My Week

:) Hello. I don't know about you but, I am really enjoying this rain we are getting. I'm praying it keeps on going for a couple of weeks (and of course hoping it's just at night ). Have you been having a good week so far??? I hope you have. Mine has been good.

Here is a random review of my past week.

• :) Yesterday, I got some things done around the house that where needing to be done (my shower cleaned, flowers planted, a rock wrapped in wire to make a necklace pendant, Adah wet with water balloons. :) You know all those important things.
• Sunday, Collin chaperoned Trevor and I up to church because my sister and all my brothers were gone. (Thanks again Collin) The services where really good. We did a little eating, reading, talking, sitting on the porch... :) It was a good day.

  



• Saturday, I worked with Sam for a couple of hours then went over to the Castleburys for the remainder of the day. Mrs. Castlebury and I tested the soil in her garden (it was lots of fun) and planted broccoli. :) I had a blast helping Trevor wash his truck (and spraying him with the water hose as often as I could get away with it and him still let me have the hose). His mom and sister made pizza and we all watched 'Still Standing' while eating supper in the living room.
• Friday was Lydia's eighteenth birthday! (If any of you should happen not to know she is my cousin.) After work, I picked up my younger siblings and we all went to Frankies Fun Park to play, fellowship, and celebrate her birthday with a group of friends. (Did anyone take any pictures???)
• Thursday evening, I went and spent some time with Ashley Stafford (I've been at the Castlebury's or Trevor has been at the house a lot recently, so Ashley and I have not done much together). Nathan and Stacia were in town for Lydia's birthday, (I think) so LD was hanging out with them and some of his sisters at the drag strip. After they got back, we played cards and stuff. It was late when everyone was leaving so, I just spent the night over there.
• Wednesday, I rode up to church with my family. :)
• And last Tuesday, Trevor came over for supper and did some work on my stairs. :)

Everybody was out watching Trevor work.

Little Brothers :)

Have a great day!!! :)

Faith Independent Baptist Church's VBS 2008

:) I really enjoy VBS at my Church. Kids running around with lots of little smiles on their faces (well for most part). Who can resist enjoying it?!! Here are pictures :)

Getting the back of the auditorium ready.

Adah and Stephanie

Laura and John helping make animals (spiders and such) with pipe cleaners.

Lance and Josiah cutting boards to make cutting boards. The children worked on putting a verse on them as a craft and got to take them home at the end of VBS.

VBS Stated on Monday and went through Friday. I was only able to make it up for two of the nights. And really enjoyed the lessons each of those nights.

The lessons were on the 7 C's :

1. Creation
2. Corruption
3. Catastrophe
4. Confusion
5. Christ
6. Cross
7. Consummation

Each year dad tries his very best to get the teens involved and active in VBS with the adults more in the the background watching and making sure everything is running smoothly.

Kids singing 'I Will Never March In The Infantry'.

And of course you can't forget 'Deep And Wide'. :)

:) I don't know who was heading up the skits this year but, they did a great job.

:0) The ones I saw were really good.

Everything going on was supposed to reinforce the lesson for that night. Night #3 was the flood so, the kids had blue jello that they could put animals in for their snack.

The teens watching the children play.

We got eaten up by mosquitos. :) But, it was still a ton of fun playing with them.

Jacob using the insect repellent.

:) If you know my dad very well you know this is one of his favorite games to play.

:) He likes playing with a beach ball because he finds it a lot easier on his hands to hit the ball and then even the little kids can play and thus, a much more enjoyable and fun game.

Some people have asked me if any of the kids got saved... The answer is, I don't know. I was not there for the last night which was on salvation. :) I do know though, that last year we had several which included some of the church kids.

Thank you for taking the time to look through the the pictures.

:) I hope you enjoyed them. Have a wonderful day!

:) Work, Coffee, Hemp, and Flowers (what I've been working on)

Hello. How are ya'll doing today? :) So far my day has been wonderful. We have a great, wonderful, and awesome God! This week up at Faith we are having VBS. :) It has been fun. We took some pictures but I don't have them with me so, I'll do a post on it sometime next week. But for now, here is little bit of what I've been doing.

:) Does this look familiar??? We have some really BIG print jobs for some schools we are working on here at work. Dear crazy old Sam (as Anna affectionately calls him) has been doing a great deal of the work. The printing is going well. As of right know we've only called the printer tech. once and he was able to fix the problem the first visit.

:) Sam went to Starbucks this morning and came back with some goodies!!!

Thank you Sam!!!

The last couple of weeks I've had the urge to make something... At times it can be rather interesting what I end up with. A couple of years ago Aunt Ola (my moms youngest sister) taught me how to make hemp jewelry. :) It's really easy, all you are doing is tying knots. It has been awhile since I have made any so I thought it was about time. I don't like wearing it, it itches my wrist and neck and drives me crazy! I enjoy making it and giving it away. :) Let me know if you would like any.

The bracelet above is my favorite pattern. :) Trevor very sweetly held the end of it and handed me beads when I was working on it over at his house Tuesday night. It was a really big help. :) Thank you Trevor.

These two are just random. I think the one below looks like smiley faces.

