Our 1st Home

In Aug. Mike and i moved to our new (to us) townhouse on CBC's campus. Mike actually moved us there on monday while i hung out @ the fair all day! :) We love our new place. Its perfect for us right now. We have an extra bedroom the mike uses to study and we are able to have a washer and dryer as well! Its so perfect! Now that i have it all decorated here are all the cute pics!

Outside our home/our bedroom

Our full bath/mike's office

Our living room/1/2 bathroom

dining room/kitchen

Iowa State Fair 2009- It's fair time!

My visit to the one & the only Iowa Stae Fair was a quick one. I have never had to see everything @ the fair in 1 day....it was a marathon...but i did it most of it anyway...mom and I went during the afternoon and then aaron, kenzie, and i went back that evening....i love the fair. probably one of the biggest fans in iowa...your totally not an iowan if you don't go! Here are some pics from my adventure:

Pepsi clock-everyone Midway painting

meets here

Rock painting- i loved this saying too!

Butter Astronut world's smallest cow-not even kidding...it was so cute!!

the dollhouse entries are fun art piece that plant is

always a crowd pleaser! actually growning through

blue tube!

ISF newest treasure-Chocolate covered bacon on a stick! No i didn't try it :)

The things that i missed was baby animals-I forgot that they got moved to the new building and the giant slide....

Even though I don't live there i will always try to go back & visit and i will take my kids there someday!

Water Fun & VBS Set

During our internship, Dad has given me & mike a service that we are to be totally in charge of. We were given a small budget for a promotion and prizes. Tonight's was mike's service-Water Wars. Mike had service just like normal which went really really well. After church there was free pizza and water games. Mike had been trying to get a fire truck to the church to spray the students during it! It was sooo cool....all the students had so much fun! Great job guys! Here are some pics of the fun:

we started decorating for VBS today. we are part of a co-op that goes together and delegates each part of the set to a different church and then once it is completed they pass it around from church to church and we all share it. We were kind of worried as to what condition the set would be in since we are the last church to use it-but our worries were not worth it! The set was in really really good condition- we are getting super pumped fro VBS and there will be many more pics during VBS next week. Here is what the main kids room looks like (once we get all the rooms done i get pics of the those):

on tuesday we had our 2nd kids day out: wacky water day!!! we made a mini slip-n-slide and played games all afternoon. The kids had a blast!!! (and so did the adults:)) The preschoolers were so cute going down the slip-n-slide-they didn't weigh enough or have enough momentum to get all the way down it, so i usually ended up meeting them half way and pulling them down the rest of the way!!! Here are some of the 'wet' pics!!!

A Night out with Madelyn

Tonight i took miss madelyn out to dinner @ olive garden and then we headed to the nail salon to get our nails done. I got a pretty boring color-nude but madelyn got an awesome color-i'm not really a waitress! we laughed so hard about that. Madeyln also got flowers on her nails-she was pretty excited! here are the pictures of our nails:

after our nails we headed to Target to get her imput on our VBS promotion prizes. we walked around the toys and electronics and found something we thought would work, so we bought it! As I was taking her home we started talking about the importance of a daily devotional time. Madelyn shared with me that she already had a daily devotional time, she just started the Mpact program-stars where she is required to read all of the New Testament. She is using that reading plan to keep up with her devotional time. I was so proud of her!!!

An Iowa Weekend

Sallie letting Charlee driving-----Saylee wanted to take a pic of me

Mike playing bags & Charlee helping------Mike playing ladderball

This weekend Mike and I headed to Iowa for my Dr. Appt and one of my closest friends-Alana's wedding. We always stay @ our home away from home-torrie & dallas's. of course their girls-saylee & charlee were excited to see us. I went to the ladies bible study @ berean on friday night with torrie. it was a great time of food, fellowship, and God-time. Torrie shared about keeping our emotions in check. It was really good for me to think about what emotions I need to focus on as a person. all summer I have been giving of myself during services and wednesday night. it was good to focus on myself for a few hours.....ok well alot of hours. we kinda made mike nervous, he woke up @3 and i still wasn't home...but i was home soon after though :) the next day we hung out with the girls outside. we played games and won some and lost some but it was alot of fun. Saturday night we changed clothes and headed out to living history farms to see Alana & Micah get hitched! It was so beautiful and so alana!!!! here are some pics her wedding:
Its Mr. & Mrs. Hidreth!!!-------------3 life-long friends!!

After the wedding Mike & I had to drive all the back to KC for church in the morning. it wasn't a super late night but late enough! We had soo much fun and it was so great to see Alana get married and to see all of our friends up in Iowa!

Journey-Reveal Night

Tonight was the reveal of our new youth group name--Journey. If from 1 Corinthains 11:1. The redesign of the youth room was done this week by the youth leaders and pastor and intern. The room looks so great! I can't wait to see what 'journeys' our youth go on! Here are some of pics of the room:

Backwall Challenge as they leave

Worship team pratice the awesome t-shirts

After the big reveal I went back to Rainbows where we played outside for a bit. I found a bunch of hulu-hoops and shocking they loved them....granted they can't actually hulu-hoop but they sure tried and it was so cute. Here are a couple of pics of them playing:

Carson & Annette playing Brett & Jenna talking

what a weekend.....

maddie and jenn golfing mike golfing-trying to beat pbrad.

jenn, micheala, &kaylee golfing

On saturday the youth group went to cool crest-which is a putt-putt, go-cart, and arcade. This was the activitiy that the new 7th graders could attend for free. They came out by the hoards! It was great to see all of them there and we had a great time. I don't know how many times annie had to say- 'girls this is putt-putt' they were whacking the ball soo....hard.

madelyn, keegan, and pastor matt acting out the story of the good samariatian & the youth human video

On Sunday it was our 2nd synergy service. The theme was love. Our mission is this summer is: living, loving & growing-we are family! We started the service with the youth segment and they read the love chapter in 1 Corinthains and did a drama/human video. Pastor matt and todd did an offeratory. We had worship and then the KIDS took over :) which by the way was my favorite part....but i am a little partial......:) we did a praise song with motions and puppet song. we then acted out the story of the good samaritan and talked about loving others even if they don't look or act like us. Dad got us and closed the service with a short message on loving all people. It was a great service and I can't wait for the next one.

Mike is working this week on the reveal for the new youth group name and finishing the decorating of the youth room. Its going to be soo....cool. He is also working his last promotion for next wednesday. he is preaching and taking care of the entire service. He is super excited....i'm getting geared up for VBS and my last promotion which is the 16th of aug. we see the end of our internship but there is alot of work to do between now and then.

Mike is finally getting the bathroom started @ the parsonage. the tub is in and soon he will be tearing out the old shower and putting the new floor down. I have started to pack because 3 weeks from today we will be headed back down to Springfield for school. I can't believe how fast the summer has gone but its gone just the same!