Nae’s Heart

Well, I have been super busy this week!  I have subbed 3 days in a row for a K-4 class!  Two of those mornings I had only half an hour to get ready and therefore rushed through my usually lazy relaxed mornings!  It has been fun, but I would not want to teach K-4 full time!  Monday was the first day I was in there and one of the little boys cried all morning!  On Tuesday he cried until break and then he was fine!  Today he didn’t cry at all!  He was smiling and happy as can be!  I have really enjoyed being with K-4 kids all day, but enjoy the time I have with James in the evenings.  It is nice to talk to an adult! (:  One of the boys in the class is super hyper and has to really work at being good!  He did a great job today and even got a sticker!  He was proud as a peacock showing everybody his stickers!  As I am writing this I am sitting in James 5th grade classroom while he does lesson plans for next week!  We will stay here until church and then I get to go home and bake cupcakes for tomorrow!

Well, the Memorial service went well yesterday!  We all cried a lot during the service, but had a great time with family and friends afterwards!  I took some pics at the house.  It was different not having Uncle Larry there teasing everyone!  It was good to see all of the cousins.  It was a very long day…James and I left our house at 9:00 am and did not get home until 10:50 pm.  I was extremely worn out from all of the crazy emotions this week!  I got a good nights sleep and am feeling great today!  We are having a lazy day at home enjoying the time together!  Thank you all of the many prayers!  We are doing good.  

I will be heading to Arizona as soon as we find out when Randy’s memorial service is!  It looks like it will be in a couple of weeks!  Please be in prayer for my family as we face this death!  

Here are a few pics from yesterday!  If you click on the photos tab you can look at the whole album!  Enjoy!

Last night Pastor Matt talked about singing!  Not just because we feel like it is the right thing to do at church, but because we need to!  He emphasized that we need to sing when there are trials in our lives!  

When things are going our way our song is one of praise, but when trials come we tend to stop singing all together.  We should continue singing!  Our song my change and be sad, but it should still be a song of praise!  I have found that through this difficult time singing has been hard, but also very healing for my soul!  

The Bible has 400 references and 50 commands about singing!  We should sing at church because it is a sign of unity.  When we sing as a group we are saying that we believe what we are saying to be true.  We are collectively praising the Lord!  It is one of the greatest things that we can do as a church!  

I love to sing, but his points gave me a whole new perspective and appreciation for singing.  I don’t want my praise to be half-hearted or “just because I have to”  I want to praise the Lord everyday for everything.  Sometimes that will be difficult, but God gives us the strength and the song.  I want to honor and glorify Him in my songs!

Well we know when the funeral will be for my dad’s uncle.  It will be on Friday at 11:00 am.  Please pray for our family through this difficult time!  On a different note, I got another phone call today!  This one was also from my brother and he told me that my dad’s cousin, Randy, had been found dead!  So on top of all the grief surrounding my dad’s uncle (which was his mother’s brother) we hear that his cousin (my dad’s brother’s son) has died also.  Please pray for our family through this very difficult time.  We don’t know the specifics surrounding the death of Randy.  I my be taking a trip to Arizona if that is where the funeral is for Randy!

Well, my Sunday started out fairly normal!  I went to church and came home.  While James and I were fixing lunch James’ phone rang.  He answered it and then handed it to me.  It was my brother, Tim.  He had stayed home from church because he wasn’t feeling well.  The home phone rang and he answered it.  It was my Aunt.  She was calling to let my parents know that my dad’s uncle, (my great uncle) had been killed this morning!  We don’t have all the facts, but we were told that he went out to clean his gun and it discharged killing him.  I will keep you all informed over the next few days as to what is going on!  Please pray for our family!  It was a very difficult afternoon and will only get harder before it gets better!  I talked to some of my cousins this afternoon and they are all doing as well as can be expected for the circumstances!  

We will be attending the services whenever they are and will be spending time with the family!

Last night James and I had some great fellowship with other young married couples.  We played some games and had lots of laughs.  We enjoyed getting to know the other couples on a more personal, friendly level.  We see them at church, but don’t really get to fellowship with them.  We are going to be getting together with them every other week.  Some weeks we will play games, others we will read through a book about spiritual growth, and others we will send the guys away to hang out and us ladies will enjoy the time to just talk!  

Among other things,  I am learning how to edit photos using photoshop.  I took pics of a couple and am enjoying doing the editing.  The pics turned out good and don’t really need much editing, but it still fun to play with them.  

We are now looking forward to November 7th-9th.  James parents are going to be coming to visit us!  we are going to have Ruth with us that weekend also!  Many fun times ahead!  hope you have a great week!

So on sunday I had the opportunity to take some pics for friends of mine!  I was really excited and really enjoyed spending an hour with them!  I took 162 pics.  We had a great time!  let me know what you think!

So I have become a fan of lazy Saturday’s!  You know those Saturday’s were you have plans but nothing is concrete and you take care of things as the day goes on!  I have had a great day like that!  I had plans to do a few errands with a friend and then her plans changed so I wasn’t running errands with her anymore!  I had been invited by another friend to go to a nature center so I decided to do that instead!  James was okay with staying home so I went and hung out with Lori and Sarah.  We had a great time!  I really enjoyed not having a set schedule!  When I got home James and I ran the one errand we had for the day, which was going to get my allergy shots and now we are back home settled in for a relaxing, cozy evening!  James wanted to make dinner so I am a women of leisure.  The one thing that I enjoyed the most about today was the fellowship I had with the girls!  I have not gotten to hang out very often with them and it was so much fun to be a little crazy and have some girl talk!  I love my husband, but we both need time with our friends every now and then!  

Hope you all had a great Saturday!  Let me know what you did!

I was asked to sub for a teacher today!  When I got to Bethel I found out I was subbing for the High School math teacher.  Wow, flashback to High School. I still stink at Math!  I was helping out in Geometry and they were doing segments and I was lost!  

Right now I am watching the Algebra 2 class work out their homework problems on the white board!  I have no clue what they are doing!  I am using the answer key to check their work!

I have to give Algebra 1 a test in the next hour!  I am so glad that I don’t have to do math like this everyday!

I am really missing the fall weather.  It is October 7th and it is 84 degrees outside!  Where is the cool breeze and early morning fog?  I want it to be fall!  I know they say that California doesn’t have fall, but I beg to differ!  We get cooler temperatures, okay maybe the leaves don’t change colors and fall from the trees, but we do have a change of season. (at least we are supposed to)  I am sad that we are still baking and it is almost the middle of October.  Everything is decorated for fall, but the weather is not cooperating!  I wish I could go rake up a pile of leaves and run and jump in them!  Maybe I will talk James into going to the mountains after it snows!  Does anyone have autumn that they would like to  send to me?  I would share our weather with anybody who wants it!  Just send me an e-mail or call me!