I'm just resigning myself to the fact that THAT'S WHAT I AM. I keep meaning to blog, night after night after night, but it just keeps not happening. I know this is a flimsy excuse considering the people who've been swamped with BTI responsibilities and weddings and such things who have STILL been faithful to blog (!), but I just can't seem to find time to blog right now! All I can figure is that I just don't manage my time as well as they do! In any case, it's not that I'm TRYING to be neglegent, it's just that every time I would like to sit down and blog I know there are a hundred other things I really ought to be doing to get ready for Camp and everything else that's coming up. Like right now... I just finished up on my list of YESTERDAY'S duties and have 5 things left on today's list after the 4 that I did manage to complete--and there's still that one thing that never got marked off from a couple of days ago. Tomorrow has a list all its own, so I've GOT to get a few more of these things done tonight!
I will try really, really hard to make time to really blog (then you'll be sorry! Ha!) before we leave for Camp (Sunday), but I know better than to make any promises. We'll have a total of 19 house guests on Thursday, Friday and Saturday (a few each night--not all at once), so WA-HOO for that. :-) But it does mean my chances of blogging will be lessened greatly because... well, you know... PEOPLE. :-) In any case, I'll be back one of these days! If you don't hear from me before (I certainly hope you do, but...) please be in prayer for a FANTASTIC Family Camp and GLORIOUS Regional Convention immediately following. All of that ends on the 28th, then we'll have company for a day or two... so I'll be blogging again by July anyway! :-)
Gotta get busy! Later!!! (Maybe sooner???)
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
A Good Day! And More BTI...
That's what we've had! It's been a good, happy day full of good news and productive ventures. :-) Although we spent most of the day in the van...
We loaded up first thing this morning and drove to Vanderwagon, New Mexico, (just south of Gallup) to check out a campground for possible use in the future for Family Camp or Minister's Retreat. We got there at about 11:30, I think, and didn't spend too much time looking around because they are currently conducting a camp and we didn't want to be in the way. But I love this campground!!! It has everything we could possibly ask for and more (except for the bathroom situation being less than ideal... still WORKABLE, but not perfect), it's actually set up perfectly for hosting a Family Camp (which is sooooo hard to find) and even the prices would work for us--which is more of a miracle than you can imagine! Ha! The only catch (and it is a big one) is the scheduling. But it's certainly something to pray about and explore our options concerning. I have no doubt that everybody would be THRILLED with this place--and where we could keep our tuition costs--if only we can figure out some dates that will actually work. God knows. We'll leave it up to Him. :-)
And...that was pretty much our day today! Got home this evening and made a few phone calls, let the kids watch a Veggie Tales, and put 'em to bed! So I guess that's all there is to tell. Wow--what a short post!
HA. Short until I post BTI pictures, of course. But nobody gripes when you have a really long post that's 90% pictures. :-) So here we go!
1st Term BTI... Again!
That's right. I went to 1st Term twice. After the Church was reorganized in 1993 we had to slowly build BTI up from scratch, so each year we added another term: 1994 had just 1st Term, 1995 had 1st and 2nd Terms, 1996 had 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Terms. But in 1997 they hadn't completed the books for 4th Term yet. So what was I to do??? I couldn't very well just sit at home and wait a whole other year, could I?! No way! So I just went to 1st Term again while I was waiting for 4th Term to come around. Of course, now they've done away with 4th Term and incorporated most of that material into the LPD course. Anyway...
1997 was Libby's 1st Term. It was so great having her there!
Here we are on our way into one of our most favoritest spots--The Gondolier. Their meatball sub is fantastical! :-) This is, so far, the only year that Chris Clarkson has been able to attend BTI. If he goes again, I'm sure his wife would ensure that we didn't have to hear any bragging about his ability to get a ride from any girl in the world as we had to listen to on this night! HA! If God ever created the perfect woman for a man, it was Shanda for Chris! :-)
Here's Brian O'Dell and his already infamous finger... Ha!
Here were are at the putt-putt place...being cool???
I easily beat Brother Brian at air hockey. Here we are displaying our scores...
And, not that I'm a competitive person or anything (~ahem~), but I felt strangely compelled to take a picture with our putt-putt score card that night, too... :-) This is Scott Nichols (Arkansas) and Johnny Witty (North Carolina).
"Princess Emilee" and I... or is it Princess Emilee and me? Hhmmm...
Don't know what's going on here, but I remember loving Brother Brian's t-shirt!
