Our week

So we are back together as a family now.  It has been a while since I posted because we were traveling.  We went on Saturday to pick up the children from Music and Arts camp.  We got to see all the children from all the corps perform along with Staff members.  The campers sang, danced, did skits for drama (had to love the one - as seen on TV), played timbrels, and played instruments.  

Even though it was the first time our children attended, my oldest two brought home awards.  Jacob was top of the Advanced Guitar class and his cabin took top cabin, and he also was honor camper one day.  Joseph took top of his chorus group (he and Jacob sounded amazing), as well as receiving the award for honor camper one day plus an overall Honor camper award.

After we got everyone loaded up, we took off to Greensburg.  Jacob was attending a birthday party for one of his friends there.

Sunday morning everyone woke up super early (guess camp was good for one thing - unfortunately it hasn't lasted).  We ate breakfast and went to church.  Everyone was glad to see us and we were glad to see everyone.  We had the privilege of hearing one of the young men who grew up in the church preach his last sermon for a while at the church.  Zach is on his way to Africa to be a missionary next week.  We wish him Godspeed and just have to say what a wonderful sermon/testimony he gave. 

From church we went and picked up the U-haul truck and went back to our old house.  We managed to load up all the stuff that day (minus the window air conditioner units which was one of the main things we were concerned about. It looks like before December we will no longer be homeowners.  Monday we got up, ate breakfast, went back to the house and loaded the air conditioners.  Then we drove home (well Dennis and I did - he was in the U-haul and I was in our van).  

Dennis and the boys were able to get the entire truck unloaded and the air conditioners installed that afternoon.  We went to a meeting that night to finalize arrangements for our Kids Fest and our Vacation Bible School.  The older two boys have been at the church every day this week since Tuesday helping prepare for VBS.  We all had a blast helping (or for the younger two participating in) the Kids Fest.  Now we are gearing up for Sunday - Dennis is preaching, I am leading the rest of the service, our family is singing, and Joseph will be enrolled as a Senior Soldier.  So we will have a full day.