Silly Boys.... Trucks are for Girls!

wow..know I haven't been on here in a long time! so I have a lot of catching up to do. Well last Thursday.. I didn't do much of anything during the day, if I did, I can't remember. My memory is a little fuzzy but I got the rest of the days covered. But Thursday night was Get Real. We had a good time with that. We had some girls open up and talk somethings. Mostly what we talked about was letting God be in your life and trusting him, and trusting him with your life. The girls all had different things to say and I was shocked that they are starting to open up and tell some of their feelings. Yea.. so thats what pretty much happened in Get Real!
On Friday, I woke up early and went to the Airport with Manda Lou and her momma to pick up Heather. Heather is Manda Lou's best friend from Benton but she moved to Las Vegas with family so she came down to visit Manda Lou for two weeks. Well, after we picked her up from the airport we headed off to IHOP and we ate some breakfast. Then we went back to their house and we hung out all day. Then my momma ended up coming over and my dad too. We ended up eating a very yummy dinner all together. It was alot of fun. Then the girls asked me to sleepover so we stayed up and watched Made in Manhattan. It was my first time seeing it and it was great!
Well, Sat morning I woke up and hung out for a little while but I cam home because I had to clean house. Michelle, Judie, manda lou, and Heather came over to spend the night. It was great b/c we went to Walmart to get our stuff for Vacation Bible School which Started up on Monday. Well, we had a great time just hanging out. We sang Karaoke too, that was so much fun. I love singing!
Sunday was Fathers Day.. and everyone woke up and the family all headed to church. It was a great service. After church we usually stay for Gear Groups but we came home and then left to go eat lunch together as a family. We went and ate at Copelands. It was nice, we just had a sandwhich and chatted a lot. Well then we came home and gave our gifts to dad. We got him a huge duffel bag, cologne, three stooges, shorts, fishing vest, and some fishing leurs. He loved his gifts. Well we just hung out the rest of the day and for dinner we fixed some soup and some german sausage. Later on that night Kasie called me and asked me to go to Covington and Mandeville to pay a bill and she was starting a new job in Mandeville and needed to find the place so she wasn't driving around for it all the time. We had a lot of fun just hanging out b/c I don't get to hang out with her at all ever.
Monday, I didn't do much of anything, I worked on Vacation Bible School projects all day and then I headed up to the church, we decorated the wall with trees and flowers and grass. It was fun. Me, Judie, Cayla,and Kris all teach the Pre K. and we ended up having 17 four and five year olds. It was crazzzzyyy! Well, after the long day of running around with kids a bunch of us went to Outback to eat dinner together. It was Me, Cayla, Newly,Kris, Haley,Jen,Travis,Lance, and Judie. It was intersting listening to everyones convos. I don't know it sort of seems like I have good conversations one on one with every single one of them but when it came to chatting with them all together it was crazy and a little diffucult. But I guess, I need to warm up with them some more. I sort of feel like they see me as a baby, a child. I don't know. Maybe part of it is b/c Cayla is with me. She is so immature and the girl does not think about what she says and I always have to cover for her. I hate it. It almost makes me hate to be with her. Don't get me wrong, I love my sister bunches and bunches but she is very manipulitve and very immature. I also think people see her as way older b/c her body is more grownup than her mind and her age. She is only 14 but looks like an 18 year old. So anyways. I guess b/c she is always with me, I just feel like I am a child too. I just am praying to God to help me do make adult decisions and not feel so intimidated. I know I should feel good about these things b/c I am so close to the youth and I have a better of chance to maybe get an idea of how they feel or what they want, it just seems they don't turn to me. They always turn to someone else. I know I am prolly reading to much into it, but I love to help people and be in charge of making awesome activities and helping people getting organized. It seems like its all been taking away from me. But another thing that sort of bothers me is, at church its seems if your not a seminary student than there is no youth leader position for me or anyone else not in seminary. I mean just b/c I haven't went to school about God dosen't mean I don't know a little somethign bout him.
Another thing, I think they found out somehow, how I felt about that situation and just wanting to be more appreciated and that I am not just a youth. But I think they think I am dumb or something. For the summer Get Real, they started these new things called SideKicks, Well they tried telling me, well you are going to be partners with Judie and blah blah your not actually a sidekick, you will be teaching youth, well hello every youth leader has a sidekick and they arn't suppose to teach youth, they are just suppose to support.
I don't know! I am being selfish about the whole thing, I am just going to pray to God and ask him to help me not to worry bout it so much. I just like being in charge of things. Not like "in charge" where I boss people around but use my own brain and create something that helps people and makes them learn and makes them have fun. I also would like for them to just stop treating me like a child b/c it sure feels like it. I guess I am at that stage where I am fighting for my adulthood, who knows.
