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

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

Picture Happy,

Hello everyone,

This post has a lot of pictures, But I am way behind in posting!

We have had so much going on!

So....

Here are some pictures of the Christmas Program and our trip to Indiana!

Have fun!

I had to post this picture of our CHRISTmas tree!

I thought it was really pretty!

Can you believe it is so close to CHRISTmas!

The Christmas program,
Aubrie, Olivia and August.

I played Buffy the modern day angel and Tori played Peggy Sue the angel of the past!

The program was based off of the original Christmas Carol.

The 4 angels, Emma played the future angel, Ashley played kinda all of the angels put together, if that makes sense, she was the main angel, Tori, and I.

Aubrie was so cute, she played Mary.

Buffy, A.k.a. me!

All three of us girls,

Deanna played the choir director!

Peggy Sue, A.k.A. Tori!

Deanna putting lipstick on Tori!

Tori looked so cute when she was done!

Greeting the cast after the program!

Evangelist gathering, it was so cold on the way home!

Tori forgot her hat so she was wearing a scarf around her head!

The place we stayed at is a really big Amish community!

Here, they all came in to eat and they put all of there hats and coats on the rack!

There was a buggy on the hitching post in the motel parking lot!

We thought this sign was really funny!

It was raining really hard, and the electricity went out!

We ate in the dark with one candle on our table!

YIKES!!

Mom and Dad!

Me holding up my wreath that is made out of a balloon! someone there made one for me!

Us with some of our Evangelist friends Jimmy Dell and his wife!

Me with my dear friends the Raeburns!

I highly recommend them!

Here is there website address,

http://www.rednoseministries.com/

(They are really good at making anything out of balloons!)

It was so much fun!

Wish you all a merry CHRISTmas!

I will be posting again soon!

~Nikki

Home Once Again!

Hello everyone,

We Got back from Goodland Kansas on Friday and I now thought it was about time for me to post about it! We had many Funny adventures! Like Tori's hem coming out of her pants 15 minutes before church starts,

Walking in a Chinese restaurant when we didn't know it was Chinese, (three of us including me don't like Chinese!)

And many many more exciting memories that We say We didn't want to make.

Well anyway here are some pictures!

Enjoy!! *Smile*

Us three standing in front of the church!
A HUGE Replica of a Vincent van Gogh painting!


The welcome center in Colorado.

COLORADO ROCKS!!


The High Plains Museum
The Dwight Eisenhower Museum and Library!
One of the graves of the Eisenhower's!

His boyhood home!
Welcome to the Eisenhower's place!



Singing in a church service in Goodland Kansas.
A picture of us and some people at the church!
Us with pastor Bob and Theresa!

I hope you enjoyed the pictures! I will be leaving for Missouri Valley IA. this Thursday and will be back on Monday! I'm not sure if dad is bringing his laptop or not, but if he is I will be sure to look at your guy's blog! I hope you enjoyed the pictures, and please keep me and my dad in your prayers as we go to Missouri Valley!
Thank you ,
God bless you guys, and it is great to be back home back to my computer! LOL.
Thank you again,
~Nikki