Our weekly Spelling bee is usually held on Friday nights. Our "host"? None other than......my dad! We've had a lot of fun having Spelling bees and it has been a sort of family tradition-- and if nothing else a fun highlight of the week! While we don't get prizes per se for the
Spelling bee, we usually have our memory passage contest then and that usually heralds a prize or two. If we're lucky. And if we've been good for the last month. And......I'm kidding! But the thing is, we never know when there's going to be a prize. So our attempt "could be in vain" (as some of the lazier people in our family say) or we could receive a great and wonderful prize! Our latest passage was Isaiah 53:1-8. If we wanted to, we could also say verses 9 and 10 as a bonus. Me and Lane both said the bonus passage and the prize is still being decided....which for me is torture because patience is not one of my strong character traits.
But God is still working on me and teaching me new things every day--thankfully!
Cammie and my dad had their "date," last night. At about seven or eight years old my dad takes each of us girls out on a "date" where we go to a play, or a concert, or somewhere special to just spend time with Dad. It was Cammie's turn this time and she chose to go shopping. They went to the mall and she came home with clip-on earrings from Claire's. Yes, very confusing but it was the store, not me. :) Cammie and Dad had a good time shopping, eating at the food court, and simply hanging out. 
