Christmas parties are dangerous

      This past Saturday night I was invited to a Christmas party at a friend's house. It was a lot of fun too. For some reason in my mind I was imagining about 30 people being there. Was I ever wrong! There was more like 600 people there!!! ok really only about 150. But half of them were kids so it was a bit crazy! Anyways, me and some of my friends were sitting around playing spoons. Generally one uses metal spoons but we used plastic ones. After a while I guess people got tired to playing the game, so they started throwing spoons at people and smashing them with their fists. Of course being the wise mature man that I am, i didn't smash any. I was surprised that nobody had gotten cut by it yet. Well a little while later I decided to pick up a broken spoon. Somehow, i managed to slice my finger open on a sharp edge. I don't know how but it happened. So after that was all taken care of I picked up a book to read out loud. It was a really weird kids book about a foster home. The first chapter was about how a kid got his legs run over. A very strange book.

Last night my good friend David and I decided that it would be a good time to have one last cook out of the year. So at 8 last night we went to walmart to buy some hamburgers. Now,  this summer I have become well known for the hamburgers I cook on the grill. People love them!! And usually it didn't matter what brand I bought. So we grabbed some last night and I started cooking them. I should have known they would be bad. First, they weren't the nice pink color when I opened them. They were more of a dull brown. Second they smelled like soy, not beef. Thats never a good sign. Thirdly, (the best reason) hamburgers are not supposed to bloat when being cooked. There must have been some protective invisible covering over the outside, because several of them began to bloat as I cooked them. But you can never know till you test them. Let me just say I have NEVER not finished I hamburger and thrown it out. I did last night. So it looks like we will have to have another cookout before the new year. I can't let this year end with the last cookout being the worst one!

Snow and Christmas trees

    This Wednessday I drove home from upstate New York. Here at home it rained quite a bit, well it was very different up in the Adirondacks. This is what it looked like in the morning.

   As you can see this isn't rain, but rather 8 inches of fresh snow.
     Today we got our Christmas tree and starting to decorate it. My sisters also have these miniture towns and then they made little people to put with them. I think there pretty amazing!

Skateboarding

    For the past few weekends I have been going with one of my friends to a church about 1 and a half hours away. We have been working in the churches barn repairing stuff for a small skate park. This is going to be an outreach into the community to kids that skate but would never come to church. So far we've only had one guy show up, but we haven't advertised for it yet, we've still been working on it. Its a lot of fun to do, and I'm learning more stuff about skateboarding.

Winter and Bikes

   As many of you don't know, it is getting cold up here in the Adirondaks. Today it has been flurrying most of the day. However since the ground is not yet frozen, it has not been laying. But soon it will get cold and we will have snow. I'm excited about it, i do miss summer but winter will be good too. This past weekend a few of my friends and I decided it would be fun to sleep outside in the freezing temperatures. So we made a roaring fire and slept in a lean-too on the mountain behind our campus. It was pretty fun! So we decided we are going to do it again this weekend!
    Another thing I have recently done is painted my bike flat black. It actually looks really nice and may of my friends are doing the same.
    In less then 4 weeks I will be back home on Christmas break!!! I'm pretty excited to be home for a little while and spend time relaxing and working to make some much needed cash. Well thats pretty much all there is to tell right now.

Hiking and Caving

       This past weekend my sister and cousin and beloved friend Joe came to visit me. So on saturday we went hiking and caving! Here are some pictures.

BRAZIL!!!!

    Hey everybody!
I'm still here in New York surviving! It is really beautiful here, the leaves are starting to turn colors and the weather is getting cooler. It is definitely fall here in the Adirondacks. Hopefully I'll be able to go do some hiking soon, this is one of the best times of the year for hiking.
    This is the view from the bottom of the hill in front of my cabin. its a little cloudy out but its still really nice out.






    On another note, I have a missions trip this spring that I'll be going on. I get to go to Brazil for 10 days to help out with some camps down there! I'm super excited about it! However these things do cost money, so I'm required to raise $2200 in support. If you would be interested in helping me out with money, send me your address in a message on facebook and I'll be sure to send you a support letter. Some of you will get them anyway. :) Don't feel like you have to give a lot, but every little bit helps!

New York

   It has been quite a long time since I have had the privilege to update everyone on my current status of life. I have now been at Word of Life Bible Institute for 2 weeks. It is located deep in the Adirondacks. The scenery here is really beautiful. However the weather has allready been unnaturally cold. Last week there were many days that it did not get out of the 50's. But I believe this week is supposed to be warmer then last.
    I was accepted into the position of being an RA for a dorm room. I am very thankful that God has given me this position to be a leader on campus. The guys in my dorm are all pretty cool. I haven't had to throw any of them around yet. The food has been pretty good as well. So in general things are going really well. However I am pretty busy with school and job related things, and of course being popular. So if you don't hear from me in a while, I'm probably not dead. Just busy.

Please Pray:
 I would be a Godly example
 I won't get sick
 Finances to pay for the year.