Congrats Marti & Daniel

Sorry, I didn't go to the wedding so I don't have any wedding pictures but I just "borrowed" this one from her site. Congrats to the both of you!! I'm so happy for you both. Hope to get to know Marti a little better and get to know Daniel soon! Maybe someday I will really meet them both in person.

History for the rest of you: Daniel & Marti got married yesterday!! Marti who is younger than me :( is now Mrs. Daniel Dyal! When is it ever gonna be my turn?!

Time for a new post???

Hm... what should I do about the people that complain that I need a new post?! HM!! You don't think over a month between posts is ok?!

Ok, let's see what I can blog about... hmm...

Well, Sept. 15th was the local area festival & the junior girl's Sunday school class decided to have a sleepover @ my good friend's house. I didn't spend the night with them but I was there for games & mainly to help the adults supervise. We decided to take them to the fireworks that night. One of the girls earlier in the evening had been talking about how she'd tried to kill herself a few nights before that. Well, at the park with over 1,000 people there, she was on the swing & dropped her i-pod out. We prayed that night when we realized it was gone and the next morning we were able to find it. Right under the swings, where all those people had been walking!! Praise the Lord for answered prayer! When I called the girl, she said "Thank God!! Oh, Thank GOD!!"

Ok, then last Friday my family went to the mall to go to Goodwill---quarter sales... you know the drill. Anyways, we got out of the car and my brother stooped down & said "guys, I just found $20!" I said, "no way, not possible" I went around the car and right in front of me was another $20. After that, my brother said let's look under the car and would you believe another $20!! Praise the Lord. Although, someone else lost it... it was money we much needed and nobody else laid claim to it!

I have another big praise the Lord but that one's gonna have to wait for another wk or so. Maybe I'll be able to post more often then!

~*Amber*~

Pictures

Here's a few pictures that I took at Stoneboro. I just got them onto the computer from my cell so that's why they are so late and not the best quality. I thought they were cute though!! There's a few more of other people that I'll probably post later but these were all of the Gurnee girls :-). Their mommy is probably going to kill me for posting these :-D.

Alyssa looking at herself in my camera

Showing off :-)

Oh, wow... think these are Bulletman's kids?!

Adorable!!

Shy?? Yeah RIGHT!!

New things

Well, as you can see I have added some pictures from Sunday to here. I still have some from other times that I plan to add so keep checking back. Several people have found my blog so that's kind of exciting.

Oh, yes, have to brag on our attendance... are you ready for this?! On Sunday morning, we had 30 under the age of 12 and 20 others!! Total of 50 people which is very good for our Sunday morning. I'm not sure how many we had Sunday night... Here's 2 more pictures from Sunday night.

Minus the 4 Crouch children, this is part of our regular youth group (under the age of 25). We had quite a few missing!!

Here are the Crouches:
Nathan, Kelly (sitting), Heidi, Jaden, Alex, & Natalie

Yesterday

Well, I'm surprised I'm still here. Yesterday, I had 8 children under the age of 5 in my Sunday school class. All 5 of my regulars were there as well as a cousin of one of my girls, a baby, and a friend of another one of my girls. Needless to say I was pretty busy!! Here are some pictures of that day.

Chelsey

Baby Kibbie

Shyanne, Autumn, & Amber

Katerina & Jenna

Micah

Last night we had "Children's Day" and had the Crouch family sing and speak to us. Everything they had to say was really challenging even though I am not going back to school. The pastor gave us each $5 to McDonald's from the church. After church, we took most everyone back to my good friend's house and had tacos and a good time of fellowship. This was the first long period of time I've gotten to spend with my new "aunt" since our camp and we had a blast.

Bro. Alex speaking to us

Natalie, Heidi, & Nathan singing "Faithful to the Faith" acapella & they did AWESOME!!

Kelly gave an object lesson on Shadrach, Meshach, & Abednego.

Nathan played "Majesty"--WOW AWESOME!!

Oh yes, my Sunday school class!!

I have increased from 2 girls, to 3 girls, to 4 girls, to 4 girls 1 boy, and it just keeps growing!! I'm so thrilled at what the Lord is doing for our little church. On average right now, under the age of 12, we have 23 attending!! So exciting!!

Well, just had to share that exciting news with you.

This Sunday night we are having "Children's Day"! Some of our young people complained when we had the Mother's & Father's Day service that the children never get celebrated so this will be our turn!!

Long time no post!! My Summer!

Wow... it's been forever since I posted to this but I guess it doesn't matter since I'm the only one who ever reads it!!

Let's see what has happened to me since I posted here last. Oh, yes, I was "adopted" by our superintendent & his wife as their granddaughter. When they went back to Texas for the year, I had a major emotional breakdown but I'm doing ok now.

Um, we had our camp in June but Bro. Campbell wasn't able to come so Bro. Smith filled in. It was a very excellent camp! As for donations, I think people did fairly well. We still have plates & cups left over! The food was excellent too!

After our camp, it was a couple weeks until we went to Stoneboro Youth camp but were only there for 1 night & 2 days. Wished it could have been longer but it wasn't. It was great to see the Craig Lines again even if I didn't get to talk to them! After Youth camp, we went right into Pine Ridge camp and spent a LOT of time there. It was a good camp too.

We had a little bit of a reprieve and then we went to Stoneboro main camp. This year's evangelists were Judy Williams & Lloyd Campbell. The Bible teacher was Robert Pelton but I didn't get to hear him because I was in youth with B.J. Ward. The song evangelists were obviously the Victory Trio (I guess they should be called the Victory Duet). I "met" quite a few people from the internet there but didn't get to talk to nearly as many as I saw. I officially talked to Connie Sanders, Danae Young, scary man-Byron Gurnee & of course his wonderful wife Julie & their darling angels-Kenton, Vincent, Kendra, & Alyssa, um... I'm sure there are more that I don't remember right now. Of course I have no pictures because I didn't find my digi cam until the day before we left!! I had a good time but had a lot of struggles too.

After camp (wow, this second post just keeps getting longer!!), we are back to our duties at church and home. School is starting so we have to keep up with that and just general life. I applied for a job but it had already been filled so I'm a little sad over that.

Well, I'm going to end for now... maybe someone will find my blog & find my life interesting enough to comment?!