It's the Thought that Counts

Finals week was pretty intense for my sister Chelsie...or so she says it was. But no matter if it was or was not an interesting occurance happened. That Wednesday night I was waiting on Jas to get done using his Quantitative Mgmt book and I became motived to waste the time by making a pumpkin pie. I had more filling than I did pie crust so I poured the extra into a cupcake pan and took them up to the guys to dispose of. A little while after I got back downstairs Scott emailed me and invited me up for breaksticks. His cousin had ordered them from Illinois and had them delivered to him. How sweet was that! So when I got home I thought I would spread the cheer and order some for Chelsie and her roomies! And that was the last I heard about breadsticks. I didn't really expect her to figure out who sent them but I did think she would mention something about getting breadsticks for free, since she is a great lover of food. I even asked mom if she'd said anything. Last night I was walking and talking to her on the phone and I asked her if she ever got any breadsticks during finals week. "Ummm...no....oh wait...yeah did I tell you about that?!?!" So then she goes into this story. Apparently she and Lindsay were sitting on the couch watching a movie...so much for studying and having a hard finals week :)...when the door bell rings. FYI: It was 11pm. They both flipped out and just sat there on the couch wondering what to do while this face looked in the side window. About 5 minutes later, he rang the doorbell again. They jumped up kinda screaming with Chel running to the door trying to look out the peep hole and lindsay the kitchen window. All Lin could see was an arm and a bag. So she screams "don't open the door." By this time Anna had awaken from bed and came upstairs. Chel tried to look out the window at the side of door but couldn't see so she flipped what she thought was the outside light on. Instead, she flipped the inside light on and here she is with her face smashed against the window trying to see out. Anna peers out the peep hole and decided it was some kind of a maintenance guy and decides to open the door as lin is continuously screaming "don't open the door." They open the door and it was the Dominoes Pizza guy. He tries to give them the breadsticks upon them telling him that they hadn't ordered any. And instead of asking if they were the name on the breadsticks, he just turns and walks off. I definitely feel for the pizza guy, I'm sure he was scared out of his mind. I kinda hope it was the same guy that delivered to us the evening we all stood in the front yard and jumped up and down screaming "Pizza!" That would be really funny!

Crazy Chinese

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I spent Saturday, Monday, & Tuesday in Greensburg and there is plenty to do in the town. The national gaurd has secured the area and work teams are coming in continuously. Americorp is coordinating all groups that are coming in and assigning jobs where needed. Saturday I helped pick up debris in the field of a farmer. We pulled about 3 truck loads of debris out containing pictures, insulation, pans, clothing, wood, glass, etc. You name it, it was there. It was very interesting because we ate at the Mennonite church for lunch and it was just like an AC function! Mennonites from all over gathered in one area conversing and working together. There were traditional ones with their full beards and the more non-traditional ones with something we found out was called a "shadow beard." Yet all, no matter what their physical appearance was, came together for a common purpose of helping those who were left with nothing. Monday and Tuesday were both spent working at the house of Vernon & Sue Martin. They are an older couple who's house of 42 years was destroyed. FEMA will pick up anything that is placed along the street and so we went through each room and pulled destroyed furniture, clothing, appliances, sheet rock, etc to the street. When we were finished the only things left in the house where the walls. After seeing the pictures of Greensburg, you always feel so bad for the families, but after working with them and feeling the emotion of it all, words don't describe how you feel. At the end of the day, they drive to a hotel and we drive home to our houses. One man made the comment, "I just wish I could wake up and it'll all go away, like a bad dream that you can wake up from." I was asked if it looks like any progress is being done. Greensburg looks the same now as it did Saturday when I first got there. But there are dump trucks continuously driving out of town with full loads of debris. It is going to be a very LONG rebuilding process. If it's going to be rebuilt at all. Quite a few of the people we talked with, older couples mostly, are relocating somewhere else. They don't have the desire to rebuild their lives and houses with so much memory surrounding them. Which you can't blame them, because right now, there is no where to even start rebuilding or for that matter stay. On Tuesday when we did as much as we could for Vernon and Sue, which included finding their wedding rings and a piggy bank with sentimental value, we said our heart felt goodbyes. It was so hard because here is this couple we have worked with the last two days and we have no idea how they are going to get by in the weeks to come or what they are going to do. They were so thankful though and we will never cease to place them in God's hands through prayer. I don't want to make it sound like a total despairing situation, because each family has hope and there are people from all over coming to help. We saw people from Texas, New York, & Florida, and then there were police forces and fire departments from places like Olathe. There was also a man there that goes around to natural disasters and donates his time by using this huge semi with a seat above the cab which has a scoop on it which he uses to pick up destroyed material and dump into his trailer. Also, there are committees set up around town that feed workers breakfast, lunch, and supper. It's very organized for as crazy as everything is. I left on Tuesday with lots of thoughts going through my head.

