the Park

Yesterday morning I woke up, put on my sunglasses, hopped and my car and drove to Blakenship. Erika healed my cough with some cayenne pepper and ginger. Then we took a drive up to the park. It was beautiful! Sunny, blue skies, clear lake, white mountains...We went bouldering, blading, and trespassing!
We found a big rock near the lakeshore and I climbed up it. Then we sat on top of it and drank hot choloate with cayenne and real whipping cream! It was soo good... Then we realized we were probably on private property. Whoops.
The road was too rocky and rough to actually enjoy rollerblading on. So we discovered a bike path that goes from West Glacier to Apgar. It was so smooth! We probably bladed about 1 1/2 to 2 miles. It was beautiful. Reminded us both of the Schafer-Morrison trail. PURTY!
We took lots and lots of pictures, though. That was fun, we would just trade the camera back and forth.

Today I went to work, and then met with Lisa for lunch. We went to Mama Blancas, which I had never been to. It was really good. Some awesome corn on the cob! And black bean soup. Yum. It was great to meet with her and talk.

I'm off to bring Elly to the library!

Scatter-brained

So I am terrible at this whole remembering to write thing. It is something I need to work on.
I'd like to write about my trip week. I went to Missoula on the 12th to visit Katie. We had a lot of fun! I learned how to play a game that I don't remember the name of...but it was kind of like Cover Rummy. We spent the day sewing a shirt, which was really cool. I designed it, and she sewed it. I might try to put a picture in here if I can find out how. Then she taught me how to use the sewing machine. I sewed a headband and a bag. It was almost like second nature. I had never used a sewing machine before, but once I knew how it seemed almost natural. Of course, I still can't sew straight, but... :)
Then on Thursday, the 15th, I left for Helena with the Assembly of God youth group. We went down for District Fine Arts Festival. I had written a story, which I will post as well. Fine Arts is a nation-wide program within the AG church for its youth groups. We spent 3 days in Helena. It was amazing! I saw so many people using their talents to portray the gospel in so many different ways! Human video, drama, vocal, short sermons, stories, photography, art, instrumental, essays, composition, Christian band...I learned so much just hanging out during the two days of competition! My favorite I think was human video. Human videos are choreographed movements to music. The music must have lyrics and at least one person in the group has to be singing, or lip-sync, to the words. The two large human videos from Whitefish were one that put bible stories together [creation, adam/eve, jonah, tower of babel, prodigal son] and the second was Counting the Cost, which was about different martyrs. That was my favorite, and they made it to nationals. It started out with Jesus and the sermon on the mount, and then Stephen getting stoned, the apostles who were beheaded and crucified upside down, Joan of Arc, the End of the Spear, and Cassie who was killed in the Columbine school shooting. It was awesome, really powerful and really well done.

I came back from Helena early and went to The Cottage Inn with the family for St. Patrick's day and listened to Cup of Tea. They are so good, and it is really interesting to listen to them. I danced in my head! It was great to be able to count, tap your foot, and anticipate the music.

I'll write about more later. But that was my trip week!!

Death by Dessert (and routers)

Today I attended Brennen's school play, Death by Dessert. It was so cute! And we got to eat really really good chocolate cake. Brenny did a good job, he's a good actor.
I also spent a good portion of my day in Kalispell. We went into the two most dangerous stores any member of our family could ever go into: Blacktail Books and Snappys. (These are two particular stores...any store than is either a bookstore or an outdoor gear store is equally deadly) We spent long period of time in both. The best part of the day might have been the pretzel bites from the mall though. Yum.
We had to stop by our internet service office to get a new router and secure network put onto our laptops. I learned how to do that, so that was neat. I am getting internet on my laptop again, since it has been out for a week.
I proved Momma wrong today by finding a FEMALE betta fish in Wal*Mart. hehehehehe.
Other random things were done today such as reading my book, doing laundry, playing cribbage with Brina for a long time, practicing piano, making my Melaleuca order, showing Dad a really neat part of Riverdance, EATING A PASTY!, and reading the next part of Acts. I've just been going through Acts and I'm in the middle of chapter 8. Stephen just gave a summary of Abraham and Moses. That was cool because we are going through Genesis in sunday bible class right now too.
Well, I'm off to bed. Samsonite (the cat) is laying on my lap right now and I don't think she'll take too kindly to my removing her from her comfy spot. Oh well. Night, Krista.

Whoops!

There has been a delay in postings. Whoops. There is no possible way to go back over the past weeks and figure everything out, and record it. If at times in the future I remember something, I'll post it. Otherwise, I'll start with today!

Today, I met Patsy at 10:30 at Coffee Traders. We went for a walk on the "new" bike path that goes back around the beach. It was a beautiful sunny day, and a nice long walk. Then we went to Loula's for lunch. It was a lovely morning.
I came home and worked through my weather book. I put on sunglasses and went outside to gaze at the clouds. I shouldn't call it gazing, however, because it was pretty intense examining. I attempted to identify the type of clouds they were. I'm keeping a log in the back of my weather book with the date and the type of clouds on that day. I wonder how accurate I am? But the book goes on to explain what you can safely assume from types of clouds and their formations, and activity. Pretty interesting.
I played guitar and piano for quite a long time today. It was lovely. I played my piano song the right way for the first time today! Whoo hoot!
I baked Oatmeal (C)Raisin Pecan cookies today. They were pretty darn good. Momma liked them anyways! We brought them over to church for soup supper.
I watched the "Lord of the Dance" Irish dance show by Michael Flatley on video today. I got it from the library. It was, ... interesting. Amazing dancing, but interesting costumes, story and choreography. It was incredible to watch, though. Makes me want to dance!!
I got a book at the library yesterday too, about rock climbing. It was basically like a big kid's storybook. But it was really well done book. Just the design, captions, and explanations. It was fun to read. I actually learned quite a bit about rock climbing. They had drawing and diagrams of all the protectiona and where the different ones are best placed. They showed climbers doing different techniques and moves. It was really fun!
well, that's all for now. maybe i will remember to update this more often. guten nacht.