Not Much Happening

Yeah Right! We are going to be really busy until the middle of July. This weekend is our Regional Youth Convention. Sister Sharon Griffin will be the guest speaker. She will be speaking Friday night and Saturday. Our young people at Farmville will be on program Saturday morning. Please PRAY FOR US!!! We are working on a skit and a song. We want to be a blessing and not just entertainment. We want to let the Spirit of God work through us. Nine of our young people are going this year. Hopefully. Tonya and TJ will only be able to be there Friday night. Dawn and JJ are hopefully coming Saturday. Unless Dawn isn't able to get off work Saturday. Then of course all of our family is going. If it is just our family we will have to make some changes in our skit. We are going to the Shenandoah valley for a week and Daniel will get his school testing done while we are that close. Then we will be home for one week then I'll be heading out to Cleveland and BTI! Yay! I'm excited about BTI! Think of all the learning you can cram into two weeks! I'll probably have pics to share from our trip and from BTI. Then I'll be home one week after BTI and that Thursday or Friday we will be heading out to SC for a family reunion that Saturday. Then Sunday bright and early we'll be leaving for Palatka, FL. Hopefully we'll make it for Sunday evening service maybe. We'll be there for two weeks give or take a few days. The first week we'll be facillitating a Basic Seminar. The second week we will be doing a VBS. I'm still trying to get things organized for that. We'll be having my graduation either the Sunday I get back from BTI or the Sunday after we get home from FL. The last weekend of June we will be heading out to Roanoke for the Regional Convention. Bro. Smith will be the guest speaker. Then the first week of July the first grandchild in the Baldwin family will be getting married. By first I don't mean oldest I mean first to get married. So there is definitely excitement about that. The next week is VA/WV Youth Camp. Anyway just thinking about all that makes me excited and worn out! I have to be going now. ~Goodbye~

Pics

Zachary Playing Engineer at the railroad museum Micah taking a turn Micah, BJ, Adam, Me, Bethany, Zach, Nate, and Beau seeing how many we could fit on the couch during Tim, Critter, and Adam's visit Saturday.
Beau giving Zach a haircut on Saturday morning
Beau Preaching
Nathan just after arriving in Virginia
Brother Mike McDonald from Palatka Florida
Beau, Zach, Micah, and I at Crewe Railroad Museum
Beau playing engineer
Zach, Micah, Beau, and I sitting on the side of one of the engines

I have some pics from when Beau, Mike, and Nate were down for the youth revival at the beginning of the month. I figured I'd go ahead and try to put a few of the on here. It worked! Yay! The guys arrived on that Thursday afternoon. The pics of Nathan and Bro. Mike are from just after they arrived. On Friday Zach, Micah, and I showed Beau around town and then we went to the Crewe Railroad Museum (big name for little place). There are railroad cars there that you can climb all over and take pics of and on. We had a lot of fun and got a little camera happy there. On Saturday Tim, Critter, and Adam came over and we played football. We went to the Church after a late lunch and played basketball then we all got cleaned up and ready for church that night. After service we had supper and said goodbye to our Roanoke and Catawba visitors. The next day was Sunday. Some of our young people came home from church with us and we hung around until we left for service that night. My aunt and cousin drove over from the coast to surprise my mammaw. We had snacks after church and then we went to my Pappaw and Mammaw's to play a little bit of Rook before heading back to the house. Beau, Mike, and Nathan left to go home to Florida around five the next morning. We really enjoyed our visit with them and the revival that Brother Beau preached for us. I hadn't really said much about the revival earlier so I thought I'd talk about it some now that I had pics! Anyway I need to go. ~Goodbye~

Senior Pictures

Guess What! I got my senior pictures done today! Yay! Have I mentioned how excited I am about graduating? I am really excited!!! Like really really really excited! Not that I don't like school ( I mean how many other high schoolers dream about Trigonometry) but I will feel like I have accomplished something big when I graduate. I wanted to try and put a couple on here I'm going to try. It worked I can't believe it worked! I got some done dressed up and some done in a cap and gown and some done casual. This is two of them. I like the casual ones better than the dress ones. Mom likes the first one. She says my personality shows through. I'm hoping to be able to go to BTI this year. Everything looks good right now. I'm really excited about that too. Anyway Zach and Daniel bought that movie "Amazing Grace" while we were in Richmond today and they are watching it so I'm going to go. ~ Bye ~

A great revival!

I have been so busy lately. Two weekends ago we had our VA/WV Ladies retreat. It was wonderful. Sister Betsy Cox was our evangelist. She flew into Richmond airport so mom and I got to pick her up and take her to retreat and then take her to the airport after the retreat ended. We really enjoyed the extra fellowship time! My Aunt Kathy was able to come to the retreat this year and she had a good time. Mom, Sister Betsy, and Aunt Kathy roomed together and had a great time. I mainly hung out with them. They are so much fun for a bunch of OLD ladies!!! ;-p I love Ladies retreat because you can get away from everything and just concentrate on you and the Lord. My favorite time every year is probably hide-away time. The only thing is I have a favorite spot I go every year and it was wet so I had to find a new spot. This past weekend was our youth revival. We had ours a little early to kick off youth emphasis week. Beau Cox, or should I say Brother Buford Cox the third, was our evangelist. It was his first revival and he was really nervous but with God's help he did a wonderful job. Our young people liked him because he was a young person and our older folk liked him because they like just about everybody. Nathan and Brother Mike McDonald from the Palatka FL church drove up with him. Tim, Adam, and Critter came over on saturday and spent the whole day with us. We had a good time of fun and fellowship with them. I had to moderate the revival and you want to talk about nervous I think I was just as nervous as Beau was! God is good though and he helped both of us. Tomorrow we are going to Roanoke church for their youth revival. Brother Hawkins is the evangelist. I'm really working on the VBS stuff I want to have evrything done by the beginning of May so maybe I can go to BTI this year. We are praying about it. Anyway I probably need to go now. Later......