productivity.

I think that I was a little bit too productive today. I have a headache because I am so tired, but I'm on a roll with this being productive business, so I thought that I would go ahead and post this...

Today I went to Home Depot, bought some screws, and screwed the latter to the bunk bed. I have been sleeping on this top bunk since last August (oh snap! it's almost been a year!) and the ladder has always been shaky and not screwed in. 

Several times I have actually been near death as I scrambled to turn my alarm off early in the morning. But no more. I have a solid foundation. 

Ok, now it's time for me to climb up that sturdy ladder and get some z's. 

Buenos Noches! 

Bethany

CHAOS is the greek word for BLESS

our view

the kitchen

the dining "area"

living space view #1

living space view #2

the coke bottle shelf of residency...

well hello. 

i have decided to share with you the inner workings of our apartment (just one little snippet, don't get crazy...) 

thanks to the most amazing brothers in Christ (Tom and Dan, and whoever else was behind the V-Day flower giving...) we now have a ritualistic mark of residency.

a glass coke bottle containing one yellow rose and one white rose.

Sarah, Bethany, Emily, Sandi and I received one on V-Day of this year, and now that Sandi has moved out, so has her coke bottle and flowers. to mark the occasion of Sarah Carlson moving in, Emily, Bethany, and I came home Friday night and found a ltittle present for Emily's returning home and glass coke bottle with one yellow rose and one white rose in it with a note tied around the neck of thebottle that read: 

"Sarah Carleson 

Happy Belated Valentine's Day!!! 

-Dan"

there you have it. 

they are all still in the bottles, all dried out (no water in them...so not THAT gross, geez) on a shelf in the living room. there they will stay...until we all move out i guess. i know i'm taking mine with me :)

 sooner than later i will give you all a little tour of the ever changing landscape that is the apartment.

Ta Ta For Now

-Lauren

Bethany and I are on our way to pick up Emily!!! But first, breakfast at Eggs'n'Things :)

Wednesday - apple pie and forgiveness
Thursday - my neighborhood family and prayer
Friday - my brother's show

God and the life he has given me is good :)

Decorated Matt Slaven's living room this weekend with Nate and Megan and I had so much fun! Pictures will come soon!

Pictures from the other night!

Friday night my friend Eva texted me and told me that she wanted to go on an adventure. We came up with two ideas...a moonlit hike or midnight bocci ball. We decided that bocci ball would be the most fun so we found a friend who had a set of balls and off we went.....but first, we had to get dressed up for the occasion

we felt so beautiful! Then we convinced Lor to join us in the madness and we were for  reals ready to go!

We got into a bit of mischief as we walked to the park. We took this picture in someone's driveway just as they were pulling in. :)

It's a good thing that I randomly grabbed a tape measure to clip to my belt. We had a couple of close calls. 

(Mine was the yellow...and it was the closest).

The game continued and we had a lot of fun just enjoying life together. It was good to just be silly for a while. I think that God likes to watch his daughters being silly and laughing and not taking themselves so seriously.

Love, 

Beth

One of the many things we do with our friday nights:

Late night boche ball sessions with the girls :)

you know when you are a bible college student when...

when your fridge looks like this:

On mission together

It's been a while since any of us have posted on here... Probably because we are so busy loving each other in real life that we don't have the desire to sit in front of a computer. 

We are doing well as an apartment. Realizing that we are more than just roomates, that we are partners together on a mission, has united us tremendously. For instance, yesterday we had a community barbecue. We invited our neighbors, but only the highschoolers came. But hey, we still had fun and met some cool new kids. Anyways, through the planning, purchasing, cooking and cleaning, we grew a little closer.

But the barbecue is not the mission that we were on together. We are constantly on a mission to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to bear in our neighbors lives. It's the only thing that is worthy of our lives. And it is worthy. We are so excited to devote our lives to this!

In His grace, 

Bethy