Finally! CYIA pictures!

fat Derek :-P

Erica snoozing either during class or chapel

Late night staff volleyball


Kyle and Mr. Hayden in concert!



Staff volleyball....again...

This is the handpainting class that Lesley and I taught

Rachel and Grace!! (My most favorite Grace in the whole world!)

Me and my favorite team-mate ever!!! I love you Frankie (Anna)!!!

Sam, Nicole, Frankie, Nick, Paul and me de-boning chicken

here's us again

scary Ashley. lolus staff girls peeling potatoes again...
Miranda got a nasty cut on the potatoe slicer and was having the staff sign her bandage. :-P

My Angel!!! It was so fun babysitting Arianna! What a doll. ; )

Me N' Miranda

Nick, Micah, Lane, Joel, Sam B, Stephen, and Chris studying guy style

Lane teaching Joel a thing or two. ; )
Mr. Hayden and Stephen goofing off


Betsy girl! : )
Josiah was SOO beating Mr. Hayden! ; )
Stephen, Chris, Lane, and Caleb (Katie's sweetheart....awwww!!) lol

He's "Nate Taken" .......now "Nate Married" : D


Liz, my roomie and Eliza K. Mr. Hayden sitting in his signiture seat


Rachel and Brittany...some more roomies!!


This is when some of the guys had to clean the girl's dorm bathrooms/halls

cause they umm...talked after lights out. : D

Nick mopping the halls

Gabriel "cleaning" on top of the girls' bathroom stalls
I have no clue what Zach and Nick were doing here...


Lata after giving a practicum to Heidi...

Jessie and I got away and went off to Rachel and Nicole's room during the

student class time and gave each other a bunch of practicums. It was so fun!!

This is a pretty picture of the Administration building... what a gorgeous chick!!! Love you Ellie!
Miranda and Kalai
babysitting time again

Arianna drinks water 24/7!

If I let her, she would drink like 2 quarts in an hour or so!

Me and...JESSIE!!! I miss you girl!!!!

jfyi (just for your info), my hair was in pigtails for a skit.

I don't normally go around wearing my hair in such an unflattering way. :-P

whew! it's sure hot in here! lol
Tiffany babysitting Arianna. The camp queen.

She was spoiled rotten by all of us staff girls for two weeks straight!

Miranda working reallllly hard on her Bible-lesson-from-scratch.

Thankfully I took TCE 1 last year so it was pretty easy for me

and I got mine done real quick so I could help her.

~CUTENESS~

Lesley was an adorable monkey : )

Sam, Nicole, Lesley, Miranda, Ashley, and Anna Balt.

Anna with her cute parrot

I was supposed to look like an tribal indian warrior/head hunter....but after Dan, Sam, and Nate were finished painting my face, I looked much more like a smilie, friendly clown. argh. SO not the look I was going for. We split all of the students up into groups and the "head hunters" (staff) had to chase them around and try to tag them before the team would touch their snake plate. This was the team that I stalked. : D
Nobody can see you when you hide behind a thick tree like that, Stephen! *rolls eyes*
Lane and Betsy head hunting for stragglers....

Dan, Nate and Josiah waited back at the out post for teams to check up.

I guess Jake is resting cause he was supposed to be out there chasing everybody

like Lane, Stephen, Betsy and I had to!


OK, these are all the pictures I have time to go through and mess with for now, but there are lots more fun ones coming...!!

Please leave comments!

