Monday, January 31, 2011

Love Hate Relationships

I LOVE the snow...I HATE being home bound. I LOVE snow days from school....I HATE research papers that are due via email. I LOVE snow days from school....I HATE not getting to go to work (I know crazy huh). They say it is good to have a balanced life, well I guess I have the love and hate part of life covered :)kinda

Speaking of snow....This is looking out of our back door.

As my toes see it :P
I should have taken a picture of the back of my grandparents house. The snow has drifted up as high as their windows and holds that depth for several feet.




Look closely....that there thing sticking up out of the snow is none other than Tyler's trailer.



Aw! check it out! Luann got a face lift...well it was more like a ear job. She is the one on the left.

The reports said we got anywhere from 14 to 20 inches of snow. Kinda looks like Christmas to me:)
Toodles




Tuesday, January 25, 2011

AHEEEEE!!!

SOOOOOOOOO.....I mentioned a couple of posts back that I had found some jewels in my picture archives.....Welll here they are!!!!

Yeahzers for pictures :)


Who knew that, as a child, Marissa was a model?




I plead the fifth :) I had no idea what was so funny until I saw the picture:)

Jonathan, Me, and Trent at Heritage




This piece of art is from Winter Heritage two years ago. Bro Short was complaining that his pinkie finger was cold...so being the nice and compassionate person that I am, I whipped up a solution to his problem....a pinkie glove.

TO bad the only yarn I had available was rainbow :)



This, dear bloggie, is Brittany and I gearing up for Black light Night at youth....



Ahhhhh....What to say about this one? You know they say that a picture is worth a thousand words...Very true...We were all ready to play the seed sucking game at the Fall Festival....Kinda sounds weird I know.



HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!!! I love the expressions on their faces!

MISS JESSICA AND KELSI




YEhAW! This here, partners, is me and my big lil' bro at the Fall Festival.




Hold on to your top hats.....Yes that is a picture of my Father.... and yes he is looking at the camera. Many moons ago we were trying to take a picture of my dad and mom and we could not get dad to look at the camera. When I expressed my...uh...frusturation, his response was " If I look at the camera wont it give me red eye in the picture." Shooweee. Old folks and technology :)



WOW! This is service with a smile!

Actually Brent was serving the girls because the guys lost the coin drive to the girls.





HErE FiShy FisHY!

Jeron would kill me if he knew that I posted this picture!! When we took it, he offered to pay me to keep it off the newsletter....good thing I am not the kind of person that would take a bribe :)



Taking a train ride.... Must have been her first she looks a little apprehensive....






Dont let the innocent looks fool you. This is the picture that you find in the dictionary listed under TROUBLE :P





HUMMM... I am tempted to let you draw your own conclusions on this one, but....

We were spending the day at Silver Dollar City and as we were entering Sis Deborah said "NOW girls we don't want anyone to get lost so remember to hold hands at all times."




ARGGGGH Matey! One of my all time favorite pictures of the three of us! Good Times:)




Tyler Dana and myself at Tyler's after Graduation party (no wonder he is all smiley)



Gracious Goodness, if only y'all knew all the pain I went through to post all these pictures....someone needs to tell blogger their picture downloading process needs some help.
Toodles

Saturday, January 15, 2011

In Loving Memory

Today I said goodbye to one of my best friends...forever. I meet him eight years ago and it was love at first sight. He was there for me when ever I needed him, listening to me with out interrupting. He knew all my secrets and faults and he loved me any ways.

Watson Ford died in my arms at 4:20 in morning on January 15. I will miss him very very much. I will miss his warm body curled up beside me at night. I will miss his tired puppy dog smell in the morning and his little dance he would do at breakfast and dinner time. I will miss his constant companionship when home and his enthusiastic greetings when I walk in the door. I will never see a racket ball with out thinking of my baby.

Watty I love you.









Tuesday, January 11, 2011

ARRRGGGGGGG!!!!!

WEEELLLLLL.......where to begin...that is the question.....I know it is time for another blog but I am not quite sure what to blog about. So I will just blog what ever comes to mind (this could be interesting for y'all :)



School started Monday and right off the bat my Humanities prof gave us a LOOONG reading assignment and a paper to write...due the second day of class. YEhAw!(that is said with major sarcasm...in case you are wondering) I am also taking Nutrition, Intro to Psychology, and Computer Concepts. I have one thing about school that confuses me, well maybe not just one thing...I spend most of my time confused I think:).....Why do they say you are taking 12 hours of classes (four classes) when it takes 48 hours to do all the home work required for those four classes?




Moving on to brighter things, I got a new cell phone! YEAHZERS for NEW PHONEs! I am really moving up in the technological world. I got the LG Optimise and I love it. One of the first things I downloaded was the game Angry Birds. It is SOOO addictive, I spend way to much time playing it...


While looking through pictures of this last year I found these......