So anyways, Tuesday my ex suitemate Stephanie asked me to come with her to the Car lots to help her with picking out a new car. So we test drove like 4 or 5 cars. She found one she really likes but her mom needed to Co sign with her and she also wanted her mom to see what she was intersted in. But it was great fun just to hang out and talk about things gong on in our lives. I came home worked on a project for VBS that night and then headed to the church. Judie and I talked to Jennifer and had it all set up that we were going to split the kids into two groups b/c it was too much. Well we had to run it by Suzi the Childrens Ministry Leader first and she was like.. "no b/c they should be together, this is how we do it on Sunday mornings." so we ended up keeping them. Well we ended up getting 21 of them. Well, we had a million helpers , Me,Cayla, Judie, Kris, Mrs Vickie, Haley, Brauny,and another grandmother but it was still crazy and we finally just told Suzi that we were splitting them up tomorrow night. So after all the kids left and everything was cleaned up we had a worship time and had a sermon preached to us and then we ate pizza together. We did this also with a bunch of people that came from macolmb on a mission church with our church, it was fun meeting all the new people and hanging out.
Today, I decided to cut the grass for my dad so he wouldn't have to do it this week and then I headed up to church early today to help out with somestuff. It was great working on some stuff. We ended up splitting up the kids and it worked out a lot better but toward the last 10 mins they still just get very hipered up and go absoulte crazy!
This VBS experience is fun and intersting and I am having a good time meeting all of the little kids, they are so great and just fun to hang out with.
Well, prolly write again soon, next few days.
Till Then,
mandy

well, i ended up going to my friend Marcy's party! It was a lot of fun. Marcy and all of her friends go to Sacred Heart which is an all girls school in New Orleans. The party was sort of the end of school year party or something. Yea but the girls were great to hang around and its just really funny to watch them. Also, some of my friends were there from school and so we had a good time.
Well the next morning was the REAL thing! This time I drove to Hammond for something and not just a joyride. It was actually worth it. Well, we worked on our first recruitment party and then we worked on our skit. We took some songs and then we downloaded the Karaoke version of the songs and then we changed the words to make them go with Theta Phi Alpha. Then we made dances up for them. I came home and I helped out with dinner and then I just hung out at home.
Monday.. what did I do Monday. hmmm oh yea.. well Cayla my sis she made the highschool Flagteam and they had practice until 12 noon but then she asked if she could go with her friend to the mall and someother places. So my mom and I made plans with Mrs. Laneen and Manda Lou and Grandma to go eat Taco Bell and then we went to the Grocery store. Well after we did that Mrs. Laneen invited us over for some cake so we went and hung out over ther for a while. Well Mandy and I had made plans to go to Lances house in Metarie and we were meeting Judie, Michelle, Jennifer, Joy, Steven, Andrew, and Danielle over there. We had a great time. Well we were going to ride with Travis to Metarie. ON his way over to pick us up, he hit a curb and blew his tire out and bent the crap out of his rim. So we had to change it and do all of this stuff. Then we needed to find another way to Metarie. so Chris ended up driving. We were the only folks coming from Slidell. Well we finally got there and it was great. I loved when all of the girls layed on the floor and we put our heads all in a circle and took a pic. Its going to turn out awesome. I can't wait to get them developed. hehe so we stayed at Lances until about 1:30 am and then Mandy, Michelle, and me rode with Jennifer to bring Michelle to her vehicle at Judies. After we dropped her off we went to New Orleans to Jennifers dorm. It was pretty cool. They all complain about there dorms being funky but I really didn't think they were bad at all.. especially compared to Lee Hall dorms that I stayed in. Which were funky.
Well Tuesday morning we woke up and Travis and Chirs were on there way to pick us up at Jennifers and we headed back to Slidell. Well when I got home from Slidell, I got cleaned up and all dressed up pretty to find a job. Well I filled out a lot of applications everywhere so hopefully somebody will call me. Eveyone please pray for me to get a job. I need one bad. Well then I came home and helped mom clean some house. Well at 6:30 I had to babysit for the Triplets. ( They are so much fun and funny to hang out with.) The boys are 4 yrs and they come up with the funnies things to say and with three of them you get three times the amount of funnies. lol After I babysat I met Steve and Sarah at CiCis Coffee Shop but Sarah and I both were craving Ice Cream from Baskin Robins which was next door. So we got some yum yum ice cream. I didn't do much after that , just chatted to them for a while longer and then I came home to go to bed. I was exhausted.
Well this morning I tried to sleep in but it seemed that eveyone and there momma kept calling me, but it was cool. So anyways I did some house work and then my mom came home . We ate lunch and then Mrs. Laneen called and asked me and mom and Cayla to help out with decoration at the church for Vacation Bible School. We all had a great time . Well I got to come back to finish this but I will write when i get back.
