Burnett Family

The past several weeks have been very busy, but so much fun!

Lots of our friends here in Stratford attended a wedding shower for Hannah, she was overwhelmed and humbled by everyone’s generosity!
Last week, 3 of the Dornink girls made the long trip down from MN so we could get their bridesmaids dresses made. Mom sewed almost non-stop to get them done before they had to leave and she did! YAY!

While they were here we worked together to get some projects marked off the “wedding to do” list. We made 6 batches of chocolate chip cookie dough and rolled  it all into 1/8 tsp. balls. We only ate a little!

We also got all the scrapbooking stuff out and made lots of cute name labels and fun topping labels for the reception…

Melody did a wonderful job making the guest book pages. They turned out so nice!

We practiced on hair. Lots of curls, hair spray, and bobby pins!

And OF COURSE we played games and had some good one-on-one talks!

And then we had to party because we got so much accomplished during the week! Homemade oreo ice-cream!!!

Yeah, they’re excited too!

We can’t wait to see all the rest of you Dorninks next week! Hurry on down =D

Since we only have a couple weeks left before the wedding, we wanted to go some place or do something together as a family one last time before Hannah gets married. So here’s a little recap of our weekend at a cabin of some very dear friends of ours!

We arrived late Friday night after going to Hannah’s first wedding shower and the guys had picked up our favorite Papa John’s pizza to start off the weekend!

The game of “42”

We played LOTS of ping-pong! Round Robin was hilarious. 10 people running around the table, slipping, and dodging balls and paddles… =D

It was a very windy and bumpy ride on the “ranger”.

The dune buggies were so. much. fun.

The calm and responsible drivers =)

The crazy drivers

Look out, ya’ll, here we come.

Root beer floats. Gone.

Singing was so much fun because the house had really good acoustics! =)

Worked a puzzle.

As you can see, our group got smaller as the night got later/earlier (if ya know what I mean). We came up with some pretty hilarious jokes about 2:45 in the morning…I wouldn’t trade that night for all the quilts in Afghan-istan, or all the moms in Papua New Guinea, or all the hymns in Singapore…LOL!!! We went on and on and on. Good memories. =)

Fish-bowl!

Cherish every moment you have with your family, work on building your relationships, and make memories!  I love my family so much. We are so blessed!

What a blessing it was to get to travel up to MN with Hannah, Dustin, and Maggie! And what a trip it was…

First off, Dustin and Hannah took Maggie and I north in MN to meet up with my friend Emma. We got to spend 4 wonderful days with her and her family! Here some pictures of our stay there…

We had so much fun walking on water! (the frozen lake) A frozen pond is one thing but a whole lake frozen over is an experience for these southern Okies!

Red light-green light on the pond!

Hope, Brielle, Emma, and Me.

So grateful to be able to call and text the family back in OK! We missed them.

They took us sledding down Darwin Hill! Despite freezing, crashing, and getting a black eye and bruises, IT WAS A BLAST!!

And if you‘re ever up around here you must go see the largest twine ball in the world! It’s a thriller!

On our way back to meet up with Hannah and Dustin we went to the Mall of America! It was…huge. We ate lunch and then got some delicious bubble tea!

The Lord has blessed me with such a precious friend! It’s too bad we live so far from each other. I love you, Emma.

Then we went south to the Dornink’s house for a week!
We played LOTS of fun games.

They took us bowling one evening! It was super fun once Maggie and I got the hang of it again. It had been a year since we had been bowling!
Getting tips from the pros!

Not sure if I got that one or not…

War zone! You have to be careful taking pictures during a snowball fight! You just MIGHT get hit. Pure accident I’m sure!

Josiah all bundled up and ready to go.

Room mates! Thanks girls for sharing your room!

And another thriller! *drum roll*  THE SPAM MUSEUM!!!

The two Charitys

“On Air”

Dianna, Maggie, and Christina

Who can can SPAM the fastest?! Pretty sure it was Melody. I think she should apply for a job or something!

It was very fun and memorable! Who knew SPAM was so important?! Not me.

And last but not least…the happy and definitely in love couple! <3

Happy Wednesday, Ya’ll! =)

A couple weeks ago, Hannah, Abbie, and I traveled out to TN with some friends to help at the ATI conference. We had a great time teaching and also getting to fellowship with friends that live far away.  
 

Traveling in a RV was…an experience! 

Taking a supper break while Mr. B tried to figure out what was wrong with the RV.

After several stops (one to leave the broken down RV with a mechanic and then a stop at Braums for ice-cream!) we made it safely there!

Mr. Mechanic had a very nice truck! ;)

Hannah was in charge of COMMIT, but unfortunately we don’t have any pictures of her!

Abbie and Laura having fun doing CI registration – Abbie was on the Children’s Institute staff and played the piano for large group. The kids really love her!

And I helped teach CI, and had a group of 12 kids.

Me and my little shadow :)

Abbie really enjoyed seeing some of the children she got to teach last year, and also made some new little friends. =)

I’m so thankful that the Lord made a way for me go! We all had a wonderful time together!

“And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.”    Col 3:23-24

We had the wonderful opportunity to go to the annual ATI conference in Big Sandy again this year! Our 8th time. This is one of the biggest highlights of our year. It’s kind of a booster for us, and it’s a very encouraging, refreshing week…getting to hear amazing speakers, singing in choir, playing in orchestra, catching up with friends, the Chinese restaurant (tradition), ALERT cadets, and we were all so excited that Caleb got to come down for the last two days! =)

Abbie and Hannah played O, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus. It was beautiful! 

Maggie taught Children’s Institute this year for the first time and really enjoyed it!

Hannah was on the COMMIT staff team again. All the COMMIT girls did a presentation at the end for the first time ever (I think) – they sang Be Thou My Vision. 

Benjamin was in ALERT cadets and thoroughly enjoyed it…as usual. How could you not enjoy huge water balloon slingshots and rappelling? ;)

  
I sang in the student choir. :)

Abbie played in the orchestra.

Somehow, we ended up without any pictures of Carinna, but she was there too! Due to being sick on Monday, she wasn’t able to teach CI with Maggie, but attended student sessions and choir instead. Caleb came down on Thursday evening to join us. John-Clay was in CO at the World Changers’ Summit. Mom and Dad worked the Character First! booth and attended sessions.

Probably the message that stood out to us the most was given by David Gibbs who preached on doing the impossible. God doesn’t just call us to do “great things” – He has given us the power by His Spirit to do impossible things! It’s so easy to put God in our human box and forget that He is so ABLE to do beyond what we ask or think. It starts with us asking Him to do the impossible.

Praise the Lord for such a blessed time together as a family!