VBS At The Coast

Two weeks ago my two "sisters" and I departed to the coast and taught a VBS. It was a great time. :) My "sisters" and I stayed with the pastor and his family. They have two boys, but one of them was at camp that week. It was a great time, especially since my two "sisters" have never had brothers and Jonathan had never had sisters. :) It was quite fun, and now I have another brother. :)  The first afternoon we cruised to the beach. :) It was wonderful!!! We spent three hours just on the beach. :) The VBS was only in the mornings so we had the afternoons off. 

                                                           Teaching at the VBS. :)

                                                                  Sisters. ;)

 On Tuesday my "sisters" went  fishing (as they had never been before) and I stayed at the house (since I have been fishing before and didn't really want to go that day) and practiced my bible lesson for the next day and helped make a salad for dinner, which we didn't have till 9:10pm. :) After dinner we played Nerf guns till 11:30pm. :) We ended up not going to bed till 12:00am. :) Then on Wed. we were invited to a couples house for dinner and to play games. ;) On Thursday we ended up going to a older lady's house for lunch and then helped her with some library work. (she is a missionary librarian) We also had dinner there. :) That night was a program for the VBS and afterwords (8:30) we were sitting around eating and talking when someone brought up sand boarding. We decided to go sand boarding with one of our new friends and Jonathan. By the time we left for the dunes it was 9:00 and we sand boarded for an hour and then we took a tour of the schools. :) By the time we got home it was 10:30. :) The next day was the last day and we traveled back home that afternoon. I was sad but happy to be done. Sad because I was leaving my "family", but happy because on Sat. one of my cousins got married!!!! :) I think it was the best week of my summer, so far. :)
                                                           Sand Boarding. ;) 

Fourth Of July

I hope you all had a very enjoyable Fourth of July. Our family did not keep our traditional festivities but still managed to have a fantastic day celebrating our nation and our freedom. Jolene and I came in second in a three legged race. We also enjoyed homemade ice cream and chocolate sauce! On the chance that any of you love Chocolate as much as we do, I have decided to share with you our famous Chocolate sauce! Enjoy!

1 cup of butter (no substitutes)
4 squares (1 ounce each) unsweetened chocolate
1 cup baking cocoa
2 cups whipping cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

And do not forget the ice cream of your choice!

In a heavy saucepan over low heat, melt butter and chocolate. Stir in the sugar and cocoa until smooth. Gradually add cream; mix well. Cook for 10 minutes of until sugar is dissolved, stirring frequently. Remove from the heat; stir in vanilla. Serve over ice cream and enjoy the chocolaty goodness! Store the leftovers in the refrigerator. Makes about 5 cups.
                   
                                                Some of the Fireworks we watched. ;)

Bandanna Purse

One day I saw a picture of a bandanna purse. I really liked the idea of one so I decided to make one. ;) Deciding to make it reversible I got two blue and two red. :) I cut them into 22in. squares. Then I sewed them together. It made a bigger purse then I wanted, but hey I can fit anything in my purse now. ;) For the handles the picture had the ones you can get at a craft store, but I decided to use rope. ;)

                                                       The true color of the purse. :)

Graduation!! :)

It has now been a whole mouth since I graduated. ;) So I think it's about time I tell you about it. ;) It was a busy week!! :) The Saturday before it half of our family was gone. ;) So Jenel, Susy, Hannah, Mom, and I all decorated the cutout cookies. ;) (There were over 170) :) We got everything together, because we were going to be at the church all day. ;) The next morning I need to be at the church at 7:45 to do the lights. Since I did the lights that morning I was at the church from 7:45 to 5:00. ;) After church we set up and then did a run-though. After the run-though I waited by the door to greet people. Then after everyone got there it was all a blur. ;) It was a great time and we even Skype my Grandparents in that couldn't come. ;) All in all it was a wonderful time. Although I'm glad that it is over! :)                In the middle of frosting all the cookies. ;)

                                     Jenel making the chocolate covered strawberries. ;)

        I Love chocolate covered strawberries. ;)                                Aren't these cookies cute??? ;)      

Hannah and Susy frosting some of the cookies. ;)

Ok, Mare made me the coolest cookie ever!!! She printed out the John Deere logo and cutout a cookie from that. :) It turned out great!!! In the picture it looks blueish green but in life it was green. ;)

My whole family did a Wonderful job decorating the tables for the graduation. :) By the way I Love snowball bushes. ;)

We had fun making all the cookies for my graduation. ;)

Me being myself. ;)

                                  Me receiving my diploma from my teacher. ;) (aka Mom)

I hope you all enjoyed this post. ;) I will hopefully post soon about what I did this last week. ;)

Canada

I can't believe it's only been one week, since we were in Canada to pick up our brother from Bible school. We left our house early on Tuesday and traveled all the way to Vancouver Island and then to another Island. It took us 6 hours before we entered onto a ferry. After 2 hours on the ferry we drove 2 more hours then caught another ferry for 20 more min. :) We arrived at the school around 7:00 and excitedly greeted our brother. It was great to meet people that he had mentioned to us. The next day we walked down to the school and uttered "Hi" to all the people and met new ones. ;) We walked around the campus and walked down the pier then walked back to the house we were staying at and had lunch.(we definitely acquired all of our exercise by walking) :) After lunch we dressed up and walked back down to the school and observed the baptisms then saved our sets in the lecture hall for the commencement ceremony. Right after the ceremony was dinner!!! :) Their cook at the school is a 5 star cook!! :) He made the most amazing dinner ever!!! After dinner we chatted and played games with people and some of us stayed there till 9:30. :) Bright and early the next day we left on the 6:20 ferry and made our way back home. Although we did make a little detour to the airport to drop off a student from the school. On the way back home we stopped by our Great Grandma's to visit them. We ended up arriving home at 9:30. All in all it was a fantastic trip!!! :)                          Lunch in the car!! :)

         A DQ stop and Hollywood beach. :)

On the ferry!! :) If you can't till it was super windy. ;)

I was really bored, so I tried to take a picture of me though Susy's sunglasses. ;)

They have to coolest signs in Canada!!

When I saw this sign I laughed. ;)   

The house we stayed in. :)

Smoochy the lama. ;) 

Have a Great weekend!!! :)