Grace's birthday week

It seems that around here instead of a birthDAY kids have birthday WEEKS. We have family partes, friend parties, and then if your actual birthday falls on a different day you get a "just our family" celebration with dinner and another dessert. Here are pictures of Grace's "friend" party. We went to a water park and then to Pizza Hut. This was such a sweet group of girls. It is so hard to believe that she will be in middle school next year. I'm grateful she has some godly girlfriends.

This is Sharon. She has had a week of fun with us. I've had 2 extra children living with us this week while their mom had surgery. We've had Grace's birthday celebrations and VBS at church every night this week. It has been a full week for sure. She has been sweet to join us for everything and has been a huge help.

We stayed up late last night and talked about Jesus, Christianity, and the difference between a relationship with God and religion. She asked lots of questions. I am praying that God would open her spiritual eyes.

The boys had a campout at the same time as us going to the water park. We were quickly told when we went down to take photos at our creek that No Girls were allowed! Here are some pictures of their fun though.

The girls had a plan to scare the boys so my good friend, Sara, and I joined in on the fun. Later we commented that we felt like teenagers at summer camp and are glad no one was spying on US while we were spying on them :)

 Here are the scary girls!