What a great time..

We had a GREAT time with Deanna while she was home! She leaves really earlier tomorrow morning...She will be back in may..Please continue to keep her, and us in your prayers! =)
I hope you all have a blessed new year!! Oh..and, how was your Christmas? Please comment and tell me what your FAVORITE Christmas present was this year?
~Nikki

"Trust In The Lord With All Your Heart,

Lean Not On Your Own Understanding,

In All Your ways Acknowledge

HIM,

And He Will Make Your Paths

STRAIGHT!"

Proverbs 3:5

As we take Deanna to Kentucky Tomorrow,

I Know that I will miss her, But God will make away, and will help me through it!

Tomorrow we will be leaving to take Deanna to Kentucky for COLLEGE!!!

We also are making it into a vacation and going to a museum and dropping her off and just making it a vacation! It will be fun!! BUT HARD!

Please pray for safe travels!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

And I'll talk to ya'll when we get back!

~Nikki

Bye For now!

Hello everyone,
I'm writing right before we are leaving for the weekend!
I'm staying with my Aunt for the rest of the week! Expect a post Monday! Keep our family in your prayers! Deanna is going to help out at a teen camp in West Virginia starting Sat. and until then my family is going to our District Assembly! And i'm staying at my aunts! Thank you!!!
Have a great week end!
~Nikki

IHA and Misc!

Hello Everyone!

I thought I'd post because, it will be my last post! ! Don't get scatterbrained! I'm just kidding!

But it will be my last post tell the 21 or the 22. Because we are leaving for Holiness camp tomorrow morning! I'm WAY excited, I seriously have X's on my calender marking down the days! (is that ridiculous or what!) we all have been looking forward to camp and when its here we are SO excited! But anyway , I thought I'd post .

Well I can't give you any pictures because are computer has been acting dumb lately and won't let me upload any pictures! So I'll write what i was going to picture!

Well Pittsburgh won the championship!!!! They are the 2009 Stanley cup CHAMPIONS! (pro hockey team league!) GO THEM! Great job guys! You DEFEATED the HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE! Detroit Red Wings...... GO PITTSBURGH!!!!! If you can't tell, Detroit is our LEAST favorite team in the league! their fans also have way bad sportsmanship! Booing when someone gets hurt booing when Pittsburgh won instead of Detroit! And we just don't like the team in general! Well that takes care of the hockey season! But i will say that Detroit made a good comeback last night but it wasn't good enough! And through the playoffs I think Pittsburgh will be my new favorite team in the league for next season!

And our Black Hawks, our team in a town near by. This is no longer pro. They were beat out in the first round!

I no this is a random post but hey, it's something right?

Thank God, our garage sale went well! We are so thankful it turned out alright!

Oh and pray for Good weather at our camp please! weather in our town has been rainy for the past week or two. and I'm sick of it! we all are hoping praying, for good weather at camp!

while I'm gone, I encourage you to NOT leave my blog. Even though this might be my last post for a week or so, please take time, to go through my old posts, old pictures and fun times! until I get back. then you will get a post from IHA! And I promise it will be the 21 or the 22! I feel bad, because I've been slacking of on my blog lately, but when I get back, I'll post more often and post more pictures! I know my blog needs improvement, so please comment telling me what you would like to see posted more often on my blog. or polls or any ideas you might have! Please let me know! and even if you don't know, COMMENT ANYWAY!

Thank you and you have a wonderful week.

And please continue to pray that camp goes well!

THANK YOU! Your prayers are very much appreciated!

Goodbye for now!

~Nikki

Oh and PS. my pictures for the photography contest are under this post! Thank you!

Tornado warnings. PLEASE READ!

