BELIEVE What a Weekend!!!!!!!!!!!

The Best Youth in the World
This was the series of pictures by the artist. What an awesome picture!!

The comedians, that were hilarious!!!

One of our fearless leaders and also my BFF!! This picture was taken after our small group discussion. The kids were so good....did I mention that yet!!

K getting T with a snowball!!! She got it right back about 10 seconds later. B and T started a snowball fight with the kids that lasted all day long anytime we were outside. Nothing like driving to the convention center and your husband hanging out of your sunroof getting snow off the top of the van for snowballs. Our van was armed and ready when we got there!!!

The band was great and the music was LOUD!

B and Big B goofing around!!!!

Skateboarding.

Some of our gang!!

BFF's :o) Don't you love hotel hair!!

Big B with some of his friends.

Hanging with friends was one of the best parts!!

This my friend is what happens to your husbands fingernails when you have 13 junior high girls along on a trip!!! T bet the boys if they got theirs painted he would do his. Well guess what almost all the boys nails looked this way before we left. T hid his nails most of the day until he saw another leader with his hair dyed fire engine red. He walked up to him and asked him if he lost a bet the guy smiled and said yes.....Tim slowly pulled his beautiful nails out and the guys cracked up!!

T and I are Jr High sponsors at our church and we had a convention this weekend. We are so fortunate to have best friends as sponsors/leaders with us. To say I was nervous about taking 28 kids to Chicago for the weekend is an understatement. I wanted this to be an awesome experience for them and for them to grow in their relationship with God or start one! Can I just say it was better than I could have EVER hoped for!!!! Why did I ever worry God was in control the whole time and nothing is ever half way with him!! We have the most awesome group of kids in our youth group. What I loved most was how we were able to stay up until 3am talking and getting to know one another better and paint the boys fingernails!!! I think it is safe to say we had the BEST group there.........well maybe I am a little bias!!! My heart just loved seeing these kids listen with there entire body to the message about the MESSIAH. The band was awesome, the skateboarders .....awesome, the comedians....hilarious, and the artist....I would have to say one of our groups FAVORITE!! Music would start low and he would begin scribbling, I mean just scribbling, it would look like something Baby B would do and then the music would change and it was moving, dramatic, intense. At the same time his body would be the same way his motion became intense, dramatic, and moving. Before you knew it he would step back and we would be in awe of what he just made. He was so TALENTED! The final piece of art started with him drawing a crown of thorns then the lights went red and he paused and on the screens they spoke of the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross. WOW it was a total WOW moment. Then he began working on the same piece again and before you knew it was a golden crown for a KING. My friends it was awesome words can not do it justice. I had tears in my eyes then and I do now it was just a total GOD moment. Before you knew it he put all the pieces together he had made all weekend and it formed an artist impression of our Father. The place went a little crazy!!!!!!!! I was so proud because Big B wanted to purchase those pictures before we knew what they made. When I went into his room at 2am(long story why I was in his room at 2am) what do you think was on his wall displayed the same way......his pictures minus the one he is putting in his locker at school. Thank you God for planting this seed this weekend that was all I prayed for because I know it is not the only one that was planted. WOW what an awesome experience!!!!!!! What an awesome God we serve, we are so blessed!!!!!!!!!