Fair Week

Well this past week was the Hillsdale County Fair also known as "The Greatest Fair on Earth"!! Mark, Kendrick and I enjoyed Thursday and Friday nights at the Alpha Omega booth. At least I enjoyed it, Kendrick was ready to do more interesting things after about an hour. Tonight we went for some "Family Time" and Kendrick enjoyed his first ever pony ride. HE LOVED IT!!! He has really taken a liking to horses. Every night we were at the fair he had to go through the horse barns. I wasn't sure how he would actually do being ON a pony rather than just seeing it from a distance. At one point they stopped the pony's so they could clean up a "deposit" left by one of the pony's and Kendrick started waving his hand saying "Go, Go, Go". When the ride ended he started crying he didn't want to leave the pony's. After we walked around for a while and enjoyed "fair food" we let him have another ride. We also got our second annual photo key chains made tonight, I haven't figured out a good way to get a pic of the pic in the key chain, if I do I will post that pic as well. Here a couple pics and a video of Kendricks Pony Ride!

What a turn of events

For the past year and a half I have been volunteering at our local pregnancy care center. A couple of weeks ago the CEO of Alpha Omega asked another volunteer and myself to meet with her one Friday morning. Thinking nothing of it and certainly not expecting to be moved even further from my "comfort zone", which for all intents and purposes was demolished the moment I stepped into Alpha Omega. We had our meeting. In the end Kathy asked my fellow volunteer and I to pray and consider a change in our roles at AO. At the end of the two weeks she gave us to pray and consider we had yet another meeting. At the end of the most recent meeting Linda was named Executive Director of Client Services and I was named Executive Director of Office Operations. I am scared out of my mind with this new responsibility, but I know God has led me to AO and He will continue to guide and lead. Please pray for all the staff as we go through some MAJOR changes. On to a much more thrilling turn of events. Our own Gloria Vear, co-founder of AO current board member and true legend in the Right to Life movement will be honored this coming week in Washington DC when she receives an award from President Bush for her years of sacrificial giving of time, money and energy in defense of innocent human lives. Congratulations Mrs. Vear!! We are proud to call you OURS!!

THE MOUSE MURDERER HAS STRUCK AGAIN!!!!

This is an urgent demand from the MMPD(Morgantown Mouse Police Department). All mice MUST stay in their own homes for the remainder of their lives!!! An unsuspecting juvenile was discovered last evening in the home of none other but Miss Becky Junod in Morgantown WV. Once again, Miss Junod went on a destruction spree within her home. Last evening around 10pm Miss Junod's partner in crime Ms. Gretchen Gordon, called Miss Junod to see how she was feeling. Miss Junod had been sick with the flu this week which really wasn't good considering how Monday was Miss Junod's 32 birthday. While on the phone Ms. Gordon was talking but not being heard, Miss Junod was chasing a poor unsuspecting, juvenile mouse around her house. Once again Miss Junod was armed with a glue trap, some peanut butter and RAID. When the juvenile (we are suspecting that it was indeed a child of Minnie and the Late Mickey Mouse) would venture out from behind the refrigerator Miss Junod would spray the poor thing with RAID (now we all know that RAID is ant, roach..... killer, but Miss Junod was using it as mouse killer last night). The RAID did nothing but make Miss Junods floor EXTREMELY slippery. The poor mouse was unaffected by the whole RAID incidence. Even the glue trap was ineffective as the mouse was so little and light that it could steal the peanut butter off the trap but not get "stuck". When Miss Junod saw that she was going to have to take drastic measures, she started throwing YES THROWING, traps at the mouse. Finally when Miss Junod was getting to the VERY END of her patience for the poor little thing, she heard a noise and sure enough the mouse had "stuck" to a trap. Now the only problem is only the TAIL was on the glue trap. Now we all know that Miss Junod DETESTS mice of any shape or form. When she saw the mouse stuck only by its tail, she used a weapon to flip the rest of the mouse on the trap. Once securely on the trap, Miss Junod used a gruesome form of execution. She picked up her nearest bottle of FANTASTIC cleaner and finished off poor Jr. Mouse. After the chasing, the panting, the ranting, the raving, and the near insanity, Miss Junod is once again mouse free. Hopefully this time after using TONS of duct tape and aluminum foil (go figure DUCT TAPE??? she really has turned into a hillbilly) she is and will remain mouse free. For 2 hours Jr. Mouse was hunted, stalked and ultimately killed by Miss Junod. Once again all mice in the Morgantown WV area PLEASE be warned there is a ruthless mouse killer on the loose. Please stay as far away from Miss Junod's residence as possible. Once again reporting from Osseo MI, this is Miss Junod's partner in crime Gretchen Gordon.