Michael Family

Our church has several interns during the summer.  Our children’s ministry brought on an intern named Katie.  Katie’s not from here, so she needed a place to stay while she was here to work.  We had the privilege of having Katie stay with us her first week here.  She fit right in, and it just didn’t seem right when she had to pack up and move on to her next host home.  The girls love her, and have had a great time with her each time we get together.  Here’s a pic of Libbie and Katie.

What is summer without swimming and sno cones?!  Well, we’ve done plenty of swimming, but haven’t had any sno cones.  Being new here, I was just telling Alan that I had no idea where to get sno cones.  However…on an errand-running evening, we happened  to pass a sno cone stand!  Woo-hoo!  Excited, we pulled over and took a break from our checklist to enjoy some sno cones.  (Although I was extremely disappointed they didn’t have my favorite flavor…wedding cake)

My mom and dad went on vacation a few weeks ago, and they stayed a night with us on their way back home…we are very close to the airport - so convenient!  Of course, the girls LOVED having Grammie and Gramps spend the night, swim, and play games with them!

Our pastor and a team of people from our church went to Tanzania, Africa a few weeks ago.  We have a lady from our church, Monica Miller, who is there serving as a missionary.  Our church supports her and wanted to see how she’s doing and what needs there are where she is.  Our children at church have been giving money to send to her and we learned a lot about Monica and the people in Tanzania during VBS.

I just discovered her website…it was a link from our church site:  www.rockpointechurch.org

Here’s Monica’s site if you’re interested!  Monica Miller

I also found out that a group from our school went on a mission trip to Africa…including one of the teachers I teach 1st grade with!  It’s been interesting to see how active our student ministry at LCS is and exciting to know that my girls will hopefully be a part of that one day!  Liberty Christian School Mission Trips

I just clicked on the link to the left about Motivations for Moms and this was the little ‘blurb’ for today…how fitting!

“Enlighten your children to the world around them by supporting missions and teaching them that there is a world both hungry for food and hungry for God. Pray that they will have a heart for missions.”

I’ve decided that McKenna has the most lucrative business going in this family…pulling teeth and getting money for them!  She is losing another tooth every time I turn around.  This time, she has pulled the other top tooth…leaving a great big hole in the front of her mouth.  I love it, though!

Libbie during worship rally - love it!

Ashton going to class

Mommy and McKenna at games outside

Ashton eating ice cream snack

McKenna and Mommy

McKenna and friends

Libbie and some of her class

Our church is using Group’s “Power Lab” curriculum for VBS. It is a lot of fun learning about the ‘Power’ of Jesus while incorporating some fun science experiments! Here are a few pics Alan took of the girls.

This is the 1st summer in 8 years that Alan has not been the Children’s Minister at our church and been in charge of VBS (like last year). I have to say, it has been nice to be able to breathe and not be overly stressed during this week…of course, the fact that we went from having over a thousand kids at VBS (First Baptist McKinney) to about 250 kids (RockPointe) might have something to do with that! It has been a nice change of pace.

Today started VBS at our church. We had a wonderful 1st day and met many new friends. We couldn’t get the pictures from the camera to our computer, so we’ll try again tomorrow and see if we can post some VBS pics.

After VBS and nap time (mainly Mommy’s nap time!), we met one of our new (Flower Mound) friends at the pool and played. Our Youth Minister’s wife and little girl swam with us and then their family came over, ate dinner, and hung out.

Thank you, God, for sending us new friends to bless our hearts!

I have a friend here in Lantana who has a side-business going of the cutest baby gifts!

It’s called ‘Expressions of Luv’. You should check out her stuff.

www.expressionsofluv.com

…all that matters is faith expressing itself through love. Galatians 5:6

Some of our sweetest friends joined us today at our house. Shari and Lesley came from McKinney to visit and play. It was such a blessing and privilage to get to spend the day together. I have been friends with them both since we moved to McKinney almost 6 years ago…and our girls are great friends, too! We had a fun time catching up, eating lunch, swimming, and playing.