What if Starbucks marketed like a church?

I just saw this video. It's hilarious! It's called what if Starbucks marketed like a church.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7_dZTrjw9I

Grocery Lists

So today Brent and I switched places. He has pink eye. So I am speaking tonight at church and came to his office to get some things in place and he went to Wal-Mart for me. And as I was making a list I though how funny the differences are when I make a list for me and this one for him. Now don't get me wrong Brent is a good grocery shopper, but you know you just like certain brands, right, so I wanted to make sure he got the same brands. Here is a sample similar to what I wrote:

List for me:

Milk
Water
Toilet paper
ALL
Meat
Juice
Light bulbs

List for Brent:
Milk
Water - 2 gallons, green label
Toilet paper - charmin, red
ALL - clothing detergent (white bottle)
Ground chuck beef or ground round
Apple juice
Peach-Mango V8 fusion juice (yellow)
Light bulbs - 4 pack

Maybe not as funny to you, but i kept writing all the specifics down! Haha!!

Latest Letters

These are the latest letters I have done:

Jodi is having Brittlee next week!

And of course Charleigh's were done earlier in the summer:

My new favorite song.....

We will sing, sing, sing
And make music with the heavens
We will sing, sing, sing Grateful that You hear us When we shout your praise
Lift high the name of Jesus

What's not to love about You?
Heaven and earth adore You
Kings and kingdoms bow down Son of God, You are the One You are the One
we're living for

You are the love that frees us
You are the light that leads us
Like a fire burning Son of God,
You are the one You are the one we're living for

We will sing, sing, sing
And make music with the heavens
We will sing, sing, sing
Grateful that You hear us When we shout your praise
Lift high the name of Jesus

By Chris Tomlin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzRNkPXH5V8


Also, today is one year and one day exactly that we have been back.

Here today....gone tomorrow!!

Do you see this little building? It has been in front of our house ever since we bought our house and now it's GONE!!!! Hooray!!! It looks amazing! The land looks so great!! I don't have a finished picture yet. I forgot to take one, but in the pics below, you can see the damage after it was taken down and how much better it looks!

Brent's 10 Year Reunion

Brent's 10 year high school reunion was August 1! A lot sure has happened in 10 years!
We had a good time. It was fun to meet some of friends pals in high school. Some of them I already know, so we had some good hang out time!

Week O' Fun

This week was good. We started our homestudy. The first visit went VERY well. We talked with our social worker for 3 hours! It did not seem that long either. We had a great time. Our next visit will be sometime this month.

Also Christy, Chris and Ryleigh came to visit for a few days! It was great to see them. I told them there was a house for sale that was near us and they could move in!

Ryleigh loves dogs
(above) hmmm....is this a good idea?

Below:

Christy and I tried making bows. These are Christy's.

Her's are great. Mine are terrible, so you will not be seeing them!

Also, my dad bought a SUV and is letting me and Brent drive.

This is a great blessing, esp. since Brent's car blew up!

I start a new job on Monday too!

God is good, well He would still be good even if we didn't have these things!

Contradiction = Me

So lately I have learned a few things about myself:

I am a walking contradiction! ha! As Brent says I live on Africa time. My internal clock is not on the same time schedule as everyone else. I don't care if I'm late (to some things), but it irriates the stew out of me if other people are late.

I do not like surprises, but I LOVE to surprise other people!

It does not bother me for other people to have a messy house, but my house has to be clean.

I am also really indecisive, unless everyone else in the group is indecisive and then I decide for everybody! Our pastor thinks that it's all about me!! haha!! You'd have to ask him to fully understand.

Somethings that I am realizing here lately, I wish they had come to realization a little bit earlier!

Have a nice day!

The Beginning

Home Study begins August 4!
In the meantime we have 82 pages of paperwork to complete!

WHAT?!?!?!

Kenyan Stories

This is my sister-in-law, April. I love her.

She just returned from Kenya.

She went with the organization: 410bridge

She LOVED it!

Here are few things she had to say about it (for a full note you may visit her on facebook):

It is only day 2 of being in Kenya and day 4 of the trip and so far I have already:

-experienced the joy of travelling for 40 hours

-seen a fight in an african airport (SCARY)

-seen Air Force One land in Ghana

-run over a thief in the streets of Nairobi

-met children that have more joy and love than I have ever experienced

-gotten real hugs and tangibly felt love through the hand hold of an orphan name Unice

-experienced Heaven in an unlikely place

-eaten a rib from an unknown animal

-seen God praised in a new way

-had my hair braided by Kenyan children - twice

-seen a chicken offering auctioned off in a church

-walked the 3 km journey to a 100 foot rock ravine where they sent their children to get water

-prayed with a family who just lost their son, which turned into a huge celebration

-seen giraffes on the side of the road......and it's only day two.

This place has captured my heart.

Day 3:

-danced into the community by a group of Kenyan women,

-helped dig a base for the water project
-got my arms and face painted at the worksite

-stood in the rain and prayed

-drank coffee in the home of one of the community members and learned about Kenyan "relationships"

-had a very extensive conversation about my accent

Things just keep getting better.

Day 4:
-taught children the story of Noah's ark and did a craft

-worked in the project for awhile, then sat with the women

-played banya with the women and jumped rope with them

-bought a machette

-had a Kenyan tell us one of our men was strong like chuck norris

How can this get any better?

During the last few days:

-went to a Kenyan funeral

-went a real safari - twice

-got kissed by a grosssss giraffe!

-had my first market experience and almost had a nervous break down if it weren't for the help of james

-experienced the terror of Nairobi after dark

-ate 5 pieces of the best pizza i've ever had....in a kenyan gas station?

Headed home, sad sad day.

The children climbed up and down this

with 7 gallon jugs of water on their backs,

4 times a day......barefoot.

This means "small and beautiful".

It could be important later. :)