Well.... It all started.... Yesterday,
Yesterday We had quite the experience at church!! !!
I was frightened to death!
Sunday night we go to church. We live in the old parsonage of the church so we are right next door. So... We walk over to church and it is raining. It had been pouring, thundering,lightning, and windy basically non-stop all day! Well... I got to church and my friend tells me we are in a tornado watch(later I found out it was actually a warning!). I didn't think much about it. Then Pastor came to the pulpit and said, "If the sirens were to go off, we need to head out through the choir doors and down into the choir room. That is the safest place to be,'cause its underground." Well.... then I started to get a little nervous. Sure enough while pastor was praying for the offering, the sirens went off. Pastor didn't hear them at first, but I did and got up and went to the back to mom and asked her if we could go home! Yeah I know it sounds dumb, but remember we only live next door. I wanted to get home, not only would I feel better, but we could get our pets to the basement too. She said, "No we are going to the basement here." So we walked through the choir doors and down the steep stairs. I took a glimpse outside, thinking Who knows?? It might be our last!! Well... we got downstairs, said a prayer, and we all sang Jesus Loves Me. Then we hung in tight. Someone who was watching upstairs said it was absolutely down-pouring! A friend was getting calls on her cellphone and said in a town nearby a tornado had just touched down!!
Yeah that got my heart rate up a little bit! Well... then she got another call saying that in another town close by it was pitch black, hailing, and VERY WINDY!!! So there we sat! Pastor said that once the storm passed he suggested that we all go home. He wasn't going to be preaching tonight. So everyone waited. Then after we had been downstairs for about 20-30 minutes, the weather radio said that the warning would expire in a few minutes.
We decided it was good enough to run home! A lot of people came up to look out the doors to see if they wanted to venture out in this! We were also in a flash flood warning and the front sidewalk was full with water and mud! Quite the combination huh? So I put a plastic sack on my head and we ventured out. Once we walked out it started raining pretty hard again. So... we ran down the ramp and tried to scurry home as fast as we could. When we got in we were all VERY WET!! We got inside and turned the news on. It said another tornado touched down in Wisconsin and many other places. But we were going to be fine! The warning was over and the tornado in the nearby town went the other direction!! PRAISE THE LORD! So we got in some dry clothes and played a game!
It felt like something you would see in a movie or something! So that was the extent of our evening!
Please be praying for the people who did have damage from the recent tornadoes.
Also, please continue to pray for Dad and Tori who are in Eldorado Springs, MO. Thank you!
~Nikki

In Remembrance of.....

Rachel Joy Scott.

Today is April 20.....

One decade ago this girl and many others were killed.

I thought I would high-light this girl in particular.

This girl was a Christian, and put others life before hers.

I finished her book which I totally recommend!

What this girl did, should be a example to all of us!

Please get the book, rent it at your local library, or get it at your Christian bookstore!

Wherever you get it, just read it, it's called, Rachel's Tears.

Thank you.

Also, Please be praying for our family, as we are going through the circle of sickness!
Please be praying that our health will be restored. Also, Dad is in Grinnell IA, Please be praying for his safe travels, and for good services.

THANK YOU!!

And remember, Just keep Rachel Scott in your thoughts today. Alright? Please Comment!!

Thank You!

~NIKKI

HAIR-CUT!!

Hello All,

I GOT MY HAIR-CUT..... AGAIN!

I get sick of the same hair -cut, and my hair was just getting to the point where I needed to get it cut!

So...

...Before Shot.....

Drum roll please!!!!!
Ta-Da!!
What do you think??
I LOVE IT!
It is so fun and playful!
Please comment and tell me what you think!
THANK YOU!
Oh... and please pray for this week, we are taking on a part-time babysitting job. We are on like a "Trial" this week to see how it goes! Please be praying!
Thank-You!
~Nikki :)

Chicago pictures!

Hello everyone!

I finally got to posting about Chicago!

Here we go!

We took a train down to down town Chicago - waiting for the train to come in!

The pastors daughter - Becky came along with us! It was way fun!
Here we just got off the train - we were trying to figure out which way to go!

I don't know what building this is, but I had the idea and mom tried it! I thought it was very cool!

Here is a picture of a train so you can see what it looked like!

We ate at the "ESPN Zone" It was very neat!

