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He's becoming famous!

Happy Birthday, Matt!!

Why it pays to live on the east coast...

New furniture!

At least for us. :) We bought this from Donna's parents who moved to an apartment. I love it!

Matt and I were a tad worried that it wouldn't make it to Sumneytown from Allentown, but it made it and didn't fall off the truck. :)

I love Weight Watchers!

Even with the weekend parties, I was able to lose 2 pounds last week. I'm down a total of 17.2 pounds (7.8 kilos)! I guess all that cleaning paid off. :)
Thanks for being supportive!

Chris's installment service

I don't have too many pictures, but it was a nice service. We had a little time of fellowship afterwards. Pastor was able to move the service to today since Leigh was here. It was nice of him to do that. It wasn't an ordination--I think that'll happen later on.

Chris's Graduation

We had the lunch in the youth room at Calvary because it was a little cold and there was a chance of rain. Thanks for praying for the weather though. It wasn't too bad, and I'm sure others that had parties outside appreciated the prayers. :)

(By the way, those are his Batman cuflinks he's wearing.)

I can't believe it

I can't believe that I was able to post something yesterday. For weeks the blogger baron wouldn't let me blog. It said I wasn't a team member!!!!
So ... now that I'm in, there's not much news here! Dad and I are here and not much exciting has happened recently. Monday, we had a lunch meeting about "Fundamentalismo" with the Harrises and Howells. Later in the afternoon, we went for a ride to Santa Clara; but it was pretty much a ghost town (since we are in winter) . Yesterday, Dad took the combi to a mechanic and will pick it up tomorrow. I am cleaning and re-organizing.

Still Alive in Colorado

Hello from Sumneytown

The weather has been nice, with the occassional thunderstorm--which is the best part of summer!
I went for an hour-long walk yesterday and discovered a new trail in our park. I'm planning on bringing my camera today when I go again. There's a lot of spring wild flowers out. :) I'm a sucker for flowers.
Most of the graduation announcements are out, so expect those in the mail. Wish you all could be there (Matt, you BETTER be there!) :)
Chris's mom will be coming out for it. It'll be good to see her.
Chris is working hard on his projects for his two classes. His last day of class is the 14th.
I've lost 9.2 pounds so far. :) That's pretty good for four weeks, I think.
Work has been pretty quiet for me recently. I'm waiting to see if it doesn't pick up much, I might try to find a more full-time position within the department. I get too bored, otherwise.
I've been feeling better, although still feel tired off and on. Yesterday was one of those days.
I trust everyone is doing fine and dandy! :D

14!

That's how many pounds I've lost so far.

Why it's good to be healthy

Because when you've started eating salads with every lunch and dinner and you have run out of lettuce and need to run into the grocery store to buy some lettuce, you might find out you're the instant winner of a 2nd generation iPod shuffle. (See how small it is!)

A sunny April day...

try, try again

Well, I haven't been able to post anything since that one cry of "I'm in!" We are fine. Our Easter was enjoyable. We hosted the "Sunrise" service. There were over 50 people, mostly from the Harrises' church. The choir from their church sang and the men from our church (Dad, Sam, Omar, Pablo, Nito and Luis Riquelmes) sang. Dad preached a good sermon. Liliana and I cleaned the church on Saturday and prepared the breakfast. Carolina went to B.A. with Tobias to visit her grandmother. Alicia and Jorge came. They are on vacation in Brazil this week. Antolin Velasquez has been having nightmares again and sleeps late in the morning. In the evening we had a movie on the resurrection based on a novel by John MacArthur. There were 8 of us. Juan Efren Vera came in the morning and evening. It has been a long time since he last visited.

Sam takes his ACT this Saturday morning. Dad called Jose Nuñez to ask if Sam could stay there overnight Friday. Please pray for him.

Am I alone?

Hope everyone else is alive out there.

