A Dog-Acrobatics-Holy Weekend-Another Dog-Circus

 OK, here are the Chronicles of the Kent Family's last five days.
Last Thursday we realized that Belle was taking on the looks of a sheep. Since we had shows coming up over the weekend we needed to get her looking spiffy for the crowds. Below are the before and after shots.

 In preparation for the summer tour the little ones are preparing by learning acrobatics. Olivia is training to improve her aerial arts and Victor is training to add back flips to his Cossack dance. (Thursday)

Because we had shows on the weekend the kids did their Easter Egg Hunt on Friday at Grandma's and Grandpa's house.  They found the nearly 100 eggs pretty darn fast. James had a blast hiding the eggs and the kids had a blast finding them.

After the hunt was the trading and negotiating. Amelia wanted all the pink foiled chocolate eggs so she traded away other candies for that. 

On Saturday we woke up early and drove to San Rafael in Marin County where gas costs $4.44 per gallon.  (In Marysville it was $3.99).  At Trinity Lutheran we did a round robin of three 15-20 minutes shows delivering a Salvation message at each show.  The show was the eye candy and the message was the meat.

 In the message we used a chain tied around Victor's neck to demonstrate how sin binds us. Each link, like Jacob Marley's chain, was forged in life...each link a sin, a bad dead, a cruelty done to others or God, weighing us down.  When the two helpers pull on the chain it melts through his neck. This represents how when we trust in Jesus our sins fall away and we are forgiven. After all, that is the love story message of Easter or as we call it, Resurrection Sunday.

That is what everyone at the First Baptist Church in Stockton called Easter as well.  We woke up at 4:30 to make the drive to Stockton.  The Easter Sunday shows were going to be full blown circus shows with the message included.
Another part of our message is "Do everything for the Glory of God"...the Bible tells us we are suppose to do ALL things for the glory of God. So when we perform, set up, drive, everything, we are supposed to do everything to bring glory to His name.

 Victor makes this look soooo easy.

 Tater Tot made his debut making his first hula-hoop jump in his career.