saddle up your horses!!

well.............. this is going to be a strange hodge-podge of things, i suppose. i thought i could move the pictures a little easier than i apparently can. but that's okay. but i guess we'll start out with everyone having to crank their head to the side to see the cute picture of sandra and isaac and josh!





i thought i'd put a few pictures from my birthday up here. it was really fun! the original plan was to go bowling alley hopping and use some of the denny's free bowling coupons that i got that one time at denny's, but we ended up just going to 2 bowling alleys, which was fine by me. i had one game that was alright, but for the most part i sucked it up. but MAN, do i love bowling!
and then after about four games with dereck & doug & (a bit later) jenny & matt, we headed over to this one place--texas tubb's taco palace--for some tacos. and it was so nice! because heidi came, and sandra and josh and isaac and kelli and ben and nate all the way from platteville! and i had some bean flautas or something, and they were stinking GOOD. oh. my. goodness.
this post makes no sense; i apologize. i wish i could make these pictures line up nicer. and then we went back to the second bowling alley we'd been at (some of us did) and bowled a couple more games. yeah. bowling. i have nothing to say.

so... anyway... last week we had kind of a random lockin with a few of the youth........ and as the result of a random dance assignment (each pair had 20 minutes to choreograph a dance to a song of their choosing), the world was introduced to the WONDER of dance which is holden. he and donna came out first with a true marvel of a dance to a song written by steven curtis chapman called "the great adventure" (thumbs up to internet research.) i'm going to put the lyrics to the song at the end of the post, because, as cheesy as it may have been at first (NOT that the dance was cheesy, it was in all ways beautiful ha ha), there is so much truth in the lyrics. anyway, this DANCE. man, it may have been years since i've laughed so hard. my description could never do it justice. if i knew how to put video up on this blog, i would do it. and amidst the THREE encore presentations that holden gave us of this dance, all the ladies became backup dancers (see dana and anne there), and prepared to perform it for the entire vacation bible school! let me tell you, it made my day. maybe even made my week.

The Great Adventure by steven curtis chapman:

Started out this morning in the usual way

Chasing thoughts inside my head of all I had to do today

Another time around the circle try to make it better than the last

I opened up the Bible and I read about me

Said I'd been a prisoner and God's grace had set me free

And somewhere between the pages it hit me like a lightning bolt

I saw a big frontier in front of me and I heard somebody say "let's go"!

CHORUS

Saddle up your horses we've got a trail to blaze

Through the wild blue yonder of God's amazing grace

Let's follow our leader into the glorious unknown

This is a life like no other - this is The Great Adventure

Come on get ready for the ride of your life

Gonna leave long faced religion in a cloud of dust behind

And discover all the new horizons just waiting to be explored

This is what we were created for