A few more random pics!

One weekend we went to a Church of Christ up in Mount Orab (where i live) on a Friday night for their living Christmas tree performance. This is a different and "exciting" happening for me, because we live 30 miles from our church, and never participate in any church functions out here. It was "interesting" lol. There was a little skit to start out with which was funny. then the Christmas tree. The tree itself was really pretty, it was all decorated as you can see from the pic, but it had colored & white lights that did different patterns etc that moved with the rythym of the music (enough to give a person with epilepsy a seizure, lol jk). But the singing...umm... lol the choir wasn't that bad actually, it's just the songs they chose. They did a few traditional Christmas songs, the rest.. well.. not our style. Oh, and the soloists (i'm not trying to sound harsh or mean just tellin yaal the truth), left a LOT to be desired, there was one girl that had a pretty voice, only problem was she sang flat. Anyway going to this made us appreciate our church, choir, and choir director - Rob Ryan, all that much more :)

So, This post began on Christmas Eve or whenever it was that I ambitiously started posting all this stuff to get caught up. Right after posting the pics i had to go eat or something and ... yeah never finished it. I will post about Christmas later, but for now a few more random pics :) enjoy!

So, I probably shouldn't post these 2 pics, but .. oh well..One Sunday we ate lunch at Tonya & Craig's apartment and spent the afternoon. Of course we all (mom, dad, me) brought changes of clothes so we wouldn't have to wear dress clothes all afternoon. Well, after dad changed back into his dress clothes when we were getting ready for church Sunday night, Craig decided to try dad's pants on! So the above pic is Craig with dad's pants on overtop of his, he took them off w/o unbuttoning them. Then he squeezed both of his legs into one of dads pant legs, the below pic. Ok, you might think we are weird, but it was funny

Our Church Christmas program was the evening of December 21. My niece Sedona who is 5, has NEVER had a speaking part in anything. She is just now starting to sing. Last year she sang with the other kids at her pre-school Christmas program, but that's all for school & church. She is in kindergarten this year, and she has grown up a lot, grown more mature, so she now sings in junior church and all. Well, she had a little verse to say in this year's program. We weren't sure if she would say it, because she can be STUBBORN! But she got up there and said her part, i was SOOO proud of her!! She did great!!!

Well, that's all for this time, after interuptions I finally got this post done, sometime soon I need to post about Christmas Eve & Christmas! Have a great day!

Church Christmas Dinner & Pics of the fam

Me with my FAV niece & FAV 5 year old!!!

So, our church has an annual Christmas dinner, that's always usually a lot of fun. Food, Family, Entertainment. This year it was on Monday, and the week just happened to be my finals week from 1st semester nursing school. I had had a few finals the week before (1 skills, 1 lab, 1 lecture). I had 3 finals on finals week. 1 Tuesday, 1 Wednesday, 1 Thursday. The 2 I was worried about were the Tuesday & wednesday finals. See, I kinda had this goal of getting all A's except in A & P which i would accept a B (which i blogged about earlier). I knew I would have at least 2 A's and was pretty sure I would have 3 A's, but these 2 finals would pretty much determine whether I got an A or B in these 2 classes (one of which was A & P), see i was all on course towards my B in A & P, but the teacher gave us 2 extra credit assignments which helped my grade a TON and brought it up to a A. Well, the aforementioned lab final was in A & P and i did NOT do so hot. I knew to get an A in the class i would have to do REALLY good on the final (on Wednesday). My other class my biggest nursing class, i had a A in but just barely. So, I knew if i scored below a 92 (an A-) I would lose my A (-) in the class. So, all this to say I was pretty stressed out & scared. I wasn't sure if i could go to the christmas dinner or not, but I eventually just decided to go. The dinner was a lot of fun. I sat at a table with my parents, oldest sis Jess, her husband Bill, their 3 kids, and Bill's parents. It was fun, of course i always enjoy bein around my lil kiddies, which yaal know by now i'm sure. Highlights..hmm.. well we sang the song "12 Days of Christmas" each table had either an object to hold up when their verse came and had to sing that little section alone like we got "2 turtle doves" Sis Eisenhart gave us 2 plastic turtles (closest she could find) and when the part came to "2 turtle doves" our table was supposed to stand up and sing it. Well, see, the only really outgoing person at our table was my dad. Mom, Jess, Me, Bill, Bill's parents are quiet. And of course the kids wouldn't help. So everytime it got to "2 turtle doves' dad stood up alone and sang. It got to be a humorous part of the song. He tried out different voices and at one point sang "1 turtle dove" because he was the only one singing. everytime it came to this we (mostly mom, me, jess, bill) DIED laughing. Guess you'd have to know our family to truly understand. Needless to say it was FUNNY & dad has since been teased about singing a "solo" in church by people at church.