There was a police officer on a horse!! We found that rather funny!

here is a taxi!

This is at the ESPN Zone!

This is from the top of the Sears tower!

That block looking thing, with the antenna things on the top? That is another block from the sears tower.

The view was terrific!

This is looking up at the Sears! You see what I mean by the block?

Heading back aboard the train! I think tori figured out that we walked around six miles that day! YIKES!

Mom & Dad with pastor Mark Else and his wife Paula.

The two ministers!

Paula and mom.

Me and a couple of my friends from the church,

Olivia and Hannah!

Tori, Becky, Deanna, and me!

Becky had just gotten there from work at the hospital.
We had a great week!

Thank you for your payers!

Dad and Tori are in Climbing Hill IA. Please pray for there services!

Thank You,

~Nikki

CHICAGO!

Hey bloggers!

We returned home from Chicago on thursday, and had a very fun time on our "family vacation"!

Thank you all for praying! We had a great week of revival, and a lot of fun!

PIctures will be coming soon, but for now here is a picture to hold you over!

Dad and Tori are going to Climbing Hill IA for a weekend of revival today! Please pray for safe travel, and a wonderful week-end of revival!

Thank you!

Chicago

BYE ALL!!!

We are off to the Windy City!

Please pray for a safe trip there and home, and that the services will go well, and lives will be changed!!!

I'll be back probably on thursday.

Thank you,

~Nikki

Pictures... Part 1

Hello all!
Can you all believe that it is already 2009!!!

It's RIDICULOUS!

I'm sorry I haven't been posting much lately,

But now that Christmas and New Years is over I'll be getting back into the routine of posting!!

This is only part 1 of these Christmas pictures!

There will be like a part 2 and 3 coming up soon!

Anyway here are some pictures!

Enjoy!

Making sculpy people!

It is a tradition that every Christmas we sculpt a Nativity person to add to our homemade nativity set!

All of us have our own that we add to, it is fun!

Tori painting Joseph .

Me molding my Shepherd, (right)

while trying to copy the Shepherd to the left!!

Deanna holding her Shepherd proudly!

They are all about ready for the oven, then when there done we paint them!

Me with my gingerbread house that mom and me made together!

Making fudge 2 days before Christmas, that night my dads family was coming up! It was a lot of fun!

The finished product of the fudge!

Tori having a little lick!

Or a big lick! LOL.

Cooking!

yummy!

This picture was to prove that while mom, Deanna, and me were cooking that Tori sat around and did Nothing!

NOTHING! ZIP! NADDA!

Mom holding up her peanut butter balls proudly!

yummmmmm..............

.......mmmmyyy!

Wrapping up our gift cards for some family members!

Are CUTE little cousin SOPHIE!!

-Brother-to-Brother- Convo!

CHEERS!

(with pop)! LOL.

Mom, Rachel, and Deanna!

G'pa & G'ma Rittgers!

Brian & Lindsay's 1st Christmas married!

Heidi & Chris!

Uncle Bob going for seconds!

Cousin Nikole and Me!

Rachel ready for anything that comes her way!

LOL.

Opening up our Gift cards and some gifts!

LOL. This is very unique!

"What do you think?"

Me and Nikole showing off our gifts!

Sophie opening her big "bunbob" A.K.A. Spongebob pillow!

She absolutely adores spongebob!!

This tree is has a very neat background!!

This tree is my G'ma's, She made it and it was destroyed in the flood. That night, my uncle came over and took it out of the junk pile without them knowing and fixed it up and gave it back to them for Christmas!!

Playing pictionary!!

Finishing up Christmas letters!

Playing pool Christmas eve with my uncle Kenny!!

Then that night we went to bed... anxiously awaiting the next moring!

There you have it!

Have a great 2009!

What are some New Years Resoloutions that you have planned to do in 2009??

I will have more pictures up in a few days!

Be praying for Dad & Mom who are in Fort Dodge IA.

Pray that all goes well, and that they'll have a safe journey home!

~Nikki