The February Bug

I have been told that the month that people are most likely to get sick is February. In my case, it's true. I woke up Saturday morning at a friends, feeling awfully cruddy, so they took me home. Sure enough, I had a fever, and some type of flue bug. My temp got all the way up to 104.1, but it's back down to 100.5 now. I'm going to have a lot of school work to catch up on! The only good thing about being sick, is being able to sleep in ;)
Here are some regular pictures of my siblings and me. :)

Friday, February 18

Job 5:9:
He preforms wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.

That's one of my favorite verses, it helps me through hard times, and I hope it can help you too.

Please pray for my mom as her back is hurting a lot. Please pray for God to give her the strength to make it day by day.
This week/today has been pretty regular. Tonight, (actually, right now) I'm at one of my friends from school's house. We have had a lot of fun tonight. Here's one of the pictures that we took :)  

A poem for my mom

I wrote a poem for my mom a while ago, so here it is. I hope you enjoy it!

Oh, the memories we have together,
I sure do wish they could last forever.
I don't understand why God is calling you home,
but there is a reason, that is for now, unknown.
We always walked together, but now we must part.
I want you to know, that you are always, in my heart.

I made a slide show with family pictures in it. I played the piano in the background, and said this poem. I gave it to her a couple of nights ago.  

Monday

If you haven't noticed, this is kind of a picture blog, so in about every post I make, there will be a picture.  :) My brother and sister have a blast on photo booth, so why not put some of our pictures on? :)   My mom has been feeling really crummy lately, and she has a doctor appointment coming up soon. Please pray that she will feel better, and that this doctor appointment will go good. We don't have school this Friday or the following Monday, and tomorrow is confy day for the middle schoolers! :)    

Quick Update

Tomorrow my mom has her doctors appointment, please pray that that will go well and that they will get only good news.  Tomorrow is a snow day, they posted that online at 8:30 tonight! I'm really looking forward to 16 more inches of snow, and so are Nathan and Emily! My parents are not excited about it at all, especially my mom! :)

Sunday

Again, This week was pretty laid back. I baby-sat yesterday, and my mom told me that before I went to baby-sit, I had to clean my room. My friend decided that she wanted to help me, so she did! We decided that we wanted to switch the places of the desk, and the piano. My desk is 2 different parts, there is the top part, and the bottom part. They are not connected. After we slid the desk once, the top part of the desk got lose, and we didn't realize it. I went to vacuum all the dust that had been under the desk, and then when I was done I was crouching down to pick up the things that were too big to be vacuumed up. As I was crouching down, the top of the desk slid off the bottom of the desk, and fell on my head! (That doesn't happen everyday!) Thankfully, I think it hit the ground first, and then hit me. I got a big goose egg on the top of my head, but at least it wasn't too serious! Like my dad always says, "pain is weakness leaving the body!" 

My siblings and I decided to take a few pictures on my laptop today, so here are a few!!

Serious faces: 

 Nathan

 Emily

 Ashley

Nathan's back hurt after this picture... oops!

All 3 of us!

Saturday

This week was a pretty laid back week. We all either went to school, rested, worked, and usual stuff like that. We did get a snow day Tuesday! :) We (School of Holland Christian) had Friday off, so I went to my friends for the night, on Thursday. It was really fun. On Wednesday, I got to see my camp Geneva counselor, that was really fun! My siblings and I played out side this week a lot! My parents think were crazy, but we don't care!  We have fun making forts, sledding, and doing regular outside stuff!   Coming in for hot chocolate, is always the best way to end a day.