Christmas preparation

Christmas preparation

Family

So far we have decorated the Christmas tree we are still working on the rest of the house. We have mints in the house for now I have a small addiction to mints lol. I have my Christmas shopping done for Dj, mom, baby hawke and Jill. I still need to buy for dad and josh. Men are so hard to shop for 1 down 2 to go.

YMCA

We have been listening to Christmas music, and getting in to the Christmas sprite our Christmas party at one school is the 14^th and the other school it’s the 19^th. Im loving this job there closed Christmas eve and Christmas day along with new years eve and new years day. I know it should be a given for most places of employment but its not any more.

Puggles

Next Wednesday is our Christmas party preparation night. We are going to make ornaments and hang them on our paper Christmas tree. Its also parents night and we are going to go over the days of creation ending with god made my family. Then the fallowing Wednesday is our Christmas party. We are going to make Christmas cookies and sing  Christmas songs, open gifts and drink hot coco and just have a jolly good time.

My self

I am going to read the Christmas story and watch the nativity story J   

Top 10 things to be thankful for

My Top 10 things I am thankful for and why.

    1)  God
                  with out God there would be nothing at all to be thankful for.
John 1:1-5 " In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was  God. He was in the beginnig with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. in him was life, and the life was light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."
     2) Family
                 I have an amazing family who is always there for me. do they have there flaws o yes they do, but when it comes down to it, they are there though the thick and the thin and I couldn't ask for more. o and I have a nephew on the way :).
Joshua 24:15 "But if serving the lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for your self this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household we will serve the Lord."
    3) Friends
                 I have a great group of friends who are there for me when I need them and im happy to be there for them also. I am so happy for my friends who are getting married and having kidos.
Proverbs 27:17 "As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another."
   4) This past summer
                this past summer was crazy and amazing at the same time. i went on too missions trips one here in the states and one in Jamaica, I also took a step outside my comfort zone and left home by my self for 6 weeks.
               Work camp was great i had an awesome time. I planned the games and I got to lead a small group of girls and got to see 3 of the girls accept Christ and one of the boys. it was life changing.
                Jamaica. i had an awesome time getting to see my little bro go on his 1st missions trip. God also gave me more of a passion for special need kids.
                VCBC this is where I went all by my self like a big kid for 6 weeks. God taught me a lot of things while i was there, but the biggest thing was that i can do it, that i can go with out the help of others and how to rely on God when i felt lonely. now i just want to put it out there i was rarely lonely there the people where amazing.
Matthew 4:19 "Come, follow me" Jesus said,"and i will send you out to fish for people"
    5) Salvation
               as we draw closer to the Christmas season im reminded that night the baby boy born was why we have so much hope and life.
Luke 2:11 for unto you is born this day in the city of David a savior, who is Christ the Lord.
    6) A Future
               not only a future but a future of hope, grace and mercy. although God never promised the good life he leaves us with lots of promises of greatness.
John 16:33 " I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. but take heart, because I have overcome the world."
Jeremiah 29:11 " For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord " they are plains for good and not disaster, to give you a future and a hope,"
   7) My Compassion Children
                I sponsor 2 children though Compassion International Owen who is in Tanzania Africa and is 7 years old and Basilina (Lina for short) who lives is Indonesia and is 8 years old. they have blessed my life so much. I started sponsoring Owen back in spring 2011 and Lina last summer at Lifest.
   8)My jobs
              I am so grateful for the jobs God provided for me. I get to work with awesome kids and still get to have time with the family. my job with the YMCA has been very flexible with my nanny jobs and church activity's  my nanny jobs are great i love thoughts kids and the fact that Abe is almost up and walking is soo cool. Abe has gotten big fast i started watching him when he was only 6 weeks old and now he his 10 months old and his brother just turned 2 years old.
  9) My Home
            so very thankful that God has given me a roof over my head and not only that but also food for the table clothes for my body blankets for my bed. the list could go on and on and on. he has blessed us here in america with more then we could ever need.
  10) My Dog
             ya I had to fit him in there some where hes just too cute. we prayed for a long time for that Dog and we all loves him sooooooo much.

Carving pumpkins,election day, and baby boom

 Carving pumpkins
so my family went camping for the weekend over Halloween i normally go but my job didn't allow me to go this year, so I missed carving pumpkins :(. but when my family got back they brought me a pumpkin, and it was ready to be carved :). so i carved it and put it out front and then started handing out candy to the children. it was a good day.

top left is my moms, top right is DJ's and, bottom one is mine.

Election Day

November 6th was election day.

this was the very 1st time voting for president. this election season got me thinking about how some people even christian view our president. first i want to say that yes it is important to have a good president, but some people view it as this is the only hope for our country, that our future  is riding on the person elected. well i just what to say that there is a big man up-stares that has a lot more to say about what happens to our country and our future. i was reminded of a story in the bible where a man was in the wilderness and God provided daily food for him though a bird, and how much more do we have that we need to worry. 

