Two Things

Just a little something for fun.

Two Names You Go By:
1. Andi
2. Annie or Anne

Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1. Black and White Shorts
2. Red tank top that says "Canada: Old Navy"

Two Things You Would Want (or have) in a Relationship:
1. God is the center
2. Love and Trust

Two of Your Favorite Things to do:
1. Art (including listening to and playing music, drawing, dancing, writing...)
2. Hang out with friends

Two Things You Want Very Badly At The Moment:
1. An electric guitar with an amp
2. To hang out with certain friends right now

Two pets you had/have:
1. Peaty (My goldfish from Erin, I had him for almost 3 years, he was suicidal
2. Moon Shine! Our two mascot fish that Chantelle and I had for our Moonshine Fest while the other youth got to go to the States for Sonshine Fest

Two people who will fill this out:
1. I'm copying and pasting this from Sharilyn's email than changing the answer
2. There's already a butt load of people that filled this out, I'm just a little late ....

Two things you did last night:
1. Played the piano
2. Took a shower

Two things you ate today:
1. Riblings and Fries
2. A bowl of strawberries, Fudge Crackle Ice Cream, and whip cream altogether...it was delightful

Two people you Last Talked To:
1. My Dad
2. Josh

Two Things You're doing Tomorrow:
1. Waking up, doing my devotions
2. Playing guitar, piano and maybe the drums, I'd like to draw a picture too

Two longest car rides:
1. To Edmonton for Missionsfest...it wasn't THAT long but we were forced to listen to country music on the radio the entire way...like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives
2. Driving to Clydehurst in Montana, that took quite a ways. It wasn't all that bad but for the first hour I really had to go to the bathroom until I couldn't hold it any longer and I had to dart for the bushes....the car ride was quite enjoyable after that

Two Favorite Holidays:
1. Christmas ...It's the most wonderful time of the yeeeeaaaarrrrr!!!!!
2. Easter

Two favorite beverages:
1. Coke
2. Shirley Temple ....and water is third place.

Ten Things About ME! Things you may not have known:
1. I have never dyed my hair before
2. I have a diary that I regularly write in, I've filled 4 diaries already
3. I have a Clay Aiken CD...ok 2 Clay Aiken CD's, but the second one is a Christmas one so it doesn't count...I was going through a phase, ok?
4. I have over 700 pictures on my bedroom walls
5. Chocolate pudding makes me sneeze
6. When I was in gr. 2 I auditioned for a solo for RCS's Christmas musical and I didn't make it, I thought I must have been a horrible singer since I wasn't chosen (Heather got the solo, her entire family is absolutely AMAZING singers/musicians) anyways I stopped singing after that and always lip-synced in church. Until I went to Hillsdale, then I started singing again. So now I'm working on improving my vocals and even working on harmonizing. Singing is so much fun! I just wish I hadn't quit singing for so many years.
7. I can do a mean granny impression, a Grinch and even a Gollumn impression
8. I was the tallest kid in my entire school in grade 7. I was also called "Big foot" and "Green Giant" in elementary school
9. I wish I had never quit piano
10. I really, really dislike math, yet I have a 99 in it.

Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Babysitting
2. Helping out with washing some RCMP vehicles
3. A one day job at Jackson's second house; I helped haul bricks, shovel rubble, get the mortar off the bricks and so on
4. Sometimes I get paid to do the weeds or mow the lawn...

Four movies I would watch over and over:
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. The Grinch
3. Love Comes Softly series
4. This doesn't count for current movies but I used to watch A Walk to Remember over and over again when I was little, and I saw Step Up 3 times in the theaters...so now that I saw them too many times I'm kind of sick of 'em

Four places that I have lived:
1. Vernon Cres. house
2. Lothian Mews co-op house
3. Regina, in general
4. In my Mom's stomach :)

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Sausage and Perogies
2. Pepperoni and Pineapple Pizza
3. Potatoes -Mashed, baked, french fries, chips, scalped....so many options
4. Cheese - Grilled cheese sandwiches, noodles and cheese, mac n' cheese, nachos and cheese, cheesies, cheesecake....mmm ccchheeessseee

Four places I'd rather be right now:
1. I'm quite content here but if I to choose: BC
2. Hillsdale
3. Australia
4. Clydehurst in Montana