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The UPS dress code is black or tan(... I've almost worn all of my tan skirts out. :)). So I made one. It looked rather plain so I decided to add some flowers. I bought a black skirt about a year ago that had flowers on it which is where I got the idea. I've been wanting to try it for awhile so I gave it a shot. Here is how it came out.

:o) I like this flower the best. And I'm very happy with the way it turned out. :) I might do it again sometime.

(Shhhh Adah's birthday is coming up. Do you think it would be something she would like???)

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:) Have a great day!

Today at the UPS Store

Hello I'm at work and at the moment it's kind of slow. (.... and of course no sooner had I typed that when customers started coming through the door.) We are in the middle of a huge copying job for Bryson Middle School. Would you like to see what we are doing???

Sam set up a table for us to lay everything out on while we are working. :) It was very sweet of him.

Hmm... let see. We have four differant colores of card stock that all have the samething on them. We get to make up LOTS of little piles with one of each of the four colors.

Then we combine them with the 22 page handbook that prints off in sets of 25 and put them into a small box.

So far we've got 550 sets done so that leaves 950 left to do. Well, Sam just got back with more boxes so back to work we go... :) Never mind I get to go home!!!

My mother has tried time after time to teach us that it is very bad to stick signs on people... :) We still do it anyway. This is the one Sam put on me this morning... It says, 'Smile. It makes people wonder what you are up to!'

(Mommy it's all Sam's fault.... :) well mostly!)

~At last!~ :)

WOW!!!

I hardly know were to start... First off, let me say that we serve a great and mighty God!!! He truly knows whats best for us and can work things out beyond our wildest dreams.

What was the others news?... Well on the 27th of June Trevor called me and told me He had just talked to my father and we were officially courting! He went on to tell me about the piece of land He had bought from his Dad etc... Wow! :0) I was in an over joyed shock!!! You know the feeling don't you? It took several days for the surprise to wear off and I started to realize just what 'We're courting' meant. :) I can see him every week!... More than just once a week!!... We can talk and be looking at each other!!!... We can spend time together with our families!!!! :0) You get the idea.

(Trevor has a great smile and a even better heart.) :)

Trevor has been coming up to Faith with me on Sundays and spending the afternoon with us there. Then there is eating dinner at least once a week with our families. :0) At times it can get a little tiring... Oh, but it is so worth it!! My siblings have been taking great delight in doing "their job." (Trying their best to always be sitting in between us, listening very intently to our conversations, and then snicking around the house after he leaves about everything we said or did.) It's fun just watching them get to know him a little bit better. (Although at times they can be right down annoying and I really wish they would just go find something else to do and let us be in peace.)

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I got a puppy!

His name is Duke. He recived a bath and flea collar Friday so hopefully He'll be a little less itchy. He is a sweet little guy and is learning fast.

:) Although he still thinks he should be allowed inside like everyone else and tries quite hard to slip in when your not looking.

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:) You know how when you are talking to someone and at the end of the conversation they say something like 'I hope it all works out like you want it to.'? I have plans and goals for the future but I am OK with the Lord stepping in and fixing them for me. :) I know his plans for me are far greater, higher, and without doubt out of this world better then any of mine. :) Trevor and I get to continually reminding each other of this.

:) I hope everything is going well for you. Have a great day!!!

~Good Morning~

I opened the front door Tuesday morning to go to work...

:) Instead, I checked the clock to make sure I still had time, grabbed a camera and went for a quick walk. It was simply too beautiful a morning to pass up a little time outside. My dad enjoys gardening. He also prefers plants that produce food. The flower beds around the house are made up of fruits and vegetables. :) Dad likes them being near the house where he can keep an eye on them. ( He always finds the first one ripening and watches it so he can eat it before anyone else finds it.) These are the pictures I took.

Here are the grape, muscadine, and scuppernong vines.

:) Don't they make you want to try one!???

These are the strawberry plants in front of the house. We have three strawberry patches altogether. The other two are in the garden and down by the lake.

Sheppard has headed up and greatly helped dad with most of the planting. He has been doing a lot of reading on herbs, forest gardens, etc. This is his small herb garden by the house. :) (And therefore close to the kitchen.)

Here are his tomatoes. The tomato plants he got are Cherokee purple, Green Zebra, and I think a Hungarian...? Well a Hungarian something-or-another. If you know what the rest of name is please let me know. They tried the Green Zebra and the Hungarian one last night and they all really liked them. (which he made me try... I greatly dislike tomatoes!!!)

The blueberry bushes were move from the front yard to the dam, you can't see them very well in the picture but they are quite loaded down with berries.

:0) That means blueberry muffins are on the way!!!

With all of Dad and Sheppard's planting, JEB caught the planting fever and made an addition of some watermelons and sweet banana peppers.

And on a whole new note...

My cousin's youngest little boy has been staying with us for almost a week now.

Hayden (3 years old)

His brother Hunter (who is 4) was born with half a heart and under went heart surgery last week. Everything thing went really good and he is recovering faster then they had thought he would. The doctors said he might need to stay in the hospital up to six weeks but, are now talking about sending him home this weekend. :)

:) Watching Lance 'look after' Hayden has been fun. He has not ever spent a whole lot of time with a little kid. :) He really does not have a clue what to do with them.

:) Oh boy-oh-boy, do I have more news... but for now it will have to wait for another day. :)

:0) Have a great day!!!