Spring Banquet '08

Last week was our youth group's "prom". I'm pretty sure most churches don't do this, but I my guess is that it originated out of so many of our teens being home schooled. And thus "Spring Formal", "268 Dinner", and this time, "Spring Banquet" was made!

Last year my friends and I put on the show, so to speak and themed our night "Old Hollywood". We painted 3 giant canvas things to make a big picture of Hollywood long ago, and set it all up with greenery and a red carpet for pictures in our newly remodeled Fellowship Hall.

As a surprise a Hummer Limo pulled up when it was time to go, and it made 2 trips to take everybody Downtown to a restaurant called "Anthony's." Nobody had ever been there before, because it was a more members only place, I think. You had your choice of chicken alfredo, steak, or halibut...and it was wonderful! The limo dropped us off back at the church and we listened to a message, watched a senior video I made, and sent everyone off with a gold-painted Barbie doll or golden globe for the guys. It was a ton of fun.

This year, however, being one of the seniors myself...our new youth pastor's wife, Jessica, did most of the planning. Our theme this year was, "A Night of Mystery." Some ladies from our church made the meal, which was pretty good, and during dinner the adults that work with us teens put on a show themed with Clue. You know, the game? So there was Mrs. White, Miss Scarlet, Col. Mustard...etc. And at the end everybody guessed the killer, weapon and room. I don't think anybody got the whole thing right, but I got the killer! Mrs. White you rascal, you. ;P

Here's Nick and I. I wore a really pretty periwinkle colored dress, and white/silver accessories.

We found Nick a shirt that matched just about perfect and white tie. Doesn't he look smashing?

Here's Emilie in her pretty, pretty green dress, posing with our adorable friend Mariah.

Here's a group photo of some of our friends.
Kelsey and I. Can you tell I was a little top-concious? Haha! My dress was rather low-cut.
They had a really gorgeous picture area set up, but we had a photographer (Well, another guy in our church that's pretty nifty with a camera...I dunno if he really is or not..) so we posed for pictures just standing around. The whole room was super pretty, and everyone had a really good time.

Afterward me and Nick ditched to go back to his house to show off for his mother and change clothes, then headed back to the church for the ALL-NIGHTER! :D

Nick didn't get to stay the whole time, he worked the next day and didn't think staying up all night would really be the best thing for him. Haha. The evening was pretty awesome. Someone donated a Wii for the evening, and so there was a lot of bowling and golfing as well as Halo on the Xbox and football on the PS2. Not that we just played video games all night...there were card games, board games, ultimate frisbee and dodgeball as well.

After everyone was thoroughly worn out from running around and tired of games we started to wind down and just chat...which led to falling asleep. I konked out on the floor in the hall around 4:00am...woke up a couple hours later to munch a donut and find a cozier spot in a chair in the foyer. Mom picked Em and I up around 7:30 and we both slept until 2:00. Hehe. Good times!

Well, today is Mother's Day, and I don't have really any pictures of my mammy to put up here or anything....but Happy Mother's Day nonetheless to her (Love you!), and every other mommy dearest out there!

Our power went out for a little bit last night, and we usually leave for church at 8:30. Well, I had my cell phone alarm set for 7:30, and when I got up to come out and finish up my lunch packing (Lunch for my mom is a joined effort from me and Matt. We're going to Champaign today to eat lunch at his house) nobody was up. That was totally weird, because my dad gets up at an ungodly hour every day and really...complete silence. I finally saw him emerge their bedroom around 8:00 and asked if we were going to church. He said, "As far as I know." I was like, "Oh, okay...(Kinda laughed) well it's getting late." Mom came down a minute later and said their alarm never went off and they thought it was 6:00am! Hah! Needless to say we're not going to Sunday School, and I don't know if we'll make church or not.

I better stop rambling now or I'll never have anything to post for another 2 weeks.

Have a super day!

Accident!

So...as you've seen from Laurie's blog (Livin' the Good Life) me and Nick went to go visit her, Dave and the kids last Sunday & Monday, 'cause Nick finally had some time off where he wasn't already doing something with it.
While we were there, Nick had a cut from work in the middle of his hand that started a red trail down to his wrist, and it hurt late Sunday night. So Monday morning we headed out and went to PromptMed...the walk-in part in the hospital near by.
Now, I've never really been to the hospital before...not like that anyway. I mean, usually when something has been wrong with any of us kids, we just walk up to Mom and go, "Mom..I feel (sick/achey/bad). Can you test me?" It takes like 2 minutes and she's told us what's wrong with us, two more minutes and she has our medicine perscribed. I think we waited there 3+ hours. It was a NIGHTMARE. It made me appreciate what my mom does like...to a whole new level. Thankfully, he didn't have to get a shot or anything, and really it only took the doctor about 10 minutes to see him anyway...(it was the waiting for the 10 minutes that sucked) and just gave him a perscription for **Keflex**.

Now, you get a twofer with this blog title...because I HAD pictures of the entire event. Waiting in the waiting area, his hospital bracelet, the drugs we picked up, dumb pictures of me pretending to take the drugs, his wounded hand, etc. Now wouldn't that have been exciting?! I thought so too. Sadly, my photo party I told you about was YESTERDAY and I gave the boys team my camera, and the girls used my friends. So I erased the pictures thinking I'd saved them all except some cute kitten ones onto the computer...tooootally forgetting I had those. AHH! I feel awful! Those pics were hilarious. So lame.

Anyway, that's all I got. I can't post pics of the event last night 'cause I only have the boys pictures...(Have to wait for my friend Em to give me the ones from her camera) but it was good! And two of my friends spent the night. They're still out on the bed as I type this.
I'm sick, and I breathe better sitting/standing. So I couldn't sleep any longer...blah.

Toodles!

**P.S.**
Kind of a funny tidbit. Nick has been lending me this book series by Stephen King called "The Dark Tower" series, and the main character is a gunslinger named Roland. Well, in the 2nd book he gets 2 of his fingers bit off by some lobster creature (Yeah, gross) and it gets infected..and it's trailing up his arm, lol. Well somehow he gets into "our world" and in it, he takes Keflex! Haha! Roland's home town was called Gilead..and on our way to the hospital because of Nick's trailing infection and to get a perscription for Keflex (lmao) we passed a church called, "Mt. Gilead". I swear. It was the most hilarious thing...

Another Birthday Blog.

I was given a little family party on the 17th, because I hung out with Nick all day on the 16th. Mom asked what I'd like to eat and I asked for take-out from Green Jade chinese. (The BEST chinese in town). No work and enough food (with snacks) to feed all 8 people for $30. I think that's a pretty sweet deal, personally. ;D

This is my cake.. The baker lady looked at my Mom and goes, "You know this feeds 30-40 people, right?" My mom was like, "Yup! That's fine." xD Not surprisingly, today it is 2/3 gone. She got double the cake for $6.00 more bucks.


Meeeeeeeeeee. <3 Birthdays!
We all had a pretty good time, and Emilie was gracious enough to go around snapping shots for me. She got this one of my Dad that I think is just super. Good photo.
You HAVE to have a shot of blowing out the candles, no? :D I was almost positive I'd gotten all 18, but when I went up to blow out the top set I guess one at the bottom hadn't quite exstinguished. Thank goodness my hair or shirt didn't catch fire. Haha!
I think Matt must have told the joke because he's laughing the hardest.
Lookit that faaaaaaaaaaace!!!! :D

Anyway, that's about it. Check back soon! There's quite a few photo-worthy events coming up and I'll prolly blog about them. Toodles!