We had an interesting Easter. We had a brunch at church in the morning, to which I took my very slavic looking Easter eggs. :) I was quite proud of them.
I picked up these plastic sleeves for eggs at a Russian store we were at. And once the eggs are cooked you just slip them on and dip them back in hot water.

Matt came over for lunch which consisted of borscht and Matt's world-renown chicken. It was quite good!

Our church didn't have an evening service, so we went with Jody, Pearl and Matt to another church that was having a play/cantata thing. It was quite interesting, and moving (it's hard not to be moved when you get to see someone being "crucified"...yes, with cross and loin cloth and all. I bet no one else saw that Sunday! :D)

We then ate dinner at Jody and Pearl's house.

Well, after my first week of Weight Watchers, I've lost 4.4 pounds. :) It is my first week, so I'm not expecting to lose that much every week. I do feel better about how I'm eating, though. And I've yet to start exercising! Hopefully, I'll have enough energy this week to do some walking.

Hello

Just saying hi.
I shipped my stupid heart monitor back yesterday!!! Despite it being Monday, it was a pretty good day. :) Although I still have red marks where the electrode pads used to be. : b
My department started a two-month contest yesterday to see who can lose the most weight (figured on percentage lost). Donna wanted to go to Weight Watchers, but since she didn't want to go alone, she offered to pay my membership if I would go with her. So last night was our first meeting, and we went for a walk before-hand. We'll go walking every day after work, too.
Let me know if you'd like me to share any tips from the book I got. It's actually pretty helpful. There's a plan called the Core Plan where you can eat all you want from a certain list of healthy foods. The other is the plan where you add points of what you eat. I don't think that'll work for me.
We saw "Meet the Robinsons" in 3D on Saturday. I love 3D movies--they're too cool! Of course, all the other adults in the theatre had kids with them. Matt, Chris and I didn't, but we're used to that by now.
Ok, I'll go back to work now. Chau!

Picture session for church

Yesterday I took pictures of church people for our church tract. Since it was going to be outside, I bought a diffuser and a reflector on Saturday. I'm so glad I did!

Here's an example of what using a reflector does. (Ignore the fact that it's slightly out of focus.) :)




This was the result of many attempts by others trying to take our picture. I've always thought that my camera was easy to use, but it took three different people trying to get this. :)

Thankful for cable

I'm not usually glad we have cable, but this show makes me glad we have it. It's been amazing!

Chris's Birthday

We went to a Russian restaurant for lunch today. Chris enjoyed his borscht.

Matt was there, too.

Chris and I had lamb chops. (No, I'm not trying a new comb-over hairdo. It was a weird hair day today.)


The teens surprised Chris with pizza during youth group tonight and gave him a card with a gift certificate to a restaurant! I thought that was sweet...until they covered us in silly string, that is! Chris is planning his come back! : )

I took a cake to Sunday School (there's usually coffee and some kind of snack), and I put candles on it and we sang "Happy Birthday" to Chris. I don't have a picture of that because when I pulled out my camera it didn't have a memory card and I couldn't find one in my bag. Later I realized I was looking in the wrong pocket! (I felt very "blonde".) Anyway, since I wanted to take pictures at the restaurant, we stopped in at a Circuit City (which I found because I took a wrong turn.) To make a long story short, I was able to buy two 1G memory cards for my camera at a pretty good price. God allowed me to not find my memory cards so that I could get some better ones. : )

Anyway, we've had a good weekend. Chris got to talk in Russian some and buy some of his cherry juice.

Crazy weather...

Three days ago it was 70 degrees outside...today we're supposed to get an inch of ICE. Not snow, mind you, but ice. And, since I stayed home, I can see that that's truly what we're getting. It's sleeting little round icey thingies.
It should be fun driving in this later since I'm going to Pottstown to pick up Andrew.

Update: Our evening with Matt and Andrew is cancelled. The ice and snow are supposed to keep coming all evening long. So, instead of Hibachi tonight, it'll be a casero stir-fry. : )