Weyburn VBS

After all these months of planning, and thinking and perhaps even some fretting, the VBS is finally here. The trip here was pretty uneventful, with the exception of a wild turkey darting out of the grass in the ditch along the Sask. highway! Didn't move much else, just came out of the grass!

I am teaching the youngest class of students at the VBS, the four-year-olds, and had 14 kids in my group today! They are all pretty excited about being at VBS, which is a very good thing!

All together we had 84 kids at the VBS today, and it will be interesting to see how the numbers for attendance are the rest of the week!

And If You Give a Kid a Playstructure

They explore and play, but tend not to wander away too far from their safety net!

If You Give an Adult a Playstructure.....

Hmmm, I wonder about the example these adults gave to the children they were with!!

Well, actually I know that the children loved the time at the playstructure and watching the adults in their lives get going on the thing as well. Nora specifically asked her Auntie Stacy if she needed help when the going got a little rough for Stacy, but she managed just fine!

Have Finally Seen It

*sigh* After completely falling in love with the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl" and seeing it's sequel, I have now finally seen "At World's End". There have been many mixed reviews to this movie, but I thoroughly enjoyed the story as well as the tying up of loose ends, not to mention the fine visual effects and visual story-telling in it! Again, at the end of the movie I made a promise to myself that the day it comes out on DVD I will be buying it! There are few movies that I say that after, and when I promise that to myself afterwards, I make a point of doing just that!

Oh What a Beautiful Morning!

Okay, so the whole day here is beautiful, as was yesterday, but the song came to mind when I started thinking about the past couple of days here. Yesterday I even decided to walk to my errands instead of bussing it, and in doing so got a pleasant surprise. I was able to walk by a calm Canadian goose who was sitting just off the bike path that cuts through the greenspace behind my apartment building. It didn't seem to mind the people who were walking or biking by it, and just sat there calmly taking it all in. I guess it was people watching, as people often go bird-watching!

Today was our day to celebrate the achievements of those in our congregation who are graduating from high school or post-secondary education. It was a surprise to me some of the high school graduates because I still think of them as children, but here they are graduating from high school. And in just a few weeks when we have our children's program windup I will hopefully see my niece up front with her class, and yet it still seems that she is just a little child, but in a couple of months she will be three years old already. I remember driving out to Steinbach the day she was born and holding her when she was just four hours old!

So, in addition to reminiscing, and being caught off guard for how old some people are, I am busy with preparing for the Vacation Bible School that I am helping to teach at my parent's congregation, keeping busy with my work, my crafting, and my writing.

Life in Fast Forward

Have you ever felt that part of your life has just flown by and you cannot remember much of what was done? Well, that has been the past two weeks for me. But it will probably also keep happening throughout the summer time as there are many things that I have planned, and who knows what will come my way in that time too to help make me even busier!

Are you ready for the fast forward feeling of summer?

My Weekend in Saskatchewan

This weekend I went to Saskatchewan for my cousin Tamara's wedding to Matthew! It was a beautiful day for them, and everything with the wedding and the reception were true to their personalities. I am so glad that I was able to get there!

The picture of the blanket is what I made for them as their wedding gift. I think it turned out beautifully, considering that I drew it out on paper and used different colors of markers for the different colors of squares that were not true to the colors in the blanket.

On our way back today, as Stacy and I went in her car to Regina, there was some bad accident close to Broadview involving a chemical spill, so we had to find our own detour along the gravel roads around there, after we had sat to wait to see what was going on for quite a while!

All in all, it was a great weekend of visiting, laughs, fun, and emotions (yes Dad, I know!), catching up, and seeing people that I had not seen in several years!