Snow

It snowed this weekend for the first time this year. I always enjoy the snow...it's so pretty and clean and white. makes me happy and ready for christmas time. which is my favorite time of year. it's cozy and happy and it's amazing to celebrate jesus' birth.

this year for our last club of the semester, we're decorating christmas cookies again, and wearing ugly christmas sweaters...i need to go find one at goodwill sometime.

GrosgrainStore.com Grand Opening & Giftcard Giveaway!!!!!!!!

Here's some cute kids clothes... http://www.grostrainstore.com

GrosgrainStore.com Grand Opening & Giftcard Giveaway!!!!!!!!: "r posts is Wednesday 11/12/08. Winner will be announced Friday mo"

Tropical Tree Frog Costume GIVEAWAY!!!!

Here's a chance to win a cute costume. I found it thru a friend's blog.
Tropical Tree Frog Costume GIVEAWAY!!!!

Iceman Cometh

This weekend we're headed up to traverse city for dan to ride in the iceman...a 26 mile mountian bike race. it will be interesting...and cold. it's been beautiful all week, but it's supposed to be in the low 40's and rainy...i keep praying that it will be a little warmer than that. we're staying at the great wolf lodge, which should be fun, it's got a big indoor water park. i'm excited to go there, we've never been there before. Wish dan luck!

Photos

So we did some family photos this weekend with my parents...here's a sample of them. I think they turned out pretty good...i love the one of annika and i as well as the one of the three of us looking at the water.... http://www.akbphotography.blogspot.com It was definitely interesting taking pictures with a 2 year old. she did pretty good though.

Today was a crappy day at work. i'm glad it's done...a customer yelled at me for stuff i didn't do. i hate it when they do that. so anyone who is dealing with a customer service rep...please be nice to them :) more than likely they have little to know control over the situation. My job isn't worth this, but i know i need to be there for now. i do have a great manager though. she was great to me afterwards. very kind...she even gave me a hug :) sometimes it's wonderful working for a woman, versus some guy who wouldn't know what to do with someone who is crying at work...at least i didn't cry infront of the customer. at least tomorrow is another day.

Chipotle

I found out this week that Chipotle is FINALLY coming to Grand Rapids. I don't know when, but they put the sign in front of the building...and windows are going in it too :) It is my favorite restaurant...gotta love fast food mexican food...but its definitely a step up from taco bell.

Annika had her first day every yesterday with out a nap. and boy are we paying for it today. she's been on the grumpy side today and nothing is right. But at least she's taking a good nap.

Letting others serve

so on Sunday, pastor jeff said something to the effect of when we're unwilling to ask for help we're robbing someone else of the opportunity to serve. It was just one of those things about his preaching that keeps us going back there.

I'm always trying to think of ways that I can help others and serve others, but how can I let someone else help me? how can I create an opportunity for someone else? i don't know the answers, but as I pray about the questions, I'm sure the answers will come to me.

We had our first real club of the year for Young Life last night. It was a lot of fun. we had 5 kids, which isn't a lot, but it was good. For our club talks this year, we put out a box for kids to put questions of things that they want to hear us talk about. and hopefully we'll get some good talk ideas out of it.

on the lighter side, we got a new (free) hutch last week and i moved all my christmas dishes into that from our other china cabinet (also free). i'm going to move the old cabinet into my office (which i will be cleaning in about 10 minutes) and put my extra fabric and quilting supplies into it. it will be nice to get a little more organized.