Abigail Joshua

Happy New Year!

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:04:00 +0000

Happy New Year; I can't believe it is already 2010! It seems like just yesterday it was 2000. So much has happened over the past 10 years; it will be interesting to see all that will happen in the next 10 years! I hope everyone had a wonderful year and that this year will be just as wonderful as last year :-)
We had the Thompsons over for New Years today. We had a fun time as usual :-) Here are a few pictures from the day...

Jordan playing with the pirate ships

Playing scrabble

The game - congratulations to Sammy on winning!

Playing a game with Jordan... Games are always more fun when you get to use your imagination! I must say the most exciting thing that happened was when Jordan got clawed by a buck and I had to rush him to the doctor! Don't worry, I got rid of the deer first :-)

We even got Phebes to join the fun :-)

The fearsome four!

Christmas

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:52:00 +0000

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Merry Christmas

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:12:00 +0000

Merry Christmas!

Florida Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:17:00 +0000

On Sunday we went to visit the Scahills and ended up spending all day Sunday and Monday with them. They used to go to our Church but moved away at least 10 years ago. Mom and dad saw them last year but we haven't seen them in 6 or 7 years so it was fun to see them again! We had a wonderful time and made lots of memories

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Florida

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:02:00 +0000

On Thanksgiving break we got to go to Florida for Connie's wedding. It was great to see her, Charity, and the boys!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Christmas Play

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:43:00 +0000

Make a Smilebox invite

Thanksgiving

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:53:00 +0000

Thanksgiving is always such a fun time to get together with family and friends but it is also a good opportunity to remember all the things we can be thankful for. Just a few of the things I am thankful for are my Godly parents, my fun and crazy friends, brothers, and sister, and most importantly; for my salvation. What are you thankful for?
For Thanksgiving this year we went to my mom's brother's house; it is always fun to see our cousins and to hang out with them for the day :-) Enjoy the pictures!

Dad carving the ginormous turkey!

Laina and I
David bein' David- he stacked all the paper products against the wall and it stayed... He was so proud :-)

All the cousins who were there... We shrink every time we take a picture :-( We were holding George in this picture but Daryl's legs look like they belong to George.

And just for fun, here is the cousin's picture from last year

I hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving!

Florida

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:25:00 +0000

Mom, Phebes, and I are in FL for the weekend. We got to see our friends(family), the Scahills yesterday and today. Right now Michael, Daniel, Andrew, Joshua, Phebes, and I are hangin' out. We are just about to leave for the airport but we just thought we would post a few pictures before we left. We have had sooo much fun this weekend and I love my new little brothers;-)

Just For Fun!

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:27:00 +0000

Here goes the story: One fine day 4 friends were going shopping. 2 of the friends (Tabitha and Phoebe) made a smart remark that the 3rd friend's (Abby's) purse was a bit large. "I could probably fit in it" said Tabitha. To which Abigail replied, "Well, there is only one way to find out". Abigail then took out all the contents of her purse and Tabitha jumped right in. It was a fun day! While shopping the 4 friends also found some sweet new shoes for Tabitha to wear to cosmetology school. The end.

On another note, I miss Mary WAY too much; she needs to hurry up and come home! Love you girl!!!!!!!!!!

Have an absolutly beautiful day! Hasn't it been gorgeous?

The perfect day for a... birthday?! Happy birthday friend!!!!

Thank You!

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:57:00 +0000

To all the men and women who have served our country: thank you for the sacrifices you have made to keep our nation free!

Happy Birthday Abby!

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:36:00 +0000

This is Abby's good friend posting. =) She never mentioned that she turned 21!! So we decided to post a few pictures from her birthday. We always have so much fun with Abby!! It's hard to believe she's really 21 ~ she's such a kid at heart. One of her favorite quotes is - "We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." ~ George Bernard

We went to Tabitha's school to get our nails done.

She did a wonderful job!
We decorated the car for Abby's birthday.

We forgot we wrote "honk"

on the car and wonderered why

everyone kept honking at us! :)

This is for you 29 =)

She ate with chopsticks in memory of her good friend Wong :)
We found a huge mound of snow, so we had fun making a snowman and having snowball fights.

