I made these  2 journals  for Mothers  days gifts .. 1 for my mom ( Of course )  and the other is going to  My bestest  Gal Linda at church .. we were just saying to each other  this past Sunday we   are always looking for paper  to take our notes   of the sermons Our Pastor  preaches ( He is sooo awesome )  so NO more looking girls  you have your very own   church  Journal  for  all your notes  from  Pastors awesome sermons .. YIPPIE!!   I will actually be giving Linda to her  tomorrow night at church  since she is  going to be  going  to  a seminar  mothers day weekend  for VBS  and I will be in the hospital anyway so  tomorrow is the night I give Linda’s  to her .. Now my Moms I will be leaving in our  Sunday school class room tomorrow night  after   service  so when she  walks in  to class Sunday morning for SS she will have  my gift waiting for her .. Ahhhhh  so sweet huh ?  (  blushing )  When I was making these yesterday I was having a hard time deciding  which  word to use Blessed OR loved ..  since both fit them  sooo Great  I  went  with adding both words .. SO there’s No choices to make and this makes it easy on me Hee! Hee! .. Last night I  showed Jessie  how to  update my  blog ..  she even  did a  trial  run and  did awesome ..YIPPY!!  she is sooo S-M-A-R-T.. so smart that listen to this  what she is doing in Bible class at school  .. It just blows my mind  how clever my little  girl is PRAISE GOD!!!

Ok  for Bible class  her classmates were  split in to groups and they must   make  a Bible game , seriously  a REAL life  game girls .. NO joke  and  you must be able to play it and everything  in order to get  a grade for Bible ..  ok Jessie and her 3 other teammates  ( Tim , Jordan , Alissa  & Jessie )

Ok here is the  rough draft on the game board itself .But  the  final game board will be made out of wood  and game pieces will be  wafers of some sort with  Bibles in  different colors  for  each person  to have   for their  play pieces for moving around the  board ..  You all  with me so far ..  the name of their game is "WHO WANTS TO BE A BIBLE SCHOLAR" ?  play money will be  1’s, 5’s, 10’s, 20’s. and 50’s  each domination of money will have the  amount   with  one of the players names on them .. example  1’dollar  will be with  Jordan’s name  , 5 dollars  will be Tim’s name  and so on ..  in the center of Game board will be BIBLE this is where you want to end up  and try to be  1st to  finish   cause you will receive 100 dollars  for being the  1st to finish  then you must wait for all players to finish  and the one  who has the most money ends up winning .. Ok now for the fun   tid bits of the  game .. there will be  BIBLE PASS cards ( Jessie made these with SU! cardstock  green galore and only orange  by the way )    with things  they must do if they land on  the BIBLE PASS space on game board   and draw a Bible  pass card  and do  what is listed on the  Bible pass card  such as :

Tithe 10 % of all your money ,  Do Volunteer  work at the church  move ahead 2 spaces ,  Skip church go back 5 spaces ,  Get saved  get  $10.00 dollars ,  Help on  the  church bus route  get  $5.00  and so on …

Also  there are question cards  land on  the spot  for drawing a question card  you must ask the person on your right the question IF they get it  right they get 5.00  if  they answer wrong  they move back  the amount  you rolled on the  dice .. some questions  to  ask are .. How many days was Noah on the  Ark?  ( 40 days and 40 night )  say John 3:16, how many of each animal was taken on the ark ? ( 2) , How many days  was  Creation made in ?  ( 6  on the 7th  God rested )  simple questions ya know   but still super cute …  on the game board  you will see  BIBLE railroads  this is where  if you land on the spot you pay a certain amount of money to  slide to the ahead space ..

OH yes one more thing .. there is a spot on the  game board  that if you land on ‘LOVE offering " you must put a certain amount of money in  the love offering    pot .. If anyone lands on  the   star on the game board wins the love offering  money  in  pot ..

Pretty awesome  and  super  cute game  for 9th graders to  design  themselves  HUH? I am hoping to get more photos of the  game since Jessie and her team will be staying after school today and   painting the game board and  putting the finishing  touches on it  and also  they MUST play the game to see if it  will  actually  play out the way they designed it  before they  turn it in  for  their  Grade  next week..  Its sooo exciting huh?

  I received more cards yesterday  from  Leah Carr  she sent 144  cards with envelopes  Thank you so Much Leah… Her cards  were all categorized  and packaged  up separately .. Its  amazing  to see such organization  in others Sure wish I  was like that ..  Just Beautiful cards Leah Thank you  so Much .. I also want to  let you know I will be sending   the MR Crabby Pants thank you  card out to you all that keep sending  cards for the troops .. I just am going to be laid up for awhile and not sure   when I will get to  all that .. But I will   keep track and as soon as I am  back to normal ( whats that ??  I don’t think I have ever been normal  But you all KWIM right ? )  I will get them out to you .. don’t think I   have forgot  about  you OK ? our troops are going to love all your cards   you sent in  girls .. your all so awesome   ..

sorry for the Long post .. maybe I am making  up for the time I wont be  able to post ..  I am sure gonna miss all of you .. Dont  forget about me OK? Keep on Praying  and  Jessie will be posting updates along with   Ruthie in the comment area’s along with anyone else that has news  to share  while I am  away …  Love Ya’s

Ok have a Terrific Tuesday and I will see you tomorrow ..

Until later … Happy Stampin !!