I thought I would share a few humorous moments form the last week. Chelsie and I both drove down to Greensburg individually Friday night and we had been talking on the phone when we pulled up to the police road block. I forgot I was still talking with her when the Police asked me where we were headed and what we were doing. I told him about going to help with the Field Day and where we were staying. As we pulled away I asked chel if she was still there and if she heard me talking to the officer. She said, "Yes and I didn't know what to say to the officer that came to my window so everything you said I repeated word for word!" Sat morning dad used my phone to call Jas and get his dad's phone number. Dad asked if he had woken jas up because he sounded a little croaky. Jas replied that he was up for the day and then gave dad the number. So when dad called this number strange enough, Jas answered the phone. He had given dad his own phone number. Yep...he was up for the day :) We worked on pulling appliances and bigger objects out of a house that morning. Dad threw a piece of metal out of the way and it hit the owners car in the drive way. "Don't scratch the paint," was the reply from the owner whose car had every window broken, doors dented in, and pieces of wood sticking through the metal! Jas and I worked with three little kids on Tuesday. We had just filled a wheelbarrow of junk and Jas went ahead and took the wheelbarrow to the edge of the house while I was picking up some longer pieces of wood. I head out there to help lift it down just as I see Jas running towards the edge trying to ramp it off. Unfortunately, it didn't land on it's wheel. In fact, I don't think it left the edge of the house at all, it just tipped right forward and dumped everything over the edge onto the ground!

It's wonderful how when you put your life in Christ, nothing can take the laughter and joy out of life. Even in a situation that looks so bleak.

Greensburg Work Day

My dad has some really good minnonite friends from Gultry, Oklahoma, they have churches like ours spread across the nation. One of these churches happens to be in Greensburg, KS and 14 families in that congregation lost homes. Dad was up there today with Pat and he called and told me what's going on with work days. FEMA has stepped in and is going to bulldoze the town under. The people were told to gather as much of their personal belongings as they can and get out of town. Apparently no one can enter the town. There isn't anything for us as far as clean-up in the town to do, but there is lots of debris in fields and in the surrounding country areas. They are having a walk the field's day Saturday, May 12 starting at 8:00 am. I am going from Manhattan and if anyone is interested in going, call me, or Paul Kaeb or my dad (620-886-1199.) (I don't know paul's number)

Tornado Alley

Last night in Greensburg, Kansas, an F3-F4 tornado wiped out 75% of the town. It took out the hospital, school, city hall, and many people's houses. 60 of the towns people were hurt really bad and I think 7 were killed. The Kiowa EMT and other medical personnel helped with it and they said the devastation was awful. It's a pretty small town, I remember having track meets there. Apparently when you drive in the whole town is just gone. I've been studying all morning and then mom called and told me what happened. So I started looking everything up and the midwest is supposed to get many more storms before spring comes to a close. I'm sure there will be many more tornadoes touching down. If you read this, please say a prayer for the community of Greensburg and the building up process.

Hard Wheat Tour

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We had a pretty nasty freeze here in Kansas not to long ago. All the flowers and wheat here in the North part of KS are dead or very near dead. Then in the South, where my parents farm, the freeze damage wasn't bad at all. The last couple of years, we have gone into wheat season thinking we were going to have the best crop ever but then because of hail damage or lack of percipitation, our crop has been wiped out. Now, when we never thought our crop would make it through the freeze, we've got an ok crop. It's just another example of how we have no idea why God has things work the way they do. We just need to take the back seat and not worry about where God is steering us...because in the end He will take care of us.

