This was our first weekend with everyone here and it ended up kind of being a chill weekend at the beginning and a little but of a busy weekend by the end. We didn't have any real plans on Friday night or Saturday morning so we just hung out at the house. Saturday afternoon we found out we were leading kids small groups and worship tonight and then we had a softball game. 

Our first softball game of the season was a bit rough since no one had played in almost a year, but this time we held our own. We were up one at the bottom of the seventh and they scored two runs. I think that after a rough first game only losing by one run was pretty good. It was a fun game and a good time with some awesome people!

We then grabbed a bite for dinner and headed to our pastor's house to go over songs and motions for Journey Kids worship tonight with his wife and daughter. We had actions for two songs and came up with motions for the third right then. It made for a fairly late night with our normal 6am Sunday, but it was fun and we were able to get it done.

 

Today we had church in the morning, then all four of us interns spent the afternoon at the office prepping for Journey Kids tonight. We're doing a temporary new thing with our kids program for the month of June. Instead of doing their lesson and small groups in the morning, we are having them go into the service in the morning and then having their normal Sunday morning activities in the evening. If we keep getting a turn out like tonight (and hopefully larger next week!) then it might be beneficial to keep it going on Sunday nights. We had twelve kids with about half of them being new or kids who hadn't been there in a long time. It was a really active night and the kids really seemed to enjoy it! Most, if not all, are planning to come back next week and are planning on bringing more friends. It would be so awesome if God is able to use this time on Sunday evenings for us to impact kids in a better and more effective way! I'm excited to see what happens!

Now we're all just sitting around the house in our own areas doing our own things in hopes of a little recoup before some heavy work tomorrow. It was a good first week of the summer with all of us interns here and I look forward to a great week leading up to our first summer activity!

So there's a little recap of the weekend!

Have a great night and a great start to your week tomorrow!

God Bless!

We Got A Lot Of "Stars" Here

There are just days when I wonder why I didn't decided to be an Early Education major or some other such thing.

(Although it usually doesn't last long...)

I absolutely love kids!! And my cousins are no exception!!

They say some of the craziest things and can make you laugh even when you don't want to.

It was the perfect way to end a long hectic day that was only a hint of what today was like.

We were riding in the car on the way back from seeing Aladdin at The Muny and my cousin Hadley was riding in the car along with my cousins Alex & Vanessa, and myself.

Vanessa recently went on a trip to Rwanda and she came up with some code words.

I won't share a lot of details as to what they refer to, but basically there are three levels.

Gold Star= Good

Silver Star= Okay

Bronze Star= Bad

 

Hadley caught onto it quite quickly.

(She didn't hesitate at all to refer to Justin Beiber as a Bronze Star.)

She then proceeded to use these terms through out our conversation in the car.

I also got her saying sad cheese.

I must say that this was quite funny to hear.

I am also quite surprised by the words that Hadley knows at her age.

(She was regularly using discombobulated in conversation. As well as words such as irrational.)

Hadley is crazy smart and has an incredible for someone her age.

After a late night (got back around 12:30am), we had an early morning.

(It wouldn't have been so bad had I not woke up every 20mins all night.)

We left my grandparents house with the little kids at 7:30-7:45 this morning to head to the St. Louis Zoo in Forest Park.

The reason we went so early was so that we could get in to pet the Sharks and Sting Rays.

It was free to pet them for the first hour.

We probably spent around 45mins or so petting and feeding the Sting Rays.

I think I may have enjoyed it more than the kids.

We then walked around the Zoo until 11:30ish.

Grabbed a bite at Pappy's Smokehouse.

(Amazing BBQ!!!!)

Some people proceeded to go see the Cathedral Basilica.

I however am completely worn out and am in need off a break from all of the people and noise so I came back to my grandparents house for the afternoon early evening.

I don't know that it is going to be of much good to me seeing as everyone is going to be coming back here soon, but it sounded like a good idea at the time.

I may go all recluse and hide in the basement for a couple hours.

There may be a trip to the City Museum after dinner.

My energy level may be a little to low to handle the trip to the "Glorified Playground" later.

All in all it has been a crazy couple of days so far and a crazy couple to go yet.