Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

My talented and lovely friend/roommate Lindsay Beals...aka....Bealsabub(its not meant in the you know...bad way..) has started a blog!!! And since I know you all like great blogs I thought I would give her a little shout out on here! So here is it...."LINDSAY HAS A BLOG! CHECK IT OUT!! IT"S GREAT!!"

This is when we met the president. We were a pretty big deal. We had snipers on us.

We were M&M's. Cutsie.


Tennis Pros.


Celebratin'.

We do this alot. Just so you know...this was Halloween and I was Pam...Lindsay was a ladybug!?! Hmm.

www.lindsaybeals.blogspot.com

Desk Smesk

I sit at a desk all day...and though I love my little area and view outside the windows...my desk itself is pretty boring(big...wood...)...I have a lamp that I like...a picture frame that is cute(yes just one) and two stackable trays that are super cute from the container store. Thats it. And behind me I have this sort of desk that has drawers and all. But I have nothing on top of it. I need help. It does not represent me at all. I want to make it more organized and homey. What do you guys have on your desk?! I need inspiration...ideas. I know this is a lame post. But I really need some fun creative ideas to spruce up my work enviroment!!!

Help a sister out!!

Pictures are worth....

So. I was given this site...and it's amazing. I promise...I am working...you just have to take breaks. Here are two pictures for you to enjoy.

Gosh. Bangs were Awesome back then!

This is my favorite! Ah!

Go Yearbook yourself!! Okay....back to work. It is the day before my birthday...I am entitled to do what I want...right!?!

Laughter is the Best Medicine.

Okay. I know. I've been a.w.o.l. I have also been trying to update my blog with a Fallish layout...yeah didn't happen...I'm pretty sure pink is not a Fall color. Nonetheless its a good color. My fave at that. Oh. Sorry that you have been deleted from my page...your names that is. I still love you and I will work on that. That got deleted somehow in the chaos of finding the perfect Fall layout. Geez.

So. For an update. I am officially signed up for the 10k race that will take place on Labor Day. Lord have mercy. I am actually really excited about it. I am ready and I have trained my little legs off. So I say Bring it! It's all mental they tell me.

Somebody has a birthday this weekend. Any guesses!?! ME! Yep. August 23rd. I will be 27 years young. I am really looking forward to this year...its going to be a good one...I can already feel it. I don't know if I have ever talked about this on here...but I kind of have a problem with the odd numbers. Birthdays that is. I feel like they are a little Debbie D. You hear 28...you think Exciting! You hear 27...eh. You hear 24! Wow! What a year! 29...hmm. BUT! I have decided... out with that thinking..how dare I put a curse on it before it has even begun. I love birthdays. They are super.

So the other night I was lying in the bed with my biblioteca...I don't care that its not translated right...I like it...I mean why would you use biblioteca for library...hello its obviously bible. Someone was not doing their job the day that got approved. I was reading and came across Proverbs 31. You know. The calling all women verses. As I was reading them all the sudden this one verse just stuck out to me. You know people say...its like I had never read it before...it was so new to me in that moment. I really think I have NEVER read this verse before. I mean have I just skipped over this one every time...did ALL my bibles accidentally delete it!? Did all women's conferences skip over this part for time sake!? It was crazy. The verse is: Strength and honor are her clothing(this part I had read), and she can laugh at the time to come. Proverbs 31:25.
She can laugh at the time to come. Holy Cow. I am going to say it one more time. She can laugh at the time to come. How many times have I been in a place where I laughed at what was coming...the known...the unknown. I didn't say, Well I know that the Lord is going to take care of me so I can rest in that...I can have a peace in knowing that(which is not wrong or bad)...but no...I am so lost in the freedom of who He is and have such confidence in who He has said He will be in my life...that I will laugh...I will let my heart be light...so light that it laughs. Maybe I am reading way too much into this...but it just really spoke to me. I realize that there are things that happen in our life that are so hard and so tough that we can't even begin to imagine a smile...let alone a laugh...and the great thing about it is that God loves us completely in the moments that all we can do is sob...or scream...or sit. I don't want to belittle those times by saying we should laugh it away. But He was obviously trying to tell us something in this verse....just a thought...

Oh. Another thought I had while reading that chapter. Dang! She is busy. I got tired just reading about all the things she sewed and made and created and woke up...girl multi-tasks.

Say I Can't...

So. My roommate/great friend Bealsabub and I were talking the other day. Whenever the Olympics come around we start to get really jealous of the people competing in the games. I mean let's be honest, they are super talented, dedicated, and they get all this air time..plus they get these really cool necklaces or medals...whatever you want to call them. AND we get really frustrated with our parents that they didn't see the need to place us in a sport that would eventually bring us to the Olympics...we could have been training and training and training and could be competing this month in Beijing. But no. We are sitting in the US with no medals, no Olympic stories to tell and no face on any cereal box. So we started thinking. We could train now! Hey! That swimmer is 41 years old!! If we started training at 27 years old we have a good 8 years to get ready and we would only be 35! Younger than the lady this year! So. We talked about what we would want to train in...the child in me obviously wants to do gymnastics...but let's be honest I'm too tall. SO we are thinking either swimming, diving(lindsay says, hey all they do is jump off the diving board and twist and stuff), or...and here is my fave...synchronized swimming. We think we could bring a new life to this sport. Lyrical Hip-Hop Synchronized Swimming(LHHSS). We would ask Tabatha and Napoleon from So You Think You Can Dance to help us with our routine and then we will practice for the next 4 or 8 years. I think its doable. What do you think about this!?

Lindsay and I(Easy)

Easier.

Hmm.

Cutest Little Boy I Know.

Okay! SO. I just got in last night from my weekend in Ohio! I decided that I would share the experience with you in pictures. So here it goes.

Mom and I right before we left for the airport!! So excited!!

Noah drinking his first Starbucks! Lemonade/Green Tea Freeze. We didn't know that all he had had until this point was water and milk....oops.:) He loved it! Drank the whole thing in maybe 10 minutes.

Okay. You might be thinking...why is he wearing pants...haha. Well they are his size swim trunks...he just has cutie patutie short legs....it was sooo funny to watch him in them. AH!:)

Here we are taking a little ride around the neighborhood. Noah waves and says hello to everyone. He gets a little upset when people do not wave or say hi back. It's pretty funny. He grunts at them.:)

Target.:)

Fruit Punch. Drank the whole thing.:)



Noah and his first ice cream cone!! He LOVED it!! Below is a video from this event. It cracks me up!!

Sorry its sideways again...:)

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He wanted to hold the WHOLE preztel. Of course.:)

Mimi and Noah!

Pool Time! He likes to splash outside of the pool...so I thought if I got in it might encourage him....and then this is what happened....

He is watching me...in the pool...by myself....

Craft Time!!

Finger Painting for the first time! He didn't know what to think of it at first....He doesn't like to get his hands dirty...but as you can see he got over it.:)

We had the BEST time! We were completely exhausted by the end but it was all worth it to spend some quality time. We were sad to leave....but hopefully we can get another trip in soon!! We love you Noah!!