Jeremy serenaded Abby in the moonlight :)

We all went and played tennis

She taught us all she knows... she's a pro!

After tennis we all sat (or rolled:) on the hill and watched a bunch of people play kickball.

Happy Birthday Abby! Thanks for being crazy with us! We love you!

Music Therapy Workshop

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:53:00 +0000

Saturday I went to a music therapy workshop at school. It was really awesome! I learned a lot and had fun as well:-) Here are some pictures from the day...

Katy and I- too early in the morning!

Alan Turry- he was amazing!Improvising a duet with KellyThis was a lot of fun, at the end of the day we all got an instrument and played a song. Everyone played their own thing but we had someone who conducted and told us when to play or what dynamics to use.
Our conductor, Kelly... it was also her birthday

Happy Fall

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:14:00 +0000

I just thought I'd post some pictures from the past few weeks. I should be doing homework but you know how that goes:-) Enjoy the pictures!

My girls

Matchi-poo we didn't even plan it
The boys are playing in a church league; they lost this game but they won today! Too bad I couldn't be there to see it. Good job guys:-)
Last friday we went to the Tiger's game... They lost too but it was still a blast
Notice all the people making faces at the camera in the background

My Mommy and Daddy
Phebes and Mya matching at church the other night

Ladies Retreat

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:30:00 +0000

This weekend Mom, Phoebe, and I went to Hillsdale with Faithway for their ladies retreat. Since Grandma lives nearby we asked her to come with us. It was fun to be able to spend the weekend with her:-) It was also nice to relax! Mrs. Lynne Wiggins was the speaker and theme was on our relationships with others; it was really good!

When we were unloading I mentioned that it looked like we were staying forever, Phoebe said she packed "light" I'd hate to see what packing "heavy" would look like:-)

When we got to the door this fuzzy guy was on the door... Phebes would have nothing to do with it so I had to show her that animals are our friends.

Mrs. Patterson brought door prize for one person in every cabin. Of course, you can't go wrong with jewelry:-)

Friday Night after the session Mrs. Patterson had a jewelry station set up where you could make whatever you wanted. It was a lot of fun to see what everyone created:-)

It was so funny, when they opened the doors for dinner and there was a lady standing there with this sign...

When there were too many people in line she switched it to this...

Whole group

Best Friends

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:33:00 +0000

When I was in the nursery last week the sunset was beautiful so I took some pictures of the girls, they are so cute:-)

My Friend

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:42:00 +0000

Tonight while we were at McDonalds someone had a bouncy ball so Simon rolled it on the ground and shouted "mouse, mouse" at the same time my Mom shouted "look theres a mouse!" Jo and Tab thought they were being serious so they both jumped away from the table and shouted "where?!" when they realized it was a joke we all had a good laugh. It was so funny that I said I wished I had recorded it; we decided we should redo the whole thing and catch it on video. This video is after Tab knew it was a joke however her response was definetly not fake! Enjoy:-)

Before the night was over we decided we would try one more time...

It was a great night:-)

Nursery and Going away Party

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:06:00 +0000

Tonight I was in the 7-9 year olds class, we talked about being happy no matter what our circumstances were and then we decorated cookies on a stick with happy faces to help us remember to always be happy no matter what trials come into our lives.

The moon was beautiful so I had to have the kids take a picture running towards it:-)
Decorating the cookies...

Baileigh with her happy face

Trying out the sour gummy worm

The finished product! They all did a great job

Hannah and Allie were great helpers:-)

Mary is leaving for college tomorrow so she had to take John out one final time before she left

Ovbiously, she did a fabulous job:-) I don't know who is going to keep him in line while she is gone

After church we all went to McDonalds for a going away party:-) This is Mary's awesome cone!

Funny how the boys couldn't seem to find their smiles?!

All of us

Stephanie, the awesome girl who took all our orders and also took our picture:-)

All the first year college students! I'm so proud of all of them

Umm... John put on all of our purses!

