Prayer

Good morning all. I know I'm not caught up on this blog by any means but I wanted to interrupt the usual order of things and ask everyone to join with me in prayer. Yesterday morning Leah called me to let me know that a friend of ours from church died on Friday night. She was hit by a drunk driver while crossing the street at about 8:30 on Friday. It was a hit and run, the person did not even stop. Her name is Lauren Detrio and she actually went on the first mission trip to Mexico with our church (2006) and was a part of our youth group after that.
Please pray for her, her family, and her fiance. Also, pray for her friends. I know so many are hurting now-- she was so beautiful inside and out and she has truly touched a lot of lives.
Lauren and Mike [her fiance] are shown below.

Join with me in praying:
Heavenly Father, I don't always understand Your ways. In my selfishness and out of my flesh I would undo what has happened. But in the midst of all of this, I know that Your plan is far better than mine. I lift up Lauren, her family, and her fiance. Father I lift up all of her friends who are hurting and trying to understand. May they find peace in You. I love You Lord. Amen.

The Polar Express

I am getting really jumpy with these postings! Once I post something I come across photos for something that happened before it! So this is a little out of order!

We're back at the beginning of Christmas Break! The Wednesday before Christmas, Leah and I went to a Christmas Party at our friend Kimmy's church. There were tons of games and lots of food!!! One game was to make a sculpture out of the mini candy canes using your spit as glue.
Leah and I took home the prize with this beautiful creation:

It's The Polar Express Going Through A Tunnel In An Ice Storm.

Secret Santa knew just what I wanted: A BEACH KIT! Complete with shovels and molds! I'm ready for Englewood! Leah got a bag of quick-start COAL!!!

Kimmy! Me [I'm not sure what I'm doing with my hands]. And Stephen Crews [who I just realized is winking!].

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! AGAIN!

Bill is Pregnant

Not really...but one Sunday we were running late to church and there were no spaces left. So we went around back and pulled into the only open one we could find. When we were leaving church and walking out we noticed a sign in front of the car that we had not noticed before.


I just HAD to take a picture!

Project Shelbsway

Before I jump into this post, let me just say I cannot believe how long it has been since my last "real" post. Almost 2 months!!! AHHH! Simply unacceptable!

I guess to begin this post we need to rewind and pause in December. I finished up exams, with my last one being at 7:30 a.m. on Friday morning, and FINALLY got to head home! Courtney had left Thursday at about lunch time so I had a quiet evening in The Box. Friday I got home extremely early, in fact Mom and Shelbs were still in school. So I drove to Leah's and talked with her sister [Leah wasn't there..but that's for my next post!]. Then I picked up Shelbs a little bit early from school and we had a sister day of fun!

Saturday was Shelby's much anticipated birthday party which we had been planning for the past couple of weeks. It was Project Runway turned Project Shelbsway at our house. Guests arrived and were split into 4 different teams, given a paper Publix bag, and assigned different workspaces.


The girls had one hour to create an outfit for a party using only the materials provided in the bag. They were to pick one girl to model the outfit in a finale runway show. It was so much fun to see what they came up with! Creativity is an amazing process to watch!





Here are some of the girls with their models!




Once time was up for the outfit, 15 minutes was allotted for styling: hair, makeup, you name it. The girls had to be Runway Ready! Then it was time for our FASHION SHOW! [I gave the girls a quick walking how-to and posing 101 right before!]




The winner was the cute blonde with the pink skirt and silver top! But I think all of the outfits deserved an award!

In the words of Tim Gunn: MAKE IT WORK!

Chatch Me If You Can

What a break! Christmas break has come and gone. I've traded in my stocking for books and my free time for homework...LOTS OF IT. Anyways, just thought I would do a quick post to let everyone know I'm still alive. Still here doing things! Just not at the computer as much!

Things to look for are some exciting posts coming this way haha:
Shelby's birthday party
Christmas
Break In General
Women's Retreat
Children's Ministry Internship
Disciple Now THIS WEEKEND! First one EVER! woo-hoo!
IM's Basketball

I pray that God is doing incredible things in everyone, He sure is in me! I have so much catching up to do! So be on the look out!