Enjoyment of life

This weekend was filled with sunshine. After a torrential rain storm on July 2nd I started looking at rainfall stats. In the month of June, we got more rain than Seattle, Portland and New Orleans combined. On July 1st and 2nd we got more rain than New Orleans did for the entire month of June. I am so done with rain for the moment. God knew I needed some sun and blessed me with a beautiful weekend.

Sabbath we went to church and had a wonderful service with a baptism. The sermon was on "Only One is Worthy" How often do we praise someone or something else above God? So often God seems to take a back seat to everything else in our lives when He should be the priority. The baptism was beautiful one young adult. Afterwards the pastor gave an alter call and I think 5 or 6 went forward including one man who is a leader in the church who felt the need to rededicate his life publicly. He got rebaptized and rededicated his life right there. The others will get baptized at a later date after studies. Caleb asked me if he's old enough to get baptized. I think he's a little young but don't want to discourage him so I told him that he can do studies and see if he has an understanding of what this committment means. I was baptized at a young age and strayed away as a teen/young adult. But I also feel that if we tell young people they have to wait til they are older then they may never come back. It does make my mom heart proud that he's thinking about it.

We came home and spend the afternoon relaxing at home. Brian fired up the grill and grilled chicken, corn and squash. Anneliese comes inside and her pants are wet.
This is how the conversation goes

Dad "how did your pants get wet?"
A "God water"
Dad "what?"
A "God water"
Me "where did this God water come from"
A "outside"
Me "where outside"
A "walden pond"
Me "how did walden pond get outside" (Walden Pond is 4 miles from our house and she is obsessed with wanting to go back there)
A "Jesus banging on drums" (now we have told them that thunder is Jesus banging on drums to keep them from being so scared)
So we figured out that there must have been a puddle in the back yard from all the rain we have had.

Kids imaginations.

We loaded up and headed over to the nearby fireworks display. It was really nice. Nothing like having front row seats literally. It was at the school ball field. We We laid out a blanket and set up our chairs and were 10 yards from the roped off area.

Sunday and Monday were more just relaxing around the house enjoying the sunshine. Brian mowed the lawn and organized the garage. I listed a few things on our local twins club. I really need to go through all the kids clothes and either sell them or just donate them to charity. I am looking at curriculum for the fall for the kids and fun stuff like that. I found an add-on for firefox Glubble that makes the internet a little more family friendly. In the process, I found some really cool educational links that the kids can easily access.

Now as I type this the rain is pouring. Off to have some coffee. Have a blessed day.