Braidy Bunch.

It is hard to take a picture of the back of your head! Inspired by Laurie, I tried a new braid today & am pretty pleased with the results. I pretty much just want to be like Laurie.

I don't remember it raining this much in College Station when I lived here 3 years ago. I feel like it rains a little everyday. And when it's not raining it's so humid it might as well be raining. So there's no use in trying to straighten my hair. A braid & pony are perfect solutions but I fear that I feel like people in my office are thinking "does she know how to do anything else with her hair?" I'm always game for a new idea! Thanks Laurie!

October so far.

This past weekend I went to Corpus to celebrate my grandpa's 84th birthday! Even though it was a quick trip it was a good time & beautiful weather! I had lunch with my parents & Pop at Brewster Street Ice House which is right under the Harbor Bridge, next to Whataburger Field--it was a gorgeous day to be down town near the water!

My Parents

Me & Pop

Last week my little 7th grade girlies & I played around with Photo Booth on my MacBook. The little hamster in the corner named Hammy & he's a mascot of sorts for our junior high ministry.

Also this month, my roommates & I busted out the fire pit in the back yard! It's been raining so much it that hadn't been dry enough to start a fire but we had a couple of dry days in a row a while back & we made the most of it!

Dottie gave a valiant effort to start the fire--it took a while but
she persevered & it was a major success!

Sarah & Rachel eat some s'mores!

Me & Dottie love s'mores too!

Griffin just wants someone to pay attention to him.

"The Big Dance"

I feel like I need something to update on in order to be motivated to blog. Well I have a project now! There's this big youth event in December that all the kids dress up for & we watch videos that have been made using youth kids & leaders. They're competing for the best of a certain category. We (youth staff) make up the categories, put together the videos & pick the winners and apparently it's a pretty big deal (this being my first year working here I haven't actually seen this deal yet, just heard all about it). So a few weeks ago we started thinking about different videos to make & I showed this video & said maybe we could do something like this.



Well, apparently it was a good idea because today we had our first practice session & had about 75 people show up! Our goal is at least 100 & I have no doubt we'll get there. Two people left practice & took the music with them so they could teach all the leaders in the Bible study they direct who will in turn teach their group members. If just 25 more people come we'll get there! The first place this will be done is the half time show of a local Christian school football game October 24. The principal & coaches gave us their blessing to be the half time entertainment. The second time--get ready for this--will be outside Kyle Field a couple hours before the kick off of the A&M-Baylor game on November 21.

Like I said, today was just our first practice but I was super pleased with the turn out & the excitement people had for this event! Here's a video of our performance. I think it was the first time we tried to have people be in lines, so you can see it still needs a lot of work. But I am confident it's going to be awesome. Hopefully people will practice this week & we'll have even more people at next week's practice. :)



If you're in the B/CS area & want to be a part of this--it's all being filmed mind you--and not just by me--they actual performances will have real videographers--if you want to be part of this, let me know or just show up at the Grace gym next Sunday, 3pm.