guess whos still alive!   i guess facebook kinda overtook xanga on my internet priority list, specially over the summer-when things seem to be so much busier.  so...on with just a few pictures of what my summers been like...

my dearest fren mo moved to baltimore at the beginin of the summer...she is muchly missed!

took an awesome trip to new york to see my even awesomer man!

went with tricia to see jess n monica in chicago

taught vbs to a few dozen girls in sioux lookout! what precious kids and memories

hung out with rochelle-haven't seen her for 2 years!!

my sister renee and her kids came for over a week!

rosie too, just not as long

used our pig-riding skills and wrangled a rino!

raine choose a less fierce ride...just a tiger

hung out a the park one hot, sweaty afternoon

and yet another pic of my fav man!

k, won't give you too much false hope tht im back in the xanga world for long...im out till maybe next yr =)

so i culd do a big long rambling post about an amazing person in my life...or i could just do some pictures, and sit back with a smug proud grin on my face as i watch my site get all footprinted up.

i'l do the smug proud grin  

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"christmas=a time to spend wiht family" 

up till jus a few yrs ago i though that was pretty corny.  i mean, this means all the sisters home at the same time to pick on each other and have a full-blown crazy-house.  wats so great about that? It all changes once you're the only one living at home.  after living as an only child at home, you learn all too well that the options for an evening spent at home is either talkin on the phone the whole night or be bored stiffless.  Or give in and got to bed at 8:30 with the 'rents.  but now--bring on the craziness!  it was an amazing, loud, short, fun-filled week with all my sisters here, the bro-in-law, and the energy filled kids. where do i start?

x~truthfull games of tru colors (wait, i think i;m supposed to blush about that!)

x~courious sounds coming from playing SNORTA with carla, shar, wennel and mo

x~soggy clothes from digging numerous snow tunnels

x~painfull snowmobile rides

x~personal, bouncing, jabbering alarm clocks at 7 in the morning. every morning.

x~severly revised games of twister

x~our "wonderful" christmas meal of oysters and shrimp. gag.  thank you rosie for the high quality shrimp but mom said popcorn!! =)

x~hours spent teaching, instructing, supporting, and encouraging del and dylan in their enginering skills.  aka k'nex

x~gallons of timmys coffee.  strong timmys coffee (nice job darl)

x~ruthless, brutal teasing towards the youngest sister about the "M"s (i BELIEVED you! i was having regrets about my personal desicions just to find out it was all lies!)

x~concentrated power-gab with darla once we realized our time together was soon over

x~haveing a squeaky housecat. who somehow got ahold of all the leftovers.

x~sisters performing the sisterly duties....just don't make em look lik crissys!! 

well sisters...did i miss anythin?

and now...stolen pictures

AJ--"look...i think i got a hernia...its hurts and theres a bulge!"

CO-WORKER--"ur sore cuz you just went boardin and the 'bulge' is ur belly"

bring on the boarding season and holiday food

some people have really good, deep, thought-provoking posts.  me...mine are just random.  i wish i could write somethin really good for once.  not a boring, shallow, blerb like normal.

so even tho its won't be overly exciting to read, i'm gona write this anyway.  you have my permission to scroll down, leave a comment, and not bore yourself.

so anyway...interesting things that happen in my psych class.  i wouldn't say that my professor "picks on me"  but i do get called on, or asked my opinion, alot more then many other students.  this day in class we had taken some sort of personality test.  we lined up according to our scores.  one end of the line was classified as "nazi-pig-bigots" while the other end was "mary poppins and her dancing penguins."  i was one of marys "dancing penguins," the third to the end.  the professor came to me and asked if i would consider myself to be a "caring, loving, thoughtful, non-judgemental, and tolerant" person, as the test said i was.  he especially emphasized the "tolerant and non-judgemental" part.  hmmmm.....what do i say?  yeah, i'm not racist, or judge someone by ther clothes or money.  but as a Christian, i deffinatly don't think i'd be labeled as tolerant!!  so what do i say?  to my shame, i said, 'yeah i guess'  DUH AJ!!!!  this was the perfect oppertunity to share!  just because my answer surely would be ripped apart by him, and turned around to make me look stupid, i go for the denying Christ option?!  my prof move on to someone else down the line.  this is what amazed me.    and made me jelous.    this person had the PERFECT answer!!!!  how come i couldn't come up with this one?! the perfessor asked this guy the same question...and his perfect answer....

"yeah, as long as it doesn't go againt Gods morals"

wow.  u go boy.  sometimes its so easy to become complacent.its almost as if i get the idea in my head that, 'of course people can see i'm differant.  just look at me.'  just cuz i'm menonite and look differant don't count fer squat!  God doesn't care how differant you look for him if your not gona be differant for him on the inside! and so, i learned in class that day.  and i don't really care what my prof thinks bout me, or how crazy my answers may sound.  i'm different.