Pickles is sooooooooo the name of the game, Shelly
Heaveno everyone!!!!!!!!!!
So my day at TAFA was nice, my lesson is now at 9:15 in the morning because of (DUN DUN DUN) baseball. Seriously guys. My life and my family's life revolves around other people's baseball. First David and Daniel, now Josh, Sam and Harry. GOSH. Crazy baseball freaks.
I absolutely cannot play pianissimo or fortissimo on the flute. I can play forte, mf, mp, and piano. I cannot play pp or ff. It is not cool. And it means a lot of boring, boring work on my part. Not fun, but the end result is too good to not put forth the effort. I will be an unbeatable player of the flute if I can do this. Oh man guys.
Choir was good, I was like amazingly beautiful on the whole Gloria run where we go from a D to a B to a G...and it's all eighth notes and stuff and really high. And I actually sounded good instead of awful this time. So yay for me!!! VERY hopefully choir contest will be on Friday night instead of Saturday night. Otherwise I will most definitely not be going on the campout. There is a good chance I'll make it out there Saturday afternoon...but that will only happen if I am done with contest completely by about noon. Which I should be, but you just don't ever, ever know. So pray!
Oh my, how I miss Franky. I so miss him. I realllllllly, really bad want to see him this summer. And now I find out that there may be a Taiwan trip!!!!!!!!!! HOW AWESOME WOULD THAT BE!!!!!!!!!! Yet a tad on the expensive side...I don't know if I can realistically shell out one or two grand for it. So I kinda hope it doesn't happen because I probably won't get to do it. But seriously guys, please, please, PLEASE pray that Andrew will get to come home this summer. I really badly want him to.
AND BRIAN WILL MOST LIKELY BE HOME FOR THE WHOLE SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is such the exciting news.
Whew, I am almost overwhelmed by all this church stuff that is happening. Operation 100, the Kids Choir thingy on Thursday, all the stuff I am responsible for...my goodness, it is a lot. But it is so amazing. I'm so PUMPED about Operation 100. You all MUST be there. Wednesday, April 27, I think it starts at 6:30 or 7. Be there or miss out on a truly awesome worship service.
So today me and Mindy tried to go to Daniel's game but the guy was charging us two bucks to get in and Mindy was like um, no. So we left but then David came and picked Mindy up but I did not go. And it was a realllllly good game too or so I heard. When Mindy left it was 11-10 Angels...did they win or not???????? Quite the nail-biter of a game.
BSF tonight was better than usual. Miss Challis wasn't there cuz she'd had some kind of surgery, so it was just Miss Bates and a volunteer. So it was better than usual. It was kind of an answer to prayer, cuz I'd mentioned it at the coffeehouse thingy at David's on Saturday (which was so amazingly fun except for the whole Alex thing...EEEEEEEW!), and we'd prayed about it, and then it was just answered simply. God is amazing like that.
And it is amazing how much strength He can give you. He can give you the strength to take huge leaps, and He can give you the strength for only baby steps, but He gives you strength. I prayed for it today and I received it. He is so amazing.
All of a sudden I am soooooooo tired. Time to go nighty-night. Here's my lovely parting shot.
If, when you are on the beach, you should happen to see--
No, I'm not going to put that image in your innocent minds.
Up at the head table in the cafeteria, one of the nuns had placed a big bowl of bright red, fresh, juicy apples. Beside the bowl, she placed a note which read, "Take only one. Remember, God is watching."
At the other end of the table was a bowl full of freshly-baked chocolate chip cookies, still warm from the oven.
Beside the bowl, a little note scrawled in a child's handwriting which read, "Take all you want. God's watching the apples."
Children are so wise. Beyond their years, really. Take Nelson, for instance. Seriously guys.
FAREWELL.
So my day at TAFA was nice, my lesson is now at 9:15 in the morning because of (DUN DUN DUN) baseball. Seriously guys. My life and my family's life revolves around other people's baseball. First David and Daniel, now Josh, Sam and Harry. GOSH. Crazy baseball freaks.
I absolutely cannot play pianissimo or fortissimo on the flute. I can play forte, mf, mp, and piano. I cannot play pp or ff. It is not cool. And it means a lot of boring, boring work on my part. Not fun, but the end result is too good to not put forth the effort. I will be an unbeatable player of the flute if I can do this. Oh man guys.
Choir was good, I was like amazingly beautiful on the whole Gloria run where we go from a D to a B to a G...and it's all eighth notes and stuff and really high. And I actually sounded good instead of awful this time. So yay for me!!! VERY hopefully choir contest will be on Friday night instead of Saturday night. Otherwise I will most definitely not be going on the campout. There is a good chance I'll make it out there Saturday afternoon...but that will only happen if I am done with contest completely by about noon. Which I should be, but you just don't ever, ever know. So pray!
Oh my, how I miss Franky. I so miss him. I realllllllly, really bad want to see him this summer. And now I find out that there may be a Taiwan trip!!!!!!!!!! HOW AWESOME WOULD THAT BE!!!!!!!!!! Yet a tad on the expensive side...I don't know if I can realistically shell out one or two grand for it. So I kinda hope it doesn't happen because I probably won't get to do it. But seriously guys, please, please, PLEASE pray that Andrew will get to come home this summer. I really badly want him to.
AND BRIAN WILL MOST LIKELY BE HOME FOR THE WHOLE SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is such the exciting news.
Whew, I am almost overwhelmed by all this church stuff that is happening. Operation 100, the Kids Choir thingy on Thursday, all the stuff I am responsible for...my goodness, it is a lot. But it is so amazing. I'm so PUMPED about Operation 100. You all MUST be there. Wednesday, April 27, I think it starts at 6:30 or 7. Be there or miss out on a truly awesome worship service.
So today me and Mindy tried to go to Daniel's game but the guy was charging us two bucks to get in and Mindy was like um, no. So we left but then David came and picked Mindy up but I did not go. And it was a realllllly good game too or so I heard. When Mindy left it was 11-10 Angels...did they win or not???????? Quite the nail-biter of a game.
BSF tonight was better than usual. Miss Challis wasn't there cuz she'd had some kind of surgery, so it was just Miss Bates and a volunteer. So it was better than usual. It was kind of an answer to prayer, cuz I'd mentioned it at the coffeehouse thingy at David's on Saturday (which was so amazingly fun except for the whole Alex thing...EEEEEEEW!), and we'd prayed about it, and then it was just answered simply. God is amazing like that.
And it is amazing how much strength He can give you. He can give you the strength to take huge leaps, and He can give you the strength for only baby steps, but He gives you strength. I prayed for it today and I received it. He is so amazing.
All of a sudden I am soooooooo tired. Time to go nighty-night. Here's my lovely parting shot.
If, when you are on the beach, you should happen to see--
No, I'm not going to put that image in your innocent minds.
Up at the head table in the cafeteria, one of the nuns had placed a big bowl of bright red, fresh, juicy apples. Beside the bowl, she placed a note which read, "Take only one. Remember, God is watching."
At the other end of the table was a bowl full of freshly-baked chocolate chip cookies, still warm from the oven.
Beside the bowl, a little note scrawled in a child's handwriting which read, "Take all you want. God's watching the apples."
Children are so wise. Beyond their years, really. Take Nelson, for instance. Seriously guys.
FAREWELL.