Locks Of Love

Kinsley and I have been talking about going and getting our hair cut for Locks of Love for like a month if not more. Well this past week reality hit me that I am blessed to have hair that can grow back and decided I was ready whenever Cassi was ready for
Kinsley to get hers cut. We made appointments for both of us and decided to not tell Kinsley till we got to the salon. It was priceless to see Kinsleys grin when we pulled in and then to see her jump up and down with excitement. Cassi and I both had been telling her it wouldn't be till spring break at the earliest. I would say we both had 11 inches cut off and now today we are sending it in. Locks of love is such a neat organization and it was really cool to share that moment with Kinsley. She is so much fun to be with and truly has a heart to help others.I think this is the shortest my hair has ever been. Sorry dad I promise to let it grow out! :)

Drivers Ed

Friday night after we had a spaghetti dinner at the church Rachel comes up and ask me if my car is automatic and when I said yes she just goes ok I'll be right back and we will go driving. She is working on getting her permit and had to drive for 6 hours Saturday yet had only driven a manual. So Katie, Rachel and I head out to the High School parking lot and drag Alex along with us. We get there and Alex and Rachel switch seats and we have our own little drivers ed course. It was pretty entertaining. Rachel actually did really well. I only wondered if I had lost my mind by letting her drive once, that was when she came really close to a fence. haha. Alex was such a sweet brother and really did a phenomenal job helping her. It was all quite entertaining!

Youth Update

Over the past 6 months we have had a couple different youth events at First Baptist. In September they had an overnighter and I came over from Charlotte to help. It was a ton of fun we played games, hooked the wii up to the projector in the sanctuary played hide and seek in the dark and all sorts of other craziness. All together we had like 13 youth show up. Then in the end of January we had another overnighter and this time had like 28 youth show up. It was so neat to see the growth and the excitement the youth had for it. This time we did all the things from before only we added a trip to the fun factory in Franklin. We played arcade games and each got two games of laser tag. I am proud to say that I made it through both overnighters without sleeping, unfortunately one of our leaders can't say the same. haha

Then on March 7th we took about 30 to go skiing at Catalochee. The day was a lot of fun. Only two of the youth had ever been skiing or snowboarding before so we took lessons and a lot of them were brave and just went straight for snowboarding. I opted to try snowboarding as well and actually didn't do to bad. However Rachel and I managed to take each other out three times that day. haha what are friends for?!?! Also Matty and Sara came up for the weekend so they got to go. It was so much fun to have them here.

The last youth happening I will share with for now is our changing youth room. David decided that we would paint the youth room and he let the youth pick colors and come up with whatever. So they did and while Sara was still here her and I started to paint one of the walls because it has the most detail. We also had some help from Rachel and Steph. Now we just have to pick a day to let the youth come in and paint the other three walls. One wall is going to be blue, one green and one orange. It's going to be bright and great!!

Catching You Up

Yes I realize that I have not blogged in over a month. Lou and Mandie I am sorry that you have not had any reading material. Tina I'm sorry you haven't seen new pics and random daily events. Mom and Dad you've seen me a lot in the blogging break so you can't complain. Mrs. Vickie you aren't doing much better then me so haha. I don't know anyone else that reads this but sorry if you've been checking with nothing to read. I don't really even know where to start so I'm just going to do lots of random posts. Some may be the happenings of this week and some maybe a month old. Enjoy!!