Dec. 8, 2008 - Wow!
It's been quite a while since I've been on here and there are several reasons.
1. Aim has had alot of presentations and service projects. This last Saturday I helped build a float for the Branson Adoration Parade (where the theme is always keeping Christ in Christmas.) Then last night we ( My brothers J, JM and I) put the float together and decorated it in about an hour and a half, marched in a parade ( in old fashioned clothes, and (for me) an old fashioned hairdo. After the parade we tore down the float went back to the office and sorted out everything and packed it in the vans and left ( in the process I about twisted my ankle).
2. School. We just got our math Friday. And we're kind of behind on lessons (because of all the days we have had to take off for AIM). And (drum roll)...
3. 50th wedding Aniversary Celebration. My Grangparents have planned a Reception for Branson, AND a celebration in Indiana where they will renew their vows ( my grandma didn't think renewing theirs vows was a good idea till grandpa had a heart attack (in June of 2005). I am choreographing a flag/ ballet routine, and signing to the hymn "Now Thank We All Our God" for me and my little sister. Just to give perspective there are 16 grandchildren who rang in ages from 16 years to 9 months. And the flag routine has to be easy enough for the younger but Hard enough that the 4 of us who are teens don't feel like little kids. Another hard part about it is 4 of my cousins won't be at the Reception here but will be in Indiana (if the youngest gets out of the hospital in time, he has the flu.) The ballet is for My sister and I and it will be interspersed with the flag routine (because it is all to the same song).
One good thing that has come from all this is that we have been given money for clothes, school stuff, the rental car, and the hotel room. Thanks to a very special person. I only ave a little of the flag routine done and none of the signing or ballet ready.
So I guess this is all a huge prayer request for me and my family that we will survive the holiday season (My grandparents anniversary is Dec. 26, and we leave the 26 or 27) (because the Reception in Indiana is the 29th of Dec.) Mom, J, and I still don't have our entire dressy outfits for the Receptions. We will be in the car for a while and even though it is a 15 passanger van and there are only 9 of us in the car it will be hard considering that 7 of us are all under the ages of 16. If you could just pray that would be a blessing espically for traveling mercies, because we will be driving back New Years Eve.
I probably won't get around to writing till after Jan. 14 because that ends birthday week at our house (Mo, J, JM were all born within 8 days of eachother although they are all two years apart.) So until then I am signing off.
