The Coolest Thing I've Seen (today at least...)

I'm not a big "go green" person. I mean I'm pro it, but I don't do crazy things to try to be green. I use recycled paper/post its, I recycle my ink cartridges, and I do have re-usable shopping bags (and I remember to take them to the grocery most of the time). But today I became a fan of Printworks multipurpose paper! They apparently feel very strongly about replacing the trees they use to make paper and are doing their best to do something about it. I was pulling out paper today to put in my printer when out came a small ziplock baggie of seeds! They actually include seeds in each reem of paper so you can go plant them! How cool is that?!



Pretty sweet huh? I guess the flip/cynical side of this is that the company is trying to deflect any blame or criticism for cutting down trees. "You got a problem with us? Plant a tree!" Or perhaps they're just trying to get their customers to provide more trees for them to cut down & use to make paper. Can't you just see the execs up in their offices, "Hmm...how can we appear to be environmentally friendly and also get our customers to do the planting work for us? Ahha! We'll give them seeds...two birds with one stone!" A little ironic isn't it? They give you seeds just so in a few years they can cut down the trees. Hmmm.

Well, I still think it's pretty sweet. They won me over.

Sisters Married: 1, Weeks of Camp Ahead: 9

This past weekend my sister became Mrs Grobe! She & Robert got married at Roddy Tree Ranch in Hunt, TX & it was a wonderful weekend & beautiful wedding! Here's some of my favorite pics for the interested (some are other people's that I copied off facebook so forgive the poor quality):

Beautiful bride!

First dance!

Father/daughter dance.

Sister of the Bride/Maid of Honor, aka MOH1. :)

Our fam.

The whole fam! All the Grobes & all the Nelsons, et al (you can tell it was a friend of the groom's who took this picture--they cut off half our family)!

The Nelsons & the new son.

The Grobes & their new daughter.

Silly wedding party. Mostly silly girls, the boys were not so silly.

And now, I'm in Bartlesville, OK for our staff training camp. The week is going wonderful so far--the Lord has provided an awesome team this summer! On Saturday we'll head up to Missouri to begin our first official week of camp! Please pray for safe travel & good health over the next 9 weeks, and also that we would be willing & available to serve the Lord in whatever ways He gives us to serve Him!

Thank you! Hope you're having a good beginning of summer yourself!