Church Picnic

We had a church picnic on Sunday. They had games for the kids to play and Shelby won this noise putty and everytime she made the noise it would make her laugh hysterically!! In fact she went around making the noise for everyone. We renamed the putty "poofa putty"!!
Tyler played a game where he had to run down and put on all these items as fast as he could and here he is putting them on.

Rock Climbing Wall

We went to a birthday party on Saturday and they had a rock climbing wall. Shelby and Tyler both tried the wall. Here is about how far Shelby made it up the wall. She just liked swinging down.Now it's Tyler's turn to start up the wall.
He's about half way there.
He made it to the top and rang the bell. Tyler and one other girl at the party were the only ones to make it all the way to the top. Tyler did it three times.

Shelby's 4th Birthday Party

We had Shelby's 4th birthday party yesterday. Here she is with her number 4 balloon from Grampy and Grammy.
She wanted a castle jumper this year for her party and here she is in front of the jumper before all the fun begins!!
Shelby had lots of friends at her party, but here is a special friend that showed up. She wouldn't look at the camera though. This is the cat that Grammy has adopted and the kids love playing with him.

BLOW, BLOW, BLOW!! This year Shelby wanted Grammy to make her famous ice cream cake for her party for the first time. It was a big hit again.

Finally here she is with one of the wonderful gifts she received from her wonderful friends!! The party was at 1:30 and all morning Shelby kept asking when her friends would be there. It seemed like longer than Tyler's party which was the exact same time, but I guess when it's your party it seems like a longer wait. Once her friends starting arriving she immediately starting asking me to open her presents. I told her we were going to jump for a while, have cake, and then do presents. She didn't like that plan and kept trying to get me to speed things along which I did a little and they just had more time to jump at the end. However then she just wanted to take the toys out and play with them and she had to wait again until her friends left. She had to learn some patience and did pretty well!!

Vacation Bible School

Tyler and Shelby went to Vacation Bible School this past week and had a blast. The theme was "Power Lab" and they spent all week learning about God's power and how he shares his power with us. They had fun singing, playing games, making friends, doing crafts, and hearing bible stories. Tyler's favorite part of the week was the game time. His favorite thing he learned from the week was the lesson on having the power to be thankful and that he needs to remember to be thankful for what God has given him. Shelby's favorite part of the week was playing on their playground. In fact everyday when I picked her up she wanted to show me what she did on the playground and I have picture below of her on the monkey bars. Her favorite lesson from the week was the one about Jesus giving us the power to be brave. After that day she kept telling me all the things she could do now because Jesus was with her and would help her be brave. Such as walking up the stairs in the dark or saying goodbye to me. Friday night they had a program where the kids could be up front singing the songs from the week and wrapping up all they learned from the week. Tyler didn't want to go up front because he had done it two years and remembered he didn't like it so much, but Shelby was very excited to go up on stage. So we went and Shelby was very cute up front and Tyler enjoyed watching from the audience. Here are a couple pictures. I have more that I wanted to include, but there were other people in them that I couldn't crop out.