Of Busy Weekends and EMT Pinnings

It's going to be a busy weekend!
The children are at mom's house today. Harrison is going to hang out with her while Justin takes Hannah on some errands. I'm doing laundry and getting ready to run to the post office to mail tests and other things.
Oh yes, tests....Hannah and Harrison finished their testing and so we now have a high school junior and a sixth grader. AHhhhh
Tomorrow, I will, most likely, be helping set up for the SIGMA Banquet, which is this Saturday, then a trip to Clover with my friend, Rebecca, and then a graduation in Blacksburg, which I totally forgot about until I was typing this. Shhh, don't tell her. It's going to be a run-run day tomorrow!! lol
Friday is packed with my usual Friday things. Groceries, gassing up the car, running errands.... And then Saturday we'll be cleaning house and getting ready for the banquet.
On Sunday, we will be attending the homecoming at our former church, Liberty. We're looking forward to seeing the people there and having a time of fellowship with them. Then Sunday night is our graduation service. We take time to honor our graduates before the preaching. It's always a great service. And then we'll have a reception for the high school graduates with the youth group.
Congratulations, Raven, Clayton, and James. We look forward to seeing what you do next!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Justin was pinned last night for his EMT. I didn't get to go. But someone took pictures, so here's a few.

Good job, Justin! Keep up the hard work. :)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It looks like some doors are opening for him to do something for the Lord this summer. We're praying about it with him. He's been praying about it for a year or so now. He "laid out his fleece" for June 6th. So keep him in your prayers and we'll see what happens.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Judges 6:37-40, "Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if
the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then
shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said. And it
was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and
wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. And Gideon said unto
God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let
me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only
upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew. And God did so that
night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the
ground."

Banquets and More Banquets!

Justin went to Megan's Junior Senior Banquet at her Christian school this weekend. They looked so nice!

Then Saturday night was his last SIGMA banquet. It was a fun night, but a little depressing for me, knowing he was leaving the youth group already. I just don't know about this growing up stuff!!

Justin was awarded the Pastor's Award, which is given by our Pastor, to the teenager that exhibits leadership to the youth group. It is such a beautiful award. I think this year is the first year they've given an eagle. Just gorgeous!

And he was third in the top ten. So we were proud of him for that.

Way to go, to all the youth that were awarded a certificate and/or trophy Saturday night. You did a great job this year!!

A Little Peek and I'm A Winner!

As you know, we've been working on our Valentine Banquet. The theme this year is Evening In Paris. It's going to be very pretty.

Mom was busy ironing table cloths.

This is my buddy, Kim. She was cutting gossamer....lots and lots of gossamer! But she did take a moment to smile for the camera. :)

This is Tammy C's window. But it does not stand alone. I just don't want to show a pic of the whole thing because it'll give too much away!

This is me under some awnings. One of which needs to be adjusted, I see.

The banquet is going to be so lovely! Can't wait.

OK, I have some cool news! A local steak house in our area was having a Valentine's Day contest for the best essay on how "...you and your love fell in love." I've always liked Bruce and my story anyway, so I thought it would be fun to just tell it to someone else. I wrote my essay and sent it in. Honestly, I had fun doing it, but I figured there would be so many people writing in for that free meal I probably wouldn't win. It was several weeks ago and truthfully I had forgotten all about it.

Well, yesterday when I came home from working at the church, Hannah stepped outside to tell me that this particular steak house called. At first I was wondering why they would be calling and then it dawned on me it must be because of the essay. I was right! I WON! I never win anything!!!

I was so excited. The manager just went on and on about our story and how it had them laughing in one place and little teary-eyed in others. She said they (the staff) voted unanimously that we should win.

So Friday night my Valentine and I will be having a romantic dinner for two. The manager said to call an hour before we came because they wanted to go the extra mile for us and they couldn't wait to meet us.

Now how cool is that?