So its a new year, but I want to think about the old one. I was so blessed this last year, it was a glorious year! I really hate to see it go. Change is good though, right? Right. I can't wait to see what this new year will bring, I'm feeling very adventurous, like I'm exploring un-charted areas. I mean, there are so many things that could happen, both good and bad. All of the lovely blessings that God has just waiting, all of the trials that will (hopefully) strengthen me, and all the new places I've never been! I'm glad I have the God of the universe and such a dear family and good friends to travel with me as we all experience the new year.

I just woke up, I slept till 9:11! Oh bliss! Oh rapture!

Winter Wonder-Slam

The Afters!



Toby Mac, & Co.

My siblings and I, the Love Doctor, and some random eagle scouts lived through Toby Mac's Winter Wonder Slam last night, and it was awesome! We saw Family Force 5 (HA! They were hilarious!), Hawk Nelson (icky), The Afters! (woot!), and, of course, Toby Mac (somewhat smaller woot than the Afters). We were really close to the stage and only suffered minor hearing loss, but it was an over all success, including the Love Doctor and I getting our groove on. The Afters were incredible and Toby Mac was, well, Toby Mac. Yep, it was fantastic, even if Michael Tait and Kevin Max didn't show up for 'Jesus Freak' and 'Atmosphere'.

I was happy to play this game of tag:

25 things I want to do before I die (in no specific order of any kind):

1. Be in England (for any amount of time, but I'd prefer a while)

2. Write/Illustrate those kinds of children's books that they never forget and take to college with them.

3. Be in a Shakespearean play with my friends

4. Become the leading authority on the Pre-Raphaelite Movement!

5. Live a life that inspires others to be creative and to seek the Author of creativity

6. Marry a handsome charming Prince and live (mostly) happily ever after

7. Be the most wonderful wife this world has ever seen

8. Design costumes for a big show or a movie

9. Live in Sintra, Portugal for a little while

10. Cultivate the enchanted garden of my dreams

11. Meet Bono (not just 'meet' him, but get to spend some time with him discussing all sorts of things)

12. Have a bunch of beautiful kids with lovely names and even lovlier personalities

13. Be a mother as great as my own, and be a good teacher to my children and help make them really smart

14. Have a successful career creating beautiful things

15. Live in an old house filled with memories

16. Be a librarian

17. Finish a quilt

18. Be a truly good friend, daughter, sister and aunt

19. Work in an art museum

20. Make a stained glass window

21. Learn how to cook tasty tasty food

22. Lead an Art Nouveau revival

23. Grow old surrounded by the people I love

24. Learn to see and hear God speaking through all things, learn to listen to Him

25. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST....
learn to drive, get my license (cough, cough)

This is how we 'roll'.