Going crazy

So this week is absolutely crazy! Bobby is off camping with Mikey and Joey until Friday so I'm helping Uncle Steve in the flower shop all week. Things are crazy there. We have to big weddings on Saturday and a TON of funeral work! Apparently somebody really popular died because we have 13 orders for his funeral alone! So Uncle Steve is having to stay late tonight and do all those orders because he has to have them at the funeral by 1 tomorrow. It's crazy! And Today doing deliveries was fun. Two of the service elevators at BSA aren't working so by the time i got told that and figured out that the only one working was REALLY slow i had wasted 5 minutes. Then i got on the visitor elevators which are way faster. But the first delivery i had, the person wasn't there any more. So then i went to make the other one only to discover i had dropped the bow somewhere. So i called Uncle Steve and he found on the ground outside of the van. So I left the plant at the reception desk and went down and left the other delivery at the van and took the card back up. Then i found out it was in the new wing. But the nice nurse offered to take it over there for me because she was going that. I was so thankful for that. The rest of the time at the shop i was busy sweeping and taking boxes ans stuff out to the dumpster because we got a lot of orders in. *sighs* it was hectic. Tomorrow I'm Babysitting and Aunt Laura is going to help uncle Steve by taking deliveries after Kaytie's gymnastics. It will definitely be an interesting day and rest of the week. Oh and on Saturday I have a car wash for our basketball team ( it's at Chick Fil A the one by the walmart come by if you need your car washed!) the same day as the weddings. So bobby is going to have to help Uncle Steve with those. and then later that night we have to go to some kind of reach team thing. fun. I'm probably going to be so tired I'll fall asleep during it.

Chrysalis #104

The Chrysalis was AWESOME!!! God worked in soo many peoples lives! Not just the caterpillars. IT was sooo cool to see how God works in peoples lives. All of those girls are so special and it was amazing to see them finally understand how much God loves them! I will be praying for all of you! you guys rock! The weekend truly was life changing. We had several girls get saved and you could just see in their faces the way they glowed.... it was soo awesome! The weekend changed my life also. what is soo cool is that what i really needed to hear came from a caterpillar. It blew me away. I'm going to start living like i should. I know I've said that before and well.. I'm only human. But i know that i have people who will keep me to it this time. The team was awesome as well! They were there for me when i needed them. I love all you guys! But most of all I love GOD! He is so amazing and i know that no matter what I struggle with from now He'll be there. :)

Flowers and Life

So i went to work today and learned a spiritual lesson. Uncle Steve was teaching me how to design an arrangement. I was a little nervous because i was afraid that i would mess up so badly he'd have to throw away the flowers ( i'm not very good at cutting the steams). So while i was trying to design a thought came to me " as long as i do the arrangement from the instructions he gives me it will turn out alright." And then i realized how true that is in life. If we only would follow God's instructions then everything would turn out alright. But so many times we try to design our lives the way we think they should be. when really the way we are designing it, it will fall apart in a few hours. Just like arrangements. If you don't put the flowers in right then the flowers will start falling out and then you have a big mess. I've made a lot of "designing errors" in my life. So many times I've tried to do something my way and then watch it fall apart. But then when i do it God's way, it's so much better. Who knew that you could learn something from flowers?

Chrysalis

So I'm working a Chrysalis this weekend. It's going to be awesome! I get to be an Assistant Lay Director which is a very ummm how shall i put this? stressful job. I just hope i don't mess something up. Because i get to ring the bell to let everyone know when it's time to go or leave. Thankfully i won't be in charge of the watch though. KK is handling that. The only part that really stinks about me getting to go is that i am going to miss camp. :( The Chrysalis is the 10th to the 13th. It will end around 6:00pm. Camp is from the 13th to the 19th. They are leaving for camp around 1 pm on the 13th. If it wasn't for that and the money, i could go! So I'm not going to see them for a week and a half! *sigh* i suppose I'll survive. What really, really stinks though is that that same week Courtney is going to camp! But i guess God has a plan for this. I'm just going to have to wait and see

Ear pierced!

Today i got my ears pierced. YAY!!! It's pretty cool. It hurt when she first put it in my ear. But after about a minute the pain went away and it was ok. Getting them pierced was more expensive than we thought though. I thought that it was only going to be $14 because i'd seen promotional signs around the store before. So i agreed to pay $7, and my parents would pay $7. But as it turns out it was $38!!! So my parents wound up paying $31. Which kind of shocked us. We should've asked first how much it cost. But by that time my ears were all ready pierced, so it was too late. At least they're pierced now.
Bobby and I have been working at Zelsman's Florist for my Uncle Steve. We trade off days. We sweep the floors, scrub buckets, clean out the cooler, deliver flowers ( he drives we take the flowers in) and do whatever else needs to be done. It's a pretty good job. We get paid $10 a day. Which is more than i've ever been paid for a job. I'm learning a lot about flowers. They have the weirdest names! I can't even spell or pronounce most of them. You'd think they would name them something everyone can remember, but nooo! They have to think of THE most complicated names possible! Like on blooming plant names nepthitis. Who's going to rememember that?! The only reason i remember what's called is because it's a pretty popular plant and Uncle Steve uses it a lot.
I'll try to write more often now, but no promises!

