Matt's Bloggin

Everyone's blogging now...pretty darn cool

For those who know Matt, give his site a check, there's a link on the side, it should be pretty sweet

Peace

Slap Shot!!

Me and Ryan got to go and play some hockey this morning...it was pretty sick...I was a little rusty, obviously, since I haven't played on ice in a couple years or so, but we picked it up pretty quick and had a good time

My stickhandling ability went down immensly, and my shot was just ok, but everything else was pretty good, the skating and stopping and so forth

I can't wait to get out there again and start getting better

Peace

Megan's Bloggin

Hey, I don't know who all reads my blog, but if any of you know Megan she started a blog yesterday...it should be pretty good...check it out

Peace

Ryan's Bloggin

For those who know Ryan Balliet he's blogging now, he's got a link on the right side of my page, check it out he's got some good stuff

Peace

Gingerbread House...

Alright, so...My college group at church had their Christmas party tonight, lots of fun, it started it out kinda slow, but picked up some steam and we had a really good time

After dinner we had a competition between the four different small groups, a gingerbread-house-making competition

At first, I was thinking this might be a little gay, but I'll try and make the best of it (it didn't help that my small group forgot to bring candy to decorate it, except for one-Thanks Megan). So we only had a box of Snowcaps and Dots to decorate our house...we saw it as an opportunity to be creative

We had no idea what we were gonna do...So I started trying to put four walls together, but when I tried to lean them on each other they just fell outwards (stay with me...there's a reason I'm telling this story)

As soon as I saw the walls fall outwards I yelled out "It's Jericho" (from the story when the Israelites walk around Jericho one time for six days and on the 7th day the walked around seven times, etc. from Joshua 5 and 6)

So we went with it...don't know why...but we did

Our whole gingerbread house was four graham crackers laying down with frosting on the crackers with Snowcaps all over the place and the dots lined in a circle around "Jericho" representing the Israelites walking around the city...That's all we used...That's it

The other groups had like two or three grocery bags full of candy and different snacks to decorate their houses, and they did some pretty sick work on them, way better than ours...

After we were all done they were all judged, and I got to explain to the judges what our represented, and went on to tell them that they have to keep the creativity in mind when deciding

So they decided and brought everyone together to announce the winner...Jill did the presenting and gave the honorable mention announcements for the three non-winning groups and explain what was good about each one

But she didn't mention my groups...I was thinking..."uhhh...they can't be serious"...then she got to the final award and called me up to receive the award (which was a whisk), I was in total shock, I didn't think anyone would take our serious...let alone the judges

Our team/small group was pretty excited, it was a perfect way to end the party, we were all pretty shocked and excited

My heart goes out to the other houses, they were all done very well and were totally awesome, we just went the more creative route...I guess

Peace

Close Call

So...I called Dad yesterday, just to say hi and everything, and in the midst of our conversation I ask him how Uncle Archie was doing

For those not in my family, our Uncle Archie got his leg amputated a month or two ago because of diabetes

This was one of those things you say that your not sure about what the other person is going to think or react, but knowing Dad, I figured he would take it light-heartily

When we were talking about Archie, Dad was saying that he lost a lot of weight and now only weighs about 115 or 120, probably the least he has ever weighed

And my brilliant remark was..."Well, a leg probably weighs at least 15 or 20 pounds"

Then we went on making jokes like "Well, that's one way to lose weight" and "How about cutting the other one off, cause I need to lose another 15 pounds" and so forth

I was a little hesitant to make that remark, cause I wasn't sure how Dad would react, but it turned out to be a pretty funny story

We, both, laughed pretty good, and Dad thinks that Archie will get a kick out of it

There's one of those things that you may regret saying immediately (like my other post earlier), but thankfully we have a cool, laid-back family

Peace

Oh...no picture for this post, I thought about putting one of an amputated leg, but that might be a little gross

Talk About Love

How AWESOME is our God??

VERY!!

