The Nunkey at the Zoo

Several times a month we take Bella to the zoo. It is her absolute favorite place in the entire world (not joking!!). Every day she asks if we can go to the zoo, and when we cannot we tell her to zoo is "night night." :D Here are pictures of her having an amazing time at her favorite place.

"Look, Kiki! It's the nunkeys!!!"

Leopard sign

Thankful for long car rides home. :)

"We're at the zoo!"

Touching the sting rays (fitsch according to Bella)

"No, I will not take another picture."

"I all done, Kiki."

Bella loves sitting on just about everything. 

Bella being cute ("No, Kiki. I'm adorebubble!!")

Ribbit

Tigers are one of Bella's
favorite animals. 

Special zoo trip with Aubree (11), Ethan (7), and Bella (3). 

Super Taeb and Kiki

I was looking through old pictures of me and Caleb and found these. :D

Sweet brother and sister

Dark knight 

"I am Khyri!"

"Tada!"

The mysterious figure. :D

Super Taeb and Kiki. 

Nunkey Girl

I haven't put anything on here is a while, so I will just catch up little by little.

Today the nunkey was in a strange mood and decided jumping off the couch making faces was quite enjoyable. :D

My favorite. :)

10,000 Reasons

"Bless the Lord

Oh, my soul. Oh, my soul.

Worship His holy name.

Sing like never before.

Oh, my soul.

I worship Your holy name."

         This song means so much to me. Many, many memories are connected with the song and the words are so uplifting and powerful. My most recent memory that goes along with the song is one of my favorites (next to Worldview, so it rates pretty high :D)

         It started out as a different Sunday than usual, but little did we know how different it was truly going to be. Kiwi had spent the night and we were also signing together in church for offertory. Any guesses on which song? We were both thankful that there was a breakfast that morning so that we would have time to practice before people started to filter into the sanctuary for church service. 

          Before we ate breakfast, we ran upstairs to practice and make sure the sound system was working correctly. That turned out to be the least of our problems. We had the wrong version of the song on that specific iPod and the iPod we needed was entirely out of battery. Our first thought was to run downstairs and see if anyone had the right charger for the iPod that we knew had the correct version of the song, but it turned out no one had it with them, so we moved on to plan two. At this point there were four of us running around together trying to get this to work. We were able to get onto the pastor's computer, but then we realized that it really was not doing any good because we could not plug the iPod in or download the song from the computer. Plan three. McDonald's was right down the street, we just had to get there so we could use the wi-fi connection and purchase the song. Time was running out, and my dad was no where to be found, so a friend drove us to McDonald's. 

           If anyone ever wondered, the wi-fi at McDonald's is really slow. This was not the time that we wanted to find this out. At this point we had about half an hour before church started, and our friend who drove us was running sound system, so he had to be there in fifteen minutes. Of course this added absolutely no stress at all. :) Eventually, we were able to buy the right version of the song and rushed back to the church to practice. Everything went smoothly and we were relaxing. 

           Right before church started one of our friends said to us, "Now the song has a lot of meaning maybe it didn't have before." And, boy, was she right. Just that morning we had at least a hundred more reasons to bless the Lord. The performance went great, and we were both meaning every word that we signed. 

           The Lord took care of everything and we are so thankful that He did. :)

P.S. For all of the lyrics to the song click here. You can also listen to the song.)

Church picnic

Last Saturday was the church picnic. :-) This is on of my favorite events of the year, next to the fall festival. We all gathered at the park and shared delicious food and goofed off together. Sharyssa, Rebekah, Katherine, Josiah and I were having shoe throwing competitions off of the swings. It was quite enjoyable, especially watching Josiah's face when he almost hit someone in the head with his shoes. :-) I love all of my friends and it was really good to get to spend some time together when we did not have to be respectful because we are at church. Sometimes we can be really crazy, but that is perfectly okay with me!!! :-)

Feed My Starving Children

Almost every year for my birthday, I go to FMSC. I love going there to help others and to take the focus off of me. God called us to love our neighbors as ourselves, which is what we are doing at FMSC. This year we had cupcakes afterwards made by a family friend. They were really good. My favorites are the key lime pie cupcakes, although the others are still delicious!!!!! It was wonderful having friends there to help me, including all of the younger kids who came to help. They all did so well and were having lots of joy. :-)  I cannot wait for next year to go again!!!!

Happy belated birthday!!!!

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY SHARYSSA!!!!!!!!

I was so mad at myself for forgetting to post on her birthday. Sharyssa is one of my dearest friends, and even though we probably cause more trouble for ourselves than we mean to, I will claim her as my sister without the slightest bit of hesitation. I love you my dear malicious Kiwi!!!!

Kiki :-)