Hi all.  I seemed to have fallen off the xanga earth for a while now, but I'm back.  Just a very busy March!!

My girls performed at the Westminster (our city) 50th year celebration.  Here are some pictures:

    
 

I love this song I have now playing on my site! Especially the first verse.

Hear Me Calling, Great Redeemer

As I walk Lord
Through the valley
Hold my hand
Hold my trembling hand
If I stumble
By the wayside
In Your strength
help me stand

The sparks fly upward
while the wind blows
like a spirit
lost upon the sea
I am torn, Lord
Born to trouble
I am blind
I am weak

Hear me calling, Great Redeemer
At the foot of Your dark cross
Where You suffered
For the sinner
bleeding, dying for the lost

Go before me
Through the valley
Speak to me
For I know Your voice
Bring me homeward
Gentle Shepherd
God of love
God of grace

~Di

Did any of you catch any of that dumb show last night (The Jesus Tomb)?  We put it on (it was DVR'd) as we were going to bed, so I didn't make it through much of it (maybe 10 minutes before I fell asleep) -- but the first 20 seconds was all I really needed to see.  They had a couple of paragraphs to read at the beginning of the show -- not read out loud, mind you, you had to read it... it said "basically" that there was nothing proven in this documentary however, they will leave it up to your intellegence  and wise intellect (those might have not been the words they used, but that is what they were conveying) to figure out what the truth is -- it should have read, what their "truth" is.

Also, I did some deep cleaning to my bedroom.  It's the room in the house that gets the least picking up and everything that doesn't have a place get's put in there.  So this weekend I made a point to find everything a place that was in my room!!! Yea!

I told a couple of my friends that I would post some pictures of it -- so here it is!

One last thing... I found this on another friend's site -- being from the "Pong" age, I thought it was very cleaver and funny!!!

Have a great week!!!

~Dianemarie

Hi all.

I know Easter is not for two months, but, well, you can never start celebrating the Risen Savior too early!!  We should be celebrating it every day.

I absolutely love this picture.  I love the expression on her face!

 

~Dianemarie

Hi all...

Sorry I haven't updated in a while.  I have been trying to concentrate on some other things lately.  And... I just really don't have much to say.

Things have been going ok.  The girls' dance schedule just got a bit more busy.  Elizabeth and Valerie pretty much have dance each night of the week, except Wednesday.  Julie has it three nights and Grace has it one.  I've had to juggle the schedule so that we still can all have dinner together each night, however Tuedays is a lost cause.  The classes start 4:30 and end at 9:30: 4:30 beginning ballet (ages 5 - 9) Val (assistant) & Grace , 5:30 beginning & Intermediate ballet (ages 10 - teen) Val & Julie , 6:30 - 9:30 Contemporary, Advanced Ballet, Pointe Ellie & Val.   There is just not a time when we are all together on that night.   I just found out that the ballet teacher that teaches the 6:30 - 9:30 class does not get to eat before she arrives (She goes to school full time at UCI and comes straight from classes ) so since I bring food for Val at 6:30, I decided to bring some food for the teacher too -- I mean, what's one more serving....

The Julie also takes Tap (Monday) and Beginning Jazz (Thursday).  Val also helps in Julie's tap class and takes an intermediate Tap *Thrusday) and helps in a tiny tot ballet class (Monday).  Both Ellie and Val help out in a Hula/Polyneasian (ages 4 - 12) class (Fridays).  And Ellie takes an Advanced Jazz class (Thursday) and, for aerobic and to up her endurance, also takes a Hip Hop class (Monday).

In this, we are blessed for two reasons.  The owner doesn't offer sibling discounts, but just offered it to me since my girls and myself help out so much and also the studio is only a mile a way so going back and forth only takes about 5 or less minutes.

Well on a completely different note -- here is something silly I saw on Stargazingtoo's site.

1. YOUR REAL NAME:
Diane Marie Bartosch

2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle.)
Barizzle

3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (fav color and fav animal)
Pink Meerkat

4. YOUR SPY NAME: (middle name, and current street name)
Marie Bestel

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name and first 2 letters of mom's maiden name, first 3 letters of your hometown)
Bardicowes

6. YOUR SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
Yello Pepsi

7. YOUR IRAQI NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, any letter of your middle name, 2nd letter of your moms maiden name, 3rd letter of you dads middle name, 1st letter of a siblings first name, last letter of your moms middle)
Irmooka

8. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (your mom's/dad's middle name, and your favorite author's last name)
Viola Mahaney

9. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one your pets)
Black Pebbles

Now wasn't that fun?!!?  ha.
Have a good week.
~Di

Good morning all.

I don't have much to say, but thought I should update since i really haven't in a while.

O sacred Head, now wounded,
With grief and shame weighed down,
Now scornfully surrounded
With thorns, Thine only crown;
How pale Thou art with anguish,
With sore abuse and scorn!
How does that visage languish,
Which once was bright as morn!

What Thou, my Lord, hast suffered,
Was all for sinners’ gain;
Mine, mine was the transgression,
But Thine the deadly pain.
Lo, here I fall, my Savior!
’Tis I deserve Thy place;
Look on me with Thy favor,
Vouchsafe to me Thy grace.

What language shall I borrow
To thank Thee, dearest friend,
For this Thy dying sorrow,
Thy pity without end?
O make me Thine forever,
And should I fainting be,
Lord, let me never, never
Outlive my love for Thee.

~Di

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The funeral was Saturday.  It was very sad.  Don't know what else to say, but just wanted to let you all know that we are grieving, but hanging in here.
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