great start to a new week!

Last few days have been a whirlwind!

Saturday:

We went to a Homeschooling Families' Picnic! FUN! Kids played games (3-legged race, sac-race, golf, parachute games, etc.) Met some great families and got lots of info. on resources, field trips, etc. Excited to get to know some of these families better this year! :)

Sunday:

Our new Pastor, Kevin Shute spoke this morning!! So far, I just love him! I LOVE that he gets OFF the stage and comes 'down to our level' into the 'crowd' to speak!! He's funny, friendly, and Heavenly-minded! :) SOOO excited to see the great things God is going to do through him, to impact those in our congregation, and more importantly our entire community!! :) wooohooo!! SOOOO, if you don't have a 'church home' right now...come and visit us some sunday morning at 9:30!! :)

Also...Aden is 3 now, so he goes to Worship Center (preschool class)!! Kendyl has graduated from that and is now in the Kindergarten class, so she gets to sing with all the big kids!! :)

Sunday Night:

Date Night! 6 year Anniversary for us! Soooo... our awesome new friend, LeeAnn watched our kids for us (in exchange for us watching her's sometime!) :) We went to the Olive Garden and then saw 'All About Steve' --very funny and really not a vulgar or 'bad' movie at all! great message and just really liked it!! :) Before we left, Kendyl whispered to David, "Do you think you guys are going to kiss?!" :)

Monday:

Great start to the week! Daddy took Aden to the Tamarac... Kendyl and I sang our praise and worship songs, 'excersized' to wake our bodies up and then did her math lesson :)

Then we combined math/writing/art... I drew a large number seven (block style) in pencil and had her trace over the top line (a true 7) in marker... then had her draw dash lines in the same direction as the seven's lines in the middle to look like the middle of a road (practicing using the same strokes she would use writing the number 7--sneaky! she HATES practicing writing--but she thought she was drawing!). Then I had her draw 7 cars on the '7 road'... after that, she decided the cars were all going to Aunt Amy's easter egg hunt, so she drew amy's house & back yard, with some eggs in the grass! :)

We did her reading... wow, she's reading some difficult words/books now! we are needing to slow down a bit, to make sure she's got everything down that we've covered! She read a little book called, "Slam & Dunk and the Big Game"...lots of blended sound words in it, new 'signs' (apostrophe for the word it's) and new sight words (come, thank, you, are, etc.) she will be re-reading that book tonight :) ...then I had her use two of her new sight words (thank you) and make a card for her Sunday school teacher...thanking her for serving God :)

Daddy came home, the kids played outside with him. Then we made chocolate covered pretzels for playgroup. Then, Kendyl and I went over her very first spelling word list :) We will do a 'spelling-bee' with her and daddy on friday! lol! we practiced how to say, spell, say the words in a spelling bee... her words are: man, cat, lap, snap, chat, than, smack, & thank.

We did our Bible lesson: Joseph's brothers selling him as a slave and how even when bad things happen, God has a plan for us, for good! :)

Then the REAL fun!! This afternoon we made an alphabet train with 26 boxes... Kendyl wrote out ALL the letters, capital and lower case, for the boxes! (she HATES practicing writing...but LOVED this because it was a 'project'!) Aden taped them on the boxes and we all found items that began with that letter. Aden practiced letter recognition and phonics and Kendyl worked on handwriting, phonics review and helping her brother! :) was sooo fun! They loved sitting in their own letter boxes... Aden in the A box with his Alligator... Kendyl in the K box with her Karoke Kid! :) I think I created a monster though... Aden keeps asking me, 'what else can I put in our train?!' :) It's good though! :)

What a great start to the new week! Looking forward to more fun!! :)