Youth Jam

Today we went down to the youth jam that they have by the river every summer. Poor Trudy was in charge this year again so she's been going nuts trying to get everything ready. It was all well worth it though because my kids had a wonderful time. Sherisse (my mother in law) came with me which was so nice of her as I'm sure it's not something she was really wanting to do desperately. There's always so many crafts to do but we try and skip a few just because there are so many. Getting the kids faces painted was one of my high lights of the afternoon. The girl who was painting Syd's face asked her what she wanted so Syd went into great detail to tell her exactly how she wanted it. Then as soon as she was done she kept adding all these things on to her list, it was so funny. Then it was Spencer's turn and he told the lady he wanted a transformer, the lady wasn't quite sure what to do for that so she quickly asked him if he wanted a snake which he ended up being ok with. The kids did tons of crafts, Spencer loved being able to use the scissors and squirt the glue all over the place. Maddie used lots of great detail in her pictures, when we went back to get one of her pictures we couldn't find it and she got so sad. Luckily Syd asked about it and the lady had it in a box because some of the pictures were blowing away, what a life saver! Syd was in heaven, I think she could have stayed there all day if we would have let her. We had to drag her away from each station poor thing. There was lots of painting which equaled lots of mess but it's all good. It's so nice that they put these free things on for the kids, the love it. The night before they had a community night at the same place so we went there too, it was lots of fun as well. Everything was free and there was tons of cool stuff. Brad (my father in law) was working there too with the fire men so it was nice to see him there. What a great event, the kids loved it so thanks for all the hard work Trudy and everyone else who put these wonderful events together, it was GREAT!!!