Ok so I'm gonna like just say the same thing Alatheia said on her blog tonight. Tomorrow morning I'm leaving to go to CYIA for two weeks and won't be back until the 21st and then I'll be busy writing my grad thank you notes. : ) So it'll be awhile till I post again. I don't know why you all don't get Bloglines!! seriously! It's like the best thing ever for people who have their favorite blogs that they like to check at least once every day. All you have to do is create an account (set up your e-mail and password) and then add all of your favorite blogs to your Bloglines list! Now instead of spending all that time visiting each persons blog, you only have to go to Bloglines and it will show you the blogs that have updated since you checked it last. Believe me, it saves a LOT of time! You can't leave comments on any certain blog post when viewing it from the Bloglines page, but all you have to do is click on the name of the blog at the top of the page and it gets you right to that certain blog. Please people get Bloglines! Then all the comments such as, "I keep checking your blog, Grace, and you never update!" or "how many times am I going to have to check your blog and see that horrible picture up there?!", will go away. See, it's simple. Bloglines is a frustration eliminator.
So, getting back on subject here....
Please write me while at CYIA!! I love mail! ................and packages too! : D
My address while there will be:

% Nebraska Christian School

1847 Inskip Ave

Central City, NE 68826

Thanks everybody!!

oh and PS!! I can check for comments that you might leave on any of my posts on my phone, so you can leave me public messages that way too! : )

Today...

Today was a so-so day...
I didn't get any packing done. : ( I still have 13 days of packing to get done and I only have tomorrow afternoon and evening to do it!
There were some bright spots, and some not so bright spots in my day though.
My most "un-brightest" spot was while I was at Beasleys watching Grandma Ann from 11:30-1:30 and everything was going just dandy....until Dan came home and found one of the bording dogs was out. Dan was able to get him to come into the house ok, but then it was like he just realized what he had just gotten himself into and he wanted out real bad. But I wouldn't let him out, so that dumb dog sat directly in the doorway wet his pants...on my foot and everywhere else in the 3 ft vacinity. (trying to say this in the most polite way possible). So, enough said. That was my un-favorite moment..... :-P


My favorite moment was getting to cater at a a really pretty wedding reception tonight. It was lovely! The bride was so gorgeous that she could have modeled in one of those bridal magazines!! I'm serious! The groom was the tall-dark-and-handsome kind, so that's always nice. :-P *rolls eyes* Anyway, the bride's dress was sooooooooo pretty. It looked like something that came right out of one of those magazines I keep talking about! So yeah, they had the works. A jockey, several disco balls, etc. But I was so happy cause they had a dollar dance!! It was so fun to watch! But my most lovely part of the evening was during the first dance. The bride danced with her daddy and the jockey played the song "I Loved Her First"! It is the sweetest song!!
Here, I posted the lyrics below:

I LOVED HER FIRST

Look at the two of you dancing that way

Lost in the moment and each others face

So much in love your alone in this place

Like there's nobody else in the world

I was enough for her not long ago

I was her number one

She told me so

And she still means the world to me

Just so you know

So be careful when you hold my girl

Time changes everything

Life must go on

And I'm not gonna stand in your way

But I loved her first and I held her first

And a place in my heart will always be hers

From the first breath she breathed

When she first smiled at me

I knew the love of a father runs deep

And I prayed that she'd find you someday

But it still hard to give her away

I loved her first

How could that beautiful woman with you

Be the same freckle face kid that I knew

The one that I read all those fairy tales to

And tucked into bed all those nights

And I knew the first time I saw you with her

It was only a matter of time

But I loved her first and I held her first

And a place in my heart will always be hers

From the first breath she breathed

When she first smiled at me

I knew the love of a father runs deep

And I prayed that she'd find you someday

But its still hard to give her away

I loved her first

From the first breath she breathed

When she first smiled at me

I knew the love of a father runs deep

Someday you might know what I'm going through

When a miracle smiles up at you

I loved her first

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So that kinda sums up my day. I'd better hit the sack. I have a long day tomorrow!! If I don't get a chance tomorrow to post my already made up and saved posts, I'll say good bye now! See you again in 3-4 weeks! I'm off to CYIA first thing Monday morning!!!!

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PS!! woah! wait a minute! I think that sirens going off and "almost" having a tornado sweep through your neighborhood at 2:30am and having to have the whole family huddle under the stairs is a pretty close 1st "un-favorite" part of my day! I know it's 3:31am, so I'll let you all go and I'm finally going to go to bed. I just might be lucky and get 4 or 5 hours of sleep tonight. I don't like life threatening storms!! :-P