Race for the Cure

Today was an awesome day!!! I was part of a movement that is going to save/help women!! The Race for the Cure 2010 was today in Des Moines!! Imagine 25,000 people collecting in one spot to help save lives!!! Not only was it amazing to see that many people, but it turned out to be a beautiful day!!! I am already planning to do it again next year!!! My goal for next year is to be able to run some of it (hopefully, it's a 5K)! As long as my knees hold out I promise to make that goal!! Wish I had some pics to put up!!!

Love ya'll

Life as a cook

Starting last Thursday, I became the cook at school. ughh...It's not that I don't like it (I love doing it), it's that my back can't take all the bending over the job does. I love cooking!! I love seeing every child in the school!! I love being busy all day!! My upper back just can't handle it. I am only doing this until my bosses find another person. Please someone interview for the cook position!!! SOON!! I really want to get back to being a floater and bus driver instead of cook/bus driver.

On another note, I am having a big dilemna. I love my job...love playing with kids all day, love my bosses, love most of my coworkers!! The problem is I don't make enough to stay there too much longer. I was telling a friend this weekend that I feel kinda of selfish saying that but it's the truth. I want to be able to pay ALL my bills and still be able to have some extra money to do stuff (not that I don't, just don't have much). I want to feel like I am paying down my debt, not accruing it.

Sorry for this rant. I needed to get it off my chest.

Wow...been a long time since I have posted anything. It's been a little crazy here in IA, with my mom having major medical worries and surgery to take care of that, taking care of her, and then the water in our basement from the torrential rain last week. But I am alive and well!!! Trying to keep myself grounded with everything going on.

Hope y'all are doing well!!

VACATION!!!

In 14 hours my handbell choir will be hitting the road!! We are doing a music mission trip to the South Eastern United States! I can't wait!! Tomorrow we will be heading to Paducah, KY to play, then on to Lake City, FL. Monday we are playing at Downtown Disney, then spending time at Disney World through Wednesday! Our trip home take us through Peach Tree City, GA, Mt. Vernon, IL and St. Louis! Should be a fun trip and God will touch hearts with our music!

I will post some pics and updates when I get back!!

I am an aunt!!

This afternoon I became and aunt!! Little Jade Elizabeth entered the world around 330ish!! I couldn't be more proud! She came into this world at 6lbs. 2 oz., 17 1/2 inches, with a head full of hair!! Here is the first pic I have of her...there will be more after this weekend!

I love it when the kids at school are talking about something...and one kid says something awesome!! LIke today...the kids were talking about who decided to change the weather from warm to stormy...all of them decided that it was God, but it was the one little boys (I will call him A) words that got me. He said, "Yeah, like Easter is about Jesus and not about bunnies and candy." AMEN But A didn't stop there...he went on to tell them that Easter is when Jesus rose into heaven....and that Jesus didn't have candy and bunnies when is rose!!!

Wouldn't it be nice if we this care free. I don't know about you, but I tend to think about WHO I am talking to before I speak. A didn't care and he said it right from the heart!!

A Day I Don't Want to Relive

Today started off great...got up, went to work...normal...until 12:15pm. I was summoned to the office and told I had an emergency phone call from my mom. I answered and soon heard that my sister was at training in a bank and the bank had been robbed. WHAT?? This is something you hear about all the time but don't usually know anyone who has really been involved in one. So we start calling family and friends asking for prayers for safety. Soon after, we find out through the news in Kearney, NE that this is not a robbery it is a hostage situation. WHAT? Learn that my sister is hiding in a closet and they don't think anybody knows they are there. After what seemed like forever(really 1 1/2 hours) we hear that she is safe and in a police holding area. PRAISE GOD!! Thanks to those of you who were praying!!

When we finally got to talk to her she spilled everything...this guy didn't want to rob the bank...he merely wanted to get back at the employer who had fired him last week, a TV station...he wanted publicity. So he faked a robbery and took everybody hostage. Some people got to leave shortly after this started but other were in the building hiding for 2 1/2 hours. My sister was hiding in a closet with the other trainees and trainer. The police negotiater got the guy to release everybody. So my sister had to walk past him(he still had the gun in his hand) as they walked out. They arrested the guy shortly after everyone was safely out of the building.

My sister is going to be ok! She is very shaken and stirred but will be fine! As my uncle put it, "She got some darn good hands on training today."!

Thanks to all who prayed with us! The power of prayer REALLY works!!

Love ya'll!