Some of the crowd... A very, very young crowd--just look at everybody!!! Especially Matthew... WOW.
I can't think of a good explanation for this one...
I love this picture because of how YOUNG Rebekah and Matthew look--and Dave, too. This was 1st Term for all of them. Bekah is so pretty!!!
Look, Weese! It's us and our big, round glasses again! ;-)
I think this was at Dairy Queen one night. We have Dairy Queen memories from just about every year at BTI, I think!
Here's Brother Ray consoling Libby... perhaps on test day?
The Williams are some of the truly wonderful "old people" that we grew to know and love because of BTI. How sad it would have been to have never met them!
Jenna, be sure that Matthew gets to see some of these pictures if you can remember. I'm sure he'd enjoy them. :-) Here he is with Melissa.
Manda girl...
Back at the putt-putt place again...
I know I keep saying this, but look how young we look! Ha! I always enjoy being around Brother Chris because, although he's older than me--I would say considerably older than me ;-), we seem to be aging at the very same rate. I don't mind getting old so bad as long as other people are getting old with me. :-) Here we are before all that started though, with Johnny Witty...
And the traditional train pictures, of course!
And the last-night-pile-up-front-after-church picture, too.
We loaded up first thing this morning and drove to Vanderwagon, New Mexico, (just south of Gallup) to check out a campground for possible use in the future for Family Camp or Minister's Retreat. We got there at about 11:30, I think, and didn't spend too much time looking around because they are currently conducting a camp and we didn't want to be in the way. But I love this campground!!! It has everything we could possibly ask for and more (except for the bathroom situation being less than ideal... still WORKABLE, but not perfect), it's actually set up perfectly for hosting a Family Camp (which is sooooo hard to find) and even the prices would work for us--which is more of a miracle than you can imagine! Ha! The only catch (and it is a big one) is the scheduling. But it's certainly something to pray about and explore our options concerning. I have no doubt that everybody would be THRILLED with this place--and where we could keep our tuition costs--if only we can figure out some dates that will actually work. God knows. We'll leave it up to Him. :-)
And...that was pretty much our day today! Got home this evening and made a few phone calls, let the kids watch a Veggie Tales, and put 'em to bed! So I guess that's all there is to tell. Wow--what a short post!
HA. Short until I post BTI pictures, of course. But nobody gripes when you have a really long post that's 90% pictures. :-) So here we go!
1st Term BTI... Again!
That's right. I went to 1st Term twice. After the Church was reorganized in 1993 we had to slowly build BTI up from scratch, so each year we added another term: 1994 had just 1st Term, 1995 had 1st and 2nd Terms, 1996 had 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Terms. But in 1997 they hadn't completed the books for 4th Term yet. So what was I to do??? I couldn't very well just sit at home and wait a whole other year, could I?! No way! So I just went to 1st Term again while I was waiting for 4th Term to come around. Of course, now they've done away with 4th Term and incorporated most of that material into the LPD course. Anyway...
1997 was Libby's 1st Term. It was so great having her there!
Here we are on our way into one of our most favoritest spots--The Gondolier. Their meatball sub is fantastical! :-) This is, so far, the only year that Chris Clarkson has been able to attend BTI. If he goes again, I'm sure his wife would ensure that we didn't have to hear any bragging about his ability to get a ride from any girl in the world as we had to listen to on this night! HA! If God ever created the perfect woman for a man, it was Shanda for Chris! :-)
Here's Brian O'Dell and his already infamous finger... Ha!
Here were are at the putt-putt place...being cool???I easily beat Brother Brian at air hockey. Here we are displaying our scores...
And, not that I'm a competitive person or anything (~ahem~), but I felt strangely compelled to take a picture with our putt-putt score card that night, too... :-) This is Scott Nichols (Arkansas) and Johnny Witty (North Carolina).
"Princess Emilee" and I... or is it Princess Emilee and me? Hhmmm...
Don't know what's going on here, but I remember loving Brother Brian's t-shirt!
Some of the crowd... A very, very young crowd--just look at everybody!!! Especially Matthew... WOW.
I can't think of a good explanation for this one...
I love this picture because of how YOUNG Rebekah and Matthew look--and Dave, too. This was 1st Term for all of them. Bekah is so pretty!!!
Look, Weese! It's us and our big, round glasses again! ;-)
I think this was at Dairy Queen one night. We have Dairy Queen memories from just about every year at BTI, I think!
