The best day of this year

     So this may have been the best day of this year so far. It started off pretty normal monday, got up around 11 because I needed lots of sleep. Went to lunch and ate some food drank some tea and coffee, then it was time to do some laundry. When i got that in, I went to town to try to cash a check. Apparently nobody cashes checks anymore these days. So that was kind of a bummer. While I waited for my laundry to finish drying, I went over to the admissions building to hang out with the girls there. We were talking and having fun, then they gave me a giant rice krispy treat the size of a laptop! So they made me pretty happy. Then they also gave me a sweet pirate pencil! At this point a realized this day could probably not get much better, other then getting teleported to a lush island on a beach. I was wrong, little did I know what was coming in the mail.
     I've been waiting for a package that I ordered, so I went to the mail room and was talking to my friend there. She said, "Oh chris, you have two packages." The other one was a care package from a dear friend. Let me tell you, that was the best surprise gift I've ever gotten. The package was full of lots of really cool things that most people probably would think was dumb. Thats because most people are dumb. He sent me some awesome stuff, a few things were a star wars lunch box, a Thor pez despenser, some legos, and a sweet knock-off toy. It was spider man with a sniper rifle, his name was Sniper Man, but it was spider man. So it was just an awesome surprise!
     Anyways, I'm still alive up here. We had snowcamp again this weekend. I got to counsel. It was pretty fun, and one of the guys in my cabin trusted Christ this weekend. It was a crazy weekend, and tomorrow we start classes. Pretty much non stop here. But don't worry people! I'm still alive.

The Gospel

This is amazing!!!

My new pets

I have decided that I should get a few new pets since I don't have my turtle anymore.     

                                                            Maybe a guy like this.
                                                            Or a bear like this.

Or I could get this guy too. Anymore ideas? let me know if you have some.

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.