We've had a great weekend around here! Starting Friday night we had a really low key night. The kids and I picked up Sonic and we just hung out and watched "The Princess & The Frog". I am so glad we have made it to more variety then just CARS. Now Colby likes pretty much any Disney movie =)
Saturday Austin was off! Its so rare for him to be off on a Saturday it felt so great to sleep in a little and have a lazy morning! We had a big breakfast and hung out in our pjs all morning! Felt Wonderful! I think the kids enjoyed the downtime as well! I brought Lindsay over to my parents house around 11:30 while Austin was watching the USM game. They babysat her for the OWC day at church that the rest of us were invovled in! So we had a little more time to eat a little bite of lunch and just be lazy some more. We left the house at 1:30 to go to church. Our church hosted OWC (Organized Water Chaos) for the kids kindergarten-5th grade. Colby was SO excited about this. Austin and I had been assigned to games. When we got there the kids were checked in and were able to free play on the water slide. Well we had only been out there about 15 minutes when it started thundering and lightening. We had to line all the kids up under the shelter for awhile. We got them organized by grades at this point. Once they were in grade order we split them up and took them out to the playground. We had just begun playing some games when it started thundering again. We had to herd all the kids under the pavillion. We finally decided to go ahead and take them upstairs. They had planned a music/teaching time for later in the day so they just decided to improvise and do that first. The 2 guys that were in charge did an awesome job! I am so happy that they have these young adults who are willing to invest in children. I think its so awesome that Colby has such great role models and young guys who he can talk to if ever if he doesn't want to come to mom or dad. After that the kids went downstairs for a snack time. Again this was supossed to be later in the day but due to the weather they went ahead with it. The kids LOVED this! I had a good time visiting with Colby and some of his little friends. A few of his school friends came which was neat to get to know them a little better. After the snack time the kids were finally allowed outside but not to the water yet. Well Colby's age group actually went to watch a movie and the group I was assigned 2nd and 3rd graders played outside. We FINALLY got back to water day around 4:15! Austin and I were assigned games so we ran those from 4:15 until 5:30. Man was I tired after that! We brought the children in and they were instructed to go change clothes...well I avoided that CHAOS like the plague! I got Colby and we went into an empty classroom and I helped him get into dry clothes. Afterwards all I wanted to was SIT! He and I found a place in the shade. It was soon time to go eat. We sat at a table with Max and his grandparents and his friend JaVardes from school and his mom. Colby had a blast sitting with his friends. I enjoyed visiting with them as well! It makes me so happy to see him enjoy events like this and be so comfortable talking with people. Needless to say that night we were all exhausted. It was almost 8 when we got home so we rushed the children off to bed!
Sunday we had no time to sleep but head off to church. I also had childcare. Anyway it was a good but VERY busy morning. We had atleast 11 kids. A couple of them were MAJOR grumpy and it just so happened it were some of the same ones who had been at the water day the day before! I think the adults were edgy too! Needless to say we were glad to get home and not go anywhere else! We had decided that day we would not go to Lifegroup. I hated to miss it but I also knew we needed some family time and not to push the kids. We had a relaxful afternoon just hanging out and watching Saints football. The game lasted from 3 until almost 8 b/c of a rain delay! After the game we put the kids to bed and just enjoyed some down time!
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
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