Winding down the school year

Last week was a very laid back and abusive week! Sunday night I played on the Feed Science Club's softball team. I play short stop and besides colliding with the third baseman on a popup, I was run over by a base runner going from second to third while fielding a ball. After he hit me, he stopped in the base line to check if I was ok. I stumbled around and gave him the thumbs up then he proceeded on to third base and home! I was supposed to go to a group project meeting after the game was over but Jas said they were done meeting so us two and Scott ordered pizza instead and then we got into some good conversation! I definitely spent more time upstairs than in my apartment last week! Monday was jason's birthday and we had a suprise party for him. Or I should say we tried anyway...we had been waiting for about 30 min. and started getting loud and he heard us. After prayer meeting we got on this kick of watching juggling videos...and again it was way past my bedtime when I went home. I'm surprised they haven't banned me from going up there! Tuesday night I was up at the "Catalyst" for about 3 hours sending our lego car down a ramp made out of 3 binders, a cookie sheet, a manila folder, and tape and then measuring how far it rolled. I think we had to drive it down the ramp 176 times. Yes....very tedious! Then I met up with my friends from MCC and played some volleyball and then Scott came and we played some Walleyball. I think I won 2 of the 3 games....but I could be wrong.....which of course would be a first! Wednesday morning was quite the adventure. I didn't hear my phone ringing until Monica said my name a couple times. I flipped out tried to jump off the top bunk quickly, instead slipping on the ladder and swinging like a monkey directly into the window. Somehow I must have hit the nighstand as well because I had a 4 in. diameter bruise on my leg. I stood there holding my head and Monica leaned up long enough to ask if I was alright then went directly back to bed. I ended up being late for class, which was the one we had to turn a project in for. I get to class and turns out the other guys had printed another copy just in case I didn't show up. Matt got up to turn it in and I said, "Hey, I need to sign it." Everyone else had turned theirs in and were sitting down as well as my teacher looking at us. Matt looked at me with his fingers to his lip, "I already signed for you." Oooops! That night after church a bunch of us got Pita's and played around on Scott's laptop, making funny faces at the Photoshop thing! see chelsie's blog. Thursday night, after my group project meeting, Monica, Stef, and I went to Much Ado About Nothing on campus! It is a hilarious Shakespeare play, which the KSU Theatre did awesome at! After that I walked and chatted with Steph and then headed back to my place where I was meeting up with the guys to watch a movie. I think we started it at 12:00am. But we really didn't have anything exciting going on the next day so it didn't really matter! This weekend the Denver church came down to Kiowa. A bunch of us spent all day Saturday at the Medicine River and came back looking like lobsters. We got to have a grain bin singing that evening! I haven't gotten to have a singing like that in a long while! It was marvelous! I've got to head to a group project meeting but before I go I would like to share with you what happened about 30 minutes ago. I was getting my keys out of my bag to unlock our door and my already half broken phone fell out of my bag. One of the hinges was already broken but when it hit the floor it broke completley in two. The funny thing is...I can still use it! I can't see a screen obviously, but it still lets me call and if I put it on vibrate I know when people are calling me too! I don't want to get a knew one because I'm changing plans in june and I was hoping it would live until then. I guess we'll see...I'm still going to try!

My teacher is going to kill himself today. Every time he walks past the table he trips over the edge and the bad thing is...I almost laugh every time. I'm so immature. One test down and one to go before this week is over! That'll be exciting! Tonight a bunch of us are going to the Passion Play in Topeka. I hear that it's a very good portrayal....but I've never been so will have to find out. Friday I'm skipping both of my classes so that I can make it home by 4 for a wedding rehearsal. This weeks been kinda la-di-da. We chalked campus last night and I definitely got my WalkKansas miles in. I also cooked last night and kinda improvised on the chicken topping. The guys said it tasted good, and because they are usually not the "don't want to step on your toes" type of guys...I'm going to believe them! Not much else...

Spring Break

Going into my Spring Break, my teachers were so kind and made due 2 projects, 4 tests, 1 paper, and a few homework assignments. However, this made my Spring Break soo enjoyable! I didn't have to think about classes the whole time! Unlike many of my friends who spent their SB on the beach getting the perfect tan, I spent my time in Biloxi, Mississippi getting a farmers tan!
Friday, March 16, I headed over to Topeka after work. I seriously felt like skipping the whole way home because my Spring Break had officially started! I didn't because I think it's been years since I skipped and I was afraid I'd fall on my face. In Topeka, Chel, Anna, and I had a good time playing some catch, boxing each other, waving down the pizza guy, and other extremely enjoyable activities! Anna and I are both doing WalkKansas and I think we had like 4 miles each after that night was over! Saturday our KS group wasn't leaving for Biloxi until 6:30 pm so Anna and I had a very enjoyable time bumming around all day. We weren't going to wake up til really late, but I was sleeping in Maggi's bed and I could hear the couple the lives next door fighting. I have this problem of yelling things out when I'm not fully awake and I definitely yelled something at them, which made me shocked and I got up and Anna was crawling up the stairs with a "what just happened" expression on her face!

