Archives for June 2008

Today was our final fund raiser for Uganda. Our team had a silent auction outside where people bought $2300 worth of donated goods and services. That was pretty cool. We’re almost done now.

My kids however have been bugging me for months to do a lemonade sale at journey to raise money. I think they are sick of helping me recycle cans. Anyway- so as not to bombard our congregation with this trip and fundraising, I told them we could not do it until auction sunday. Every weekend they asked me, “Is this the weekend Dad?” Finally, this weekend I said yes.

So yesterday I helped them buy the supplies for lemonade and build a table out of 2×2’s and cardboard. Then all by themselves they painted it yesterday and made the lemonade and sold it today. It made the “silent” auction not so silent listening to TJ repeat, “Lemonade for Uganda” really loud about a thousand times, but it all paid off.

They felt like they got to do something and they made $441 for their efforts towards Uganda.

Pretty sweet. “3 cheers for the browthewrs” as Jake would say.

Cuz I’m not sure what to title this post.

But a few weeks ago TJ graduated from 5th grade. I mentioned that at Dad’s and donuts this woman came in a really short little black dress. I think they are called LBD’s and I swear she was showing off her BVD’s. Maybe you thought I was overreacting.

Well, she showed up at graduation in a really short white one that she had to keep pulling down. She and her husband (I assume) were walking in as I was walking in and she seemed a little out of place, like a guy in a suit on the beach- only the reverse. So as I stood in the back taking pictures of TJ and this ceremony the whole time. She sat near the back and I kept wondering what this gal was thinking and then when she stood up and stuck her butt out I couldn’t help myself.

I snapped a pic. In all my field trips and elementary school events, I swear I’ve seen more thongs than I did even in the low rise jean fad of the early 2000’s with our high school girls.

So word to the wise, an elementary school function is not the best place to show off your thong butt through your see through white little number.

There you go Becky. Now you’ve seen it too.

I do not twitter. I do blog (duh) and I read blogs via bloglines.

But lots of my friends do twitter. I can’t see adding another technology piece to my world.

However, especially those friends of mine who do not blog but do twitter, I have enjoyed getting their twitter feeds. I was excited to accidentally discover that I could via bloglines.

So, if you want to, just go to twitter. Find the people who are on that you know or would like to read what they publish. Hit subscribe. Walla…. you have instant twitter single sentence blog posts in essence.

That’s the question that came up on an add while updating facebook.

Right above this picture:

#1. Who is asking?
#2. What’s up with this facebook ad reading my age off my profile?
#3. How’d they get my body shot too?
#4. What idiot decided that I was 36 and dumb enough to believe that I got like this by drinking their green tea?

on a similiar note… I walked out of panera bread after meeting with a student yesterday afternoon. We walked through a group of 3 women in their late teens/early twenties. And all I heard were these 2 lines:

Girl 1: Yeah… well that’s Matthew McConaughey.
Girl 2: I want to lick his body.

… and our society thinks women are the only ones with body image complexes.

Our Uganda Team set out to raise 77,000. We all all but $6000 there. PRAISE GOD!! We are still working hard to fill the final gaps.

This sunday we get prayed for in church and we do a final silent auction of goods and services outside. Thanks to all of you who helped my family do our part!! Keep praying.