Inspiration?

I had no inspiration to blog today. Then I changed the header on my blog and now I have ideas. Weird how that works. The only problem is that Emily is waking up from her nap. A little late, I know, but the stupid time change is still messing up her sleep.

Anyways. We had a great week at the coast. Got to see Leah from Pluckymama and her gorgeous boys. It was a great stop off time for Emily to run around before we had to get back on the road again. Then we hd a great time with the “out-laws”. We took Emily shoe shopping, to which her silly mother was ever so picky. I cant just put any shoe on Em. They have to be thin soled and not to chunky. We found the cutest pair at one of those kiosks in the mall, but the sole was thicker than my shoes. Why do they make kids shoes like that seriously. Robbeez are still the best, but expensive. oh well.

We left the munchkin with her Nanny and headed to Ikea!! It was fun to imagine what our “no expense to high” house could be like. Both of us picked kitchens to get done first. That would be uber cool. Then we went for a walk down to Steveston. It was a really long walk, but so nice just to talk and walk and not worry about the screamer.

The week zipped by and now were are back at home in the grind of things. Next week will hopefully be alot slower. We have been spreading ourselves way to thin and that is going to have to stop if my schooling ever gets figured out. I have another appointment next week to get everything figured out. Tedious process.

The awakening was awesome! I got to throw a stack of records off the bell tower at our church. Don’t tell me that isn’t cool. I think its on film so I’ll try to youtube that asap. The weekend was an awesome time of being challenged and drawing close to Jesus. I think I’m still just trying to process it all.

Well I think skweeker is up. Dinner time here we come!

Mr. Mosby and My Sin.

We went out for a walk the other night. Emily was teething again and we needed to try and keep her up a bit longer without losing sanity. The fog had rolled in and the streetlight cast this warm glow all over town. It was quite picturesque really. When we first opened the door of our townhouse and pushed out the stroller, there, waiting for us was a kitty. He was definitely pretty young. Black, with a white belly and white gotee.Or whatever a cat chin beard is called. haha. We started walking and the kitty followed us.  We thought it was pretty cute, but we were pretty sure he’d stop when we got to the edge of the the townhouse driveway. Nope. We had a little friend for our entire walk. After about a block we decided our kitty needed a name. We decided on Theodore Mosby. Named after the great Ted from How I Met Your Mother. And then in short order started just calling him Mosby. Now, Mosby wasnt your tipical cat. He walked right beside us, ran ahead a little to see what he could see and ran back. He would run up to a tree and crouch way down as if to jump up into it and the turn and keep walking with us as if to say ” I could climb that tree, but I won’t. I’d rather walk with you guys”. When we walked passed BJ’s Donuts Mosby jumped all the little chains in the walk way. Kindof like a little trained poodle. 

Several times on our walk different people would walk by us and Mosby would stop to say hello. “Come on Mosby” I’d say. “How cute. Is that you cat?”. I’d just smile and laugh and say “Come on Mosby”.  Because afterall…He’s not our cat. Mosby followed us all the way across town, which is not actually that far all things considered, but he still walked a long ways. As we walked up our driveway and walked passed the first block Mosby stoped and sat there watching us walk on as if to say “That was fun guys, we should do lunch next week. Your place”.

Thus ends my crazy story about a cat. As for the rest of my week, its been rather busy. I had another meeting with my Schooling Lady. I had to fill out the last forms before they got sent away. This is my favorite part.

Lady “I need to get you to sign these forms”
Me “Sure”
Lady “This one is so I can share your information and your sin”
Me “Uh…what??”
Me after a minute of looking really stooopid as I figure out she means Social Security Number. ”Oh. ok. Sure”

Well sorry if I hadnt ever had anyone ask if they could tell other people my sin. I think they’re going to need a really big list, thats for sure. haha. I think sometimes we should sign wavers like that. Maybe I’d be more aware of what I say and do if I knew someone was keeping a big list to tell other people. I mean, I know God knows all of it, but for some reason I think it would be harder for me if everyone else did. It should be the other way around. We’ve been reading alot lately in Mark about how Jesus Called Sin “Sin”. He didnt excuse it or Sugar coat it. But He also didnt just let it go he delt with it.  I want my eyes to see just a bit more clearly. I miss so many things just because I’ve sugar coated them. grrr.

