and I'm thankful that my kids get fed chips and cake

When the weather is warm, our home group sometimes meets at a park on Sunday nights. On the way, on this particular night, we picked up Firehouse Subs to bring to eat. While I ran in to get the sandwiches, Gregg asked the girls to make silly faces. Macy chose to pull at her eyeballs which is well, gross.

Here's Paige. Guess we didn't notice she got into the markers before we left...

At the park, Charles brought out his Cadillac of a camera which makes everyone else's cameras look like Ford Pintos. That's ok with me, because then Charles will email me pics that look like this...

And this...

This is Caleb with Paigey. She was putting Sun Chips in the cup holder for him to eat. The girl was in control that night.

The funny thing is these weren't our Sun Chips, nor our tiger print chair set. Although, my heart skipped a beat when I saw our friends set them out. I love me a good animal print (and Sun Chips for that matter).

You see, Paige is cute. And a mooch. She rarely eats her own food ever at home group. She walks around a bums food off of everyone. And they give it to her.

At one point, I found her doing this...

At this table, I know she bummed about 20 strawberries, some iced tea and if I was guessing, some fried chicken.

Later, the kids were off playing and I walked up to see this. They had made Macy a sand "birthday cake" with "candles". And then they sang "Happy Birthday" to her. It was really such a sweet moment which made me want to go hug and kiss each one of their dirty, little faces.

14 kids ages 6 and under (and a baby girl on the way), 4 teenagers, and 8 couples...living life, praying for each other and counting our blessings. And our blessings are abundant.