Another Sunday in the life of the Refugees

When my family visited the Brown's in Georgia they asked us to bring this late wedding/early anniversary present back with us for Jess and Jamie.

Isn't it pretty? Mrs. Brown made it herself!

Games...

For some reason we never run out of people who want to play games at the campground. :)
I told Faith and Melody that they should make silly faces to make these game pictures look more interesting. Everyone playing the games had blank looks on their faces as they played.
Smile Joy!

Look at the camera Joy!

Hmmmmm....

Are they stealing the piano?
Trying to lift the piano and not break anything, or teaching the piano how to fly.

Mr. Hemmer is trying to cover up what he is doing, or he is trying to hide so that people won't know who did it.

Now Jason is trying to ride off with the goods or he is trying to advertise for his business. I'm not sure which.

No they weren't actually trying to steal the piano. Faith and Melody needed to borrow it for a performance they had that afternoon.

Later we went on a walk. Joy got to tired from walking and wanted to ride so we stuffed two kids in the stroller.

Later Joy tried to lay back during her ride but we found out that the back was held up by velcro!

This is my friend Christina. Her family visited the Refuge this past week.

Jon (Christina's brother) and Reid.

Cheryl (Christina's mom) and my Mom just enjoying themselves.

Keith (Christina' dad) was at church too but I couldn't find a picture of him. I guess I'm slipping! :)

Water fight! :)

For any of you who might be wondering... No I didn't start it! I didn't even get wet.
Refilling with rain water.
Looks like someone got Zeb! Later that afternoon we went to visit Marge and Maurie. While we were there we saw this pretty heron by their dock.

Gorgeous day at the campground....

This Sunday our pastor and his family were gone on vacation and they were definitely missed! When people are gone, things just aren't the same. We all want them to come home safely and soon!

Before the service, Jessica Rogers did and object lesson for the children. She talked about the Bible verse where it says to "make straight a path in the wilderness". Jessica asked Kaleb to come up shovel the stones and things out of the way to make a smooth path in the box of sand.

Kaleb was happy to acquiesce, and it wasn't long before his older brother, Isaac, joined him. At first they were quiet, but it wasn't long before their "boy"-ness kicked in. It was so cute to hear their "vroom's" and other truck noises.

It was such lovely weather and we all enjoyed being outside. Isaac was determined to go fishing and just as adamant that Joy, as a girl, could not join him!

Kaleb offering me his half-eaten rice crispy treat...

"Mel, push me high!"

The Ziglers invited one of the guys who works for John to come to church and he brought his family. This is Makayla (I'm not sure how she spells that!), the oldest, on the teeter-totter with Zoe.

I'm not sure who first decided to play some baseball, but everybody brought their gloves that afternoon.

Zoe had a bit of trouble putting hers on....

Argh!

Finally - success!

We girls had fun trying on Gabrielle's sunglasses and trying silly poses.

(Gab is wearing Jason's sunglasses in this one)

Now, it's time for the guys to play!

I dont' think they ever had a real game because they didn't have enough people for two teams.

They just switched places on who was batting and who was pitching and in the outfield.

Zeb and Jordan found time to do a bit of fishing as well. Joy tagged along and asked questions.

Joy - "Whatcha doin'?"

Jordan - "Fishing."

Joy - "Why?"

Jordan - "Because I want to."

Joy - "Why?"

Jordan - "Um...because I want to catch fish!"

Joy - "Why?"

Finally! Jordan caught a fish! It's so....big?

"Thou shalt do the dance"

The Hemmers have gone to quite a few 'Old English Country' dances over the last year so this Sunday they decided to teach us how to do the Virginia Reel.

None of us were very good but it was a lot of fun 'trying' to do it!

I think we enjoyed laughing at ourselves the most!

Don't we look interesting! =)

Puddle Stomper

Last Sunday while everyone else was fishing Kaleb found a giant puddle...

When he first saw it he looked up at his dad with an adorable smile and then looked back at the puddle, and then back at his dad and back at the puddle... After doing that a few times Mr. Lee finally said: "Okay." And Kaleb went off to have fun!

Back and forth, and back and forth he ran...
...not getting tired but having the time of his life!
With all of his running through the puddle the mud on the ground started to get really slippery, and we just kept waiting to see him fall!

Yes he fell! But he got back up and started running again and little while latter he was sitting in the mud again!

He got so dirty! But that made his cuteness stand out even more!
A couple times his shoes fell off in the mud and he didn't like all of the mud between his toes. You would think being covered from head to foot that that wouldn't bother him. :)You may think that I am exaggerating to say that Kaleb ran through that puddle for over half an hour, but it's true just ask the Refugees who were around!
Hmmmm......
I guess after all that running he got thirsty!