Castles

So this weekend.

I went to see this castle.

with friends.

It was awesome and scary.

kisses.

boys jumping.

sarah clearly won!

boys on bridge that leads to nowhere and the only thing stopping you in a rope, from dropping 15o ft. fun :)

boys in the globe.

steve facing his fear :)

mel made it up into the globe!

rachel all the way on top

staircase that went all the way up, coming down these things were uber scary. no handrails and nothing kept you from falling all the way down.

sorry about some of the pics. blogger was being stupid :)

Earth

This video truly is amazing. It's video clips from the BBC's Planet Earth series, set to the sounds of Sigur Ros's "Hoppipolla." Wow. If you haven't seen it, please watch.

Love

The pic below of of my sweetie niece tootie a.k.a aubrey.

Went home to visit friend and fam in MI a few weeks ago.

If you want to see the rest click

Water

Today as I was getting ready for work

I looked down in my water and saw a bug

in my water.

I thought....

gross.

Then I had a realization.

my water was clean.

it was not brown.

just a little bug.

there are millions who drink brown water with bugs in it everyday.

I thought I am spoiled.

I don't even think about these things.

I did some research and found out

1.8 million children die every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean
water and poor sanitation.

That is beyond terrible. I don't a word for it.

But know we can do something here.

Miracles

My new baby niece Stella Janae Polavin was born today at 4:46am weighing 3lbs 8oz.

Her mommy has been on bed rest for the last 6 weeks in the hospital.

bless her heart.

We have all been praying for this little one

she is a miracle and has already had put up quite a

fight

to stay here.

She is determined like her momma and daddy.

Pray for continued development of her lungs and body.

Camping

So this weekend I went up to 11 mile reservoir with my small group and it was crazy!

We had 16 people and 7 dogs, that is intense, but it was so much fun.

Click HERE to see pics from the weekend.

We had a crazy storm on Saturday night

which some of thought we were going to get struck my lightning because

we were in the middle

of a field with

no

trees :)

It was still really fun, always good to get away.

I will post some of the pics I took later.

My totally Tubuler Party

So I have sweet friends.

For my birthday,

we had an

80s kickball party.

So everyone dressed up in 80s attire
don't we look totally awesome?

Cheney's win the award for best outfits.

Kev-o was pretty sweet with his white shorts and tucked in muscle shirt

as were steve with the belly displaying cut off jersey

carey with the sideways pony

and ben with his sweet cut offs ;)

Awesome action shot of sarah

Rachel in her glory.

Steve pitching

Sonntag, getting ahold of that ball with her awesome keds she had on

carey, thanks for the yummy cake.

Steve, won for being the best sport.

As this pic proves!

Serious pose.

Fun.

Rock band, jen and I definitely won the award for best voice

that is for sure!!!

We were in harmony the whole time ;)

Notice my purple eye shadow and how it matches with my lovely sweatshirt :)

cute carey and katie.

this pic just makes me laugh. Love them.

tubular chicks, holly and rachel

plus jen.

All in all.

I have great friends.

Who love to dress up

and make the best

of themed parties.

Love them all

and I

felt special.

Now this weekend, we are all going camping.

More fun to come :)