Graduation!!

Hello everyone...

Monday we got back from Olathe Kansas, for my cousins graduation from Mid-America Nazarene University.

CONGRATULATIONS RACHEL!

Here are pictures from her day...

We also all stayed at the same motel and played games in the lobby!

it was really fun!

We also went swimming.

All of us ready to go to the Graduation.

Uncle and his niece!
Rachel & Tori

Niece and Aunt

Rachel with her parents

Me and Rachel

Deanna and Rachel

I LOVE YOU!!!

Niece Sophie and Aunt Rachel!

Cousins!

Nikole and Me

Friends..... Room mates...

Rachel and Jennifer

This will probably be our Christmas picture for this coming Christmas! LOL

Tiffany,Rachel,Jennifer & Jesse.

BEST FRIENDS FOREVER!

SOPHIE!

Sophie ready to go to the pool.

Cousins!

We went down to the motel breakfast area and talked had pizza and played games.

ready to go swimming,

(our suits are under are Pj's! )

Reading her cards

Making her "speech"

Playing Partini!!

We had a Really Good time!

Here are some videos they are REALLY FUNNY!

Also, I sprained my ankle on a trampoline.

Please be praying for my recovery!

THANK YOU!

~Nikki

GIVEAWAY!

Hello all! I will be posting pictures ASAP from kansas!

Also, Hannah, is having a Earing giveaway! They are lovely!! Click HERE! to see them!
Enjoy!
~nikki

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

51!!!!!

HELLO EVERYONE!!

TODAY IS A VERY SPECIAL DAY!!!

TODAY IS MY 51st POST!!! YIPPEE!!!!

I THOUGHT I WOULD POST AND THANK YOU ALL FOR GIVING ME A WONDERFUL FIRST 51 POSTS! TRUST ME I'LL BE POSTING THIS AGAIN IN 49 MORE POSTS!! LOL.

I'VE HAD A BLOG SINCE SEPTEMBER 4, 08!!!

I ENJOY READING YOUR BLOGS AS WELL... I KNOW MY BLOG STILL NEEDS A LOT OF WORK, BUT WE WILL GET THERE. JUST KEEP COMMENTING!!!!!

THE MORE YOU COMMENT THE MORE EXCITED AND WANTING TO DO MORE I GET FOR MY BLOG!

SO I REALLY HOPE THERE IS A LOT OF COMMENTS ON THIS POST, AND THE POSTS TO COME!!!

ALSO! I THOUGHT I WOULD THROW OUT THAT TODAY THE TEMPERATURE GOT UP TO 95 DEGREES!!! YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

~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 :)

Easter eggs and snow!

We had a Easter egg hunt at our church.

It went pretty well!!

They said that we had a total 285 that is including the parents! So we had quite a full church!

Here are some pictures.

Mason the Easter bunny!
I met this really nice girl, Alyssa! she's a year younger than me!

They did face paint! It was really cool!

Thelma,

Dad!!!

Scrambling for eggs!

Handing out more sacks!

August and Ashley.

My goofy cousin!!

Peyton and his eggs!

Pastor Pete!

Kelly, Tracy and cousin Lindsay!

Olivia!

Me counting my eggs. I had 145!

Alyssa had 114!!

My two great cousins,

Lindsay and Brian!

(They were married last October)!

Isn't the kid cute!

Then we had some of the most ODD weather!

We had SNOW!!!!

There was a lot of snow!

I thought this was a cool shot!

Well... That is it!

Well all talk to you later! And PLEASE COMMENT!