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Charlotte Anne Banister

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:24:09 GMT

Mommy (Jamie) and Jonathan (Daddy) love their new baby!

Charlotte Anne Banister 5 lbs 6 ozs 18 inches long

my beautiful niece with her Aunt Sarah holding her

Isn't she cute?

Marshall

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:55:15 GMT

Marshall.. Oh how I love you. Some how I keep ending up back here in Marshall, whether I want to be or not. I move here officially Saturday July 26 but had to come sign my lease and pay my deposit or the lady was going to give my cottage away. Then I decided to stay another day to hang out with Josh's amazing mom, renee', and go birthday shopping. That was an adventure. I have realized how when you share a bind with someone in the Lord it is a precious thing. I am tired of being in transition. I am ready to be here and moved and settled and teaching. Today I visited my classroom so I could dream. That was fun. The wonderful Dr. Lubcker is going to come help me clean out my classroom. I am so crazy excited about that. I have 3 filing cabinets and 4 book shelves along with floor to ceiling cabintes on one wall. The cabinets are packed with junk and no organization. I am so ready to get in there and clean it out! I can't wait. The new teacher across the hall from me is a first year teacher and she's young too. I am praying that all of us working in first grade bond as a team and enjoy it. Your coworkers can make or break the enjoyment of a job. I enjoyed teaching sixth grade because of the teachers I worked with. I am exhausted. I really should take more time to recover from busyness before i get busy again.

All the Way Around the World and Back Again

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:17:56 GMT

I feel as if I have been all the way around the world and back again. Actually I have only been to Morelia in Mexico but it was a 20 some odd hours trip in a 15 passenger can with 13 people most of them being big grown men or almost grown big boys. Tha was a really long car trip. That was probably the worst part of the whole trip. We went down there for the primary purpose of helping a new church get started by doing evangelism campaigns. I have no idea what God is doing with what we did I just know I learned alot about myself. First things first

1. It is easier ot be godly when you have had enough sleep and something to eat.

2. God speaks English and Spanish since He made all the people He speaks all languages (never really took time to thing about this before)

3. Kids speak a universal language of "Let's go play!" and I know this language well.

4. Real tamales are good and very different from TexMex tamales.\

5. I don't adapt to new situations well.

6. I am not a night person and all of Mexico is.

7. I like to build relationships with people. My favorite thing was talking to individuals and getting to know them.

8. The Mexican people will read tracts. IN America they might read one tract in every five you hand out. IN Mexico they stop to read what you give them.

9. Raw cow head are disgusting.

10. It is only polite to eat all of the food presented to you.

If you want to know more about my trip call me and I will regale you with the tales.

Death to Doodle bugs and all other meaningful things in life

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:53:02 GMT

Well, death to doodlebugs was the pertinent thing in my title. We had a quite a rain last week and ever since then the doodlebugs have decreased dramatically. Then I finished my job filling in at Glove Guard. I enjoyed the people I worked with, but am so glad to have a life again or not come home tired from work every day. Not quite ready to do the "grown up" thing. I will be soon enough come August 14. August 14 is when I start teacher inservice meetings. Yay! I am going to have a good attitude about going to these meetings. I am. I don't like meetings so it will be challenging, but I will view it as another adventure in life. IN three weeks I will packing to go to Mexico for 9 days. My church is taking a mission trip to Mexico and I am going with them! I am so excited. Totally a last minute plan and I love it. I have wanted to go since it was mentioned in the beginning, but the pieces only recently fell into place. God is good like that. I got spend five great hours with the amazing Holly Butler and that was so great. I missed her like crazy while she was gone. I also went to a sleep over and had lots of fun. Except that i was the first one to fall asleep and missed a lot of the fun. But then I got up early this morning and enjoyed the watching the others sleep. It was beautiful with light streaming in the window and Danielle has a beautiful yard. I wanted my Bible and journal so bad. Instead I sat there and thought for a while before get a book and reading the morning hours away. The first people woke around 9:30 am and most everyone was up by 10:30am. It was fun. I was considered young enough to join these amazing high school girls for a sleep over. I know I am in love with the most amazing man because he was all I could tlak about. Those poor girls heard all about Josh. They would bring him up and I would talk their ears off. Oh the fun of being in love. NOw I am tired. I don't recover from sleep overs like I used to. Oh the joy of growing up. It was worth it though. God has been so good and I am enjoying my summer.

What did you do this summer?

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:01:51 GMT

Ahh... the question that becomes ever so popular about late August and early September. What did you do this summer? well, I can answer with great satisfaction that I did battle with a most unusual enemy and while I am not victorious yet, I am fully confident that I will be.

You might be thinking "Who could sweet Sarah be doing battle with?". I am fighting a battle of a most unusual nature. I have been entrusted with the sacred job of keeping Glove Guard, LP clean. Everyday an army invades my precious building. Every day I sweep, vaccuum, and Swiffer the culprits away. Everyday I find them dead all over my building. Everyday I throw the live ones out. What am I battling? Some might call them cute, others say precious, still others cringe because they are gross. THey have one name, but several alias to the common public. They are Armadillidium vulgare also known as doodle bugs, pill bugs, and roly polys. They have invaded my domain! My sanctuary of cleanliness. I would not have a problem except they crawl into the building and curl up into corners and die. Then I have to find them and clean them up. They make gross crunching noises when stepped on, and spots on my clean floors.

Doodlebugs,

Please take note that I will have revenge for the trouble you cause me. I will be victorious. I will not lose. My buliding will be free from your evil plots to eat our concrete and destroy our foundation thus overthrowing the newest almost world power. (Ok, so newest world power might be a bit of an exaggeration) but I see your plot and you will not be victorious. i do not mean to be vicious and I do not want to harm you, so please, just leave my building alone.

Summer thus far...

Fri, 30 May 2008 09:03:38 GMT

Summer thus far has been good. I am enjoying Glove Guard. The ladies I work with are crazy fun. They are funny and godly and sweet and want to know all about my life. But I am soooo glad Glove Guard is not my calling in life. I get bored alot. I want to teach. I am ready to embark upon my newest adventure in life... teaching first grade. Soon enough I will have my chance. My principal has contacted me and sometime in June I can get into my classroom. My classroom that in late August will be filled with young minds ready to learn (or that is what I hope anyway).

My life has been crazy being gone from home for the past two weekends. I have attended weddings, signed my contract, and viewed the high efficiency cottage where I will live in the fall.Tonight Mike graduates from high school. Tomorrow is a church work day, clean house for my party day, and cook for the party day. Then Sunday is my college graduation party! Never thought I would make it this far. God is so faithful. I have only survived because of Him.

I was reading my journal from freshman year. Crazy stuff I did. And I thought I was so mature and grown up then. God is so good. At the time I could not that some of the situations I was in were not the best, but reading back I can't believe I stayed in them! God got me out and I learned lots of lessons about things like broken hearts, classes, jobs, finding a church, and other paraphenilia. Paraphenilia is a fun word to say. Try it sometime.

I will be working at VBS. I am so excited! Right now my job is to head up the nursery. I have never done that before. I have always been the one to sing and dance and sing and dance and laugh alot, so nursery will be something new. But I told the director I would do whatever needed to be done. I will have at least 5 kids. It will be fun.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Wed, 21 May 2008 16:34:07 GMT

I am at work right now. I am printing things to go in brochures and it is a boring job. NOt that I am complaining. I need time to think and pray and yet my hands be busy. I definitely prayed while stuffing brochures. It brought me back to my days at Foleys, folding clothes, singing Veggie Tales, and praying all at about the same time. What can I say, I am talented. My fingers are sore from almost paper cuts. I hope the printer hurries. I am ready to go home.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Mon, 19 May 2008 15:08:59 GMT

My weekend was simply amazing! Josh's youngest brother got marrried and I joined in on the festivities. It was so much fun. I love his family, particularly his mom's side of the family. ( as a side note I love Josh too and not for his family) He has cousins not too much younger than me and we hung out a lot. I also spend significant amounts of time with Parker, his 4 year old cousin, who was the flower girl. WE had some very interesting conversations. I loved it. The wedding was followed by dinner and dancing. I danced to my heart's content. I made a complete fool of myself, but I loved every minute of it. It was so much fun. Apparently I am not as bad as I think, because people came up to me and told me that I was good at dancing. The secret is allowing me to make it up as I go. As long as I can make it upas I go then I have fun. I am not good as structured dancing like two stepping. I love dancing in a small corner and thinking nobody is watching me. I am the same way with singing. I had a blast. My job before the wedding was to hold the rings. I had them on the pillow and I did not let that pillow go nor did I loose the rings. I kept counting the rings just ot make sure they were there. Parker was precious. She made me laugh as she sighed and kept whispering "How much longer?" to her mom who was sitting on the front row. I have more Parker stories than you can imagine. It was a great weekend and makes me want to plan a wedding.

I have 4 weddings left to attend this summer.

Glove Guard

Tue, 13 May 2008 18:51:33 GMT

I have started my summer job that lasts a total of five weeks. Yay! I like working for GLove Guard. The people love the Lord and love to have fun. They are so funny! Hannah and Kara Butler are training me before they head out of town next week. We have had some great conversations this week. I will miss them once they leave. So I like working. Now I am faced with thinking about what to do with the next six weeks of my summer before my return to Marshall. Still praying about that. Definitely don't want to spend this time doing nothing, because that is so boring! We will see what exciting things God has planned for me. That is an update on my life. Not much else is going on at this very moment.

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Thu, 08 May 2008 18:11:11 GMT

Today was the first busy day in a while. I went to ladies meeting, played with babies, talked with Emily, and had fun. Then mom and I went to lunch and I visited with old teachers while she did whatever it is 7th grade math teachers do. Then mom and I went shopping for a dress to wear to all the weddings I am attending this summer. I am attending at least 5 weddings, possibly 6, if everything goes as planned. The gas money situation will be interesting. I start work at Glove Guard on Monday. That should be fun. Now that today has been busy I am tired. I took a nap and that was nice. I am ready to wear a swimsuit and go swimming, but that is most fun with lots of children. I might do it later. Who knows?