Mr. and Mrs. Mike Graumann!

BACK L-R: Glen, Brandy, Susie

FRONT: Mom, me, Mike, April, Jon, Dad, Grandpa/ma G.

This blog is dedicated to Mike and April who finally tied the knot in early October. The wedding was simple but beautiful and pretty much all of the groom's family drove up to Omaha, Nebraska for it.
April was an absolutely beautiful bride. Now both of the twins are married. You know what, both have babies on the way also!!! Brandy (Jon's wife) will be having a baby girl sometime in April and April is only a few months alongs, so we don't know much except that she is pregnant.
I'm going to be an aunt!!! I am going to spoil the fire out of those babies. I also hope to teach them the Bible, some Spanish, maybe a little Japanese, take them around the world if their parents will let me. I'm pumped that I get to become an aunt twice in one year.
I'm already praying for these little ones that are on the way, for their parents, and for their mother's whose wombs they are in now. Babies are such miracles!
P.S. I'm wearing that gold dress because I was one of the bridesmaids.

And this wonderful picture is of my father. This is the first time I have seen him wear a tux. He looks really good, doesn't he? He didn't wear a tux to Jon's wedding, but somehow Mike got him to wear one. (I really wonder what Mike gave him in exchange for wearing this tux....)

Dad, you looked good. And this won't be the last time you are going to wear a tux, because if I ever get married, I expect you there in a nice, snazzy tuxedo of my choice.

A Wedding, A Baptism, and Fun, Fun, Fun!

Here's a quick rundown of a few other things that have been going on.....

My high school friend Raquel (a.k.a. Rocky) got married in a beautiful gazebo that her parents constructed in their backyard. I've been to A LOT of weddings the past couple of years, and none of them were as easy-going nor hilarious as this one. But it was still beautiful, and we could all see the love radiating from both the bride and groom's faces.

Oh, and they are now expecting also! I'm not sure when the baby is due. I can remember back in our High School days how much Rocky always wanted to have a bunch of kids and be a stay at home mom. Well, here's the start of your dreams coming true, Rocky!

The first friend I ever made in my university days, Joshua Valentine, was baptized in November. Praaaaaiiiiissssse God! This is answered prayers right here folks! But not just mine. His wife, Amy has been praying so long and I believe that God used her to bring Josh to Him. I'm so happy that God has given me Josh and Amy, a Christian brother and sister to share everything with. I've known Josh for a long time, and now I feel that we can connect on a level that we have never been able to connect before. And I haven't known Amy for very long, but her and I are two peas in a pod.

Thank you God for answered prayers and for dear friends!

When I'm not working or sleeping, I'm usually at church. And I'm usually hanging out with the people you see in the picture above. This is a picture of the group of us that went to Mt. Scott near Lawton, OK a couple of weeks ago.

Pastor asked me why I haven't really blogged about our church yet, so Pastor, this next blog is dedicated to the youth of King of Glory Christian Church.

Los Jovenes de Rey de Gloria Iglesia Cristiana

I love church. Especially the one I go too. I'm the only white girl there, but they don't hold it against me.
Currently I am one of five youth leaders. I love it! The youth are on fire for God, and although I am one of the oldest members (age-wise and Christian-wise), these young people teach me more about what it means to follow Christ then I have learned in a long time.

The first three pictures here are from the Halloween alternative party. Halloween just happened to land on a Tuesday night, the night we have youth group anyways. So we decided to throw a huge game night and make it incredibly fun and messy.
The first picture shows the game where each team had to try to take as many bites out of the apples hanging from the ceiling as possible. As you can see, one person had to be carried by two other people, and the person being carried couldn't use their hands. Needless to say, I was laughing so hard at their creative ways to take a bite out of the apples that I couldn't take very good pictures.
The second picture is of a chocolate-marshmallow game. They had to walk blindfolded and drop a chocolate covered marshmallow into the mouth of their teammate. The goal was to get as many marshmallows into the mouth of the person on the floor as possible. By the end of the game, the faces of the two on the floor were covered in chocolate.
The third picture was the best game. Each person on the teams had to stuff the contents of a bag into a soda pop bottle. The thing is, the contents of the bags were nasty. We let the two guy leaders make the bags and we ended up with stuff like mustard, oatmeal, and dill pickles in one bag, sardines, green beans, and beans in another and so on. One girl actually barfed in the bathroom. You can see Pastor Alejandro enjoying the nice smell of whatever bag he's holding.
Anyways, we all enjoyed the night. I can never wait to do stuff with this great group of Christ-centered, down to earth youth. It is a blessing to see their hunger and fire for God.