Okay so this isnt actually Tiffany today.  She decided she didnt feel like informing all of you faithful readers about her life today so I, Kelly (her very very best friend, and fellow study partner) am going to write it today.  I hate Xangas though and do not have one myself so if this is a really boring update I am terribly sorry. 

Currently Listening Happy Birthday From Sesame Street (Jewel Case) By Sesame Street see related

happy birthday to me......

oh how i love birthdays.... mine was this past saturday! 
best birthday memories from years past:
1) ponies came to my house at age 3 to give us all rides
2) 8th grade i had  a HUGE PARTY
3) some other year i went to niagra falls
4) last summer i went to vermont
.......moral of the story is that birthdays are fun........

new memories:
LAKE PLACID!!!!

adventures with renae and jason......have i ever mentioned what a fanatic i am about the olympics?????????

real LIFE PROFESSIONAL SPEED SKATERS! i needed a bucket for the drool.......oh apollo......:)

scary ski lift........

view from the top.....and below photo shoot from a random "pull along side the road swim time"  SO Fun......i have amazing friends.....

you think its over.......but its not..........
12:17 AM July 22, 2006

12:38 AM July 22, 2006

12:55 AM July 22, 2006

1:20 AM July 22, 2006 (followed by a rousing game of catch, soccer, and chug the gatorade)

needless to say.....it was so fun......
in other news i had my bed teepeed, got married in front of all the campers, and am having an amazing summer and learning SO MUCH!
1 Thessalonians 2:8
" having so fond an affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not on ly the Gospel of God but also our OWN LIVES...."
i suppose you could say that I'm learning that ministry doesn't take my money, my time, my supposed talents, it takes ME, my whole heart,
MY LIFE.

Currently Listening Commit This to Memory By Motion City Soundtrack see related

....some how i never thought i would be one of those people who would leave their xanga's for months on end....however - all of that shall soon change!  i have just been inspired to update this thing-a-ma-bob after a delightful chat with my dearest friend...the cassie:)

although i'm now in new york and so much has happened....i can't go on without a few pictures in tribute to maryland:

the view from our FANTASTIC hotel:) and my FANTASTIC PARENTS!
amazingly enough
i successfully survived my LONE RANGER 14 HOUR DRIVE:)  (i actually made it
it in 12 but we won't talk about that.....)

my dear friend rachy and i being stylish
line girls during training week........and hannah, meg, and i doing something else....

a few of my
AMAZING counselosr that I'm working with this summer - i love them!

my dear pal renae and i back to our old mischief.......... she got me this amazing sign
from pensacola florida.......haha soon to take residence in my rear windshield....

the lovely female SSC unit leaders:) 

the patriotic concert + good friends lights up my life!
    so really now....God has done SO MUCH in my life since i've come up here.  every day i'm confronted with what a failure I am and how amazing God is.  MY words can't change anything - its all the Word of God.  that's been coming out of the woodwork as i'm discipling 8 counselors and leading them through various studies and portions of the word of God.  as meg would say  - we have the best job in the world - to study the Word of God and use it in other people's loves by the grace of God.  
   I'M NOT GONNA LIE...for the good first week i was up here i wasn't a fan of it.  but as USUAL God has worked so much in my heart......
  
so i'm SEMI sorry this is long.... but only semi.  after talking to cass and hearing all the encouraging things that are happening with the college class i remembered how much i love hearing what God's doing in people's lives.  so that's what i'm doing.

here's my verse for the summer: 
"AND GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE ALL GRACE ABOUND TO YOU, SO THAT ALWAYS HAVING ALL SUFFICIENCY IN EVERYTHING, YOU MAY HAVE AN ABUNDANCE FOR EVERY GOOD DEED" 2 corinthians 9:8

IN CHRIST ALONE..........

Currently Reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel By Susanna Clarke see related

"Oh, the very first rollercoaster I got off of there was this fifth grader waiting in line who told me I was hot. Haha, he needs to see more girls"

i'm not going to lie. 
today while taking a computer minute i read this on my pal Beth Lowry's xanga and laughed so hard i nearly had a small seizure.

anywho - still on vacation and LOVING IT!

here are several things i've done
1. been to my very first dealership car auction
2. been to the church where "Runaway Bride" was filmed (AMAZING!)
3. eaten a life time supply of crab
4. visited former friends and hilarious family
5. got to see my mom's grave
6. played in the ocean
7. been to the longest highschool graduation in world history
8. ate AMAZING MARYLAND FOOD including hard crabs, burger cookies, utz crab chips, board walk fries and the list goes on (i'm pretty sure this whole vacation is really about food.
9. made friends with an old italian man on the beach

what more could one ask for?

Currently Listening Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not By Arctic Monkeys see related

hello hello where ever you are:)

tonight i am in no-wheres-ville pennsylvania on my way to sunny maryland! 
 while xanga and i haven't been "kindred spirits" (that was for rachel gasser - my mother and i recently journeyed down the treacherous trail of anne of green gables.....never again my friends. never again) .....i'm not even sure where i was going with that - don't you ever want to use a phrase just to use it?

here are several valuable morsels of delectable knowledge i'm sure you all would love to know

 1. warning warning!  WHILE YOU MAY THINK THAT THE PRODUCT ON THE LEFT IS A HELPFUL AIDE TO HEADACHES, PAINS, ETC.  IT IS A FARCE! 
....the other evening i was minding my business and took 2 advil liquid gels for a measly headache.  within an hour i looked like quasi motto's cousin minus the hump on my back.  NO JOKE.  my eyes swelled up....kind of my whole face and i was all congested and knocked out....hilarious actually.

2. while somewhat to mostly less interesting then the above i have decided to enter the popcorn panic .  for those of you who are unaware its this ridiculous 5 mile marathon we have in valparaiso indiana for the popcorn fest.  i'm recruiting running partners.  beware.  viki, jess, and i have something in common:)

3. in addition to my list of things to do before i'm 30, i've added go to italy and find a real live erspamer.  my dad told me today that his aunt and uncle went over there and randomly the guy who was pumping their gas turned out to be an erspamer! 

4. so - in the last weeks of school a bunch of cedarvilians and others around the world were apart of this global commute for "invisible children".  about maybe 600 of us met in columbus and walked for about 1.5 hr. and had signs, chanted, answered questions, and then we camped out on ohio state campus - so fun!

 here's the website  http://www.invisiblechildren.com
its all about these children in uganda that live in constant fear of being kidnapped and forced to be soldiers in a rebel army - we were pretty much a part of a huge way to raise awareness.  i'd never been involved with anything like that - it was AMAZING. 
- I know that's random but it really matters and God's been challenging me to let the things that break His heart break my own. 

last but not least - a commemoration of my hall - oh the randomness. love.

ps.  i'll be back at wolbi in 2 weeks and i am SOOOOOOOO EXCITED!