Graduation Crowning

Last Saturday, me and Sadie had our graduation ceremony for graduating Friends and Stars (our class's names from our church).  I have done it before when I was in 5th grade.  I was awesome!!! We got our hair done by our mom's cousin Laura and she did a great job!!!  We also went to the nail salon the day before and got our toe nails done!!! What the honor stars (Sadie's class) got to do was walk down the isle with her parents and when they got to the stage they were crowned by there teacher! I got to walk up on stage and present my speech (which I was very nervous).  After the ceremony we had dessert :)  We had a great time and we are looking forward to State crowning!!!  Here are some pictures that we took:

At the hair salon:

At the nail salon:

                                                                  Sophie and her friends:

Sophie got to go up on stage with her class to be recognized:

Sadie with her friends: Gracie, Janae, and Sarah

With Miss Aimee:

Me:

With Miss Aimee and our children's pastor, Jeff:

My wonderful family:

The Feeling

I miss Kansas City so much! Ever since I got back home I learned that there is absolutely no greater feeling than the feeling you have after doing something for God!  I miss all of those children at the block party!  I enjoyed seeing them happy!  After you put a smile on someone's face, you know that you did the right thing!  I miss our car rides, our meals together, everything that happened there.  I love all of it!  The feeling of doing something for the Lord is absolutely amazing!  I encourage you to go on a mission trip if you haven't!  It not only does good things for other people, but it is good for you! Getting to know all of the people you go with or meet will definitely change you forever!

Thank you!!!

I would just like to say thank you to the people who are interested in reading my blog! You are the reason I love blogging!!!

  Thanks again!!!

 P.S.- I will be posting some more soon!

Your love never Fails!

This song "Your love never fails" has been on my heart for quite awhile and I just thought I should share it with you! It talks about God's love for you and that it never quits on you! He is always with you wherever you go and he is with you through all of your problems! Please click this link below to listen to it. Enjoy!

My trip to Kansas City

    This summer me and Samuel went to Kansas city on a mission trip with our youth group!  It was one of the best summers ever!  We worked a block party at Grace church Assembly that was for all of the children who lived in that area and it was amazing! There was a water slide, we made balloon animals, we had face painting, and we had a bouncy house for the little kids!  In the evenings we would have all of that plus we were giving out groceries, making dinner for everyone, having giveaways, and on the last day we had a basketball tournament for all who wanted to make a team and play!
    Everyone loved it!  We also did service projects while we were there. Some of them were: Taping a whole school so that other people wouldn't have do it and just go right in there and get all of the painting done.  We went to a friend of the pastor of the church we were working with, and we painted his porch.  We did a lot of mowing and cleaning at different places, and then we did some cleaning at the church.
    It does sound tiring, but trust me, it was all worth it when we saw how happy everyone was!  Our goal on this trip was just to simply love others on this trip just as God loved us!  The block party was amazing!  (Did I mention it was amazing?)  Everyone loved it!
   We were putting smiles on everyone of those little faces that were there!  The kids LOVED the water slide!  At the end of the week, just to have a day where we can all relax, we went to Worlds of Fun (which is an amusement park there in independence) and we had a great time!  It was an amazing trip! We have accomplished so many things! We have overcome so many fears, and made new relationships that wouldn't of happened if it wasn't for World Mpact!  I just can't wait until next year!!!!!!!
  Here are some pictures that we got on our trip:

Working at the water slide:

We put bubbles in the slide to make it even more fun!

I learned how to make some animal balloons:

Here we are helping to set up:

Here Samuel has paint on his face to make him look like he has been cut with a balloon sword. (The little kids were playing swords with him)

Here are a couple of pictures that we took from when we were canvasing: 

 

Here are some of the girls during our fun day:

Here we are during our prayer time:

Here we are on our last night.  We all drew a name and said a complement about that person:

Here is the whole team who made this happen:

Great job guys! It was one of the best summers ever!

Happy 4th of July!

I had a great 4th! We went to my Grandma's house and had a cookout for the 4th of July! When it got dark we blew off a lot of fireworks and we got to see the big ones that people were blowing off in the park near her house.  We had an awesome time! I wish it was still here! I can't wait for next year to come!

  If you want, you can comment and tell me about your 4th!

What I want to become

  What I want to be when I grow up is a nurse who travels all around the world helping children with different diseases.  But, my first priority is to do what God calls me to do.  I know that before I do anything, my family is what comes first.  I want to get married and have a big family! I want to home school all of my children.
  Who I want to become the most is a keeper at home, a wife, and a mother.  That is my number one priority in my life.  I love little children and I want to do everything I can do to help them and put smiles on their faces, but I will always do that with my own children first.  Some people would think that I should get a job and that I should send my children to school, but I believe that it is very important for a family to be together as much as possible and that they should all eat at the same table together as a family!  Also, at home your family can learn so much!
  I learn things all of the time watching my mom do different things and I am grateful that she home schools me and my siblings.  I want to become a great mother just like my mom! I am so glad that God has put me in the family that I am in!  That is who I want to become!  

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Piano Recital

About month ago (I know it is a little to late but oh well) we had an end of the year piano recital. I think we all did great! Here are some videos of the songs we played:

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WorldMpact

This summer, me and Samuel did WorldMpact which is pretty similar to Team 45, just for the older students.  It is called WorldMpact because our youth ministry is called Mpact and we are going around the world.  The trip that we are going on is Kansas City.  All of the trips are Dallas, Kansas City, New York City, Honduras, and London.  On our trip we are going to be helping with a vacation bible school that one of the churches there is doing.  Also while we are there we will do some service projects.  Today we had our last training day at church and for our service project, we went to a catholic church in Tulsa and helped sort clothes.  For service projects, we have gone to John 3:16, the food bank, the catholic church, and then one day we went to a church somewhere in Tulsa while there were some kids there.  They were doing a vacation bible school and we got to pray with them and then we played games with them! That was my favorite service project and I wish I could go back!  Last week we went to a ropes course and we had a lot of fun!  Here is our worldmpact training day schedule: First we have prayer time, then we go to our service project, we come back and have lunch, go to all of our classes, and then have reflection time.  I wish WorldMpact went through the whole summer! It is absolutely amazing! We have 10 days until our trip and everyday I am counting down! I am so excited! After the mission trip I will post about what we did.  Can't wait!!!

Team 45

This summer Henry and Sadie did something called Team 45 with our church.  It is called team 45 because it is a team of 4th and 5th graders going on certain mission trips.  Sadie went to Jonesboro (which she is still there and will come back tomorrow) and Henry went to Tulsa to help with a summer camp that they had.  They had a blast all year doing this and they can't wait until next year! Here are some pictures where they are at their mission trip training and then some of them are from their actual mission trip: