TO SAVE A LIFE MOVIE

I wanted to share with all of you this exciting new project Matthew and I are involved with in our church here in Great Falls. As many of you might know, Matthew and I are leaders for the youth group, and that is how we first heard about this project. Our church, Harvest Springs is putting on a city-wide event to show the movie To Save A Life. It is an amazing movie that focuses on issues that teens face today in school, family, and personal lives. This started off as just a movie night for our youth group and has turned into an exciting event to host the students of Great Falls at the Mansfield Theater in downtown for a free showing of this movie. This theater holds 1,700 people and we are also going to have an overflow area. This is all taking place May 12 at 7:00pm. That is only 14 days away! We have so much to do! I am asking for prayer. Please be in prayer for our church staff, for open hearts in the schools and community and for the volunteers that are helping. Also, that we can get things that need to be done finished quickly, and we remember God is in total control and this is for His glory. We are so excited about this and the major change that can come from this movie.

At the top of our blog you can watch a movie trailer. Enjoy!

Bake Sale

Last week the spouses of the 490th MS had a bake sale! It was so much fun. Some of us got together Tuesday night to bake and talk, and talk and bake. We had a great assortment of items, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, fudge toffee bars, cupcakes, one of the ladies even made cinnamon rolls from scratch the morning of! They were amazing; I can't wait to get the recipe. We made about $100.00 profit. We even had competition the day of with a breakfast burrito sale downstairs. The money we made goes toward welcome gifts for new families, baby gifts... It is the first bake sale I have ever organized and I am very happy with how it turned out. Last but not least I got to meet more of the guys in Matthew’s squadron, which is great because now I know who he is talking about when he tells me about his day. I can’t wait for our next one!

PS I totally forgot about my camera so I didn’t get any pictures, bummer!

Spring is in the Air... I am so ready

I am so unmotivated to do anything inside the house at all. It has been beautiful weather here in Great Falls and all I want to do is sit outside and read or work on the yard and get ready to garden. Friends tell me not to get to comfortable because there is always snow in May and June, but I say look at the glass half full and don’t worry about snow. I might add that we did have about eight inches just last week. Matthew and I got a new bistro table for our front porch on Saturday and I have to say I don’t see how I lived without it. I have been reading while Matthew does homework, sipping ice tea and watching the sun pass overhead. I even got my first slight sunburn of the season yesterday, it was 78 degrees out! This morning after a good workout at the gym Matthew and I sat and had coffee out on the deck (I had coffee Matthew had a smoothie) and watched as our neighborhood woke up. We also had four psychotic birds dive bomb us, Matthew got pecked in the ankle. Needless to say, bring on summer, swimming, running outside, long walks and afternoons at the dog park. I am ready!

The picture is one my grandpa took of the tulip festival in Washington. AMAZING BOPPA!

Romeo Update

I am happy to report that it turns out Romeo had a stick wedged between his back molars and across the roof of his mouth! Ouch! No wonder he wasn't eating. He is feeling much better now! YAY

Our Poor Puppy

Please be praying for our little Romeo. We think he has an infected tooth and we have to take him into the vet hopefully tomorrow. He cannot chew his food so we are feeding him Cali’s food or he is swallowing his own food whole. He is not acting like his normal self and we are very worries about our boy. I will give an update as soon as we know what is going on.

March

I had a quick but wonderful trip to Colorado this past week. My mom and I were totally consumed by wedding stuff and worked from sun up to sun down almost every day. My sister Sarah and her fiancé Austin are two of the busiest people I have seen in quite a while. Both of them are working, going to school, doing Army ROTC and planning a wedding! One of the first things my mom and I did was make a master wedding list, which is about three pages long on Google docs (which is amazing) so everyone could see it. Then we ran tons of supply errands for making center pieces, invitations, and general wedding decorations. I had so much fun, I love wedding planning! It is crazy to think that it has almost been two years since my own wedding.

I did get to do some fun non wedding stuff while I was there. I was able to have dinner with my in-laws, go to church at Foothills, eat at my favorite restaurants that we don’t have in Great Falls (Chick-Fil-A, Qdoba, Tokyo Jo’s), work out with my parents (yes, this is one of my favorite things), go on a fantastic date day with Laura, and go out with just a couple of friends who were in town. Unfortunately, I also had to pay a visit to our mechanic and get the Olds fixed again, and get new plates and registration. All in all I think it was a very productive trip and I can’t wait to go out again in May!

Test Post

Hey! This is a test post for my mom for her new cell phone! YAY!