the fredin's: January 2007

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Aflame...

I LOVE these verses, and I wanted to share them with everyone. (Thank you mom, for sending me that e-mail with them in it)

Romans 12:11-13 (The Message)

"Don't burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master, cheerfully expectant. Don't quit in hard times; pray all the harder. Help needy Christians; be inventive in hospitality."

A wonderful wonderful friend gave me the analogy of putting your stick on the pile. Put your stick on the pile, and one day you will grow into this HUGE bonfire! If everyday, we "put our stick on the pile", we will not have to worry about burning out. We will constantly be building our fire, we will be able to stay aflame, and we will be able to stay "cheerfully expectant" ( I LOVE that phrase!) in what the Lord has for us. These verses and that analogy have been a huge encouragement to me, and I just wanted to share them with everyone. We love you! :)

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Snow and Wii!!

We also got quite a bit of snow...although somehow, not as much as they did in Kansas!! And we now, have something else around the house to consume our time. Our new Nintendo Wii game console. Jeremy has been saving all of his Best Buy gift cards for the past year to get this!! So last night, he and I got all bundled up to go up to Best Buy, and sit out there all night until they opened in the morning so that we could get one. Well, we got up there at midnight to find no one standing outside!! So we came home and slept until at 4:15, because Jeremy wanted to leave at 4:30 to go back. But when that time rolled around, there was no getting me out of bed to sit my butt out in the cold. So Jeremy went by himself, and he said he was fine with that :). But it did pay off, because he got his Wii!! He was a very happy man when he got back home. This game system is unlike any other ones that have been released. It has a motion sensor on the controller, and the game that the system comes with is Wii Sports. That includes, tennis, bowling, baseball, boxing and golf. So for baseball you actually swing the controller to hit the ball, and the same for all the other sports. Anyways....we have gotten our workout today messing around with that! So these are some pictures showing us playing our new toy. I also have pictures of the snow that we went out and took today.

This is us all bundled up to go to Best Buy!

And here is the final product!!

It is always hooked up to the internet, and you
can get the weather on it!!

Jeremy's look-a-like character he made to play with.

My look-a-like character.

Here is Jeremy playing baseball.

Here is me bowling!

Jeremy is boxing.

I am getting ready to box.

Me and Jeremy while out taking pics

Part of campus

My cute husband :)

A road on campus

Lake snow-tip! (Yes, that is actually its name)

Here is the creek I almost fell into! :)

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

it's been a very long time....

Yes, I know it has been a very long time since I have posted. But I feel like I have a good excuse! So here it is....Jeremy surprised me for Christmas with the new digital camera I have been wanting. So I proceeded to take a lot of pictures at each of the 5 million Christmas' we went to! :) Then I put them on my computer, and saw that I only has like 700 some megabytes left on the whole computer! So I knew that all of my pictures were taking up this space. I have like 6,000 on there! So this is what I did. I deleted a picture file, then went into the program to see if the picture was still there. And it was!! So I went ahead and deleted all of my 6,000 pictures. Yea, well when I went to go and open up the thumbnail I was seeing, it wouldn't open. All that was saved was the little thumbnail. Its like a huge trick! I can see the picture....it is right there....but it really is gone :(. So I had a breakdown for a few days....I am still not over it. ANYWAYS....that is my excuse for not posting because I kept wanting to post pictures from Christmas and didn't have any. Right now the computer is with the Mac guy, but he didn't give us much hope of being able to retrieve my 6,000 pictures :(. But if I do by chance, get them back, I will be posting pictures from Christmas!

So anyways...I do have some pictures now! Most of them are from my fun surprise trip home. A couple months ago, I found some really cheap plane tickets to fly home around Erin's birthday. She also happened to have 2 games on her birthday, and then two more two days later!! So I decided to buy them and come home to surprise her for her birthday. It was awesome!!! I am so glad I did it. I flew in Wednesday night (the 10th), and then Thursday, mom, dad and I went out to Sterling to her game. She was definitely shocked when I walked into the gym, but very excited! Of course, Erin and Hillary (her roommate) thought that I should stay with them on Thursday night. I came up with lots of excuses why I couldn't, but they pretty much just shot every single one down. So I lived the college life Thursday night....and Sunday night. We had a blast!! I am really glad that I stayed with them. Sometimes I felt really old....but, it was fun. So here are the pictures from my trip!