Lauren Alicia

so yesterday and today have been 2 interesting days. yesterday, since i didn't have school, i decided to do something different with my hair. i curled it differently and i love it!! then my parents went to go put money down on a toyota avalon since we needed a new car. so we bought a new car! then i went and spent the night at carly's. haha we stayed up till 2 in the morning talking, listening to music, and taking pictures. it was fun times. then today we had to go shopping for ham, yams, milk, and peanut butter so we went to sams. on the way out i had like 20 of the sagebrush business cards so carly and i stuck them in the wind shields of cars. it was fun. then they dropped me off at home. i was surprised to learn that we were donating our van because i thought we would sell it and at least have it for a while. so the guy that came to pick up our van was apparently the dad of his jerk who went to calvary. so now im rushing to finish this cause im leaving for tonight's Easter service. PIZZA PARTY BABY!! Then i got a call this morning at like 10:30 from my mom that my cousin was in labor and in the hospital. so tonight when we got out of the service my mom checked her voicemails and we got the news! Lauren Alicia (pronounced like Ralf Lauren) was born!!!!!!!! i was so excited!!! i literally started jumping around and went at told like everyone i knew! very few of them cared though so that stunk. oh well i was happy!!!! im a second cousin again!!

Horrible acting

so today Elizabeth, Buddy, Evie, Jared, Robert, my brother, and I went to go see Jumper. it was pretty good. kinda funny because Hayden Christensen is not a great actor. I loved him in Star wars and everything but hes not a good actor. so that made the movie funny. then my parents picked me and my brother up and we went to look at cars. we found one so i think that might be "the one." pretty excited. ta-ta for now

Fly away!!!

I so wish i could. Yesterday my family and i went on a tour of Eclpise Aviation. For all of you who don't know what that is, they build planes and are located like right by the airport. so like this guy we know works there and wanted to take us on a tour. I have to sqay it was one of the coolest things i have ever done. We got to see the factory where the built the planes and see the different parts. We got to see what the planes looked like with paint and everything. it was pretty amazing. i really wanted to fly after that but with me being blind i can't. so i guess God doesn't want me to fly. sometimes i wonder why but you know He has a bigger and better plan for me. i just have to trust him. regardless of how much i want something.

facebook

so i just got a facebook like tuesday and its pretty amazing. i think i like it more than myspace. if any of you want to find me, my name is marissa elma!

late..

so i decided that i would elaborate on disciple now. there were about 200 kids and each group was assigned a host home for the weekend. my group's host home was our leaders home so that was nice. elizabeth and i got there around 6:30 then everyone hung out till around 8 when we were supposed to be at the church. So we got there and were given an amazing message in a video by this one guy about the universe. it was amazing. we are so small. then jared announced that our scheduled game was canceled because of some complications. so everyone was all bummed cept Elizabeth and Amanda because their sixth sense was telling them we were still having our game. So everyone piled into their cars and then we hear Stevo, the m88 dj, saying that everyone needs to go back to sagebrush. So we all headed back and got our instructions: we had to find our pastor and the "underground church" without getting caught by Roman soldiers. so all the times headed out to find Jared. there were glow sticks all around the campus and we would follow them and take them since we didn't know that we weren't supposed to. so we had collected like 15 then found out we weren't supposed to take em so we threw them by this bush and you could see it from a distance! so we kept running around trying to find jared but we lost amanda cause sje got caught. after like 15 minutes we found jared but the softys' were all mad at us cause we didn't follow them to jared. we just wanted to be careful and didn't know if they were roman soldiers! so we lost but it was still fun. now im tired of talking about this so i think i shall end this post. the weekend was awesome though. realized a few things too that may not have made my life any easier. oh well

Sublime

So this weekend was pretty much amazing. Go Ghetto Pirates!!! (and pony boys)

KGB

So on saturday my church started their first highschool only service. It was pretty good. Good message and there were no silly middle schoolers to be found. Then after service, we played this game called KGB(named after the russian mafia). So how the game was supposed to be played was all the leaders would get in their cars and drive around the aread from out church up to Hastings. All the kids were supposed to make their way to Hastings and back without getting caught by the KGB. So the leaders left then the rest of his teenagers got on our way. Elizabeth and I thought it would be better if we waited till everyone else left so we were like really far behind everyone. We just walked slowly and talked for a while. Then we got to this big field and had just started crossing it when we see this lone figure come running. Elizabeth started shouting "Who are you? State your name!" or something like that (shes so cute). Well all of a sudden we hear this evil laugh and realize its Tasha, my pastor's wife. She tagged Eizabeth and i was slowly walking away trying to keep distance between myself and Tasha. She was trying to get me to come over there but i didn't want to. Then she said that if we got tagged, we became KGB and could tag other people so i let her tag me. Then Elizabeth and I went off in search of unsuspecting people. We didn't really see anyone till we got to hastings and there was like a huge group there! but we couldn't tag them so we just headed back to the church. Then we were walking behind some buildings and we see Robert and Doug walking by us. Elizabeth asked them if they had been tagged ands they says yes (i think) then Robert asked us if we had. Apparetly we didn't asnwer fast enough because he and Doug took off running. I chased Doug for like 30 seconds then got too tired and let him get away. So i started walking all alone when Elizabeth calls me, telling me that Robert is walking a ways behind me and to tag him. So i asked these 2 guys near me if they could help me and this one guy was like "sure" and took off after Robert. I didn't actually see this take place but according to ELizabeth the guy was like a major runner. His friend was there too and they had his way blocked and he started running towards where i was. So i started running to see if i could catch him and i barely grabbed his shirt. So i finally tagged someone! sorta.. but yea then we made our way back to the church and hung out. Then everyone went to Dions and yea.. it was weird. So that was my saturday night? How was yours?

so i bought new shoes yesterday. they are pretty amazing