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Final Session of Kindermusik

Dad just blogged about the end of Kindermusik and it made me realize that I never put up my pictures and videos from Bri's last day of Kindermusik for the semester.

Gettin' Dizzy!
 




Story Time!




 Playing with sticks!

The Girl's Still Got It Review

When I was given the opportunity to review "The Girl's Still Got It" by Liz Curtis Higgs, I jumped at the chance. I have read multiple books by Higgs in the past and she has never disappointed me.

This book is the story of Ruth. Higgs uses several translations of the Bible to go through each individual verse of the book of Ruth in the Bible. She methodically goes through each verse (and sometimes every single word in the verse) to make this book very plain to the reader. I personally love the book of Ruth, and so I loved delving a bit deeper into it. The only problem I had with this book is that Higgs uses a lot of poetic license. She sometimes puts words into the mouths of the characters.

All in all, I really enjoyed this book. Higgs has such a way of drawing you into her books, making scriptures fun and easy to understand. I would definitely recommend this book (and Bible study) to others.

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review. All thoughts and opinions are 100% my own.

Youth Group

We've been doing a lot with our youth group lately, trying to come up with new ideas to get them excited about church and their faith, so every so often we've been giving them a night off (doing games or something else fun instead of a lesson) or getting together on a Saturday.

These pictures are from our youth rally which was back in May. I couldn't stay the whole time - it was a 7-hour event - but the part I was there for was so much fun!

 Then, just a couple of weeks ago we took them to Ben's ice cream near Candor. I loved the idea of all of us piling onto our bus and hoofing it down to the ice cream stand. I couldn't remember the last time I was on a bus! Luckily, one of my faves, Prescilla, is as obsessed with picture-taking as I am!

When we got back, we had just enough time for another one of my faves, Glennette, to pierce Prescilla's ears. Haha!

This past week they all went to Camp Anchorage for a retreat. Yesterday at church the teens and the counselors (my hubby Stephen, along with two other guys Mike and Keith from church) all talked about their experiences. I came home from church absolutely giddy and excited for the things these kids said. They faced things in their lives like the decisions they were making, the music they listen to, the relationship they have with their parents. To hear them talk about all these things and realizing on their own the things they need to work on in their lives was just amazing. I did record it on Keith's phone but I really just can't describe how good it felt to listen to them. I thank the church for sending them (we've never gotten to do anything like this before for our youth group) and I thank the counselors for taking a week off of work to go with the kids.

Just for the record, I am totally going next year!!