Man...I'm a sucker for the surveys

1. Your first Name: Lindsay

2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle.) Linizzle

3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (fav color and fav animal) Brown Puggle

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, and current street) Erin West Fifth

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name, last 3 three letters of your mom's maiden name) Broliler

6. YOUR SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink). Blue Water

7. YOUR IRAQI NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, any letter of your middle name, 2nd letter of your moms maiden name, 3rd letter of you dads middle name, 1st letter of a siblings first name, last letter of your moms middle name): Ioniyko

8. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (fathers middle name) Wayne

9. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one your pets) Black Toby

I think I might be getting sick....

Do you ever just feel it, you know, in your head, right before a cold comes on?? Right now I am not sick, my head, ears, and throat DON'T hurt....but I have a feeling that very soon they will. I just feel weird. Like I want to wear my hat so my ears won't be exposed anymore, thinking that maybe that will stop the cold from settling in my head. But I think it may be too late.

This sums up how I'm feeling today:

New Year's Celebration

So this is how I spent my New Year's Eve.....reuniting w/ the ladies of Ellis #9. These are 3 girls I love and admire dearly.





Kelly & Drew were so kind to let us crash their awesome apartment in Bloomington. We spent some time letting Eli give us a grammar lesson and played some Mad Libs. It's been a LONG time since I've thought about the parts of speech :)

Then we headed to Ruby Tuesday's for some dinner and ended up back home for a night of games-Friends Scene It, Hoopla, and Poker (I won $8, Eli insisted we add some real stakes....:) )



We enjoyed a drink or 2 :), had to start the night off w/ some before-dinner drinks, followed by the required shot of Pucker before we could continue our game night. Needless to say, it was great to sit and talk and catch up with everyone and sit around the living room just like we used to do every night in IC.





Ladies, Drew, Eli, thank you for a fun night, lots of laughter and Katie, thanks for letting me snuggle with you. Love you all!

Holiday part-ays!!

Hello one and all, the Christmas celebrations have come and gone, another season has passed. I am so thankful for the time the Lord gave me to enjoy the Christmas songs on the radio, shopping with and for my sisters (and family) and playing games and eating good eats w/ the fam.

There were a few holiday parties that I attended-the first at the Waltz's for a post-high school/pre-30s party. We wanted a chance for people in college, out of college, to get together and reconnect over break. The fun started w/ good eats, a few of the main courses centered around the lovely chocolate fountain

and some yummy "graduation punch," as I like to call it.

As you'll notice, I didn't take any pics at the party, so these generic ones will have to do :)

The food was followed by sweet sharing of how the Lord has been moving in all our lives in the last year. It is always such a blessing to confess and witness how God is stretching, changing, growing, teaching, disciplining, and revealing Himself in your life and in others' lives. I was very thankful for the fact that people shared and were open and real.

You can't have a holiday party w/out a little white elephant gift exchange. And some of the gifts were pretty sweet-for example, a homemade sock puppet, Denise Austin's Buns of Steel (which I wish I had stolen!), not to mention some sweet Mac and Cheese (which was the gift I won). Too bad I left it at the Waltz's!

If you know me at all, you know that Spirals are my favorite!!

But the coolest gift was this little plastic mini-frisbee shooter thing. It was the one gift I think people were waiting to steal...however, when little 3-year old Jonah stole it from Mikael, it was over. Who can steal a toy from a 3 year old?? Especially one as cute as this:

Needless to say, the fun continued w/ some catch phrase and a sweet round of Guesstures, which I won the tie-breaker round by getting my team to guess the word "Sexy"......who knew?? :)

Anyway, there were more fun times on Christmas w/ my family, but this post is getting long and I'm almost done w/ work, so maybe next time! Until then, I plan to keep celebrating the reason for Christmas-Jesus Christ, and look forward to New Year's with the ladies in Illinois (and Drew and Eli). Looking forward to it!

Later all!

This one I recommend.....

My sisters and I just saw the greatest new movie last night:

There was just something real, something true, and so beautiful about the stories told in this film. I laughed out loud; felt the emotions of the characters; related to a few of their experiences-the realizations of a broken relationship and the pain of moving on. It's probably my favorite film of all time-tops the chick flicks of the past FOR SURE.

I recommend you see it; would love to hear your responses when you do!!

Will I ever fully know?

Micah 7:18-20

Who is a God like you,

who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance?

You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.

You will again have compassion on us;

you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

You will be true to Jacob,

and show mercy to Abraham,

as you pledged on oath to our fathers in days long ago.