Saddleridge Ranch – VBS 2010

was awesome!

Bryan and I taught the 3/4yr olds (Adeline’s class).  It was exhausting and overwhelming.  Praise God for good friend that help me cut out a ton of verse/necklaces/hanging decorations from the ceiling, make western vests, decorate the room, cut string, and a million other details.  A big thanks to all the Sunday help by Katie, Deborah, Angela, Annie and Martha.  Thanks to Martha for getting me all sorts of stars and other craft odds and ends I couldn’t find and didn’t take time to find due to the rush leading up to this event.

It was great. The kids LOVED it.  We did Welcome time (2-3 crafts/coloring pages), snack (another couple did this), Bible story (each night I recreated some fun Bible story), Craft (2 crafts at a minimum), then recreation (aka bounce houses, balls and hula hoops), Worship time (our friend Sarah – high schooler and 2 others singing ultra fun VBS songs), followed by video time.  Bryan made me a triangle to ring (or let the kiddos ring) with each transition. You made up things to do, like have Annie (who braved it with us one evening) lead the group around the room on a journey from Cannan to Egypt.  She did great being impromptu to help with timing until we could go to recreation.  We had a wonderful youth worker Megan who set up the room several nights and did a great job helping without even needing to be asked.  We got to make new friends and play with some we already knew.  Since I was teaching I got a CD with the VBS music.  Adeline still is requesting it.  It is a lot of fun because we learned hand motions with several of them.  I need to video her singing and acting them out for a great post. 

Essie participated too and was in one of our friends classes most or all of the evenings.  She got bumped up to the 2yr old class with Terri and Sam Delucca.  She was doing crafts and all sorts of stuff.  We got to see her during the Worship hour which consisted mainly of singing the VBS songs.  She was cute “jumping” and clapping to the music.