Good Friday

So yesterday was Good Friday. And I thought I'd just share about how my day went.
My family went to the Good Friday service at Hillsdale in the morning. Pastor Bill gave a powerful and inspiring message on "The Crisis of the Cross" and we sang songs like Agnus Dei and How Deep the Father's Love with Communion following the message. It was a great way to start off the day and really focus on what Christ did for us on the cross.
My family and the Reimer's went to Classic Buffet for lunch with was quite enjoyable. It was a little rushed for me because we got to the restaurant at about 12:20 and I had to be at WCC for 1pm.
So that was my next stop - Western Christian College. The youth that were leading the worship for the evening along with Pastor Bernard, Pastor Josh, Barclay and Kory worked through the after setting up everything so that the worhsip music would run smoothly. I was a bit tired and my nosed was really stuffed up, but I kept busy to take my mind of being sick.
Supper took place at the WCC cafeteria. One of those old school cafeterias where you actually get a tray and slide it along, picking up a dessert, main dish foods, some salad bar food and 5 choice of juice. It was neat! After supper we all changed out of our casual clothes and I got my hair straightened. Kiersten did it...hehe, it turned out quite nicely too.
Then all the leaders, pastors and people in charge of running the evening gathered together for prayer. Not too long after people started coming in.
I had invited about 9 people and one of them showed up. But I'm still glad that that one friend did show up. We all gathered in the auditorium while one of the pastors led us in prayer and gave intructions to each of the stations we were going to. There were seven stations to go to. One was holding a thorn branch in your hands, remembering what Christ did on the cross and asking Him to remove the thorns from your life. Another station you would roll dice and whatever number you rolled on the dice you would write on a banner that number of distractions keeping you from God, and pray that they would no longer keep you away from Him. One of the stations had a large piece of cloth representing the curtain that was torn in two in the temple, people would tear a piece of the cloth from bottom to top, asking God to tear away any barriers in their life. There was a station where you could taste bitter vinegar and ask God to remove any bitterness from your life. Another station had a canvas that said "Remember me" referring to the thief on the cross next to Jesus, asking Jesus to remember him when He was in heaven. So we wrote our names and thanked God for His eternal love. There was a station had a wooden cross lying on the group with hammer and nails where you could hammer a nail into the cross and ask forgiveness of a specific sin in your life. The last station was in the auditorium. It was three big candles lit, representing the Trinity and people would take a small tea-light candle the light it from the bigger candles, then put it close to the three main candles. It represents us being a light for Jesus to this dark world, and as people shine for Him, more come to know Him and the light grows and shines brighter.
They were all meaningful stations, the two most meaningful ones for me were the "Remember Me" station and the cross station. It took me a long time to go forward and pick up that hammer and nail a nail into the cross. Just watching everyone pound a nail into the cross really choked me up. It's so hard to wrap my mind around the fact that God loves us so much that He'd send His one and only Son to die for our sins, for MY sin.
Hillsdale youth led the worship for the evening. I really enjoyed being able to play the drums and not worry about all the technical aspects of playing, but rather just focus on Christ while I played and really worship Him. Once the main worship was done, there was time to reflect and pray while Bernard and Josh played some songs on the guitar. I quietly sat down and reflected on the whole day and what Jesus went through so that I could have salvation and eternal life with Him. Wow, God is so good! I truly don't deserve His mercy and grace. I stayed sitting where I was for quite awhile, simply enjoying the peacefulness and quiet. Just taking time to be still.
After a while I joined people outside the auditorium and talked with others for a bit then a bunch of us helped take down the stage and pack up everything. A guy named Lee Harding came up to be and asked me some questions about the night and playing on the worship team. It was interesting. We all finished packing up then Jen and I headed home. We had a super late supper that consisted of mandarine salad, flat bread, potatoes and lamb. We shared around the table our highlights of the day then I headed to bed to catch up on some much needed sleep.
All in all, it was an amazing day that really hit home for me more than once and drove me to my knees in prayer several times. The best part is that it doesn't stop there, Jesus wasn't just barried in the tomb and stayed dead, but rose again in 3 days! That's why I'm pumped for Easter Sunday tomorrow. I can't wait!
God bless,
Andrea
PS. If you want to read the article about the Good Friday Youth Service go to
http://reginalink.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=89&Itemid=1
and if that doesn't work then just type in the main website and it should be on the homepage.

Finally...the holidays!

