My Crazy Life

  This past week, we've had something going on every day. Monday we had CHOICE. Tuesday we had piano lessons. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday was Missions Conference. This year's Missions Conference was amazing. (They all are of course, but this one was especially good!) Adam Thompson (an awesome preacher) was the main speaker and then we had several different missionary families come in. The Harris family presented Wednesday, the Baumans on Sunday, the Morris family on Friday morning, and the Suttles presented Sunday morning. (I have totally forgotten who presented on Friday night.)  Every night was a late one (Thursday and Friday being the latest) and we are still catching up on sleep. Mom got the flu and today everyone is just laying low and doing a little bit of school here and there. One of Cassia's goats had babies and she is in the process of taking care of one. (I will let her fill in the details over on her blog so you can find out about farm life here.)
  The weather is finally warming up. Yesterday was 60 to 65 degrees and it was AMAZING!!!!! I got my first sunburn of the year, OUCH!! Today is supposed to be 75 degrees!! Yes, the kids are and will be playing outside!! haha.
  Yesterday, we had the first All-American church picnic after service. We had an awesome time, but I thought of last year's picnic and the Snyders lots and lots of times. I remember last year, we girls hung out all afternoon, running around in barefeet, running in and out of the bus to get things, eating, laughing, talking. enjoying each other. Missed that a lot yesterday!!!
  Well, I must go and be responsible and dilligent and work on Physical Science. (Anybody want to do it for me? I'll be glad for the relief from agony and torture. lol)

Miss seeing this cutie. She's been sick. (Old picture. She's huge now!!!)

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day all you crazy, wonderful people! Was so glad to spend the day with friends and family, though I missed Mom a lot. (Don't know how you've done it every year for the last several years!!) We had an awesome party with our closest friends and all we girls were more than grateful that we are not guys! We played games in our warm house while our nutty brothers went out and played football in the deep snow! (You must agree with me that they are at least slightly insane!!) I thought about you Snyders several times today and hope you all had an awesome day!! I'm so glad to know you girls better, (not so sure about the guys, jk) and can't wait to come down!!

   Love you all! Hope everyone had an awesome day!

Back to HOPE

Today was our first 2015 HOPE. It went really well even though so many people were missing. A few aren't returning for the year, others are on vacation, and many people are sick. It was small, but everyone had a great time. My classes were great. Mrs. Glushefski taught life skills and taught on my favorite subject. Grammar!!! I loved it! For gym, we "excerised" with Mrs. Pinzon. That was awesome! We "stretched" to our knees (instead of toes), jogged in place for about two seconds, and then did two jumping jacks. Mrs. Hanley would've flipped if she had been there! We played human foosball and that was a lot of fun!! My team totally lost, though with 0 to 4! Everyone had left church by 1 pm which is unusual. HOPE was great and I can't wait for next week! So glad we're back, but missed the people who were unable to be there today. So glad that most of them will be back by March.

Christmas Day

 

Fall

A leaf pile my sibs and I raked
up. Me next to it for comparison.

This fall has been great. Whooping cough was a drag, but everything else went well. Thanksgiving was awesome and it was great getting to see everyone again! I haven't been going to Jessica's for a while, but I did yesterday and Lanie is HUGE!!! =( =)I have helped my grandparents move. Grandma F moved in early November and Grandparents M moved in late November, but we were packing all in between! We are very thankful that they are finally closer and we love having them right next door! CHOICE has been going well, though not many souls have been saved. HOPE has been cancelled, so all of us are pretty disappointed about that and are eager to start up again in February. I was able to go to a nursing home with the Daires, Zavidils, and my mom and older bro on Sunday and am hoping to go to another next Sunday with the Robinsons. The Christmas season is approaching and the business is halfway around the corner already!! The Jewish home is next Friday. Choir practices have started for the concerts at the mall and church. This year, our concert at church will be on a Friday!! We have started piano lessons again after being off for I-don't-know-how-long. I have missed the Snyders tons and am continuously thinking about them. Mike is getting ready to graduate in the spring (we're all praying he does) and Cassia is ready to be 16. Hannah, Leanna, and I have all gotten so much closer this fall and it has been awesome to be their friend. Leanna will be deserting those of us in King's Choir in April and we are quite upset about that, but we will bravely struggle on and hope for the best. ;D

Cassia and I got braces

My Lanie-Lu-Lu who is 5 months old!!

Absolutely love this face!!

My 14 Birthday

  A few weeks ago, I turned fourteen and I spent the day at Letchworth State Park with family and friends. We all had a great time and it was a beautiful day to enjoy God's creation!! It was chilly, but a couple walks, playing catch with a football, running up and down stone stairs, etc, really warmed us up!
 Scenery

 

Family and Friends

Us four and no more! haha

The McCracken way of starting a grill!

Zane-monster!!

Gloria

Playing with the football 

Mike

Zane and Nathan 

The girls

Zane and his stick

Liz and Cass

Crossing a creek. Dad, Cass, and Hannah
 took the hard way by going directly across
and surprisingly, only one of them got wet. The
one who got wet (not surprisingly) was Hannah.
Felt so bad for her, but she was a great sport about
and was VERY thankful that Cassia had an extra
skirt and sneakers and she had extra socks.

Cake

Presents

The older brothers of the family keeping an eye on everything.

Hannah and I

The ladies

AHH! WE're gonna fall!