the end! :)
oh! and a furniture before and after is coming soon! :)
Showing posts with label loooove. Show all posts
Showing posts with label loooove. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
monday, monday
also known as day 1 of hubzy's birthday week!
also known as one of my VERY few days off!
started off with good time with jesus.
FINALLY working on painting my guest bedroom dresser... any suggestions for knobs? i'm also thinking about modge-podging the bottom of the drawers or wall papering them... thoughts?
yeaaaaaaaaah. pretty much watched almost 2 seasons of this drama today. i'm okay with it.
time for the poly coat!
peeling and cutting apples to go into trev's day one gift... i don't like apple pies, but hubzy does. so he ONLY gets them on his birthday!
apples, butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon!
chocolate caramel apple pie galette
found this delicious recipe (and about a million others) here.
let me explain. the first "pie" i made was beautiful. the second one i made fell apart in transport to the cookies sheet. we can label this a fail... but on the bright side, i was able to eat a lot of the pie crust off! LOVE pie crust.
this picture is for my mother. there you go, you got to see Fred on the blog.
that's all that's left. it was pretty good for apple...
FREE find. going to sand and repaint the same shade of blue! :)
hubz brought me this little wooden stand from home. it is PERFECT for the kitchen. i tend to get lots of stuff on my mac because i am always bringing it into the kitchen to use for recipes. i am going to pray paint this and use while cooking. love.
trev and i are watching buffy the vampire slayer. the whole series. his choice.
ze end! looking forward to the end of the week birthday celebration! :)
Sunday, August 1, 2010
shining stars!
TRU Camp began today.
for those of you who don't already know... i work at a christian camp with my husband. we live here too! which means we are hardcore campers. but anyway. this week is TRU Camp which is a week where we scholarship 160ish kids whose parents have been incarcerated.
I. LOVE. BLACK. PEOPLE. i'm sure that is not "pc" to post all over the world wide web, but i don't care. one of my best friends in high school is black. my first kiss was a black boy. the blindside: a dream life. and i secretly always thought i would marry a black man and we would do inner city missions. um... here is a picture of my husband (on the left):
DISCLAIMER: this was for a themed white trash party. though he is an arkansasan... this is the ultimate extreme.
anyway. the point is i love this week of camp! and what makes this year different is that i was in charge of the logistics. mailing out applications, keeping track of all forms being turned in, accepting (and denying) spots to people. managing the 3 different check in locations, it was CRAZY.
but can i tell you HOW GOOD it was to put a face to the names i've been staring at for so long in an excel sheet?
i didn't do a good job at praying over them before they got here. at all. but seeing ja'juan after i'd seen his name forever just lit up my heart! i want to hang out with them all week! why can't i be a counselor again??? i freaking love this week. i like that there are girls here named Toyneshkia. i like that there are kids that are scared of fish eating them. i like that not a drop of water will be touched all week, but the koolaid will vanish instantly. i like the attitude. the fierceness. the "i'll do what i want"-ness. i can't relate to these kids in terms of life experience. but i can relate to the independence. the feeling that you have to be in control and no one can take that away from you. oh of course it is a lie from satan. we were never meant to be in control. but they don't know that yet. and i'm excited that this is the week they will learn that!
back to the point. i was stressed about today. that i would fail. that i would be unorganized and 50 kids would show up that i forgot about and they would have no cabin to go to. but that didn't happen! it went smoothly! i was encouraged and built up by my leadership and even applauded. they make me feel like i love my job. like i could conquer the world.
i realized sometimes (not all the time!) i am too hard on myself. when i am responsible for other people... i want perfection. i almost cried at the stupidest little thing that didn't go right today. but in the end it was good. i need to trust a little bit more. the lord totally works out all things whether or not i get everything right.
i read this passage today:
14Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe 16as you hold out[c] the word of life—in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing. 17But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. 18So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.
