Dear Research Paper,

I am very sorry that I have neglected you throughout the semester. Really I am. However, you are due tomorrow and I am tired. So, as I sleep and dream of sno cones and giraffes, please write yourself--you need to expand at least another 11 pages, please and thank you.

I look forward to reading you when I wake up in a few hours.
Much love,


P.S. If you so desire, you may also write several pages (or 12-15) on the paper that is due Tuesday. :)

A bit of catching up to do:

Much has happened since the Top 10 Reasons to go to the Easter Festival, so here I am to quickly summarize the last week or so in bullets:

• Easter Festival was AWESOME! (We served about 2,000 people!)
• Easter Services were great...Audie and I bought the same shirt and wore them with white capris so that we would be matching...and we told Jenny to wear a similar outfit....
• 

Aren't we just the cutest? :)

• I had a fun Easter afternoon with the Aunt Maggie & Cousins Megan, Tori, and Amanda--we ate & dyed eggs (my first time!!) and watched both Hairspray and Blind Side

This one was my favorite color...
BUT... this one was my favorite...

...because in case you didn't know: "I freakin' love giraffes!"

• Not much has happened since then aside from regular school work & papers being due. (OH, that reminds me!! I got my counseling paper back --I wrote on counseling children of divorces-- and my prof gave me a couple of suggestions for improvement and then asked if once I corrected if he could have a copy to hand out to his patients because the content was so good!!!! I got an 87 on it too--my Turabian citations weren't that great.).
• I had sno cones with my prof's wife Sara last Thursday. Might I say that I just love sno cones? I just love sno cones. Yummm. Made me really miss my sno cone buddy, Kendi, but I was excited to spend time with Sara discussing fun activities for SCS students!!
• AND, the best news of all............................................

I'm officially a SENIOR!!!!!!! only 19 more hours until I graduate!!!!

Top Ten Reasons to Go to the Easter Festival!!!

10. It's Free (hotdogs, sno cones, face painting, games, egg hunts, pics with the Easter Bunny--everything)

9. Anyone and Everyone can come--bring your friends!

8. Stevie G and the rest of the praise team will be mixing it up with some live music!!!

7. Not only are there Easter egg hunts, but they're age appropriate so your sweet 2 year old who is just excited about getting a yellow egg won't be trampled by a ten year old trying to fill his basket, his pockets and his baby brother's basket with as many eggs as he can. :)

6. Pastor John, Audie, Steve, Jenny and I would look quite silly bouncing on the inflatables... I think we should leave that for the kiddos (though the obstacle course inflatable could be a fun staff challenge....hmmm...)

5. Your canned good "entry fee" will be donated to the Food Bank of Corpus Christi and will help feed the hungry in Corpus Christi.

4. If you don't come, I'll have not only a stomachache, but several cavities from eating all the candy out of 4,000 EASTER EGGS!

3. 4,000 Easter eggs are ready to be found.

2. You can get your picture taken with the Easter Bunny!!!

And the number one reason you should come to the Easter Festival: TO HAVE FUN!!!!

School, school, school

It has come to that point in the semester:

• research methodologies were due last week
• second set of exams was this week
• research papers begin being turned in next week
• Bible Studies are to be turned in in about 2-3 weeks along with a paper on my philosophy on counseling
• and then it's final exams.

Whew. The last part of the semester is always so busy...have you ever noticed that? Even if we took away the school part of the semester and just focused on life, it's so busy. If you think about it, in the beginning of the semesters (January and August), we've just been through two busy seasons (Christmas and Summer) and we're relaxed and relieved that the business is over. Then, about Spring Break/Easter time or mid-November, things start picking up---planning summer vacations, summer activities at the church, EASTER FESTIVALS (

), a Wii Bowling Tournament for Kids Camp Fundraising, KIDS CAMP, and so so much more---then in November begins the Thanksgiving/Christmas rush (need I say more?). So...what if the semesters started in like November and went until March. And then the Fall semester could start in late july and run until early november.

PROBLEM. SOLVED. :-)

I think I ate a whole cucumber today.

I also studied from 1045am-4pm with pretty much no breaks, but it paid off (I hope!): I think I did really well on my Life and Letters of Paul Test and my Church and Personal Finances Final Exam.

Now, to study for Hebrew Prophets. Test in the morning...woo.