Cafe de House Church

We had our house church over last night for dinner. It was a lot of fun. We had about 24 people over. We were amazed that we could cram that many into our apartment:) We had Chicken Salsa, Salad, bread, spanish rice. It turned out really nice. Following dinner was a birthday celebration with Tracy's famous DKA cupcakes that she made for jason, luke, and nick. These cupcakes are so rich and sugary that the joke is when you eat one your body goes into diabetic ketoacidosis. Following desert came a mean game of Apples to Apples. Possibly the best quote from the game came from Blake with "I am more selfish than a black whole".

Here are the birthday boys. Jason (today), Luke(tomorrow), and Nick(yesterday) (L-R)

something new

So a couple of friends and myself are going through this book called Lies Women Believe and the Truth That Sets Them Free by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. Great book! In this book she describes lies that women believe and scripture that sets them free. Our theory is that since we are reading this book and are recognizing these lies that we should memorize scripture that deals with the lies we specifically believe. so starting this week I will be posting the scripture that I will be memorizing:)

"Yet I am always with you; YOU hold me by my right hand. YOU guide me with YOUR counsel, and afterward YOU will take me into glory. Whom have I in heaven but YOU? And earth has nothing I desire besides YOU. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Psalm 73:23-26

global warming effect on ohio

I had the windows open today while wearing FLIP FLOPS!!!!!! It is January 8th! What the heck is going on? It was fantastic but kind of scary:)

Back to the grind

Today was my first day back at work and my first day of the new semester for school:) woohooo! Work was great. My boss was very wonderful and allowed me to take this first day back and make sure all passwords worked and get back into the swing of things since I did not work while in hawaii. I was able to help fellow nurses and also re-learn a lot of hands on stuff! And I did remember a lot that I thought I had forgotten:) it felt good to get in the muck of it again:) Those of you who are nurses understand what I mean when I use the term MUCK:) If you aren't a nurse, ask me about it and maybe I will tell you what it means over lunch:) hehe! Right now i am home resting my tired dogs (for those who don't speak dad...feet) and printing off 500 pages of information for my Pathophysiology class that I am taking on line this semester. It looks kind of scary but I was told it was a great class! After this class I only have one more class before I graduate with my bachelors degree:) wooooo! By the way....it was 69 degrees in Dayton today! holy cow. it is the beginning of January! I brought some Hawaii back with me! I wish I was able to enjoy the day...hopefully tomorrow will be just as great:)

Friend and Family visiting

Temp is 42 degrees:) Way nicer than 7 degrees:)

My aunt Besty, cousin Julie, and her girls Faith and Hope also came for an overnight visit. it was wonderful getting to see them after being in Hawaii for 5 months! what a wonderful fun time. The little girls are precious and it only makes me look forward to baby abby in 4 years! I think my dad also enjoyed it from a grandpa's point of view and also looks forward to his little grandbabies:) they better be ready for some snuggle time. Zeahne you better get ready. So here are some pictures from our fun adventure:)

Julie and Besty riding the luggage carrier

so we needed to go get the luggage out of the van and we decided or rather I decided it would be fun to get pictures taken on it:) and my dear family obliged.

My dad and I ridding the luggage carrier:)

Me, Hope, Julie, and Faith at Outback

The Sista's (Besty and Garnet {mom})

Hope and Dave (dad)

Katie and me:)

My friend Katie came into town this past week and started looking for an apartment. Well, on the she started looking she signed. very quick but good! She will be moving back here next week! woohooo! yeeeeeee! yabadabadoooooo!

who turned off the heat?

holy cow it is cold! what a rude awakening to look at the temp this am and see 8 degrees! ahhhhhhh! just 5 days ago I was in weather 80 degrees warmer! But we got a beautiful snow fall and it is still kind of spitting snow:)

New Year's Eve in Ohio

Dutch Blizt

some of the party animals:)

clay up to draw for pictionary

elizabeth and rob

roomies - brroke and me;)

the roomies post hawaii

the roomies pre-hawaii