National Day of Prayer. May 7, 2015

Kenzie spent the night.  So nice that she drives herself to school now. 

Bill, Marti, Bev, Dave and Keith at National Day of Prayer.  So good to pray for our nation with other believers.  It was an amazing time of prayer.

Dave Strong, Jim Gabriel and Mark Eisenlord were 3 of the speakers/prayer leaders.

These two cuties had so much fun in the sprinkler.  Never saw kids love the sprinkler so much and play in it so long and not complain about it being too cold.  They were so fun to watch.

Peyton by the first sprinkler we tried.

Peyton and Isaac running to jump over the second sprinkler we tried.

Now they were on their 3rd sprinkler.  Love Peyton's expression.

More sprinkler fun!

Love this cutie and this picture!  Her hair was so beautiful with all the long curls.

Love this cutie and this picture too!

Kenzie spent the night so I woke her up a 6 a.m.  As is her usual Nana routine, she asked if she could sleep 10 more minutes.  Then 10 more minutes.  She got up after that and got ready for school.  She was ready to go out the door at 7:15 a.m., which is earlier than when I take her to school.  Spent time praying for our nation as soon as I got up.  Also spent time outside reading the Bible because it was so nice outside.  From 10-10:30 I prayed for BayShore Camp because I had signed up to take that segment.  Right after that I left to go to Catherine's for a hair cut.  Her mom was there visiting from GA.  We had a nice visit.  I took her one of my dangles I have been making and she really liked it.  She showed me the baby's room which is really pretty.  She also showed me all the adorable baby clothes hanging in the closet.  I asked Sarah if she was aiming for Mother's Day and she said no, she wanted to have the baby today.  After I was done there, I headed to Vicky Taylor's house to help her pack and clean.  Lots of work to do there.  Picked up coney dogs, came home and dad and I ate.  Vikki called and she and the kids came over so the kids could play in the sprinkler.  Loved watching them have so much fun.  We rode our motorcycle to Biggby's for our Faith Rider's Officer's meeting. 

Vikki was ahead of us.  When we got on Bay Road, we got along side of them and the kids were really waving to us.  So cute!  Dad did a great job leading the meeting.  Looking so forward to tomorrow when I watch Eli and pick up Adam at school.

Awe....Kenzie was standing on the front porch and a bird flew out of the next above her and a baby bird fell out.  So sad.  It was so tiny.

Kenzie picked me some beautiful flowers.  She has been doing this since she was a little girl.

Did laundry today.  Have been trying to wait until I could hang them outside to dry, but it has been raining every day.  It turned out nice today later, but I had to go to a hair appt.  I got there and waited on Catherine's swing on the porch, then got a call that she had taken Sarah to the hospital.  I went over to Vikki's and she, Melissa and I visited and watched the kids on the swing set.  Then we went for a mile walk around her neighborhood.  Melissa pushed a stroller, Vikki pushed a stroller, and I walked with one of the kids (they all took turns).  Left  for home and Kenzie was already at my house.  She drove her car, took me to kids care group, we stopped at 7- 11 on the way to get Gabe a slurp and she went to her youth group.  She came into my room to write our memory verse on the white board for me.  Then she drove me home.  She is careful and does a good job driving.  Catherine called me and it was a false alarm, no baby yet.  She is cutting my hair tomorrow, Lord willing.  My kids in care group were fun. We learned about Jesus coming with the clouds and every eye will see him.  After our story we took a sheet (Melissa brought one because I only had king size and they were too big).  It was our cloud.  The kids all held on to the edge and one would take a word of the memory verse I gave them under it and the rest would try to see if they could read the word.  The kids loved playing this.  Then we made a craft, then we played jump the river.  This was our last lesson.  Next week we have our pizza party.

Kenzie heading off to her first job at Culver's.

She had some wonderful customers tonight.  

Bruce, Melissa and the kids stopped in to see her.  The kids were really excited to have her take their orders.  Melissa said she did a great job.  Way to go Kenzie!  

A little side note....Vikki and I were staying away until she got confident in her job a little.  Joked with Melissa that she didn't get the memo.  Anyway, they had a good time and Kenzie was so happy to see them.  

We went to our breakfast this morning.  Almost everyone was there.  Cleaned the rest of the house and dad cut the grass.  We had a good care group.  Our last lesson was tonight.  It was on Revelation and how Jesus will be returning.  Also how great heaven will be.  We were all pretty excited talking about it.  Thank you Jesus!  Thanks Vikki and Melissa for the pictures.  I borrowed them from you.

No pictures today!  I didn't remember to take any.  I got up and went to Sport Zone.  Walked 2 miles. While I was walking, I saw an older man that I have talked to before.  He is very kind and sweet and I hadn't seen him in a while.  This time he was walking with a walker so I was a little concerned.  He was ahead of me a ways, but he stopped on the track to rest and catch his breath.  I caught up and stopped to talk to him.  I asked how he was doing and he told me he was tired and out of breath.  I asked him if he knew Jesus.  A lady was passing us by and she looked back at me and said, "yes he knows Jesus".  Then he told me he did.  He also told me he had had cancer and his daughter's church in California prayed for him, and his other daughter's church prayed for him and he was on a lot of prayer chains. He was healed of it!  I asked him if I could pray for him and he said sure, so I laid hands on him and prayed for him right there on the track.  That's the second time I've got to do that for someone there.  Praying God does signs and wonders at the sports zone for people he puts on our hearts and in our path.   God is Awesome!
Came home and went to Michaels to get more keychain circles for my dangles.  Picked up some keys too for them.  After that I got groceries at Aldi's.  Vikki came over with the kids to pick up her diaper bag and some weights I had to give Kimmy.  Bill and I went to Trinity Rider's chapter meeting tonight.  We had a nice time and a nice dinner.  So good to see all of our old friends.  Two people want dangles that were at our table.  One wants 2 and ones wants 1.  Praise the Lord.  Want to keep making money to give to Run for the Son.

