my ears are too small

So today i decided to finally cave and buy a bluetooth device.  so i went to target and asked the guy to help me out...i finally decided on the expensive one that was on sale (right good strategy...?--wrong!)

apparently kaitlin erwin is not made for this kind of technology!  my ears are too small and the stupid thing won't stay on.  so although it works really well, my ear is too small...so i guess i'm back to no talking in the car!  boooo!

satan sucks

i hate satan.  

i'm sick of him messing with my life.

i'm sick of him messing with those around me.

i'm sick of him ruining my days.

baaah!

silence please!

for the past 45 minutes the alarm at the school down the street from my house has been going off...and it is driving me insane!

i'm sick of the constant noise 

i love him

i am in love!!

well this isn't really ground breaking news, but i am 120% head over heels for Josh!  

we got to go out on a date tonight (which is something we haven't gotten to do in a few weeks because of his job and my job and the fact that he went away to camp for a week came home and we had something going on every single night the next week and then the following week i went to tahoe).  it is just so nice to be together just the two of us.  we got to have dinner and afterwards some tea and a little window shopping.  a night of good conversation, long waits at dinner, and a good time together.  

i love him!

bomb threat

today didn't really play out the way I had expected it to.  I was supposed to babysit and then go to work.  so i woke up and everything was going according to plan--i was babysitting for my mom's meeting and suddenly my mom tells me i need to go home right now because there was a bomb threat at a house right across the way from my house.  so i rushed home to help my sister collect the animals and get out of the house and away from there.  as i pulled up to my house the entrance to the street which the house was on was caution taped off and there were several fire trucks, cop cars, undercover cop cars, and cops guarding the entrance.  

so needless to say it was kind of a crazy day.  

reenie and i (plus amy, rusty, and maddie) went over to megan's for the afternoon--yay megan!! 

turns out that the house (which is the notorious crime house in our neighborhood. mom is a prostitute and has gone to jail for it several times.  son set a fire in the canyon behind our neighborhood.  all into drugs.  it is believed that they have a meth lab.  the dad has been sent away to jail.  the daughter has a baby.  and the list goes on and on...) had explosives buried in the backyard.  according to the news an ex convicted (thinking the mom) called the police reporting that a man (thinking it is the son who is like 23 or 4) was burying explosives in the yard and according to my neighbor who is the chief of the fire department they believed that if the bomb would blow it would take down a 3 block radius.  so eventually the cops got a search warrant and they found the bomb, removed it, and blew it up in this cool bomb squad truck/car thingy (i saw it as they were driving away it was like a truckish thing that had this metal box thingy on a trailer-like thingy and a circle metal thingy and i guess that is where they blew it up). so my hood is safe, but it was quite the unexpected event of the day.

not at all how i planed my day

Tahoe!!

Last week was amazing!

My family and I went on vacation up north in Lake Tahoe.  My grandparents have a house up there (a beautiful house which is 70 feet from the lake with an amazing view may I add) and they let us use it for the week.  It was so nice to just get away from work and wedding plans and stress.  I was just so worn out before I left and was in desperate need of some serious vaca.  It was great--we went out on the boat (they let us use their boat as well) everyday, well everyday but one and that day we went down the truckee river.  I am such a water girl, i just love it.  It is just so refreshing and renewing and it is truly freeing for me.  So we would go on the boat all day and then we would come home relax/go to town/get ready for dinner, go out and then just hang out as a family and play games and talk and go on walks.  I loved it--a whole lot of nothing basically but relaxation which is totally my type of vacation.  

I really just got to leave all of my stress behind and relax.  It was really good for me because i needed some good God time and I really got to do that during the week.  I tried to set aside about an hour a day for me and God.  I re-read the Johns: 1, 2, 3 (since I had read them the week before for Josh's taste-test challenge haha) and it was really good to meditate on them and just let the words hit my heart and sink in.  So each day I would try to put into practice whatever i had learned that day in my reading (or the day before because I didn't get to read everyday).  God really spoke to me and I feel like he is shifting my vision and helping me focus on truth and areas of my life that need to be changed.  It was really good to just let God speak to me without the distractions of life which I am constantly bombarded with at home.  I also have been trying to set aside my exercise time as worship time as well (fit for christ inspiration baby!) and so I worked out like four times this past week and just put my ipod on to phil the wickman and just let my focus be on the words of the worship songs.  I really just let those words be my prayers and I feel like God is just starting to work in mighty ways in my life.  I'm just really excited about God right now!

So the fun events of the week!

• Learned how to drive a boat

• found a tiny stop sign which was really high up on a thick pole (ps if you didn't know i love random things like something really big or really small, basically just anything out of place)
  

• i went in the water everyday and tried to help make the 52 degree water a little warmer (if you get what I'm saying--tinkle time)
  
• won an imaginary $60 playing black jack (but this was huge because I almost lost $400...so $60 ain't too shabby) 
  
  
• tried my first oyster (it was okay, but i would personally never order it)
  
  
  
• ate 4 hula pies (I had some help, but always seemed to finish off the last big hunk...exhibit A)
  
  
  
• Got to see my sarah baby! and play and catch up

• ate my first scallion (thanks surah!)

• got bit by a canadian goose

• got sick and threw up five times on the last night (y'all should be glad I don't have a picture of that because you know i'd put it up!)

so it was great!!! but it is good to be home...i suppose.  No but really it is so good to be with Josh again and just to get to share what God has been doing in my life and hear about him and his week and just be together.  I'm also glad to be back and get to see my friends and get some wedding plans done.  

so i'm hoping i don't go crazy again and need to go on vacation, but hey i wouldn't mind round two of tahoe summer!