Archive for April, 2008

How To Not Marry A Jerk

This was the title of the Theology on Tap that I attended last night with Amy and Charlene. Side note: it’s pretty hilarious that the three of us went seeing as one of us is single, one of us is engaged and one of us is entering religious life in 3 1/2 months.
A Deacon and [...]

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Signed, Sealed (with the holy spirit), Delivered

On Friday, the confirmation class I’ve been working with was confirmed! 31 beautiful teens stood in front of approx. 300 parents, siblings, relatives, friends, etc., and were sealed with the Holy Spirit by the Bishop. I felt like a mom to all of them and tears formed as each of them shook the Bishop’s hand. [...]

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Where The Wind Comes Sweepin’ Down The Plains…

This is a two-part post. Pics will be added later.
Part One:
This morning, my parents and sister picked me up and we headed north to Oklahoma. My parents’ best friends welcomed their third grandchild (and first grandson) was born Wed and we went to go visit. The whole family hasn’t been in the same car for [...]

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On the Road Again

Sometimes, and I hope to make this more often, I visit a site that generates random writing prompts. You remember writing prompts: those things teachers would put on the board or overhead and tell to you to write five minutes about in an effort to improve your writing simply by having you write every single [...]

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Umbrella-ella-ella

Wednesday night is bible study and occasionally some of the teens come up early to play basketball or soccer or a combination of the two. This week when they showed up it started raining, but we decided to play anyway. A new sport was born: Umbrella Basketball.

And finally, this is what happened when we finally [...]

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Set Me Free

This weekend was greatness. A perfect mix of fun and ministry.
Friday at work was the end of a very long and frustrating week. I was supposed to go out to a concert, but I decided what I really needed was to sit at home and eat some mexican food. So I made enchilada casserole and [...]

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What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?

One of the nice things about my job is that since it’s independent work that is not on the phone, I can listen to my ipod or the radio. My friend Jared recently listed some blogs he reads; I thought I would list some of the stuff I listen to. (note: ideally, I would listen [...]

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