A MOMENT IN THE LIFE.. OF JUSTIN PIGEON & DAVE ABBOTT, TATIANA DEMURO, TAYLOR DERR &AMY SANDERS.. AGAIN!

justin pigeon:

Justin Pigeon is one cool kid: as in.. a real person.. like a human. (Not the bird, I just didn't have a picture with him.. okay, I did.. but it was this:

Anyway, I was a SOMA with him last summer and worked with him on staff at the ranch this summer. He's really great! So, there is this game called SAFARI that we play at the ranch. Counselor paint themselves to be animals and most kids run away terrified.. Most videos you see of the game show just that; however, in this lil' gem is the Pigeon attacking an elephant, the elephant coming after him (naturally), and a kid standing his ground.. ouch!

summer sunday 2010: 

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dave abbott & tatiana demuro & taylor derr & amy sanders:

whoa, quadruple-whammy!

This is my friend Dave Abbott, he is really great and has dvd-things and cool business cards. (Employers: Consider hiring him for some grown-up job until the end of May, please!) Shameful plug.. Anyway, Dave really is very talented with video-tography.. and he's also just a really great friend!



Tati! T is real, real wonderful. Like, the girl has great hair, quite a laugh, a sweet car, lives in cali and never wears shoes.. anywhere. DOES IT GET BETTER THAN THAT?! 




Taylor Derr.. we went to cali together to visit T! She's great.. gotta love those orange eyebrows.

Amy Sanders.. again. She's really great, I really could say lots of nice things about her.. so I will: lots of nice things about her. Anyway, if there were regulars for being on this here blog- she'd be one! 

end of summer 2010:

Now, I realize a lot happened in the clip, and really fast! So, here's a lil' play by play:
Dave: I steal his camera. Story of his life.
T: She's whining. Story of her life.
Taylor: Listen for the "byEEEEEE!" Story of her life.
Amy: She is awkward and then almost falls right at the end. Story of her life.


love the story of their lives.

A MOMENT IN THE LIFE.. OF JOHN GRANT..

john grant:

This is John Grant. He's hardcore pursuing me. (^Obviously.)
I'm super hesitant to put him in my blog because he already has his own and I think it's giving him a pretty big ego, but that's alright I guess. He's just gonna do what he wants. ..and that's his intro.  (I just don't want to flatter him too much.) But really- awesome guy. Forealz.



http://jgdoeswhathewants.blogspot.com/

A MOMENT IN THE LIFE.. OF AMY SANDERS.. AGAIN!

amy sanders:

Yup, Amy Sanders.. again! This girl is such an awesome hog that it's ridiculous. She doesn't even get another nice little intro, so if you want to get to know her.. scroll down! I will say something about this picture, however- Yes, I am frisking a tree, but it's all part of the cute little Get To Know You Game we were playing. But let me tell you what was NOT apart of that cute little game- HER LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT! Gosh... creeper.

Norman, OK- October 5th:

"I get out of class and go to get my bike. There's a guy getting his bike, which is right next to mine. I wait. He's taking a long time. Turns out I locked my bike to his. AWKWARD. Anyway, I am barely riding for two seconds when the chain comes off my bike. Which means this stupid kid sees me coming right at him. I try warning him, and he freaking freezes on the spot. Which means I HIT HIM. That's right. I ran into a person with my bike. Not a bush but a freaking human being. Beautiful." 

A MOMENT IN THE LIFE.. OF SARAH MOORE..

sarah moore:

You see that little brunette girl in the right hand corner of the picture? (I mean the picture I'm holding duh.) Well, that's my roommate. Her name is Sarah Moore and because we absolutely loathe being in the same room for any amount of time, we don't have a single picture together. So, in order to make this post possible, I had to creepily steal the GREATEST picture in my, I mean.. our room- that one. Anyway, we've been miserable, I mean.. lived together for a few weeks now, and since then a few funny things have happened.. AKA- I have 6 stories on my sweet lil' college dry-erase board that I need to post up here. Pace yourself, kids. Only a couple at a time.
(She's actually a pretty great roommate; clean, super entertaining, almost normal.)

Fayetteville, AR- August 15th:

So, it's move in day. We just got all moved in and met each other and all that good, strange stuff. That night,  after the parents have left us, and we signed our "Roommate Agreement" and answered all those sweet ice-breaker questions, we're just hanging out in the room, mentally preparing for Rush the next day, and life, the next four years. 

While thinking to ourselves about living together over the next year, we hear something drop by the door. I wasn't even aware anything was hanging above the door before, so when Sarah jumped out of her chair and ran over to the object lying on the ground, I just watched for clues as to what was going on. She picks the thing up, whatever it is, and slowly turns to face me with it in her hands, mouth open in shock. She holds a little Jesus in her hands. Apparently earlier that day, she'd hung a crucifix over our door, and that night.. BAM! Gravity pulled the King down. Whats worse is that when Jesus fell, He was maimed. Sarah was holding most of Jesus' body in one hand, and the cross- with two dangling arms- in the other. We stare at Jesus for a minute, we stare at His arms for a few minutes, and then look at each other when Sarah asks "Is this a sign!?"

