!!!MISSIONS TRIP!!!

Finally, now since i'm done w/ my vacation pictures, i'm getting a chance to post about the missions trip. Well, not rly about it b/c i'm not gonna say much other than about the kids in my pic....detail about the trip is what Kelsey's blog is for b/c i believe she went into a tremendous amount of detail. It only took her like 2 weeks to make the post....but hey, she still got it up before me, so what am i complaining about!?lol

Let's begin, shall we??? :)

me and Kelsey w/ the 3 Soto sisters, Ariana, Brianna, and Kayla. They were sooo cute! (as were all the other kids!)

Simon, me, Elijah

Not to sound conceded (as usual...lol), but these 2 little boys had crushes on me along w/ 3 other of their friends!! I was surprised b/c the whole week i was truly a mess, (evidence lies w/in the pictures; just take a look!) But maybe they justified their likeness of me just b/c i was blonde...;) haha. Or maybe they just took a wise piece of advise from a very wise cousin who once said "beauty is w/in the eye of the beholder." Ahhh...soooo true!!haha.

me, Simon, Terell, & Clay.

I'm not sure how to spell the boy's name in the middle, but is pronounced (b/c i kno ur dying to know!) "TER-ELLLLL"
All these boys along w/ 1 other and a girl had the same foster mom who apparently had 5 other kids at home!! Man, God bless that lady!! And they all were in tears when i said "goodbye" to them for the last time! :( And seeing as how these kids were crying b/c i was leaving them, i, in return, began to cry!! :/ But it was still sooo precious!!

Selena and me-she was sooo cute too!!

Melissa, Ariana, Selena, me and some boy who decided to join the picture!! Oh, and since i taught the Bible story one day, i got to know kids from all age groups so after it was hard for me to choose one age group over the other to help out in the rest of the week. But, there was no reason to fear!! Being the smart, intelligent, blonde girl i am, i decided to stay in the Bible story room the whole rest of the week. That way, i was happy and so were the kids since in each of the 4 different age group classes there were several who would just cling to me!! Literally!! :)




Me and Kels once again w/ the Soto sisters, but this time beautiful Daniella decided to join in! :)

I kinda felt bad for the other leader sitting to the far right here, this was her class and all the girls were surrounding me and even fighting for my lap....:( :)



Eunelise, me, Terell, & Jacob.

Ryan, me, Eunelise

Me and Daniella

Me and Eunelise. This girl was totally adorable!!! She loved me, and i loved her!! Everyday she would sit on my lap, and follow me around, wanting to hold my hand and just always be by me. One day, while sitting on my lap she asked me "can i come home w/ you???" In just the sweetest, cutest, voice!! I wanted to cry. I told her i didn't think that was possible, but that she can come visit me. Naturally, she loved that idea!!
Then another time, while walking around, she looked up to me and said "I wish you were my mommy!!" My heart just sank...and i began to look forward even more to having kids; i just hope they like me as much as she did!! :)

Silly group pose here. I remember here, this day i was leaving the class just as this group was coming in. They were all upset until i told them i'd be right back and to save me a seat. A minute later, i come back in and i had 4 kids telling me "Miss Briana, sit here!! sit here!!" I maneged a way to sit by them all, with Selena on my lap as you can see. But she said my lap was super comfy....so that shot up my self esteem!!lol



Daniella, Eunelise, and some other random girl who wanted to be in the picture.....and can you guess.....yep; once again, fighting for my lap!!



They loved to jump rope during their hour of recreation first thing in the morning. They would form endless lines....and even get sooo upset if someone was jumping for too long....or someone they weren't too fond of was jumping w/ them!! :/ But it was cute seeing them over the week improve quite a lot on their skills!!:) haha.






















Eunelise and Daniella and me during lunch one day.









Super super cute!!! One day during rec. some of the girls were feeling very happy and decided to go around hugging different ppl while Mrs. Haden would take pictures. All i heard was them screaming "MISS BRIANA!!!" and the next thing i knew, i was being flooded by this group of girls....trapped in a loving hug!! :) Soooo precious too!! :)

We did not plan to dance; but it soon became hard to watch everyone else have a ball w/ the kids while we were just sitting there!! We couldn't help but to join in! :)

Me and Simon...don't ask how we were dancing, we just were!! Silly stuff-yet fun- while spinning in a circle, and spinning each other in and out!!

Me and Kelsey had fun dancing together....ahhhh!! And holding hands....haha-don't ask!

I like seriously had to bribe Elijah to dance. Now remember, he is one of the little boys who had a crush on me. Brennan (the guy i'm holding hands w/)came over and told me i should dance w/ him (meaning Elijah!) but every time i would go over to him he just dashed away!! It finally took some convincing, and he saw how much fun me and Simon were having dancing.....Elijah soon felt like he didn't want to be missing out anymore!! :)

Still dancing...

Here we were just catching our breath from all that hard core dancing....it only looks like we were posing for a picture....really, we weren't!!lol :)

I love this one!! It was still at the point when Elijah wasn't too crazy about dancing. Once he realized how much fun he was having, he couldn't help it!! Then later in the night he actually told me that he had such a blast dancing and thanked me for it!! Sooo cute!! :)

According to Simon here, he had the "best spot for the picture!!" yea, leaning against my shoulder!!haha. Elijah behind him, (a boy i can't remember! :( ) Melissa, and Ariana to my right.









Eunelise enjoying sitting on my lap at the end of the day.

And this little boy int he red, he was making "worms" come out of his plum!! He got the biggest kick out of it and i just had to capture the moment!! :)








Check out our sweet dancing movie!!:) :) :)

Ok, one more post to go for the missions trip!! :)

"Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received. ~Ephesians 4:1