I'm baaaacck!! :)

It has been quite a long time since I have posted here, but at the urging of different people, and since it's the beginning of the school year, I thought it'd be a good time to start. =)

The first day of classes was pretty good. I think this semester might not kill me. This is good.
The mime/Bible Force stuff for the kids at Refuel tonight was awesome. I made a new friend, who is absolutely adorable. (and 14 months old =) )

So excited for the Robin Mark concert on Friday... but very sad that a certain person will not be there. :( But, seeing as this is an Optimism thing, I shan't dwell on that too long.

~Christine

muusicc!!!

EEEEP!!!!

We played in church this morning for the school mass = fun.

THEN.

This evening we played at the youth kick-off/ rally for St. Stephens = AMAZINGLY AWESOME.
It was such a great night. We had a sound guy who kinda set all the technical stuff up for us, and we were all really, really loud and it was so much fun!

I wanna do this stuff forever. It is so amazing to be able to lead people in worship of Jesus. It's an incredible blessing that I'm able to be in a band like this. LOVE LOVE LOVE!!


Cheers!

lots of fun today...

and yesterday. Andee came over... and we walked the Lafayette trail... and talked. and talked.

today, Daniela came over. We are learning Spanish. We had a really fun time; laughed so much.

we had music practice for the 21st today... and Pat was there! and he played electric guitar.
yay! It's always lots of fun to have everything turned wayyyy up and just jam. and not have to worry about being too loud for anyone. =)

going up to PA tomorrow...
then...

MISSION SERVICES!!!
and
BLACK AND WHITE PARTY!!!

so stoked.

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.

guitar...

I'm teaching (with help from my mom) myself to play guitar. It's lots of fun. =)

Also,

I went driving tonight during mime. 8 hours to go!!!

Peace!
Christine

CYMA OUTREACH!!!

Part one was today.
and it was spectacular.

All the kids were amazing. and it was great!

And I got to hang with some awesome people... and see some awesome presentations... and sing some awesome songs... and worship an Awesome God.

and I had freeze pops. and wore a very fun skirt. and I'm, like, deliriously happy/hyper right now (12 hrs sleep)!!

and I only need 13 more hours of driving for my license... yay?

and more awesome stuff for tomorrow(church, outreach part two, RISK, etc.)

smile :)

several things made me smile today:

sleep
friends
movies
spontaneity :)
friends
RISK
potatoes
rain
cool weather
friends
Chrysalis!
music
CT. :P
....
and...
....

CYMA!!!!! YAY!!! I get to see all my favorite people all week long!! and... CYMA is awesome. In case you couldn't tell. like, THE best week of the summer kind of awesome. =)

Cheers!

Hello Seattle (Remix)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-15Pe1f3UI


This was our theme song, if you will, at our mission trip. Chapel every night began with everyone fist pumping and dancing to this song.

Puts a smile on my face, and brings back so many memories. <3

I'm not going to be home 'til July!!

well, not really.

See, I'm leaving tomorrow afternoon to go backpacking... arriving home in time for...

Lindsey and Hannah and Jonathan and Katie... and we are all going to the...

Silent Witness in Concert... which will be preceded by a fun afternoon, and lots of pictures!

Saturday will find me frantically packing for...

Sunday; another mime performance and immediately following, we will be leaving for...

North Carolina! We are bringing our boat up to the Chesapeake Bay. Barely arriving home in time for...

Altoona... playing at a mass up there (4hrs away(at a baseball stadium)), sooo excited, but we can't stay for the baseball ball game, because at 5:30 the next morning, I leave for...

South Carolina, for a week long mission trip. This is going to be AWESOME!! I LOVE the people I'm going with... we're gonna have a great week...

Arriving home on the 3rd of July!

I'm STOKED for all of my adventures this month... and looking forward to being able to hang out/ catch up with my friends in July! =)

Cheers!
Christine

PS- this weekend was pretty fantastic too.

ummm...

the bike ride this morning was not fun. it hurts. everything hurts. I hadn't been on a serious bike ride for about a year and a half, because of my knees. So, 20 miles wasn't really fun. =\

Happy thing - I have a new favorite song. My Wish- Rascal Flatts. The 8th grade SJA class did this song for their graduation today... I like it very muchly. =)

Fun plans for this weekend too! =)

Cheers!
Christine

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

Just Dance! lol

Okay, so this part is gonna be for yesterday...

I went to Nicole's birthday party... she rented her school gym, and had a DJ. It was AWESOME!!!! My feet were soo sore from dancing afterwards. We started dancing at like 6:30... and danced until my dad picked us up at 10. It was soo much fun!!!

And today... I went to Mt. Zion, and saw all my awesome friends!!! And then Blake and Mitch and Michael and I hung out and then Erin got home and we taught (ish) Blake how to play Pinochle and we walked down to the park.