Neither of us knew what to do. I mean, when only Jesus' arms are dangling from the cross- do you laugh at the irony? Do you cry? Do you just throw Jesus  and His arms in the trash- or do you try to fix Him? Or is that insulting- to try to fix Jesus, maybe glue Him back to His arms or something?

Needless to say, we didn't know what the right thing to do was. So, after calling our Moms, discussing the possibilities of what this meant and questioning what to do with the body and with the arms, we come to a decision, ruling out just throwing Him away- I mean, you can't just throw Jesus in the trash! So He now resides in the bottom drawer of Sarah's desk. I think His arms live there, too.

Jesus' body, broken for us.

Anyway, we have a cross hanging now. Just a nice, simple cross. No body. No body parts. No worries.

A MOMENT IN THE LIFE.. OF TAYLOR DERR..

taylor derr:

Taylor Derr. I met this sunshiney pi phi with flaming red hair at camp in '09. We taught tennis together for like a day and she doesn't even remember it. So it's a good thing we met again the summer of 'oh10! Our friendship was destined, and it was clear as Rhettdawg had paired us with the Aussie to teach Racquet Smack-It. (Which, shorty after camp, became "Racquet Smack-Taylor") Upon request, we were Co's week 3, Lizzie McGuire week- AKA the best week of anyones life. .And the rest is history! We've been through a lot of awkward situations together and now have lots of jokes based only on Tderr and her catchy sayings, awesome PiPhi-ness, and orange eyebrows. This girl is really great and I'm really, really glad to know her.

That's so funny! ..You guys ready for the post?!

Tulsa, OK- Thursday,  August 12th:

(This was a video we left on a friends facebook wall the day after the incident.)

So.. that's it. Except for a few weeks later on August 24th, I get this really cute wall post from Taylor:

"Hey remember when we were thrown off the gator and you landed on my wrist?

Hey remember when I just went to the doctor a week and a half later and found out that it's broken with angulation so I'm gonna have a cast FOREVER?" 

A MOMENT IN THE LIFE.. OF AMY SANDERS & MATT BREWER..

amy sanders:

I met Amy Sanders the summer of 2009. We were both a part of the Leadership Development Program at New Life Ranch. We quickly began exchanging sarcastic, smartask comments. A year later, while both working at NLR this summer, we were forced to be in the same small group. This was a good thing, though. Several weeks later, having established that we were both pretty cool, we requested to be co-counselors. (Week 7- International Week, anyone? Hello, Chickorian Conquistadors 4 Christ.) We united while fighting to defeat the Somalian Pirates, and now have an unbreakable bond. (AKA- 11 schmen campers.)

Amy really is one of the coolest persons I've ever met and has had such an awesome impact on my life.

Norman, OK- Tuesday, September 7th:

"I get out of botany and get on my bike to ride to the Union. Life is good, I'm happy, listening to my iPod. As I approach a turn in the sidewalk, I start to turn my handlebars, naturally. They don't turn, naturally. See bushes ahead. Prepare for impact. 3.. 2.. 1. BAM! I fly into the hands of the evil, sharp bush. What can I do but laugh along with the passerby?"

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matt brewer:

Matt Brewer and I also worked at New Life Ranch this summer. Right away, I knew we'd be fast friends because of the vast amount of things we had in common: we both had to teach Racquet Smack-It, it was the first time to work at NLR for both of us, and both of us could do a pretty dang good Australian accent! (Those are  just few among MANY other things.)
But really, Matt is awesome. I'm super excited to see him again- whether that'll be in the USA or Aussie-land. (Where I can use my accent, duh!)

Australia- Sunday, August 29th: 

        (for the full "Brewdaddy" effect, read with your greatest australian accent..) 

"On the 29th was my 21st party, you know this story is good cause it starts with a 21st party! So anyway it was just before everyone was supposed to get there and my brothers and some friends and I were throwing a frisbee and there was a soccer ball we were using, sitting on the side of the field, so I went to kick it back to where all our stuff was. Now, there was only one obstacle and that was a tap that a man was kneeling down filling his drink bottle at.
So, I kicked the ball up towards our stuff and it went straight at this guy, rolled right up to him, went through his legs and knocked his nearly filled drink bottle out of his hands, all over the ground! Whoops! 

...That's about it, other than last Friday I went crazy at youth group running around and dancing in my blue rootsuit, Ranch style."

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told you.. MyFriendsLifeIsAWESOME!

A MOMENT IN THE LIFE.. OF WHO?

       
          Random,  hilarious  things happen everyday. Almost every time I talk to one of my  friends, something has happened at some point in their day that makes their life  awesome. I figured it would be just completely selfish to hear these  awesome  things, maybe even  experience  some of these  awesome  things, and not share   how awesome life is   to someone else.