Wedding Planing.....

Let's just say that none of us girls (my sisters and I) want to plan another wedding anytime soon. :P So, my cousin got married and Jenel was her wedding coordinator. That was all good. What wasn't, was that she asked for her help a month before the wedding. Oh, and the wedding was the 10th of Jan. so the planing was being done through Christmas! Also the wedding party kept growing! There ended up being 35+ in the wedding party. Yes, you read that right. There were 15 bridesmaids and 15 groomsmen.
           The cousins and Tina (who was the second shooter for the wedding.), mare and I. :)  

 It was crazy! Oh, and to let you know it was the guy who wanted that many guys not the girl. Our cousin only wanted her two sisters, but then she wanted to match the guys so..... 13 more girls. :) Marylynn and I were in the wedding and our family did a Lot of work for it. All of us girls don't want a big wedding party and we're going to plan it as soon as we can. We're also going to pick a color that is easy to find in dresses or find dresses first. It was a nightmare trying to find teal knee length dresses! Our cousin was engaged for 3+ months so its not like she was only engaged for a month before the wedding, she just held off the wedding plans till last min. Don't Ever Do That!!!! Although she didn't seam stressed quite a few people around her were. So, I've decided that when its my turn (in like 10 years ;) ) that I'll make sure its as stressed relieve as possible.
                                                             Our Beautiful cousin!!!

Well, the wedding turned out great and we had a good time. Well.... I was sick, so I left early on both nights. (Rehearsal and wedding) But I did have a good time and I Loved having our cousins at our house and seeing friends. :)

Jan. Thankful List

Jan. has been a busy month. Our house was filled with people for most the month and we had a wedding to do. ;) I'm so glad its done!

*Time with my best friend!

*Going on an adventure with my best friend and God keeping us safe. ;)

*Having a Great Nerf party on New years. ;)


*Having our cousins stay for two weeks and....

*Being in the wedding of one of them!!

*Being heathy~I got sick right before the wedding and had no voice for 4 days, but I'm now all good.

*Getting Both of my quilts done in time. ;) (I'll be doing a post about them soon.)

*All the wedding plans came together and that it went really good. (I'll have to do a wedding post.... Long story.)

*Seeing friends at the wedding and having a party at our house the night after the wedding. ;)

*Seeing Dads cousin.

*Having Auntie and a cousin come for a couple days!!! (I told you our house was full.)

*Going back to work on the farm!!!! I love it!

*Seeing Mare and Leslie follow God and go to CMI.

*Playing games with our family and eating cookie dough and drinking milk. ;)

*Our small group! I love them!

Dec. Thankful list

Yes, I know its late, but better late then never right? ;)

*Being in the church choir and blessing people by singing. (Hopefully) ;)

*Finishing one of the two quilts.

*Blessing people by making quilts for them.

*Having an adventure with our family getting a Christmas tree.

*Being healthy.

*Friends who will help you with anything, even iorning quilt blocks for two hours!! :)

*Fun with the family caroling.

*A Great Christmas even if it was different.

*A Great church family!

*Gods plan in our lives even when we can't see it.

*Seeing a friend that I haven't seen since May.

*Walking in the parade and giving people tracks.

*Teaching children the Christmas story.

*Skypeing cousins for Christmas, since we can't be there with them.

*Having a Great New Years Eve with family and a Great Friend from far away.

So Much To Be Thankful For.

I have so much to be thankful for. This last Sunday I asked the two year olds I was teaching what they were thankful for. It got me thinking about how much I have to be thankful for. Yes, my year has Not been all peaches and cream and not everything in my life is Great. But God has still given me so many things to be thankful for.
I know that I should be thankful not only at this time of year, but all year long. So, I've decided to post at the end of every month, 15 things I'm thankful for in that month. Here it goes! ;)

*Road trip with Mare and Tina.

*Safety while going to ID.

*Friends who let you stay at their house on short notice.

*Cousins!!!!!

*Encouragement from friends.

*God providing me with a job.

*Being able to be a blessing to people and show Jesus to them.

*Laughter with sisters and inside jokes. ;)

*Thanksgiving.

