Running around and finally getting wet! (Saturday, June 27)

It was Saturday morning, and the kids woke us up early…. again. So, I again I put in a movie and went to back to bed. Saturday is the only day I get to "somewhat" sleep in! After the movie was over, and the kids pounding on our door, Lydia and I reluctantly got up.

Now quartet practice has been a Saturday morning ritual for quite a while. Since us guys are gearing up for our big sing on July 5th, we were trying to make sure that we had some songs down! Noah wanted to record some more demos, this time with the quartet, so we also went over a few that we knew would sound good recorded. They turned out pretty good. (I've put the links to those songs at the end of this blog post.)

Since the kids got to bed late from the night before and woke up early, they both feel asleep before quartet practice ended. Which meant that Lydia wasn't going to get any quiet time to work on her homework!

After practice, Sam took me to the church. We had to decorate our classrooms for Vacation Bible School. The theme is "Passport To The Promised Land", so everyone was decorating for a trip back in biblical times! 

I took the church van home, and was working on some things on the computer when Sam called. He needed to go to Sam's Club and since we're both on the same membership, I needed to go as well! Our membership had expired! So when he came to pick me up, he dropped Abigail off. She was going to spend the evening with us, and play with the kids in the sprinkler when I got back. I wasn't gone too long!

It had been so hot lately that had asked Lydia to pick up a sprinkler on Friday when she did her shopping. She found a good one. I set it up in the backyard and we played in it! Lydia stayed inside to do her homework in peace and quiet. Mysia was enjoying the sprinkler, but not Malachi. Every time the drops of water landed on him, he cried. He's not much of one who likes to get wet in the face or on the head. The water pressure is so great, that our sprinkler covered most of the backyard. That meant that he didn't have any place to go to keep from getting wet! Even holding him didn't help. Once he found out that the yard swing was a safe haven from the water, he stayed there most of our time outside.

Abigail and Mysia were enjoying the water (and so was I), but that didn't completely satisfy them. We ended up bringing out the slip-n-slide. Soon after, I put it at the end of the slide that is on the kids' "fort". It was fun, and we had a blast. Toward the end of our fun, Malachi got over getting wet for the most part, and played a bit in the water.

We got the kids dried off, gave them baths, and put them to bed. Lydia still had some homework, so I got online and "stalked" a few friends on facebook. I ended up nodding off to sleep. So to bed we went!

~Matt


Quartet Demos:

Dioxology - http://www.box.net/shared/ybs496cu01

Gloryroad - http://www.box.net/shared/lp6ad2gvp8

Just A Little Talk - http://www.box.net/shared/3gqzmms9f6

One Scarred Hand - http://www.box.net/shared/3fidy4x0yr

Ride That Glory Train - http://www.box.net/shared/py4r6ptqqm

(and from a week before) Steppin' Out On The Water: http://www.box.net/shared/mjjj8u8yjf