photo dump.

Celebrate we will

Because life is short

But sweet for certain

.dmb. 

wowsers. life has gone by... so it is time again for another photo dump.

expectro patronus.

 so the other night for a community night (thanks tom mayer former co-leader for appalachia and current friend for the idea!) i did a reflection/activity based on harry potter and the 

patronus curse. cara did a spectacular job explaining what a patronus is and does (defend against dementors etc). the first part of the night we shared the positive thoughts we would think of (a necessary action to procure a patronus charm) the second part was painting a visual portrayal of what our's might look like. see mine to the right!

also that table i mentioned (did i mention our dinning room table fell (broken) victim to some birthday party celebrants (roommates) when they were dancing on it.  it looked like this for a little bit (upside down) but after two different sets of drills, a trip to home depot and some of the boys in our life (i tried... woman power... but was unsuccessful) and our dining room table is back in action. however i would not suggest dancing on it. (or as emily likes how my dad said it "maybe next time not TWO people dancing on it"... but really this table is out of commission for dancing.. 

but that doesn't stop my roommates from dancing on this one!

ok well it is hard to tell but this is emily and alex dancing on our coffee table in our living room. happy birthday joey (jv from the other house). 

to support local catholic schools the archdiocese of galveston/houston has a "steps for students" 5k run. tomás, alex and i decided to run it as cristo rey had a team. the 5k run really reminded alex and i about how out of shape we were but this guy (see left) runs it and takes third for his age group. regular old all star (also note he worked the 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. set up shift of the race and THEN ran the race).

after the race tomás and i went to the museum of natural science. it is just blocks from my house but i had never been there. there dinosaurs and taxidermy animals and diamonds and science and most importantly flattened pennies!

this is what happens when you squeeze a ketchup bottle too hard. not only does it squirt all over you but also it 

squirts

      in

        the

             eye

                 of

                   a

                     nearby

                          woman. 

(see her in the white shirt. poor/unsuspecting woman)

and that is the this edition of photo dump.