Crazy Hair Day

 Today was the last day of CPK and Crazy Hair Day.

 Cupcake girls -- Mollie Grace and Sonya.

 Two Bens with crazy hair.

 Fun at Bounz.

Practice for the program tomorrow night.

CPK

This is City Project Kids week at our church.  City Project Kids is our version of VBS and is held in conjunction with City Project week.  During City Project adults and youth work on home repair projects for people in the community.  They are repairing three houses this week.  Along with a Bible lesson and worship, our kids participate in community service projects.  I am the 1st and 2nd grade leader and Mollie Grace is in my group.  I've been taking pictures for the end of week slide show and am posting a few with Mollie Grace in them on the blog.

 Monday -- Making chocolate chip cookies for families with children at St. Jude.  Adults from the church will deliver them at the end of the week.

 This is a craft project that they will take home with them.  The boys were outside working on a wood working project.

Tuesday --  Putting together goody bags at the public library for children who get a library card.  I think they put together 1000.  (One of our church members is a librarian and organized this project. Another church member is the principal of a private school and uses a school bus to deliver the kids to the off site projects).

 Wednesday -- Getting instructions from Mrs. Mc.  We were at her house to help her with yard clean up.

 While Mollie Grace's group was cleaning Mrs. Mac's yard, Ben's group was moving dirt and planting a garden at Pleasant Hill Elementary School.  This school is into hands on projects.  They have classroom gardens, chickens, pigs, rabbits, and even a cow.

 Using buckets, they moved that big pile of dirt into the raised beds.

Someone at church has been nurturing these plants since spring that they transplanted into the beds.

 One of the ladies working in the nursery sent me a couple of pictures of Annie.

 Thursday --  We visited a local nursing home where the kids put on a talent show, handed out cards they had made, and then interacted with the residents while playing board games.  The whole group sang Jesus Loves Me and Father Abraham and then they demonstrated their talents. They recited poetry, turned flips, did taekwondo, sang, and showed off their artwork that they brought along.

 Mollie Grace singing Amazing Grace.

 Weeding the flower beds at Pleasant Hill Elementary.

I took this picture of Ben and Michael on the bus.  

Dugger and Mollie Grace singing with hand motions at the end of day assembly.

Tomorrow is a fun day with a trip to a bouncy house place and pizza.

Last Week

Thankfully we slowed down some last week with just swim lessons for Mollie Grace in the evenings.

 Mollie Grace and Harold got married.

 Selfie I found on the camera along with a million Nascar diecast race videos.

 Ben was being a great big brother and attending Annie's doll birthday party.

 That's Mollie Grace splashing into the pool at the end of swim lessons.

 This year every kid that swims at the Y has to get a wrist band.  A green wristband means you've passed your swim test and can go down the slide and swim in the deep end without a parent in the pool with you.  To get a green wrist band, Mollie Grace had to swim the length of the pool, tread water, and float.  Ben passed his swim test at the beginning of summer.  Mollie Grace's goal for swim lessons was to be able to pass her swim test at the end of the two weeks and she did it.

A snowcone to celebrate the end of swim lessons.

Soccer/Swimming

Ben is going to soccer camp in the mornings this week and Mollie Grace is taking swimming lessons in the evenings.  Annie is along for the ride as always.  Today the local semi-pro soccer team Memphis City Football Club visited Ben's soccer camp.  All the kids thought it was cool to meet real soccer players and had them sign their balls.

 Several weeks ago Kroger got these kid-sized grocery carts.  We haven't used them before because I don't have that kind of patience when grocery shopping with three kids.  However, on Monday when Ben was at soccer camp and we had plenty of time, I let Mollie Grace and Annie push the buggies while we grocery shopped.

 All of our groceries for one week, two small carts.

 Mollie Grace is, of course, the tiny one on the end.

 Ready for soccer camp this morning.

 I took these next three pics from the Memphis City Football Club Facebook page.  You can see Ben on the left middle.

 Ben asked me to come on the field after he had gotten his ball signed and take a couple of pictures.

Lake Bruin

We celebrated the 4th of July and David's 40th birthday with the Barnetts at Lake Bruin.