Yes, it's finally here! Spring break....*sigh* The past month has been ubber busy- countless assignments, piles of homework, a science project, three essays, midterms...the list goes on. But I am now homework free! Yahoo! I also got my report card and my hard work has paid off.
I'm really looking forward to tomorrow. Good Friday service at 10am at Hillsdale, lunch with the family, set up sound equipment at WCC then it's the Good Friday Youth Service. Last year's Good Friday Youth Rally was AWESOME so I'm really stoked for this year's GF. I'm also excited to be drumming for it again too.
If you could, I would really appreciate your prayers. Pray that the worship team will be able to effectively lead the youth in worship tomorrow and that the focus would be entirely on Christ. I invited about 9 or 10 people out, so pray that they can come and that God would really work in their hearts tomorrow. Please pray that I get better as well. I woke up this morning with a stuffed nose and sore throat that has lasted throughout the entire day with a headache and burning eyed to boot. So please pray that I get better for tomorrow. Thank you.
Something that was really awesome was lunch time today! Thom's ISCF group had spent a few lunch hours baking and icing sugar cookies and today we set up a table and gave away cookies. We had one poster with John 3:16 on it, another poster wishing everyone a happy Easter from ISCF and a drawing of Jesus above the table. We made 3 ice cream bucket-fulls of cookies that were seriously gone in about 25 minutes. So many people would come up to us and say "how much are the cookies?" and we'd smile and tell them they were free. So they'd ask why, and we'd tell them it was a simple way of ISCF wishing them a happy Easter since Good Friday and Easter Sunday are right around the corner. Everyone was really positive too! The students and the teachers loved the cookies as well. It was really interesting to see that everyone had to be told almost twice that the cookies were free before believing us, or they'd ask "what's the catch?" They couldn't understand why we would hand out cookies for free. One guy insisted over and over that he give us 50 cents. It was an awesome experience showing God's love by simply giving someone a cookie and watching their face light up as they enjoyed their free cookie. Plus there were quite a few people that remembered ISCF handing out free candy canes at Christmas with little notes on them, so that was great to know that people remember those little things.
So here I am, my head is pretty full of sickness, but my heart is full of joy from the blessings that God has given to me today. And I thank Him everyday for always guiding me and showing His love through even the smallest acts of kindness from others. I'm pumped for tomorrow and I hope to see all y'all at the City Wide Youth Service or the Good Friday service in the morning.
May God bless you this Easter, and may you remember the true meaning of Easter!
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that He sent His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
God bless,
Andrea

Oh the memories!

You're a 90's kid if:

You can finish this [ice ice _ _ _ _ ]

You remember watching Doug, Ren & Stimpy, Pinky and the Brain, Bobby's World, Felix the cat, The Tick...

AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!

You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"

You just cant resist finishing this . . . "Iiiiiiin west philidelphia born and raised . . ."

You remember TGIF, Step by Step, Family Matters, Dinosaurs, and Boy Meets World.

You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.

You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.

You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence . . . not

when everyhting was settled by rock paper scissors..or bubble gum bubble gum in a dish...eeny meeny miney mo...and even better daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky.

You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time.

"Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" was both a game and a TV game show.

Captain Planet. He's a Hero.

You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together.

You remember when Super Nintendos and Sega Genisis became popular.

You always wanted to send in a tape to America's Funniest Home Videos . . . but never taped anything funny.

You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3 . . . and tried to pull the pranks on "intruders"

You remember watching The Magic School Bus, Wishbone, and Reading Rainbow on PBS.

You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.

You remember those Where's Waldo books.

You remember eating Warheads.

You remember watching the 1st Batman, Aladin, Ninja Turtles, and 3 Ninjas movies.

You remember Ring Pops.

You remember drinking Surge, and Tang.

If you remember when every thing was "da BOMB!"

When they made the new lunchables so that you could make pizza AND tacos.

You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.

Making those little paper fortune cookie things, and then predicting your life with them.

You played and/or collected "Pogs"

You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere.

. . . Furbies.

Saved By The Bell was the coolest show ever!

You haven't always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.

And Windows 95 was the best.

You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers, and Ninja Turtles.

Michael Jordan was a king.

YIKES pencils and erasers were the stuff!

You remember when the new Beanie Babies and Talking Elmo were always sold out.

You collected those Beanie Babies.

Mortal Kombat was awesome--the game and the movie

Carebears

Gak was the coolest stuff invented.

