Leaving in the Morning

Jetting of to NYC in the AM. Yankees game on Saturday, and lots of shopping/ sightseeing! 

Update you all when I get home :)

Project Feed Jonny

My church has started up a program the last few years, where they encourage us as a community to gather in small groups and grow together/ encourage each other. We call them Life Together Groups, or LTG's.

Usually this looks like a group of about 6-10 families getting together twice a month, basically to "do life together". There are a TON of groups that have been organized, but as of last year there was not a group that I really fit into. This all changed when my friend Steve decided it was about time for the twenty-somethings to gather and be a community. 

So, we have our own LTG now. We've been meeting for almost a year now and have about 9 of us on a consistent basis, and a few floaters.

BUT TO GET TO THE POINT.....

Our friend Johnny is living in Florida plowing through an intense graphic design program.  The program keeps him super busy, so much so that he does not have any time to get a job. (No he's not just a bum :) 

Anyways, he has been living on Ramen noodles for a while, because "food isn't in his budget right now" and he's getting awfully skinny.  

So my LTG decided to send him a couple boxes of food, and stock his pantry. I am gathering everything at my house, and it is overwhelming to see how much we can accomplish when we set out to reach a common goal. 

I'm so excited to send this out to him!

Jonny also has some awesome t-shirts up on etsy that he screen prints from a makeshift "design studio" in a closet in his apartment haha. Check them out! My fave is the bike with a basket in yellow :)

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6237582

Amazing Night

I had the greatest time last night. Roadtrip to Toronto to see Coldplay!!!

They put on an absolutely AMAZING show, and while the stage effects, and visuals were incredible, there were times that I just closed my eyes and let the music move me. It was truly an awesome show.

Canada has some of the most unusual licence plates though. Some of the following were our favorites:

EVLQUEEN

SPATEL (?)

RSPBRRY

GLDFSH

strange country.

Anyways, here are a few of the pics I took at the show, the first is Chris Martin of course, the second was one I took when everyone had their phones out, and the last is the balloon drop when they played "Yellow".

Enjoy!

Having fun in crummy weather

It has been so rainy here these days. We really have not had much of a summer at all actually. But, this also makes for fun evenings of playing in the rain. My best friend moved in with me last week, and she is such a child at heart. We danced and splashed and jumped in puddles, and all the neighbors thought we were crazy. But I loved it :)

It has been WAY too long

So it's about time I got back to writing again! Life is just so busy sometimes, that I forget to slow down and do things that make me happy, like blogging :)

I am officially over the gym. While I think excersizing for health is wonderful and necessary, I am no longer worried about looking like the unrealistic airbrushed women who dominate our society. I am me. And I like that.

Much to do today, I am just getting over the flu, and laying in bed for four days straight has made me restless! So it's off to run some errands, and possibly bake something delishious and summer-ish.

Have a fantastic Friday!

So can I just tell you I've had one of those nights where I realize God has everything going on for  a reason? I just love having little moments that are seemingly insignificant to others, but touch my heart. 

Tonight was my final night with my 1st and 2nd grade Pioneer Girls. They had their little awards ceremony, and my entire class will be moving on to the next age group in the fall. Well, Emma has been my "challenging" child. ALL. YEAR. LONG. She is not a malicious girl and she doesn't irritate people intentionally, she just has a SEVERE issue with her attention span and listening skills. Oh yeah, and she doesn't know how to sit still for more than three seconds. No lie. In her defense, she has the biggest heart and loves to love people. Honestly she has the best intentions, but she was a handful for me none the less. Anyways, I'm not sure if you noticed in my pic with my tattoo, there are some pretty significant scars running the length of my arm. Usually I'm pretty good about keeping them covered when I'm around the kids, but tonight I forgot my jacket. So I'm sitting through the ceremony with my class, Emma is the only child on my left because she needs to be reminded to sit. She picks up my left hand and starts playing with my nails. She asks "are those real or are they yours?". I smile to myself and let her know that they are really mine. She continues to sit there and amuse herself with my nails, but then I hear her little voice gasp, and she says "What happened to your arm?". "I got hurt" I said. She whispers a simple "Oh", and rests her head down on my scars and rubs my arm. She stayed still like that for the remainder of the service. 

It's moments like those that God reminds me that sometimes my biggest challenges will be my most beautiful rewards. 

My day just keeps getting better...

So at 5 pm today my week and a half long vacation began. 

Upon the commence of my workday, I had a few errands to run. I'm not typically a big lotto girl but thought a scratch off would be fun. Paid $1, won $2 from that scratch off. Yay I'm a dollar richer. 

I then get home and my dad gives me a little info on an event I knew would never be pulled off. I have never been to NYC or seen the Yankees (fave team ever!!!!) play live.  My dad thought it would be nice if he took me to NY when the Yanks play the Red Sox (for any non-baseball fans: this is a big deal :)

Well these tickets began selling out last year and chances are very slim that we would be in attendance for any of the three games. 

But my life is awesome and daddyo managed to get four tickets right behind homeplate for the weekend game!

What an excellant day it's turning out to be :)