Party like a rock star

The month of September for us has lots of birthdays.  My father's birthday and Chris's brothers birthday are both on the same day.  We also have close friends Cindy, Travis, and Dwight who also have birthdays during September.  We celebrated Dwight's birthday at Fast Lanes with a little bowling and some dancing around.  We also went out to dinner on his actual birthday.  Looks like we'll have more birthdays to celebrate next month with my Mom's and Chris's parents.

Community Block Party

Last Sunday at our church we held a Community Block Party where we handed out free backpacks with school supplies, free immunizations, free haircuts, dental consultations, and free food.  We were expecting around 500 people.  Over 2,000 people from the Springdale area showed up!  There were people who got in line at 3 and the party didn't start until 5.  People were lined up around the block for the party.  It was a great turn out and I'm so proud to see the work of Jesus being done at our church. 

Our small group helped out in big ways.  Dwight was one of six people who helped with haircuts and he didn't get finished until almost 9!  Chris helped with handing out food for hours.  Kathleen, James, and I helped out in the kitchen and doing various other tasks.  We are already planning the Community Block Party for next year and I bet that we'll have an even bigger turn out! Our church may be small but we are helping out in big ways in our community.

Dwight did TONS of haircuts.

James helping out in the kitchen.

Part of the line for haircuts.

Our pastor Stephen got a temporary tattoo.

Chris handing out beans and coleslaw.

Kathleen finally enjoying a break when it was all done!

Cinco De Mayo and an Auction

Last week we had 5 straight days of baseball!  An absolute joy to any Razorback baseball fan.  We had to sit through some rain and we had a little bit of a rain delay for one game.  One of the games also fell on Cinco De Mayo and my favorite mascot Ribby got to have a little fun!  On Friday's game they wore my favorite uniforms of the year so far!!!  We don't have any baseball games this weekend which works out for me since I have to work all weekend all but there will be plenty of baseball for next weekend! :)

Scary looking weather coming in!

Don't you love rain delays?

Ribby I love you!!

I wish they would wear there socks up all of the time!

Last Saturday Chris and I got up really early and went to all of the craft fairs at the convention centers.  When we got finished there he went to go play disc golf and I went to see Dwight to get my new feathers put in.  My first feathers fell out and Dwight put in some new red and blue feathers just in time for the New School auction that night.  We got asked to attend by our friends Kathleen and Vaden who work there.  We won a gift card to Feltner Brothers for $11 and it's worth $15. There were all kinds of things up for auction.  Kathleen won a brand new Coach bag and James and Dwight won a HuHot gift card.  All in all it was a great night and it was followed by a wonderful Mother's day with my family!!

Dwight curled my feathers so you could see them.

James striking his best model pose.

Waiting for the auction to get finished.

We finally had to find a place to sit because it was so hot!

Happy 29th

This past Sunday was my 29th birthday and it was a really great birthday.  I took Thursday through today off from work to relax and enjoy my birthday this year.  Thursday James and I spent all day test driving SUVs because Chris and I want to trade our Xtrerra which gets 12 miles to the gallon off on something that gets better gas mileage.  I'll post more on what happened with that later.

Then Friday, Saturday, and Sunday we spent at Baum stadium.  Thankfully the Hogs swept against Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  The only thing bad about it was I wish that Saturday was a little bit warmer.  I drank some much hot chocolate that day to stay warm but at least the weather was much better for my birthday.

This was Kathleen's first Razorback baseball game!

Yesterday we drove up to Branson to spend all day shopping and of course eating at yummy places!  We had a great time and we did some serious shopping.  The trunk of the car was loaded with shopping purchases.  All in all this has been a great birthday but next year will be the dreaded 30!

Krispy Kreme Donuts!

Ride 'em cowboy!

Wait don't hurt me!!

Who doesn't love the massage chairs at Brookstone?

Kathleen found an AWESOME outfit to try on! :)

Adventures with the Wolfpack

Every Saturday night we get together with our small group from church.  We absolutely love our small group to death.  They are some of the best people that we know and we are so blessed to have them as our friends.  When we get together we play games, watch movies, or just hang out.  This past Saturday we went to Fast Lanes and played cosmo bowling, which is black light bowling.  Sorry some of the pictures are dark I forgot to turn the flash on!

I had my highest score ever at 119!!  You can't really see it but Kathleen and I dominated the guys!

After we got done at Fast Lanes we walked across the street to play some mini-golf.  We were actually closed the place down!  Right after we left they turned the lights off!!

They had these rocks all over the place with signs that said "Keep off rocks."  Of course that meant that we all had to get on them. :)

New Year's Eve 2010

We decided to do something different for New Years eve this year.  For the past couple of years we have gone to Willy D's with friends to start the new year.  This year we wanted a quieter evening so we decided to go to Shogun and then head back to the house to play board games.  The food at Shogun was excellent and the company was even better!

Part of our wolfpack missing a few members though.

FIRE!!!

It's vegetable island.

Chris and Dwight beat us after they confessed to cheating 6 times!!