Life::Love

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Monday, February 23, 2009

Recent essay written by my 9-year-old son, Josh.

Without a doubt, brocolli is my least favorite vegetable for many reasons. It looks like a small tree and eating a small tree makes me throw up. Tasting brocolli tastes like dirt from a real tree. The color green from the brocolli is a grass green and it makes me feel like eating grass. Clearly brocolli is my least favorite vegetable.

I would have given anything to see his teacher's reaction on this one!!!!

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Karaoke

Last weekend Mikayla had a sleepover birthday party for her 7th birthday and got a karaoke machine. She and her friends had a blast with it. I also may or may not have had a blast with it. :)

Megan and Ashlyn

Mikayla and Taryne

No Words...

This past weekend I went up to Estes Park as a leader for a winter retreat with the youth group (SIM) from the church I go to (Vinelife). It totally rocked everyone's worlds. Really, there are no words to fully describe how awesome it truly was, and I'm dead serious about that. People's lives were changed...

However, I do have documentation of some of the activities that took place in the boys' cabin after the girls had left for the night (me and 2 other girl leaders stayed there in a room by ourselves because there wasn't room at the other cabin for us), and I was fortunate enough to be able to capture this...

Sunday, January 25, 2009

It's been a long time coming...

On January 1st, I began something that I have wanted to do for a long time....attempting to read the entire bible, old and new testament, front to back, in one year. I found a really cool website (www.youversion.com) that tells you exactly what books and chapters to read each day. I really like how you read out of both the old and new testament at the same time. Right now, I'm in the middle of Genesis, Psalms, and Matthew. If you haven't read Genesis, you should! I'm finding it fascinating. I've heard all the stories before, but when you read them all together and understand how they tie into one another, it's much more meaningful. And, man, some of the people in those days were messed up!! But it all makes so much sense...

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Ice, Ice Baby

I have been to a Denver Nuggets basketball game exactly once before in life, about 13 years ago when my high school cheer squad participated in a halftime show. What are the odds that I would randomly end up at the "I love the 80's" night game where Vanilla Ice, yes, you read it right..Vanilla Ice performed a couple tunes at halftime. He's for sure not the most talented (or sharpest) dude in the world but as soon as I heard "Alright stop, collaborate and listen..." for a split second I was taken back to 1990, 7th grade, to Alief Middle School in Texas when you couldn't NOT know that song word for word....and here we are, 19 years later, and everyone STILL knows all the lyrics...gotta give him props for that...right!?!