Baptism

A couple of weeks ago, our church held a baptism service. One of my small group girls, Brienna, was baptized! She's a sophomore in high school, and we were able to start hanging out when she as in 8th grade. Last winter, she became a Christian, and decided to be baptized. These are some pictures of her special day!


Brienna and me.


Brienna with one of our pastors, Skin. (James Skinner).


My friend Ellie's daughter, Aubrey. I love her curly hair!! (It reminds me of yours, Liz!)

The Amazing Race

Back in January, we did "The Amazing Race" with our kids. We combined a few ideas of events we'd seen/heard of before...Basically, the kids were divided into teams and had a list of places/things to take pictures of around town. At different times, a pig or a duck would show up at the different locations, and if the kids could chase and tag the character and get them in their picture, they got extra points. It ended up being a really fun and hilarious evening!





My team, posing like the "Lady of the Mist" fountain on Louisiana Tech's campus.





One of the boy teams, obviously after having captured the pig.




Another boy team, with "an elderly couple."



Emily, Allison, me and Katelyn, with "a dog and a cat." (We sure are creative, aren't we?}

Emily, Katelyn, Allison, and Sarah with "the camel of Ruston." Notice the way they creatively spelled out "C-A-M-E-L" with their hands. (Our team got second place)