I love getting older!!!!!!

I am now officiously fifteen-years-old!!!! I am sooooooooooooooooo excited!!!! I also have some other good news! I am going to spend the weekend at a friends house this weekend!!!!!!!! Her name is Abigail! I just met Abigail this summer at Family Camp! And I am sooooo looking forward to seeing her again! And the rest of her family! One of my closest friends is also going with me!!!! Her name is Joanna and she was Abigail's family assistant this summer! That is how I met them! They live in Illinois about an hour and a half form my house!!!! So I am really excited!!!!!! Well I have to go! I will write as soon as I get back and tell you all about the trip and what we did!!!

~Lauren~

P.S. Please, if you would, pray for Joanna's family. They just lost their 21 year old son and brother in a motorcycle accident two weeks ago! It has been VERY hard on Joanna and the rest of her family!!! Thank you!!!!!!!

My heart is aching

OOPS!! Sorry guys. I accidentally posted this on the wrong blog.

This Thursday my life and my family's life is going to dramatically change. My friend and my best neighbor EVER, Karen Sutton is moving 8 hours away. You might be thinking....get over it.....find a new friend.....you will like your new neighbor just as well. WRONG....because as long as we live here we will never have a neighbor for longer than one or two weeks. Our house is one of a row of three A frames up on top of a hill. The first A frame has already been turned into a retreat rental, now the Sutton's house will be turned into one also. NO MORE NEIGHBORS and FRIENDS. I am being a little dramatic I know, but my pain is so real. After this Thursday.....I will be ALONE!!

I love you Karen and I miss you already!!!!

Judith (The mommy to these great 5 kids)

Happy 4th of July!!!!!!!!!

This morning I woke up got ready to go to breakfast at the lodge and realized that I was not wearing Red, White, and Blue!!!!!!!!!! Oh no!!!! Later on that day I realized I was! You want to know how?!!!!! My purity ring!!!! I has a red jewel a white jewel and a blue jewel! I was so happy! I fit in! Finally!!!!!!! Anyway! Hey comment and tell me what you did for the Fourth of July! I didn't do much! We don't normally go watch fireworks. But I do get to watch the stuff over the lake! Which is REALLY cool because there is a cool reflection on the lake and all!!!!!!!!! Well I have to go! I will talk to you later!

~Lauren~

Birthday's, Birthday's, and more Birthday's!

Happy Birthday Mary Weeks! Yes I know I'm a day late and I'm sorry! I was really busy yesterday! Well I miss you all alot. For though's of you who do not know the Weeks they are some supporters of ours and my best friends! I am so happy for Mary Weeks because yesterday was her eleventh birthday!!!!!!!!! Wippeeee!!!!!!!


~Lauren~

P.S. Today is my Aunt Jana's Birthday!!!!!!!!!! Happy Birthday Aunt Jana!!!!!!! And no I will not tell you how old she is turning!

Glasses.

Hey Y'all! It's Lauren again! Ok yes I have to get glasses and no I am not excited about them! I will have to wear them for a few weeks constantly and after that I will only have to wear them when I need them. Like when I have to read from a far distance like at school or at church and stuff or when my mom tells me to. I am kind of looking forward to being able to see the expressions on peoples faces and stuff! But...... ya oh well! I have to go now! Thanks for reading and for keeping us in your prayers!


~Lauren~

IT'S HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey it's Lauren again! Family Camp is finally here!!!!!!!! Today is the first day of Family Camp!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh boy am I excited!!!!!!!!! I can not wait to get started! The only bad thing is that it is suppost to rain the next three days of Family Camp! Umm.... I don't know what else to write! Maybe I can tell you what I did this week after I have done it this week! Meaning I will tell you what I did for today and the day after that and so on! Well I guess I will talk to you all later!

~Lauren~

P.S. Please pray for the weather this summer to be sunny and warm and that we will be able to minister to all the campers for the next eight or so weeks! Thank you all you blogger friends and blog readers! ~Lauren~

Family Camp!

Hey it's Lauren! I am soooooooooooo excited! The Weeks will be here in 16 or so days! Oh I am soooo excited! Can you tell?!!!!!!!!!! Family Camp starts a week before they get here. They are coming for the second week! Which means I will know the schedule by the time they get here! That way I will still feel like the expert!!!! JK! Well ok I have to confess that I don't like it when I am as clueless as they are. Not saying that they are very clueless. It's just that I live here and when they come they always ask me what's next and if I know what we are going to do next. So I like to be able to go through a week so I know a few things! I have nothing against there asking me that stuff I just like to have answers! Well I have to go! I can't wait to see you guys!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!! Please tell your dad to get you guys here ASAP! But tell him not to drive over the spead limit! Love and miss you all!

~Lauren~

Camp Cookout!

