Skull Church Babie!

Soooo…. I’ve been out of the Blogging world for a while now. I feel like I’m just really not that interesting… but the mood struck me today. I figured that I would start out a blog with some sweet pics from Skull Church.
The thing about Skull Church is that I’m totally stoked about what the Lord is doing in the Flathead Valley through Fresh Life. I have been serving in the nursery every other Wednesday for about ohh… 10 months and I can recall nights when Alyson and I only had 1, 2, or 0 babies in it… the one baby nights were pretty interesting. Pretty much all the babies were pastor’s babies also. Now all we have 5 people and a security guard every Wed and about 30 kids! It’s TOTALLY CRAZY I am so blessed and thankful to be a part of over 40 people being saved at Skull Church. Enjoy!

Maui hotel

Ka'ahanapali Shores hotel in Maui. This is our room just a real quick viedo. We discovered that a family in San Fransisco actualy owns it and the hotel rents is out kinda like a time share thing. Ill post some more viedos later on. Wish you were here....Vicki

Shawn McDonald

Last Night I had the pleasure of attending a wonderful concert by a super awesome performer named Shawn McDonald. Alyson and I have had his "Take My Hand" song as our friendship theme song since last summer (We like to shoulder dance in the car to it). So hers a video from the concert.

So after the concert which was ROASTING BTW! I convinced the lovely ladies I went with to stay afterward to try to meet Mr. McDonald. About 10 min later we decided that ice cream sounded better. Rischelle and I needed to use the ladies room, as we entered the hall we discovered Mr. McDonald. He is a super nice humble man and he agreed to take a picture with us. Notice the close proximity of me to him! OOOPPPS!

Meet the Hartmans

These are my good friends Garren and Jayne Hartman. They are some of the coolest people that I know just look at the matching shirts. A couple weeks ago they wore these shirts to church on Sunday and I didn't get the chance to take a picture to blog about it. Alas my blogging dreams came true this evening at Veritas. That's why you should come to Veritas you never know what epic shirts you ll miss, oh, and Josh has some pretty good teachings too.

Ahh man I just realized you can see me in the window I'm wearing a bright yellow shirt. It is only because I washed the windows they were REALLY narley.

ZUNE

Alright enough is enough already. I have come out of my blog retirement to make a special blog about my Zune. Yesterday I went to work and arrived home to find my friend Ryan Becker (who has recently purchased an ipod touch and we've been feuding since Christmas about Zune vs. ipod) had left me a message with a link attached. I clicked and discovered that my Zune was probably broken. Apparently Microsoft told the Zunes that it was not a leap year and it should be 2009 in Dec 31 the Zunes were very confused and refused to work for some idiots who cant even read a calender. I mean honestly 2008 has been a leap year since leap years were invented. In fact my friend Jenny turned 5 this year and she also got MARRIED!

AWESOME I think to my self I'm going too Garren and Jaynes for new years this better be fun. I'm not at the Heartmens home for more than 5 min before Eric Bonner walks in the door and starts in then Ryan comes in from the kitchen to join in on the Vicki/Zune-bashing. If that wasn't enough Josh Bowers comes and starts in.

SO here's where I'm coming from Zunes actually don't cost any less than ipods so lets not pour salt into the wounds. There are also a couple reasons why I choose a Zune.

1. EVERYONE even my grandma has a ipod. I didn't want to be everyone. How does it feel to have bought into the ipod brainwashing?

2.When I bought my Zune touches had just come out and they were pretty expensive. Nanos are stupid!!! The screen is so small that there may as well not be one plus the nanos are so small they get lost easy ask my brother Ive lost his first Nano and had to buy a whole new one for him.

SO EVERYBODY LAY OFF PLEASE! My Zune works now and I still have a year and a half left on my extended warranty.

Votin and snowin

Today I went to vote and had to stand inline ( I took a picture of that but my mother informed me that I couldnt do that)

I had to stand in line in Whitefish MT to vote can you believe it?

Then I was glad that I didntwait becasue it started snowing! The first snow of the season

Girls Night

Tonight Garen and Jayne went on a date and let me come and watch Kricket and Mablle. Well I decided that I wanted to have fun and I was sure that the girls did to so when I was at Target the other day I found a cool craft to make and it was something that they could keep for a long time. They are these really cool stepping stones. Heres what the girls did with them they are both very creative and well behaved.

A little something extra...

Today I decided that I needed to bring my good friend Alyson a drink.. the only choce in my book is Starbucks... I have many friends that work at my local Bucks and they all are my church family (Well at least 80% and were working on the rest) works there. Well one of my favorite People Kenneth Martin Keller Jr. was working Bar today. I was talking to my good friends Gayla and Frankie when I noticed that

it was taking a very long time to get a Punpkin Spice Latte and a mocha. So when I went to invistigate I found Kenny applying chocolate to the whipped cream in the Mocha.

Then I got handed my Mocha and Late and it was a masterpiece!!! It sould probably be put on a Starbucks gift card or something. I almost felt bad for drinking them but they also looked mighty tasty. Here is why...