Here's Brother Ray consoling Libby... perhaps on test day?
The Williams are some of the truly wonderful "old people" that we grew to know and love because of BTI. How sad it would have been to have never met them!
Jenna, be sure that Matthew gets to see some of these pictures if you can remember. I'm sure he'd enjoy them. :-) Here he is with Melissa.
Manda girl...
Back at the putt-putt place again...
I know I keep saying this, but look how young we look! Ha! I always enjoy being around Brother Chris because, although he's older than me--I would say considerably older than me ;-), we seem to be aging at the very same rate. I don't mind getting old so bad as long as other people are getting old with me. :-) Here we are before all that started though, with Johnny Witty...
And the traditional train pictures, of course!
And the last-night-pile-up-front-after-church picture, too.
~sigh~ It's so fun to look back at all of these! Such great times. 4th Term to come. :-)
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Okay, Okay, Okay
Some people are just so gripey. I'll BLOG, already. ;-)
I have been crunching numbers all day (not my thing) and I feel like my brain is about to explode, so be forewarned that whatever I may say might not make much sense. Today I was talking to Emilee on the phone and started to say goodbye to her when she informed me that SHE had called ME and had one more question. Who knew?! I really thought I had called her. After all, she was on my mile long "to call" list. Twice, in fact. ~sigh~ I'm falling apart!
Sometime recently (no idea when--this whole week is one big blurry day to me!) Katie and I went into town to price all of the Camp food at Sam's Club. Cathy, World's Most Amazing Camp Cook, had put together a perfectly organized and detailed list, so that made things pretty fast and easy. I think I figured out that by comparing the online prices with the actual in-store prices we will save about $50. :-) Makes me happy. We're trying to really pinch our pennies this year. Not because it's dreadfully important that we do (God really, really blessed last year and our Camp fund is doing GREAT at the moment, allowing us to lower tuitions and such to be a blessing to our people), but because as Coordinator I just can't bear the thought of losing money on Camp, you know?! And as this is their first year, our new Camp Directors (the Hays) really aren't too wild about it either! Ha!
Anyway, after we finished at Sam's I took Katie out for that special Mother/Daughter lunch we've been wanting to have for ages now. Since we'd waited so long and don't know when our next chance will be we went to the Olive Garden. :-) We split the fettucini alfredo and were both so stuffed.
Uummm... the only other thing that really comes to mind is what my son did last night. I wondered if it would be right to blog such a thing, just considering his feelings in the future about me sharing it... but then I remembered Emilee and her "human question mark" and decided it must be okay. HA! Last night I decided that I would let the kids stay up late so I could finish reading The Indian in the Cupboard to them, mostly because I know I won't have any time for such things as we prepare for Camp and Convention and I wanted to get it over with! Sam fell asleep sometime around 9:00 and I finished up the book just after 10:00. Just before we finished, Sam got up and stumbled out of the room. I remember assuming that he was either going to the bathroom or to get a drink of water. A few moments later I heard James say, "SAM!!! What are you doing???" followed immediately by, "BEC!!! Get in here!!!" ~sigh~ I still can't believe this--none of my kids have EVER done anything like this before--but Sam had gotten up and walked past the bathroom, through the kitchen, into the living room, over to the front of the couch, and was... relieving himself! All over my couch!!! James and I just stood there gaping at him, not knowing what to say or do. We'd never seen anything like this before, though I recall hearing of other kids who have done such things while "sleep walking." Sam's eyes were wide open and bloodshot and he just kept blinking and he had a bit of a grimace on his face and you could tell he was just totally out of it. I scooped him up and ran him to the bathroom and instructed him where he was to finish the job, then ran back to gather supplies to clean up the mess. I went back in a minute to check on Sam and the kid had taken his shirt off and was standing there starting to cry--probably because he was cold. ??? It was the weirdest thing and I still can't believe it happened. I asked him about it this morning and he didn't remember ANYTHING. He just kept saying, "I'm so sorry, Mom--I didn't know. I didn't know I did that--I'm sorry, Mom." He's 5 years old and this is the very first experience of this nature that we have ever encountered. I talked with him tonight and told him that he is not allowed to start doing strange and freaky things like that at this point in his life; he's just going to have to truly WAKE UP if he needs to go to the bathroom at night! (By the way, I worked for a long, long, long time on it and the couch seems to have made out just fine. I can't see or smell anything, so I'm greatly relieved. Still, why couldn't he have picked the 20 year old couch in the den instead of the newer one?! Dopey kid. Ha!)
