eating mac and cheese while sitting on the mizzen boom...

On the road...

My first trip was to the library. (gotta start small for my parents sake) At 8:45. With Erin and Michael. Twas very fun. =)


EEEP!

39 kt winds?

Oh yes. Fortunately though, that was only a gust. The wind stayed constant at about 25-30 kts the whole time we were out. It was a little more wind than we've ever had before. Make that a lot more wind. But, it was a good experience. And we are learning to trust our boat, which is also good.

and hehe.... life is awesome. and fun. and full of spontaneity and surprises.


PEACE!
and
LOVE!
and
JESUS!

~Christine

ohmy!!

Today was awesome.

Went SHOPPING for fabric with Erin, Katie and Kristen. And we were crazy. We walked down to Peir 1 to try on some masks. So that was fun too.

THEN. We took lots of fun pictures on the computer. Using photobooth =)

AND!! I SAW BRITTANY AT THE ROBIN MARK CONCERT!!!

which was, by the way...
One word:
AMAZING.
and
UPLIFTING. (I guess that's two.)

God was there with us tonight, and it was spectacular.
I'm so, so blessed by:
My God who is small enough to hear my every cry, and catch my every tear.
My friends and family who are bold enough to lift their hands and voices and hearts in praise and adoration of the God of the universe.
and the love I'm given. From God, from my family, and from my friends.

I love you guys to death.

bahamalamamama

yeah.
We went tubing today. My mom, sister, brother, and I went tubing.
and Michael and I got a little crazy....
including, but not limited to:

zoos
shotguns
tanks
killing little children (we really thought they were monkeys)
harpooning seals
great white sharks
Davy Jones' Locker
Bahamalamamamas

yes. true story. we have many crazy ideas... and it's always lots of fun.

PEACE! and LOVE!
~Christine

yay!!!

Totally spontaneous... we went sailing this evening. Lots of fun... cept for when we had to pull our 14ft boat thru seaweed. But we had a good time. =)

Sailing!

We are all having a grand time so far on our trip....
I'll be updating periodically here ... so go check it out!


Cheers!

Rollerblading!

This evening, Erin and I biked and roller-bladed to the library to get a movie.
Erin biked, and I roller-bladed.
But then I got tired. And got towed. I held on to the bottom of Erin's bike seat, and she pulled me along. We got lots of weird looks from people. It was awesome. =)

We watched Sense & Sensibility... cute movie, but not one of my favorites.

I'm getting up at 6:30-7 ish tomorrow to go biking. And that time was changed from 6. =P

Cheers!
Christine

So, this weekend we had my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary party.

Lots of good food.
Lots of fun people.
Lots of fun memories.

=)

umm... no school?

no school
no stress
no (more) rain :P
no sister.... kidding, kidding.... =P, <3 ya dearie!


and

today was fun
my life is awesome
my friends are great
we are leaving to go sailing tomorrow!!

yippeeee!!


Cheers!

lots of random things...

We had music practice tonight for next Sunday... twas fun.

and

a fun surprise... arriving home to see a friend in our driveway... unexpectedly, but fun nonetheless.

and

I'm going shopping tomorrow!!

and

I found my favorite pair of socks. They're black, with hot pink heels and toes, and have rainbow peace signs on them. Yay!!

Cheers!

Christine

Happy Day :)

Today was so much fun.

~seeing everybody at church this morning

~Katie's face, when she saw me. =) (LLOL)

~praising God with two of my bestest friends.

~taking a walk with Mom and Taz

~getting a really really cute necklace and earrings from my grandmother.

~planning fun stuff for this week!

~realizing that, in a week from Wednesday, we are headed down to NC!!!!

Night y'all!

Christine

Confirmation & Cookout

Yesterday evening was our Confirmation. Had lots of fun hanging out before the ceremony with Paulina, Cat and Nate. Afterwards, a bunch of friends came over for a cookout. But, it was really, really, windy, so we mostly stayed inside.

