Adam has really been into Matchbox cars lately. He bought some with money that Nana had sent, and he's added some more that he had around the house. He lines them up, races them, crashes them, and does whatever else he can think of with them. This morning he found a box top out in the laundry room. He proceeded to put the cars in it like a racetrack and then he got in it himself! Too funny!

We don't have anything until the pool party tonight. I've started lists of things to take and have piles of clean clothes that we need to take with us on our trip on the spare bed. It's going to be wonderful to get away!

VBS was fun again tonight. The kids got to walk on "water"--a mixture of corn starch and water that looks like a liquid but acts like a solid. Very cool. A big thanks goes out to Buddy who helped me mix it up.

I cleaned the inside of the car today getting ready for vacation. While I was doing that, Adam was playing in the car pretending and all that fun stuff. That being said, tonight when I left for church the Trailblazer didn't sound right. Then, when I was going to leave church, it still didn't sound right--especially when I turned left. I turned back into church looking for a man to help. Chris Back was there and I told him the ordeal and asked him to see what he thought. He got in and I thought he would drive it. To my surprise, he got out a few seconds later. The culprit--I had the 4 wheel drive on. Make that, ADAM had the four wheel drive on. Life is good!

Tomorrow is our last lesson night of Bible School. Friday is a pool party.

More later.

It's our annivesary! 8 years! This morning I woke up early and the very first thing I did was text Happy Annivesary to Bucky. At the exact time I hit the send button, my phone vibrated with a new message. It was a message from Bucky saying Happy Anniversary. Weird, huh? He sent me flowers today. They are beautiful. Adam thought it was cool that they were delivered to the house. Me too!

A busy Monday! I had a CAT team meeting and Adam went to daycare. I think Adam will sleep in tomorrow. He's had several early mornings and it's catching up with him. We have left the house by 7:30 the last three days in a row. Anyway, by the time I left the meeting and ran to KMart for some more supplies, it was time to go to Bible School. Adam and I didn't even come home.

VBS went well. The Bible Blast (the drama part that I do)was fun. The kids had "leprosy" and had to be "quarantined." Tonight's theme was Jesus gives us the power to be thankful and we learned about how Jesus healed the 10 lepers but only one came to thank him. Adam had a big time in his class. His good buddy Jayson is in his group and they are funny together.

It's been an eventful day. Adam and I were at church at 7:15 since I was on praise team. He put about three miles in before 8:00 I think. He played and played in the sanctuary. Both services went well and there was a good crowd.

Tonight I went to church to help Sharon work on decorating the sanctuary for VBS and then put the final touches on my room. I knew I couldn't really take Adam with me because I'd spend all my time on him. However, I didn't know who to call. Most of the kids that usually watch Adam are on the mission trip and so is Nora. I tried April Emerson, another girl from our church. She wasn't at home, but her mom, my friend Teresa, said she wouldn't mind watching him sometime. "Can I take you up on that offer tonight?" She said yes. They live right down the road from us in a BEAUTIFUL home. They have the perfect setting to play, including a creek with plenty of rocks to throw which is pretty much like heaven on earth for Adam. They were outside the whole time I was gone. They played with their dogs Dusty and Midnight--two black labs--waded in the creek, threw rocks, rode the golf cart and when I got there he was eating a snack and wouldn't even say hi because he was guzzling down juice. He had played hard. During supper he said he wanted to go see her again. Teresa told me to come back anytime. It would be the perfect place for a little family picnic. She also said they'd like to take us out on the lake. Can the day get any better?

We played outside here until it got dark. We tried unsuccessfully to catch lighting bugs, but we did play on the hay some.

Better go. Busy day tomorrow.

Adam had a blast at Aunt Kim's! They did all kinds of fun things! He especially loved her cats Conan and Baxter.

Wilderness Camp was fun for me on Thursday and today. I got to know the kids pretty well and I had fun visiting with Glenna, Sam, and Wendall. Not to mention Bucky! I'm so glad I went because, if not, we wouldn't see each other for pretty much two weeks straight. He leaves in the morning for the mission trip. My praise team is on Sunday and then VBS is Monday through Friday.

I'm in the middle of laundry. Those STINKY clothes had to be washed!

Best wishes to Karen as she heals from gallbladder surgery.

We've had a nice Tuesday. Adam went to daycare. I had a meeting and then did some things for VBS next week. Adam and I have been outside most of the night. It's a beautiful day and they mowed the hay today so it really changed our surroundings. We went walking through the field. We'll have to do a tick check tonight! Enjoy the pictures of Adam and Callie. They play until Callie can play no more!

On a funny note, Adam was throwing the ball on the roof tonight and trying to catch it. For those of you who know Adam well, you know he didn't catch it! What did happen though is that the ball got stuck in the gutter. He said, "Daddy get a BIG ladder and get that out!" He's a problem solver I guess!