Still BUSY!!!!!

Hey Y'all,
We are still so busy!!! This week I was barely home at all!!!! I didn't realize how much I love staying at home until I haven't been home all week! I've been working for the Franklins again! :D:D!!! I love to work for them! They are so sweet and when they all come in from the fields (the "farm hands")to eat lunch we just sit around the table and talk while we're eating and it just feels so....homey....and "countryfied"!!!:D!!!! Anyways....On Tuesday night we went to a "Fall Festival" in downtown Graceville! It was so much fun! My family and I helped with the 4 booths that our church had set up! We had a "ring around the soda" booth, a basketball booth, a "fishing booth" and a hot dog stand! BTW:Everything is free! The town just closes about 4 blocks right in "downtown" Graceville and everyone just sets up their booth! All the booths are sponsored by Churches...and that is really neat to see! And they had a band from the college there and another band that played too! It was a night of food and fun and craziness!!!!!
On Wednesday I worked until 4:00 and then I came home and got ready to go to church! I have to be at church on Wed. nights at 5:15 so our band can practice for about 30 min before we play! The rest of my family comes at 5:30 for suppers! So I practiced and then ate (10 min to eat:D!) and then I played with the band and then I was supposed to practice a duet with one of the women at our church but she wasn't there! But I didn't know she wasn't there until I went to the "bell" room where I was supposed to meet her! Well she wasn't there so my piano teacher (she leads the bell group at church) talked me into staying to play the bells! So I did and NOW my piano teacher wants me to play the bells with the bell choir for Christmas!!!! And I'm already singing with the Youth Choir in that program and I'm playing a duet with Miss Mann and I'm probably going to play another song too!!!! Oh and about the duet...Mrs. Mann is going to play flute and I'm going to play the piano!:D! SO anyways...I've been getting really involved at church lately!
And this weekend we went to stay with some friends kids because the mom had heart surgery! Their family lives in Perry,Fl but they are moving to N.C. in January because they feel God calling them to go to the Seminary there for Missions! Thank the Lord the surgery went good and Mrs. Sandy is at home recovering!!!Their kids name's are: Summer 17, Scotty 14, Autumn 9, Gabriel 5, Spring 4 and Wynter is 2. So we had 14 people in that house and it was rather............interesting!!! It was fun though! Summer is getting married on Dec. 15 of this year so y'all be praying for her and her fiance'!!!! His name is Brian!
Well I gotta' go to bed!!!! I love y'all so much!!!!

Love Always,
Ashley

OH! P.S.:
One of our deacons at church, Bill Pitts, passed away this past week. Him and his wife have always been so very good to our family so as you can imagine it is hard for us to see him go but we know he is in a better place!!! He died of Brain cancer. Please be praying that God will comfort his wife, Joyce!!! Thank you! (the funeral is next Sat.)