The two highlights of the evening, for me, was

eating cookie dough


and playing CatchPhrase... I was laughing so hard... Oh my. It was awesome.

Love to y'all!
Christine

yay.

I love this weather. Yesterday... was funn.

I went canoeing with Michael and mom and Taz... and Michael and I dropped mom and Taz off at an island... then he jumped off... proceeded to splash me... until I got it too. (we were both in our clothes, well, he had taken his shirt off, then I threw it in the water, then at him. =P) It was realllllly nice. We had been all hot and sweaty from working outside all day... So we swam around... had a mud fight... and then, instead of getting the inside of the car all wet, cuz we both were dripping... we decided to walk home. Barefoot. It was awesome. =)

fun fun fun...

So, so, so...

My grandmother came down today, and we went SHOPPING!!! yayayay!!

and I got lotsa fun, summer-y stuff! and I have some pics for y'all! So,
we went to DEB, and I tried on two gorgeous dresses, but I didn't get
them, only took pictures.

And And - I got three adorable skirts. and I have pictures!!!

Cheerio!
Christine

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Family time...

(This is for yesterday. Today is not over yet, so I shall post later this evening in regards to today)

So, after Katie left... Erin and I watched The Pink Panther. In our slightly sleep-deprived stage, we found the movie hilarious.

Then, we all (well, not my brother, he was at scout camp) went to Panera's(the new one that just recently opened in Beards Hill).

YUM YUM YUM!!

Cheers!

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Happiness is...

a blue sky
warm sun
good food (read: pasta!)
awesome music (Francesca Battistelli )
healing friendships
time with God
time with friends
time with family
cute puppies
a clean room (finally!)
good books
long walks
... and fun plans for the rest of the week!

Cheerio!
Love in Him,
Christine

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skirt!

I bought this really pretty fabric at JoAnns a few months ago (on sale!)

I was planning on making a dress

but

I'm making a skirt instead. I'm kinda half-way done...I still need to get to JoAnns to buy an underskirt fabric and trim...


A close up of the fabric


The underskirt will be of a contrasting color, and I'm looking to get satin trim to match the underskirt.

I'm also playing RISK w/ Michael
I also love fun emails and straight hair...LOL

EDIT: HCC is closed tomorrow....I'm going to the mall....WAHOOOOO!! (can you tell I can't wait to get out of the house?)

Cheers!
Christine

SNOW!!!

Most of you know that we have a side porch and steps on our house, right?

Well, with almost 2 ft of snow on those steps...

Michael and I made a ramp.

down the steps.

it was crazy.

The only thing we had to worry about was not smashing into the concrete wall, but it was easy to bail out before we hit it. =)

We also had a massive snowball fight. See, when the snowplows come and plow our street, they leave these huge piles of snow.
and it is semi-frozen.
semi-frozen chunks of snow = huge, awesome snowballs.

Lots of fun!

Cheers!
Christine

Customer Service and Grocery Shopping

Two especially funny things today.

1) Our Rosetta Stone was not working so my mom called customer service.

*Background Info - we have a huge joke about people in Customer Service...that they don't know what the are doing, and that, the majority of the time, they don't even live in the US(My grandfather says it's "Customer Circus").*

Anyways, so my mom was calling them, and it's a long story, but first there was this guy speaking Portuguese, and I was laughing so hard that I was crying, and mom couldn't hardly spell her name.

I guess it's kinda like you had to be there to really think it was funny. I'm weird like that.

2)So, we were doing one of those self-checkout things at the grocery store.
And, it kept blinking and telling my dad"The Bagging area is full. Please bag your items" over and over and over again.

It was hilarious. Everyone was staring. HAHA (Another one of those, you-have-to-be-there-to-really-get-type things)

It's a good thing I had those funny moments today - I feel awful right now. My shoulders are screaming and my knees and back and aching. Swimming is rough.

Cheers!
Christine