Living Inside Out

These are a few pictures of the children involved in our new Sunday Children's Church. This is the primary reason I have been so poor at keeping up my blog. Much of my spare time has been spent on these kids but I know God is blessing. We have over 70 children involved in Children's church and I'm excited to see them grow in their faith. I have had such a fun time leading this past month. This program has a lot of bells and whistles that are reinforcing the theme of the day. That makes Sunday's really fun for the kids. As you can see, the children are using magadoodles to learn their memory verse for the month. At the end of the month they each get to take their magnadoodles home with them. I know Shawny and Sierra are excited about it.

The kids are assigned to small groups and they really grow to love their leaders. Here you see Laura with her fans.

Happy 1st Birthday Cousin Isaiah Black

As usual, the least expensive part of the gift is the most appreciated. Isaiah loved the Pinwheel!! He was dangerous with it. He thought the frosting on the Rykes cake was pretty good as well.

Baby Isaiah, you are such a precious little guy. Sierra, Shawny, Aunt Leanne and Uncle Lyle love you a ton. Happy Birthday!

The weather turned so cold we put Sierra's hat on Isaiah's head to keep him warm as he was getting ready to leave. Please forgive us Isaiah for putting you in pink.

Lost tooth #7

Happy Easter from the Snow Bunny

Sweet Jullian Deneau braving the cold for her first Easter Egg Hunt.
Our church hosted a community Easter Egg Hunt on April 7th in a foot of snow. The temperature was around 23 degrees and I'm not sure what the wind chill was. The wind sure picked up speed as it whipped across the field. This year we increased the amount of eggs to over 10,000 and the numbers in attendance dropped to somewhere around 150 kids. All the eggs were picked up and I saw a lot of full baskets and smiling faces. Needless to say, it was a short and sweet hunt. No frills, just chills!!!!

Thanks to the goodness of some men in our church, the field was plowed nicely for the hunt.

7 from Heaven

March 31, 2000 Lyle and I received a blessing wrapped up in a little girl. We never would have dreamed that God had such a blessing in store for us. We thank Him and praise Him for chosing us for this task. It's hard to believe it has already been 7 years.

Sierra chose a few friends to attend her birthday party. Four friends from school, her cousin Patience and he sweet brother Shawny. What a time we had bowling, eating pizza and swimming at the Bayshore Resort.

From left to right: Patience, Sierra, Hana W, Hannah G, Brooke and Paige