*Making new friends!

*Making pies with friends.

*Having a great time with long time friends.

*Wood for the fireplace.

*God's wisdom.

*God's plan for my life.

Over A Year Already?

 I can't believe its been more then a year since I went to bible school. :( I can't believe how fast school went. I feel like I just went to TX for the start of school and now its done. I miss everyone from school. Yes, everyone. ;) There was only 50 students, so you know everyone by the end of the year. I will start were I left off in my last post about school. I learned so much in just the last couple of of months of school. Spring break was coming up and I still didn't know what I was doing. The school has misstions trips that you can go on or you can go and do something else. I was thinking about going and staying with my awesome Uncle and Aunt, but didn't know if that's what God had for me. Well the trip to CO that they were planing didn't have a lot of people signed up so they weren't going to go. But a couple of us were thinking about going and we talked and decided to go. And that's how God worked it out. So during spring break I went to CO with 7 others from school. It was such a good time with everyone. We really didn't know what we were going to do, so we learned to be flexible. We were at a ranch outside of Estis Park and we knew that we would be helping them clear fallen trees from off their property.(from the flooding) The couple of days, the girls ended up cleaning cabins, lodge, and the shop. While the guys helped stack wood and cut it. We helped stack wood the last couple of days. It was a great trip and it really brought our team together. Towards the end of school I had to keep reminding myself to be diligent and not just do everything half way because its the end. My family got to come to the graduation!!! It was Great to have them there and they got to meet my friends.
            This is the card playing group. ;)

                         Family picture.

 Aunt Martha and Uncle Steve came too. ;)

My discipleship group. I love them so much!

                       My roommates!

My family drove out and on their way the ac broke! It broke while they were in AZ. So the trip home was quite memorable. ;) There were no empty seats in the van, because we picked up our cousin, who was in OK and brought her home with us. It was great!! Our van started to have more problems in UT and we thought we fixed it.... But the next day in NV we stopped at a ford dealership and ended up walking around the town while the van got fixed. We got home safely and God definitely blessed our trip and we saw Him at work.
     We visited one of our cousins in UT. 

Quilt #2

I'm on my second quilt. My first was one my mom started in collage and never finished. Before I went to Bible school last fall I finished it. Now I'm making a quilt for a friend who got married. Its going quite well compared to the first one. I know quite a bit more then I did on the first one. ;) Although I had to pick out the fabric on this one and it took a while. I have till Christmas to finish it. But I think the hardest parts are done. Picking out the fabric and cutting it all out.
Here is what its going to look like. ;)

Me with my 1st quilt. 

Summer

I know its fall but I'm behind and someone keeps asking for an update. ;) 

Things are changing at our house. People are getting older and moving out. Nate moved out a year ago and Marylynn was gone all summer working at a conference center. I was gone for most the summer living with two of my cousins while I drove combine. Jenel was housesitting a lot this summer and the rest of the family was busy helping with day camps and 5-day clubs. Summer for our family is not vacation and doing nothing. Summer is working doing 5-day clubs and day camps and then canning and canning. ;) This year since Marylynn and I were both gone and Jenel was working, mom didn't have much help with the canning. Although now that I'm back home I'm helping a lot with the canning. This has been quite a summer. I really enjoyed living with my cousins and driving combine. ;) God taught me quite a bit this summer and He isn't done yet. ;) I think the most important thing He taught me was that Satan doest want me to have a good strong relationship with God and will tempted me to try and not spend time with God. Since I have so much down time in the combine while driving I thought it would be a great time to memorize Gods word and talk to Him. Well I found out that its a lot harder then I thought it would be. Satan just kept on tempting me and wouldn't stop. If I could I would do my summer all over and work harder fleeing temptation and spend more time with God and memorizing His word. But I can't and so I'm working on fleeing temptation here at home which is still hard. But with God on my side He can help me do it. 

I hope y'all had a good summer! Here are a couple pictures of our summer. ;)

                         One of my kids! ;)

                  Having fun at the creek.

                My best friends wedding. ;)

Visiting Mare at the coast.

                          I Love my job!