This little ditty was written by it's singers minutes before it's presentation. "Joy to the Fludes cuz' you're in France
We really miss you here.
Don't worry about coooomet, we'll make sure she don't voooomit.
It hasn't been snowing here. Has it been snowing there?
We hope you have a good Thanksgiving! (See next post for verse 2)
Joy to the Fludes, 'cause you're in France.
Mom and I were signed up for product sales at the Revolve Conference this weekend. Friday we left at 2:30pm to go what normally takes 20 min to get to the Rose Garden by 4pm check in. Well, 3&1/2 hours and many traffic jams later we made it to the conference. It was 6 and the conference started at 7pm. We checked in at the volunteer table and they said that they had found enough volunteers and we could join our girls in the conference then to show up Sat. at 7am to volunteer in sales. We arrived, early!, Sat. morning to be told that they still had enough volunteers so we could join our girls again. The girls got to go to this event because every volunteer was given two free tickets! So, we all got to go free! Isn't God good to us! Natalie Grant, (she has matured and gained much confidence in her singing a lot this year) Hawk Nelson, KJ5-2
, Rachel Hockett, Ayiesha Woods all sang. Jenna Lucado, Natalie Grant, Brie Reed and Chad Eastham spoke about being REAL. Being yourself and not who you think others want you to be. BOYS! Chad told us all the things we needed to know about boys and how they think and feel. At one point he laid on the floor in fetal position to demonstrate! Ask the girls for more info.! They talked about how we, as girls, (or gulls as Brie, from Australia says it) are a treasure and not a test drive or a target! They explained that no matter what kind of daddy you have God is your Father and you are Daddy's girl no matter what. We wish that you all were there with us!
When I gain enough knowlege and skill I will add some video footage I took of Natalie as she rocked the whole arena and had them jumping (even Grama!) :)
JESSICA LOVES EVERYONE (some exeptions). I had Chad sign my favoritest blanket eva. and now I'm being kicked off. ta ta.
Rebekah was gone to outdoor school for an entire week. :{ We missed her! She had great fun though. She tells me that she learned a lot about dirt, water, rocks, and vegetation. I told her she could have done that at home! She smiled and gave me a doubting look. By the pictures though it looks like she had a good time! You can also tell that she is tall for her age. She and Jessica are now the same height! She loves to tell me that she is going to be taller than I am! :)
I chaperoned for Rebekah's class outing to learn about Portland's bridges after her class had studied all types of bridges in the classroom. We got to see the drawbridge go up and stop traffic and we went out and layed down on the street while all the traffic watched us. We ate lunch in the bus/train station and at the end we all rode the new tram and the bus driver picked us up at the bottom. Definitely a fun experience. Thanks Mr. Leone.
Benjamin and Andrew were on the same baseball team two seasons ago. This past season Ben moved up to an older league. This meant that Andrew attended Ben's games but didn't play. Well, Andrew is a pretty content guy and did very well. One game the janitor had left the hose out and Andrew found it, of course, and spent most of the game playing with the hose. Once when I looked back to check on him he was contentedly imagining the hose was a snake that he was wrestling with...hence the picture!
Benjamin and Andrew took me to the Mother/Son Banquet that our church puts on every year. Aren't they cute! :)
We weren't celebrating my birthday even though I had my birthday beads on and it was the 28th, we had celebrated it the day before. We were actually gathering in mourning to send Janice and family away for FOUR YEARS initially to France and then Chad. Kevin, Janice, April and Donnie (Raymond didn't make it to the gathering)
what a beautiful site! For their parents anyway!
Carol had a girls sleepover for Jessica, Rebekah and I. We had banana splits for dinner, made bead bracelets, soaked our feet (thanks for the foot massager thing Mom) painted our nails, watched video's and wore our new socks. Thanks, Caroll!
Greg has been unemployed now for three months. He has kept himself busy by ripping all the carpet out of the house, painting the walls, okay I helped with that, and putting a floating, laminate, oak looking floor throughout our house. As you can see, it looks very nice. It makes the rooms look bigger and eliminates the asthma irritating stuff so that Benjamin can breath easier! Thanks Greg! Nice job.
As you can tell, Ben is enjoying his art and crafts at school.
The King also enjoyed Rebekah's volleyball game. Okay, maybe that is stretching it a bit but he did attend. :)
There you have it folks...Kord carvings for the year!
I think Andrew's scary face next to his scary face pumpkin wins the prize!
Happy carvings to you all.
Jesse had never carved a pumpkin before but he took Rachael to the pumpkin patch (aahhh,) and he helped her open it up and take all the gooey stuff out. I think he enjoyed it. They had to break and watch a few of the Gilmore or House series DVD's and actually haven't gotten back to carving it...? Oh well, they had fun anyway and Jesse played with pumpkin gutts for the first time.
