Orlando fun/ Relay for Life

this thursday was the longest day ive had in a while.. maybe even in my life…. well thats cause i was awake for 34 hours! my day started on wednesday at 4pm when i woke up to go to work, then i got home on thursday and took a 30min nap, then went to orlando and lakeland, and got home at 130am at went to sleep at 2am on friday. crazzy huh?
well anyhoo we went to orlando (van drove 🙂 ) to visit my friend Kim (friend from UF who happens to be the dopest lover of asia ever) who was visiting from Japan (cause she lives there now and chances are we wont be going to visit her house anytime soon). so we met up at Florida Mall and went to a thai restaurant, then went to Lollicup…my fav boba tea place ever! and btw got my tattoo idea from:

and the website for the boba is: http://www.lollicup.com i love it!
then we went to the Mall at Millenia

we met up with a friend of hers and went to some stores then went to Ikea!!!
van was such a trooper… he hung out with girls at a mall who he hardly knew, just for me 🙂 so sweet! anyhoo ikea was fun but we didnt get a chance to really look at everything so we have to go back.

thats us under a bunkbed, kim likes silly pics 🙂
then we went to lakeland and got to hang out with van’s former roommate Justin and his wife Krista at Chilli’s and then saw their crib. so fun… they make such a cute couple… and of coursei forgot to take pictures over there… i wish you could see how cute downtown lakeland is. oh well…

we had so much fun on this road trip… we have to take another one soon!

and then today (friday) we got to help out the starbucks booth at the Relay for Life event in cape coral. i got to be an honorary barista! i poured 2 coffees! it was really nice to hang out with van’s coworkers and other partners from the nearby starbucks. it was also an honor to help out with relay for life. towards 9pm, they started lighting these candles placed in paper bags that represented people who have survived cancer, are battling cancer, or had died from cancer. it was so touching. then they had lit some of these bags on the bleachers and it spelled out “hope”… then they said to look again and it had changed to “cure”. so nice and sad all at once. cancer affects soooo many people… its crazy.

David and Goliath

It has been I while since I posted anything, partly because I have been busy preparing sermons for college and youth group.  At Crave (Summit’s youth group) we are going through a series called ‘faith’. In a couple of weeks I will continue the series with the topic of ‘defending your faith’ drawing out examples from the legendary story of David and Goliath. Now, if you ever grew up in church then you should be familiar with the story of David and Goliath, but if you haven’t maybe this reenactment would put images in your mind of what the historical biblical narrative looked like.

update :)

So i know it’s been a while…. here’s some new stuff that has happened since we last blogged:

-our family came over to visit a couple of weeks back. Maria, Migui, Chris, Candita, My Mommy and Daddy, Mimi, Trudy, and Naty and  Bryan came over 🙂 here are some pics naty took with my camera:

– also, i read all the twilight books last week!

it was sooo good! i couldn’t put them down! i have them all if anyone wants to read them 🙂 did i say they were good? i meant awesome!!! i abandoned life and the computer for the week while i read 🙂 how fun!

 

and this is sam playing with her ball Priscilla gave her (thanks!)