Crazy flood on Orchard today!

Laura and I were out to coffee at the Mc Cafe at Shaw Center this morning when some guy comes walking by and says "Did you see the cars in the road flooded up to their windows?". I thought he was kidding but we followed him to the road anyways and low and behold this is what we found! What a crazy rainy day! I guess the brand new Wendy's and the Starbucks at Wheelock place are totally flooded.

Mommy + Clippers = Insanity

Hi Everyone, Travis here. I couldn’t help but post a little fiasco we had last night when Jessica attempted to give Kaelan a "haircut" before our big trip to Boise. I'm not sure how to lead into this post other than to reference an overused quote I'm sure you have all heard: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

Jessica strolled into the bathroom last night just before Kalean's bath armed with the electric clippers in hand. Wanting to take advantage of the time before he hopped into the bath, she came in with the clippers buzzing! While Kaelan sat innocently on my lap, she proceeded to dive in and create a very smooth runway on which a Boeing 747 could land. That's right; she pretty much shaved off a giant strip of Kaelan's hair during the first "buzzing of the tower" as I now call it. It was even more alarming when contrasted with his previously long hair...the pictures below are after it was "fixed!"

Now, I would argue that after seeing the disastrous result after the first pass of the clippers, it would probably make sense to take a step back and re-assess the situation. However, what did Jessica do? She dove in for round two and created a second bald landing strip right next to the first one! At this point, like any good father would, I promptly yanked the clippers from my "insane" wife's hands so we didn't end up opening an airport on Kaelan's head.

Needless to say, I had to step in and try to fix the situation or we would be facing a LOT of stares at the airport tomorrow. After a little work, the below pictures are the best we could do to try and "blend in" the two runways Jess created. Poor Kaelan didn't know what was going on except to laugh and giggle because we were laughing so hard. Poor little K-man...but he didn't seem to care!

Anyway, funny story I just had to share with you all. Hopefully Jess doesn't actually read this post and delete it before we leave for Boise tomorrow....shhhhh. =)

I would just like to add, in my defense, that this was only the second time we have used these clippers and that Travis was sitting right there fully aware of the situation. This was a team effort although he never mentioned that above! After the first attempt I did readjust and went in again but unfortunately it made the same "run way"! We did have quite a laugh though and Kaelan was realy laughing too. Poor little guy does look like he is losing his hair and I feel awful aboiut it! ~jessica

VBS

Camille and I teamed up as Bible Story teachers for a 5 year old VBS class this year. The theme was Saddle Ridge Ranch which was very appropriate for the Texan and Idahoan and it was a blast! I signed up to do VBS with Camille because she is moving back to the US this summer and I knew that it would be one of my last weeks with her. I can't even tell you how much my heart aches over this...but we really had a great couple weeks preparing, teaching and tearing down! Those kids were amazing and eventhough I signed up to be with Camille I found that the kids stole my heart! They were such a joy to be around!

Me teaching

Camille teaching

Our boys went to the nursery for the week and had a great time! They played outside, did crafts, danced to the VBS music and ate loads of food!

Kaelan and Pierce trying to do the VBS video moves.
Oh, not sure if you can tell or not that Pierce is sweating? The aircon went out in a small portion of the church including our room, the nursery and a few other rooms. If you know anything about Singapore you know how miserable this can be, especially with a room full of hot kids! We survived and the kids hardly noticed!

Our Room

We had the Kindergartners and they were called Barncats. With this in mind, we decided to decorate half our room as the inside of a barn and half as the outside with a campfire. We were very pleased with how it all came together after many hours of hard work!

This last picture is what it looked like on Sunday afternoon only the day before VBS started. Since these are Sunday school rooms we were not allowed to put anything up until after church. So the entire week before VBS we spent painting our ideas hoping and praying they would work in our class room! Sure enough, they did!

This can't be my Baby!!!

This is what Kaelan was doing when I walked in his room to WAKE him from his first ever 3 hour nap!
The process follows!

Such a cutie!
I didn't really have to do much, just taking the pictures did the trick!