   Baby Boom

so most of you already know my brother Joshua and his wife Jill are going to have a baby boy in January  but they aren't the 1st in our church nor are they the last. since June this year we have had 1 baby girl born, and 3 baby boys born. buy June next year we will have 4 more new baby's for a grand total of 8 new baby's  we were just saying that the infant nursery was empty well it wont be for to much longer. all these new baby's are all the 1st one in each family except for the twins i don't know the family yet i just know there is a new family coming to our church that are expecting twins. 

crazy waves=crazy day

so i feel it is fare to say that yesterday was the craziest day of my life. I got to sleep in which was great, then drove dj to school at 10:15 so i could get to my dentist appointment on time. they told me i had 3 cavity's and needed my 3 wisdom teeth removed, im like how much of this is a suggestion and what actually needs to be done. so i leave a little frustrated but not much wasn't going to let it get me down. found out i had locked my keys in my car gurrr not cool. so my friend sami came and got me and we went to the lake so we can get some pics, then we went to the church to get the house key so we could go get the spare key for the truck. so after i got back in my truck i went to work. we talked about the Halloween party we are having today. so i left work and on the way home i had someone hit me as they were pulling out of a parking light. im like what a way to end the day, the truck has a few scratches but nothing major  that we have found yet might need a front end lineament. the couple that hit me were elderly, and the police officer that came was very nice and did an excellent  job. o did you hear that Disney bought star wars :/

video

just a fun video to start your day off with.

babysitting

well im babysitting and both the kids are fast asleep napping great start to babysitting :) i have been babysitting for this family since march of this year and the little abram was only 2 months old now he is 9 months and crawling lets just say diaper changing is really hard with him, he is also taking a few steps with his walking toys. his older brother owen is going to be 2 next month. these kidos grow up to fast. I now have more hours at work, i do before school care eather with Elizabeth and Nathaniel, or at pleasant prairie school, and after school care at Jeffery elementary, the kids are great its a really relaxed work environment. I painted 3 bible verses on my wall with my best friend sami yesterday, we had so much fun and I introduced her to doctor who. tommaro is trick-or-treat day i cant wait to see all the kids cute outfits. I applied to work at VCBC next summer cant wait till next summer it was such a great experience last year. well i think thats all for this post.

                                                                           

VCBC mostly

So I had an amazingly awesome time at VCBC I got to see my friends again and found out the staff get together is December 28^th-30^th im still deciding if I should go, you know with my nephew being born in January. I had a lot of fun with my friend Miranda her parents gave me a ride to camp and we got to talk along with a friend Josiah. I also got to see my friend Anne and her brothers Alan and Andrew although im closer in age with her brothers I hang out with her more. And I got to see Elizabeth or should I say the doctor. She got me watching the tv show doctor who and now whenever we are together we pretend to be in doctor who she’s the doctor and im Rose Tyler. We got a picture of us running and she is going to edit an explosion in the background J I also got the staff video this weekend and I have been watching that a lot. Im going to be meeting with Rachel my boss at the YMCA to talk about a job she would like to give me as a site coordinator. That would mean I would be responsible for the after school program at that school. Crazy but I think im up to it. We are getting ready to go camping Wednesday-Sunday this week so that should be fun, we will be carving pumpkins one of my favorite things to do during this time of year. 

early morning blog

so i got up this morning to get ready for my before school care job, and the mom texted me saying that Elizabeth who is 5 years old was sick and here dad was going to stay home with her. so i decided that this is a good time to blog about my life :). so im just about all packed up for VCBC im leaving at 1pm today i should get some sleep on the way down cuz its a 4 1/2 hour drive. im riding with my friend meranda and Josiah.  i baby sat last night for a family with 4 kids 3 girls and 1 boy. Rachel age 6 Allison age 5 Jonathan (Jonny) age 3 and Katlen (kk) age 17 months. it was like a chill out night for the most part. we ate dinner then they all agreed to watch cars 2, after the movie kk went to sleep she was tuckered out she only cried for like 1 minute and she was out. we read some books then Allison asked to be put to bed, so i didn't ague that one. Rachel sat in the living room and read a book and Jonny quietly played with his cars finally at 8:45 i said its time to go lay in bed, Rachel went to bed but jonny didn't want to go so i picked him up and put him in bed and he stayed. and that's my night of babysitting. well i best go finish packing and eat breakfast. hope you all have an awesome day

1st blog

Ok i have finally found a blogging site that has exactly what im looking for, you can add pictures like this one to your right and videos like the one below. and you don't even have to create a different page for it :) so this is the site im going to stick with i promise. my next post wil be some time next week telling you guys all about weekend at Village Creek Bible Camp (VCBC) ok i shall go now hope you guys are having a good day and not to confused by my consent  changing.