Wednesday, April 29, 2009

SOCKS!

This past month has been insane! Between preparing for mission trips, outreaches, Easter, and the play the kids have done I'm exhausted!!!

My boss and some others wrote a production called Socks. Its about 3 groups of people you see in the high schools, the bullies, the bullied and the by standers. Its all about standing up and not being bystanders anymore, and realizing that we all have the same feelings and are very similar. Its a musical and all the music is Coldplay songs...which is really cool. Here are a few pics from the show:
 
John being a momma wildebeast...birthing a baby! hahaha

 
Ryan was very passionate about Greenland (I love John's face!)

 
Typical classroom setting where someone is getting picked on

 
The bullied

 
  
  
Ryan crying over the death of his girlfriend

 
  
The cast! 

Friday, April 10, 2009

Sleepovers!

So I've had 2 sleepovers with the boys that I haven't posted about.

The first one was way back in the beginning of February. We had dinner at our usual place...Qdoba. We headed back to my place to play Wii Fit. Here is a video of the boys hula hooping:



I love S's cheering in the background!!!

Once we were exhausted from Wii fitting it we got into our PJs, curled up on my bed and watched Horton Hears a Who on my laptop. I only watched a little bit of the movie, because I was having Girls night with some friends. We were celebrating Christmas in February together! You can read more about that on Amy's blog.







A few weeks ago we had a Birthday sleepover with the boys. Instead of birthday presents they wanted a fun sleepover with their Miss Erin! I loved that!
First we played laser tag. It was a lot of fun! 

We had dinner at our "usual" place...and home for some more Wii

 
Whats a birthday celebration without blowing out the candles!  
The boys packed their own bags and forgot their PJs. So I gave them each a t-shirt of mine to wear.  They are only a little big :)

They wanted to sleep in my bed...so I let them sleep there until I was ready for bed. I didn't realize what I was getting myself into! When I was ready to go to sleep I scooped one of the boys up and put them in their sleeping bag on the floor and left the other one in bed with me. I fell right asleep, but was woken about an hour later...wet. It took me a minute to figure out why I was warm and wet...
I stripped the bed and put him in the shower. I soaked up the pee as best I could with a towel and poured baking soda all over it. I laid 2 towels over it and put clean sheets on the bed. I got him settled in his sleeping bag on the floor and went back to sleep. The baking soda worked, but there was still a stain on my mattress. My mattress is a little over a year old so I went to the pet store and found some amazing cleaner! My mattress is like new!! Anyway...I guess its another lesson to get me ready for being a mom...whenever that happens.

I love having sleepovers with the boys! Lots of fun had by all!

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Spring Retreat (Terry this is for you)

One of my favorite parts of my job is going away on the retreats. Now, the week before the retreat is chaotic and stressful...but Friday afternoon when the buses all pull away my stress is gone and excitement takes it place. We have always called the Spring Retreat our outreach retreat, encouraging the kids to invite their friends that don't normally come to church. In the recent years we haven't had many friends, if any, come.
This year Scott, my boss, and I were brainstorming how to make it an outreach again. We came up with the unchurched friends go free!!! That's right! If a kid comes on the retreat who doesn't come to our church the church would pay for their weekend!!We had 30 unchurched friends come on the weekend!!! It was amazing!
The theme was of the weekend was all about Freedom. We talked about how we need to be forgiving and honest, and be able to admit when we're wrong. God moved mountains over the weekend. Twenty of the 30 unchurched friends that came accepted Christ into their life!!! Unbelievable!!!
By the end of the weekend I was absolutley exhausted...but I would do it again in a heartbeat! I can't wait for the next retreat!!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

I FAIL in the blog world!

I know...I said I would gt back to blogging and I didn't. March was really busy, I know I shouldn't make excuses, but its the truth.  I'm sorry...in the blogging world I'm a failure...but I'm really going to try harder, I promise!

Well...we'll start off with resolution updates...

Spiritual Health - Well...blogging isn't the only thing I failed at this month. I've gotten pretty far behind in my reading of the Bible. I'm reading the current passages now...but I have some back-reading to catch up on. I let myself get ovewhelmed by what I missed which made me just give up for a little bit...but I finally got myself to realize I needed to start trying to work at this.

Physical Health - another fail! Man...I'm on a roll! The first 2 weeks of March I was doing great...and then it went down hill. We had our retreat in the middle of March which was AWESOME but I was worn out. It messed with my schedule and I haven't been disciplined enough to get back on it.

Healthy Schedule - As I just said my schedule has been a little out of wack...but I have been sleeping much better. The problem has been I've been sleeping so well that I haven't been wanting to get out of bed in the morning! I LOVE my bed...its so comfortable but it makes getting up to work out very difficult.

Eating Healthy - Fianlly something I've been doing well with!! YAY!!! I have been eating a lot of salads. My favorite has been spinach with strawberries, blueberries, granny smith apples, dried cranberries, feta, chicken and balsamic vinegarette. I'm trying to eat a salad for lunch and then I have a little more freedom for dinner (or if I indulge at lunch to eat a salad for dinner).

So overall the theme has been FAIL...but I'm determined to make April better. My eating is a positive thing...and I saw my brother this weekend who noticed that I've lost weight. Yay!

So...here's hoping to a warm and healthy April!