Then last night we went to Williams Lake with all the youth. We had a worship night at EFC that was awesome. I even got to paint. Then afterwards we went to the pool. It was called a Dive-In Theatre. Evan Almighty played on the big screen. We watched for a few minutes, but its hard to watch in the pool so we just swam. Coco and Shelby and I had super awsome fun jumping of the diving board and playing with Jakes underwater camera. Ill get those pics soon. They are funny. I either look like I’m 400 pounds or just like Im drowning. It was a fun night.

Bloggedy

Em is waking up so we’ll see how far we get on todays Bloggy.

Youth last night was good. We are working on some of the new songs. We didn’t actually play them though cause they need a bit more TLC. Plus who can instantly sound as good as delirious? Seriously? Next week we are takin it to the streets. Youth is in the A&W Parkinglot. Heres the story about it on CCLF’s page. 7pm everybody! I’m really looking forward to it. Some summers we do youth in the parking lot every week, but this summer we only get one shot. We just have a smaller crew this year during the summer.

Em is awake so Ill just post a couple pics from the weekend and maybe blog later.

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Em already loves Golf. Well she loves hitting people with Golf clubs.
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Em fell in Love with her cousins princess sandals.

L'chyim (Think Yiddish)

How many funny things can happen in one day? In my world the potential is amazing. I think of hundreds of things to blog about all day long, but then I cant remember them all. I’m tempted to carry a voice recorder and then have dragon naturally speaking transcribe it. Riiight. Since I’m that big of a nerd that’s exactly what I will do. or not do. Here is the lowdown of some of the funny things that happened in the last day.

I got called middle aged. Can someone help me with the knife in my back please.

Emily ate dirt and then…yep you guessed it…pooped dirt.

Emily choked on Timmys and Georgia rescued her.

Then she chucked her very full sippy cup which exploded in Timmys

Emily said the “F” word about a hundred times today trying to say “Walk”.

I cant remember them, but several times Morgan and I had word communication problems, which pretty much means one of us hears something absolutely ridiculous that the other person didn’t say.

Those are just some examples of my typical day. Not even counting our adventures in the supermarket. Again…I need to write a book about the weird things that happen to me. There could be a whole chapter on grocery stores.

I learned some new songs today. I’ve been trying to find some new things to play at youth. I found a bunch of good stuff. I burned L’chyim some stuff to try. I practiced a bunch of the new songs and I really like them. I’ve been playing my guitar so much lately. I love it. I’ve been learning alot and just having alot of fun. I’ve been playing my electric the most. Im turning into the noodle kid. The one that never shuts up. noodle noodle noodle. Its ok tho cause I wear my head phones.

I’m in the middle of a good book, so I’m gonna go read it and stay up late waiting for Morgan to get home again. I hate going to bed when he is still at work. It’s only till midnight tonight tho. So thats nice.

I have returned from whence I came.

I think memorable is the best way to describe my weekend at avalanche. There were good things and bad things thats for sure. Heres a recap of the funny things. We are driving down the coquahalla when the van starts to sound a bit too much like a Suzuki. We pull over and the van is now toast. Yay for Elisha who saved the day having only caught up to us 10 minutes before coming from Vancouver. So Leesh saves the day! We get there and all is going well. We set up tents and head for the conference. Skip ahead a bit until Saturday night. The day has been pretty good so far and we stay up a bit late for a concert and then head back to camp. I’m wondering…did you ever played with dominoes as a kid? I did, but nothing even compares to coming back to the camp and finding that 2 of the 3 huge tents have played dominoes while you were away. I’ll admit, not everyone thought it was as funny as I did. Ok mostly they did. Skip ahead a bit more to Sunday Morning. At the church service they had this drumming contest. They asked who could drum so my group yelled me and I ran up to the front. I jumped on stage to meet my competition who happens to be a guy I know from Williams lake. Imagine that! Rival towns drumming it up. We played stomp on these barrels full of blue and red paint. It was awesome. My dress is now perma tye dyed. Well I lost, but it was a cheer contest so It could have happened to anyone. But I won a t-shirt. YAY.