At 6:30 I met up with the Bern people and Alan and we headed down to Biloxi. We dropped my car off there, so Stef road with me. Three hours of non-stop talking...I have no idea how we weren't hoarse. Biloxi was great! I am disappointed that I didn't get to meet any of the owners of the houses that I helped work on, but I truly enjoyed getting to meet other MS residents who had lots to talk about. Not really of the storm, but the aftermath. How they had the strength to go on, what is going on now, etc. It was truly awesome to see all the groups that were down there helping out. We saw people from Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, and many others in big ole vans going from house to house or running errands. The love of God is definitely being seen on the streets of Biloxi, Mississippi. We had about 50 on our team, mostly college age kids. I didn't know all of them by anymeans so it was very fun getting to meet and work with these new people! Leaving wasn't too sad, but that was because we left like 4 hours before everyone else. I'm sure it would have been harder if there were actually people to say goodbye to. Saturday when I got home, we had Chel's birthday and to our great surprise....my dear sister Stephanie showed up! What are the odds!?!? First time a suprise has worked out like that in our family in a long time!

Sunday we again had a great time with the Stewart kids. They are amazing....must be the influence of the people that helped raise them ;) JK! We taught them La Infanteria (The Infantry) and a couple weeks ago they sang it for the church. So here is them singing it so that Steph could take it back and show it to the ninos at CVE.



So now Spring Break is over, and I have no motivation to start school back up :( Only 6 more weeks of school. I talked to my advisor on Monday and he told me that I will be able to graduate next May. Which is 7 months sooner than I was planning on. Wow....life is moving along quickly and I don't know that I'm ready for it. Oh and it's raining right now! That makes me a very happy individual!

Biggest Scare

Last night Jas, Nathan, and I were up at the lab working on some Quantitative Management. We had taken a test in that class about a week before and I hadn't found out my grade yet and I expressed this. Jas said it was now online so I went in to K-State Online to check it. To my horror I saw:

Ex1 Graded 64/100 64%

My heart completely stopped. How in the heck did I get a 64%? My mind immediately went into thoughts of drastic measures of how I was going to ever bring that up never mind the fact that I was completely embarrassed because the other two got a 100 & a 90. Talk about humbling..or feeling completely stupid...whichever. The biggest thing was I couldn't figure out how I could have possibly done that bad.

After class this morning, I asked my teacher if I could talk to him about my test, since I never actually had seen it. We went to his office and I told him my shock at finding out my grade and so he pulled it out of a drawer, looked at it and then started expressing how I was one of those that still must not understand Linear Programming. Which I found weird, because that was the stuff I knew the most. After looking and seeing that I only missed 2 out of 30 multiple choice, we flipped to the next 20 LP problems. He starts flipping through and saying how I was the only student who hadn't answered any. WHAT? I answered all of them. But, I look at my test and NO answers anywhere. Lightbulb...I had put my answers on the back of my scantran instead of writing them on the actual test. Yep...I'm dumb. I have no idea what possessed me to do this, and when I handed my test in I had asked him if I had to rewrite it all on my test and he said no. So I had gotten a 0 on the last 20 problems because he couldn't see any answers. We both started laughing and hugging and crying.....ok not but I definitly felt like it! JOY & RELIEF! Thank you Lord! Now I just have to wait another week for him to grade it again!

Tongues are sometimes disgusting things...

But other times....they create great entertainment!

"Tif, you have something on your chin."

So I pulled down the mirror in Chel's car and started cleaning off left-over breakfast and some sleepy stuff from my eyes and then decided to check my teeth. Little did we know...



...that the next half hour we'd be making ourselves laugh hysterically by sticking out our tongues. Kinda gross...but hey...it happens!

In a state of Missouri

This picture was taken in a Northern Missouri Elementary school by a friend. When I was in elementary school we had a chart like this that we filled out to see who could get perfect "spelling test" scores. Seems they do things a little different in Missouri....like promote big smiles with missing teeth! ;) Typical!