Hey it's Lauren again! As I'm sure most of you know I live on a camp with the rest of my family! There are about seven or eight other families that live here full time now. Well to celebrate what we do around here we have a cookout to honor everyone that works full time at the camp. Well this cookout started like every cookout. All of the women made something special for us all to eat. Then we met down in the Lodge to eat. After we were all done eating we went up to play kickball at the baseball/soccer field. I couldn't play because I hurt my toe the other day. So instead I blew bubbles with the younger kids who couldn't play kickball with the adults. After kickball was over I went swimming, in the lake, with (are you ready for this!) Emily and Daniel (my brother and sister), Alex, Sydney and Morgan Lee (there dad helps my uncle and makes decisions), Ben and Joe Toledo (there dad works in the kitchen with my dad), Austin and Jonathan Herdklotz(our cousins),and Madison and Tyler Reava (there dad does maintenance and there mom works in housekeeping)! It was soooooooo much fun! Then we all went home and had a good night sleep! I hope you like reading the fun yet boring life of Lauren Herdklotz! I will write again as soon as I find something to write about! LOL!

~Lauren~

Jonathan Park!

Hey guys! It's Lauren again! So I'm sure you all are wondering what in the world my title means! Well I will stop you wondering! Jonathan Park is a Christian Drama Series a friend bought for me and I absolutely love it! There are four seasons so for and there is another season coming out in the spring or so it says! After a little investigating I found out that it isn't coming out until July 27th! THAT IS NOT THE SPRING!!!!!!! Well at least it is near my birthday!(July 31st)! I can't wait to get the next season! I already have the money so I am totally prepared! If you want to know what Jonathan Park is you can either google Jonathan Park or you can go to JonathanPark.com to see more! I hope if you get to listen to it you will enjoy it! My whole family does, but I think I like it more than anyone else in the family! Love all you fellow bloggers and blog readers!!

~Lauren~

The Best Weekend Ever!

Hey guys it's Lauren. Finally! Yes I know that it has been a long time since I wrote on here last but to tell you the truth there really isn't anything to write about. So anyway. About three weeks ago I was working in the kitchen at the lodge when I saw one of my friends! She was working supper with me! Later on, while we were cleaning up she asked me if I would like to spend the night with her and another friend of mine! I asked my parents and they said yes! Thankfully! Oops first I should probably tell you my friends names. The girl who asked me to spend the night was Keely. Her friend (also one of my VERY good friends) is Joanna. So Joanna and I helped with supper and snack together and then we went and met Keely in our room who told us that we were going up to one of the suits to watch a movie with some of my other friends. We were up there until 2:00am in the morning!! But wait it gets better! Ok so Keely, Joanna and I all went back to the cabin and got ready for bed right! Wrong! First we played Dutch Blitz! (Best game in the world!) Then as we were getting bored of that Keely turned on some music from Hannah Montana, The Movie, and we danced to that or actually I should say we did the motions! We stayed up until 5:00am and we had to get up at 6:00am so we could go work breakfast! Then all three of us jumped into a car with the friends we had watched the movie with (James and Andrew) and headed for the Warren Dunes. We had just left the camp when the driver, Andrew, stopped the car and turned around and asked if anyone knew how to get to the dunes!!!!! I was like um well aren't you the one driving!!!!!!! So anyway Joanna and I put our brains together and got us there! We got to the dunes and had a whole lot of fun! We climbed up mountians of sand, played soccer in the sand, and even rolled down the sand! It was so much fun! When we were ready to go we got back in the car and drove all the way to the mall and ate at Five Guys! Which Joanna thought was a bar!!!!!!! LOL!!!!! Um then we went back to camp and Joanna's dad came and picked her up and then Andrew and James dropped Keely off at her house and left, ending a WONDERFUL day! I hope you liked that Mary! LOL!!!!! I want to thank the people that helped make this memory an enjoyable one for me! James, Keely, Andrew and Joanna! Love you all!

Thanks, Lauren!

P.S. Just so all of you know I am normally left out of all of these things because I am younger than everyone! So this is something I will NEVER EVER forget!!!! Thank you soooooooo much guys!

Mom in New York

I am sure you may know from my mom's blog, but she is in New York. It is sad without her here, but we are holding up. My dad lets us do things that my mom never lets us do unless she is sick. Like yesterday we watched movies all morning. And last night we had Sydney and Morgan Lee, Brooke, Zack, Alli,and Leah Griffith, Joe and Ben Toledo to watch a movie.  We watched Fireproof.  They were all here until 9:15 last night.  I slept in today until 9:00.  My mom sometimes let's me do that. Today I got done with school at 10:30 and I am used to my mom telling me to help with Joel or get off the phone with Brooke Griffith because I have chores to do. But today she is not telling me anything. I miss her a lot. I hope I can hold on until Tuesday morning cause that is when she gets back. I hope you are having fun Mommy. I love and miss you lots.  Have a great week everyone!!!!!!

Computer broke down

Hey everybody sorry it has been so long since I have posted anything. Our computer broke down so I have not been able to post anything. Well we just got a new computer put together yesterday. I am so happy that it is fixed. There has not been much that has been going on since the computer. But there is one thing that I am not happy about...there is more snow, but there is not enough to sled with. There is not anything to do, but play in the snack shop with friends. There are not many people here that I play with, only about four or five. There is Morgan, Sydney, Alex Lee, my cousin Austin, and sometimes Brooke Griffith comes over. I really like to play with them. We have great fun together. Well if you are going anywhere today or tomorrow drive safely. I hope you had a great Valentine's Day.

*Emily*