Happy Birthday

I am wishing I was in Washington with my family celebrating Mom and Alice's Birthday. I am thankful for the web cam, though. Happy Birthday Mom and Alice! Love you.

April Showers Bring...

The other day Madi did one of her daily calendar activities for her homework. She had to finish this sentence:

April showers bring _____ _____. And draw an illustration. This is what she wrote: April showers bring rain pulls (puddles). Chris then taught her the saying: April showers bring May flowers. Now she knows.

I hope Madi's words put a smile on your face as it did mine.

AWANA Awards Night

These pictures where taken at Awards night....

Sparkies sang two songs they learned this year. You can see Madi in the jean dress up front.

Madi just after receiving her awards. She has patiently been waiting for her review patch and pin as they hand it out at the end of the year, which was different from our last club. Of course she was supper excited about her ribbon as well, but knew she had to wait for the ribbon.

Emma after she just received her ribbon.

AWANA Awards

Last night the girls received their awards for their hard work this year in completing their books....

Emma's year in AWANA was a good one. At the beginning of the year she didn't want to go to AWANA. It was a big change for her since this year she is at a new club and in her first year in T&T (Truth and Training grades 3rd-5th). As most of you know, Emma had the hardest time adjusting to our move to Utah and isn't as comfortable as she use to be in new situations. Slowly throughout the year she made friends and got use to the new program and now would say she likes it. She was able to finish her book and complete two silver sections. Good job, Emma! I am proud of you.

Madi is in her second year of Sparks (K-2nd grade). She fell in love with this club the first night. She LOVES the Director (Ms. Cassie). The Sparks theme this year was "God Made You Special." The Sparkies made a rock garden and prayer tree. They also made a Thankful Turkey and Madi made sure she put in prayer requests in their prayer jar. Madi finished her book (ribbon), book review (review patch), extra credit book (Sparky pin for the review patch), and two Psalm Stripts (2 pins that say the Psalms she recited. I put them on her pocket since they don't do Sunday School patches at this club). Good job, Madi, I am proud of you!

I couldn't resist sharing this picture. They are growing so fast. I can't believe how the years fly; I remember Emma's first year of Cubbies when she was three.

Sermon On Ruth - Week 2

Wanted to let you know that Chris preached his second sermon on Ruth yesterday. It is the second of three on the book of Ruth. If you would like to listen to it, go to: sonrisebc.org, click on this week's sermon. If you missed last weeks sermon, you can still listen to it. Go to media archives.

Also wanted to let you know that the staff page on our church's website is up and running. If you want to read about Chris, click on his picture.

Sermon On Ruth - Week 1

Wanted to let you know that Chris preached this last Sunday. It is the first of three on the book of Ruth. If you would like to listen to it go to: sonrisebc.org, it is on the front page until Sunday, then it goes into the media archives.

Note: It was not recorded on Sunday. Since it is part of a three week series, he recorded it yesterday.

Trip to Boise

Last month we took 16 students to Acquire the Fire (a youth conference) in Boise, Idaho. The girls traveled up with us; my parents met us there and took the girls for the weekend. The girls had a blast. I'm thinking that my parents and brother did too. Thanks Mom and Dad.

The youth had fun as well. God is so good; some of what we have talked about recently in youth group was talked about that weekend. There were friendships formed as well.

The bummer part was Madi wasn't feeling good over the weekend. Especially Sunday. We stopped to eat for lunch and she wanted nothing to do with food. The students were eating red vines and I gave Emma one, but told Madi absolutely not, since her stomach wasn't feeling good. Emma started to give her one, and I sad no. Soon after we hit the road again, Chris called and told me to take the next exit; Madi just threw up. Emma had it in her hair; I felt sorry for Emma, but thankful the other youth in the car didn't get any on them. One of the students helped Emma clean up while Chris and I were cleaning up Madi and the car. We soon found out that Emma gave Madi a red vine in the car; at that moment I didn't feel sorry for her any longer (okay, maybe a little bit). She experienced the natural consequences of not listening to me. I don't think she will do that again.

Uncle Rusty and the girls hanging out in the hotel room.