Favorite Verses

Just wanted to share these verses that I recently read. If I had to choose some favorites, these would definitely be included.

These help me while I strive to die to myself:

Galatians 1:10
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Thanksgiving Weekend

Oh goodness. My weekend was once again, so enjoyable. How I cannot wait for Christmas break now! :) Only 2 more weeks of school!

Wednesday I didn't do much... slept in, taught piano, took a nap, and then went to my very first Central IL singing in Bloomington with Kendra and Adam.

Thursday we went to my Uncle Rob & Aunt Lily's right after church for our very large lunch. I really don't like Thanksigiving food very much. Turkey is just ok IF I have the dark meat... otherwise it's too dry. I kind of like dressing, I like sweet potatoes, I hate pumpkin pie(actually pie in general), and the cranberry sauce I've never tried, and I plan to never try it. The salad and vegetable I usually like. So... I didn't really eat that much cause it's not really any of my favorites at all.... although I felt like this year was the best in a while.

Haha. So there's my opinion on the food... since food in general is very important to me. :)

Anyways, here's family sitting around the table...

Charlie-- I love his big blue eyes!

Audrey is just tooo cute!

Grandma with Audrey-- her dad taught her this cheesy smile.

Some people relaxed and took naps after lunch...

Bridget finally arrived around dinner time!

Haley & Preston sat by Aunt Ruthie and watched her do her needlework(or whatever she was doing) for the longest time. They were in awe.

Holly & Toby and baby coming in February! :)

We were there for the whole day, like we usually do. Surprisingly, I those days never get long or boring to me. I love just relaxing and hanging out with family around the fire.

I was going to go Black Friday shopping... but I guess sleep is just too precious to me. :) I got some really good deals online though! Instead of shopping, my family put up the tree and all of our Christmas decorations. I just love getting everything out and transforming our house to Christmas! It's just so warm looking with everything up.

That night we had a big Schick Thanksgiving at the Fellowship hall. I left early with Jenna and a whole bunch of girls and hung out at her house for a while. We watched videos of us from when we were younger... even though I didn't do much talking in them, they were still sooo cute! (Thanks for spending a lot of time trying to find them, Aunt Dawn!)

Saturday morning we had my mom's friend and some of her family from Lester for a brunch. After they left, Adam & I went shopping with Jenna and Jamie. :) Even though I had intentions of starting my Christmas shopping... I ended up shopping for myself most of the time. :/ I bought presents for my mom to give to me. Hahaha... So I actually got Christmas shopping done for her. :) We shopped for quite a while... and then met Uncle Scott & Aunt Dawn at Logan's for dinner.

My family actually skipped the festival of lights parade that night. I can't believe we did it... I can only remember doing that once because of rain. But, to tell you the truth, I was kind of relieved I didn't have to go. I guess I'm finally growing up.

When we got back from dinner, Bridget was here(oh yea, Heidi & Luke too :). She is suuuch a sweetie. I cannot get enough of her.

I was holding Bridget today in church, and she was just smiling and cooing at me, even though I wasn't even talking to her very much. She has the cutest smile! If only I could catch it on camera!

So, I can't believe I didn't take any pictures of anything except for on Thanksgiving day. Sorry. :/ I don't know why I always forget. Jenna & I are usually pretty good at taking pictures.. but not this time. Actually, I did take a few of Bridget that I will post later.

I hope you all had a very relaxing and blessed Thanksgiving like I did! Now back to the real world for a couple more weeks. It's gonna be hard to go back... but the end is in sight! :)

relaxing weekend... part 2

Since I wrote my weekend post while I was at school, I couldn't post the pictures I took. So here a go...

The Youth Symphony! So much bigger than when I was in it.
The concertmaster of the Peoria Symphony played a solo

Babysitting Miss Bridget. Check out her eyes... this tends to be a very typical look. :)
Uncle Adam getting some snuggle time.
She looks very concerned....
Kendra loving this.

Michelle wasn't sure what to do with her. :) (and yes... look at those eyes again!)

Ellie was there too, but for some reason I didn't take a picture of her... I guess she's not special enough. ;)

I get to spend the night with Miss Bridget tonight! Let's hope she lets Aunt Wendi get some sleep .. :)

(You can tell someone's a break... you never get this many updates in 2 days. :)

relaxing weekend...

Ahhh. This weekend was marvelous. I did absolutely no homework, except for just a tad on Sunday afternoon.

Friday morning I slept in and did stuff around the house. In the afternoon I went to Lori's scrapbooking workshop.. which I haven't been to in months and months. I only got a few sides done, but it was still worth going to.

I only stayed until dinner because I had to quick rush off to the Youth Symphony concert with miss Holly. I was so glad she decided to go with me... a violin student after my own heart. :)
I just had to go because I miss being in orchestra.
It was good to see all my fellow stand partners, and to listen to all the orchestras again. Some people saw me and were like "awww, it's an alumni!" I guess that should make me feel old...