Notitce how every cranny of the whipped cream has chocolate in it and it also makes a perfect little spiral. Then theres the Late that is perfectly sprinkled with Cinnamon!! Ahh man I think I need another one now looking at these sweet drinks!!

Kenny congratulations you have now won the award for the best Starbucks bevrage that I have ever consumed!!

(Insert evil laugh here)

Muahhh hhaaa!! Tonight at Veritas while in a very heated hide and go seek battle Alyson and I discoverd that the Fresh Life nursery had been left unlocked. Thus I went upstairs and told Josh that I would lock the door if he let me borrow his keys.

Thus the fun began I went in my naked feet as Alyson calls them then we relized that Josh's keys infact also contained his car keys!!! Since we had hid in Elisha's trunk the week before we decided that it was Josh's turn.

Jayne, Alyson, and I jumped in Josh's car and decided it would be really funny to move it to in front of the Liberty around the corner. Then we decided that Josh's car really longed to return to its home at the Over Flowing cup. So we parked it there and walked back to the Strand ( Im still naked in the feet area) .

Apon arival Josh instantly knew what was up but he was not prepared for what awaited him...

After the message we all thought that it would be a great idea to go to Taco Bell Josh however was sad to find his parking spot empty.

Once at Taco Bell I showed Josh this clue...

Needless to say Josh found his car and I got to draw this sweet pic of Alyson, Jayne,and I preforming auto thevery!

Passion World Tour Vancover

Vancover

Josh and I rode up this elevator 6 times a total of 12 to get the Veritas announcements... We are both afraid of hights and we both get very motion sick... It was worth the sacrafice in the end thought the viedo came out EPOCH! Im spelling Epic that way now just so you know.

Our sweet Seattle Pad

We were very blessed on our trip that Gayla had friends who let us crash at their rental for almost a week they were in between renters and we were very blessed it even had a cool little frogg mini-village woutside in the garden.

Pikes Market and Downtown Seattle

The Gorge

On the Road Again

Were leaving from Kalispell

Here we stopped at yet another Starbucks to go to the bathroom and took this picture this is about the time that Josh said " We'll drive we have no reservations about going fast..." Famous last words.

Suprise... Here is the cop that pulled us over Josh is driving Frankies car in from of the cop he pulled us both over!! I was VERY nervous because I had never been pulled over before.

Passion(s) Tour

The (s) is for Frankie I kept calling it the Passions tour which Frankie informed me is a soap opera.... yah I know I was kind of wierded out that he knew that too..... it has been a very long time since I've blogged due to the fact that our home computer completly ate it and our hard drive went to heven (or Hell if your a Mac Lover). I dont have alot of time to up load my pictures from the event but Josh does have some on his blog and Elicia also. Ill put links at the bottom for you. I just wanted to quickly tell you of what an amazing time I had!! I had an amazing group of God loving friends with me and I am very sad that I cant wake up in the morning and spend time in devo and prayer. Thank you to Josh, Gayla, Franike, Elisha, and Garrett. I will always remember this time and how I became closer to the Lord through your friendships.
As for the actual concert it was like nothing Ive ever experienced before! 7,000 people worshiping the Lord. Besides David Crowder my favorite moment was when everyone prayed aloud to the Lord the entire stadium was filled with voices some in different languages and some shouting at the top of their lungs. It was "Epoch". Gayla asked me how the confrence was and I told her that I could not think of a word to describe it... I still cant... Well I have to run I am super stoked about returning to Fresh Life I missed my secound family while I was away and I wished that everyone from Veritas could have come and shared the night with us. See you all soon.
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Cottege Inn and Baptisim

I had a fun weekend off I went to a 4 year olds birhtday party(Where I played in one of those fun bouncy houses), I smashed a couple Hobo Spiders, I went to the Cottege Inn in Kila for some GREAT wine and friends, and I got to watch 42 people show their commetment to Christ. It will probably be my last weekend off for the summer because I only get one a month... I'm going to try not to complain anymore though because some people work EVERY weekend Here are some pics...

WHICH RESULTED IN THIS...

This is my Friend Garrett and also my friend Mr. Josh (Arthur) Bowers.

Than you to all these guys for leading us in our walks toward GOD!

"V" for Veritas

A little update for everyone that is scared for Al-son's safety bellow you will see a picture of the stitches from the Veritas Game night (See Church + Fugitives= Blood).
Alyson is so awesome and loves our college age group so much that she purposely tore a chunk out of her arm so that she would not be required to play for the other team. To illustrate this look an how her boo-boo is shaped like a "V" its not for Vendetta its for Veritas!! Alyson you are awesome I LOVE YA!!


I am currently at Alysons and she is cleaning her room we found this really icky spider which her brother smashed soon after you are looking at the last moments of this spidres life. Can anyone please tell me if this is a hobo this is the second spider off this nature that she found. I myself trapped one under a glass for 8 hours the other day in my bathroom until my brother got home to kill.