Not to make you jealous or anything.....

Well ok, maybe I am...

For you moms out there (...and the rest of us who need a laugh)

This ebay auction is hilarious!

That Stop Sign Is HUGE

This is for Melissa. Just in case she missed going up to Chicago with me in the car. This time I got a picture. I wasn't exaggerating. It really is huge. In the picture it looks like it's as tall as I am. SEE???

Road Trip!

I bet you can tell by the Krispy Kreme where I went on this trip! If you read Gretchen's blog much you can probably tell since she's made a couple posts on their fun late night trips to this place.




Gretchen and I modeling our new paper hats --->







<---There's Josh with his coffee (Sorry Josh, that's the best pic I had of you.)









And there were even two adorable little girlies in their p.j.s that came.



We did a tiny bit of shopping and found a funny face holder for glasses that Gretchen thought would be fun to try out.






If you ever go visit Gretchen I highly recommend going to the pie kitchen that's there. It is such a cool place(maybe that's just cause I love pie though) Sorry I don't have any pictures of Gretchen and I eating our slices of Caramel Apple and Reese's Peanut Butter I'm sure you can imagine that they were quite yummy.


After we finished our pie we decided it was a great place to use our flexible miniature tripods and take some pictures.

Thanks Josh and Gretchen for letting me come crash your weekend. I had a good time and if anybody's thinking of going to visit them the drive is really pretty with trees and some hills. It didn't feel like 3 hour drive. I've heard there's some great outlet stores a hour from them that I still need to check out one of these days too. Are you ready for another visit Gretchen? ;)

The Big City (Part 2)

Some of you might know me well enough to know I like taking pictures. Kathryn seems to enjoy it too, so when we happen to be driving and pass something that looks like a great photo I don't mind asking if we can stop. One night at about 11 or so as we were dring back to Kathryn's house we passed this beautiful church...one of those old kinds that are the perfect backdrop for pictures with all sorts of character in them. So after about 15 minutes on the front steps of this church of me posing her and taking my time adjusting my camera thourly enjoying myself she finally decides to tell me we should go because we're in a bad part of town. Thanks for telling me after we'd been there awhile. We didn't have to stop there. Here's one of the pictures we risked our lives to get.

My time with Kathryn might have been short but that last day we squeezed a lot in. Here we are at Target and had fun taking some pictures. :D

Then we ran into a huge shoe sale at Dillard's. Kathryn, her friend Shannon and I all got shoes. Here we are showing off out new shoes! --->

That night I was kidnapped! I tried to put up a fight but they blindfolded me, stuck in the back seat of the car and drove around till I was about car sick. Then we got out of the car and they lead me into a building. At first I thought we were at a train station and they were going to take me on a train to who knows where but we kept walking. I started feeling carpet under my feet and then we went down a slope, along some long hallways and then Kathryn and Shannon stopped me and proceeded to poise me like a mannequin to take this picture.

After they had finally taken off the blindfold so I didn't feel like a hostage who was having a joke played on her they told me that they were going to take me up to Reunion Tower.

It's a pretty cool looking landmark to the Dallas skyline. I guess there's a restaurant in there and the ball on the top actually spins around slowly so you get the whole view of the city. It would have been great for taking pictures but it was already closed for the night. I guess that's what happens when your adventures start at 10:00 p.m.

As we walked out we were noticing that the slope that we walked down earlier would be great for rolling down. So we used my little tripod and took pictures with the timer. Let me tell you...the older you get the more it hurts.


Here's the pretty city at night.

Another fun picture of me with my kidnappers.

The Big City (Part 1)

Almost two months ago (Time really does fly) I went to visit my good friend who lives in Texas. It was good to make some memories and catch up since I haven't seen HER (for those that were wondering...) since Christmas of 2004 when I was visiting my parents and sister in Mexico. Kathryn moved to Mexico to be with her parents (who are with the same mission as my parents) in the spring of '03 and somehow between bites of sushi and sipping hot drinks from The Italian Coffee Company we became good friends.

She moved back to Dallas last spring and is a second grade bilingual teacher, half the day in Spanish and half in English (I think that's so cool) at a public school and since she's a lucky one that gets every holiday imaginable off she wanted me to come on her spring break.

Several things I learned:

• Having to be at the airport at 4:25 a.m. for a 6:25 flight is really early (not that I mind that much but the people taking me seem to...I wonder why..?


• One of the Glascock girls is very kind and graciously let me stay at her house which is close to the airport (10 minutes!) and even drove me to the airport at that ungodly hour


• For those that have ever wondered, it is possible to make a connecting flight AND have waiting time in Washington D.C. with only a 38 minute layover.

Kathryn works with the youth group in her church and the night I got there they were having a lock in/lock out. The first thing Kathryn and I did was string yarn all over the youth room. It took us a least an hour and a half. The kids were supposed to find an end of yarn and untangle it until they met a person on the other end and they were supposed to be on the same team for bowling. It didn't work out all that well but the kids said they had fun, that's all that matters.





We went cosmic bowling from 11:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. That's why it was partially called a 'lock out'. I ended up on a team with a bunch of adults that knew how to bowl. They creamed us girls but by the last game I had finally warmed up and (you might want to hold your chin so your jaw doesn't drop) I actually got a couple strikes! Shocking, I know!

<-- One of the girls in the group being adorable. Isn't that pic so cute?

--->My friend Kathryn being her crazy self.

Part 2 coming sometime!

Quotemeal For The Day

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed. -- Brother Lawrence


1 Cor. 13:1-3 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.