Pajama Party at VOH

The girls and I had an opportunity to hang out at VOH Friday night and Saturday. We got to put on our comfy sweats, watch movies, and play beauty parlor.

Shelby had fun painting one of the big girls toes.

Getting a triple piggy back ride from Tikvah, Hailey's little best friends, big sister, Rachel.

Daddy's new haircut

Shelby couldn't keep her hands off it. She was enamored with daddy's tickly head.

Isn't this cool!

Bowling Night

We had a fun family night at the Bowling Alley.

Day One All Over Again

Well, today was the big day . . . the first day of kindergarten, for the second time.

Here's a video of the girls taking school supplies in for Ramp Up Day (the day before the first day of school).

We got all of our school supplies put away, visited with our friend Deanna and her daughter Madelyn, who will be in Mr Herron's AM Kindergarten.

Hailey's not quite sure what to think about having a boy for a teacher. I'm sure it's going to be an adventure!

Today after school, Hailey came to my office to do her homework, but she didn't have any yet, so she just played for an hour.

Then it was off to home where we played on the swingset and with Ozzy. He loves us so much he can't contain himself. He's very jumpy!

Have you ever been in love?

Comparisons

Shelby

Does anyone see where Shelby gets her little face? This is an older collage I made when Shelby was about 6 months old or so, but I was struck by how much the little Pooh picture of me looks like Shelby's face now. Isn't that funny!

Hailey

I think Hailey is still a healthy mixture. She has a lot of Brian in her, but I also see me.

Here's our last fun picture. The girls have recently taken up bug collecting thanks to an awesome bug collecting kit Shelby got for her birthday from Grandma Millard. They're getting to be experts at frog catching! I'm so proud!

What a week!

I've not posted anything lately because the week has been over the top busy.

On Sunday night I realized that I was supposed to be going to Nashville, TN the next day. I scurried around to pack my bag and slowly it occurred to me that I might actually need to brief Brian on the schedule for the next couple of weeks, due to its craziness. So here's our list, and the reason that you won't want to try to call until next week.

Monday - Go to work, Jocelyn go to Nashville, TN at 2:30 pm
Tuesday - Jocelyn in Nashville, getting home around 11 pm, spending the night at Vision of Hope; Brian take the girls to daycare at 5:30 am
Wednesday - Brian take the girls to daycare at 5:30 am; work for Brian and Jocelyn; Sunday School Teacher training in the evening
Thursday - Work; Daycare; Mentor / Volunteer Training at VOH in the evening
Friday - Work; Daycare; VOH Graduation
Saturday - World Pulse Festival (which I cancelled going to because it was too much to be gone all day the Saturday before school starts)
Sunday - Church; Last day of the weekend before school starts
Monday - Ramp Up Day at School (drop off school supplies, pay fees and tuition, meet teacher)
Tuesday - First Day of Kindergarten (for the second time) for Hailey

This week is going to be intense!

Have of it is done already and we survived it. The VOH graduation was amazing! Our hearts were so full. So even though the week is full it's still good!

Creation Museum

I know it's been a couple of days since we went, but I'm finally putting up my post about going to the Creation Museum with the Vision of Hope crew. Hailey went with me, and she was amazingly obedient the whole day. I was so impressed with her growth as a young women.

The Creation Museum has had a special place for the members of our church for quite a while. Several of our young people's groups travelled there to help construct it. Our church supports it. Ken Ham comes to teach at our church from time to time. So the Creation Museum has come up time and time again. We've heard over and over how wonderful it is and how awesome and amazing.

But seeing it in real life was more than I could have ever imagined! It's taken me a couple of days to really process it enough to really talk about it, because it was so much more than I could really take in.

At church and in counseling we FIGHT to get people to believe in the authority and sufficiency of Scripture in all of life. Well, the Creation Museum was the first time I've seen someone do that pictorially in 3D. It was so moving, so amazing that I left with a greater capacity to worship God because of it. I felt like for the first time, someone took all of what I've been learning these last 10 years and made a museum about it.

You can bet for sure that everyone who comes to Indiana to visit us in the next years is going to get the "Do you want to go the Creation Museum with us?" question. You won't want to miss it!

Here's Hailey in the beginning of the walk through History checking out some life size figures completing a Dinosaur Archeology Dig.

Hailey's favorite part of the trip was getting to hang out with all of her favorite "Vision of Hope Girls." They love Hailey and Shelby.

One of the awesome parts of the Museum was how professional it was. All the displays were amazing. Along with the Museum there is an amazingly beautiful botanical gardens there as well. There was a pretty cool suspension bridge that Hailey loved.

In the Botanical Garden section there were three beautiful waterfalls and water features. Here is Tori, one of the VOH staff, showing Hailey something in the waterfalls.

Hailey hanging with the VOH girls at the head of the waterfall.

Attached to the botanical garden area was a petting zoo with some unique critters showcasing how God made everything after its kind and able to expand with a great degree of change possible within its genetic code. There was a zonkey (zebra / donkey hybrid) and zorse (zebra / horse hybrid). It was interesting.

One of the most amazing pieces of the walk through history was the amazing, amazing tree of life in the garden of eden. It took my breath away to look at it. It was very, very cool!

Here's an example of the amazing displays all throughout the walk through history. This is one of the displays of Adam and Eve after God united them, enjoying their relationship in the Garden of Eden in perfection. It was amazing. They were wax / siliconish life size figures in a real water pond with amazing decor.

I don't know if these were real dinosaur bones or not. I would assume not, but who knows? I'm not all that crazy about dinosaurs in general but I learned a lot about them, and it was all about how God created them after their kind.

Hailey even got to ride on this little bugger!

Here are a couple of shots of the amazing gardens from the deck at the Museum.

We can hardly wait to go back, to take Brian and one day (when she's a little older) Shelby. Meanwhile, we can't wait for all of you to come visit us so we can take you too! Hailey kept saying over and over how much fun it would be to bring Sunni.