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LTC and another birthday

Did you know that it's been 6 years since Easter was this early?  It's one of those rare facts that I will recall forever because 6 years ago Z was born.


Easter weekend also means LTC - Leadership Training for Christ.  This year the theme was "Going the Extra Mile" and the Bible bowl book was Matthew.   Because Z's birthday was on Friday, we elected to have our family party after LTC.  He did however get a birthday lunch at McDonald's.  He also got to spend his birthday evening watching movies and eating lots of not good for you snacks (you know all that sugar stuff that I try to avoid normally) and sleeping in a nice hotel with lots of soft pillows.

We have 2 LTC participants and one "tag-a-long".  The tag-a-long is the child who is in either 1st or 2nd grade.  They are too young to officially participate but Mama requires that they unofficially take the Bible bowl tests.  So they sit in the audience with me while the younger ones are upstairs with Dad.



  
















This year was a good year for us. The teams the girls were placed on did exceptional well - can we keep them for the next several years???  The break down of activities and scores are as follows:

Individual Bible Bowl          S - 98 out of 100 = gold
                                                  A - 73 out of 75 = gold

Team Bible bowl                   S - gold; A - bronze

Sculptures                               S - gold; A - gold

Chorus                                    gold (both were in the same group)

Daily Devotional                   S - gold; A- gold


Saturday afternoon brought a birthday party complete with personalized rocket birthday cake. Lots of great space toys to keep Z busy.
























"Bubba's helmet is so very cool!!!  I think I can do this too!"

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Bonnie Dempsey said…
Looks like it was a great birthday!
April 5, 2013 at 11:52 AM
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