June 3, 2008

• Hi all!!
  
  Hope everyone is doing well.  Life is just flying by.  I keep thinking that I will have a quiet moment, but no moments come. Just run here, do that, run there, do this….  pausing only long enough to throw dinner on the table and have a nice family meal — at least we have that going for us!!! 
  
  Yesterday was a very, very busy day! 
  
  To church early for worship rehearsal — this wouldn’t have been so difficult, but my alarm didn’t go off — we thankfully woke up at 7am, but it to have the time we needed, we should have been up at 6:30. So we were in a mad dash to get ready (4 of us needed to shower), make breakfast, pack lunch (our church has a big picnic every week after church), and stick dinner in the crock pot for later on as we were going to be on the run and needed to stop in quickly for a bite!! Out the door with all that done by 7:50am. PTL!!!!
  
  Myself and a couple of the girls worked in the nursery for both the Sunday School time and Worship Service time.  Gracie really wanted to help out, but she had started feeling bad the afternoon before, so I told her no.  She actually was feeling really bad during church, so she just laid down outside on the grass outside where I work in the nursery.   Thought maybe she was running a fever, but couldn’t find my thermometer before we left.
  
  After church scrambling around to do things that needed to get done, and then a short youth worship rehearsal for next Friday’s Youth meeting, which I choked down my tuna sandwich through, and recharged myself with some diet pepsi.
  
  Finally — a moment to sit and fellowship at probably 1:15 or so, although I was fellowshipping and working on a bible study I needed to finish for a meeting we had later in the afternoon. But still a chance to sit and Gracie seemed to be doing better.
  
  Steve and I serve on our youth ministry team and we had a meeting at 3pm yesterday – so we left from church about 10 after 2, dropped the girls off at home and then (after maybe 5 minutes) headed to the meeting. That went until 5:10 — we zipped home (5:30), slammed down dinner (thankfully done in the crock!) and then at 6:45 off to an AWANA awards ceremony for my two younger girls — it’s at a neighborhood church near us.
  
  My friend, Sandy, that serves in the AWANA ministry called me a few days prior to let me know that Gracie was receiving an award, so to be sure to come — Gracie didn’t know she was getting an award and Sandy didn’t tell us what award it was – so it would be a surprise for us all.  During the ceremony Gracie started to feel really bad — now I’m sure she was running a fever, because she warm (I always “take” my kids temperature by feeling just below the nap of their neck on their back — usually if that’s hot, there’s a fever!). I didn’t think she was going to make it through the ceremony!
  
  We get to the special awards part and they call Gracie up for the “God’s Princess of the Year” award.  This was an award that the Girl’s club leader picks (for those of you who know AWANA this would be the Girl of the Year award).
   
  
  
  Here she is receiving her award. This is her and the Girl’s Club Leader, Miss Gloria.
  
  She was thrilled, although, feeling really bad…
  
  To our surprise that was not the only award she got — she also got the highest award “Workmen of the Year” which is chosen out of all the kids in AWANA at that church by the leader of the AWANA program.
  
  
  Here she is receiving her award. This is her and Leader of the AWANA program, Miss Honeybee.
  
  They both said that Gracie was always willing and offering to help in any way each week, and the first to befriend a new AWANA member, that she would drop everything if someone needed something and concentrate on their need, was compassionate, kind, and had a servants heart.  Gracie was sooooooo surprised by both awards.  We are thankful to God for the girl He is forming in her and for her love for the Lord and for others!!!!
  
  So afterwards, even though Gracie wasn’t feeling well, we all wanted to go out and celebrate – so we went to Spire’s for dessert.  Since we all only slammed down a bit of dinner we were a bit hungry too, so we (crazy family we are) ordered hot fudge Sundaes, french fries and an appetizer platter (with fried zucchini, fried cheese, chicken strips and onion rings).  Talk about junk food!!!!  I have to say, though, it was quite tasty!!!!!!
  
  Gracie’s fever was rising at the restaurant, so I gave her some advil and we headed home.  I finally found the thermometer — She’s running 103.6 today.  Has a cough, stuffy nose, and sore throat… hope it’s not the flu (El and I had it in February, but everyone else escaped it!!).  She’s been lying around all day, poor thing!
  
  I was outside BBQ’ing and took some pictures of our kitties — they are getting BIG!!  They are about 16 weeks now.
  
  
  This is Ariel (I call her Ariee).  She’s our hissy kitty.  Everything scares her!!  She loves to climb in my office chair behind me and sleep.
  
  
  This is Wiakiki — we call her Kiki for short.  Ellie named her that because she reminds her of white sand.  She is our mouser and our curious kitty.  She also just loves to climb the the bushes and plumerias in our yard.
  
  

  
  This Kona — she is our very loving and cuddly kitty.  When ever you need a friend — she is there!!
  
  The kitties are so curious it just cracks us up.  Here is Ariee looking at a gopher whole.  She will stick her whole arm down the hole in an attempt to swat at something — it’s really funny to watch
  
   
   

  

  You can’t tell but she’s got her whole arm down the hole here! teehee….
  
  Oh well, that’s about it — my book post!!!
  
  Ciao!
  ~Di
  

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