The Way I See It

The first time I blogged I was at the beach. I figured that it was only appropriate while I'm here to rub it in. This is the view from where I'm sitting. Yep...it's 50 degrees at the Oregon Coast and beautiful as ever. Seth and Jesse have joined me on the trip...I'm sure there are more updates to come because we have little to do and we're loving it!





OK - beat me up later!

2006 - The Year in Review

Stats

0 Moves
1 New Job
1 Brother married
1 New Sister Added
3 Minor Injuries
8 Years I owned my 1990 Subaru Legacy
1,237,899 times the back of the car squeaked while I drove
201,000 Miles it had on it when I gave it away
3 Times I had my credit card number stolen and used
1 New Vox Amp
1 New Fender Telecaster Guitar
1 Hour Spent Actually Playing Them :)
1 Vacation to the Beach (Grateful bread pancakes!)
1 Trip to Cairo Egypt
150 People that came to Christ in Egypt!
1 Trip to the Fray (Piano rock remember?)
4 Close Friends move away from Bend (Uganda and Nampa represent!)
302 Times I was mistaken for Corey
40 Student Leaders in our first year of the program (rockin' the city)
1 Unfinished Acoustic Project
35 Unfinished Books
1 Finished Backyard
0 Times I was in an epic battle with Ninjas and Warlords

1 Too Many Stats

Blue Ribbon Burgers from Red Robin
Bills from the Emergency Room

Highlights

Egypt (watch this video to understand why!!)



The Fray



I'm just really enjoying bands like this right now. I went to their concert in Portland this year with a couple friends and thought it was great! Check out the band MuteMath - they are cool too.

Favorites

Books I was Into:

Searching for God Knows What - Donald Miller
Velvet Elvis - Rob Bell
Culture Warrior - Bill O'Reilly

Music I was Into:

Jonny Lang**
Coldplay
Mute Math
Hillsong United
Thrice
Copeland
The Fray**
Delirious (revisted the old stuff + new)
Leeland
Keane
**bands I saw live!

Ok, that's a mouthful of what happened to me in 2006. What was your favorite part of 2006?

Hey Oneighty - Tell Your Story Here

The ground rules:
Tell me in "one word descriptions" about a life threatening experience you had. After that include how God brought you through it...for examples look at the comments in the previous post. We'll read some of them next week at 1...8...0! Rock on!

Tree Hunt!

Recently I took the student leaders of 180 on a Tree Hunt. On the way I thought it'd be a good idea to get me and the students in my car into a life threatening experience. Once again let me explain in one word descriptions. Car. Me. Others. Driving. Driving. Ice. Slick. Turning. Mas Turning. Loudscreamingandcraziness. Safety. Relief. So I know that Loudscreamingcraziness isn't one word, but you know what I mean. So we hit ice and slid and that was real silly because I had students in my car and I felt like I put their lives in danger. So, I'd just like to shout out to Jesus for keeping us safe. Now it's your turn.

When have you been in a life threatening experience and how did it change your life? Feel free to try the one word descriptions method :)

Here's some pictures of the tree hunt that followed our life threatening experience. Props to Dalton, Kelsey, Karlee, and Andy who endured with me.

Hot or Not Pockets

OK - New Discussion...How do you feel about Hot Pockets? Ready...Go.


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