Till then,
mandy
ok back now... yea so the best part of today while decorating at the church we had one of those fold out tabels with all of our decoration stuff all over and Cayla was sitting on top of the tabel working on some sun that we were making. Anyways, I am working on this huge tree and I am taping up the branches and stuff. All of a sudden I hear this huge bang and the end that Cayla is sitting on Collapses and Cayla falls on the ground and everything come flying off the end of the tabel. I was laughing my head off and so was Cayla until she realized she hurt her leg and started to get angry at me for laughing. But I could not help it. It was so darn hilarious. hehe. I wish you could of seen it.
Anyways, after we finished at the church we went to Winn Dixie to pick something up for dinner and we cam home and fixed some dinner.
I have been enjoying my summer pretty much. Sometimes a little boring but other than that its great!
Michelle: I am doing some remodeling at my house too. We are redoing are bathroom and we went and bought all kinds of new stuff for it. so my mom are taking down the border and we are going to repaint. Its going to look so cute. I can't wait for it to get done. My dad is going to get some white paint from work and bring it to us.
Well, I hope to see ya tomorrow at Get Real. Hope a lot more youth are there tomorrow night. It will be great.
bye bye everyone,
Mandy

Lets see... Haven't been on here in a while. Well I haven't been doing to much. On Thursday my mom, sis, and me went shopping. It was a good day just to get out. I enjoyed myself. and we also went shopping for my dad for Fathers Day. I hope he likes what we get him. hmmm
Well then Thursday night, I went to Get Real. It was a small group, just b/c everyone was in Haiti and the bus was broken so we didn't get to pick anyone up. But it was a good little group. We brought all the girls to one room and we discussed about just trusting God with/in your life? and we discussed events in our life that have already happened and how we know that God just helped us through it. It was great! Well after Get Real a bunch of us went to the coffee shop and talked and sang music and then we went and ate chinese food. It was fun just hanging out with everyone.
Friday I was a bump in the log. I did nothing! but later on in the evening my Best Friend Kasie called me and asked me to go shoppin with her so I could help her get all of her grocery shopping done for her boyfriends surpriize party. I hope he is very surprized!!! I couldn't go b/c I have a workshop to go to in Hammond.
I did something very stupid today! I got up at 7:30 and rushed to Hammond to be there for 9am for a workshop. Well when I got there, no one was there. so I called a few people and find out, it starts at 6pm tonight. So I came back to Slidell but thats ok b/c now i am going to my friend Marcys party. I would rather be going to that then the workshop, so Iam just going to go in the morning for the workshop.
Well, I will be around later on, till then.
Mandy

Sorry it took me so long to get back. Its been a few days. Not a whole lots has been going on. Tuesday, my mom, sis and I got up and we voulunteered for the Penny Party. Its this little carnival that two families put together to raise money for the "Make a wish foundation." We were raising money for a little boy to go to Disney World. I think we made a good amount of money for him. I hope his wishes and dreams come true. But now I am reading my latest blogger and I sort of told you about it. But the results came out great. A ton of kids showed up
and none of them went home empty handed. Well, it was so hot and humid that when I got home I had to bathe, it was terribly gross. But then I took a nap and helped my mom clean up some around the house. After that my friend Ginger asked me over for dinner and then a bunch of us watched movies. It was Ginger, Steven, Chase, Marcy, Heather and Me. We watched K-19 with Harrison Ford in it. It was a good movie. Then later on Dan headed over and he brought the AniMatrix so we watched that also. It helped my understand the Matrix a little better. But I am still not into that anyways. But my friends are all big huge Anima fans. Some of its really neat but other stuff I don't get. I guess its a issue I will never understand.
Well, I left her house close to 1:30am and I came home just to get on the net for a few and then I headed to bed. I was so tired.
Well today, I just helped my mom clean the house. Thats the only thing I hate bout summer and moving home from college. I feel like I am always cleaning. Especially, with my mom here all the time. but anyways. We cleaned and then my dad came home from work and we fixed dinner and then Ginger called me again. I ended up going back over ther for a few hours tongiht. We had fun hanging out and just goofing off but then Heather called us up and asked us to come fishing with her. So we headed for her house. But it is so hot and humid here and the bugs were out everywhere. They LOVE to eat my flesh, so I decided to go inside and watch some TV with Marcy and Steven. It was a nice thing to do b/c there was air conditioner and no bugs. LOL I didn't stay too much longer after that b/c I just sort of wanted to come home and be a bum and get on the computer. Like I do everynight. haha. Its becoming a bad habit. I am becoming to addicted.
