Vacation and a Concert

Two weeks ago, was my first vacation of the summer. As you can see we had a fantastic time swimming at the lake. Kristin, Causey, John, Logan, Evan, Jack and myself left for a long weekend of riding the boat and jetskis, swimming at the lake and pool, and generally just being out of town. Kristin's parents have a camp up in Toledo Bend and they graciously let us use it. I think I was most excited about not having any cell phone service which means no one could bother me. So, here's a couple of pictures from our trip.

Friday July 6th was the Molly Ringwalds concert at Cypress Bayou Casino. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it before but the Molly's are my absolute favorite 80's cover band. They put on a great show and are lots of fun. The crew (Causey, Rachel, Kristin, John and myself) went up to Charenton to see them. All the girls except me caught guitar picks that they had thrown. However, I got a drumstick. Here's a couple of shots of that night.

Alright folks, thats all I have for now. Stay tuned Disney is in two weeks.

One

This is my favorite VBS song this year.

"One"

(verse)
Being of one mind
Having the same love
Being of one accord
Having the same heart

Believing in one God
Following one truth
Believing in Jesus
Doing what He says to do

(chorus)
We pray for each other
Serve one another
Walk in unity
And care for each other's needs
Break bread together
Brothers and sisters
Hand in hand in the body of Christ
We become one

(bridge)
And we will do nothing for our own glory
But in humility we will treat
Others as more important than ourselves

(chorus)
As we pray for each other
Serve one another
Walk in unity
And care for each other's needs
Break bread together
Brothers and sisters
Hand in hand in the body of Christ
We become one

Hand in hand in the body of Christ
We become one.

Alright Already!!!

Okay, a certain great-aunt (who shall remain nameless...ahemauntmillieahem) of mine has fussed me for not updating this blog more often so I promise to try and do better. Please realize though that I don't really have all that many exciting things to write about, so I like to save it up and do one big blog. Anyway here goes.

For Father's Day Leslie and I went and saw our Daddy. He's been working out by Morgan City so he and Debbie (his wife for those of you who don't know) were at his mother-in-law's house in Pierre Part, LA. By the way if you've never been to Pierre Part, you're not missing much although I do love Miss Edie's (Debbie's Mama) house. Anyway Les and I left after church (I drug her with me haha) and got to Dad's about 1:30. Miss Edie BBQed and we ate. Then we played a rousing game of roofball. Roofball is a game Daddy made up to entertain Debbie's 2 year old niece Bella. It's a lot like playing volleyball by yourself. It was quite a good time. We had a great time with Dad and he loved his present from us...of course, I picked it out. Here are a couple of pics of dad playing roofball and Bella and her Dad supervising.

Vacation Bible School was last week, and thankfully it has ended. I love, love, love VBS but when you teach music (meaning singing loudly and jumping around doing motions) all morning, work all afternoon, and then work a couple of nights at Bauer...its a bit much. Which is why I usually take whole days off of work for VBS, however I wanted to take off a couple of days this week because we're leaving thursday for Toledo Bend, so I only took half days. This year's VBS theme was Gameday Central, and all the music was themed around sports which was really fun. My favorite was the slow song and I'm going to post the lyrics in a separate blog because I think they're beautiful and they really speak about how God wants us to treat other people. Unfortunately I forgot my camera every day of VBS (it stems from the perpetually late problem I have), but one of our other teachers had one so I will harrass her to email me them. But to up the cuteness factor of this blog here are a few pictures of Logan and Jack, my favorite photo subjects.

Here's Jack chowing on some corn.

Logan and I being ultra cool

Jack and I being silly

Logan and Evan at their VBS program

I hope everyone has a great week!!!

Summer has arrived!!!

And boy it is warm outside. Sunday afternoon I went swimming at my Aunt Elois' house and Im almost positive that the pool water was just as hot as the air outside. Thank goodness for cold water from a waterhose. I sprayed Zack (my 9 year old cousin) with it and then Nate (my 3 year old cousin) learned he could spray us with it. Fun times!!!

I had my interview for nursing school a couple of weeks ago and it went really well. Miss Heidi told me that with my scores that it would be stupid for them not to take me. Causey also got the same response which is to be expected since we got the same scores. So, she couldn't tell us officially until she tested everyone and interviewed everyone, but she did give us each a list of things to do (CPR class, fingerprinting, taking ID photos) in the meantime and we should know for sure in July.

Our Mission Friends field trip to the Fire Station went really well. The firemen were really great to us and showed us everything there was to see at the station. They even showed us the dorms and they let the kids run around their living room. It was great, unfortunately I forgot my camera, but one of the mom's had hers and as soon as I remember I'll get some copies of the pictures.

I think that is about all I have right now, but there's some exciting stuff coming up this week. More on that later!!

Busy Weekend

Okay so this weekend was super crazy. Friday, Leslie and moved into our trailer. and that was an adventure. Many thanks to the Davenports for the manual labor. Then Saturday morning I went bride's maid dress shopping for Erin's wedding. We picked out a dress that I love very much. Then we went and had lunch at Coyote Blue's and it was very yummy. Then Saturday evening I went with Causey to her cousin's thirteenth birthday party. She had a DJ and stuff, not that we were allowed to dance for fear of embarrassing her, but we got some good visit time in. Sunday didn't slow down either. After church Causey and i went to a baby shower for a girl we know from high school. It made me feel very old, because people my age are all getting married and having babies. Then Sunday night the children and preschool choirs did their little program and it was very cute.

I found out yesterday that I passed the second round of testing to get into LPN school. I just have to schedule my interview and hope that I charm the snot out of them. Mission Friends is technically over until the fall. I'm taking them on a field trip on June 3rd but our class time is over. I think that's about all I got right now, so here's a few pictures.

Becki Rachel and I at lunch

Kara Lindsey Erin Me Becki and Rachel

This is our dress

Here's Jack accepting his Osacr

And here's Logan accepting his

I hope everyone has a great week!!!

Let me introduce myself

Logan and I at his 4th birthday party

Most of you know it but just for the sake of propriety, here's a quick back story. We'll just gloss over the awkward childhood consisting of big hair and splatter paint skirts (what can I say it was the eighties)

my cousin Chuckie and I about 1989

Mom, Leslie, and I about 1989

Thus far, the proudest day of my life was when I graduated High School in 2002, and this is one of my favorite pictures of all time

me and Dad

Since then I have been enrolled at 2 colleges and have decided that universities have too much bureaucratic nonsense for me. So I have applied to an LPN program at a local hospital. All I really know is that I want to be a nurse, I think I'll make a good one and this route gets me there faster.

I'm really involved in my church. I sing in the choir and teach Sunday School and Mission Friends ( a class that teaches preschoolers about missions).

this is my class

I have really fantastic friends and a huge loud wonderful family. Oh I work two jobs so I'm always busy, but I still make time for the ones who are important to me, maybe not as much as I should but I do make time.

Some of the cousins at a family gathering

my two best friends and I, a long time ago

I answer to many names, I like icees, I love music, netflix is a great thing, generally I'm a happy person, The Molly Ringwalds are my favorite 80's cover band, kids attach themselves to me probably because they know I'm a sucker, I'm excited about my new place (did I mention I'm moving?), orchids are my favorite flower

Really nothing much exciting happens in my life so it's not like anyone is gonna be living vicariously through me, but ya never know who might be interested. See ya next time!!

New Blog

This is my new blog. Im new to it but I know I'll figure it out!!