Iowa part 3! the last leg!

K so we got home at 2pm. We woke up at 7:00am this nice sunday morning we at at the hotel got out of there at 7:46am. We stopped twice on the way back. We crossed in to the great state of WI at 9:16am and got home to hudson at 2!!! i am excited to be home but we might be going back down this coming weekend!!!! Wow a world of things happen while i was gone! The only website i was on while i was down in Iowa was this so i could blog! When i got back this morning i found someone had gotten on to my facebook some how and changed things on it! wow all those comments i had to reply to!!! well i fixed that now so everything should go well! I get to go to the church picnic! and the Well tonight so all is happy for me!!!

Iowa part 2!

K so today we slept in for once in our summer! I got up first out of the girls at 8:44 am. We got up by 9am and we went to Kohl's cause its right next to the hotel we are staying at so we walked! After we got back from shopping we went out to eat at Best Maid! They have amazing burgers!!! When we where done eating we went to my dads aunt and uncle's house to hang out! We got back to the hotel at about 3pm and we just hung out in the hotel room! At 5pm we went to the 50th wedding anniversary that we came down here for! We left there at about 10:25pm i think! While we where there i saw some relatives i have never met before and some that i have met! I think thats about all for today! We get up bright and early tomorrow morning at about 5:30am!!! We are going to eat breakfast here at the hotel at 6am then we will hit the road!! We hope to be back by 2pm and if that happens i will be at the church picnic and the well! So i pray we get back in time for those!!!

Iowa part1!

K so yesterday was friday and we started our weekend trip to Iowa! Well it was "going" to take us 4 hours to get to Iowa where our hotel is at. Yah right it took us 8 hours total before we got to where we needed to be! I had to nanny friday from 9am till 3:30pm. That is a shorter day then normal. I had to pack on thursday and i was already to go with all my stuff. Here was the rundown of yesterday!

4:30 left Hudson WI
8:00pm ate dinner at mexican restront
8:30pm still driving through Lacross WI!
11:10pm in illinoise
11:16pm debque Iowa
12:43am pulled in to hotel!!!
1:00 am in bed and ready to sleep!!!!

I think my dad relized that talking to girls in their teens about sharing a bed for the weekend at 1am is a bad idea! My cot was not in the room and they had told us they where out of cots. My dad asked me if i would share a bed and i told him no i am the oldest and i didnt get any sleep in the car at all and i wanted my cot!!! well a bit later a cot came in and my youngest sister had to sleep on it! I was happy to have a real bed and i was tired so i took the bed!

about to give....

I am getting tired of people telling me that they will call me and start including me in things. I found out this summer who my real friends my age are. I found out it was just me. I was only called to be the third wheel. I wasn't included in anything where all the rest of my "friends" my age where included in. I know its going to carry in to youth group this year and i am starting to think my mom is right. She told me i shouldn't do youth group this year and go to a church group more for young adults. My cousin's girlfriend is in the group at church for older teens and college age students and she would like me to go to that too. However some of the underclass students have talked to me and want me to come back cause they connect with me and they know they can trust me and tell me things that they dont tell anyone else. I just want to be included for once i dont what to always plan things in order for me to hang out with people. I wish right now that the friends my age cared about me enough to call me not as a back burner person but as a real friend. I am sick of looking at their pics that they post and see all them hanging out and all that goes through my mind is why was i not invited do they not like me. I am tired of it it makes me sad every time i see pics of all them. I just want to give up and be a quiet person again cause i dont know what else to do. I dont know how much longer i can pray about it I just want a friend who will call and hang with me. I feel soo alone soo much that i am excited for summer to end and school to start just because i get something to do even if its school work.

RAFTING!!!!

WOW!!! Thats all i have to say about white water rafting! I went for my first rafting trip ever this weekend and it was a blast! The ride up to shotgun eddies on the other hand was not my cup of coffee! 4AM and ME do NOT mix well at all. Expecially when i have 5 girls staying overnight at my house and staying up till 12:32AM the morning we need to be up at 4! We didnt sleep at all the whole 5 hour ride over to the rafting place! Once we got to shotgun eddies we waited and ate lunch got in line and sat for a bit. We loaded the bus to go to where we where rafting down the river. They told us the trip down the river would take 6hours we would go through about 3 sets of rapids and down 2 water falls! Well me being who i am i was scared about the whole waterfall thing cause i have a fear of falling from hights! Well, to make it more interesting we where all in pairs in the rafts so one of the leaders decited it would be fun to flip other peoples rafts while we where on the river! It was fun to watch and be a part of. Well after a bit me and the girl in my raft decited to switch rafts so we would get the chance to connect with the others in the group!

