The African Children's Choir...

The biggest yay we could say, "They're back and we're crazy excited about that!!!"  This will be our 4th adventure hosting the choir in our home.  They are a super young group this year, 7-10 year olds.  We have Benson, Jonah and Derrick this year and their chaperone, Tony, who was in the choir 20 years ago and is back to chaperone this tour.  Check out their website or facebook...Music For Life is a phenomenal organization which takes care of the choir kids and their continuing care and education for the rest of their young lives.  Lord, transport me to Uganda in my next life...

Here are some videos and pics from our first of 3 nights with the boys.   Chase read them their bedtime story (with their help), we danced to Beat It under our disco ball...and those boys move very different than during the concert...they have MJ down perfectly and we ate snack after they burned 8000 calories at their concert tonight...they ate 6 apples, 3 bananas, 6 mandarin oranges and 2 bags of popcorn...3 small boys...HUNGRY!!!

MONSTER DASH UPDATE...

SAILOR WON AN AWARED FOR

"9-11 AGE GROUP RACE WINNER"

Congrats Sailor for running your little heart out!

Monster Dash 2009

Today Auntie Sarah, Sailor and I ran in the 1st Annual Kiwanis Monster Dash to support Ashland School Foundation.  We ran the 5K and Sailor was one of the only kids to do the 5K instead of the 1 mile.  She rocked it and we won the costume contest for the "over 18 Group" category.

It was exhilarating to see her succeed and get that adrenaline rush in the last 1/4 mile when all the town was lining up on the street cheering runners to the finish line and oohing and ahhing at the cute little lady bug running by with all the big people.  Fun day...time to relax and play with our friends coming over to hang on the evening of Oct. 31.

Note:  Sailor contributed the awesome finger knitted red ankle cuffs to our costume...she's so cute!

Boulevard Coffee Official Ribbon Cutting

Ashland's Chamber of Commerce did their monthly Greeters meeting yesterday at BC and ended with our official ribbon cutting ceremony.  It was sillynd special at the same time.  AND YES, the scissors are HUGE and really do cut.  

My Halloween someday...

Disappear...Ahhh...breath it in...

On a day like this I want to crawl beneath a rock

A million miles from the world, the noise, the commotion

That never seems to stop

And on a day like this I want to run away from the routine

Run away from the daily grind that can suck the life

Right out of me

I only know of one place I can run to

Chorus:

I want to hide in You

The Way, the Life, the Truth

So I can disappear

And love is all there is to see

Coming out of me

And You become clear

As I disappear

I don't want to care about earthly things

Be caught up in all the lies that trick my eyes

They say it's all about me

I'm so tired of it being about me¦

I would rather be cast away

Separated from the human race

If I don't bring You glory

If I don't bring You glory

If I don't bring You glory

OH MY...I JUST DID MY FIRST "FAST"

So I just did a crazy thing to myself. My friend and I sat way too long watching our boys play baseball all weekend and what we ended up with was a silly undertaking for the upcoming week. We decided to do a NO GLUTEN - NO DAIRY - NO MEAT - NOTHING PROCESSED food plan. I lasted 4 days and then I gave up on the nuts, fruits and veggies. I suppose my pants might be baggier but the biggest lesson learned was how stinkin' many times in a day I wanted to grab a little of this and eat a little of that just because it was in front of me. I was very controlled through the whole thing so hopefully lesson learned is to catch myself before grabbing something that I really don't need. But oh baby, let me tell you...those banana nut chocolate muffins Chase made the other day went down nice and easy tonight!! :)