Awkward and Awesome

Awkward

• Jogging...I'll leave it at that. :P
• Holding up a PVC pipe/pole thingy-ma-jigger over my head and behind my back while my dad digs a hole to put it in for our Sukkah (for Sukkoth: a major Jewish festival held in autumn to commemorate the sheltering of the Israelites in the wilderness). Very awkward/painful position.

(Guess I had a pretty "good" week...can't think of any other awkward things that happened. ;)

Awesome

• The Dr. Seuss book my Mom got me in French! (One fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish...my fav Dr. Seuss book!)
•  The fact that my five year old sister is fluent in Ubbi-Dubbi! It's so awesome!
• The Seahawks. I've liked football ever since my mom took time to explain what a first down was. And it's nice having a team to "follow" and "cheer" for (I never really cheer :P).  
• Walking in the fall. So amazing! I think I've decided that walking is one of my favorite things to do. I just don't do it very often because my mom doesn't like me to walk alone and there's usually nobody to go with me at the times I can go (except a hairy beast of course, and I don't want them along). I have always said that I'll walk more when I get married because I'll have someone to walk with, but certain people in my family don't think it'll happen. I'm stickin' to it though....till it doesn't happen. :P 
• Candles! I've definitely decided that I like them. Just not most pumpkin scented ones...some are okay if they have cinnamon or something in them as well as pumpkin, but I don't like pumpkin candles as a general rule.
•  Almond Extract. Makes vanilla milkshakes or sugar cookie frosting ten times better! :D

Awkward and Awesome

Awkward

• Singing "I'd loooove toooo dance with you under a big blue sky!" as you walk through Costco
  *love* this song! (I sing it to Sami for now... ;)

• Walking through Costco with my sister and poking her every time I see someone with Under Armour on or any kind of Seahawk apparel. :P (I also have a cat alert, but you don't use that one very often in Costco ;)
• Grace and I standing around at  (guess where?) Costco! waiting for mom to finish trying some kind of white-grape juice sample. We noticed this sample guy who used to be in soccer with our brother and since he was standing a ways off we started pretending we were talking to him about his samples. Grace said: "Sir...what is your product?" when a lady sampler (samplest?) heard her and thought she was talking to her! She started explaining her product (diapers) and Grace tried to save the situation by having a lengthy-back-and-forth-joking conversation with the lady she has "just called, 'sir'". :P She did great!
• Having to tell the worker at the DOL as I was giving info for my license that "I'm really only 5'2"" (not 5'3" as my expired permit said). I'm shrinking already! I guess back then I was just guessing and I guessed high...I don't really know why. :P

Awesome

• Singing Christmas music two days before Autumn even starts!
• Driving by yourself for the first time *ever* and having the music you like on and the windows down and not worrying that you're bothering anyone else! Glorious!!!! :D
• Driving over leaves that have fallen off the trees (if you don't know why that's awesome it's because it means fall is just around the corner! Out come the awesome brown boots!! and sweaters and mittens and hats and all the other amazingly awesome fall clothes! ;)
• Merging on the freeway...by myself...with no help! (It really is awesome. :P) 
• Going to a buffet with "unlimited" ice cream! :D
• Watching Courageous with my sister (it was her first time to watch it)
• Toot and Puddle! I've been reading some of my old favorite kid's books to Sam and I crack up at every one. They bring back so many fun memories! "Dear Pudsy, Bonjour from Paris! Art is everywhere! Love is in the air! Au revoir, Toot." :D (When I was little I even wrote a book mirroring the idea in this book. :)
• Dilbert comics!
  

Praise!

Driving: Something I love! :D

I've asked most of the people who follow this blog, in one way or another, to pray for me as I took my driving test today. I didn't feel good (woke up with a cold on Sunday morning :-/) and was super nervous since I had not driven in 3 months. My driving story has been a long one, but I won't bore you with the details. ;) All I know now is: I CAN DRIVE! I am so stoked....that I'm going to bed (and maybe now I'll be able to sleep!). :P So thank you all so much for praying for me! I am sooooooo blessed to have you awesome friends who come around me with encouragement and a promise to pray that I know you will keep! Y'all are the greatest and I thank God for you! :D 

Yummy

I realized something very important yesterday....

Chocolate + Peanut Butter = Awesomeness

!! :D I never realized how many chocolate plus peanut butter things I enjoyed.
Peanut butter cups, peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips (thanks Rebekah!), Butterfingers (fav!), grandma's peanut butter pie with little chocolate chips on top, graham crackers with peanut butter spread on top and chocolate chips pressed into the peanut butter, pretty muchly anything chocolate and peanut butter!! :D

Welp, ya learn something new every day! ;)

In God We Trust

Speech by President Eisenhower in 1954:

      "In God We Trust." Often have we heard the words of this wonderful American motto. Let us make sure that familiarity has not made them meaningless for us. We carry the torch of freedom as a sacred trust for all mankind. We do not believe that God intended the light that He created to be put out by men.
     Atheism substitutes men for the Supreme Creator and this leads inevitably to domination and dictatorship. But we believe - and it is because we believe that God intends all men to be free and equal that we demand free government. Our Government is servant, not master, our chosen representatives are our equals, not our czars or commissars.
     We must jealously guard our foundation in faith. For on it rests the ability of the American individual to live and thrive in this blessed land - and to be able to help other less fortunate people to achieve freedom and individual opportunity. These we take for granted, but to others they are often only a wistful dream.