Graduation!

Graduation...it is coming too fast!...It is so weird to think that in less than a week I will be done with highschool and leaving to start my own life...learn how to stand on my own two feet...before you know it all of my friends will start to get married and have kids...and wow that seems way to close now...but if you think about it...most people do meet the person that they are going to marry at this age....my grandmother was 18...the age that I am now when she got married and my mother was ohly 21...ahhh where did life go...better yet where is it going...exciting and scary all at the same time!...weird emotions...

MeMe

I am doing this for my cousin Sarah..because she did one of those silly tag things, and so now I have to do it...but don't wry I won't tag any of you but if you want to do it you can!
I am – a born again Christian
I want – too many things to say
I pray – that I will have the chance to grow up and be that real life adult and not just the inbetween
I hate – people who think that they know it all..
I miss – the simplicity of life on my grandparents farm!
I hear – our brook running in the back
I wonder – why I was put on this earth...what is my calling
I regret – my lack of disicipline
I am not – perfect
I dance – to any and everything. Any kind of rhythym makes me move. (I am the same way Sarah)
I sing – to worship
I cry –at pretty much anything these days
I am not always – happy.
I make – presents for my friends
I write – the first thing that comes to my mind
I confuse – most people, I often tell others that I have my own language at times and this is why no one can understand me!
I need – to be more organized
I should – read my Bible more
I start – my days half asleep from staying up too last bloging
I finish – hardly anything I start. (again the same..I guess we are related!)

Random Pics

I found some old pictures the other day and I just thought that I would post them...I am really upset that they are all so grainy..I think I must have used an 800 film which I just recently found out is not the best for these kinds of pictures...so anyways oh well here they are

Oh and the picture which I think is on the bottom is a pic of the two Heidi's...hence me and the lady that I was named after...just thought ya'll might wonder

Update

Well we got home from church today and there does seem to be some improvement on the back yard...the water has gone down in some spots but then there is also a definate flow going through MORE of our back yard under the barn which my rents are a lil scared about but otherwise about the same...basement is fine...flooding may have been too strong of a word...leaking is more like it, but we will see what happens and I know the Lord will protect us!

BY the way welcome Home Lizzy!
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

and also a quick prayer request...one of my old friends Kim has just lost her brother today..I don't know if anyone knows them or not...I won't put last names for confidentiality on the web...but I guess Adam was coming home to surprise his mom for mothers day and ended up in a car accident and passed away...scary to think that it really could happen that fast anways if you could just Keep Kim and her family in prayer I would appriciate it and I know they would as well!

Flooding

These are some pictures our back yard...the tree that you see in the first picture is right on the edge of where the water usually is...and the second picture shows more of the flooding on the other side of the brook....I know these pics are a lil blurry and not that good, but I was having problems with the digital camera...atleast you get the idea

The other Heidi

This is a pic of my mom (on the rt) and Heidi...the blonde on the lft....If you didn't notice Heidi and I have something in common and no it isn't that we are both blonde, but that we have the same name...because this is who I was named after...Heidi was a nurse that was present during the still born birth of my older brother Nathaniel Phillip...well neeless to say in the tragedy of it all mom and Heidi became very good friends and when I was born mom and dad were arguing over what to call me and they decided to take it to Dan and let him decide (Dan is my other brother for those that don't know) they said what do you think Samantha or Amy Jo and Dan thought about it for a minute and said Heidi....of course my parents loved it...and that is how I got my name! Anyways, this past summer when we went down to Denver CO for fine arts I had to privalge to meet the person I was named after and turns out we have a lot in common..for starters she is a nurse and that is what I want to be..and I had never really thought about it before so I mean that isn't why I want ot be a nurs...and I don' tknow the list goes on..God's sence of humor just shines through to me every day...he knows our lives pretty well to make silly little things like that happen...

Aunt K K

Here is Karen I can actually post this because she is a member of the family not a ward of the state!
It only took me about 50 pictures of her to get a good picture of her she is not very good when it comes to taking pics she always turns her head at the last min...but it was totally worth it I really like this pic of her!

