Worst Shower Ever...

I just had the worst shower experience...ever

So I got home and I took a shower before I went out to go see a movie (Bee movie by the way, which was pretty funny). I got into my shower and closed the curtain...

(For those who have the opinion that Josh and my house is always dirty, this story isn't gonna make it any better)

Right after closing the curtain, there's this HUGE 2 or 3 inch cockroach on the curtain...I don't think I've ever jumped out of a shower so fast...my heart was racing, and I still had to go back in there and kill it, after calming down a little I finally killed it

But then I had to actually take my shower, I was lookin' around the whole time to make sure there weren't anymore that were gonna get me, you can't enjoy a nice, warm shower like that

It was pretty much the worst shower I ever had

Stupid bugs

Peace (without cockroaches)

Re: To Fargo

So Steve wants to know why we blog...

He gave three reasons pretty much on why he blogged, all good reasons to, even though I can only say one of those works for me...since I don't have a clue how to create a website and I hate English and writing. But it is nice to be able to keep in touch with everyone and just do a blog instead of calling everyone

I didn't really think about why I'm blogging now, everyone else in the family was doing it, so I figured I might as well join the bandwagon. It's been really cool too, I wasn't sure if I'd like it, cause as I said before I hate English and writing, but I actually like doing it, a lot

I guess some reasons why I would say I'm blogging...I think it's fun, I like sharing stuff going on with my friends and family, I like to be able to share stuff about God and maybe even encourage others, those are pretty much the main reasons. Also I want to do something like Vicki and post some blogs about what I've been reading in the bible, but I haven't done one of those yet

There's my reply to the one in Fargo thats askin

(My money is on Josh on answering you last, lol)

Peace

Tug-O-War

So...the other day Wendy was telling me how she thought that I named this blog East to West because I love to travel. I guess that could be another reason why I called it East to West(thanks Wendy)

So...what's been on my mind the last few weeks and especially the last few days, is I feel some sort of "tug" on my heart from God to go on another mission trip next year. It's kind of a different feeling than before though, like I absolutely love going on mission trips like this, but I don't know exactly if God wants me to go (I know that totally just contradicted that last sentence). Let me explain...

I brought this idea up to my small group, for us to all try and go on a trip, and they were really excited...some more than others of course...but since I know how amazing these trips can be it got me really excited that others in my small group wanted to go. That brings us up to date

The things going on in my head are I'm wondering if God wants me to go next year or just make sure others can get a chance to go, cause this can change their life, and I don't want to go just because it would be cool (and it really would be AWESOME!!) I want to go because God wants me to go. If God didn't want me to go I would still be excited to see others go, that have never had a chance like this before, and I would do everything I could to help them go on the trip (even though from my experience, if God wants you to go, he'll make sure you get there)

What I'm dealing with now and praying about is wondering what exactly is that "tug" on my heart is. If it were up to me I would be flying over the Atlantic already, but it's not up to me, as much as I wish it were sometimes

Peace

Oh...and if you ever do go on a trip like this...HOLD on to your passport

Whoops...

Here's a funny story....it happened last Saturday night after church, a few of us from the college group went out to eat at the Fox and Hound, a sports bar, we went there so we could hang out and watch the ASU-Arizona game (Which ASU won by the way!!). Anyways, our waitress was wearing a Arizona jersey, and one of my friends, Justine, who was going for Arizona, told the waitress she liked her jersey

(Do you ever have one of those moments where you say something and you immediately realize that it was a dumb thing to say)

Then me...Whose going for ASU obviously has to say something...So i Say "I don't like your jersey", but I couldn't leave it at that. (For those who know me, you'll know that I try my best not to offend people) SO, me, trying to not offend her with that, in my head I'm like I have to say something nice to make up for that so she's not offended.

So I say..."But, I like you", Immediatly in my head I was CRAP!! She's gonna think I'm hittin' on her, she then gave kinda a weird look and didn't come to our table much after that

We all just laughed at the stupid thing I had said

Then it got me thinkin, in a joking way...What if I was hitting on her? She totally just blew me off...that sucks...

GOOD thing I don't care...

So there's my story from this weekend...it was worth a good laugh

Peace

Re-Sparked...again

So after watching Nathan play hockey a week or two ago, all I've been thinking about is getting back into some how or some way. I think it would be awesome to coach a team like Nathans age or maybe even high school. I found out my old high school has a team again and I think that would be sweet to help them coach it. We'll see

It also got me thinking about wanting to play again, if I really got into training again I could probably play for ASU next year, that would be so awesome!! I'm starting a training program to work out 3 times a week to do some off-ice training for hockey. Hopefully I can keep up on it...

I miss it and would love to get back into it, but as Josh was saying everytime we see Nathan play, we get all excited and want to get back into it. Which is true. So...I don't know...I'd like to think I'll stick with it

That's what I've been thinking about a little lately

Peace

East to West

So why is my blog called "East to West"? The title of my blog came from the Casting Crowns song East to West, an awesome song, it's been my favorite song for awhile now

The song was written based off of Psalm 103:11-12

Take a minute and read through the lyrics

Why is it so hard for us, as humans, to understand that God doesn't hold anything against us (Ezekiel 18:22)? Why do we let things hinder our growth and not move forward (Philippians 3:13)? He forgives us, He lays our sins as far away from us as possible, as far as the East is from the West

Satan likes to hold us down and keep us dwelling on the fact that we are sinner. Yes, I know we are sinners, but if we dwell on what is of the past we won't fully experience what God has planned for us (Jeremiah 29:11-12)

So what this song means to me is to not be held down by anything or anyone, especially Satan, and to live the life God wants you to live and He set forth for you

Beautiful song...Beautiful God


Peace


Oh...that first link is a link to my Myspace page which you can play the song from and take a look at my page, which I'm never on


And...if you have time check out this article about Casting Crowns and their new album, The Altar and the Door, which includes the East to West song

How Cliche...

How cliche is it that when someone gets their new blog page they have to have their first blog talk about...their first blog. But here I am doing my first blog on...my first blog

So, anyways, here I am...I gave in...everyone else was doing it...I created a blog

It should be pretty cool, we'll see if I can keep up on it

I hope for my blog to be entertaining, inspiring, alot of things-HA!!! We'll see how that goes

Peace