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This weekend was glorious.

Friday night met with k group leaders to talk about life, loving Jesus, and how we can be better leaders to those in our small groups and eat home made pizza and drink a glass of white merlot. :o)

Saturday early got up to go to the REI garage sale, which is a members only sale. So here is how it works if you ever buy anything at REI (which mind you if you live in CO you should be a member here because it is the best outdoor store and if you live in CO you are always outdoors) it is the best idea to join. You pay $20 once and you are a member for life, you get a dividend check back at the end of each year of what you spent there each year. So every quarter REI puts on a garage sale of which the items are everything that has been returned. Some for simple reasons such as I did not like the color so there is nothing wrong with the returned item.

So people used to spend the night to be the first in line for the garage sale, however REI did not like that so much so now they have three lines and the lines get picked at random of which one goes first. My group and I all were there early so we were the first ones in line.

So we brought bagels and coffee and waited two hours in line on a cold morning to get severly discounted outdoor items.

I got:
- pair of snow shoes
- North Face Fleece
- Helly Hansen Fleece
- Outdoor Research Down Jacket
- Merell hiking boots
- pair of Super Feet insoles

All for a very good price!

Then I got to fly a kite two times this weekend. Random but fun! It was great to feel like a kid and not worry about what other people were thinking just to fly a kite. I even sang the Mary Poppins song :o)

Easter

My small group got together for Easter. It was so much fun! The day consisted of a delicious meal. Then we did egg painting, some of us for the first time. Next, was the easter egg hunt which was so much fun. Even though we are all in our twenties, we had a blast and felt like little kids. Finally was an Easter game of Quelf. Thanks so much to everyone for coming and participaing. It was a blast. Pictures from the eventful day are below. Enjoy!

Steve was even looking in closets!

Sorry Mike.
Cathy and Mike still looking.
Claiming our prizes from the eggs...all consisted of candy but fun nonetheless!
There were even eggs buried in the dirt

Mike looks lost in the sky..i guess he is waiting for an egg to drop from the stork :o)
Yes there was even one behind the trash can
Jennifer was trying to get the last egg that was up in the tree
all of us looking for eggs
Our Dessert table...yummy!

The Easter group (minus me:o)
Rachel and her egg
Josh's first egg he has ever painted!
Jennifer is sooo excited to find her easter eggs she brought to hide...notice hello kitty bag
Jennifer made these amazingly intricate bunny rice crispie treats
With eyes and ears to boot
Our casserole table...yeah midwesters!
Egg Painting Time!
Eggs!

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a rare moment

Today I was driving back to work from lunch sitting at a stop light and just feeling kinda icky and blah and out of it.

I looked over to the right of me and there was this precious African American woman who was quite elderly (I don't say that in a bad reference more for the fact that she was that more precious) and was singing and just praising the Lord.

It was so precious and she was driving her husband around, she was clapping, singing, hitting the steering wheel, and raising her hands.

It made me smile, and also reminded me that we can meet the Lord in whatever and wherever we are throughout the day.

That woman blessed me today.

Thanks.

Interesting??

Read this. That is interesting to me.

Guess it is time to find me a husband :o)

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Hello all. I just thought I would drop a line and say Happy St. Patty's day. Everyone at my work seems to have forgotten that it is St Patty's Day today. I am the only one wearing green.

Well regardless wear that green and enjoy a fun day of the luck 'o the Irish.

I am Irish so I can say that :)

Fun Random Thing

Ok so you know when you go into a restaurant and they have the bucket for drop your business card in and you will win a free lunch. Well I am like others and I did it at this great place called the Pita Pit. They make the best pitas and put fresh ingredients in them and make them right in front of you....kinda like Subway. Welll.......I WON!

Today I get a call to let me know that I have won 10 free pitas from Pita Pit and they are even delivering them to me! How great I never win anything. I am excited..hmm

Pics from Awards Banquet

Hello all...so blogspot seems to be having some technical difficulties and I have tried everyday for the last five days to post pictures from the fire fighter awards banquet. However this is the one I could get to post. So until then enjoy....

Fire Fighter Awards Banquet

Tonight I am going to get dolled up...put my make up on, do my hair up, slip into my new black polka dotted dress, and finally put on those new heels. Why you ask?

Tonight I am being presented with an award at the Colorado Springs Fire Fighter Awards Banquet. For donating my car last year to a woman who was a parapalegic. I dated a fire fighter last year and that is how I got hooked up with woman and she got have the good ole Bonne. She is in good hands. This woman was in a car accident and totaled her car and the fire fighters who were on the call tried to comfort her but she was unconsoleable, because the car was her independence. It was her life. So she got mine. She was the sweetest woman. I hope she is there tonight.

I hope she liked it as much as I loved my Bonne. So now I get to see the old fire fighting crowd tonight...should be interesting :o)

Clean.

Yesterday I got baptized. :o)