A Youth Room June 26, 2008

Many of the members of the youth group have been praying about the possibility of a youth room for a long time. Last Sunday the congregation in our church voted and 92% of the vote was for the youth room!

I am so excited for the prospect of having a place for the youth of our church to have a place that they can call their own. I pray that God uses it as a place where the youth will seek and find who he truly is.

It brings me joy to think of the potential for community involvement that this trailer could have. The thought of lives that could be changed through this new room is amazing! I hope that God uses it in great ways as we rely on Him to guide us in how to use the building that He will bless us with.

I’M DONE!!! April 24, 2008

I am finished all of my exams!!!

Summer Here I Come!

eat! eat! April 12, 2008

Today my family and I decided to venture out to Inglewood to walk around and shop and for lunch. Our main goal was to go to Suzi Q which is a really sweet bead shop down on 12th Street and 9th Ave in the SE. We spent a lot of time in that small and very warm store going through all of their crystals, semi-precious stones, metal findings and beads. We spent too much money and then head off to eat! eat!.

Eat! eat! is a tiny little cafe in Inglewood. We walked in to everyone in the place turning around to see the new people entering the cafe, which was a little strange in the beginning, but you quickly begin to love that small atmosphere. It is such a sweet place!

They serve breakfast, lunch and dinner and the food was fantastic! My mom had an omlette, my dad had the burger, my sister had the tuna melt and I had the chicken burger. It was all really good and I would definitely go back!

So if any one reading this wants to go spend some time in a little trendy cafe let me know! It brought me so much joy to go there today and I would love to go back!!!

They even have a Vegetarian Hemp Burger if you don’t like meat! haha

Crazy Weather April 10, 2008

One thing that I must say that I love about the city of Lethbridge on days like today is that it is a city that gets completely different weather than my hometown of Calgary. There have been so many days where my parents have phoned me in a panic about the weather in Calgary. They have tried to convince me that terrible snow storms or rain would hit me as I drove home and tell me to stay in Lethbridge. I have usually avoided that advice because I would really rather be home.

Today, the weather in Lethbridge had “snowish rain” at one moment and then was warm and sunny the next. Meanwhile in Calgary there was a huge downpour of snow! I didn’t even realize that it snowed there until I entered my community and saw it built up on peoples lawns. My entire drive here was clear, like nothing had happened. Crazy weather!

Here is a picture that I found (while creeping on friends facebook pages) of a couple of my friends enjoying the snow today! Here’s Allan catching some air.

Last Class April 9, 2008

Today is my official last class on Cyberspace, and we tallied up our scores. I know that a lot of you were helping me out for my class by looking at my page. (if you don’t know what I’m talking about check out “about the blog“).

So to those of you that will check this tomorrow at work, after the youth service tonight, or on your free time I say THANK YOU!

I love that you took the time out of your day to check out my blog and I greatly appreciate it.

I got into the top 5 of the class and for those of you who want numbers, my score for the total number of hits (as of 5:15 today) is 11,145.

So you can take this off of your homepage and your favourite list if you want, BUT I completely plan on continuing this blog. I will continue with the theme of finding joy, but will also add some more of my personal info and thoughts into it.

Think Pink April 8, 2008

Today I have decided to write about my favourite colour.

Can you guess what it is?

For as long as I can remember, I have never been sure about my favourite colour. There are just so many to choose from. I was sure that I didn’t like colours like beige or gray, but all of the others were just fine. On one day I would love yellow, the next it would be green. If someone ever asked me what my favourite colour was, I would tell them that I liked all of them.

I decided a while back that I love the colour PINK!

I own pink jewelery, a pink watch, pink shirts and a bright pink winter jacket. There is just something about the colour that makes me smile.

1 2 3 4 . . . 5! April 7, 2008

Last night was the 2008 Juno Awards and they were in my hometown of Calgary! I love that our city got some recognition and that so many big names were here. The night was a great success and was actually a pretty decent show to watch.

My favourite artist that was there would have to be Feist. She began her career in Calgary and won all 5 of the awards she was nominated for. She won:

• Single of the Year
• Album of the Year
• Pop Album of the Year for The Reminder
• Artist of the Year and
• Songwriter of the Year

Other artists that were there were Michael Buble, Hedley, Avril Lavigne, Jann Arden, Paul Brandt and Jully Black, who did an amazing job at closing the show with her song Seven Day Fool.

Check out Feist’s most recent music video of her song “I Feel It All”.

That Boy April 2, 2008

Some of you know this already, but my little brother is in Spain. He is there with an organization called YWAM or Youth With A Mission. He is doing a DTS (discipleship training school) which is a 6 month school that encourages their students to develop their personal character and strengthen their daily relationship with God. They learn about the Bible in depth and have speakers from all over the world come talk to them.

My brother is spending 12 weeks in Spain training and then will spend about 12 weeks on an outreach.

The goal of YWAM is to create a cross-cultural exposure and global awareness in the students and to prepare their students to reach current and future generations and answer the call to “Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations” Matthew 28:19.

I just wanted to post today about how much joy I get when he sends me a message on facebook or through email. It’s weird how much I have missed him these past couple of months. I don’t mean to sound cheesy but it’s true. It’s strange with him not being here when the family gets together and especially during the past Easter holidays. I just have to hold off for less than 3 months!!!

Enjoy a couple pictures of my little brother. . .

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope Find February 5, 2008

What brought me joy today is a little different from my past blogs. I received an email from my honorary uncle saying to check this out, and I did and now I’m posting about it. I love getting emails and ideas about what to write about or even just tips of something neat to look at. So thanks uncle Steve-O for the email!

A galaxy 20 million light-years away called M51, was photographed and found to have an immense ring of dust at the center of the flat spiral galaxy. So the horizantal darker line is just part of the galaxy and the vertical line is the dust ring that is fueling the black hole. Now, to me it looks like a cross. Researchers are calling it an “X” and have no idea why the dust ring is positioned that way so that it looks like this.

What do you think?

Here’s the link to the press release:

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Resolves a Dark “x” Across the Nucleus of M51

Regina Spektor - Fidelity February 4, 2008

Yesterday I was sitting in my friends van listening to this song. It’s just a song that you can’t help but smile.

Her name is Regina Spektor and she’s got a style all her own. She was born in Moscow to a musical family. Her genre is said to be indie-folk or alternative. She writes her own songs and plays the piano and the guitar. Some of her songs are a little bizarre, but there are a few that I just love.

Check out this music video for her song, fidelity.