Harmony Highlands 2008!

(Our Preschool class)

The last week of June we were in Alabama at Harmony Highlands Singing School! What a blessed week it was. It is the only vacation of the year that Silas takes a whole week of from work. After the week is over your exhausted, but a good exhausted if that makes since, we get such a blessing from it every year. We make new friends and get to see old friends, we sing, we laugh, we have devotionals, we eat (really good), we play, it's just an all around wonderful spiritual week with no tv's, no radio's, no computer's, just a bunch of people at a campground learning to sing praises better to our Lord!

Mom, Morgan, and Myself along with all the wonderful parents teach the preschool class. This year we had mostly 2 year olds in it, some younger, and just a few older ones. We had a wonderful time, but the joke became when someone asked us how class was going and what we were learning, the answer was...we are learning to sit in our seats! I mean think about it, about 15-20 2 year olds! It was challenging at times, but so much fun!

(Granna and Jolee giving Eskimo kisses)

Jolee absolutely had a blast this year! She was so good all week and loved every minute of it. She sang her little heart out all week, and participated in every thing (I was shocked, she definitely has come out of her shell)! She played so hard that week and met so many new friends, she still talks about Singing School and her friends and all the songs she learned!

(Jolee coloring a craft on baby Moses)

(Daddy and Jolee heading up to general assembly)

(Brother Bryce and Sister Helen leading a round in general assembly)

This was Jolee after the 2nd day of Singing School, she was exhausted and asking to go to bed at night. Silas's Aunt and Uncle were very gracious and let us borrow their camper for the week. It was wonderful, it helped out so much, Jolee was able to get her naps during the day and she thought it was the coolest thing ever, she called it...Jolee's tamper (camper)!

Every year the kids paint a note and this year the note was back to Do! Jolee loves painting, she painted her Do purple, yellow, and blue! Yep, I do believe she was the only one that used that many colors, but hey it was her project and she asked for the colors by name! It looks so cute and is hanging in her room!

(Granna and Jolee playing ball during break time)

(Jolee doing rhythm sticks in class)

(Jolee and her Pappy in the camper)

Jolee and Me in our matching and oh so cute Singing School shirts this year! That is all Jolee wants to wear now are her Singing School shirts! She says... Jolee wear tinging tool tirt!

I was amazed she never skipped a beat, she was singing and doing all the motions and was loving it! Here she was singing...Hammer, Hammer, Hammer!

Audrey and Jolee doing rhythm sticks, they had a lot of fun together that week. They pretty much hung together all week!

Jolee getting a little rest while sitting in Grandma's lap!

We had such a wonderful week together as a family, we got to eat all 3 meals together, we played, we sang, we just had a wonderful time all week! Jolee would wake up every morning singing the "Good Morning" song! We are still singing all the songs we learned by her request and she still asked to go to Singing School. She grew up a lot that week, she stood in the lunch line and held her own plate, she started drinking out of big cups instead of sippie cups at meals there, she showered in the big girls shower in the dorm, she thought she was something else that week, I tell ya! We are all looking forward to next year!

We knew she had learned a lot in class and had paid somewhat of attention in the assemblies, but on the way home from Singing School in the car when she started singing the scale all by herself, we were shocked and amazed! We knew she knew Do, Re, Me, but didn't know she could sing the whole scale all the way thru! So below is a video of her doing just that! But before you watch it, let me set the scene, we were in the tent last weekend waiting on the rain to pass, when I decided to film her singing it, but it wasn't till after I got it uploaded that I realized she was in her panties! So excuse that, but enjoy!