a little spot

there is a little spot, hidden in the heart of downtown Lincoln, that i love to escape to. it's green, it's peaceful and it's a hidden gem. :)

can you guess it?

our play date :)

Nothing like a day in the park! My mom picked me up and it was decided that both of us felt it would be a beautiful day to eat outside. We went to go pick up some sandwiches and then headed to Antelope park. It was gorgeous. :)

Delicious oatmeal raisin cookies as pictured below.

they were fantastic.

Then, the highlight of the day.. we headed to the play park next to our table. We found ourselves lost in the sun and the breeze as we swung freely on the swings, dominated the slides and fooled around on the monkey bars.

mom went down the slide and suffered a major attack of static. :)

Funny name, serious sandwich.

see you later summer.

I'll be missing you..

the end of a good thing

It's the beginning of week eleven.

I can't believe it.

I have now been here for 1/4 of my year. What? y i k e s.

it's been amazing,

it's been hard,

it's been a b r e e z e.

it's been 1 million different adjectives. All I know that I have been shown the Lord's faithfulness time and time again. There is no way that I can take credit for being here second half, it was all his doing. Funny thing is that he was constantly preparing my heart for the transition. He used a dream, a few conversations, and a letter.

Funny how He marvelously works. I feel so blessed that I have been able to stay and get to know the second half staff, a privilege that I didn't have last summer.

Here are the three beautiful children that I got to know very well this summer, being their nanny second half.

This is Allie. She said to me a couple weeks ago...

"Mallory, do you have to leave?"

"Yes, Allie I do."

"Well can you be like Mary Poppins? She stayed as long as the wind changed... and that was a very long time."

love her.

note: allie hiding behind my leg. :)

I've never really spent a lot of time nannying or babysitting growing up, so for my director and his wife to ask me to stay at camp to be their nanny second half came as a delightful shock at first. As I think it did to many of my fellow staffers :) The first couple of weeks I was immersed in comments such as... "are they still alive?" ... :) but it has been fun and a growing experience. Week 11 has come and gone and yes, they are still in one piece. Although, I did leave tonight and Caleb had giant goose egg on his forehead... so almost completely in one piece.

It's the end of a really good thing.

I'm blessed to have this experience.

I'm headed home.

See ya later Tyler, Tx.