Children's Institute and Nursing Home Ministry

It's been a long time since we've posted, and I'm still hoping that there are at least a few faithful followers out there... :) Life has been so busy lately but I wanted to share a few pictures from the Children's Institute (held at Straitgate) that Angela and I helped with (from Oct. 31-Nov 5) and some pics from our fam's ministry to the "old folks" here in Faribault. :) Here's some from CI.

The best kids on the team--Emma, Caleb and Elliot

Caleb and Elliot again :)

Coloring--peacefully--at the table :) and believe me, those peaceful moments were very rare!

The Big Kids' team, with Ellie and Joseph as their patient leaders. Their team was so much bigger than our team, and I have no idea how they managed to get through the week and still be sane!

Every time we went to large group, we tried to make things fun by changing our approach on the classic marching line. This one, however, didn't turn out quite so well as we hoped. Let's just say that the stairs posed a little bit of a problem! :)

Ellie and I had a ton of fun acting in this skit, and I was supposed to play a bratty little girl. Believe me, it really wasn't too hard to play a bratty girl.

Eric did a hilarious skit about this kid who wasn't supposed to play in the mud, but did anyways, but only little steps at a time. We (especially the teachers) could NOT stop laughing :)

Angela, Victoria and Emma

Our team :) A few of the kids were NOT too excited about getting their pics taken! (Obviously.)

Large group

Mr. Rabbi and Eric creatively teaching the kids the new name of God.

Another skit...I had no idea what my lines were so I was reading my "map" practically the whole time :)

Victoria and I

CUTEST KID EVER!!!!

Another skit :)

Concentration...

Someone's not too interested :)

Delicious

After everything, Daniel M., Joseph and I all made our SUPER cool cookies. Joseph's were the blue dudes with pink mohawks, mine was the orange dude with sunglasses and the sick pink sash, and Daniel's was the green woman...with white hair? :)

Daniel shows off his beautiful frog. Or turtle. I forgot what it was :)

Just had to add this adorable pic of Danny with his missing tooth. I had to work really hard to get it!

OK, now for our nursing home pics. First off, the reason we go, practically:

                                     

                                                                       Miss Nancy :)

Her fave thing to do is color pictures. She made me one a few months ago.

She wanted a pic with our whole fam, and she got it :) Mom said we should use that for our Christmas pic. I beg to differ.

We really enjoy singing and playing for the folks at the nursing homes that we go to, and it's neat to be able to share what the Lord has given us! This is everyone's favorite nursing home to go to, because some of the people there are so friendly they could all be our grandparents! :)