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this past weekend was our good friend cory's 19th birthday...

so naturally Carolyn & bought him the greatest presents ever.

i don't think he was ready for this.

(carolyn is an artist)

↖ ...batteries & tums...a child's skort... ↗

 ↖ ...a candle...chicken magazine...↗

 ↖ ...pink children hangers...twilight card game?....↗

↖ ...TUMMY TICKLERS...loufa... ↗

(there were a few more but i feel this blog becoming excessive... ohwait)

i kinda wish you could've been there shopping with us. 11pm.. walmart... good times!

(do not worry... gift receipts were given)

oh but the fun doesn't stop there!

over doughnuts...

i found out that my friends make great faces

 all those picture happened at 10pm.

then we went to walmart.

but on the way we found out cory is a really good singer:

 and we got a little crazy:

8 funny things

1. carolyn: "let's just play the weirdest music for cory when he gets in the car. like this one"

        *weird gangster song*   carolyn starts twitching to the beat.

2. *cory gets in the car* 

    us: "hey cory!!!" *in the background- "milk & cereal milk & cereal cereal & milk! cereal & milk!"

    (if you dont know what im talking about- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7BEPzNxMBE dont watch the video i dont get it)

3. julia: "carolyn tell him the story of when we were buying his brezents." *hoping they dont realize i said brezents instead of presents*

   carolyn: "OH YEAH so we were buying your brezents..."

   cory: "why are you guys calling them brezents...?"

   me: "we're not..."

   cory: "ok someone said brezents"

4. *while opening presents (brezents?)*

   cory: "guys why did you buy me a loufa?! im not gay!"

   carolyn: "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT it scrubs all the dirt off! my dad uses one!"

   julia: "we looked for a purple one..."

5. cory: "i dont eat red popsicles because i dont want to stain my teeth"

   Julia: "& you say you're not gay"

6. carolyn: "what song should i play?"

   cory: can you play shiny teeth i love that song! i sang it when i was MCing and i was so good."

7. cory & julia: "carolyn get in this cart!"

   carolyn: "ok!!"

   *walmart employees walk buy* 

   Julia: "QUICK act special"

8. carolyn: "i used to climb in these racks"

   julia: "can you please do that right now"

*after peer pressure she gets on the shelf & couple walks in needing pet food, i try to cover her up, doesnt work, they look behind me*

julia: "i gotta go"

*carolyn peeks out* "hiiiii!!!"

xo

p.s. tomorrow is the shedd aquarium! EEEEKKK!

iphone story 8

this week i learned that:

 contains peanut.

 never knew.

also my boyfriend & my dog are finally close. my life = complete.

 sometimes when jesse & i go to applebees we make the receipt into a scroll

& use forks to read it.

ok so it was one time. 

here is my hot friend jennifer. sorry men, she's taken.

 you may mourn now.

here i am taunting pepper with my chocolate covered strawberries from jesse.

here is a jelly belly in the shape of a tangent graph.

my sister is selling bags like these to support our students going on 

the missions trip to Costa Rica. They are handmade right in my home.

She is so skilled i can hardly stand it.

anyway they are $20 & every cent of that money goes directly to 

the students' trip to help them fundraise. 

Let me know if you'd like to donate!

have a lovely week!

xo

other holiday festivities

seeing as how Christmas is in less than a week, 

my family decided to finally buy a tree.

we had some bad experiences with pre-cut trees last year (see below)

so we cut our own down this year.

 the decision between this one & the one we got was rather difficult.

go! dad! go! go! dad!

the grand march to purchase the fresh-cut beauty.

 which a day later FELL OVER without anyone touching it.

strange.

today was also the last day of school so it's officially

WINTER BREAK!

♥

the ipod story 2

Now it's extraordinarily random photo time in the picture book.

this was in my psychology book. i thought it was hilarious!

YEAH FLOATING FINGER SAUSAGE

on sunday my small group & i had our FIRST hang out day at my house!

it was a great turn out except.. i was the only girl.

below is our trip to picknsave while stocking up for the packer game.

da boys go to picknsave.

don't worry later i made lauren come over so i wasnt as much of a minority : )

best part: she walks in with her packer get up & goes,

"oh... no one is wearing packer clothes... i thought this was a packer party.."

then kyle put a bag on his head & we all yelled at him...

later lauren & i went to starbucks & she pulled this out of her backpack & told

me she accidentally stole it from art class last year. we don't know what to do with it. priceless.

ps see how weird it looks outside the window? yeah there was a HUGE thunderstorm & we didnt 

have jackets.

this is a picture from sunday morning in roots

when pastor conor was talking. the whole time his baby audrey, previously mentioned here, just

stared at him in awe. it melted my heart. mary & conor you are blessed! 

my life as an aide.

i grade papers & hang out. its the life!

so yesterday, i went to yo mama's with stacey... 

(visit her blog, its da bomb)

and we were having a grand old time until...

that happened.

it was the saddest/funniest part of my day.

who does that?

this is what i saw when i walked into work today!

i feel like there should have been a sign saying

"have at it jules"

or "good luck"

i was stressed.

(ps if this is an illegal picture please dont sue me.)

good thing i was wearing my happy shoes.

anyways i hope your week is going well!

this weekend is YOUTH CONVENTION!

possibly the greatest weekend of the entire year.

xo