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Last night we arrived a little later than scheduled at the San Dimas Wesleyan church in San Dimas, CA. We had dinner with our hosts and then went across the parking lot to unload and set up at the church.

The family we are staying with has two little boys who go to sleep about 2.5 hours earlier than our boys do, so by the end of dinner it was past their bed time. I recommended that our boys come with me to help set up over at the church since the host boys needed fewer distractions, and Mom (Jen) needed to rest too!

Well, little did I know, they would really be HELPFUL! I was almost done removing things from the trailer when I realized that Ian and Alex had moved almost everything several hundred feet into the building BY THEMSELVES!!!!

AND, Alex even took our T-shirt bin… one of those enormous rubbermaid bins filled with t-shirts weighing way more than he does… ALL THE WAY IN THE CHURCH. Dude. That was so amazing! I jokingly said, “OK, Alex. This is yours! (snicker snicker…)”

And he said “Uh hey!” (OK, in Alex Speak)

And pushed the thing the whole way in there!!!

So, it was a fun moment for me. It gave the boys some ownership in what we do – they were definitely a helpful part. AND, it was just fun to see them growing up and really being helpful!

And, it was fun to not have to carry all that stuff.

🙂