The weekend that I get to spend with the Riser’s hasn’t come around yet. We don’t even have a date set up. We did but the first date I had to post-pone because that time would no longer work because we’re having some relatives stay at our house. So we set up another time and I had to post-pone that, too, because my parents needed me to baby-sit. I feel bad for having to keep on rescheduling (holy cow, I spelled that right, I thought for sure Microsoft Word would have underlined that), but Mrs. Riser says that it’s no problem and that it’s no hassle at all. She is very nice.

Oh, and it’s not going to be a weekend. It’ll be a week beginning. On Sunday my family will leave me at Church with the Riser’s and then they’ll drive me half-way home and drop me off at Home Depot with Coie on Tuesday.

 I love this set up because now I get to stay at Church longer than we usually do (Being the pastor’s family, they stay at Church longer than we do).  I love having fellowship with the people at Church and I value every moment that I get with anyone there. You know how I’m always saying “I REALLY want to move to Maryville”? You’ve probably seen it 20 million times here on my blog. Well, our Church is in Maryville. That’s why I want to move down there so badly. But why I love our Church so much is because I’ve learned an ENORMOUS amount of stuff from the sermons and from the many godly examples set for me. I’ve grown so much closer to God ever since we’ve started coming to this Church. If you ever want to listen to a sermon (or more-after you hear a sermon, believe me, you’ll want to hear another one, and then another one, and then another one…) go to www.GraceMaryville.org Mr. Riser is going through Romans chapter 16 (he is right now but I probably won’t get around to transferring this word doc. to a computer with internet to post this for a while). Some of my favorite sermons are in Romans 12. I got several copies of the sermons and listen to the repeatedly. He packs a LOT of important Much-Need-To-Know stuff in his sermons and he talks fast and so I usually catch some extra stuff when I listen to them again. I wish I could get copies of his sermons on Romans ch.12. I’ll download all of them when we get faster internet. Oh, and I’m so very excited because they (whoever is in charge of the web-site, I think Mr. Walker is, he’s cool) put all of the sermons on the Church site! I just can’t wait for faster internet to download those! :-D

Oh boy, wow, I sure jumped from subject to subject really fast.

Well, now you know why I want to move to Maryville. :-D

Alrighty, now I’ll tell you about the last two weeks (I’m going to load this entry, most people don’t read entries that end up as long as this one will, but that’s ok because the only reason I really have this blog is to keep records and be able to read about stuff I will probably forget in 3 years). The first weekend, Mom and Coie went to Minnesota for a convention that they had to go to for their new job with Rosetta Stone. They left on Thursday and got home on Sunday.  I was so bummed because we didn’t get to go to Church that Sunday. But it’s ok because my friend saved a copy of the sermon for me…but I still missed the fellowship. So while they were gone, Dad worked literally most of the time (he has two jobs, one at night, one during the day). So I babysat my siblings all weekend and we had lots of fun after we got all our school done. We ran around the fireplace (which is a big brick thing that separates the living room from the dining room) 5000 times and then played hide-n-seek in the dark 20000 times, then we watched Mulan 35 times, and then we got ready and went to bed.  Actually, while they watched Mulan I did one of my favorite things to do (you guys can guess what that is if you want). Actually, it was more of a two-things-at-once thing. Dad also bought tub of ice cream and a bunch of candy bars and we chopped up those and mixed them with the ice cream (the way Marble Slab does it). It was really tasty. (I told Mom about this over the phone and she said that they weren’t getting much to eat up there and they’d probably lose 20 pounds and us kids would find it)

We also did a lot of recording. I am making another family video. I need a program with 4-screen to finish it, though.

And then Mom and Coie left the next Thursday and got home that Sunday. We missed Church that Sunday, too. So I’ve had two whole weeks without going to Church. Goodness. It’s hard enough waiting 6 days for Sunday. I’m so happy we’ll be able to make it to Church in two days. I sure wish we could move closer (Yes, that was off subject). We can’t make it to small group Sunday evening, though, because we’re having some great friends over and they’re going to butcher two of our goats (for free, too!).

Hmmm. There was something else I was going to say…ah, got it. I’m now writing for a magazine. The mag is called Godly Girls. I’ve only sent in one thing so far, but the magazine owner wants me to write for them regularly. I get my own column, too. I named it Living for Him. Dying for Him.

Okie doke. This is entry is long enough. I’ll be surprised if you comment and tell me (TRUTHFULLY) that you read the entire thing. :-D                                      

Dear Grandma Sharon,

When we watched Mulan it reminded me of being at your house watching it there. I thought of you the entire time I watched it. Only made me miss you more. How is Grandma Agnes and everybody else? I wish we could come out and see everyone. And go to your house and have Inn-n-Out or something (I'd say Papa Murphy's, but we're so fortunate as to have one out here by our Church now). I've also been thinking about Aunt Lilian a lot lately. I can't remember why, though. I need to get off the computer, now. I've been on long enough. ;-D I love you and I miss you very very very much (bet you did't know that :-p )

-Ryann