Sunday School and Nursery: *UPDATED*

Where to start? We have become very involved in our church. We enjoy going and we have come to love the members. Unfortunately, our church did not have a very nice nursery and it lacked a Sunday School program. We find it very important that William and Harrison receive the benefits of a church family and learn from Sunday School. We also think it is a very important part of the church to be able to grow as a congregation. Our church is over 50 years old and it has been very neglected over the years.

We decided to commit ourselves to remodeling and redecorating a nursery/Sunday School room. The room was used as daycare but really ended up being a storage room for the church. And wouldn't you know it, the storage closet was actually a bathroom! We spent about a month working on this project. Every free moment was spent there. The boys even stayed up there till mid-night several nights while Scott and I worked. I am happy to say it is finished and Sunday School is starting! Here are some before and after pictures.

Bathroom: BeforeBathroom: After (I need to add a picture or something in here). A cute toddler toilet Before: Nursery

Before: NurseryAfter: Nursery

After: Nursery
Before: Sunday School
After: Sunday School portion of the room There's also a cute polka dot bulletin board on the right wall that isn't in the picture.
We will wait a little bit but here is the next project: The backyard of the nursery.

*I apologize for not acknowledging those who helped with the nursery in this post. That was never my intention. Thank you to Steve (Scott's Dad) for all his work cleaning, painting and with the base boards. He spent a LOT of time during his trip out here at the church. Thank you to Nita (Scott's mom), Stephanie and Kelly (Scott's sisters) for helping prep/clean the nursery to get started (and keeping the boys entertained). And Nita for the beautiful window treatments! Thank you to Shelby for all your hard work with shopping, decorating, assembling, etc. And a big thanks to recruiting your brother to help with assembling furniture. I'm so excited for Sunday School to start. And last but not least, thank you to Mario, our plumber, for doing all his work and for FREE! Talk about community service! I am sorry I didn't mention you sooner. I am very thankful for every one's work on the project!*

Church BBQ

Yesterday we had our annual church BBQ. It was perfect weather and a nice day to fellowship. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the day.

Madeleine in the jump house. Harry with some left over food on his face.

A jump house full of children.

Harrison playing with Ballerina Barbie and Ken. Shh, don't tell Scott.

Taking a break from jumping to eat some ice cream. Notice my kids are too busy eating the ice cream to look up for the camera.

Easter Sunday

Wow, where did the weekend go? I really feel like we didn't have one. Friday night we went to Good Friday services. Our church joined a Catholic church a block away from ours for the service. Scott was asked to speak one of the lessons. What he hadn't realized is that over 400 people would be at the service. Our church usually has around 30 in attendance and maybe 50 on a big holiday. He did really well. We didn't get home till late and then Saturday we spent running errands (trying to find a pharmacy with my heart medication in stock is a nightmare each time)and prepping for church services. Scott was asked to read for Easter Sunday as well and I volunteered to be the Fellowship host. I get a little excited about holidays and get a little bit more than just cookies or a cake. I like to decorate. I brought in nuts, grapes, strawberries, eggs, a vegetable tray, shrimp cocktail, rolls, cheese, crackers and summer sausage, breakfast cake and cupcakes. Although that was nice, the clean up was a lot. Luckily a few people stayed after to help me clean up but then I had to stay after to attend to my treasurer duties. Unfortunately I didn't get home until 3pm. Then we had an egg hunt in our back yard. Scott cooked dinner to give me a break which was very nice.

The boys woke up to a very generous Easter Bunny this year.
Luckily the Easter Bunny's financial contributor didn't break the bank. The boys had left over birthday money that they never used so we were able to use that.

Here is a picture of the boys with Miss Shelby. She is the nursery attendant and they really look forward to spending time with her every Sunday.

Yummy

Don't ask why the boys have jackets on when it was 70 degrees yesterday. They wanted to wear them and you can't tell a toddler no. We all wore purple yesterday. I posted our family picture at the top of our blog. We hope everyone had an enjoyable Easter yesterday.