Mr. Mint and Friends

We dressed up. We decked out our trunk. We passed out candy to anyone who wanted to play the real life version of candyland.

I made a fool of myself; probably drove all nearby "trunkers" nuts with my completely ridiculous made up lumberjack accent.

In our costumes:
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Life size printouts to complement the game. Notice any familiar faces??


Princess Lolly and the Candy kid, and Mr. Mint too


Princess Lolly and a nearby cupcake!


Another trunk neighbor; the cowboy/cowgirl family. They brought live chickens for their theme!


Overall, we had a great time. Our church does an amazing job with events like this. Next year, I think we might just bring a camera instead of trunking it, and take pics/video. These are the only shots I got all night, and there were a lot more to be had...

Testimony

Sorry for the long post ahead.

This morning on my drive to work I was praying and reflecting on the things God did in church service last night. God moved in a lot of ways, and did a work in me as well. Key word: change. I believe God did more last night than we realize. On my drive in this morning, I stopped to get gas at the station I always do. Corner of Phoenix and I540; a busy station that always has the best prices, and a nice older woman runs it. I pre-paid with cash just as I always do. I fuelled my car, just as I always do. But today was different. As I was pumping gas, the spirit of God spoke to me that I needed to pray for her. I ignored it and convinced myself it was just my own mind thinking it and tried to think of other things. As I finished up and began to get in my car, it was too strong on the inside of me to ignore so I shut the car door and marched back into the gas station. Lady had a puzzled look on her face to see me again but I looked her in the eyes and said: I believe God wants me to pray for you. Is there anything you need prayer for? She told me she has back surgery scheduled for the 27th this month. So right there in the gas station with not a single other customer in sight, we bowed our heads and prayed. We prayed for healing, restoration, and the peace of God. We prayed for God's best and thanked Him for it.

She thanked me and cried.

I got in my car and cried.

God is doing a work in me. I don't have it all figured out. Not even close. But it is my heart to be used by God and to embrace all change that He has for me, and to do the things he has called me to do. I believe this is a very small step compared to what He has planned for me. But how can I be trusted in bigger things if I am not obedient in the small things? How can I listen and obey God when he tells me to do something that seems impossible if I cannot simply pray for someone that needs prayer?

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Growing Affectionate

Sheen and I encourage frequent hugs and cuddling in our home. We try to be intentional about showing love and voicing it too. It's especially fun right now because Jeremiah will typically repeat the "I love you" phrase even though he may not have the full understanding of it.

Another phrase we use often when hanging out or laying down is "cuddle me." Last night when laying J down to sleep, he leaned over and gave me a big kiss. A minute or two later he said "cuddle me". We use that phrase all the time, but I don't know if HE has has ever said it to me. :)

It was a beautiful night.

Shout Out to the Nichols!

Today I'd like to give a shout out to Matt and Myrna. As you can see in this picture, I am stalking them. Or maybe they are stalking me? Thanks to the Google Analytics code I installed in my blog, I am able to see some cool info on my blog visitors. One of the neat things is being able to see a map of where your visitors are coming from. I've had 24 visits from Texas in the last month, 9 if which from Dallas all represented by the orange dots. I can only assume at least few of these visits have come from these friends of mine. I love, support, and miss you guys! (click the image to see the coolness of this report)

Christmas / Xmas

To support the title of my previous post, please be enlightened that I did not take Christ out of Christmas. Thanks.

www.wikipedia.com

The word Christmas originated as a compound meaning "Christ's Mass". It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038.[3] "Cristes" is from Greek Christos and "mæsse" is from Latin missa. In Greek, the letter Χ (chi), is the first letter of Christ, and it, or the similar Roman letter X, has been used as an abbreviation for Christ since the mid-16th century.[8] Hence, Xmas is often used as an abbreviation for Christmas.

Mini Xmas

Today was dubbed a mini Christmas at work. This is a drawing done in Microsoft Paint by a friend, of a friend that has been listening to Christmas music. All. Day. Long.

My request for Holy Hip Hop was denied.