Spammed over Blog

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So this is the message I now have been getting for.......a while. Ok one day :) It seems my posts aren't interesting enough and some robot somewhere in the world thinks I'm spam. Bummer.

Oh well! I had two tests last week. So because of studying, the week seemed to fly by. Wednesday night we had a singing in the stairwell and except for when Aaron would pick a song none of us knew and make us learn it...we sounded pretty good...even though that's not what matters really. Thursday night Scott and Aaron came downstairs and helped me roll out peppernuts or pfeffernusses or as scott called them...peanut poppers! HA! Friday Matt Rassi from Chicago gave a Bible study on Guarding your Heart. After that b/w 12 and 15 people came over to my apartment and we had chili, veggies, and fondue! It was so incredible to have people spend an evening in Manhattan! After we ate and chatted and just hung out, we all made our way up to KS hill. And yes for you KSU alums, I didn't stumble...not Manhattan hill, but KS hill! Way cooler view from this hill! Then Aaron, Matthias, and myself went back to my wrecked apt and did damage control! Saturday morning I drove up to Sabetha and met up with jas, brian, brandon, duane, brianna, and maggs and we played some intense bball! We finally had to quit because the old men of the group were getting tired :) Also, it didn't help that I landed on brian's foot and rolled my ankle. Minor setback I always say! We hit up DQ for some grub then I hung out at Brian's until I met up with Duane & Holly and spent the rest of the evening with their family! Lots of good times from then until I left around 4 on Sunday and headed back to Manhattan.

In my Operations Management class this week, our teacher had us read The Goal. A kinda weird novel about Operations Management....go figure! In class Mr. Saztler was talking about what a bottleneck is and a real life example that he thinks is the best is Washing clothes. Your dryer is always slower than your washing machine therefore, it is the bottleneck. He asked us some ways that we could 'elevate the system' which just means take some of the demand off the bottleneck. And us girls were saying stuff like hang clothes up (which we were told isn't in a guys vocab), less stuff in the dryer (which we were also told by the guys we were wrong and need to stuff as much stuff in as you can), and some other norms for doing laundry. Then one of the guys said, "Not everything needs to be washed everytime you wear it." My teacher started pointing out how many guys at that point had pulled the ole, "sniff under your armpits to see if it needs washed" manuever! I found the whole period highly amusing!

Get this... Yesterday high was 60 degrees and today....there's already 2 inches of snow on the ground. Only in Kansas.

My Strength is in You Lord

The most difficult spiritual test, is turning our lives over to God. Though no decision can be more fulfilling, inevitably something will happen that will make us realize that our own power isn't enough to get us through the especially difficult times. Our personal power is limited, but God's power is infinite. All that is required, is one simple prayer, "Not my will Lord, but Yours." Why are we so afraid of turning our lives over to a greater will? Why do we seek Guidance, but fear what that Guidance will say to us? Because it means that we have to say to God, "I accept whatever it is that You have chosen for me and I trust that you will give me the strength to deal with it."

Though none go with me,
Still I will follow.
No turning back,
No turning back.

Though None go with Me by Jerry B. Jenkins

Gotta Love Valentine's Day Cards

I got this from one of my sisters! I laughed!

