Absolutely Absurd Alliterations and HSM3 and CHRISTMAS MUSIC

So I was sitting at Fuddrucker's Sunday night eating dinner with a few of the coolest Middle Schoolers I know and we started talking about alliterations. Apparently my 6th graders are learning about them in school. On of them said that his teacher was dancing around to one she made up "Billy's booty bumps Betty." The kids laughed and then I challenged them to make up a longer sentence that began the same way. This is what they ended up with, "Billy's booty bumped Betty because Bobby's bicycle bumper bounced between Beck and Bo." Not bad...

The next challenge was an alliteration with the letter "P"

"Petunia's pencils poked Paul's pickled pretzels while Peter prestigiously piled pretty pink pigs."

That one doesn't quite make as much sense but I got a kick out of listening to them make it up.

I am enjoying my last few weeks in Belton. It has been such a joy to spend time with the teens. It will be hard not to see them on a regular basis.

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I went and saw High School Musical 3 with three of the Middle School girls on Saturday. If you know me at all you know that when it comes to TV and Movies I have the same taste as a teenage girl. I love cheesy movies, sappy movies, and made for TV movies so when HSM3 came out I was totally pumped. I thought it was a great movie. Loved the music, the dancing and of course the love story. I recommend it to any of those who find your taste identifying with mine.

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All I will say about Christmas music is that it is time to get in the holiday spirit and that means a little bit of decking the halls and jingling bells. :o)

Seriously!

Ok so for the third year in a row my face is the advertisement for the ACU Graduation fair BUT I finally got to see the poster hanging in the campus center. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a little picture. So here it is for the first time... Me and Me...

Watch out Sarah Palin

A few highlights from vacation. It was great! I love the last picture. I was born to be on Capitol Hill!


















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Metro Mission Update

Hey everyone. I am here in Houston with the best group of 6th-9th graders in the world and while we are missing home we are doing some great things for the church here in Alvin.

Monday we spent the morning at a Retirement Center. We sang lots of songs and met some really sweet men and women. In the after noon we took turns painting and working outside around the church building pulling weeds and such.

Tuesday (Yesterday) we had a FREE carwash. We got rained on a little bit but we successfully washed the cars of the brave residents of Alvin, Texas. We also painted in shifts yesterday.

Today we are painting and cleaning. You didn't know we had such artist in our group did you? The painting we are working on is a mural the length of the children's hallway. The walls walk through the story of the old testament from Adam and Eve to Jonah and most stuff in between. There is also a "Jesus Wall" that is snapshots of the life of Christ, the highlights if you will.

The pictures you are going to see are just a few of the things we are doing. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to put up pictures of met goals.

Our kids are doing great and we are pumped about a great day today.

WEATHER UPDATE FOR OUR PARENTS: Hurricane Dolly is way south of us. We are watching the doppler closely and if we are in danger we will come home and call you on our way, however right now we are fine and the forecast here is simply rain. We have let the kids know that it is going to rain and maybe pretty hard but we are safe. They also know they can ask us if they need to call home and to tell us if they are scared. I assure you your children are in good hands and we will keep you posted. If you need to call you have our numbers.

Two weeks and counting

So this summer I have the unique opportunity of directing the camp i grew up going to. I would have never thought in a million years I would inherit this amazing job but I am so blessed to have the opportunity to do it.

It is a lot of work and as the days count down and camp gets closer I am finding there is more and more to do. It's great to get to work with a team like I have. All the youth ministers and preachers in the area as well as some amazing members of our churches and some old friends. It's great!

I am excited but really busy so this post is mostly to solicit your prayers as this next month promises great things. Thank you for praying for me and the staff of Camp Koinonia and I'll keep you posted!

Yeah...Yeah..

It's been a while. I know. I'm not apologizing. It's crazy busy. I hope everyone is doing ok. We are gearing up for the summer here in Belton. It's gonna be great and filled with great things to do but more importantly great ministry opportunities. I am really pumped about it.

Tonight is Belton High School Graduation and Saturday is Temple High School Graduation. I am really excited for our kids who are finishing High School at 8 pm tonight (which is pretty late). Maybe I'm old but I hope I can stay up all the way through Wardell. I think thats the last one I know.

Anyway. here are a few pictures of some of our graduates. enjoy and have a great evening.

Easter Weekend

Here are some pictures from the weekend...

This is Val eating a chocolate thing with wine inside...she says it was good but this face says otherwise

Ava...

This was a Free Matthew West concert at Chick-fil-a in Pearland
Brantley...

I love this picture for a few reasons.... April and Ava are precious but Dad in Hilarious in the background...
Matthew is a pretty funny guy...

He's married ladies!
I was messing around with the effects on my new computer
It was as awkward as it looks...
Easter Egg hunting



This is my favorite one of the two of them...

I love how full his mouth is.


In our Easter dresses

I will post now Jonathan Paul!

So life has been kind of busy. I finally have an intern and it has been amazing this last week and a half how much help she is. Just being able to delegate some things out has relieved me quite a bit. Currently the projects going on here at the Belton Church of Christ consist of Retreats-one for high school and one for middle school (that the one Sharon is doing!), the every present Sunday morning and Wednesday night classes, and of course camp! Camp is a lot of fun but it is a lot of work.


In the meantime here are some pictures from Sing Song back in February and From the FOG's (Fellowship Of God - the singles group) Murder Mystery Dinner.



I call this one..."What is church like?"



Murder Mystery Dinner