Saturday, July 05, 2008

God's Big Backyard

Game Time: Water Balloon Toss-Samantha & Betsy.
Game Time: Action Shot of the Balloon Toss.
Craft Time: Mommy shows the pre-schools how to make their family tree.
Opening: Singing songs and lesson time
Game Time: Playing Duck-Duck-Goose. Poor Samantha-she just didn't get it! She had to run around the circle with Steve Barr (the leader for the games) in order to play because she didn't understand! But, she had fun and squealed the whole time!
Snack Time: Samantha & Drew
Craft Time: Making a picture frame with mommy.



Story Time: With Pastor Michael
Craft Time: Tie Dying T-Shirts (What a MESS!!)
Craft Time: Using a little too much color!Showing off their new Tie Died T-Shirts: Shayle & Samantha (Shayle went to Bible School for 2 nights with Sam because Michelle was painting Grandma McKnight's kitchen, and she had fun too!)
Bible School Program: She played with this dog for 1 whole song, but she sang every other song. She was so cute!Bible School Program: She did the actions and sang most of the words!

Samantha participated in Vacation Bible School at the Methodist Church this year. Doug & I were in charge of crafts! The theme for this year was "God's Big Backyard." Samantha had a blast! She was in the preschool group and did great! We sent her the 1st night just to "test the water" and see if she would be okay in that group, because she the group was supposed to be for people that had completed preschool or would be going to preschool in the fall. She was about 9 months younger than the next youngest kid.

We made Family Trees, Picture Frames, Tie Died T-Shirts, Zachecus Money Bags, and painted Sun Catchers. Craft time was a lot of fun for us. We ran around tying knots for the kids and helping thread the beads and also wadding up t-shirts to tie die.

Alden had lots of fun in the nursery! (Not really.) He was teething last week really bad and he was super crabby! Grandma McKnight kept him on Tuesday night and it didn't help either!

On Sunday, there was a Bible School program during late service and Samantha participated in it! We went with the thought that she would probably come sit down by us after a few minutes, but she stayed up by the other kids and actually sang the words to the songs and did some actions too! She also spent 1 whole song playing with a cardboard dog that went along with the theme for the bible school. Grandma & Grandpa McKnight and Great-Grandma & Great-Grandpa McKnight came to watch her too! She was so cute! And we were all impressed that a 2 1/2 year old could know so many words/actions for songs she only sang for a week! After church, we all went to Ruby Tuesdays in Bellevue for lunch to celebrate Samantha's fun day.

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3 years old - Nov 2008

3 years old - Nov 2008