many pictures :)

so first of all i would like you to know that i'm still alive and haven't completley disappeared off of the face of this green earth. well, perhaps we should call it brown... it's missing the green which was rather disappointing on this first day of spring. but ah, well, you'll have that. so i have a lot a lot of pictures to share because this bloggy hasn't been working right. so i have a lot more pictures to go along with these... but it's slower than moses, so this is what you get for now. hope you likes!! have a great night! :)

SPRING BREAK
i started off my break with a visit to my cousin annie. it was a blast... we ate rice chow for dinner and then went to a heavy metal show. this band was amazing... they're called "Take Sides" and they're ska and metal combined. i am a massive ska fan and i LOVED the trumpet and saxophone. i wish i could be in a ska band!! :)

here's annie and me in her car!

sunday nght was awesome. i was home and i got to help jonathan lead worship at youth group... and the coolest thing ever was that caleb was playing drums for the first time at church that night. so it was all three of us!! never has that happened before! it was awesome. i love my brothers!!!

after church i went to maggie's house and we hung out for a while. it was so good to see her and catch up... it's been way too long. i only wish we could have had more time! but someday soon we shall see each other again! :)

tuesday night mom planned an awesome surprise for us... she invited the jacob's over for dinner. it was so much fun hanging out with them!! sorry mom for all the anticipation crud we put you through. it really was an awesome time. i'll never forget it!!! and she made my favorite soup... chicken broccoli cheese!! yum!!!

one night mom and me and caleb went roller skating for fun. it was a blast. caleb even requested a toby mac song and they played it... last song of the night. that was sweet!




friday morning jobo took me out for breakfast at i-hop. it was so yummy. and we had a great time chatting it up. i can't wait for him to be at olivet with me next year. i miss him so much all the time!!! i love my brother!!



on the last weekend of break, our family journeyed with the quizzers to indianapolis. nicole and i had a blast. we went to barnes and noble, starbucks, and explored indianapolis. here's some of my favorite shots of the two of us...

this book was DISGUSTING!!! if you ever get a chance to read it... DON'T!!!

now this one wasnt' too shabby. "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus!" Ha ha!

this is of nicole and i on saturday morning... we went to circle center mall to be goofy and try on dresses and whatnot, but it was closed. so we took this picture, walked around for forever, and then went and got starbucks across the street. it was nummy lucious!!

our quiz team won indi!!! this is a photo of the seniors at the invitational. i missed our team photo time. whoops!!

after indi, nicole and jonathan caleb and i were gonna go to a newsboys concert in ft.wayne, but it was sold out... so we hung out, ate chinese and then hooked back up with the quizzers in decater by the side of the road. this is the boys in the back seat shooting themselves with the camera. they'r goofy!! on sunday, my birthday, i woke up really sick... a fever of 102.2. this is nicole dancing around the living room with a broom to the spooky song caleb "wrote expecially for me on my birthday" ha!! check out her face!!! dude... now, that's intense!!!

THE WEEKEND PAST

so this weekend was really awesome. it started out on friday when carolyn and rachel took me to my very first rebecca st. james concert. it was soo amazing! i LOVE rebecca st. james. someday i'm going to meet her. :)

barlow girl and jadon lavik opened for rebeccas st. james. they were awesome!! i am especially inspired by the drummer of barlow girl. wow... she is intense!! :) in these pics barlow girl is above and jadon lavik is below.

so here i am with carolyn and rachel at the concert. sweet pic, huh?

then, saturday morning... we all got up super early and went malling... me, allison, rachel, jessica (allison's beautiful married sister who is such a woman because she bough a house and they almost have a refrigerator!!!), rhonda and ashley. it was great fun.

me and jessica sportin' the shades at target.

crazy seesters!!! :)

aren't we beautiful??? allison.rhonda.ashley.me/jessica.rachel :)

then, saturday i went to michigan with jordan. we met up with jake and jordan played a worship service with him for celebrate life up there. it was really kewl... and the coolest part was that nicole met us up there for the service. it was sooo good to hang out with the sister. :)

this is alli's little brother david. he's awesome. i just love him.

WILLOWCREEK

on sunday we went to willowcreek. it was SOO amazing. it was really fun to be there with david and oye... esp. david, he was so excited. as jordan put it, "he's geeking out over there!" ha! it was amazing!

riding in the van

i'm so glad oye and heidi came!

at willowcreek!

jordan is a pirate and keith has a mullet

all of us... david, oye, jordan, keith, allison, me, rachel, heidi

heidi wanted obe swung by the big kids. ha ha. she's funny!

great picture right there!

our wonderful gut driver david.

TODAY

these are from our goofiness tonight. ha ha. allison's almost as afraid of lightbulbs as i am of birds!!! and she has a wicked sweet fro if i do say so myself!!! and rachel is an amazing lazarus... sound effects and all!!! i just love my roommates!!! (AND WE MISS AMANDA MORE THAN THE OCEAN!!!)