Work

So lately I've been trying to decide where to apply for a job. I'm definitely NOT interested in fast food. I have some friends that work at McDonald's and they absolutely hate it. So i don't know if i want to apply somewhere at the mall or the library. They both have pros and cons but they are still way better that fast food. But since my uncle has offered my a job doing random stuff for him i don't think I'll worry about it too much. I'm soooooo enthused that Courtney gets to come! And it's only going to cost $232 for a round trip airplane ticket! We already have half that much. But Donations are accepted, we'll take checks but cash is preferable.

Sierra Jensen and Sage

So lately i've been reading the Sierra Jensen Series. It's pretty good. It's about a teen girl and her life. I can really relate to what she is going through. I can't wait to get the next volume from the library!! i also wouldn't mind getting those books as a birthday or Christmas present (hint hint). My trip last weekend to Sage was really good. I got to know the girls and ladies from my church better. I also decided to rededicate my life to Christ. It's hard to follow Him! But so worth it. :)

School

Now i have to go back to doing school. blah. It was nice that i got a two week vacation off, when i was only supposed to get one. But the week after nationals all of us were just wiped out! I can't wait till the banquet! It's going to be soo much fun! Our basketball is going to make a slide show of pics from nationals for the banquet. It should be fun.

nationals

Nationals went pretty good. We got 4th in the 2A bracket, which is pretty good for our first time going. It was a lot of fun. There were 2 cabins and a lodge. The boys slept in one of the cabins and us girls divided between the other cabin and the lodge. Haley, Candace, and I slept in the cabin while the rest of the girls slept in the lodge. Cammy's mom stayed with us for one night, but had to move to the lodge because she wasn't feeling good and the lodge had a bathroom. So my mom stayed with us. We won our first game against the Victoria Cobras. They were really nice. Our second game was against team USA red and they beat us. We didn't have games on wednesday because that was when the showcase was held. It was the all american teams adn the 3 point and slam dunk contests. On Thursday we played the HSAA Dallas Blue Angels and they beat 42 to 45. It was close. On Friday we Played team USA red and we beat them. But that night Candace and Cammy had to leave so we were left with only 6 girls for the next game. And I didn't know if i could play or not. I got to play some but not much. Then during the game T.K rolled her ankle again and she had to sit out for the rest of the game. So for most of the game there were only 4 girls in. They did really well. But we still got beat bad. it was 59 to 11 and I was high point with 4. IT was a really fun week. i can't wait till next year!

Nationals today!

Well the fundraiser yesterday went ok. It was cold though so by the time we closed, we were numb. But we got $110 in donations alone! We'll know sometime after next week how much we earned. We leave today and i'm sooooo excited!! I hope that dale doesn't preach long because i'm going to have a hard time concentrating!! Please pray that nobody gets injured, that we all get along, and that we have a safe trip. thanks.

Kettle Corn

Tomrrow is the kettle corn fundraiser. I just hope it's not cold tomorrow otherwise we are going to be miserable!! And by the end of the day i'm probably going to be sick of kettle corn! Only 2 more days!! YAY!! I just wish it was here already! Yesterday the news guy came. it was pretty cool. Candace and T.K talked on camera, but we had to make them. It will come on Sunday night after we leave! So if somebody could tape it, that would be awesome! It will be on channel 4.

The Scrimmage

The Scrimmage was awesome!! We only lost to the guys by 3 baskets! and we would have beaten them, but we let them score a couple times. But then dad had us do 3 minutes drills against them and we tied them the first time (thanks to a half court shot by candace. it was awesome!!) and then the next time we beat them!!!! It was really cool. T.K got hurt though so we are praying that she will still be able to go to nationals. Tomorrow a news crew from channel 4 is supposed to come out and do a story on us so are all really nervous!!! Only 4 more days till we leave!! Please pray that no one else gets hurts.

Practice

Well it snowed but it didn't last long :( Today is the last time we will scrimmage the Varsity guys at practice. We are definitley going to make it hard for them to win this time!!! Even if they have beaten us pretty bad all the other times lol. We had a really good practice yesterday so hopefully todays's will be good too. We can't wait till SUNDAY!! We have a fundraiser this saturday at Market Street. It starts at 9 and we will be thre till 5. so if you want to deop by and by some kettle corn we'd love to see you!

Kids say the funniest things...

I love baby sitting. You never know what the kids will come up with next. I was showing the kids some pictures on my phone and one of Uncle Kevin came up. I asked Kaytie "do you know who that is?". She said " no" and i told it her it was uncle Kevin. She said" oh uncle Kevin, he cracks me up." I almost busted out laughing. It was hilarious.