Youth Group & Julie's Wedding

We had our youth group rummage sale on Saturday and we raised $1650!! Very exciting! There is a group of ladies who worked for weeks to put this together and did an excellent job. Kory and I helped several of the teens paint the youth room upstairs while the rummage sale was going on downstairs. It looks great! I'm very impressed with the teen's work. I'll try to get some pictures up here soon to show off the paint job.

Here are a few more pictures from Julie's wedding:

She got her cake toppers custom-made of her, her husband, their dog and their mini-horse. They were SOO cute! That is his Fireman's number on his helmet and the dress was made to look like hers...such a great buy!

I also thought this was quite entertaining! This is what she did to my hair before she started fixing it for the wedding. That is some serious volume!

TCCC Events

Chris and his wife April started coming to church a few months ago. Their children came to VBS and that was how they got involved with Tri City Church of Christ. April committed her life to Christ two weeks ago. Kory was honored to baptize Chris this past Sunday. That was his first time to baptize anyone! He will be baptizing one of our youth group kids next Sunday, I believe. Lots of excitement around here for these two guys!

We only have about a week and a half until the 30 Hour Famine now. I'm excited for the event but a little bit nervous about going that long without food! We also begin the 40 days of water right after the Famine, so we'll be drinking nothing but water for 40 days. We'll donate the money we would have spent on cokes, coffee, juice, bottled water, etc. to build wells in Africa where they have no clean water.

We're also heading to Seattle for our high school Mission Trip at the end of March. I'm really excited for the trip! Seems like youth events are taking most of my free time lately. Last Sunday I taught HS class in the morning and led Refill (Bible study) that night.
I have really felt like an adult lately as I've been dealing with Retirement, Insurance, and Taxes! I am not really into the Olympics this year...I just want Biggest Loser and Modern Family and The Office to be back on at their regularly scheduled time.

Camera still hasn't been found, so I might need to just buy another one. Sad day. I really liked my old one.

Warm February Days! :)

I don't remember if I ever posted that I got the new position at my office! Hooray!! It took over a month, but everything finally fell into place and I started almost 2 weeks ago. I haven't been very good about blogging lately. I wanted to post some pictures of our Sweetheart Banquet that we held at church last weekend, but my camera went missing at that event. Hopefully it will show up soon!

We are doing a lot of fundraisers at work for the Governor's Food Drive. It's an annual event that state workers participate in to raise money and collect food for the less fortunate people in Oregon. One of the events we're currently doing in our office is a silent auction. My co-workers have bought in a ton of junk! It's unbelievable. They're all getting so excited about it too! Granted, there are a couple of nice items, but I'm just really perplexed by this whole line of thinking. Why is it exciting to get junk if you get it for cheap and the money goes to a good cause? I'm all for getting a good deal, but I am so opposed to storing up junk in my house that I'll never use.

I'll be returning to New Mexico in May for Julie's wedding and I'm really excited about that! I got my plane tickets today and will be in Artesia May 14-17. I wish I could stay longer but I won't be eligible to use my vacation pay until August 5, so I can only miss a couple days of work. I think this might be the last time I'm ever a bridesmaid. That makes me kind of sad because I really do love weddings and being a part of them. I guess all my friends who got married will start having babies soon though and that is fun too!

Financial Peace (Dave Ramsey class) is still going well. We're supposed to make a full budget this week, so I'll probably tackle that this weekend. I also need to do my taxes, prepare for Bible study and get everything together so I can teach the High School class this Sunday morning since Kory is preaching. AND I am in the process of trying to get my insurance stuff together since I get benefits with my new job. It's super confusing for me to try and figure out which plan I want to choose from...but I'm VERY grateful to finally have health insurance!