We are working on a video for Youth and Church. I’m loving all the stuff we have so far. Its awesome. Ill try to put it up as soon as possible. Anyways. I’m zonked from a long weekend without much sleep so Im gonna go get a coffee and chill out.

Oh yeah and we got given a new hugemongous awesome HD LCD flat screen T.V. YAYAYAY!!! Just in time for the season finale of Heroes. Which rocked by the way.

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Poop Smith

I’m taking a breather from packing to blog. I’m trying to get loads of things done for Avalanche this weekend. I’m soooo excited though.

I have a great Emily story this week. We had our friend Elisha come over and take pictures of us down at the park. There were so many mosquitoes that we couldn’t stay long so we went back to our house to just relax and play with Emily. It was bed time and so Emily had just finished her bottle and I took all her clothes off to let her run around in her diaper before putting her jammies on. It has been so hot this last week, so I decided Em could run around nudey buns for a bit cause she is all done her”business” bybedtime, plus I could take the opportunity to take some good nudey pictures for her baby book. About 5 minutes after I had taken her diaper off she turned and looked at me with this look that said “Here I go” and gave a super grunt. I hucked the camera on the couch and ran for the diaper bag. I grabbed a diaper and didn’t really even unfold it much before franticly trying to put it on her while she was standing up. I had exactly 1 second to spare. I just made it in time for Emily to poop a gooder. At that point Auntie Leesh says “I’m never having kids!That was sick!”. Anyways. It was pretty funny. I think Ill think 2 next time I decide to let Emily run around nudey buns.

Well I should get back to packing and getting last minute details all done like dinner. Catch ya on the flip side! Oh and I finally broke 170!! Its 169 for me.

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It's Gonna Sparkle

I’m getting so excited for Avalanche. Its this youth conference we go to in Kelowna. We leave Friday morning. I didn’t get to go last year. It was this whole “have a baby while leading a youth trip” thing that wasn’t so good. I turned out I had Emily like 6 weeks early so that was ok. anyways. I’m really excited to go this year. We have a huge group to take. Until last night we were short a guy chaperone and a van. Then this guy we know phoned with both. YAY!! I’m really sad that Morgan cant go because of work. It would have been so great. I hate it when you cant get holidays when you need them. Most of the jobs I had would let you have time off whenever you wanted it. Never paid time off, but who cares so long as you don’t miss something. Actually I remember missing Avalanche several years ago to work. Morgan and I worked at the same place and so only one of us could go. I drew the short straw. Haha.

So back to Heroes. Last nights episode was good. It ended good too. Now only 1 more episode till season finale. What to do what to do? hmmm enjoy the summer thats what I’ll do. I pretty much watch nothing now anyways. I never have time for T.V. ok. one more YAY! for Tivo. I think it needs its own category. Yep. I’ll have to add that.

I’m still going to town on my house. Its gonna sparkle…or at least look good. ooo I just remember I was gonna clean the fridge. I’ll have to get to that. We might go take pictures today with Leesh. I hope so. I need more pictures of me that actually look ok. I have this awful picture of me on a mouse pad. Well Its actually a good picture of my cousins and I, but I’ve lost so much weight that I think it looks yucky/not healthy. Its a good reminder for me of where I’ve come from.

People keep asking when I’m gonna get pregnant again. I don’t think people will ever run out of awkward questions to ask at social gatherings. At least I don’t get asked what I’m gonna do with the rest of my life anymore. I hated that one. My dad’s like, old :) and he still doesn’t know what he’s gonna do with the rest of his life. As for the answer of when I’ll get prego again…I need to get healthy first. I want to start a pregnancy at a good weight with better eating habits. I’m not into being sick for the whole thing and not being able to walk at all because of my S.I joint. I cant imagine doing that with Emily to take care of. So no, not for a while.

Thought I’d do a Gracie Montage!

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African Haze

Well I wasn’t away, but kind of took a break from typing things and just spent so time reading. It’s been very restful. I’ve been trying to allow myself actual rest time. It’s not easy. I’m not very good at resting or sitting still. You’d think I was ADD or something. I’ve been making a point of not just working of stuff because there is time to, but setting aside time to accomplish things and to rest.