Besides that, we're not much of a family picture taking family. The last "official" "studeo" picture (or whatever) of our family was probably... 16 years ago maybe. I was probably 3 or less yrs old. Not countin the pics taken at my sister's weddings. My grandma is a hard person to buy christmas presents for if you knew her you'd know why but i don't feel like going into it here, now. So i found a picture frame that said "family" at kroger and had about 10 different size slots for pics. My grandma loves pics and has tons of them all over her house, so i bought it. So, we decided to take "family pictures" at the dinner when we all would be together. I wanted one of me and the 3 kids, but by the time we went to take that pic Brice cried for his mommy and all we got was me and the 2 older kids. The pics are below go see :) .. oh one explanation, on the family pic we had Bruce Hutchison, a CRAZY funny guy take it. So that is the explanation why we are all laughing :)

I'm not sure if you all want to hear the end result of my finals or not, but since I started I may as well finish. Well, finals week i was SUPER stressed. I studied and studied for the nursing final over the weekend, and started getting ready for A & P. I was praying a lot about it, and my parents were too. I told them the exact time of my finals so they could be praying then for me, and they did. I took the nursing final, you know how it is after a exam, though i did okay but didn't know if i did good enough. Took A & P (it was 2 sections, 1 short answer, 1 questions) i remembere everything i studied for the short answer, but wasn't sure about the other questions. We did get a 5 pt bonus question though. and the Thursday final was easy. I found out.. Thursday I think how i did on nursing i made a.....94!!!!!!!!! I was SOO happy, it kept my grade at a 92 (just what i needed). I think it was Friday night... my parents had just gone to bed (at like 12:30 am) and i was headed to bed but wanted to check and see if A & P grades were posted yet. I went and looked and sure enough they were... i got a...99!!!!!!!!!!! I was SOOOOOO excited i got up, ran down stairs (in the DARK house with NO lights on) and banged on my parents door to tell them my good news!! with the lab final (that I did NOT GOOD on, my grade ended up a 92 (just what i wanted but hadn't even hoped for). the other test I got a 98 on, my class grade was like 96, 97 (somewhere around there) but i wasn't worried about that one. So, I am NOT at ALL trying to brag on myself, please understand that. I thank God for all His help to me this semester. I know I could NOT HAVE made it w/o him. He helped me do better than i deserved, and I know he helped me a ton of finals. Next semester I hear is a LOT LOT LOT harder. I only have 3 classes (2 nursing, 1 general- A & P 2, oh joy). My goal is till all A's. I am going to try to work a lot harder & start the semester off with better study habits. If any of you prayed for me this semester THANK YOU!!! and please pray for me next semester as i continue the adventure of nursing school!

The "Hoschar" girls (used to be at least, lol) Me, Tonya, Jessica (L-R, youngest to oldest, and tallest to shortest)

My oldest sis Jess (12 yrs older than me) and her husband Bill & the 3 kiddies Sedona (5), Cam (3), Brice (1)

My middle sis (10 yrs older) Tonya & her husband Craig

The pic I wrote about above- me and the oldest 2 kids

The family pic i explained about above.

Hope you enjoyed this post. Be sure to look at all the others, and be looking for more.

Have a GREAT CHRISTMAS!