-Philippians 4 14-18
i am a freakin' star! well...i want to be. that's my hope for counselors this week. that they would not be tired and frustrated because camp is near the end... that they would hold out the word of life to these kids who need it most. so let's shine! come on people! :)
don't say i'm cheesy. don't even think about it.
for those of you who don't already know... i work at a christian camp with my husband. we live here too! which means we are hardcore campers. but anyway. this week is TRU Camp which is a week where we scholarship 160ish kids whose parents have been incarcerated.
I. LOVE. BLACK. PEOPLE. i'm sure that is not "pc" to post all over the world wide web, but i don't care. one of my best friends in high school is black. my first kiss was a black boy. the blindside: a dream life. and i secretly always thought i would marry a black man and we would do inner city missions. um... here is a picture of my husband (on the left):
DISCLAIMER: this was for a themed white trash party. though he is an arkansasan... this is the ultimate extreme.
anyway. the point is i love this week of camp! and what makes this year different is that i was in charge of the logistics. mailing out applications, keeping track of all forms being turned in, accepting (and denying) spots to people. managing the 3 different check in locations, it was CRAZY.
but can i tell you HOW GOOD it was to put a face to the names i've been staring at for so long in an excel sheet?
i didn't do a good job at praying over them before they got here. at all. but seeing ja'juan after i'd seen his name forever just lit up my heart! i want to hang out with them all week! why can't i be a counselor again??? i freaking love this week. i like that there are girls here named Toyneshkia. i like that there are kids that are scared of fish eating them. i like that not a drop of water will be touched all week, but the koolaid will vanish instantly. i like the attitude. the fierceness. the "i'll do what i want"-ness. i can't relate to these kids in terms of life experience. but i can relate to the independence. the feeling that you have to be in control and no one can take that away from you. oh of course it is a lie from satan. we were never meant to be in control. but they don't know that yet. and i'm excited that this is the week they will learn that!
back to the point. i was stressed about today. that i would fail. that i would be unorganized and 50 kids would show up that i forgot about and they would have no cabin to go to. but that didn't happen! it went smoothly! i was encouraged and built up by my leadership and even applauded. they make me feel like i love my job. like i could conquer the world.
i realized sometimes (not all the time!) i am too hard on myself. when i am responsible for other people... i want perfection. i almost cried at the stupidest little thing that didn't go right today. but in the end it was good. i need to trust a little bit more. the lord totally works out all things whether or not i get everything right.
i read this passage today:
14Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe 16as you hold out[c] the word of life—in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing. 17But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. 18So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.
-Philippians 4 14-18
i am a freakin' star! well...i want to be. that's my hope for counselors this week. that they would not be tired and frustrated because camp is near the end... that they would hold out the word of life to these kids who need it most. so let's shine! come on people! :)
don't say i'm cheesy. don't even think about it.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
highlights
remember that magazine? i miss it....
moving on. here were some highlights from the past week.
so i made a fruit pizza for my sister when she came to visit.
such an easy, seriously good dessert to make with limited time.
i see a lot of these on blogs right now... maybe it's like THE summer dessert.
so you should make it soon!
NEXT: we had a date day that yours truly got to plan. SO. i made clues for hubzy. five in total. basically the first was to go to the wine store and pick some up (he chose Ed's Smooth... pretty good... a red that won't dry you out!). The second was for him to pick a sandwich/deli place.. because it is his favorite type of food and my least favorite ( i want fried food 99% of the time.). we went to McAllisters, got it to-go and moved onto the next clue and spot: tyler state park. then we had a little picnic. then we hiked for an hour and 30 minutes. i was worn out! i want to be able to hike for hours! but to my credit... it was a hike in TEXAS in the middle of SUMMER. NOT ideal hiking time. then we ended the day with picking up a pizza to-go and renting an adventurous movie (not adventure land like it says in the clue below. trevor said he already saw it and it was kinda lame so we got sahara... it was good! how had i never seen it?)
GOOD DAY.
now for the pics:
and then there was this:
hee hee. adorable.
AND THENNNNN the burns wedding! shout out to rachel robinson photography for letting me second shoot! here's a shot from the wedding:
so there ya have it... more blogging next week. wait. i take that back...vacation next week... so we will see. but expect LOTS of photos when i get back!
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