Yes my dear bloggies, that is a pair of scrub pants....YOu see Britt and I were spending the night at Mariss' house and Bro Kip (Marissa's Dad) brought this pair of scrub pants into the living room and was like look what I found at work. We died laughing and Marissa said I bet we could both fit into them! So that is just what we did :)
3X's baby!!
While going through the pictures I found some more jewels that I will share with you later :P



Monday, January 3, 2011

That's Just How We Roll

Shoooweeeee blogie! This last weekend was WONDERFUL!!Let me start with Wednesday night and tell the whole story....
Wednesday night after church i peddled home fast as LuAnne would take me. Once there I spent an hour and a half choosing and folding the clothes that I would take with me. I love packing but I tend to over pack...in this case I could not decide what to take so I just took it all :) After packing I took a very long and very HOT shower. When I walked out of the bathroom I saw this....
This is what you think it is...my wonderful dog had dug around, successfully unfolding and unpacking my whole suitcase, to make himself a cosy nest. When I said "Watson you retard what do you think you are doing?" He looked at me as if to say, "AAAAA this is the life, my own little bed" If he was not so cute i would have strangled him.
Wednesday Morning we meet at the church at 7:30 in the morning to head down to the promise land.... TEXAS!!!! Home Sweet Home....
Marissa and I had the WHOLE back seat to our selves:)
Here is most of the group standing in the parking lot of a gas station...by this time we were all feeling a little tippy from being cooped up :)



Check out the Baby Blues!!! Carter was a wonderful traveling partner.


Once we got to Dallas we went straight to Grapevine Mills Mall for a late lunch and some shopping.



Thursday night was the first church service. Bro Micalip (I know this is not spelled right:) preached about the difference of the Plagues of God and the Wonders of God. Sometimes in life we don't understand what is happening or why but instead of pointing our finger at God and blaming him we need to trust in him and believe he is working for our good. He talked about the difference of the views on the ten plagues inflicted on the Egyptians. For the Egyptians they were plagues but for the Hebrews they were wonders, even though the world seemed to be falling down around them, it was for their benefit.

After service I snapped this picture of Cindy....She is so stinking cute :) While I am on the subject of Cindy, let me say THANK YOU to Brandon and Cindy for going with us.

Kelsi and Kristen



AAGGHHH!!! This picture makes me feel extremely OLD!!!! I changed this kid's diapers and now he is in First Grade.....Presenting Cayden Cheek.


Friday morning Bro Burgess preached That's How We Roll. The main idea of his message was maintaining a zeal for God despite the lack thereof in the world. We dress modestly while the rest of the world shows off as much as they can but that is just how we roll. We spend time on our knees in prayer instead of drinking and drugging but that is just how we roll. After Bro Burgess' message Bro Bow preached about Josiah and the revival he lead in his life time. At the beginning of his message he said "I am here to tell some young person that you are not to young to be used by God."
I love this picture...the contrast of colors is great


Brittany and Kristen...I am proud of you two for traveling together and coming out of it alive :)



After a scrumdilieumptious meal at Pappadeaux we retired to the hotel to re-beautify :)
Friday night Bro Bow preached again. This time his title was Shiginoth. What is a Shiginoth you ask? Well a Shiginoth is a Dithyramb! You are still confused arn't you? Here let me put it in English for you. A Shiginoth is a Dithyramb and a Dithyramb is a passionate speech or song. Bro Bow has officially made my Favorite preacher list.

Miss Chastity herself...Love ya girl


Jonathan and I

Kelsi Dakota and Jonathan after the Lock-In

Kristen^2


Bro Jeron...can yo believe he ate this in front of us and did not even offer to share....Shame on him :)

Poor Carter....Yes he was a wonderful baby but he was also EXHAUSTED! He passed out and did not stir until he was placed in his car seat.
Sis Short and I in the lobby after the Lock-In

Kristen trying to talk the others into playing spin the bottle...yeah that is funny at 4 O'clock in the morining.

I have to say this was by far the BEST Winter Heritage I have ever been to. Not only did I meet some great people but the Services were incredible.
Saturday morning the young people left at 9:30ish to meander their way home. I on the other hand did not...cause that is just how I roll :)
Most of you know that I was privileged to have been born in Texas and much of my family still lives there. So since we were so close and we have not seen them in a long time Dana Tyler and I drove down to Stephenville to to spend some time with Nana (my Dads mom) and my Uncle and Aunt and family. I LOVE MY FAMILY they are a lot of fun to be around.

No, your eyes do not deceive you that is Tyler with a kid in his lap. That gorgeous little guy in his lap is Skyler my cousins son. He is a genuine cornball :) Skyler never meets a stranger... I mean never. For example we were at Target and he preceded to direct buggy cart traffic telling everyone where to go and when.
Now I have saved the best part for last. On this trip I meet Carson Mooney and it was love at first sight. He has huge blue eyes and thick brownish red hair. Yes of course I did get a Picture

:)

more later