Project 365 Week 27

Sunday, June 26th - No pic

Monday, June 27th - No pic

This is VBS Week! :) I worked in the Nursery this year for the first time. This was my 5th VBS here at Crossroads and I have loved every one of them and never want the week to end! It is SO much fun for the kids and the biblical truths that are rooted into their hearts as the learn, play and worship with their friends is priceless and I know from our families personal experience has ETERNAL value! :) The music from Group Publishing is always blessing to us as we listen to each cd for years... this year's Theme was PandaMania. I don't have a whole lot of photos fromt this year, but it was a blast! Liliana was in the preschool room with her sweet friend Josephina, they have alway had a special bond with each other even though they don't see each other very often throughout the year. Noah was in the Toddler room with his little buddies Manny and Jeremiah. SO THANKFUL for the friends God has blessed our children with! Friendship is something that is always on the forefront of my heart and mind... maybe because I grew up in a rocky home of 5 and our extended family was hundreds to thousands of miles away and even now we are multiple hundreds of miles away from our family and it is us 5... I do pray that from this generation forward things will change and family will be bigger and closer... always a prayer... but blessed beyond measure with the people/friends/adoptive families God has filled our lives with! :)

Tuesday, June 26th

Jam session!

Wednesday, Jne 29th - no pic

Thursday, June 30th

We took care of our neighbor's garden this week... Liliana and I went over to water it today and found this baby toad! SO Cute!!! She caught him with her hands and we brought him to our yard to "play" for a little bit then we brought him back "home"... So fun!!!

Friday, July 1st

The last day of VBS.


Liliana examining a flower in the backyard... so beautiful!

The toothbrush hog... Elia got a hold of 3 family toothbrushes... Daddy's is in her hand and Liliana and Noah's are in the tub... :) Cracked me up!

Liliana Stories

Today as Liliana was eating chicken pot pie:

Liliana: "Mommy does chicken come from real chickens??"

me: "yes, it does"

Liliana (big eyes and studdering to get out her theory): "Do they poop it out and we clean it off and eat the chicken they poop out??"

Me: "uhm...........no.............uhm..........it is just chicken..........is that okay??

Liliana: "we eat chickens...no that is not okay...I am a chicken" and off into animal pretend mode she went.


A couple of weeks ago Liliana was holding a peice of paper pretending to read a story to Noah. Here is the story:

Once upon a time a big moose came to eat Noah up and a raccoon came to rescue him. The End. (She had been pretending to be a raccoon those few days prior).

She LOVES animals and is very curious about ALL of them..."Mommy, how does a squirrel talk?" "Mommy, how does a mouse walk?" "Mommy, what do hippos say?" whew...I don't know a lot of this stuff...lol! :o) If she sees a cartoon or movie (super rare) that does not have a single animal in it she says "this just has humans in it, it's boring because it does not have any animals."