Children of Eden
Here's a couple of clips from my family in Children of Eden. Sorry for the poor filming- I was in the back with a wiggly baby. Matt was Father God, Garrett was Young Able/children's ensemble, Rmma was Adult Ensemble.
Here's a couple of clips from my family in Children of Eden. Sorry for the poor filming- I was in the back with a wiggly baby. Matt was Father God, Garrett was Young Able/children's ensemble, Rmma was Adult Ensemble.
This past weekend, we loaded up Friday afternoon and headed to NYC for a mini Vacay. Our original ETA was 5:07pm. But, since our friend, Danielle, lives right by the George Washington Bridge we got to her house at 8pm. There's always horrible traffic at that bridge. :(
2015 marked our 15 year Anniversary. It was also the year Emma got to pick an adventure location. Matt promised each kid they could pick a location for an adventure for their 10 year old adventure. Each one will turn out to be 11 on said adventures but oh well. :) Emma chose London. She wanted to see Stonehenge and The Rosetta Stone. We went over the kids February vacation. Sadly, so did every other English child. It was school vacation week for England too. It was very crowded everywhere we went, but not impossible.
I've been asked recently to re-start this blog for family near and far to feel more in touch with our going ons. :) I will do my best to keep this updated at least monthly. The major things going on in our lives are: Matt now works for Draft Kings in Boston. He has worked there since February and is really enjoying it there. He rides the train in an hour each way daily. He still works very part time for 4 Sharp Corners maintaining their website. He is no longer a paid minister but does volunteer with the teens when he's able.
Emma had a school program last night. Here are a couple of the songs the third grade performed. A few of my favorite things (partial) I made a little dreidel Hippopotamus for Christmas
Matt and I and 24 of our closest friends were able to travel to Guatemala City, Guatemala last week for a Mission Trip. We were gone from Saturday July 7th - Saturday July 14th. Our trip had 3 major jobs to do. 1. build a roof structure for a church plant about an hour outside the city. 2. Have a VBS each day for the Kyrios Kids school we help support, and 3. Paint as much as possible the building the downtown church is now using. I am happy to report we accomplished 1 and 2 and we got a great deal painted and were able to financially support a local painter to finish what we ran out of time for.
Garrett celebrated several times for his 6th Birthday.
The school system up north has breaks split up differently than in the south. Down south we had 2 weeks at Christmas and 1 week of Spring break. Up here they have 1 week at Christmas, 1 week in Feb deemed "winter break", and 1 week in April as Spring break.
This Christmas had us waking up in Mass. The kids put their stockings upstairs at Jesse's house since she had a fireplace and the Christmas tree. My kids slept good. Jesse kept trying to make noise so Emma would wake up, but she didn't. :) I woke Garrett up and we all went upstairs and opened stockings and presents. The kids loved their presents! Emma loved getting an American Girl doll and Garrett loved getting his own DSi. (Mommy got a Kindle Fire- Thanks Matthew!. Daddy got an iPad- thanks Matthew! err Marti :) ) After presents were done, we hurried downstairs with our loot. stacked it in a corner. Got on the road to get to church in time, with a stop at Dunkin Donuts of course! Had a great Sunday school and service. Had about 20 minutes of snow flurries. Then we booked it back to Natick for the family lunch. We enjoyed our extended family time. Came back to the house. Went to bed and got up early the next morning to fly to AR.