Something is a little backwards in this picture...

It was a fun night in which we made tons of memories! I will miss you sooooo much Mary; nothing will be the same without you here. Love you girl!!!

Civil War Video

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:41:00 +0000

I just thought I'd upload this video for my friends from down south:-) It's a video of the rebels doing their scream after the battle was finished. Hope you enjoy it!

Civil War

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:53:00 +0000

Every year our family goes to Jackson for the Civil War Muster. When we were kids we all would dress up, this year Simon was the only one dressed up:-) We had a fun time together as usual!

Golfing

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:17:00 +0000

On thursday we went golfing with the Koski kids, it was a lot of fun even if we weren't pro's:-) Lets just say some of us were better than others. (That goes for driving golf carts too:-)

Putt-putt

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:03:00 +0000

This past week my Dad had vacation from work; although we didn't go out of town anywhere it was nice to spend time together. On Monday night we went putt putting;-)

my tall family...

Visit with Kiki

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:43:00 +0000

Kiki came into town with Peter on Saturday night; it was a blast having her here for the weekend!

Today we all went out to Dimos for breakfast... It was delish!

After breakfast we took a tour around town... We went to Zion Lutheran where Kiki had her concert last year
Of course, we had to take pictures

After leaving there we went up the street to the Burtt's old house

I saw this and just had to take it for Sarah:-( Miss ya girl! Wish you could have been here!

After our little tour, we picked up Tab and headed downtown to meet Peter. He was hungry so we sat while he ate;-)

All the girls

No explanation needed

After Peter ate, JO wanted ice cream so we walked to Ben and Jerry's so she could get some.

At the fountain in front of Campus Inn

Kiki and I decided we were "county" friends because she lives in WashingTON County and I live in WashteNAW county. We decided this was the reason we got along so well:-)

It was a fun weekend and I'm going to have to get used to not seeing Kiki all over again:-( Miss you already! Can't wait to see you again! Congratulations on your new job!!!

Open House

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:43:00 +0000

Suzy and Phoebe had their graduation party on Friday night; it was an awesome party with fun decorations.

Setting up

The theme was Hawaiian The graduates
It was fun having Billy home... Miss you already girl!

The cake was yummy, of course:-)

Here's a picture for you Lydia

Mom and Grandma

With Mrs. Zirk

Hey look! There's another one!

You are just moving up in the world girl!

Tina and Stephen came into town too, it was fun having them here! Especially since Levi came with them:-)

Watching the slideshow Sam made

The T's with Brit

Having a freeze pop throwing contest

Congratulations girls!

Applebee's

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:28:00 +0000

Sarah and CJ are visiting from new Jersey and Reba is home for the month. Sunday night after church we all went to Applebee's.

Waiting for our table

Emily making a face... She wanted to take a picture of me doing the same face. She had to teach me how to do it:-)

Reba and I
Sarah and CJ

Phebes, Suzy, Tab, Rachel

Sarah and Jeremy

Sarah and I; I'm so glad your here!

John, Jo, Julie

The Merry Month of May

noreply@blogger.com (Abigail Joshua) — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:32:00 +0000

So a lot has happened since the last time I posted. I finished school, got my wisdom teeth pulled, and took the MTTC test (which I passed!) to get into the College of Education at EMU. I love school but it's nice to have a break and I am very excited for this summer!

I am leaving a week from today with Tabitha and JO to spend the summer at Camp Joy. Tab and I are going to be counselors and Jo is going to work in the office. I am very excited but we will miss all our friends and family. Please pray for us this summer, I am excited to see how God will use us!

Elena all ready for Africa... She was in the box playing with her Pollys:-) He is so cute! I miss them sooo much Ivan's soccer game... it was cold and rainy but we are faithful friends forever:-)

George was... not sure?!

Maryann, me, and Britt at graduation today. Britt is leaving for Alabama and Maryann and I are going to EMU.

We are headed off to a wedding this afternoon and then then tomorrow afternoon I'm leaving for Tizzy's graduation. Have a great weekend! I might actually post again sometime soon:-)