I don't even know.....

where to start......

Sports Camp week brought so much!! Learning, meeting, learning about myself, learning more about ministry and just when I thought I couldn't get any more busy......it got busy!! :-)

We had over 200 kids register for our Sports Camp!! We would start at 8:30 and we would have kids show up as early as 8:45. The camp started at 9:30 and ended at 11:30. We made some great connections with some great families!! More than anything....we had some great folks come to town to help us with this camp week! This was very interesting for me to see since last year I was in their shoes. I remember thinking when I came on the mission trip to help with this Sports Camp that I didn't do much to help. One of the first things that Tim told the groups was that they were here to do the things we would otherwise be doing that take us away from meeting and talking to new folks. He was clear to them that they were helping us in such a huge way.....and they did!! It was awesome to not have to worry about putting things up or running anything. For me this week was a crazy week! I was getting up and setting up registry every morning. Running out early from tear down of Sports Camp to go home and get ready for work. I would get to work about 1pm and then I leave at 3pm. I would hurry home and get ready to head to the block parties that we were having every night. The one night we didn't have one a small group of us went for a hike and that was truly refreshing for me!! Our last night we had a big Family Celebration night with 6....yup....6 blow up bouncy things, tattoo and face painting tables, all the cotton candy, popcorn and snow cones you could want and the grand prize give away! It was a great night for The Commons. It was a huge, busy and very tiring week for the leadership staff but a glorious payoff in the end. God truly had His hand in it from the very beginning!!

Now that I work two jobs, which is very nice it feels like I have just been running and running. After Sports Camp I needed to get ready for Corrie coming. Needlesstosay....I didn't do that well of a job. The week that she arrived (Jul. 31st) was the HOTTEST week for Arlington. It was crazy!! This made it very hard to motivate myself to do something. The last thing I wanted to do when I got home was vaccum. But if she is going to live with me then she needs to see my true colors, right?! Yup....she accepts me just the way I am!! :-)

More soon folks....promise.....sleepy....