Addy's Adventures: March 2010

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Middle School Lock In!

On Friday night, we had a lock in for the middle schoolers at my church.

We had alot of fun! We started off the night with Abners, a talk from Rach and Dan, worship, and of course, some good ole GETWELL BALL with our teams!!

After that, we went to the YMCA and then to Sonic! Then back to the church for, of course, DODGEBALL. Here we are getting pumped (literally) for the tourney!

Memphis Grizzlies, with our pep talk from Meghan Vaughan and a fist pump!!

Here are the other teams getting ready. Some went for the nice approach of "as long as we have fun, everyone wins!".... (Memphis Tigers)

soon, they stopped their happy, peppy strategy and went for the fear tactic.

Then there were the teams that went for the boredom look, to scare the other teams.... (Memphis Redbirds)

And there were the ones that got a strategy and team huddle together... (Riverkings)

And when the games started, we saw the good.....

the bad.......

and the just plain FREAKY.

Speaking of freaky, ever played sardines at 3am in a pitch black dark church? I will say, I was scared outta my mind when the evil Andrew Perry snuck into the choir room and started playing the piano. I had to go catch a few middle schoolers from running away!!! In the last game, Joseph hid. We figured it would be a quick game. I mean, there aren't many places where 50 kids can hide together and wait! But we were wrong! 2 hours later, my group finally found them. Are you wondering how we entertained ourselves as we waited for the last 6 people to come? By Rach taking pictures, of course!

I think the kids had a great time!! I know I did! :)

Monday, March 15, 2010

Music Monday #

Happy Music Monday, bloggers!! I actually didn't make this up, I saw it on twitter!! :) So here are my top five songs, just know that since I'm such a music-loving girl, these are just my favorite songs at the moment. And they always change!! But they're all good, so click on them to hear them! Enjoy! :)

5. Celine Dion- My Heart Will Go On

*Btw, Titanic is one of my favorite movies EVER!!*

4. Train- Drops of Jupiter

3. The Fray- Never Say Never

2. Lea Michele- Don't Rain On My Parade

1. Justin Bieber- Baby

Monday, March 8, 2010

Youth Sunday

Yesterday was Youth Sunday at my church. Youth Sunday is a day when the youth leads the worship, scripture, and everything else. Our theme is orange...Parents are red, church is yellow. When they come together, they get orange kids. Its a great sermon series, and the service went so well. *here's a shoutout to my youth group!* Like my last post says, my dog Bella died today. Within minutes, I had phone calls, text messages, and @replies on twitter from them saying they were praying for me. It always helps to know that even when bad things happen, you'll always have AWESOME people behind you!!! I love you guys!!

Me singing "Healing is in your Hands"

"The Stand"

Yay for orange!

Caddy Corner

Andrew

Courtney!!!

Glen Coco!!! (Doug.)

Meggie!!

Danny about to preach it!

My favorite picture EVER!!! :)

I love you Bella!

Today we had to send my sweet puppy off to Jesus. I hope he's holding her and loving on her just like I should be doing right now. She wasn't even a year old. Still a baby. She just saw her first snow last month. We never had the chance to teach her to swim. Jude won't get to grow up with her. But one thing I know is true. Even though she was never old enough to learn to swim, or even celebrate a birthday with a little extra food, I know that my family gave her more love than any other family could. We easily could've put her to sleep when we found out she had allergies that made her allergic to just about anything. But we didn't. We loved and loved on her. And this just goes to show you that life is short. Life is painful. Life is hard. Life is the farthest thing there is from fair. But life still has blessings. My year with Bella was a blessing for me. And even in my pain, I have no regrets of meeting her. She was worth my pain right now. This post is for you, Bella-boo. You're always in my heart, and I'll NEVER forget you. <3

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Nashville :)

This weekend, I went to Nashville for a church trip. We went for a girl's leadership conference and to hang out with our intern from a few years ago, Jenna. We had to leave at 7:10, so of course, beauty queen that I am, I was up at 5:30. I got to the church at six (I had to ride with my dad to his Bible study) and everyone else got there around 7. On the way there, I rode with Courtney, Molly, Lauren, P, and Meghan. We had alot of fun on the way there. We fist pumped to the Biebinator and slept. How much better can it get? :)

When we got to the conference, we had to enter our names in a raffle, and we also got cute bags with lots of fun stuff in them. Even a new Bible! When we got in the conference room, we worshipped and talked for a few minutes. Then it was time for our first breakout! Breakouts were my favorite part! A breakout is a small Bible study that lasts for about an hour. Every breakout time, you had 3 to choose from.

The first one I went to was called BFF 4 EVER?- it was about being able to tell if you had good or bad friendships. The next one I went to was called Let's Talk. It was about helping your friends with their problems even when you don't relate to them.

That night, we went to Panera Bread (so good!!). We saw a dessert that looked like a good example of Hannah. It was called the bear claw.

After that, we went back to the conference for closing, and then to Maggie Moo's.

(thanks to Rach for this AWESOME picture!)

And that night, my room had SO much fun before we went to sleep. We stayed pretty late listening to Justin Bieber, and of course we went old school and listened to some Brick House.

The next morning, we went to Starbucks and then back to the conference. My next breakout was called Taming the Media Monster. It was about learning to see TV from God's eyes.

The next breakout I went to was called Glamour Girl and it was taught by a group called Rave ministries. It was about self image, and I REALLY liked it. They were so nice, and they sold me a super cute shirt!! Here is their website, you seriously should check it out. http://www.raveministries.org/ They have cute stuff to buy too. :)

That night, we went to the mall. While we were shopping, Jessye saw something amazing. TAYLOR SWIFT WALKING INTO THE APPLE STORE. We walked in, and saw her standing there. A man with her told us to form a line, and while we did, he rushed her out of the store. As she was walking out, she turned around and waved at us. We all screamed!! We tried to follow her out of the store, but the mall security guard told us to "disperse, or we would scare away our guest." We think she left after that, but we still looked everywhere for her. While we kept shopping, all of the mall security guards followed us around!! After a while, we went to my personal favorite store, Juicy Couture.