A little bit of politics

I have the pleasure of knowing some really great people...two of which are my Aunt Karen and Jack...now I am the first to admit Jack is a handful...he likes to get what he wants, and isn't the best to be around when he is throwing one of his temper tantrums...and is especially hard to deal with when he is tearing things of mine apart in my room...but I wouldn't give him up for the world...he has such a loving heart and he is always ready to give you a big hug and kiss when you least expect it....Karen in comparrisson to Jack is a piece of cake...but she can be a brat when she wants to be too...but if someone ever asked me if I wished my life were different I would say no everytime...some people think that people who are mentally retarded like Jack and Karen don't have the quality of life that the rest of us....and they would be right...but not in the sence that they might think...I think their qualitiy of life is much better than my own....I know atleast with Karen her faith and attitude towards life is so innocent and sweet...something that I think all of us only wish that we could have....she trully have faith like a child...I know it must be frustrating to not be able to do the same things as other people...I think it would drive me crazy....and I know Karen gets frustrated sometimes when she can't do some of the same things that I can do, but on most days...she is just happy....she really lives in the moment and doesn't let life pass he by...so many of us take life for granted and let things pass us by every day...having Karen and Jack have taught me more about life than I think anyone else I know...except maybe my parents...
so the next time you see someone who is mentally retarted don't stand to the side and look at them like..they are so gross they don't even need to be alive they have no purpose...don't ignore them and pretend they are not their...go against the flow and talk to them...I have never met anyone who was mentally retarted who has ever been mean to me...or didn't like me because of the way I look or dress...I think they are much less judgemental than the smartest most well to do person in the world...in the end I think they are the rich ones...and I feel privilaged to live with someone as special as Karen

Prayer Request

This is a pic of my friend liz who is down in Louisianna right now helping with Katrina efforts...she will be back Sat. I believe and I would just ask for continued prayer and saftey for her and all of the teams down there...I wish I could be down there with them, I know they are going to come back with the best experience of a lifetime!

There's no place like Home!

more shoes for Malawi!

Shoes!

Here are some pictures of some of the cutest shoes that I got for my missions trip!...thanks again to everyone who either gave money or shoes or who has been praying for me!...it has all helped and the Lord has gotten me this far...I leave June 9...literally a month away tommrow! ...scary/eciting! anyways I was able to collect almost 300 pairs of shoes..thanks for your overwhelming support!

Jack

This is Jack..he is one of Karen's friends and he is staying with us for 10 days while his care takers are on a little R&R...even though Jack can be more than a handful moments like this make it all worth it...He is really cute when he wants to be! ; )
When this picture was taken the clown at the walk had asked him if he wanted a balloon, and Jack did and when the clown told him to take one...he took the rest of the ones that he had! Too Cute!


I had to take the pic of Jack off of my blog because technically he is a ward of the state, and it probably wasn't the best idea!...so sorry about that, but if you know Jack and you want to see the pic I would be more than happy to share it with you!

Walk for Life

This is a picture of our human video group at the Walk for Life this last Sat. It was a lot of fun and also a BEA-UTIFUL day...we had a couple of rain drops but nothing major....everyone there raised a lot of money for the cause....it is such an important thing...for all of you that might know the walk for life is sponsored by the Care Net pregnancy Center...It is a place for unwed mothers or even just expecting mothers to go for help...they can get an ultrasound of their baby and hopefully change their minds against abortion!...it is an awsome fundraiser, and I hope they do even better at the walk in Nashua next wkend....

It's Finally Done

Many of you may or may not have known that I put together a lil slideshow/movie thing with music together for my grandmothers funeral a lil over a year ago...With a little help I was able to get together a presentation to take with us to Texas for the service/family reunion...Everyone really appricitaed it and really loved to see all of the pictures from grandma's life...however they did have one complaint...the pictures went by too fast and they weren't able to see the whole thing...so when we got home again mom asked me to try and fix it...and a year later the task is complete! It was a daunting task which I would only pic up every once in a while...I found the imovie program on mac to be very frustrating and slow! so I wouldn't pic it up again until I had forgotten how annoying it was and so on and so on....but it is finally done and everyone that has been waiting for their copy can finally get one! it is new and improved with added photo's and song...I added a couple of photo's that I KNOW you will love sarah! wahahaha...but don't worry only our entire family will see it...it isn't perfect...I really don't like the ending but mom said it was ok so that is what we are sticking with.....I have no idea how to put movies online so I don't think I am even going to try sorry....but I had to share the joy with someone!


btw I have had no idea what photo was on here I just randomly picked one from the movie so we will see what we get!
Later: this is a really cute pick of my older cuz's when they were younger George, Sarah, and Mandy (she is the cuter blonde one in front....lol jk Sarah ya'll were both very cute love ya bunches!)