What should I tell you about this time...how about just us here...our little family that each day grows closer together. You'd think living in a house with 12 people who didn't know each other before hand would be rather difficult. You'd think having 5 girls ages 19-24 share a room would be tough. But it has truly just been a joy as we grow closer together, challenge and inspire each other. But we are no average family. Let me tell you about our random quirky fun times in the past week or so...
We had family night last Thursday. (We have one about every other week) This week's family night we played "The Crossing Idol/The Crossing's Got Talent". There was a pile of little phrases or words that all had been said or an even that we had done and each person had to pull one out of the pile. They read it to everyone and then got to pick anyone from the crowd to be a part of their 'band'. They went into the next room and had 3 minutes to put a song together. There was not much talent that came out of the night, but there were a ton of laughs!
We are having to get more creative for our daily roomy pics. This was a fun one in all the upstairs windows.
On Sunday it was pretty cloudy all morning. It continued to get darker and darker as the afternoon went on. Eventually at like 3 or 4 it started pouring down rain! We all stopped what we were doing and went to play in the rain. It was cold but so fun! We ran, hopped, frolicked, and slipped all over the yard. We got the rugby ball out and played a little, but no one could really catch the ball because if you ran you ended up flat on your back in a puddle.
We declared Tuesday "Schaeffer Day". Schaeffer is one of the boys here. He is from Texas and has an accent we all love and try to copy. He typically has the colors red and black on. So for "Schaeffer Day" we all dressed like him.
And then we had to take a "twins" picture, because we both have red pants.
In one of our classes we were talking about the temple and the importance of all the parts of it, so we acted it out. Davey and I were the altar. Solomon was the lampstand. Kelcey was the wash basin. Lenore was the table and consecrated bread. Schaeffer was the altar of incense. Erica and Amy were the chrubim over the ark of the covenant. Josh was the high priest and our teacher was the Jewish man who was bringing the offering. - it sounds like just a crazy thing, but it was really cool to see how Jesus fulfills all the parts of this. He is the light of the world, drink from Him and you won't thirst again, the bread of life, the high priest, the sacrifice...wow. So cool to see!
So yeah, we are weird and crazy, but we are some type of family and we really do love each other. There are challenges, but the joys far outweigh them.
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