Anyways, they did wonderful, and it kind of inspired me to pull out my violin again, which I sure haven't done much since school started. :/

After I took Holly home, I went over to Jenna's to hang out....since we never do that anymore... so sad. :( It was good just to hang out and not have anything pressing to do.

Saturday afternoon I cleaned @ congregate living...


In the evening I got to babysit Bridget. I thought I would get her to myself, since my parent's were gone the whole weekend and weren't around. But then my friends came over for our bible study... and I had to share her. She was really perfect the whole time, as usual. She was especially happy after messing her pants for the first time in 4 days and spitting up all over me. :) Surprisingly, I got quite a bit of time with her... even though everyone had to take their turn(s).

For some reason we stayed up way to late talking. It was kind of nice to have my whole family gone... we didn't have to worry about being too loud and all that stuff. :)


Sunday afternoon it was just Adam and I home. I worked on my paper a little bit, while Adam built a fire in the fireplace. Then we both took naps in the living room with the warm fire... it was so great.


I invited myself along with my brothers over to Phil and Jessica's on Sunday night. They ordered pizza.. but I was the only one there to really eat it right away, because Lukerz got a deer! Good job, buddy! He got this one with a shotgun and another one earlier this season with his bow! So Adam had to go help him take it to the locker and such. They came over to the Fritz's later.
We just sat around and talked... but it was fun.

I kind of felt like I was being a bumm the whole day, and really the whole weekend. But it was sooo great. :)


In my usual 3 hour night class tonight, we got out in just 45 minutes. YES! So now I'm in the library waiting on Jenna, who I carpool with on Monday nights. I'm supossed to be writing my paper that is due tomorrow morning.. which I was for a while, but I thought maybe writing this post would get me in the mood for my paper and inspire me.
Let's hope it works.

So just one more late night of homework, and it's Thanksgiving break!

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Remember to count your blessings!

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-Wendi

Crazy Weekend

Wow. What a weekend.

It was awesome, but also very stressful.


Everything with the invite went surprisingly well. Praise God!

We got to the fellowship hall at 10am on Saturday and got busy making 11 large pans of lasagna.. which is equal to 22 9X13 pans. Thank goodness for everyone's talented math skills with figuring out the proportions. :)
We worked all day until the guests started arriving at 2ish. While everyone went to different work projects, I stayed back and helped with the health kits at the Fellowship Hall. After working on those for just a bit, I found myself back in the kitchen helping the mom's out. I don't know what we would have done without them.. they did the things we had no clue how to do...like using the ovens and baking the lasagnas.... so thank you ladies! :)

We ate right on time (actually a little earlier)... and fed approx. 190-200 people!! What a turnout! We were planning on 200....and so we really had the perfect amount of food left.

The singing and the speaker were great.

We left the fellowship hall pretty soon after... because I was slightly shot. Ellie and I kept 8 girls at Ellie's house, which was super fun. I finally got to meet some people!

I loved how a minute after I met Amber she said to me, "yea, I know you.. because I read your blog!" Hahaha. :) I know you're reading this right now Amber! :)
I got to meet a few other really fun girls, too. I just wish I could have had more time to get to know them better!

On Sunday..church was great, singing at the nursing home was good, and dinner/snack went well.

The only downside of the weekend was my tests that I knew were coming up on Tuesday... and and the rest of my friends and I were in the kitchen most of the time, and didn't get to meet many people until Sunday.. or really at all.

So thrilled the weekend went great. Hopefully now we will actually get invited to some places!


I am also SUUUUPPPPEEERRR happy my hard week it over! I don't think I've ever been so stressed out/overwhelmed. Although I only had a couple of hours of sleep two of the nights... I survived. Only with God's grace and COFFEE! :)
Now all I have to do is wait, wait, wait, for my test scores.

SO now I only have one more day of class and a paper due... and it's THANKSGIVING BREAK! And then just finals left, and I have a over a month off for CHRISTMAS BREAK! :)

YAY! I CAN do this! :)

Procrastination

Yep, that's my name. At least it should be. (just ask my mother...)

Why am I writing this post at the moment? ....

You guessed it.. because I'm procrastinating.


This semester has been crazy as far as everything being due on the same day. Every time I just think... ok, I just need to get through two tests and a paper due on this one day. BUT... it's happened every time this semester for 3 of my classes. So frustrating. (If that didn't make sense, basically I'm saying it's crazy)

The bad thing is... since I procrastinate... that when you have everything due on the same day, and you do it last minute... there's A LOT due last minute, and it's impossible to accomplish.

You'd think I'd learn my lesson.... but I haven't really.

Tuesday I have 3 things on the same day, and I've known this for a couple of weeks now. But.. I didn't really start studying until.... today.


But, I guess I have all weekend, right?
um.. actually no.. because our young group is having an invite, and that will take all day Saturday & Sunday, and I also have to babysit most of the day on Friday night, and clean... and make food...

AHHH!! I'm not freaking out or anything.

Ok... well I'm going to go to class now and maybe getting some coffee...

and I am going to FORCE myself to study tonight.



Does anyone know if there is a cure for this disease????