Kenzie with her work uniform on.  Ready for work on Tuesday at her first job at Culvers

Kenzie looks pretty cute!

She does have hair!

Me, Bill, Vikki, Pastor Weldon, and Melissa at the 25 yr. Celebration of Shield of Faith.

Me and Pastor Weldon

Vikki and Julie

Vikki and Chuck

Kenzie, myself, and Pastor Weldon trying to find pictures of Vikki when she went to school here.

Pastor and Kenzie

Finding more pictures

Kenzie getting wrestling tips

Pastor Weldon and Melissa

Chuck and Bill

Today we went to church at Shield of Faith.  We helped start this church with Pastor, Kathy, and the Gagers back in 1990.  It was fun singing the songs from way back when we were there and nice to see everyone.  Nice to honor Pastor Weldon and Kathy too.  So many people's lives have been touched by them and the Love of Jesus.  Good hot dogs and hamburgers afterwards, and yummy cake.  Emotional walking into the old school and seeing Pastor Weldon and Kathy.  Lots of great memories.  We left and I went with Vikki and Kenzie to find Khaki pants for Kenzie for work.  Also shoes and a belt.  Came home and filled my hummingbird feeder and oriole feeder.  Relaxed in the sunshine for a while too.

This is the group of Faith Riders who rode for Run for the Son today!  Beautiful day in the 70's.  So far today with this group we raised $3,760.  Praising the Lord!  Thanks Kimmy and Vikki for knitting dishcloths which helped raise money.  Love my girls!

Getting ready to head out.  That's Wes and Gayla's old house in the background.  They build their new house next door.  When I was a kid and we lived down the road, the other kids told me Marilyn Monroe lived there.  Actually at that time is was Buella Warner who live there.  She sent many kids to Bay Shore Camp from her Sunday School Class and was a good friend of Wes and Gayla's.  Before she died, I told her what the kids said and she laughed.

One of our stops in Sanford along the way!

At our restaurant in Clare.

Bill and I in front of the restaurant!

Next stop was Cops and Donuts.  We were happy when we looked in the room there and saw Paula and Denise Nelson, Jason Moore, Justin and Sara McCoy and another couple.  They were riding their motorcycles too.

Bill and Sabrena ended up doing donut time at Cops and Donuts.

Oh, no dad and I end up doing donut time too!

Our next stop was at a huge Amish Store in Clare.  Loved seeing the horses.

I took a picture of this for Kimmy.  They put a decorative plate in the center.  Thought it was pretty cool.  It's hard to see, but the wood frame around it is white wood.

Thought the boys would like to see this spiderman motorcycle.  It was at one of our stops.

Our next stop was at the Rail Side Restaurant for ice cream.  So much for my diet today.  

Hailey singing in the choir competition.  

Hailey before she plays the violin in her music competition.

Hailey and her group playing!

Hailey did an amazing job playing her violin.

After the competition I stopped at Vikki's and spent time with these sweeties.

It was so cute how Peyton and Eli were sitting together when I came in and Isaac and Evan were sitting together.  So cute!

Evan got a new haircut.

Took Max and Evan to Old Town Coney to get root beer floats.  Jack said his was a little spicy.  He didn't like it so I ate it (just what I did not need) and I got him an ice cream cone at McDonalds.

The boys had fun on the trampoline until Max started feeling sick. The root beer float and jumping didn't mix.  Poor boy.

Went to Frankenmuth for Hailey's music competition.  She was in 3 events.  She did amazing in all of them.  During the time between events, I went to Debbie's to take her birthday present.  We had a nice visit.  She mentioned how Grandma Schmidt died on her birthday, Aunt Dorothy was buried on her birthday, and Aunt Milda was buried on her birthday.  She celebrates their lives now.  Kind of strange that that all happened on her birthday though.  I went back to the competition and walked around the circle around the library with Melissa.  It was nice to get some exercise.  I went to Vikki's afterward.  Kimmy and Eli were there.  Kenzie was getting a lesson on how to cut Bryce's hair.  She did real good.  Kim and Vikki went for a walk while I stayed with all the kids.   A kid ran into Kenzie's car when she was leaving school.  Luckily she wasn't hurt and not much damage to her car.  Felt bad for her as it was only her 2nd day driving to school.  I left to pick up Jack and Max from school.  Went in because I had to get Hailey's coat, book bag and glasses.  Max talked about how much he liked root beer floats so I took them to get one.  I didn't get one for myself though.  As you read above though I ended up eating Jack's.  We came to my house and the boys jumped on the trampoline and rode the scooter with papa until I had to pick up Melissa and Hailey to go to "Girls of Grace" dance.  We ate at Cracker Barrel first.  We loved the worship presentation.  It was beautiful dance and worship.  Had such a fun evening together.