Make the most of this time...

God has appointed this season in your life for a reason,

so make the best out of it and use it as an opportunity to grow.

As you depend on Him, He will give you strength to endure

and will give you reason to enjoy your life!

-Written by "Emily"

(...found this encouraging note from a blog that I read frequently. Hope the author doesn't mind that I used it. ; )

Photo shoot of Lesley...

It was a lovely, cool morning
on the way to club in Nebraska City and Miranda, Lesley and I stopped to pick wildflowers.
There was a gentle breeze making the tall grass wave,
so I snapped a few pictures of Lesley.
Here they are...

Ok, so it's been awhile since I've updated so I thought I'd just let ya all know kinda what's going on with me. It's been pretty crazy around here. With being gone from home working for Susie 2-3 days a week and the days I'm home, I'm teaching 5-day clubs, life sometimes seems a little hectic.



Thursday (tomorrow), I'm packing and getting ready to be gone a whole week at Shudaks teaching clubs.


Friday morning Nicole is picking me up and we're headed down to KS for the Amelia Earhart festival that goes Friday-Saturday. That should be pretty busy, thankfully the Ulmers; Esther, Elizabeth, Tabitha, and Mr. Ulmer are are planning on helping us out both days down there!



Sunday, depending on whether Nicole and I will be meeting up with Emily Weddle for lunch or not....we'll either be in church or we won't.



Sunday later afternoon, 4:30pm, I leave for Shudaks. Sunday thru either Friday night or Sat morning. I'm not sure yet.



Monday-Friday: 3-4 clubs a day. Please keeps Lesley, Ashley, Miranda, Meghann, Liz B., and myself in your prayers!



Friday or Sat. come home. Go to church Sunday. Leave Sunday afternoon with Nicole and Alatheia to Falls City to stay (2nd year in a row : D ) with Nicole's grandma to teach clubs.



Monday-Friday: teach 2-3 clubs with Nicole and Lata



Saturday morning: Get home in the nick of time to leave again for Saylorville, IA (2 or 3 hours away) for my cousin's wedding that is at 1pm.



Club week of August 4-8, really busy! Lots of clubs here in Omaha! : D



Hopefully, the next week (13-19) I'll be at Betsy D.'s!!! : ))) ....doing fun things like the Iowa State Fair...maybe Adventure Land? ....hanging with Rachel and Colin? ...some of the more fun things to do!

kind of a pathetic post, I know, but I thought I'd share a bit of my life with you!

P.S. I won't be probably posting again till August sometime...unless I get a bug to do it in all my free-time at either Shudaks or in Falls City. :-P *rolls eyes*

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...!!

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