picture happy & actual entry
It’s been too long as usual. And I promised you all pics last time I was here annnnd I’m finally here to do it. Since I have tons of pics to share the easiest way for me to do it is post the links to each album for you guys. Soooo enjoy and leave me loves. I miss you guys. I mean it. I really do miss my diary and my readers. I love you all and God bless. On to the pics!
This first album are a few more pics from my visit to my home town back in May.
http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n441/southernmami25/ky%20trip%202009/
The next album is of Luke and Jettie’s first visit here a week after I left from visiting them back home. lol. They missed me that quickly I guess.
http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n441/southernmami25/first%20visit%20from%20luke%20and%20jettie/
This month we had youth revival so here are a few pics from there.
s339.photobucket.com/albums/n441/southernmami25/youth%20revival%2009/
And as soon as I got home from the youth revival (we went to Hot Springs the last day of revival and stayed over night) my little cousins and other relatives were visiting and waiting for me.
s339.photobucket.com/albums/n441/southernmami25/my%20little%20cousins%20amani%20and%20nasir/
So I wrote about my trip home in my last entry. Now I’ll hit the highlights of Luke and Jettie’s visit, Youth Revival, and my relatives’ visit.
Luke and Jettie’s visit:
They came to visit June 6, a week after I came home. It was a spur of the moment thing. They called me the night before to ask me if I had plans and headed out early the next morning. They got here around noon. We chilled out for about an hour or 2 watching tv so they could rest from the 4 hour drive. Then we headed out with my bro Josh and his friend David went to Zaxby’s to eat. We ate and chilled out there for a couple hours . Josh’s friend Matt joined us then we hit Walmart after destroying a salt shaker. Oops lol. Luke, Jet and I left Walmart to get them checked into the hotel room I rented for them. We chilled out and watched tv while Luke took a nap (he did all the driving here). After a long nap we headed out to bowl a couple games and played a few arcade and pool games too. We came back to the hotel room where Josh and David joined us. They bought beer and we had tequila and margarita mix too. I didnt really drink because little sister Jettie is only 15 (only person in the group who was under 21) sooo I didnt want her to feel left out. I did taste Luke’s version of a margarita. He soooo does not need to become a bartender. He made it almost all tequila. It was gross. My bro Josh didnt drink either. Josh and his firneds went to Bistro to dance and stuff and eventually made their way back to the hotel room afterward. Josh’s friends Matt, Phil, and Jen eventually joined us at the hotel room as well as Phil’s friends Collin and Stephanie. We had that little hotel room packed out. Matt was wasted so he took a shower and crashed for a bit on one of the beds. We eventually had to kick everyone out of the room around 2 because we got 2 complaints from the next room about the noise. Everyone made it home safely because Josh drove so no worries. I stayed with Luke and Jettie and shared the bed with Jettie. The next morning they came to my house to chill out for a bit with me and my parents. They headed out around 4 pm and that was that. We had a blast.
Youth Revival:
July 15th- 18th. First night we had a guest speaker and our praise team perform. Mrs. Lisa and a few other adults (me included) helped some of the youth put a dance together to Mary Mary’s The Sound. We performed it the first night and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Worship was awesome and we had a few kids/youth come up during altar call to have us pray over them. One of them, Summer, came up to me and her little brother,Austin, and she was all crying her heart out while I prayed with her. Poor baby I hugged her for a bit and gave her a few words of encouragement. She is always wanting to be around me and she is so sweet. Her and her siblings’ situation with their mom (alcoholic) is horrible. Its sad. Second day we had a fun day with a bunch of games and activities. The kids/youth had tons of fun and got messy and such. We all went home for a few hours and came back for the evening service. We did our dance again and had a guest group to do a few dances/performances. There was a little 5 yr old girl, Kristin, came and stuck with me the whole night until it was time for her to go home. I had met her once before. She is too cute. The third day a few of our youth were able to go to the Hot Springs trip. We had to be at the church by 6 am so we could get the vans loaded up to head out (4 hour drive there). We got to the camp site we were staying the night in and got the beds together. We all had lunch then headed to Magic Springs amusement park. We spent the day there and let the kids run around riding rides until 7 pm. Once we rounded everyone up we headed to Ci Ci’s pizza to eat dinner. We headed to the camp site to get everyone showers afterwards and settled down for the night… eventually. The kids/ youth were still hyped up from the day. The next morning we had breakfast and packed up. We stopped along the way at a park to have lunch and let the kids run around and have fun. I got home around 5 pm where my relatives were waiting.
My relatives’ visit:
My cousin Malik (their dad), Amani (7), and Nasir (3) finally came to see me. I hadnt seen Amani since she was 2 and I had never seen Nasir. They were tooooo cute! Amani took to me instantly and literally wanted to go everywhere with me. She wanted to be like me too because she asked me to paint her nails and toes exactly like mine, do her hair exactly like mine (even though hers is much longer than mine), and put some of my makeup on her. lol I had a little mini me for 2 days. I let them watch movies, play the Wii,and play games on my phone and laptop in my room. They stayed over night. When it was time to go to bed, Amani didnt want to go in Josh’s room where her dad and bro were sleeping. She wanted to sleep with me so I braided her hair in 2 braids before she went to bed. The next morning I did her hair again and put very little makeup on her. She couldnt tell the difference and she didnt care. As long as she had some of my makeup on she was happy. lol. Later that evening my Uncle Gabe came to visit with his 2 boys, Issac and Imanuel. They all played Wii in my room so it was very crowded in my room. They all had a blast though. I didnt get a whole lot of pics of Gabe and his boys though unfortunately because they came late in the evening and didnt stay for very long. All of the relatives that visited live an hour away so I’m sure I’ll see them again eventually. I really enjoyed them all being here. I got lots of love hugs and
kisses from the kids. That whole week was super exhausting but it was worth every minute.
I’m going to end it here. So that was a somewhat quick run down of what all has been going on with me. I love you all to pieces. God bless and note me! I want to hear how you all are doing. I’ll try to catch up with you all’s entries but be patient with me. 🙂
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