After we had done that our Youth Pastor had asked us who had not been flipped over yet so 2 of us raised our hands! well it was now unfair cause we where in with girls who had already been flipped! We thought we where in the clear! Until we hit a sandbar area and he charged right at my raft running like he was going to flip my raft so i being "smart" jumped out and started running. What i didnt think about was he might do something else. So all of a sunned "SPLASH" there i go face first in to the sandbar! He had seen me taking off running and he grabbed my foot and i had fell! After all that happened we had gone down the first water fall it was only 4ft though so i wasnt too scared. We hit a set of rapids and man those where fun! After all that the girl in my raft had lost her paddle so all of us in our group where all by eachother. Well our pastor said to me " it looks like she could use a hand grab her foot and help her to the water" well if ya listen to him someone will be in the water! There she went right in to the water. She got back in before we got to the next set of rapids. After we got though that i dont know what i was doing but the pastor pushed me in and i couldnt reach the bottom of the river and it took me forever to get back in. We changed rafts again so i was with one of the jr.s in the group. Well we had another set of rapids to go through and well we got stuck in the middle of the rapid and it took us forever to get down it but we got down the first part.

While all this was going on i got lunched on the second part of the rapids and went flying to the oppiset side of the raft and the girl i was with lunched to my side! when we got down our pastor and the other leader looked at us and said it looked funny and they thought one of us got lunched out of the raft! Well my legs where up straight in the air and she just fell so the raft covered her cause she was laying in the raft! After that there was much eventful things that happened! Until we hit the end of the river! There it was the 8ft. waterfall the one i had been fearing the whole trip! Well to say the least it was sooooo fun i never thought i could have fun on a 8 foot waterfall! However i did! We rode back to the camp site set everything up started a fire and started supper! We had Hobo dinners witch are amazing if you never had them before! It was a bit of a frustrating night for me with 1/2 of the girls in my tent though. Some creepy things had happened while our youth pastor was gone i was soo happy that our other two leaders where there for us though! We all laughed about it later! Well i was happy for bed time when it came! Well one of the Guys decited to pull a prank on us to that related to the creepy stuff earlyer that night! He knocked on our tent made his voice sound different and said "How old are you girls?" well there was a pause and i was about to we got scared and where about to yell for a leader then i saw our y.p. come over to say good night and it was one of our boys that just came over to say goodnight to us! it was one of those you had to be there things! I soo want to go back again!!!

VBS!!!

K so i never thought the day would come that i would miss something like VBS but i do!!! I miss seeing all the kids learning about God and what he has done for them! I miss the songs soo much that i play the CD EVERYDAY!!! I even learned new things while i was helping lead our crew! I miss my tacky hair do's through out the week! Seeing the kids faces when something finally clicked was soo neat to see! I have missed teaching little kids in the church since i am not doing Children's Church anymore. Working at VBS was amazing i have loads of fun memories from the 4 days of doing it!

To run...or not to run?!?!

K so the Pepperfest has a 5k on saturday the 16th. I have been told that i should run one. Now is my first chance to do so! I just dont know if i wanna go run it alone on my first time! Well we will have to see what happens. i think i may Just go and reg. at 6:30am!

I will miss....

K so tonight i had a blast hanging with a family i love to be around! We had pizza and a movie! The kids dont always call me by my real name they call me Cindy instead! I love it it sounds soo cute coming from them. Then their mom pointed out that they are going to grow up and stop calling me that at some point! When she told me this i looked at her and said i would miss it and it is soo true! Its what i have been called for the past 2 years from her kids and i love it and when they do grow out of it i will be a bit sad inside! but seeing as though its not now i will smile and cherish it each time i hear it from her kids! I love yall!!!

Over organization!

K well ever since i got back from camp i have been on this insane organization kick and its not going away! Yesterday i had a day off from my nanny job and i was in my room the entire day cleaning every possible thing i could and i ran to wall-mart twice yesterday and twice more today to get storage units! What is going on. Those who know me well know that i have never been like this ever. Normally when i go on a kick like this its clean the room so i know where everything is and I'm done. Not this time it seems like i am trying to micromanage my life! I mean having cubbies for things is one thing but buying MATCHING notebooks, journals, ohh and a PLANNER! NEVER like this! It just has been driving me insane to the point where when tonight when i went to go to wall-mart to see if they had 2 more of the cubbies i almost went overboard they STILL didnt have any and it started to stress me out. On the up side i did get the tent i NEEDED so that was a big upside! Well i cant wait to see what God is going to teach me and i have a feeling i am trying to take control of every little thing i can but like we talked about at camp "LET GO AND LET GOD!!!" thats the big thing i am trying to remember this week!!!