Cookie Baking Night 09/24/2018

Tonight was Cookie Baking Night: In attendance this evening: Allison, Rylar, and Enzo.
Tonight was Aunt Katrina's birthday choice. For supper she chose tacos in a bag and for her cookie: Seven Layer Bars and Raspberry Oatmeal Bars (two of her favorites).

We continued learning about the second book of the Bible, Exodus. Our Bible verse for Exodus is found in chapter 2 verse 25. 

"God saw the people of Isreal--and God knew". 

Tonight we learned about how God delivered the people of Isreal out of the land of Egypt to bring them to a land of their own. 

Cookie Baking Night 08/27/18

Tonight was Cookie Baking Night. In attendance this evening: Allison, Enzo, and Rylar. And a special guest appearance by Carissa. (We didn't think Carissa was going to make it tonight because she had an open house for school, but she finished a little early and asked her mom to bring her because it was Allison's birthday choice--Allison was thrilled to say the least). Allison turned 8 years old last week.

For Allison's birthday choice she opted to make "dirt cups". 

I think gummy worms is the highlight of this dish for the kids. 

At the end of the night, we walked up to the local gas station for an ice cream treat. 

As usual, a fun time was had by all. 

Cookie Baking Night 08/13/18

Tonight was Cookie Baking Night. In attendance this evening: Ethan, Carissa, Allison, Rylar, and Enzo. Tonight was Enzo's birthday choice (he turns 5 years old in two days). His only request was a big giant waffle. I got as close as I could with some "extra thick" waffles. He said, "That's exactly what I wanted!" (I'll take it). We had a hard time narrowing down a cookie choice for him (he was stuck on "big giant waffle"). We landed on my suggestion of chocolate chip cookies but settled tonight for oatmeal chocolate chip cookies when we ran out of brown sugar (Betty Crocker Cookie Mixes to the rescue).

This is what happened when I said "Smile"

For our Bible time tonight we continued learning about the book of Genesis.

We learned that Genesis is the first book of the Bible. It has 50 chapters in it. It was written by Moses. 

If you're wondering about what you will read about in the book of Genesis, here are few of the topics: 

Creation, Adam & Eve, Cain & Abel, Noah/the flood/the ark, Abraham & Sarah, Isaac, Jacob & Esau

Joseph

We continued working on our memory verse: Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." 

Since it was Enzo's birthday choice we walked to the local gas station for a treat. 

We've been there many times, but the decision is still a hard one for Rylar and Enzo. 

It's important to survey all the options. 

It hit 90 degrees again today, so I thought it would be a good day for a little water balloon fun. 

Ethan agrees. 

As usual, a fun time was had by all. 

Cookie Baking Night 07/23/18

Tonight was Cookie Baking Night. In attendance this evening: Carissa, Allison, Rylar, and Enzo. It was Larry and Clara's (my parents) birthday choices tonight. They combined their choices and for supper they asked for french toast, bacon, and strawberries. For their cookie choice: oatmeal cookies (1/2 with walnuts--Larry's request).

For Bible time tonight, we started something new. We're going to work our way through the Bible one book at a time with an overview of each book. Tonight we started with Genesis. While I taught about the book, the kids colored a picture of the word Genesis. We'll take two Cookie Baking Nights per book (unless they're really short), and we'll learn one verse from each book. Tonight's verse is: Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." It's a very simple verse but foundational to Christianity and a very important truth to have in our heads while growing up in this current world culture. It will serve us all well to have this verse in our memory bank. 

It was a very busy Cookie Baking Night, but we still managed to squeeze in a trip to the local gas station for a treat. 

As usual, a fun time was had by all. 

Cookie Baking NIght 07/09/2018

Tonight was Cookie Baking Night. In attendance this evening: Carissa, Allison, Rylar, and Enzo.

It was Carissa's birthday choice (she turned 13 years old at the beginning of this month). For supper, she chose, macaroni & cheese, tator tots, and berries. For her "cookie" she chose: Dirt cups (a long time favorite of hers).

Cookie crumbs, pudding, and gummy worms. What's not to love?

As part of Carissa's birthday choice, we went for a walk to the local gas station for a treat. 

It was so fun to have Uncle Greg join us on the walk this evening. 

As usual, a fun time was had by all!