i fly out TOMORROW for ROMANIA!!

 woot!

i'm so excited and nervous. I'll be working with middle school age gypsy kids at Camp Hope for about a week with my mom,

 another mother and daughter that we a re friends with, and a random woman from Florida. The Gypsies are all but persecuted in Romania- with VERY limited, and dare I say even restricted, oppertunities for education and employment.

Your prayers are MUCH APPRECIATED!!!

Mark: So what is the Baker's baby going to be named?

Dani: Savannah Marie.

Austin: What's her last name going to be?

so this is a day late because well... yesterday was HECTIC. anyway, this being my 101st blog, i wanted a caute pic from 101 Dalmations.. but alas i'm on retarded dial-up
and so thusly.....

 ***mentally insert cute 101 Dalmations Picture here***

so anyway... the quote of the week comes to you from the pulpit of
Sylvia Baptist Church yesterday morning.... lol....i laughed....at a lot

"I've had a lot of HIGHS in my life-
and I'm not just puffing smoke this morning."
-Rev. Clark Brown

woot!

so what profound thought do i have for my 100th phusebox blog??

I hate being right about
bad situations
and
people that I have never met.

so the final report is that my grandmother had a mini-stroke. APPARENTLY, she had TAKEN herself OFF the perscription blood-thinners they put her on after her last stroke because she didn't like the side-effects and had started taking one baby asprin a day..... yeah, that's my grandmother for you. she came back home yesterday and slept off a killer head-ache that hosptial drugs had given her. she was up today AS USUAL trying to take care of everyone, but eh, so goes life.

i get a brently today!!!!!

mk heifers.... stop trying to steal my idea. it's mine! mine! if ya wanna do quotes be creative on your own. i do quotes of the week. muhahaha

on a different note.... i got to see my girl yesterday!!!

isn't she so pretty??? (baker-- this is your cue to comment)
i also got to see my brently!!!!!

yay!! oh! and i got to see jamie-pooh too!!!

and i got hosed down today by the kids i'm babysitting....

ok ok so i missed a week but i was at the SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION which was AMAZING!!!!! so there are two this week.....

"When possible
we have brought terrorists to justice,
and when necessary
we have brought justice to terrorists."
- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
in her address to the Southern Baptist Convention of June 14,2006

"God always pours His grace into empty hands."
-Saint Augustine

i like questions i can answer.......
like this one today....
as 3 year old Ethan pointed up he asked me,

"Is that the sky?"

The principal difference between man and dog is that the dog will not bite the hand that feeds him.
Mark Twain

To succeed,
we must first
BELIEVE
that we can.
- Michael Korda

so i was REALLY super excited about summer and doing whatever whenever.... however it appears that my schedule is CRAZY and trying to figure out when i can actually do stuff with people is POOH!!!

bleh

God laughs all the time. Most of the time we just don't get it.
~ Jessica Foster~

so i spent about 8 hours in a 15-passenger van today; however the major fun part was finally walking with sand between my toes on the beautiful beach here in destin, florida. hopefully i can remain hidden from... certain floridians... anyway. here with 3bc... don't know anyone really well and i could really use a hug in my exaustion. woke up at 5:55 for the wonderful brently to drive me from manchester to the boro. lunch on the road. dinner at fudpuckers. bought a cute shirt. so so so tired.helped 5 guys set up the conference room for worship tomorrow night. man i love being abused and underappreciated by males who think they know more than me but hey i think it may just be an issue between me and band guys because i'm getting rather accustomed to this mentalitly and behavior--- but enough of that "semi-" rant... lol i need sleep

man- i think i might just love rascal flatts - they make it all better

 I DO NOT HAVE CHRONE'S DISEASE!!!!!!!!!

translation: much excitement

Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you're made of
You might bend, till you break
Cause its all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you've had enough
You get mad you get strong
Wipe your hands shake it off
Then you Stand, Then you stand

Rascal Flatts, "Stand"

so for those of you who thought i died... i didn't

however i have underwent two absolutely horrible days
as i disclosed earlier i don't usually blog about my heath,
but considering i asked for your prayers here's what's transpired so far

i had a colonoscopy today

go on
say it
ewwwwwww
gross
trust me
i know
i'm the one who just had it done

so yesterday was a liquid-only diet
allowing me clear juices, soft drinks, jello and popsicles
no anything red, blue, or green
which removes almost all good flavors

and i 1/2 have results

i'm good except for some spots of inflamation
they took biopsies of those and i find out results on  Monday
sorry for the icky-ness of the blog.
thanks.