SHAG...

so, i just LOVE Josh Agle. His art makes me smile.


It's just so fun, quirky, odd, creative... it is, in my opinion, art that stirs emotion & feelings of some sort... it definately strikes me;




How does it strike YOU???

So, I knew he lived nearby, in Lemon Heights (I had read in an article) but never really thought that much about it until the other day when I saw him, right next to me on the road, in his car... I had just dropped Cole off for football practice at Foothill and there he was. I'm not usually a 'star-struck' sort of person but I sure was then. :oD I almost wanted to follow him- for What? you ask... I have no idea...
which is why i didn't, of course. that'd be silly.
but now that i'm in my fourties, i realize that sometimes silly is good. you lose silly, i think, in your 30's... you get all serious because you realize how serious life is; how much everyone is relying on you to take it all seriously & step up...
i NEED silly nowadays. too many things are way too serious...

You know??
but i digress...
I love Shag Art...:o)

The Comedy Show

L-R (in the back) it's Cole, of course, trying to get in the picture... he did that it almost every picture that was taken that night! Then there's Eric (he played a good Ryan Seacrest!), then me, then our wonderful Jon (who said that night "there's really nothing better in the whole world than being on stage, is there Mom??" :o) then above, Jake Bergstrom, Chantelle Gibbs, Isaiah (the little blond kid in the front) then Michael Fontonesi, and Gabby Veneracion.

So, as most of you know, we participated in this new idea at Calvary... the Comedy Show.
What you may or may not know too, was that it was VERY hard for us to be in this show.

We didn't think it was funny.

There... I said it.

It's very hard to be a performer in a show and not think it's funny...
1. if you act as embarrassed as you feel, you look foolish and the show is no good
2. if you act as funny as you can, "selling" your performance for all it's worth, you end up looking like you think it's funny and then potentially you look foolish for thinking it's funny...

do you see my quandry here?? :oD
Tom & I both were going nuts... we had committed though, so what do you do?? It was an experience; it's all good. God places you in situations for a reason, and we definately prayed about that show BIG-time prior to joining the cast.
I hope the Lord was honoured there that night and that some came to Calvary who might not have otherwise, that's the whole point, isn't it?

You can't really tell here but this is when Tom is coughing up/spitting the water all over the "priceless antique painting by Thomas Jefferson" that ends up getting smeared and ugly afte he wipes the water all around and says "Did I mention it's a water color??" That was actually pretty funny...

Tony Nitz, doing his "Bunion" face. He was a BLAST...

AAaaarrrr......

it be Talk Like A Pirate Day!

A New Species collected off Wassteri reef, ... - Yahoo! News Photos

A Ctenophore or Comb Jellyfish collected off Wassteri reef, ... - Yahoo! News Photos
How many others have been on this Earth for thousands of years and we've not yet seen them...??

I find things like this to be very humbling... we should never begin to presume that we know all of God's creations... that we know everything He has done; just like we have NO idea what he has done for us personally in our lives.

That's my take on learning something like this.

School, Work, Performances...

wOw, what an amazing time lately...
- Performances and Rehearsals for the Calvary Comedy Show (done now... SO glad)
- Vacations... (done now, NOT glad)
- 2 boys in Junior High... hmmm, not sure how I feel about that (AND the 2 in college, 1 in 5th grade)
- Cole in football practice nearly every day
- TONS of work, which is great, except for the "work" part of it
- getting back into the routine of school... huge for me
- starting Christmas musical rehearsals (SO fun!)


Matt trying on new glasses, hopefully he'll be able to see the board in the classroom this year! Did you notice how it looks like I'm taller than him... yeah, I wish- I'm holding the camera way above my head (no, don't ask me why I do these things... i just do)

On our way home from the cruise... that's JON laying across them. I love how they feel so comfortable with each other and don't mind if one lays on the other... they're really kind that way.

I added this because I look so calm and rested- this is just before Formal Night on the cruise... by this time I had let go of the stress of work, etc. and decided to just be calm... I feel "life" creeping back on me!! aaaaggghhhh.... LOL