Since the last blog:
We finished up our bible study for our 90 days with Jesus study. Our last time to meet for the study I fixed a spaghetti dinner for the girls and other girls brought various side dishes and dessert to go along with it. We then watched the Passion of the Christ. It was hard to watch it but it serves as a great reminder of the price that Christ paid for us. O how great his love is for us!
I had a semi-birthday celebration at my house. Had several girlfriends over (o about 20) we watched enchanted, which is a movie that you can't help but smile while watching it, and we watched when in rome. As a between the movie snack we had Andy's frozen custard with almost any topping imaginable! My friend Kalla Paige came to visit too!
I went to Boston to enjoy my birthday weekend!!! I spent time with one of my best besties ever Christine! We went to the fair in the rain :( luckily most of it was inside. They had different buildings that represented different states from the New England area. We just walked around and I got some Christmas shopping done :) There was a farm animal area and we got to see cows, chickens, ducks, llamas and sheep. We had lots of fun just spending the afternoon together. That night Christine and I were cooking dinner and she went to grab a can as it was falling off the counter and she ended up slicing open her hand :( and had to go to the emergency room to get 12 stitches. It was kinda crazy finishing up dinner without her and with not really knowing the dinner guests that well. Later that evening a different set of people came over and watched Avatar... I on the other hand went to bed!
Saturday we spent the day chillin around the house until it was time to get ready for Wicked!! Wicked was amazing! I spent more money on a shirt than I have ever spent on any shirt ever, but I love my sister and I promised her a shirt from the show. My favorite song from the musical was defying gravity! I have never read the book Wicked but from what Bobby had said there were a couple of major differences. It was so interesting to see this other side of the wizard of oz. It really made me think about how we perceive people.
Once I got back from Massachuessetts I started working as much as I felt like I could including weekends. I have orals coming up soon, maybe sometime in November, so I'm trying to get some experiments done for then. And my boss wanted me to present in group meeting on Monday so I wanted to get some stuff worked up. Hours and hours of data analysis! I think I took and recorded over 1400 data points. Slightly exhausting.
Our women's group read the book Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers and discussed it. For those of you who haven't read it, you should!!! Amazing!!! The male lead, Michael, in the book was dreamy and I would have to say the most ideal man ever! I want a Michael. For those of you that don't know this book is written based off the book of Hosea and has scripture and history delicately weaved throughout the story.
My cousin Andrew came to visit. Monday Laura, Andrew, Elliot and I met up in Denver to have dinner. We went to the Old Spaghetti Factory and then to the Cheesecake factory for dessert... mmmm yummy! We also walked around to the memorial bridge.
Andrew and I went up to Evergreen to spend the night with the Smith's. It was so nice to see Wanda and the boys. I got a little bit of a taste of what it would be like to be a mom Tuesday morning. Wanda asked if I could help the boys get ready while she got ready for a meeting she had that morning. I ended up finishing up breakfast for the boys and finished helping them get ready and proceeded to take them to school. It was actually kinda fun Wanda and Stacey's boys are so well behaved!!
It was incredibly gorgeous up there! When I woke up in the morning it was snowing!!! What a blessing to be able to wake up to that. Andrew and I drove up to Echo Lake by Mt. Evans but couldn't go up to Mt. Evans because the road was closed, plus there was a good 3 to 6 inches of snow at the lake area already. It was so beautiful.
I took Andrew to Beau-Joe's pizza so that the next time he sees our cousin's husband David he can tell him how good it was. I also had my infusion later that evening. They gave me Ingrid who is probably the best sticker ever! I've figured out that I need to use the heating pad to get the blood flowing to my veins and they do my elbow nook as opposed to trying anywhere else.
Wednesday Andrew and I went up to Estes park and drove up Trail Ridge road we went pretty far we were probably only 3 miles away from the continental divide when we turned around to go home. We saw some of the most beautiful sights. One of my favorites was the lake in the middle of the mountains. We serve an amazing creative God!
