Kari's Place: December 2008

Friday, December 26, 2008

Santa's Been Here

Here is Ryan...reminding us of Christmas of old...when the kids were so excited to see what Santa had brought them on Christmas morning!

Ellen Degeneres' audience singing

This makes me laugh SO MUCH!!!!
The second guy who sings is the funniest!!

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Catching up

My computer was mailed in to HP because it had some overheating issues.
I JUST got it back...so now I will need to catch up on stuff.
I have missed blogging.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

November 7 Part 3

When we got home, we decided to play some Canasta.
It's been too long now...but something was so funny...that I knda peed a little.
Oops...was that too much information?

We were so sad for our weekend to end...we had SO MUCH FUN!!!

After Caribou, we decided to go see a movie.
We decided to go to Changeling, with Angelina Jolie. It was a very intense, but good movie.
Our next stop was lunch....we were very hungry. However, it was about 4 o-clock, so we had an early dinner...like all the old people do. We went to Southdale and ate at The Cheesecake Factory and stuffed ourselves. We HAD to get some cheesecake. BUT...we did all share just ONE piece.

After that, we went to go sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Angela's mom! It was her 70th Birthday!
When that was done, we headed off to Ikea!

Chloe wasn't very happy when we first got there...and she wanted to make sure we knew it!

Playing Catch Up--November 7

On Saturday, November 7, we had a Girls Weekend Adventure Day.
We did some totally fun stuff!
Reminder: Seth and Ashley were home that week for hunting...so we had girls weekend!!!
We slept in because we had been out really late the night before at the Rick Springfield concert.
SO, by the time we got going it was almost 11:30 and went to Caribou for some nummy coffee.
Then, we had to decide what to do next!

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Justice

I cannot necessarily explain it...but my heart has been broken for the plight of orphans, and other children around the globe who cannot survive without assistance from someone.
God has truly placed this heavily on my heart, and I am uncertain as of yet what this means. I know that I must do something: either big or small...I don't know!
The not knowing is the hard part, but I am trusting that God will put things in front of me to make it more clear.
Here are some images that come across my screen on a daily basis.
It's hard not to be wrecked for these people.

Cambodia - October 2008 - "this little girl asked me to buy her shampoo because her lice is so bad". - photo by Natalie Montgomery

Cambodia - October 2008 - "prayer for healing in the clinic at the slum" in Phnom Penh. - photo by Natalie Montgomery

Philippines - October 2008 - Michael Angelo, a "child who was just sold into sex slavery," in a slum in Manila. - photo by Marisa Banas

Cambodia - October 2008 - putting a smile on the face of a child...and thus the love of Christ. - photo from Marissa Pratt

Cambodia - October 2008 - In the Tuol Che slum in Phnom Penh. - photo by Natalie Montgomery

Myanmar - November 2008 - "Here's an image that will stay with me forever...we spend one day visiting two villages in the Irrawaddy Delta, where Cyclone Nargis hit a mere six months ago...This photo was taken as we [Team V-Fusion] were leaving this village after spending time playing with children and giving out what felt like the smallest gift I've ever given...noodles, soap and candles." - photo by Katie Rowlandlcome to the TOP PHOTOS BLOG fo

Location unknown - November 2008 - photo by Kimberly Daniels

Myanmar - November 2008 - "The people of the villages followed us everywhere. People stared at us like we were aliens, and to them we were. Many of the people had never seen white skin before. We really scared the little ones. Some of the kids would cry and run into their homes.