Chelsie...THIS is a snow man

The wonderful world of Manhattan was covered in a gorgeous blanket of snow yesterday evening. One that 5 young people were just dying to get outside and play in! I think we went out about 10:30pm and let me tell you, this snow was perfect! Packed amazingly! Only problem was that is was incredibly wet. It had rained all day so under the 2 inch layer was 3 inches of sogginess. We started out our playing by making a huge snowman. Below is the result of letting 4 guys be the master minds behind it. I told Chel a while back in regards to her snowman that it's a good thing she isn't God or else we'd all look dumb, and I have to say....I'm glad Jas, Aaron, Kellan, and Scott aren't God or we'd all be tall disproportionate freaks! ;) Jas made sure we knew it was a man, then preceded to tell us it was pregnant. Typical of a male. It may not look like it, but this guy is about 3 ft. taller than me. We were practicing our round house kicks to it's face and my footcould only reach about half way up his 3rd layer. The guys did much worse than me though, they couldn't get their feet up past the second layer! HA! We got a little intense in our snow ball fight and thus our yard is a mess and one of my apt. windows is broken. Yep...that'll cost. So we took our fight onto campus to the "marshes." This was seriously the stupidest idea we've had yet. We went to this open field of what we thought would be a perfect snowball area, and while we did have a good time, we were soaked within 5 min. Of course this didn't affect Aaron and I because we had come prepared with our amazing snow get up, but the rest of the guys wore jeans/khaki's! Good one guys! When we first got there, Jas took off running across the field and immediately started slipping and sliding and wiped out. And it went downhill from there! We were all slipping and sliding and wiping out and having a grand ole time in it. Although, I wish some other girls were there because they got to have fun wrestling and tackling each other and I just had to stand there and watch. I was asked if I wished I was a guy. "Um...no....and wouldn't that be a little weird if I did." "Oh...I guess you're right." "Der!" We got back to my apt around 11:30pm and Scott and I talked Aaron in to coming to wal-mart with us to get a snow shovel. It was quite the time convincing, but alas, slacking off won over being studeous. We got to walley world and no shovels. Oops! BUT...we saw the Papa Johns delivery car and we decided we needed some pizza. So 4 of us sat down around apt 3's kitchen table and had pizza. It was kinda funny sitting down for a meal having a prayer and everything for food at 12:30 am! Whatever works I guess...and the pizza was amazingly wonderful! Pizza Shuttle...NOTHING beats it! I don't know what time I left...but it was very...early! :)

Crop Sprayer

Soooo.....
Tonight I met with my Management Operations group to build our Lego Product. We have to build a product out of legos for the end result of finding Production Cost. This past weekend we couldn't meet so I volunteered to take the legos on my 6 hour trip to Taylor and take inventory of them. I got up Sat. morning to count them and 4 lego maniacs joined me. Well I should say 3, the 4th guy just sat there and played with them and whined when we took a piece away from him to count! So anyway tonight, our group met to actually build our product out of the legos. None of us had ever really played with legos and our newbyness was very apparent. We threw out a bunch of dumb ideas and then decided to build a monster truck. By the time we got done building the truck it looked like some sort of weird animal. We were in the library building this thing and kept getting in trouble because we couldn't help but laugh hysterically at it. It was & is the dumbest looking thing. I made the comment that if it had arms it'd look like my dads crop sprayer. So our monster truck became and remains a crop sprayer. My struggle for the week is going to be keeping a cap on my perfectionism and dealing with the fact that a three year old could probably build something better!

And people wonder why I'm violent

Last night Aaron and I went on a run since everyone else in the group had their own plans. He was running me to death like he does everytime. I like to blame it on the fact that he's got a good foot or so on me length wise. He doesn't run very much unless I ask him if he wants to go, so I asked him how he stayed in shape like that. Shape being he can just up and run out of the blue and whoop me. He answered "Blah Blah Blah" (too long to type out) and then I was like "Well, I was like that in HS but now I'm becoming like every other woman that gets older." Meaning metabolism slowing down and such. Aaron's reply, "What..fat and sassy?" Even though I thought it was funny...I punched him. :)

A Short Story

Once upon a time there was a girl walking home from work. As she was walking, a big red fire truck driven by a firefighter went screaming down the street. Because of the noise of the wailing fire truck, thousands of birds started flying out from ever nook and cranny. These birds decided they all needed to fly NE, which was the way this girl was walking home. The girl realized that her chances of getting pooped on went up 100% with all these birds flying over. So she started to run and when she'd look up she made sure she kept her mouth closed. There was so much snow and ice on the ground that the girl had a hard time running very fast. So she decided to speed walk. With bird droppings pelting to the ground all around her, this brave trooper made her way through the snow towards her home which happened to be uphills both ways. The adventure came to an end when she safely made it to and in her home without having one speck of bird poop hitting her. Life is Good.

HMMMM....

Ok...I have made a decision. I am going on an extended Blogging Holiday! When I'm over my blogging slump, I will be back. 2 days - 2 weeks - 2 months....who knows, but I will return! And since I'm here, I might as well post a little something something. I am down in Mexico right now with Stephanie. It's been a fantastic week. The rest of the work team leaves today in about an hour, however Chel and I get to stay until Tuesday. It will be mucho wonderful. We are headed to meet up with our groupie, Todd, Jesse, Alan, Ryan, and us three, (who have been car pooling together) so hasta la bye bye!