Lambchop's song never ended.

The old dollar bills.

Silver dollars, which were cool to have.

You collected all the Troll dolls

You had to read Weekly Reader's in class.

If you even know what an original walkman is.

You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.

You know the Macarena by heart.

"Talk to the hand" . . . enough said

You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"

You remember trying to collect all 150 original pokemon cards but never could and if you did you thought you were all that!

You remember Highlight's magazine.

You know the significance of the number 23.

You went to McDonald's to play in the playplace.

You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.

Before the MySpace frenzy . . .

Before the Internet & text messaging . . .

Before Sidekicks & iPods . . .

Before MIKE JONES . . .

Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX . . .

Before Spongebob . . .

Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.

When light up sneakers were cool.

When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.

When gas was $0.71 a Litre & Caller ID was a new thing.

When we recorded stuff on VCRs.

When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off of our walkmans.

When gameboy was a brick.

You did MASH to figure out your future

Way back.

Before we realized all this would eventually disappear.

Who would have thought you'd miss the 90's so much!!!!!

What? New post? No way!

That's right! I'm posting finally. I've been as busy as a mouse at a Chinese buffet. I really should be finishing my display board for my science project but I really need a break. I also have a cold too. Meh! It is no fun being sick. So what has been going on with me you may ask? Well I shall share a few highlights of the past two months.

1. Dancing. So you think you can dance? Yes, I do! I learned in gym class. I can now two-step, jive/swing, polka, waltz, do the butterfly, macarena, limbo and a few others. Didn't think a Baptist could pull that off huh? The swing was my favorite. Out of the 5 partners I had, only one actually knew the swing. So the rest - including my dance final partner - had to be taught by myself how to dance. All in all, it was a bunch of fun!


2. HEartBEATS. What an awesome night! There were amazing art and talented musicians. Bernard kicked off the night with some Starfield and Shawn McDonald. I am proud to be able to say "I know him!" There was a unique celtic group that really inspired me to break out the spoons and start making music, a dance group, a jazz singer and Steve Larsen played. I really enjoyed the little toddler that came up on stage, into the spot light and started dancing in the middle of one of the performances. Priceless. I also took some good vids of Bernard and Steve playing. My dad, Jen, Mr. Reimer, Chantelle, Bradie and I ended off the night with pizza and a Greek platter at Western Pizza. Mmm Mmm good! The only thing that kept be wondering was a small piece of paper. I was putting on my coat when a piece of paper fell from my coat in front of me. I picked it up to find an email address and cell phone number on it....hmmm....so what do I do? The email included the name Jon, so I know it's a guy but other than that, I'm pretty much doing nothing about it.

3. Jazz in the Aud. I was very impressed when I went to my school's jazz show just this last Thursday. Thom's vocal jazz is really good! And some of their facial expressions while singing are even better! Bands consisting of Thom students, some Thom graduates and a band of a few teachers had me tapping my foot to the beat and even clapping. The staff choir was hilarious with Bad Moon Rising and Me and Julio. Especially little Ms. Hubbs -the English teacher- who makes a big scene at the end about the wrong grammar of Me and Julio, as the staff shake their heads and walk off the stage. Go Ms. Hubbs! The night ended off with our high school's jazz band playing three songs. The first song was "Linus and Lucy" (the Charlie Brown, Peanuts song!) My friend Chad was the feature soloist on the piano. It was an awesome song. So the night was a hit....except for the ride home. Jen and I got to the bus station at 10:00pm, and waited a good half an hour for the bus. Finally we decided to walk home. We had just crossed the street when the bus zooms past. Grrrreat. So Jen and I hiked home. A little chilly but it was worth it.

Yeah so that's my little blurbs for the day. My mom needs to prepare Sunday School on the computer so I shall leave. But first, a few ending words of wisdom!

"Man who runs in front of car gets tired"
"Man who runs behind car gets exhausted"
"Man who stands on toilet gets high on pot"
"Man who goes to sleep with itchy bum wakes up with stinky finger"

Have an awesome weekend!
God bless,
Andrea

Beach Bash

If you're in grade six to grade twelve I highly encourage you to come out and enjoy what an awesome night this is going to be! I'm so excited, I can't wait!
I'm wearing a lei to school on Friday to spark up conversations and invite some people - so pray that that goes well. Hope to see you there!
God bless,
Andrea

Happy Holidays

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!


AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!