FUN FUN FUN!!! and I <3 music!!

Last night....!!!!!!

Swing was fun!!!! Lots of fun!!!

... and if you were there... and saw an abundance of purple lights... Katie and I helped David set them up. =)

I saw lots of fun people (I was gonna try and make a list, but there are too many of you guys <3 )... got to talk with most of them too!!! And met some of Katie's awesome friends from school!!

Right now, my brother and I are home alone for the day, so we have the music realllllly loud =P

Cheers!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!

I LOVE this weather!!!

and

I LOVE my friends

and

I LOVE music

and

I LOVE making fun plans.

hi y'all =)

Today was fun, in a surprising sort of way. I hadn't planned on doing much, but my day was quite filled with unplanned fun stuff.

This morning, Nate and I were doing music for the kids at the thing at our church, and the dvd player short-circuited or something, and it wouldn't play. SO, Nate and I got up on stage and improvised. We had to do some type of easy song with hand motions so we sang 'Lord I Lift Your Name On High'. We had a blast! The kids kept wanting us to do it faster and faster, so it was quite amusing.

And, Blake stopped by at church today. Funny how it always happens when we go to the early service, but I went again (can't hurt, right?) and we had a fun time hanging out and stuff.

And and... I <3 emails... specially those that make you really happy!

And and and... I'm writing a letter to Hannah. HI HANNAH!!! I haven't seen her in forEVER!!!

And and and and... my life is just sooo great right now. It's totally everything I want it to be!

Love you all!
Christine

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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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It's been a week...

exactly since I last posted. I can offer no excuse, except for the fact that I've been busy. But it's been an incredible, awesome, smilely, effervescent week.

Tuesday
was class at HCC. fun. After swimming, I can home to find a friend whom I had not seen in a while. She and her mom came down from PA for a meeting my mom was hosting. And fun emails.

Wednesday
Swim practice was a blast. We were on our taper, and it was just SO much fun. It was probably one of my favorite practices. =)

Thursday
went shopping with my mom. and got a soft pretzel and an icee! Also, I practiced parallel parking. It was my very last swim practice. :sob: I'm gonna miss those kids. hehe... Also, we found out at that practice that TK listened to Cascada before he swam. lol.

Friday
... I was going crazy. Had waaaayyy too much energy. One look at me would show you that. I had my hair is two messy buns on the top of my head, and had big hot pink earrings in. It was sweet! Also, Friday night was a shave-down night.
hehe.

Saturday
Wake up at 5:30. SWIM MEET!!!!! Had soooooooooooooooo much fun. Went back to the hotel to chill. Mom and I watched Get Smart. THE funniest movie. Then went to The Olive Garden, and went and cheered on everyone at finals. More fun than I can express in words.

Sunday
Repeat saturday. x 100. yeah. that much fun. We got home and I had more fun and then we went to the Celtic Concert..... and I saw Katie and Andee and Blake and Livi and Colin and Mark and Andrea and Sarah and had fun. and was blessed. and was super happy. and ecstatic. and
effervescent. =)))))))))

Monday(Today)
Got an invitation to a wedding today. Talked on the phone with Katie for about an hour and a half. =) and I'm still sooo happy. And I <3 fun emails. and I bought about 10 new songs on iTunes today. yay!

Cheers!
Christine

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Cards... =)

So, today after class, we played cards. Like, Hearts and Pinochle(that was reeaally hard to explain =P) and other games too. We had a good time, just hanging out and joking around and talking and stuff.

AND...I listened to 'More Beautiful You' like, 15 times today. LOVE LOVE LOVE that song.

Going to swing Friday night, and Andee's play Saturday night...anyone else?

Cheers!
Christine

Casting Crowns and Kutless concert!!!

It was sooo awesome! They both did an incredible job, and had a great combination of rocking upbeat songs, and (slightly) slower, really powerful, moving songs.

I'm posting this today for yesterday, cause we didn't get back to Katie's house until 11:40 (after much fun in the car with gps and noons and evenings..lol) and pretty much(hehe) went right to bed.

Anyways, had a great time with all of my indescribably awesome friends!

<3 LoVe YoU fOrEvEr AnD aLwAyS. <3

Cheers!
Christine

stuff

Sorry, I didn't post yesterday...puppies keep you veeerrrryy busy!

Yesterday, my dad and I went to the church to practice some music with another guy for church on Sunday. =)

and

it SNOWED!!! and snowed and snowed and snowed and snowed....

and

Even though I didn't get to bed until 2am last night...I slept until 1pm!!! yay!


Hopefully, I'll post later...but, in the meantime...you can look at puppy pictures!

Cheers!
Christine