Tonight my roommate and I are having quite a few women from church over to celebrate with my friend who will be getting married next week. We are having fancy cupcake night where everyone brings their own favorite topping. Yesterday my roommate and I cleaned our apartment-a little bit of spring cleaning as well. I pulled the oven away from the wall to discover a lovely mixure of dust and an array of ingrediants that didn't make it into the pan for one reason or another:) And it's always a sure sign the floor needs to be mopped when as you mop you see a clear line between what is clean and what isn't:)

Last night I got together with some guys from church, we are going to be leading the worship this sunday. It was so much fun practicing. We are singing Come to Jesus the version done by Mindy Smith. If you haven't heard her music its great-very folk with a mix of bluegrass as well. Which seems to be my choice of music lately: JJ Heller, Brandi Carlile, Patty Griffith, Gillian Welch, Emmy Lou Harris, Eva Cassidy, and Mindy Smith. But I also still love Bebo Norman and Sarah Groves. Who by the way I recently heard sing hear in Portland-that is Bebo. It was so good, Philip Larue opened for him. What I love I think about Bebo is that not only does he sing but he does a little bit of heart conversation mixed with a little preaching:) And his music isn't just for listening sake but actually allows you to enter into worship.

Anyway I need to make more cupcakes and clean my room along with a very long list so I should stop procrastinating and get to work.

Spring is finally here. Although there are lingering signs of winter which still need to receive the message. But I am loving the blue sky and the sun that is currently streaming through my living room window. My roommates cat George is by the looks of it enjoying it as well as he has lazily stretched himself out in the sun's raze reflected on the floor. I am sort of tempted to join him:)

For New Englanders and esp. for Mainers tomorrow is Maple Syrup Sunday. Now while this day may sound very hick like to the rest of the world it is actually quite fun. As you watch the gallons and gallons of sap boiled down to form delicious fresh syrup at your neighboring farm. You get to sample its sweetness on fresh made ice cream or on snowcones. And then try a piece of maple syrup candy. Then its off to the barn to visit the animals or into the farmers store to buy your first jar of maple syrup and perhaps some homemade donuts. Normally my friends once a month have Soup Sunday at their house where everyone from church (granted we have a small church) is invited over to enjoy homemade soups and breads. In light of tomorrow it will be a Pancake Sunday so we can enjoy maple syrup:) You know you all wish you were in Maine:)

I have been working on a project for the past several months. Using the medium of pastels I have been creating 4x4 cross sections of birds specifically near the head and one eye. So far I have about 16 different birds. I am planning on about 30 t0 40 and framing them all together. It will be donated to camp and will make for great fun for the campers as they have to try to identify the birds just by looking at the colors. I saw a similar idea at the local Audobon Farm and got inspired. I have also been working on some coloring pages which will have camp cherith's logo printed near the bottom, so that when they go to camp fairs they have something else to hand out. Actually New England Camp Cherith is no longer they have changed the name to New England Camp Cedarbrook. Mostly because they are no longer connected to Pioneer Girls and so can no longer use the name, we are not the only cherith camp who is making a similar move.

Well its time to get back to the drawing board:)

Okay so I am not the greatest at remembering to post on this site.
News with me:
I am working yet another job. My season ended in January working at LL Bean and the very next day I went to a job fair for a restaurant that was opening up and got a job as a hostess. So now I work at Famous Dave's a BBQ place known for their Award Winning St. Louis Style Ribs and more. It is a job. And I am able to pay the bills that is at least the important thing. And I am continually on the look out for work but also continually praying about where God is directing me-which perhaps might be full time ministry. It is anyway were I have felt the most joy and the most content.

I have been very involved in my church Missio Dei. And the community is great, check us out at mdchurch.org :) I love being connected in this fellowship. There are a few of us that are actually starting a non-profit together and is hopefully going to get off the ground officially in September. Which you can read about on our church website. It will be called WIT: Women in Transition. We are all discovering are place within the ministry and where and how God is leading us.

In other news I have started training for a tri-athalon. Yes you read right. I have started running a lot more esp. this past summer and fall. And have kept it up at the gym and some of my friends and I have decided that we are going to do this summer. So i am excited and scared and thinking i am absolutely crazy but at the same time it will be very good too:)

No news on the boy front. Although I did go on a date around late Nov. Let's just say it was a no go:) So unfornately no wedding in the immediate future. So I don't know when the next reuion will be except to say that my current roommate is moving back to Oregon in August and I will be driving across country with her so perhaps our route will stay within the northern states and I can just pop in here and there and see everyone:)