The Bungalow

Sunday, December 8, 2013

October at the Klenke house!

Well, we tested out our green thumb this year...and grew our own pumpkins! We had a hail storm that we thought destroyed the pumpkins, but some survived!

Abby was so proud of her painted pumpkins!

LG is too small to paint pumpkins but still likes taking baths with Abby after Abby has paint all over her.

We got to visit daddy at work when his cadets were testing their gliders. Abby loved watching the planes fly (some didn't fly so well....) and throwing her own glider!

LG LOVES the jump up! She will sit in it for almost an hour!

Our three best pumpkins. We have big plans for the pumpkin patch next year!

Lucy is learning to eat!

We did a little photo shoot (we do that often....) Abby is such a sweetie.

Bath time is super fun now because we have two girls in the tub!! Abby loves having her sister with her.

And....Lucy is eating! We figured out she was ready to eat when Abby held out a spoon and Lucy leaned forward to try and eat! Fruit is her favorite.

We love having a big sister to help!

Friday, October 25, 2013

I am reading through the OT. Some of it is boring, I won't lie....

However, I just read Ex 32. It is about when Moses went on top of the mountain to meet with the Lord. While he was up there, the people said to themselves "Moses isn't coming back down, let's build an idol and worship that." (that is the Carey paraphrase).

This just baffles me. Really, you are going to build an idol, worship that, when the Lord just showed some crazy signs to get you out of slavery in Egypt? Not just like "oh look at the pretty sky signs..." Signs like killing the first born of all the Egyptians, but saving your first born....I am pretty sure I would be terrified to not believe in that God anymore based on that history.

But...How many times do I doubt God? Something doesn't go as I planned and I say, "God, where are you? I need you...Show up." And to me it seems like he doesn't show up. I get angry. I look to other sources.

I am so quick to discount what He is doing in my life and say it is coincidence or luck.

Isn't this what they did in Exodus 32? For 40 days God "didn't show up" in their mind. Moses had disappeared. They sought to control things on their own.

I want this to be a lesson to me. This is so basic and I have heard it a million times, but my timing is NOT God's timing. My plans are not always God's plans. And, when things get hairy or when I doubt him I need to trust on his faithfulness of the past. He doesn't work on a timeline. I need to believe that he will show up because I know he will.

Exodus 32: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+32

Another part that bothers me about this is vs 22-24....Aaron says, "They gave me their gold, I threw it in the fire and out came this calf!" Really Aaron? For reals? You threw gold into a fire and out came a calf??? If anyone has any insight into what I think is a crazy lie, please explain!! Why did THIS part make it into the Bible?

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo

For Grammies bday we went to the zoo. Here are some of the highlights.

Petting the baby wallaby

Balance beam!

Looking at the peacock.

Abby rode a horse for the first time! She was so sweet with the little helmet on her head!

She also got to ride the carousel with Pa!

LG had fun too.

The giraffes tried to lick everyone!

Happy birthday Grammy! We love you!

K group Camping Trip

We went camping as a K group. It was a great weekend, the prep work was out of control and our car for this two day trip was more full than our three WEEK trip to Michigan. But, it was so fun and worth all the work!

There was a place to play in the water and all the kids loved it.