Princesses In Training

Today was the first day of Princess Camp and it was all an "Under the Sea" theme....every day of camp is themed after a different princess.  Tomorrow is Cinderella :)

Ariel's Underwater Castle...too cute!

The art room....Danielle and Karly were still putting the finishing touches on their underwater masterpieces.

All smiles!

Showing off their artwork...

....After they stormed the castle, of course....

And, I got to run around Jackson and Parma today picking paint colors and choosing lighting for the Parma church....one of my very favorite things to do :) I will be spending my week working on the church.  I love to paint....love seeing the space transform!  I saw this poster for one of my favorite movies a while ago and really liked the colors in it....so I decided to draw the colors for the church out of it.  I am using a medium-dark rust color and a really light greenish-gold color in the sanctuary.  Adult classrooms are two tones of beige/brown and the kitchen with be a light golden yellow....I am not sure if I will be able to pick the colors for the kid's classrooms yet because they are in a newer part of the church that was more recently painted all white.  Even though I would like to see some color in them....the white is still in great shape and our budget is always an issue :)  I think they are hoping I will get really creative and do a mural in them like my little sheep from VHC :)  Those sheep were my first attempt at that much creativity on a wall.  I am brainstorming what I would do for a second attempt....the carpet in those rooms has blue tones in it.  Any ideas?  It would be for a nursery and a toddler room....the blue makes me think of fishies :)

I love the ambigram....I remember trying to do that with my name in elementary school :)

All the girls have been so helpful as we have started working on the church.  We spent some time there on Saturday before all the other work was to begin today and I was amazed at the amount of clearing out and organizing we were able to accomplish...just the 7 of us....so, we rewarded ourselves with ice cream!  

Savannah, Kenna, and Kassi leave for camp Barakel tomorrow, so it will feel really strange to only have two kids at home this week.  I am excited to have a little more one on one time with Danielle and Karly....but, will really miss the others!  I love all my princesses :)

It is such a wonderful gift to watch them grow in beauty!  I am praying that Camp Barakel will be a terrific experience for the older three!