AAHHHHH......

Today finished off a great weekend filled with family, fun, food and church! I hosted my first ladies meeting on Thur and it turned out pretty good. I was so stressed out all day on Thur with all the cooking and cleaning and organizing for the meeting and I hate talking in front of people and I was so nervous about it so the devotion part was a CD of speaker David Ring. If you haven't heard anything by him I'd recommend you look him up on the internet. I have been reminded that no matter how bad I think I have it, God knows what's going on and he doesn't give us more than we can handle and that I should praise him in every situation or trial he brings my way. He has been very easy-going on me, compared to some people. I just wonder how he choses the trials he sends on different people. Anyway, so we played some fun games, ate some good food and went home! Mom and dad had come up earlier that day and the ladies enjoyed seeimg mom. Jessica and cousin Michael decided to come in Thur night instead of Friday so they were getting here as the ladies were leaving. Fri we lounged around the house some and made a trip to mom's old work place, AEP. Then we went out to lunch and came home in time for naps (Jessica and I included) and then I went and got Hannah from school. Brad was off on Fri too. (He has been working out of town Mon-Thur) He went hunting in the AM and then went and got 2 more trailer-fulls of gravel. I didn't get involved this time!! I made baked spaghetti for supper and then Jessica and I went to a movie with one of Jessica's friends, Amber. It was a nice evening out with no kids, husbands, nothing. We decided to go to a mexican restaurant after the movie. I have never liked or really been to a mexican restaurant but I really like the chips and cheese dip and the food I got. I was very impressed. We were the only customers in there the whole time and they were supposed to close at 10PM but we were still in there chatting and they didn't kick us out or anything! Finally around 10:30 we decided to take Amber home and head home ourselves. When we got to her house, the door was locked and she didn't have a key to get in. Her husband and kids were inside sleeping. She called her husband a million times, we banged on the door and she was really locked out! We didn't know what to do! We got this fake pumpkin thing off her porch and started throwing it at the windows on the second story to try to wake someone up. It didn't work. But all the neightbors heard us!! Finally a man and lady came over and offered to help. The man came back with a 12' pvc pipe piece and started banging on the 2nd story windows and finally her husband came down and let her in, after 45 minutes out in the freezing cold. It was the funnies thing ever! Today we hung out at the house again until after lunch time. It had warmed up and became very nice out so my parents and I took the kids down to the park before naptime. Our church had a dedication service for the new building planned at 2pm. I stayed home for the first half hour so Ryan could get a good nap and be happy. It was very nice. I missed dad's part. He was supposed to speak on how it all got started with building the new building and stuff like that. Then there was lots of singing, including 2 songs that mom and Jess sang. And then preaching for an hour by Pastor Jeff. Then we went next door to the old church and ate. I have been thinking it was Sunday all day today. My parents and sister and nephew all went home after the services. The house is quiet and half way in order again! Now, its not even 9 yet and it feels like midnight and I am so tired!!

the swine flu shot better be worth it!

The health dept was giving the swine flu shot and mist today to kids. I had been waiting to find a place around here doing it. It was scheduled to be from 11-4. I wasn't planning on going super early but Brad's g-ma was telling me about how every place that had these clinics had lines like crazy and tons of people waiting to get the shot. So I reluctantly decided to go early and she offered to come with me "just in case". Needless to say, I am soooooo glad she was there. When we got there around 9:30, there was already no parking spaces left and a line outside and it was not warm out! I had packed a snack for the kids and they scarfed it down right away. It didn't take long for them to get restless after that. grandma took them for a walk while I stood in line. At 10 someone came out and said they were starting early b/c all the nurses were already there and the line was not getting shorter! It was actually out on the main road and they were worried about people being close to traffic. So I was thinking it wouldn't be long before we got in. Wrong!! At 11 we were still waiting outside. Around 11:45 or so we finally got into the building. Ryan had been crying, we were all freezing and I thot about just leaving more than once! When it was FINALLY Hannah and Ryan's turn to get the mist (which is the greatest invention ever!!) a news guy asked if it was ok for him to tape them. So Ryan was on the news. When we left it was 12:30!! I'll neve rin my life do that again. It was horrible. If I had been by myself, I would not have stayed. I found out later that the cops had been called and they were all going crazy because they hadn't had the clinic somewhere with more parking and blah blah blah. So I didn't get anything done around here. Ryan didn't take a nap and they were both grouchy from such a long day that they were in bed by 6:30. Tomorrow I won't get much done either because I have to go back out to walmart oto get my oil changed, pick up a prescription and get a few last minute groceries for this weekend. I just know I am going to forget something and have to go back out again after that! I have been planning for the ladies meeting. family coming in and a church dinner! If you know me, you know I don't like being a hostess and I don't like having to cook different foods. I just am not confident in my cooking ability and I have a hard time keeping the house clean! I have rather enjoyed planning the devotion and the games though. And of course, I can't wait to see my family and I know they don't care what my house looks like! Just 2 more days!!

What is this world coming to?

This morning while we were in church our DVD player for the kids was stolen. That was the first thing Brad noticed while putting the kids in their seats when we were leaving. He asked me if I took it down and I said no! It was just gone. Nothing else was missing. Turns out, after we got to talking about it with some of the other church members, some of them had seen someone standing out by our truck and someone else running down the road by the other vehicles. I am not so upset about the DVD player. We can replace it. It has just reminded me how bad the world is. There are people out there who need Jesus and I don't think most Christians think much about it. I know I don't. It is easy to get wrapped up in your own life and not see that others are suffering, dying and going to Hell, addicted to drugs and other things. The world is evil and we should be more concerned for these people.

Brad is going back out of town to work in the morning. I am getting used to him being gone and it isn't so bad anymore! But now I am really going to be making up sounds in my head! I have sooooooo much to do this week to prepare for my ladies meeting and for family coming in this weekend. Our church is having a dedication service for the new building that was completed recently. My dad will be speaking since he was the one who got the whole thing under way before he was lead to go elsewhere. So my parents will be here and my sister, her hubby and son will be here too. I can't wait to see them. It has been so long. Well, I have a few things to do before I go to bed. Brad is taking my laptop out of town with him so please pray that the desktop will cooperate with me this week. So if you don't hear from me that is why!