Protected: Send me mail people!

Posted on June 5, 2010
Filed Under Camp Kumbaya | Enter your password to view comments

Great beginning to a busy summer

Posted on May 31, 2010
Filed Under Camp Kumbaya, Emily, Family, Lane, Rachel, Rebecca, Road Trip!, Siblings | 1 Comment

I loved everything about this weekend. It may have been one of the best in a while.

My brother came into town on Wednesday with his fiance. Funny thing was he rode on the same flight as best friend Lane. Lane and her boyfriend were visiting San Diego and apparently were leaving the same day as Tim.  On Thursday, our church hosted a bridal shower from them. I believe I ate 3 plates worth of food. My minister like to pick on me with my eating habits so he was definitely entertained.  Emily (my sister) and I were in charge of writing down the presents and keeping them organized. In half of the pictures that were taken, Emily and I are peering over the couch at Tim and Candace. Kinda creepy.  Anyway, they mostly received gift cards and recipes (that’s what that asked for) with the exception of a few baking supplies because Candace has a mad sweet tooth. When we got home, we are all talking in the kitchen and Candace told us that she couldn’t wait to have sisters. I can’t wait until you are my sister either Candace

I was supposed to work Friday night but due to lack of traffic one of my managers called me and told me I wasn’t going to be needed. Since I had the night open, I asked Emily if she wanted to do something. We ended up going to Los Garcia which is always an excellent choice. We shared a pitcher of margaritas and the owner ended up giving us another margarita on the house. Needless to say, I didn’t finish mine. Afterwards, we went over to her apartment so she could show me her new “Telephone” dance that she was going to be teaching to a group of people the next day. That led to reenacting our zombie dance (both of us are tipsy, mind you) in the kitchen. My neck has been extremely sore all weekend! Eventually we whipped out the dance company tapes and watched a few of our favorite pieces.

Timothy and Candace had another wedding shower planned in Hopkinsville on Saturday evening. I decided since I hadn’t seen one of my best friends Rebecca (she lives in Crofton with her son) in about a year, that I should get lunch with her and catch up. We ended up going to El Bracero, yes another Mexican restaurant. She let me know that her and Calvin (her son’s father) have decided to be together (for those who don’t know, they have been on and off for about 6 years and it has been extremely hard on Rebecca). It was really nice to be able to see her happy with him since they have had so many ups and downs. She had to run a few errands so I decided to tag along so I could spend as much time with her as I could. Eventually, she had to go to another party so we said our goodbyes ad I went on to the bridal shower. It took me a while to find the right road but then I realized it was about half a mile from where I used to live. There were a lot of older people there and I hate doing the fake happy conversations with people I barely know.The old west area minister was there and since he used to be my boss when I worked at camp, I spent a lot of time talking to him. My sister also sat with us because she is the same way. We spent most of the time talking about how gorgeous this house was and what items we wanted to take. Emily wanted to take a wooden duck and I wanted to take a ladder on wheels for the book case. Don’t worry, we didn’t take anything Most of the presents they got were very sentimental to Candace and she cried about 3 times. It was mostly poems and recipes from deceased relatives that got her so emotional. My brother was cute though because he would hold her hand and continue reading where she left off. After a few hours of talking, eating, and opening presents, it was finally time to leave. As soon as my sister and I got home, we played some board games on the Wii (so much fun). Let’s see, I think it had Boggle (my new favorite), Battleship, Sorry, and a few others.

Yesterday morning, I met up with my friend Adam at church before our worship service began. Adam is a good friend of mine from church camp and I’ve known him forever. He sings and plays his guitar at our early service every Sunday. This year, Adam is counseling high school church camp and we actually were paired up together to lead a small group. So anyway, we went over a few ideas that we have for next week’s camp. I am so happy to be partnered with someone who is going to help me lead instead of the nightmare of a partner that I had last year. Once we had a game plan, it was time for the late service. Mom came along so she could do a few measurements of the sanctuary for Tim’s wedding. It was such a great service because we sang some of my old favorites like “The Old Rugged Cross”,  “Here I am”, and “Mine Eyes have Seen the Glory”. At one point, I looked over at my mom and she was bawling. I don’t blame her because “The Old Rugged Cross” was her dad’s favorite song (he died when she was 15), “Here I Am” was the song that my brother loved when he was recovering from cancer, and “Mine Eyes have Seen the Glory” was a song her mother loved (She died 2 years ago.). After church, I got a call from Lane saying that her and Darby were in town so I went over to her parent’s house. We ended up playing with all the guard equipment in my car. Darby tried to learn but I think he wasn’t into the whole guard thing. Afterwards, we went to Parkers to get some milkshakes which lead to an hour long nap in her parent’s living room. As soon as I woke up, I realized I was supposed to be at my parent’s house for a barbeque. Lane still hadn’t seen our dance company show so she rode in a different car over to my house. We watched a few of my favorite pieces and then she had to leave since we were beginning dinner and she had to go to her own dinner.

This week will be much more mellow with only a few guard practices, SATC night with Rachel, and working only 2 days this week. Next week, I am going to be at KBY!