Marshmallows!!!

Many of you may not know that I am a huge fan of marshmallows, but as I just stated, I am. Because of this, awhile back my family bought me a huge back of GIANT marshmallows...and when I say GIANT I mean each marshmallow weighs 1 oz in and of itself. I thought they were hilarious and yet for some reason, I cannot bring myself to eat them (I get a sugar rush every time I simply glance at the bag). So I finally decided, thanks to my sister's ingenious idea, to make Rice Krispie Treats with them. The reason I'm telling you all this? Because as soon as I put the GIANT marshmallows in the microwave, and watched them grow and grow in size, I immediately thought of CJ and the marshmallow cream.... :-). SO I thought I'd share my experience with you.(huge bag of GIANT marshmallows)
(Marshmallow cream reenactment...almost hit the top!)(This was the hard part...stirring of course, not stuffing it in my mouth)
The finished product! Unfortunately, I can't actually share this part with you...though I'd love to! Don't think they'd fare well in the mail though. Hope you enjoyed :-).

Oh yea, I forgot to tell you!

So I have been meaning to tell you guys this for about a week now, but I've been either too busy or too lazy to go take a picture...

I had a HUGE prayer answered last week when I went home to visit with my parents for the weekend. They surprised me with a.............

NEW CAR!!

I'm seriously still in shock over the whole thing, it's totally unlike my parents and it came at just the right time because my poor little Saturn hardly made it to their house. They originally were going to wait and give it to me when I graduated but they were really excited about my plans to continue on with Graduate school (yet another thing that was totally unlike my parents) that they wanted to give it to me now! Again, totally in shock, but excited beyond words..

oh, and please feel free to mock the fact that it has a car bra =]

July 4th- Red, White & Blues....

Hey everyone,

So my July 4th has been lame (however, the evening isn't done yet)
Tyler has to wake up early and therefore is playing with legos instead of watching fireworks on the roof of my house with me (and if he would have been here, I definitely would NOT have gotten stuck on the roof... I see now that my parents had a legit reason for not letting me go up there as a kid).

So anyways, after I figured out how to get down from the roof I randomly read through the Staff Quote book and had a good laughing-with-myself session but I had some questions....

and since I'm feeling pitiful and narcissistic I chose my own quotes- does anyone remember the context of these??? I can't seem to remember!

1: “My only hesitation is if I didn’t know anyone I didn’t want to spend a weekend sleeping with them.” – K Stes

2: “What were you guys talking about when I was the Holy Spirit?” – K Stes


hope you are all having a good time!
=]

Look what I found...

oops.

I left out a semi-news-worthy part of my day. There is a fire in Temecula and our church was evacuated. My dad was working at the church at the time. Last I heard, the fire hasn't burned any structures or houses (it is in the hills behind the building where luckily, not very much is). This is a pic my Dad took with his phone from the church roof (yes, that's his thumb, he's a little new at this whole camera phone thing ;-)

and here are a couple pics from online:

Just pray for the fire to be put out soon and not destroy any homes/buildings, for safety for the the firefighters/police, also there was a huge outreach event planned at the church tonight that had to be canceled that a lot of people put a lot of time into and my dad is doing a wedding at the church this weekend so just that this wouldn't cause problems for the bride and groom :)

Summer

Well, at this moment in time, I can't necessarily follow a business venture half way around the world, mosquito nets, and passports... but I can tell you what I did today. It will make the rest of you all feel better about your summers ;)

Today I...

My aunt and uncle own a preschool in Garden Grove and we went and visited. Isn't it cute? They were bar-b-queing for the Fourth of July today so that was fun and the kids were super cute. 

This is the outside:

Part of the inside:

After taking a nap... I went lap swimming. First time since being home. oops. The pool is... um... interesting. I'm used to the Temecula CRC and Splash! which are pretty nice. Lets just say that the water was a little cloudy and when the lifeguard was out on a deck, someone was sitting next to him playing the guitar. 

And one of my favorite parts about being home... being able to make my own food or have home cooked non cafe meals! (I, though, have nothing against the cafe:)

Tonight I had cereal (half regular cheerios/half honey nut) and strawberries... 

With a fork of course...

Anyone else do anything exciting... or not exciting and still want to share?? :)

Stamps

I have now filled up two whole pages of my passport! Wohoo! The visa for Kenya is a full page...


Also, I woke up at 5am to the Muslim call to prayer...that was fun

Anyway, I'm doing well - just trying to adjust to the time change. Out of the 27 hours of flight time, I only slept for 4 hours...so I'm beat. But I did watch several movies...I shed a tear for Marley & Me, enjoyed 17 Again (Meg, it would have been an infinitely better choice than Ghosts...), finally saw Slumdog, started Madagascar 2 to get in the Africa mindset...haha

Tomorrow we are going on a city tour, so I'm pretty excited for that. Kenyans are pretty nice and so proud of their country. We met with a pastor yesterday and he and his wife showed us around and gave us some good pointers on how to avoid getting taken advantage of, which is great!

Anyway, I hope you are all doing well!