Erin's Wedding

This past weekend I traveled to Arizona for my friend's wedding.

I decided that phoenix is really the armpit of america because it is hotter then any other place I have ever been, I don't know how people live there. Thankfully I spent most of the weekend in Flagstaff, it actually reminded me a lot of the springs.

Chill people and an culture of people that is relaxed.

Very colorado.

The pics below are from the weekend.

Sedona, AZ where the rehearshal dinner was

Christy's baby, Racka. He was sooo stinkin adorable. I wanted to steal him

My foot and water :)

Christy and Racka

Beautiful boy and his grandma

Look at those cheeks, so cute!

Sunset on the rocks

We used to call her beast, because she was just so... I can't even describe it. If you know erin you know what I am talking about. But we were up late the night before laughing, having good convos, and putting the final touches on the flowers.

finishing the flowers

The ceremony was outside and one program flew into the water.

Erin and Kelly testing the sounds system and their i do's

The place where the reception was held

Erin decides to go fishing for the program, and do you see that she caught it and the program is in mid air??

So proud of herself.

Meg and I, she was my partner in crime for the weekend. She is awesome!!

dancing.

All in all it was a crazy busy weekend, but so good.
I am happy I got to be a part of Erin's weekend and share great moments with her.

I love her and she is still the best.

Truly one of a kind.

Now to her and kelly.

Blessing.

Dog Sitting

The picture above is of Sadie, Molly, and Jack.

For awhile Rachel and I are taking care of 3 dogs, phew!

So this weekend we went to the dog park on Saturday and Sunday

and came home yesterday and still played some more in the alley because a storm rolled in

yesterday and ended our trip early.

Bagby and Gus met us at the dog park with their owners, even though it was a short trip of seeing jen and carey due to lightning and not wanting to get struck by it :)

After the dog park the dogs got their bones and all sat like this, in fact sadie moved so she could be in line with molly and jack.

I tell ya, one dog is easy, three dogs who are all pretty active is a different story.

But it has been fun, last night I was working on my grad application and they were all curled up around me under the desk.

Dogs are cute and funny to watch all three of them interact. You can definetly tell their different personalities.

At the dog park Sadie just wants to run after the ball, and molly just wants to herd sadie and jack gets a little overwhelmed with the other doggies, but he is doing better;)

Living with 3 dogs should help that.

A-- freaking-- men!!!

Unfortunately I have experienced too many of these myself, but they did make me laugh.

Enjoy :)

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Treasures

So this weekend, was my bestie's birthday....

So I along a good pal Carey planned a Scavenger hunt all around Colorado Springs

(These girls in this photo are precious to me and have become my family here.

I am so thankful to God for blessing me with such great friends)

The clues included doing things such as finding a random skateboarder at Memorial Park and taking a picture of them, sending pics to me on my phone from a local ice cream shop, and other such random things.

Running around all over the Springs looking for the next clue.

We split the people into 5 teams, and through my phone freezing, and people running stop lights, getting pulled over for speeding, interrupting

a wedding at Shov Chapel, having the clues blow all around it was still a success. Everyone had fun I think :) Even carey and I had fun and we weren't even playing.

One story from the hunt, one of the clues talked about a brass family that fishes for men, and to think of opposites so we put old muerta ( opposite being young live). Hence the Young Life building here has a brass statue in the front of it. But one team interpreted that as New Life Church which is 20 minutes north of the springs, when they called me I was like oh no. So they were troopers and finished the whole hunt completely even with positive attitudes. So they along with the first team, and of course Rachel all received prizes.

The rest of the night was filled with presents, food, cake, ice cream, beer, rock band, lots of laughter. Thanks again Rach for being born and being my best friend and as close as a sister.

Hope your weekend was fun as mine :)

New haircut

So here's my new hair cut, what do you think?

Nesting

So I have been back home a week now and it is so good to be home.

I am a nester. I am someone who has moved quite a bit in the last 6-7 years of my life. And as soon as I move in somewhere I immediately start to put up pictures and carve out my little niche in whatever space it is that I now inhabit at.

I have to feel comfortable and at home. I have realized how important it is to me to have that space that is mine. A place that is just somewhere where I can be quiet.

I have a crazy job, that I love. Work has been really crazy lately with normally three people handling our work load and now down to one, that one being me :)

Usually when I have a crazy hard day from working all day with kids that have been sexually abused I just work out or vedge or do something. But have not really been afforded that luxury as of late due to numerous crazy factors. Which has made me crazy :) As my roomie can attest too.

But in this time of stress and being stretched, I have realized how important it is to take care of myself. To carve out that moment if that is all I have for quietness where I can get refreshed from my Father who whispers in my ear, "you will be alright, we will make it through this, I promise. I have behind you, before you, and all around. I surround like light. I am your creator," and I take a deep breath and know that I am exactly where I am supposed to be, and I just take one step forward knowing that I am on the right path, even when the waves rage and crash around me.

I will make it. :)

Away from the Nest

So I am St. Louis, MO right now at a training and I have realized a few things about myself.

I got here Sunday and leave tomorrow and let me just tell you a few things about what I have noticed.

1. I do not like being somewhere, where I do not have a car.

2. I do not like being in an area where I don't know where I am. I feel a little bit vulnerable and fragile.

3. I in general do not enjoy traveling by myself, does this make me not enjoying being by myself? No not at all, in fact I rather do enjoy my alone time. But not when I am away from my comfort zone or just that sense of familiarity. Its just more enjoyable to overcome traveling obstacles when you have someone next to you to say, "hey what do you think should we do a. or b.?"

4. I like being home and not in a hotel room.

I have done pretty well actually enjoying my free time here then I did at my last training when I was in Minnesota last year. I have ventured walking around the city and have loved being in the very green parks they have here in St. Louis.

I also love the humidity here, the first day I was here and walked outside the sweet smell of moisture was like honey. I was on the phone last night with a dear friend and told her that that humidity made my hair crazy curly. She laughed and said, yeah like your hair isn't already crazy curly. But the humidity has made it even more curly, if that is possible ;) I also love just seeing water. The Mississippi river is so huge and I love the sound of the water.

So being away from my nest is not my forte. It makes me feel a little uncomfortable in all arenas. So needless to say I am ready to get on the plane tomorrow and see my mountains. That was one thing I noticed as I was flying away from the Rockies on Sunday it literally takes my breath away and makes me feel claustrophobic when I can't see the huge mountains and I feel like I just can't see what is around me.

So Colorado I can't wait to see you tomorrow. ;) Yeah you could say I am a home body :)