Bible Bee Celebration Day!

The Bible Bee celebration day came and what a day it was! It was a special day to award those who had worked diligently throughout the summer studying either Ruth or John (chapters 1-6.) Those who studied Ruth learned a lot about their Redeemer, the One who saved them and those studying John learned to believe in the only Son of God like never before! 
Here are some pictures from the day! (Along with a bonus video summarizing the whole summer!) 

Mom reading a summary of the Ruth study

Mr. O and I singing In Christ Alone after everything else was done.

The Primaries!

The Juniors!

The Seniors! (Not the greatest picture though. Sorry.)

Everybody! (with a few poor people cut off. Sorry people!)

For a really fun video with more pictures covering the whole summer, go here! (Password is GPBB2015) Let me know what you think of the video!

The Bible Bee Buck store. Kids earned bucks throughout the summer and could spend them on the items on these tables.

Eating lunch, hanging out, and purchasing items from the store.

Silent auction....

... and bake sale for the support of our National qualifiers. It's not exactly cheap for those families who have National qualifiers. So some extra support is always appreciated!

Now these awesome jar cups have a story behind them. Our dear friends presented these cups to us explaining that there was a cup for each of the Ciampi's. The different bracelet bands on them were to identify each persons cup. (Mine is in the back row and second one from the left.) They then put such sweet notes in them and other's from the bee wrote notes to us as well and put them in the jars. Our family has never felt so blessed and loved by the thoughtfulness of this dear family and all the others who wrote notes! No one has ever honored or thanked our family in such a sweet way! (We love you guys!) 

Our family in blue! :) I am so thankful to my Mom for being such an awesome Bible Bee host!

All of the National qualifiers from our Bee (minus one, because she wasn't there and minus Sweet Sis.)

Praising the Lord for His goodness!
Holly