Our last visit to St. George's Episcopal Church today. This is the plaque on the side wall at the entrance.
The church is in limbo right now as the Navy owns the land it's on and they want to sell it and the congregation is made up mostly of military personnel, many of whom move after 2 years. Right now it's a very small congregation and most will move on to other assignments in the next few months and the Diocese has moved the priest to another church in the next few months.
Like many Hawaiian churches, the walls are actually wooden louvers that open during the service to let the ever-present breeze blow through.
After church they always have coffee hours on the lawn. Ryan is here enjoying his goodies on the other side of the wall. It was a good sermon. We headed home to clean house because Mom is coming home this afternoon! We took down the tent, vacuumed, dusted and picked up again so everything was sparkling for Mom.
We had picked up this pretty hanging orchid at Costco on Friday. This spot by the kitchen window was perfect for it and Grandpa found some plumeria flowers lying on the grass on his walk so they added more wonderful fragrance!
Had a quick lunch and then Colin practiced his verses for AWANA. The boys still didn't know when Mom was getting home and it turned out she got in almost an hour early so we picked her up just shortly after 2. Lots of hugs all around. We dropped Colin off at AWANA and headed home.
Ryan showed Mom how much the pea and tomato plants had grown. We had some pleasant conversation and before we knew it, it was time to pick up Colin....who had completed his Frequent Flier Book and gotten his wings. Mom got to go to the presentation--congratulations Colin! Mom brought out two really great gifts she and Dave had picked out for the boys and they went to work putting them together.
Ryan got a Pirate ship that he had to put the decales on. It came in a treasure chest bank and turned out really well!
Colin got a ship in a bottle so had to make the ship and put it in the bottle. He and Mom did a great job putting it together.
Making waves in the water...
working on the sail
It was a great day....very exhausting. All of us headed to bed with the boys.
Our last visit to St. George's Episcopal Church today. This is the plaque on the side wall at the entrance.
The church is in limbo right now as the Navy owns the land it's on and they want to sell it and the congregation is made up mostly of military personnel, many of whom move after 2 years. Right now it's a very small congregation and most will move on to other assignments in the next few months and the Diocese has moved the priest to another church in the next few months.
Like many Hawaiian churches, the walls are actually wooden louvers that open during the service to let the ever-present breeze blow through.
After church they always have coffee hours on the lawn. Ryan is here enjoying his goodies on the other side of the wall. It was a good sermon. We headed home to clean house because Mom is coming home this afternoon! We took down the tent, vacuumed, dusted and picked up again so everything was sparkling for Mom.
We had picked up this pretty hanging orchid at Costco on Friday. This spot by the kitchen window was perfect for it and Grandpa found some plumeria flowers lying on the grass on his walk so they added more wonderful fragrance!
Had a quick lunch and then Colin practiced his verses for AWANA. The boys still didn't know when Mom was getting home and it turned out she got in almost an hour early so we picked her up just shortly after 2. Lots of hugs all around. We dropped Colin off at AWANA and headed home.
Ryan showed Mom how much the pea and tomato plants had grown. We had some pleasant conversation and before we knew it, it was time to pick up Colin....who had completed his Frequent Flier Book and gotten his wings. Mom got to go to the presentation--congratulations Colin! Mom brought out two really great gifts she and Dave had picked out for the boys and they went to work putting them together.
Ryan got a Pirate ship that he had to put the decales on. It came in a treasure chest bank and turned out really well!
Colin got a ship in a bottle so had to make the ship and put it in the bottle. He and Mom did a great job putting it together. 
Making waves in the water...
working on the sail
It was a great day....very exhausting. All of us headed to bed with the boys. 
