Mime4Jesus - FINALLY Caught Up

Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set the example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity. I Timothy 4:12

Jun. 24, 2009

FINALLY Caught Up

I guess if this was a SL paper I would have to say "Up I am Finally Caught" or something, since I'm not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition, but it's not, so I'm going to title it in a way that makes more sense. :)

Friday was the day that we'd been "planning" forever but we'd never planned until a couple of days before. See, for a long time - ever since we studied fellowship in the spiritual disciplines last session - we've been wanting to put together another get together. You know girls. We love get togethers. We knew we had to do it a) after the Browns got back from CA, b) before Heather moved to STL, and c) before the Browns left for the Outer Banks. There was about three weeks that fit those qualifications, but Courtney and I didn't actually start planning - we just talked about it - until last Sunday. After some discussion and innumerable phone calls to various people, we decided to hold a swim party at Big Rock - the swimming hole behind my house - on Friday afternoon. Much to our jubilation, it was found that all the girls could come, and so by two o'clock we were all headed down to Big Rock, having just finished a heated (ha.ha.ha. it WAS 95 or so) game of kickball.

We had to walk down to the creek because, as anyone who frequents the area knows, since the major floods last year - or was that '07? - the road is in a perfectly atrocious condition. It's extremely rocky and bumpy, and there are places where it's horribly muddy and other places where there is so much gravel it's almost impossible to pedal through. When there's only three or four of us, we ride our bikes. However, seeing that we didn't exactly have bikes for ten girls, we walked through the mud and over the gravel and arrived safely at Big Rock.

As some of you may be aware, most people aren't allowed to swim down at Big Rock anymore because the owners - well, more specifically, the owners of the property across the street - are finally enforcing the "No Trespassing" rule. However, we went through a big ordeal last summer and got a letter from the owner that we and our guests can swim down there, so that is precisively what we've been doing. The owners came down but they knew who we were so it was all good.

We came back to the house eventually after everyone – including Moriah – had jumped off the rock and we’d been swimming for about an hour and a half. Of course after we hosed off we went right to the Muddy Buddies and had them taken care of within fifteen minutes.  hey, no sense prolonging our junk food enjoyment.

We played Dutch Blitz until the parents showed up – which, unfortunately, wasn’t very long. Melissa, The Amazing One, smoked the rest of us at Dutch Blitz. It was very impressive. Her dad came to pick her up and I got to meet one of her adopted sisters, which was cool. I’m SO glad she got to come. It’s been quite a while since we’ve really hung out and I’m feeling kinda isolated from her, so it was definitely good to see her again.

Sunday we went to Amy’s dance recital in SGF with Courtney and Emily. Rachel and Jo graciously agreed to watch Daphne for me and Dad did the children’s church so we were able to go. We’d invited Andrew and Jenny too – they’re in town for the next few days – but they couldn’t make it.  Sad day. Amy danced wonderfully, though. She was a joy to watch. Us girls had a delightful time, too. After returning an overdue game at the library, we went to Andy’s (unplanned, of course) and split a large peanut butter cup concrete. It was pretty much amazing, and we each only had to pay $1.25, which is good for those of us that are stingy like me. I did give Courtney a dime for tax. And we giggled all the way home. Funfunfun. Girls have it good.

Monday – sorry, I know this is boring to read, but I want to remember it for later and I’m not in a creative mood right now – Andrew and Jenny and Aletheia came over for dinner!!! Aletheia is so charming. Very personable and cheerful and inquisitive. Andrew fixed my computer and Jenny fixed my trophy plus I showed her LA’s DVD which was cool.

So now I’m up to now! Hallelujah. ‘cause I’m going to have a lot more to say after the STL trip. Ah. That’s what I need to pack – a journal. I’ll try to keep you updated. Tomorrow we have SALT mentorship, SALT meeting, SALT Bible study, team Bible study, team mentorship, and practice. We leave the church at four. Plus Andrew and Jenny will be there.  SO HAPPY!

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Jun. 29, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Kaitlin

I didn't know you played Dutch Blitz!!!!! This past year I played weekly with a group of friends-it's one of my favorite games ever. We'll have to have a little marathon when I come visit! :)

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