Tonight

Tonight was the Stoneboro School's first real PTO (last month was the school picnic) and the elementary children put on a program. It was really good. One of the little boys in grade 3&4 class is deaf and just really made the program more interesting. That class did more "hands on" stuff than the others just so he could participate. I wish I had pictures but...my camera won't even turn on any more & the others that went with us... didn't take their cameras. :-( I do have to say... Stoneboro feels soooo weird without my adopted parents (the Marshalls) there.

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!!