Our 4th Grader

 

TYLER  - 4th Grade

 

 

Tyler was super excited about starting school this year. He spent around 3 days packing, unpacking and packing his back pack again. He was up already showering at 6am before I was even able to cook everyone breakfast! That's how Tyler is and I hope he stays that way :)

Tyler almost missed his chance to pass into 4th grade this year. Even though he had AB honor roll all year, he failed his iread test. After he came home from cross point the second time and his medication was accurate for him, he retested and passed iread with flying colors.

We are looking forward to a fantastic 4th grade year!! And...I do believe Tyler IS TOO!

 

VBS 2015

Vacation Bible School 2015


Giving back and serving our Lord this year was an incredible experience. Kale and I had the pleasure of being group leaders of the 5th grade at VBS for our church. It was fun, exciting and quite the experience for two people who have never been in charge of a class like this before.

We weren't allowed to take photos of our class or the participants due to some rules the church put in place but we were able to grab up a few pics with our kiddos who attended VBS this year and may or may not have taken a few oopsie pics! But that is classified info. so carry on :)

 

Our service project for VBS 2015: 

To collect and purchase baby items for Potters Wheel in Evansville. One half of the 4th grade delivered brown bags to a selected neighborhood on Monday. Thursday the other half went back and collected all of the bags filled with baby items. Then on Friday our 5th grade class got to deliver all of the bags to Potters Wheel. It was truly amazing to see all the donations and gifts from our community to help others in need. Kale and I were blessed beyond measure to get this reality check and to see so many smiling faces and to know the ones we didn't see are smiling too.

I took the kids shopping. We gathered up some funds and I told them to pick out whatever they wanted for all the babies in need. They had fun doing so. It was such an amazing contribution and a good way to spend some money doing something really good. It felt good.

 

We purchased diapers, wipes, soap, lotion, blanets, towels, clothes, binkys - I mean it was just amazing.

Then our 5th grade class went to Potters Wheel to deliver. Such an amazing experience. We handed our plates of food, napkins and drinks. Then cleaned up after dinner was done. 

Bus Ride There

Prep Speech from our director

We also made bags for all the kids filled with water, granola bars and fruit snacks :)

We helped the kids make cross necklaces

And this is our stage at CFC where the donations were placed daily from our church VBS members! You can see it went from nothing to grand in just a week!

The stacks just kept getting bigger and bigger. It was so amazing!

And no for a little showing of US during our fun times at CFC!

Exhausted but worth it!

VBS was so much fun. God is Amazing. Opening our eyes to things we normally don't see. Kale and I loved volunteering and I know we will continue to do so!

~ Our Shank Family

Spring Break 2015 {Part 2}

We took off down the road for Spring Break this year. It was a 10 hour trip to Kansas for some country side fun.

The truck was loaded full of kids, a dog, luggage and don't forget the bikes!

 We had a blast! It was SO nice to just getaway, visit Grandma and Grandpa Shank and see the beautiful sunsets out in Kansas :)

Here's a photo-recap of some fun times :)

Kale named them T-bone and Ribeye!