Well, I hope ya can email me at Penguins511@yahoo.com
Mandy

Today was good, I went to bed at 11pm last night and I woke up at 11am today! Such a good sleep! I needed it though. I have been having tremendous headaches!
But anyways, today I helped a friend move some matresses to a new apartment she moved in and then I met my mom and sis and some friends and we all just hung out.
Tonight we went to this pampered chef party, and it was really nice. Of course I didn't buy anything. ONE, I have no money to buy anything, TWO, I don't even own my own kitchen, my parents do but not me! But it was still fun to see all of the cool items! Also, I need to learn how to cook before I can go and buy any of the cooking utinsels. haha
I was upset, tonight was a Bible Study but is on the other side of the lake and I didn't get to go? Michelle, call my cell and let me know how it went! I am going to come next Monday though! It sounds great to attend and some fun experiences!
Tomorrow I am volunterring at a Carnival. Its called the Penny Carnival! We are raising money for this little boy that has some very rare disease and he wants to go to Disney World! So we are helping him with that! I think its terrific. I know I am only doing a little part in making his dream to come true. But with out everyones help he wouldn't be albe to eventually live his dream. I know it will make him so happy.
I love helping little children.
5 years now I have been helping this little boy David. He is 8. and I started to help give him Physical Therapy when he was 3. He was diagnosed with Herpetic incephalitis when he was born which attacks the brain and eats it away. By the time doctors caught it, the whole right side of his brain was gone. So now we give him therapy to teach the left side of the brain to do what the right side of the brain is suppost to. He has become my little bro now, and he is just so adorable, and so much fun to hang out with. Both him and his little bro Austin.
Its funny b/c his mother and I have talked about why God gave her a son with disabilites and not a healthy baby, she never drinks, dosen't smoke, excercised, ate healthy.. and there are mothers out there that do nasty things during their pregnancy and turn out with healthy babies. But then she realized that God new if he gave the mothers that didn't care about their children in their womb than they wouldn't take care of the child when it was born and growing up. Give it the special care he needed, which she gives to David. Its funny how God works in mysterious ways! Have you ever seen anything like that? or heard of anything like that? I think we should encourage our mothers to be responsible while pregnant, to maintain a healthy pregnancy and educate them.
I have this friend that lived in the same dorms as me at school this year. She only lived a floor above me. Well, she was dating this guy, they had been together for like 3 yrs. All through there relationship they were sexually active. Well they broke up and three weeks later she finds out, shes pregnant. Well, I talked to her and she hasn't told her parents yet and she dosen't want the baby, its a scary thing. Well I see her a few weeks later and she is still puffing away on cigarettes, one after another. Its crazy! She is a responsible girl when it comes to grades and a job. But taking care of a human being inside of her, she just does not care. I don't get it. Anyone that reads this. Please Pray for my friends Jennifer. Please pray that baby is able to live a wonderful healthy life, but most of all, able to live a life. Especially since she dosen't want to be a mommy!
A part of me wants to tell her that I want to adopt the baby! But I know thats NOT where my life is right now. I hope she decided to keep the baby or at least give it up for adoption and then an awesome family decides to adopt them baby. I am going to pray so hard that it works out.
Well, if ya have any comments and want to chat email me at Penguins511@yahoo.com.
P.S. Michelle I am still trying to figure out the shoutout thing but everytime I click on support shoutouts it tells me the pages are unavailabe. hmmmm, maybe they are reworking on the pages. I will just try agian later on.
Bye until next time,
Mandy

sorry bout the double repeat of blogs. Well.. yesterday I went to my friend Gingers house. She lives off of the bayou and we went fishing. Well the tide went down so there wasn't much of a bayou left except about two feet deep of water and a lot of seaweed and lilly pads. But we did catch a nice gar fish. It was so much fun catching him. There were 5 of us fishing and everyone caught him once but then he would break the line or tear free from the hook. It was a blast trying to get the sucker on the dock. After a while a bunch of us separated and Me Heather and Rachel went to eat us some Chinese, yum yum. Rachel slept over cause she didn't have a ride to church in the morning so she came with us and so her and I came home. We checked our email and then headed off to bed.
This morning church was interesting. But my day at church was a little bit more interesting. I worked the nursury and I had 6 babies and toddlers. Talk about a load. So I got my lil sis Cayla to help me out. It was fantastic. The kids are so cute and great. We just love them all.
After the church service, my duties of nursury were relieved and I went to the Gear Group. Our church had about 5 different Gear Groups that we can attend but I decided to choose the young adult Gear Group. Every week we talk about couragious people in the bible. We talked about psychic mediums and telling the future kind of material that is throughout the Bible. It was neat to think about. I still wonder about ghosts and spirits, trying to connect with people on earth. Tell me what ya think? hmmm!
bye
Mandy