Organized Chaos

I haven't blogged in the last week and a half because our family has been on the go.  Last week, Sunday through Tuesday, our church had a big event going on.  We had Steve Carrier of MegaForce visiting.  I worked on his team that went around to area schools during the day on Monday and Tuesday.  We got to go to five local schools!  Steve gave motivational messages at the schools about making good choices and then he was able to invite the children back to our church for evening services.  He broke a couple of things at the schools to get the children interested enough to come at night.  At the night services he broke concrete, bent bars, rolled pans, ripped license plates and phone books, and exploded cans of sprite, then he talked to the congregation about Jesus.  So much fun!!

On Wednesday night our church invited back all of the visitors that made decisions for Christ for a dinner and to tell them about our baptism service on the next Sunday.

Thursday night a group from our ministry (my husband and mine's), Radical Christian Outreach, went to BDCC prison.  The prison was having a revival all week, and TJ was preaching the message that night.  As soon as we got there I got sick and had to rush home.  Ugh, and the sick has been in our house all week!  Pray for it to leave, please!!

After such a whirlwind week, we were looking forward to our family reunion that was to be this past weekend.  We found out last minute that it had to be rescheduled due to pine beetles!  Apparently they had made many of the trees in the camp we use sick and they had to be cut down.  The clean  up crew had not finished getting all of the dead trees out....  Well, we were in much need of a rest, and we had already made arrangements for others to fill for us in our regular obligations, so we decided to take off to Tyler, Texas to our timeshare.  This is a picture of the girls on the way to Texas!  They were already worn out from the busy week!!

It rained all day Saturday, so we went to the mall in Tyler.  I took the girls to Build-A-Bear, while the boys and TJ wandered around.

Then we ate at Chick-Fil-A (love them!!) and went to see the new movie Transylvania Hotel, which was very cute.  We then went back to the resort and ate ice cream at the A&W and played a game of bingo.

After ice cream, we went back to the condo, relaxed, and played a couple of games while dinner cooked.  It was so nice just to get some quality family time in!!