What A Week

Wow, what a week it has been! We started off by going to a funeral of a friend of ours, so that wasn't a very good beginning to the week : ( On Tuesday we headed home from MI, so that pretty much sums up the day for that day. Thankful that we had a nice, safe trip home though! On Wednesday it was "catch-up day" and the day to finalize our orders for our school's sub sales. Everything had to be ordered and accounted for, so we could assemble them on Thursday. On Thursday we had an early morning meeting in Kokomo that went very well, thank the Lord! Once we were done with our meeting we headed to GFS to pickup some of the sub supplies and then off to Hobby Lobby to get the rest of the photo supplies for Talon's state competition. Once we got back from there, we enjoyed lunch with some friends (thanks Matt & Bobbie for going to lunch with us : ). This is something we rarely get to do with our friends since Jerry is on 2nd shift, but it was nice to go with them. After lunch I conned Bobbie into going to Lafayette with me to get the rest of the sub supplies, thanks a bunch for going with me it helped me a ton! I dropped Bobbie off and then headed to the school where the kids and I unloaded all the sub supplies; 180 lbs. of turkey, 150 lbs. of ham, 55 lbs. of salami, 1500 sub buns, and 960 slices of cheese, YIKES!!! We, the kids and I, headed into the kitchen and began to get everything ready for the "Grand Sub Assembly" : ) Around 5:30 some parents joined us and helped out a lot (thanks Bobbie & Cathy). At 6:00 the teens began to arrive and we started the process of assembling 1500 subs, whew! Some of us were there till midnight, ugh! I would like to THANK all the parents and teens/kids that showed up for this event, I REALLY appreciate your help!!! I would also like to thank Mr. Coleman for rewarding all those teens that diligently helped, with: "No homework for that evening" AND "you don't have to be to school till 9:00a.m. tomorrow morning", what a guy!!! : ) Needless to say, Thursday was a very full day/night, I was up from 6:30am to 1:30am! Friday was somewhat full, I headed back to Lafayette to get more sub supplies and then back to the school to get sub orders out the door and delivered. We had a lazy night Friday night with eating subs and watching a movie together as a family. --Saturday we were back at it again, up and out the door by 9:00 for our firs-time-ever...FCA Sports Tournament, YEA! Since I was "in-charge" of the ticket table, that meant I had to be there before everyone else, so... : ) We had a team cancel on us, but there were still 3 teams there to compete. We had a fun-filled day of Volleyball, Basketball, Table Tennis, Pace Bowl, etc. We took 2nd in Volleyball and 3rd in Basketball. I am proud of our kids, they seem to improve a little with each game they play! Our girls are really beginning to work together as a team and our boys, well...they are learning that they need to work as a team : ) They shocked us in their final game, they were down by 20 points after the first quarter and only lost by 7, WAY TO GO BOYS! --Today I stayed home with 2 kids that weren't feeling well and after my blood-pressure went wacky on me, I decided I needed a little extra time to relax too. Now that this week is over with, I look forward to a slower week next week, but time will only tell since we have had another 130+ sub orders come in, so... Have a great rest of the weekend!

We Said Goodbye Today...

We said our final, earthly goodbyes today to a life-time friend! Today we celebrated the life of Gail Fritz, a family friend for over 40 years! She passed away unexpectedly on the 11th, but today was her funeral. It was a sad, yet joyful occasion, as she had her wishes all laid out for such a time as this! She left specific instructions to not allow the service to drag on and on and she wanted us to be happy for her, for she had gone onto her "next assignment" in life! Her baby sister, Sara, (one of my best friends) said, "she is gone, yet she still is bossing us around", when it came to telling us how her service was to be ran, HA! As I sat there "trying to celebrate", I thought, another Fritz family member has went onto Heaven to meet up with all the others that have went on before. It was a hard time for me, but I know she is up there enjoying the presences of her parents, and my Mom and all of those family babies they have never met. Gail was such a fun-loving gal, she went through struggles in life, but then don't we all?!? I will always remember her HUGE smile, her laughter that was contagious, the beautiful clothes she wore, her always perfect nails, her yummy desserts and most of all...her love she had for her family (especially her children and her grandbabies)! We will miss you Gail, but we know you are healthy and happy and with your Savior! This is a quote from Gail's face book-- "I'm a sinner, saved by grace; not perfect - just forgiven, which gives me GREAT PEACE!!!"