June 2019!

June 5th - Awana Awards Ceremony for the 2018-19 year!

Dada - Commander

Mama - Youth Leader Director

Eben - Games Director

Kivi - Yellow Team Game Lead

Jasper - Youth Leader

Opal - T&T Excellence Award

Berg - T&T Alpha Award 

Pella - Wing Runner Book Award

Tuff - Cubbies Award

June 7th - Boys snacking on our front porch swing.

June 8th - Mama and Dada dates bike riding to Coffee Cabin.

June 14th - Policeman Dada brings donuts for us! Later that night Eben has his last Pierce College concert for the year.

June 16th - Father's Day

The kids each made a page for Dada in a cute book. We went for a bike ride with Poppie and Nonnie in Dupont. The farthest Berg has gone on a two-wheeler. We ate a picnic lunch in the park and then enjoyed some ice cream! That night we had both Grandpa and Poppie over for an outside Father's Day dinner.

June 18th - Walk through the Nisqually Nature Reserve with the Nobles.

June 19th - Awana Youth Leader Foam Party

I decided to throw my leaders a party as a thank you last year at the end of Awana and it went so well, we did it again this year! The kids love snacking, swimming, roasting s'mores, hanging out with friends and sliding down the hill of foam that Peter so dutifully sets up for me!

June 20th - Dada makes pretzels with the kids. 

June 21st - Dada does lots of this. He loves it!

June 22nd - Our nephew Styrkur's 2nd birthday! A pillow party! He loved a pillow from our house so much that Nonnie had to buy him his own! We had a pillow fight, and Styzee singed his eyelashes on the candles. (That's why he's crying.) Happy Birthday, Styrkur!

June 23-30th - Mexico Mission Trip with LC3 for Mama, Eben and Kivi. Eben and Kivi worked on building a home for an Oaxacan family and Mama went to help out at orphanages and help disabled children.

The church sent us off in prayer.

We flew down in our small groups and drove to In&Out for burgers!

This was one of the two houses we stayed in on the beach

Eben working on house.

Kivi playing with some of the kids that would live in the house.

Painting the inside.

Putting on the roof.

Almost done! I can't believe they built a house (really two houses, we had two teams) in one week!

The beach out the back door of the houses.

One of the amazing things was the beach had hot springs about a mile down from where we stayed We got to go twice! We'd lay in the surf and boiling hot water would come up from the sand.

Eben was not a fan. 

I may have wrestled him into the water at some point and forced him to "enjoy" it. 

The kids made us a welcome home sign!

Meanwhile, the kids at home did amazing!!! Dada still went to work everyone and they did school, and cleaned the house better than when Mama is home!!