Awana Commencement 2013

Awana has come to an end again.  It was Leighton’s first year, so all three had a great time learning about the Bible.

Zebra skirt girls getting ready for the commencement

Leighton ready for her first Cubbie award!

Sitting with friends

Getting her award

Comparing Cubbie bears with her friend

Her class

Adley and her friend

Getting her award

Adley’s class

Jaylyn’s award

Jaylyn’s class       

Awana Commencement

Here are some shots from the end of year Awana Commencement.  The kids always love getting their plaques and ribbons for all of their hard work through the year.  They have learned much about God’s Word and hidden many great verses in their heart!

Adley waiting for her ribbon!  (I couldn’t get a shot of the cubbies.)  Adley will be moving into Sparks next year!

Jaylyn waiting for hers.

The full Sparks group.  Jaylyn will move in to TNT next year (Truth-in-Training)

Awana Ceremony

The girls had a great year with Awanas.  It was Adley’s first year and she enjoyed her time in Cubbies.  Jaylyn loves for her team to win game time and has done a great job pushing herself to learn lots of Bible verses.  Sometimes she is even sweet enough to purchase gifts at the Awana store for her sisters with her points.  Here are a couple pics from  their award ceremony.

Adley with some of her Cubbie buddies and Ms. Rachel.  :-)

Jaylyn and her friend Addy

Adley’s group

Jaylyn’s group (she was excited to receive a medal for finishing her book and completing the entire book review also)

Some December Fun

December sure was a busy month.  I will have lots of posts to catch up on! 

Here are a few things:

Some snowflakes Jaylyn and I made

Adley doing some pattern blocks for school time

Jaylyn doing her spelling activities

Visit with friends – Here is Josiah – so funny!

Same visit – Here are the girls with Abigail

Awana Skate Party – Jaylyn with Malaine and Hannah

Adley took a bit but she finally got out there by herself!

She moved from the carpet, then skated with cousin Mark

Leighton just hung out like this as usual.  :-)

Jaylyn skating away.  She LOVES to skate.

Here is Adley out in the rink by herself.         

Life with the Geist Girls

Here are some other random bits of life with the Geist Girls.

Adley started putting a hat on Leighton, who happened to think it was hilarious.

All finished with Kindergarten! Wow! First grade ahead!

My Father-in-law got tickets to the Cardinals game and we all went. It was obviously when it was a bit colder out. Unlike today where I was sweating to death at the park with the girls.

It was also raining a bit. Adley was enjoying wiping off all of the seats.

Leighton's first Card's Game!

This is fun!

This was a while back. We finished supper and Adley was still left there to finish her milk. She started whining saying she was cold. So, she curled up on her chair and then fell asleep! My girls have never fallen asleep like that. Pretty cute.

Of course, she never finished her milk.

End of another fun year in Awana.

Jaylyn finished her whole Sparks book and also received a DQ gift card for only missing one meeting.
A necessary snack while watching Jaylyn' s Awana Recognition

Awana Commencement

We started Jaylyn in Awanas at church this year. She has absolutely enjoyed it. She is feeling much more confident and comfortable in that kind of setting this year. And of course, hiding more of God's word in her heart each week is super. :) Here are a couple pics from the commencement.

Jaylyn proud of her achievement.

Up front for her attendance prize.

Hanging out with Malaine through the end of the ceremony.

She is now excited to move from Cubbies to Sparks!