Question of the Day

Have you ever eaten bear?

A friend at work shot and killed a bear last Friday night. He said he thinks the meat tastes better than deer. I don't believe him. He promised to bring me a sample....

Ever had bear? I hear it's the new chicken..

Where's J: Part Deuce

Anyone else remember these days?


Pretty soon this little man is going to be a leader... what an awesome thought.

Sheen, where's J?

The other night when I was at the stove being engulfed in a cloud of delicious aroma, I called to my babe, asking where the j-ster was....

She found him right behind me.


He pulled her homemade zucchini bread from the counter, unwrapped it like a chipotle burrito, and went caveman on it.

Class of 2025

He's not even 2 years old yet, so don't sweat the title.

Just adore his profile, gentle smile, and pop star style, because he's only this age for a short while.

Twitter is Valuable

So, Twitter is a pretty amazing invention. If you have an iPhone, and you tweet, I would recommend the twitterfon app. At any given time you can click on the search icon where you can select the Get Trends icon.

Notice, I just clicked get trends and as of right this second, these are the things people are tweeting about in large amounts:

All of these are hot news topics. When you select one of them, you can read all puclic people's tweets on that subject. Or you can search. This is really useful if you are wanting to know more about something that just happened, say Lebron James signed with the T-Wolves, or maybe you want to know more about the event taking place downtown tonight. Just search with a word or two, like I did Vikings, and immediately you see recent news for that:


I won't be going to the Alma high school game tonight, but I bet there will be fans there tweeting about it. So I will just use twitterfon for my instant game news source!

Pomade

Two hair products sat in a wooden drawer,
And sorry I could not use both,
Being the pwny that I am, I stood to stare,
And tried to convince myself as much as I could,
To use the one without the play-er

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was greasy and wanted hair,
Though it did have an orange lid there,
Was not even remotely the same

I shall be telling this with a sigh,
Today and so forth hence,
Two hair products sat in a wooden drawer,
I took the one made from petrolleum,
And that has made all the difference

(I'm out of my regular hair gel so I tried this out today. I've had it for 6+ years and only use it when desperate. Ha!)

Labor Day Weekend

Did a lot of relaxing this weekend, my ideal way of spending Labor Day weekend. We were treated to Olive Garden and Starbux Friday night for Sheens bday. Awesome time! I went dove hunting Saturday morning but we got rained out. Hopefully I'll get to go again real soon.

Nate and Evan hosted a get-together for the holiday. We were able to get outside for a few minutes and harvest a squirrel! Leave it to Uncle Nate to teach J how to hunt...

Side note: I love to compete. So when my bro came outside and said "wanna show those guys up and get a squirrel?" (the other guys) I was delighted. Don't worry y'all, safety was priority.





Sheen and I made a raspberry cheesecake for the party. Looks better than it tasted because I haven't mastered the art of baking a cheesecake in a bath (it was our 1st one). Crust was soggy but the rest was dee-lish:





All in all, a wonderful weekend with family and friends. Now to kick some booty at work....

Scammy

Last night I received an email from a friend telling me about a website (www.shop-2009.com) that sells electronics for cheap. He even said he recently bought an iPhone 3GS, which was believable to me since he recently told me he was contemplating the purchase. The email had a scam-written tone to it, so before I went ahead to purchase anything, I did a quick google on the site. The results immediately confirmed my intuition, so I went to the site to live chat the "support" person.

This is the chat conversation that went down. Paula is the "sales rep" and I am the one with a Chinese name somehow? (click to read)


I wonder if Paula all of a sudden got too busy to write back?

5th Service

Last night, while my family and I were chilling at the house, my Arkansan bro and his wife were in MN at LWCC's 5th Service. Nate had the mic for the first half of the service, Jim had the second half.

Thanks to the Internet, we experienced 5th Service live in our living room last night. I have a HDMI cable running from the A/V station to the TV, which allowed us to watch it on the big screen.

It was awesome.

I expect to attend 5th Service more often; in my living room of course.

I understand some of my fellow Arkys watched last night too??

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