I've spent my day today working on campground stuff again. I spoke with a lady at the Assembly of God camp in Ruidoso and she was sooooo nice. They used to own the campground that we still rent (except it was in great condition when they owned it--no mushrooms growing in the bathrooms or nuthin'! HA!) and they now have a new facility. She got all of our information, including my goals for keeping our tuitions miraculously low and she's going to spend some time working on it and see if they can possibly give us a rate that we can afford. Wow! I pray that God will really work miracles for us and allow us to find a nice place to have Camp that we can actually afford. Or if, for some reason, it's His will for us to continue on as we have been that's okay with me, too. He knows best. And we do have so many laugh inducing memories thanks to Mountainair. :-)
Tonight we grabbed a pizza and went up into the National Forest for dinner. The kids LOVE going up there and romping all over the mountains. It was such a nice, relaxing evening (we really needed it!) and we went on a nice, relaxing walk. ~Aaaaaah~ We really should do it more often.
I have been crunching numbers all day (not my thing) and I feel like my brain is about to explode, so be forewarned that whatever I may say might not make much sense. Today I was talking to Emilee on the phone and started to say goodbye to her when she informed me that SHE had called ME and had one more question. Who knew?! I really thought I had called her. After all, she was on my mile long "to call" list. Twice, in fact. ~sigh~ I'm falling apart!
Sometime recently (no idea when--this whole week is one big blurry day to me!) Katie and I went into town to price all of the Camp food at Sam's Club. Cathy, World's Most Amazing Camp Cook, had put together a perfectly organized and detailed list, so that made things pretty fast and easy. I think I figured out that by comparing the online prices with the actual in-store prices we will save about $50. :-) Makes me happy. We're trying to really pinch our pennies this year. Not because it's dreadfully important that we do (God really, really blessed last year and our Camp fund is doing GREAT at the moment, allowing us to lower tuitions and such to be a blessing to our people), but because as Coordinator I just can't bear the thought of losing money on Camp, you know?! And as this is their first year, our new Camp Directors (the Hays) really aren't too wild about it either! Ha!
Anyway, after we finished at Sam's I took Katie out for that special Mother/Daughter lunch we've been wanting to have for ages now. Since we'd waited so long and don't know when our next chance will be we went to the Olive Garden. :-) We split the fettucini alfredo and were both so stuffed.
Uummm... the only other thing that really comes to mind is what my son did last night. I wondered if it would be right to blog such a thing, just considering his feelings in the future about me sharing it... but then I remembered Emilee and her "human question mark" and decided it must be okay. HA! Last night I decided that I would let the kids stay up late so I could finish reading The Indian in the Cupboard to them, mostly because I know I won't have any time for such things as we prepare for Camp and Convention and I wanted to get it over with! Sam fell asleep sometime around 9:00 and I finished up the book just after 10:00. Just before we finished, Sam got up and stumbled out of the room. I remember assuming that he was either going to the bathroom or to get a drink of water. A few moments later I heard James say, "SAM!!! What are you doing???" followed immediately by, "BEC!!! Get in here!!!" ~sigh~ I still can't believe this--none of my kids have EVER done anything like this before--but Sam had gotten up and walked past the bathroom, through the kitchen, into the living room, over to the front of the couch, and was... relieving himself! All over my couch!!! James and I just stood there gaping at him, not knowing what to say or do. We'd never seen anything like this before, though I recall hearing of other kids who have done such things while "sleep walking." Sam's eyes were wide open and bloodshot and he just kept blinking and he had a bit of a grimace on his face and you could tell he was just totally out of it. I scooped him up and ran him to the bathroom and instructed him where he was to finish the job, then ran back to gather supplies to clean up the mess. I went back in a minute to check on Sam and the kid had taken his shirt off and was standing there starting to cry--probably because he was cold. ??? It was the weirdest thing and I still can't believe it happened. I asked him about it this morning and he didn't remember ANYTHING. He just kept saying, "I'm so sorry, Mom--I didn't know. I didn't know I did that--I'm sorry, Mom." He's 5 years old and this is the very first experience of this nature that we have ever encountered. I talked with him tonight and told him that he is not allowed to start doing strange and freaky things like that at this point in his life; he's just going to have to truly WAKE UP if he needs to go to the bathroom at night! (By the way, I worked for a long, long, long time on it and the couch seems to have made out just fine. I can't see or smell anything, so I'm greatly relieved. Still, why couldn't he have picked the 20 year old couch in the den instead of the newer one?! Dopey kid. Ha!)
