Karate Belt Testing!

Today was the day when the kids test to move up to the next belt. I know NOTHING about any of this. I just showed up. Well ... this is obviously a much bigger deal than I was aware of. I am better on a field (soccer, tball, football, ect.) I guess. I will be better prepared next time! It was adorable!!!!!!!!! Hudson knew all of the things to do and say and was nothing short of precious. I was SO SO proud of him. There were alot of friends there from school and then Garner came with us for a little bit afterwards for them to play!! FUN day. Wednesday is the Awards Ceremony where he will actually get the new belt. SO ... Reading group on Tuesday and Belt Ceremony on Wednesday - then Championship game on Friday, two birthday parties on Saturday - what a week this is already setting up to be! I'm looking forward to that next week off! :)

JA Accents - Operation Christmas Child

Where do I start with this?! The Children's Ministry at Christ United has been helping with Operation Christmas Child (visit http://www.samaritanspurse.org/ for more info). We decided that it was a great service project for the Accents to partake in! They were so excited about being a part of such a wonderful and larger than life experience and embraced it with open arms. I challenged them to bring 150 boxes ... they brought OVER 200!!!!! Today, we loaded the boxes up and helped get them to Christ United to join the other 500+ boxes already there. The staff welcomed them with open arms and a thank-you sign!! It is such a humbling experience and I am SO proud of the Accents for generously giving themselves to this project! WAY TO GO!! These children are getting more for Christmas than you can imagine.

JA v MRA Playoff Game Pep Rally

Precious Friends at school!

Happy 5th Birthday Rob!

Another great party at Pump it Up!! It was my whole class from school - so it was extra special to me too!!! Rob and Hudson went to daycare together and then moved to JA together - so he has always been special to us! It was really funny to see how the kids would still run to ME to tell me if someone wasn't following the rules. ha ha!! John won the award for cooperating for the most pictures! :) Happy Birthday Rob! We love you!

Moses led his people right through that sea!

This was one of my FAVORITE lessons this year! The children really enjoyed learning through their craft. They curled back blue construction paper to make the waves rolling back and used the stand up people to follow Moses through the dry land! They were all so enthusiastic and really made my job extra special on Sunday! I love watching these sweet angels learn about the amazing things that God does for us. It's sometimes the most elementary lessons that can mean the most to us - at any age!

Last Bus Trip of the year ...

Friday night was the last away game. The bus trip was alot of fun and it was a good game. Somehow ... I only took one picture the whole night?! It's been a fun year with this group of Accents!!!