Welcome to another week!
Saturday - Today we celebrated Nate's 11th birthday - his "day of activity" which was delayed from December due to covid/covid restrictions. It was an amazing day.
We started his day at Chuck-E-Cheese. It is his favorite place. We played for two hours! It was nice this time because they are both old enough to do their own thing and we payed for time instead of tokens so Darryl and I could play too. I threw quite a few skeet balls :-) HA!
After Chuck-E-Cheese we had lunch at McDonald's and actually got to eat inside. That was the first time since pre-covid! Many McDonald's don't have their lobbies open yet but this one did!
Then we headed to Glow Golf and arcade. (Can you guess Nate loves arcade games?) The gulf is fun and it is nice that it is indoors!
The video games are unlimited with the cost of golf. Lots of air hockey, pin ball, and old school video games. Honestly we spent about 4 hours total at this place and Nate was not ready to leave!!!
Nate wanted McDonald's as his second meal of choice (he originally said he was going to go to Chili's but decided he just wanted nuggets). We agreed ONLY if the other three of us could get Five Guys Burgers instead. He agreed 100% so we enjoyed burgers on the patio of Five Guys and they were a.m.a.z.i.n.g. as always.
My "birthday boy" - he's really just past 11 1/2 but I'll stick to calling him 11 for now!
We also tried out this fabulous cookie place called Crumbl -- best cookies ever. I'm not one of those people to say "I can only eat half of that" - I mean, we eat the whole thing of everything . .. but . . these cookies are HUGE, sweet, heavy, and did I say huge? - 1/2 a cookie is perfect for a dessert. That's ok - makes them last longer!!!
It was a perfect day.
Sunday - We were ALL Feeling it today after all the golfing, throw basketballs and skeet balls and hair hockey games HA! Josh had youth group . .. . but unless someone posts pictures, I get nothing!!
Monday - Today was "get ready for camp day". It might only be day camp but they still have to take their stuff!
Tuesday-Friday - Josh and Nate had Worship camp. Friday night was the concert when the campers played with their bands to show what they had accomplished. It was so awesome to see how much they learned in just 4 days of camp. (My photos are a little out of order)
One of the classes Josh took was drums. He loved it and has already asked for a drum set for Christmas and Drum Lessons.
Nate took Guitar - which he has wanted to learn forever. He is so excited that Darryl is giving him one of his guitars and is finally going to continue with his lessons.
This was on Tuesday - heading to the first day of camp.
Part of Worship Camp is that they form bands and either write original music or learn to play several worship band songs. This is Josh's group - Josh played the keyboard for his band.
This is Nate's band - yes, that's him with the rainbow wig and bumblebee costume. This group wrote their own song and it was actually pretty awesome. Nate sang and played guitar.
They really did have such a unique and fun time. They both learned so much and brought encouragement to others too.