I've spent my day today working on campground stuff again. I spoke with a lady at the Assembly of God camp in Ruidoso and she was sooooo nice. They used to own the campground that we still rent (except it was in great condition when they owned it--no mushrooms growing in the bathrooms or nuthin'! HA!) and they now have a new facility. She got all of our information, including my goals for keeping our tuitions miraculously low and she's going to spend some time working on it and see if they can possibly give us a rate that we can afford. Wow! I pray that God will really work miracles for us and allow us to find a nice place to have Camp that we can actually afford. Or if, for some reason, it's His will for us to continue on as we have been that's okay with me, too. He knows best. And we do have so many laugh inducing memories thanks to Mountainair. :-)
Tonight we grabbed a pizza and went up into the National Forest for dinner. The kids LOVE going up there and romping all over the mountains. It was such a nice, relaxing evening (we really needed it!) and we went on a nice, relaxing walk. ~Aaaaaah~ We really should do it more often.
And before I go... I thought I'd post a couple of pictures of the care package we sent to our BTI girls. It's been a long-running tradition that whoever goes to BTI from our Region receives a package from those left behind. (Although I was informed recently by some bitter soul that HE went to BTI two or three years ago and "didn't get nuthin'!!!" HA!) Just fun and crazy stuff to give them a few laughs, make BTI even more fun, make them glad to be from such a fun and thoughtful region, and make everybody else at BTI wish they were from here, too. HA! It's not as fun as it used to be because there aren't a crowd of us all together to work on a package at this point. Still, I thought Tammy and Cathy and some of the others who remember getting the BTI Box and then putting together the BTI Box for others would enjoy seeing some of what they got this year.
These were obviously the favorites. HA!
There were three other things that we sent as well and I was so tempted to blog them, as they are some of my very favorites... But I fear I would get myself in trouble again. I know there are people who come to my blog on occasion who don't really KNOW me and value my sense of humor (ha!) and I'm always afraid of somebody taking things the wrong way or being offended, you know? Not that what we sent was in any way offensive (!), but sometimes it's just better to be safe than sorry when you're dealing with people who might misunderstand you. I've thought about going to a private blog for that very reason (contemplated it off and on for months), but I hate the idea of doing that, too! Anyway, just know there were a few other items that were intended to make the girls smile. :-)
And that's about it from here. ~whew~ A great big, long blog with pictures. That oughtta last me a while. ;-) I'll get back to my old BTI posts one of these days. Can't stop in the middle, you know. :-)
Saturday, June 6, 2009
3rd Term BTI, 1996
Here we go again! This was a truly great year. Loved every minute of it. :-)
Back before Emilee and I lived in the same town we used to take a self-photo every time we saw each other at Camps and Retreats or whatever. This was her 1st Term of BTI and we were both living in Howard at this time, but it seemed appropriate to continue the tradition. :-)
Always one of my favorite pictures. So much EXPRESSION going on across that couch! Ha!
Twins again...
Can't figure out why this picture is so crooked (who took it, anyway?!), but this was the crowd at Pizza Hut one day. We're all having a grand ole' time, laughing and taking pictures... and there sits Melissa studying, of all things! Where did she get such an idea?! ;-)
Look! It's Sister Tammi! I think this was on her birthday again. She seemed to have those quite often at BTI. :-)
Here are some of us folding tracts for Headquarters. Seems like I remember a crowd getting together and helping out with the Evening Light one year, too. I love it that Sister Brown is sitting at the end of the table, working right along side all of the youngun's. What a neat lady!
One of my all-time favorite pictures. :-) WHAT AN AMAZING MAN!!! I still have several of the letters he wrote to me years ago. When you read through o-o-o-o-o-old Church history it just blows by mind that we actually had the privilege of knowing Brother Staggs.
We three, again.
Weesa! My kids crack up at our glasses. "You look so funny, Mom--your glasses were so big!!!" Ha! Just like the way we talked to our mothers about their pictures from the 70's! It's so crazy!
This was the party at Denny's one night, I think. Looks as if we were having a good time. I'm not sure how that many of us crammed into one booth, though! (That is a booth, isn't it? I think Tim and Karen are the only ones in chairs.)