Not only does God help us out when were in distress, or when were on a "mountain-top experience", or when we need an answer, even for the little things we need help with

I was at Savers looking for something to help make a Christmas present (can't say more than that cause it might be for you, I'll tell the people who it's not for later) but I had to find something kinda specific, so I just prayed "God, help me with this, I know it's not a huge significant thing, but I know you're always there for me"

So... I'm looking around and I can't find anything, as I'm looking a guy randomly comes up to me and says "Hey there's this place on 59th and Bell, called Thrifty Joe's that might have what your looking for", at the time I was just thinking sweet I'll go check it out

It got me thinking after though...I prayed that little prayer for God to help me and he sent this guy to help me out, and I found something perfect at Thrifty Joe's...I was pretty joyful, that God had helped me out with that and answered my little prayer

There's other, more important things that I'm still waiting to hear from God on, but I think this was a little thing God did for me, telling me that "I'm still here"

Peace

Oh...I agree with Vicki (post-Psalm 55:3-5), there is a message that God is trying portray to us, every second of every day we can learn something from God, just being open to God and wanting his will for you, like in this situation just wanting God's help and him teaching and showing me something new

Career??

So...me thinking a lot lately about what I wanna do with my life, I have an idea that I think would be really cool as a career. I kinda got the idea from watching The Bourne Identity

And, no, it's not wanting to be a guy that really kicks some ASS!! although that would be cool

The career I'm talking about would be working in a U.S. Embassy, I looked up the Department of State website and read a bunch of information about it. It gave a list of things you need to enjoy in order to succeed in this job (ex. traveling, knowing other cultures, helping people with lost passports-hahaha-, etc.) and all the things were something that I enjoy



I took a test on their website to see what job would be good for me, it was saying a consular, by like 98%. A consular is the people that work in the passport office of the embassy, like helping Americans with passports, helping foreigners with a Visa, helping in emergencies, stuff like that

The cool thing would be to get to travel and everything and learn new languages, they send you to a new place every two years, so you get to see a lot of cool places

This is just something that has been running through my head, it would be awesome, we'll see

Peace

Slow...

I haven't blogged in a couple days...I was wanting to do it everyday, but I guess I've been too busy. There's a few things I wanna blog about, but it's to late right now and I'm too tired. Hopefully I'll have time tomorrow.

Peace

El Enceirro!!

I don't know why this has been in my head lately (I think I told Josh, Tedd, and Tayler about it), maybe cause I've been talking about traveling, I don't know...

Anyways, what I'm talking about is I want to go to Pamplona, Spain. Why...? Does anyone know what goes on in Pamplona?

The Running of the Bulls!!

That would be one of the coolest things to do!!

Yeah, it's dangerous and people get hurt and maybe die, but I think it would be worth it. How cool would it be to be able to tell people, "Yeah, I ran in that." That would be one awesome experience

If I were going to go (I'm already kind of planning it, just out of curiousity) I would want to fly and have a long layover in London or Frankfurt, Germany (so I can leave at least for a couple hours to go see something) then land in Toulouse or Bordeaux, France (both of them in Southern France) then take a bus down to Pamplona, which is in Northern Spain. Three awesome countries

I found a website cheapflights.com and they have tickets to Toulouse and Bordeaux for about $370 (CRAZY!!) then taxes on top of that which are $300-$400, but still a flight all the way out there for $700...awesome!!

I would like to go next July, but it'll probably have to be in '09. If anyone would want to go with me, let me know, that would be awesome (I'll go by myself to, though). Who knows if I'll even go, but I hope so

Peace

What do You want?!

It's so hard, at least for me, to figure out what God wants me to do with my life. I, sometimes, wish that he would just come to me in a dream or a vision or an angel...ANYTHING!!!

That seems like it would make it soooo much easier

I can say, I'm just being patient to hear what God wants for me...I'm trying that...it doesn't seem to be working

Maybe I'm not fully opening up to Him...maybe I'm sticking to my own agenda and not trying to follow His...I keep praying for Him to show me His will, His plan, His agenda for my life

God is a HUGE God and I'll praise and worship Him all my life...I know his plan is perfect and His will for me is awesome!! I just wanna know sooner than He wants to tell me

Please pray for me, that'll I'll stay patient and keep loving God and love the way he does things

And...If you have any advice, it would be greatly appreciated...Thanks

Peace

Oh...if your wondering what this is regarding, it's regarding, I guess, a few different things, but mostly school and what God wants to do with my life, in that area