Piano Quartet Concert Pics

Me & Mrs. Miller after the recital (greatest teacher ever)

So, I'm WAY behind on blogging and with the rush of Christmas tomorrow if I don't blog now i never will post it. So, I will be posting probably a series of posts with pics & words (lol, wow profound). So, look at them all plz :) .. First a few pics from the piano quartet concert/recital thing, that I posted the video of below. I couldn't figure out how to type above the pic so the pic above is after the concert me and my piano teacher, Mrs. Martha Miller (everyone that reads this probably knows her but oh well, lol).

Playin our first song

Playin our 2nd song

Well, that's all for this one, be sure to read the rest

Piano Quartet Concert- Ben Hur Chariot Race

So, a long time ago Mrs. Miller had a piano quartet concert/recital at GBS of all of her piano students (college & private). She asked me if I could be in it (time wise with school) and I told her I was sure I could find time to practice (this was way back in summer) so we started practicing. I was going to play with her, on the other piano 2 girls from my church, Lorna Truesdale & Natasha Hausman. So, eventually the concert came, i don't know when it was, some time in November I guess. It was a lotta fun. My sister videoed part of our Ben Hurr song, which was SOOO much fun. But she didn't know she was videoing for sure, and she quit before the really awesome end. Oh well, here it is. Enjoy!

It's been a while... Old Happenings

Hey All! Like my title says, it's been a while. Life has just gotten SOO crazy busy!!! This week is finals week, the 2 hard ones were yesterday and today, so today i sit in relief. I have one more test, but's its just an exam I need to study for it (it's tomorrow) but i'm not worried about it. I know i'm behind in blogging and seriously i don't remember what all has happened, but I thought i would blog this, so when i go home for break i'll blog other stuff: thanksgiving, christmas banquet at church. So as not to overwhelm yaal with tons of new stuff... lol...

Sometime way back when it was WARM outside, we had "bonfire". Actually it was just burning our brushpile, but Sedona wanted a "bonfire" so we obtainted a "burning permit" (stupid, we used to be able to just burn the stuff but now... oh well) anyways, and they (jess, bill, the kids) came out on a Friday night. So we burned the brush pile for the kids, ordered pizza, and Sedona spent the night. She's only spent the night maybe once before when she was REALLY, and they were in the hospital after Cam was born. It was interesting :) Sedona slept with me, and okay i have a queen size bed, but she had to sleep RIGHT up next to me, when i told her to scoot over she'd scoot over 2 inches... oh well. Saturday she helped Mama and Aunt Tonya paint a building Dad and craig built for the 4 wheelers etc (i never told yaal about the building, they build it from scratch, no kit or anything) it looks cool. anyways yeah ... umm that's about it. I'm trying to get out of my habit of writing a TON with every post, since yaal like pics not reading long posts. So, my last final is tomorrow and 8 am. then i will have 3 weeks of GLORIOUS freedom *sigh of relief*... so i'll post about Thanksgivin & the Christmas dinner sometime later.... Enjoy the pics:

Brice,playing in the driveway. He LOVED the gravel!

Running around, he wouldn't cooperate to take a pic

Me & Brice walkin out into the field to see the fire

Sedona cheesin with the cat/kitten we adopted for a while. well, it kinda just showed up so i fed it until dad got rid of it. It was simply called "kitty" although sedona wanted to name it "pluto"

Personally, i think this pic is adorable!

The fire. This was after it died down a lil, it was HUGE when dad lit it!

headin back to the house, it's hard to walk and take a pic at the same time

I think he was laughing at me...

Ready 4 supper -pizza

Sedona with a "table" from the pizza box

Ready 2 paint on Saturday. with my socks on and dad's tee shirt (he never wears short sleeves, but it's a shirt he got free at a transmission seminar or somethin...)

Sedona hard at work painting...

you should have seen that brush when she was done! Lol... she went down lines then back up .. needless to say the brush went in the trash :)

Sedona and her lil section.. she worked till she fell backwards over a cement block. Lol. it didn't hurt her just gave her a few scrapes that went away after i washed them but of course she had to have bandaids so i guessed at the place of injury :) lol

Sedona painted all the lady bugs blue. Lol. guess she didn't know it would kill them... oh well...That's all for this time. :)