July 11, 2008

Well, another year of VBS is over. I take a big sigh of relief. I do enjoy participating in it each year but I am especially glad it's over this year. Knowing that I need to prepare for vacation by Tuesday evening has me a little stressed over not being able to be home any night this week. But, I'm sure we'll be ready in time and at least we were somewhere enjoyable.

I was up until almost 1:00 am this morning. My computer froze up on me around 12:30 at which time I gave up, took a shower and went to bed. I got up at 6:15 this morning when Michael left for work to get back at it. I was thinking I'd be finished by lunch time at least. HA!

I worked until around 10:00 am and then stopped so we could run errands. We needed to go to both banks, a Redbox, and the gas station. We grabbed some lunch on the way home and then I ended up working all afternoon because for some reason I could not get it to burn to a CD properly. It was driving me crazy. So, I ended up taking my jump drive to church with a copy of the file on it.

After all that they still did not show it. They didn't show it because there was a storm that started up and it made the electricity flicker. This caused a surge through the projector and burned out the lamp in the projector, right at the time they were going to show my slide show. I pouted. They are going to try to show it at church on Sunday morning, though.

When I was working on my slide show, I opened up the folder that I keep all my Power Point presentations in and realized that we've been doing this for VBS for 5 years already. That just blows my mind that we've been through that many VBS's with our own kids. I can really see where my skills with Power Point have improved!

We got a copy of the CD with the songs from this year's VBS on it. One of the ministers burned a bunch of copies of it. The kids really enjoyed the music this year. I did too. The songs were great. We'll take that CD with us on vacation. I found videos of the songs on YouTube. They are all on this channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/kidsrealm

They are the songs that are from Group's Power Lab. The videos are pretty cool. The kids and I have enjoyed watching them.