I’m currently enjoying an African Haze. I think I might have switched from London Fogs, well no I’m sure I haven’t switched I love London Fogs, but an African haze is really nice. Its good too because there is less caffeine. Gotta love Rooibos Tea. I go through phases where I only drink one thing. I need to go through another water phase!! I was thinking about how much coffee I drink the other day. I realized it would be much harder for me to quit drinking coffee if I was to get pregnant again than it was the last time. I enjoy my cuppah way to much.

Last night I went out with the girls to play games at Timmys. It was sooo fun and funny. But the funniest part happened before anyone even got there. I was sitting at a table by myself. I got there early to work on my sermon for youth tonight. With my ipod blasting in my ears and my pen tapping on the table I was deep in thought. Directly across from me sat a well dressed guy about my age reading a news paper. As I’m sort of staring out the window thinking I notice that this guy keeps looking at me. It was really weird. I was like “what is he looking at?”. I started to feel all awkward like I was being checked out. I shifted in my chair and moved my hand so my wedding ring was well visible because as much as being checked out is flattering, and I’ll admit my hair did look really cute, I am taken. It was then that I realized the guy wasn’t checking me out. He was really annoyed that my cell phone kept ringing and I wasn’t answering it. He was really just trying to tell me to turn the stupid thing off. Now I feel like sinking into a hole. Man I’m glad my thoughts aren’t played on a screen sticking out of my head or I’d feel awfully foolish.

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No Stroll in the Park

I’m pretty pleased with myself. I’s say proud, but pride is bad. So I’m just pleased. Pastor Rick Preaches without note so I tried it last night at youth. It went really well. I’ve been learning some new ways to remember what I’m preaching about without notes. I am now in love with one certain white board. *mmm my coffee is good this morning*. Last night I spoke about the dichotomy(note: using a word like dichotomy at youth would be like saying “I’m an English teacher on a power trip”. I just used it in my blog as I found it fitting) of being a Christian. There are many admirers of Jesus, but few disciples. It’s not an easy thing to be a disciple. To be a disciple is to live as Jesus lived. You cant be a doctor by simply admiring a doctor. That would only make you friends. To be like a doctor takes work, schooling or study and dedication. I’m afraid the conclusion I’ve come to is that this whole being a Christian thing is no stroll in the park. I’ve been listening to Matt Chandler’s Podcast. I’ve been finding it really encouraging. In his series on Rhythm he talks about alot of whats really been on my heart lately.

I’m looking forward to today. We don’t have a really busy day planned. I’m meeting with one of my youth after school and then a worship practice and thats it. I’m hoping the weather stays good because we haven’t really been able to walk with Emily much in the last week. We really wanted to go walk around Sepa Lake, but that was a no go due to rain. Silly rain.

We have this new problem in our house. His name is Morgan and the problem is the discovery of non-electronic items on eBay. Previously it was just really expensive thing Morgan would look at on eBay and that would keep him from buying all of it. I’ve really let go of bidding on kids stuff for a while. My dad bought some cowboy boots on eBay and Morgan realized there might be other cool stuff he could buy. The problem being that Morgan has expensive taste even in used clothes. Oh well I guess it could be worse…He could collect ashtrays.

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Let the Festivities Begin

Tonight is Emily’s First birthday party. Tomorrow is her party for all her little friends, but tonight is for Family. Lots of the fam will be here. Sunday is her actual birthday, but we are super busy then too. I’m in the middle of making another cake. The first one turned out good, but the bottom ripped a bit so I’m making another one and trying a new method of pan greasing. I’ve finally settled on which cake I’m going to make, but I wont describe it Ill just take a picture when it done and you can see for yourself.

Man I have a headache today. I’ve realized there is a reason I get a headache every Friday. Morgan has to nap in the afternoon so he only makes decaf coffee. Its the stinking caffeine thats doing this to me. I didn’t think It really effected me, but obviously it does. I’m like an addict coming down off a high. well sort of, in some weird sort of way.

Ive been overwhelmed with all the stuff I needed to get done for this weekend. From Emily’s birthday to the youth service and everything in between. I’m feeling pretty good about it right now tho. I find that once things start to roll I’m not stressey any more I just go with it. Its weird for me to be stressey at all because I never used to be. I wonder what made the change over for me. hmm.

  • Well I might not get 8 minutes to write much in the next couple of day, but we’ll see. Check out this cake…

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