Back before Emilee and I lived in the same town we used to take a self-photo every time we saw each other at Camps and Retreats or whatever. This was her 1st Term of BTI and we were both living in Howard at this time, but it seemed appropriate to continue the tradition. :-)
Always one of my favorite pictures. So much EXPRESSION going on across that couch! Ha!
Twins again...
Can't figure out why this picture is so crooked (who took it, anyway?!), but this was the crowd at Pizza Hut one day. We're all having a grand ole' time, laughing and taking pictures... and there sits Melissa studying, of all things! Where did she get such an idea?! ;-)
Look! It's Sister Tammi! I think this was on her birthday again. She seemed to have those quite often at BTI. :-)
Here are some of us folding tracts for Headquarters. Seems like I remember a crowd getting together and helping out with the Evening Light one year, too. I love it that Sister Brown is sitting at the end of the table, working right along side all of the youngun's. What a neat lady!
One of my all-time favorite pictures. :-) WHAT AN AMAZING MAN!!! I still have several of the letters he wrote to me years ago. When you read through o-o-o-o-o-old Church history it just blows by mind that we actually had the privilege of knowing Brother Staggs.
We three, again.
Weesa! My kids crack up at our glasses. "You look so funny, Mom--your glasses were so big!!!" Ha! Just like the way we talked to our mothers about their pictures from the 70's! It's so crazy!
This was the party at Denny's one night, I think. Looks as if we were having a good time. I'm not sure how that many of us crammed into one booth, though! (That is a booth, isn't it? I think Tim and Karen are the only ones in chairs.)
I always liked this picture because it suited everybody so well. Melissa looking very Melissa-ish with her ankles properly crossed, Mom working on some stitchery of some sort, and Brother Brian looking oh-so-Sanguine. :-)
Ah, yes. Brother Brian. This was his 1st Term as well and he brought a whole new feeling to BTI! He had very adventurous fingers, but for his own sake I decided not to post any of those particular pictures. (I'm not sure why I'm suddenly going soft...) In any case, he provided LOTS of laughs, sometimes literally forcing them... as in this picture when he had tickled Johnny right down to the floor! Ha!
Brother Brian was voted class president that year. Here he is posing for his 1st Term class photo...
Tim Cox reaped the benefits when his brother's girl showed up in her convertable. Not sure how it is that Tim was driving it, but he nabbed quite a load of pretty passengers. Ha!
HA! I don't think I have ever been able to look at this picture and not laugh right out loud! A whole bunch of us girls were staying at the Dobbs' house--an experience that has loaded us with a whole set of memories all of it's own!--and there was stuff everywhere. Lots of girls, lots of luggage, lots of mess. On this particular day, Amanda couldn't find shoes that matched. She looked and looked and looked and simply could not find her missing shoes, so she had to come to school like this! Ha! That was pretty funny in itself, but sooooo much funnier because of how mad she was! HA! I remember laughing sooooo hard!
Hey, speaking of the Dobbs' house... I was thinking today about those great grandfather clocks they had. Remember, Em and Tammy and Cathy??? HA! I actually kind of miss them--would love to hear them chime again, for old times' sake. ;-)
I already posted some pictures from our park outing that year, but here's one more. I have several more as well that aren't making it into this post--pictures of all the guys jumping from the swings to see who could make it the farthest. I have a picture of Tim Cox sailing through the air and another of Jeremiah lying flat on his back as a broken swing sways in the breeze... HA!
Here is our train picture from that year. The crowd had grown considerably!
We also went to this BBQ joint on the last day of BTI for a few years--and took pictures outside.
This was the year that Michael & Amy got engaged!
Look! I really graduated! "Come to my graduatement," right, Em??? ;-)
And our end-of-BTI photo shoot. Tim put some heart into it, but the guys just weren't as much fun in pictures as the girls...
See?
And here's the whole crowd together...
And that's about it. I have so many mixed feelings when I see this year's pictures. Sooooo many great things to remember. This was a great year for me, spiritually--felt like I learned and grew so much. Wonderful things to remember... but I'm so surprised at the number of people who were there that are now backslidden! It's sooooo sad. Jeremiah, Amanda, Tim Wickline, Tony and Mike Johnson, Eric Hodge, and others. How did that happen??? It makes me want to remember to pray, pray, pray for them. Wouldn't it be wonderful for ALL of us to be together again one day? In heaven, of course, although I'd love to see it happen before then, too!
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