Fun in the Sun

It has been a while since my last post but sometimes it is hard to carve out time to write when you are having fun enjoying these summer days. It is still very hot here, usually in the low 90s, so we are trying to stay cool by running thru the sprinklers, going to our "private beach" at Lake Norman, chasing bubbles in the backyard and eating lots of ice cream and Popsicle. 

The water in the lake is beautiful and quite warm, so the entire family enjoyed our outing to the lake last Thursday.

And when it gets too hot outside, then we play inside: dress-up, trains and cars and lots of coloring is going on.

Amelia attended this week another vacation bible study (VBS) at First Presbyterian Church and she enjoyed it a lot. Their theme was: Hometown Nazareth, Where Jesus was a kid. This VBS was on a much smaller scale, only around 120 children, but they did a great job of bringing the city of Nazareth (think role plays, dress up, paper mache camel, a herd of wooden sheep, huddles, a market, etc)  to life and doing lots of fun activities with the kids.

The final performance for the parents on Friday; Elliot went all by himself up to the stage and squeezed himself in

On Wednesday, they had a petting zoo (2 sheep, a pig, a donkey, a pony, bunnies, goats and a rooster) there and after dropping Amelia off in the morning, Elliot had a chance to say hi to the animals as well.

Amelia had plenty of fun and brought home some great art and crafts projects as well as a new understanding of Jesus' life.

While Amelia was in camp, Elliot enjoyed some one-on-one time with mommy or daddy. He went to the playground, the library, yard sale shopping, and to a pool play date on Wednesday.

As a family outing this week, we celebrated Chick-Fil-A's Cow Appreciation Day on Tuesday. If you wore a full cow attire, you received a free meal that day but if you were too "chicken" to look like a cow, you got a free entree by wearing a cow accessory. So for this occasion I got creative and made us some "cow costumes", mainly from Derrick's white undershirts. It was a fun activity for the kids and even Derrick got in on the fun by wearing his cow sign around the neck. 

Moo Moo....till next year. For the upcoming weekend, we plan on going to a Jazz Festival and then will kick-off VBS at our church on Sunday night with a family event. More summer fun is sure to come. So stay tuned.