Well I haven't written in a while... as you can tell. Sorry! Not too much to say, so I'll just give you the regular, an update on life!

School is long. Tuesdays especially! 8am-4:30pm
Everyone is healthy!
Mom has been going like crazy all day putting books on Amazon and making lots of money at that!
Dad, continuing to serve the family as hard as ever... :)
Jimmy is currently at TCC doing classes and working at Bike Beat. He comes home tired a lot.
I am working at Old-Navy and I LOVE my job!!! :) It's the perfect place for me and I am truly blessed! On an average I work anywhere from 18-25 hours a week (pretty reasonable). I enjoy getting to meet new people there everyday, great them with a smile :D, and do whatever I can to make them feel special!

Something new at school... the second Tuesday of every month at lunch time the women teachers and us "women":) are having a Bible study! Neat huh?! Today they were encouraging us about the "purposes" or benefits of God's word. "LISTEN TO ME, and EAT WHAT IS GOOD, and DELIGHT yourselves in the richest of foods. INCLINE YOUR EAR, AND COME TO ME; HEAR THAT YOUR SOUL MAY LIVE; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant... seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon his name while he is near..." Nothing will benefit you as much as God's word.
" For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord..."
"For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there but water the earth, making it spring forth and spout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, SO SHALL MY WORD BE THAT GOES OUT FROM MY MOUTH; IT SHALL NOT RETURN TO ME EMPTY, BUT IT SHALL ACCOMPLISH THAT WHICH I PURPOSE, AND SHALL SUCCEED IN THE THING FOR WHICH I SEND." Isaiah 55;1-3,6,8-11
"Man does not live by bread alone but on every word that proceeds from the mouth of the father." (Mt 4:4)
This was mainly what they were encouraging us about and it was really provoking. Knowing that Jesus longs to have fellowship with me and wants to teach me through his word is unfathomable!
This was so needed for me to realize the importance of God's word in my life, and mainly Jesus in my life!! If God wants to speak to me and teach me then I should be doing nothing else except reading his word. Now reading his word isn't the only way he speaks to you, but through sermons, encouragements, worship and prayers. By the way, all the scripture that was written here was given to us on paper to encourage us for devotions... I just wanted to share it!

"Your words came to me I ate them, they were my joy and my hearts delight." Jeremiah 15:16

Girls Weekend

Mom, Katie and I went away for the weekend to Alexandria Virginia and it's beautiful!!

We stayed at the embassy suites, went to the Potomic Mills mall and got to walk down a long street with little antique stores, book stores, ice cream parlors and wig shops. My favorite part of the whole trip was getting to try on wigs and see what styles look best on who. You could try on 3 wigs for $10, but you couldn't take any pictures... which kinda stunk cuz we looked really good!

The Potomic Mills is huge!...it took us one day to go through only half of the mall! so we spent 2 days there and bought lots of sweet stuff... We enjoyed getting to be all girly by having little runway fashion shows in the fitting rooms... and trying on all the super high heels, though we could barely walk in them. We enjoyed listening to the 80's music on our way there and back and staying up late watching funny movies, though poor Katie didn't enjoy having to sleep with me cuz I took up the whole bed.. ha ha poor thing!! :b Oh ya... and we played Sudoku wherever we went... we are the champions!

I'm so glad we were able to make memories, because this will probably be one of our last girl trips before Katie and Micheal leave to Las Vegas on deployment. It's gonna be really hard having them gone and we're gonna miss them terrible, but I am looking forward to visiting over there. We'll be making memories everywhere!!

O to grace how great a debtorDaily I’m constrained to be!Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,Bind my wandering heart to Thee.Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,Prone to leave the God I love;Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,Seal it for Thy courts above.

Frazzled

I had a relaxed morning, had devotions, about to make breakfast, not dressed yet...and then... I get a phone call from work saying that I'm already 10 minutes late for work... yikes!

I was gone for the week on vacation..and so.. I thought that I wasn't working for the rest of the week. The policy at Old Navy is if you don't pick up your schedule by 6pm on Saturday night your hours are given away. I wasn't there Saturday night.

Long story short... I was 30 mins late for work today... and... I looked and felt all frazzled. There were different sales going on and I had no idea what was happening. The feeling was miserable. I finally got everything together and was fine the rest of the day, but I felt really bad for being late... I had no idea I even had to work... Oh well... hopefully it won't happen again. :)

Winnie and Jo...and... some pics from Disney

I had so much fun getting to see my family and hang for the week. I stayed with my Mema, Aunt Terri- Ann and her daughter Emily. The first few nights we spent with my Great Aunt Mimi, then Great Aunt Flo, Then with more cousins... and finally we ended up in a cozy hotel! Exuasting at times, but tons of fun.

Breakfast with Cinderella and the other princesses was a blast... the little ones squealed with delight while My cousin Leah and I sat back and made jokes at the pincesses... :)

We had a fun filled week with many many stories to tell!

Disney World!

This coming Wednesday I'm off to Florida to see my great aunts and Disney World with my grandma and cousins!!
I'm so excited! I haven't been since I was 5. When I first went I got to have breakfast with Chip and Dale, Goofy, and Daisy and Donald Duck. This time... we get to have breakfast with Cinderella... in the castle!! I've never been in the castle before... Cinderella is more for the younger ones, but I'm sure I'm gonna be just as excited as them! ;)
I haven't been on vacation in a long time and I'm glad I can get away from everything and relax... Since about May I've wanted to just go somewhere and my Mema kindly invited me to join them. Thank You Mema! I love you!

John "Deer"

Well... today was a sad day... Mom disposed of our sweet little chihuahua Elsie... or so it seems like that. She actually sent her to a very sweet family where she will get lots of attention.

Everyone sad, Mom added a new animal to the family... to Jimmy's surprise he found this "lovely" old deer head hanging right above where he sleeps. We're not sure how long this pet will last either. Ha!

P.S.
Mom wanted me to let you know that we are not hicks... no where close. We're still not sure why she bought it though. :)

Winnie & Jo's Sewing projects

Winnie (Rachel B.) stayed over last night and in desperation to find something to do we decided to learn how to sew... I already kinda knew, but we'd never done pillows before...and now we know!!!

I had a bag full of clothes to give away so instead of giving them away we ripped them up and made quilted pillows with them. These were some of the clothes.

Making quilted pillows is our new fav thing right now, so for any birthdays coming up... you know what you're getting! :)


We had spasms of random laughter since it was like 1:30 in the morning... too late for us















I did most of the actual sewing part
















Winnie sat there and cut...and cut... and cut.




















Our finished products... not stuffed yet though!