After Christmas Dance Down!!

Yeah we pretty much rocked it tonight. This is after a few of us leaders had a party in the back. And Kevin and I just got done having a conversation about Striper.

Josh and I ate at Sadies today...

... This was the loudest table ever. The woman in the hat acted like she was 4 but she was really like 35. Everytime someone said something funny her laugh filled the entire room. She also found it necessary to yell her conversation a few times.

Christmas Morning

Mat Pirolo bought Josh and i some super good DVD's for Christmas. I am grateful, and excited to watch them. I won't lie though, i'm pretty sure he gave them to us because they're two of his favorite movies and he wants us to watch them with him. I'm okay with it.

We also......Ate lunch/ dinner at my house with Debbie Dunn, and than went to Joshua's grandma's house to hang out with the family. We played Apples to Apples with his Uncles and Aunts.

I was a pretty good Christmas I would say.

Christmas Eve

Ariel built her first fire tonight! WooHoo. Only problem was that we didn't make sure the vent was open, so none of the smoke went up. Just out....into our home. Ariel is outside on the patio in this picture, because it was very difficult to breath or see inside.

Joshua is fire fighter!! He inhaled all the smoke, becuase he was being a hero and trying to open the vent....while the fire was burning.

We ended up just pouring water on the fire to put it out.....

And while Ariel, Dillon and I were all huddled on the patio with our hot chocolate, Joshua was inside holding the fan to try and make the smoke escape sooner.

He is a good man.

Ty Pennington!

Yes that is the name on the bible. This man got bibles for the entire Extreme Makeover team! I love Ty.

Dwight Schrute just slapped in the head.

Christmas Party!

There were so many adults everywhere that all the "youth" (as we were continually called), huddled on one chair. Jesse and Bekah were right next to us, but my arm failed at being long enough to fit us all.

My little Graduate!

Isn't she beautiful?! Yes she is.

Winning House...

Joshua Denver and Tamara!
Thank You Mr. and Mrs. Pirolo!!

Even more legit

Uber Awesome!

The most legit gingerbread house building team ever. We will school mat chris and heidi.

Choir Recital

Last night Ashley, Alysia and I all went to the Choir recital at Desert Ridge MS to watch Daniella in her show choir performance. The blonde lady is Diane Anderson, im only pointing it out because Alysia had a freak out and made me promise to blog it. So uh.... there she is. Enjoy the back of her head.

Joshua is amazing!

Joshua came home early on Wednesday and surprised me with flowers and a letter, left in my car. It was really sweet. I love that boy so much.

Umm.... Gross?!

I'd say so.

A Much Needed Night!!

Tonight started off with just talking and soaking our feet in the hot tub. It ended with our entire bodies, clothes and all, in the water. I loved it. Great picture too huh???

I love him

This is my dog Jake. He is so cuddly! My face is fuzzy cause he's big, and i cant control him.

Convenient

How considerate of them, they made a peep hole for people Alysia's size, and one for people like Ashley.

Adventures!!!

We usually end up in places we aren't supposed to be. That is what makes it so fun!

Children cause Ariel to have anxiety.

She's such an honest big sister. About 3 seconds after this picture was taken, she turns to the kid and goes "i'm getting tired of you!" i don't think she was so excited when Ariel and I laughed at her for about 5 minutes.

Because she's Ariel

We're in the waiting room at Lovelace. The night is still young.

Glasses!

We are triplets.

This is what happens when I obey my mom.

I tried to swollow four chalky vitamins at once. This was the position i ended up in. Ariel has more details on her blog.

I got my nose pierced today!

The man was cleaning the inside of my nose with a q-tip. It tickled.

I love working with these girls!

Parchments has been loaded with good staff.

No Shave November

Why is there hair why is it here and who is it from?! Still a mystery to us. Obviously we started a hair cutting ministry or somethin.

Heidi and I both wore our shirts from Urban today.

For how observent Josh is. It took him a while notice.

Bringing back the Group One Crew to Parchments!

This gets us pumped!

Date with Heidi

After an eventful time at Urban Outfitters. We stopped at satelite for some child size hot chocolates. They were super good, accept my lid was defective and i kept dripping it down my scarf and making Heidi think I was just gross. We also went to Uptown and looked at furniture and decorations we wanted for our future homes. It was all around a really good time.

Poor kid crashed

He couldnt stay up late with the big kids. its only like twelve thirty.

Bostons

Vanessa took advantage of the pitcher on the table.

Dance Party in the Car

The boys are scouting out an area.

Checking Out.

Total comes to..... Alot. We didn't tooooo bad at budgeting.

Ding Dong Ditch!

We have seventh graders. And our family is a single mom and a three year old daughter. Hence the flowers.

Kevin defending himself about not checking my Twitter.

Oh gosh!

I held it i held it! Dillon comforted me during this time, while Joshua sent encouraging words, such as 'think of it like a cute rat with a chef hat.' i couldnt have done it without them.

I'm getting braver!

Im trying to warm up to the idea of this rodent living in my home. its already been like a month. So to start im trying to just pet it. But it still freaking me out a bit. Josh just told me to try and hold it. We'll see if I get brave enough.

I just had a serious freak out...

... I went to grab the computer mouse to show Dillon somethin. But i was rudely startled when his pet rat was there instead. Don't worry i didn't touch it. Thank the Lord.

November 3rd

That would be the date this milk expired. Can you see the chunks?!!

Candy Land!

I played Candy Land with Jenna today. I won the first two games. Thanks to Queen Frostine. she was the first card i picked up and moved me all the way to the end of the bored! I think I used all of my luck on that game though, cause next round i was so far and i pulled the stinky gum drop card which moved me all the way to the beginning again. you just never know what will happen next with this game.

I love when we get big displays!

The bigger the display the bigger the box! The bigger the box the more fun for Megan and Tamara!

Whats that noise?!

That noise is rap!!! and Ces proceeded to dance homie style for his nephews.

Gotta Love Parchments

Servy brought in a dart gun, and Ces of course went wild over it.

Finally Levi!

The two things I was excited most about for this night, was the Glorious Unseen, and watching Levi McCallister do his poetry. We were expecting him like maybe 8:45-9 ish. But he didn't, so then some guy said at 10 for sure he'd be on. That still didn't happen. Finally about 10:45 -11 he came on. And he was so awesome! He was really passionate, and poured out his heart and struggles and love with tons of strangers, to show them what Christ can do in your in life. I gained alot of respect for him. And he made me cry.

Brandon Scott

After hearing lots of not so good screaming, this guy Brandon Scott came on! And he was all acoustic!! He was really awesome too, and sang of simply Jesus's great love for us. It was super cool, check out his myspace or something!

Spirit Fingers!

So, I went to the "Glorious Unseen" show. I put " " because they weren't headlining it. But thats why I went. Anyways. There were alot of bands there, that sucked real bad. But this band, Falling Star, they were super legit. And loved Jesus alot. Plus I just really liked that this guy made all these "hardcore" kids do spirit fingers before he would sing.

This is how we make kids behave.

Sometimes it works.

Velocity Set Up

We try and make everything we do at Velocity fun! So, to make the banners not look so scrunchy we played tug-o-war!

Someone Missed the Memo

Excuse me ma'am. But uh in case you havent lived here the last week Obama man is now our president!