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Showing posts with label Jazlyn Smith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jazlyn Smith. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Recapping

The last few weeks have been a whirlwind, especially over the weekends.  It has been fun and the beautiful weather has contributed to the fun quotient.  I have been learning a bunch and making new discoveries.

For my international readers I know you guys like pictures more than text so here’s some picture recaps:

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My friend Kami got married.

 

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That same weekend, Kami’s brother, Jarron, had a graduation party.  I am very proud of Jarron and for him sticking it out and completing college.

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Here’s Jarron reading his cards and taking note of the “loot” he received – cha ching!

 

This last weekend, I got to spend time with some special little people.  Josh asked me to join him at a training thing he was speaking at; and Josh brought Abby along.  I love this kid, she is fun to be around and I am glad I got to spend quite a bit of the day with her.

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I asked Abby to smile for the camera

 

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Abby and Josh, playing a game on his iPhone

 

So we’re at this training thing and all the speakers have taken their turns to share, they then had this Q&A time.  My friend Del, the facilitator of this session, invites the speakers up and turns to me and asks me to join them in taking questions.  I was not really prepared for this but it was a fun experience to share since I got quite a fair bit of questions.  I also got to encourage a guy after the session which was cool.  I had mentioned that I was a pastor’s kid and he wanted to talk a little about that.  Fun times.

After we got then with the training session, I headed to the next event which was a birthday party for the 2 (of the 4) of my favorite blondes (Jazlyn and Olivia).  I love these kids and was honored to be invited.

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Here comes the cakes

 

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Singing “Happy Birthday”

 

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Blow out those candles!

 

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Birthday girls opening their prezzies

 

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It was a quite a couple of weekends.  Now I am off to my next adventures, being called out to help people discover who Jesus is and what it means to follow Him.  Life is good because of Him.

Monday, February 23, 2009

The Four Blondes

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These are my favorite four blondes - (L to R) Jazlyn, Olivia, Ava & Talia.  A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of hanging out with the girls and we went for a movie and lunch.  We had started a tradition, when Jazlyn turned 3, where I took Talia and her out on a "date."  They got to pick what they wanted to do, usually it was Chucky Cheese and then a variety of other activities.  The tradition carried on when Olivia came on the scene and now we have added Ava to our mix.

I thoroughly enjoy hanging out with these girls.  It has been fun watching them all grow up and be a part of their lives.  I am counting the days when Talia will think it is no longer cool to hang out with the rest of us: but until that day, I look forward to our next "date."