Desktop

So my laptop was making this weird noise, like it was going to take off and explode, every time I opened it. I backed up all my information made an appointment at the apple store and went to get my mac working perfectly again. While at the store, and since it was going to take them 30 minutes to change my fan, or something like that, I decided to take a look at the desktops; bad idea! I really really want to have a desktop and be able to make graphics...

Borders

We walked downtown with our friends Kevin & Tanya (who are engaged and it's so exciting!!) last Thursday night and had to go into the huge Borders on 5th and G that is closing. I am so sad the Borders won't be there, I love going and sitting on the floor in between the many shelves to read pieces of books and look at beautiful pictures of places I have never been too. We got a couple gifts since everything was discounted and left sad knowing...

Happy Birthday Tiana

Tiana is a 14 year old girl that goes to our church with her family, we love them all dearly so when we found out she was celebrating her birthday and they wanted us to be there we jumped in the car without hesitation. They are Cambodian, Vietnamese, Filipino, and a bit Chinese so the food was beyond amazing, but more than that we loved the company, they are a beautiful family and we are so happy we know them....

A little snow

This is Debra, remember we talked about her yesterday? When you live in SoCal a little snow is incredibly exciting. We could see the snowy mountains from Pool Poppa & Pool Momma's house, but when we were driving back to San Diego there was a little bit of snow on the roads and we just had to stop, touch it, play with it, freeze our hands, snap pictures and keep on going. I mean we haven't seen snow in too long to let this opportunity...

Snowy Mountains and family

We drove to Palm Sprigs to see Pool Momma, Pool Poppa, Grandma and Deb (Deb is Caleb's sister for Blogging purposes, so she is my sister too now =D). We had such a relaxing nice time, it was beautiful. The sky was blue, the mountains white and the pool was heated which was wonderful. Some of Deb's family came to have lunch with us; Jeff, Summer and their two boys have a beautiful family and we had fun with them, the boys love the pool and we all...

Dancing at the Dream Center

So when someone meets Caleb they remember him for a long time, and that was not good sometimes. Friday night we met Jonathan while at Skid Row, he was one of the Dream Center leaders and he was really nice. Well he was also the mc Saturday morning after prayer and he asked someone from San Diego to come up and dance, I asked Caleb to go ha. It was so funny to see him there hoping he really wasn't. We had a great time cheering for him though and...

Leaving the Dream Center

Before leaving the Dream Center we had lunch with my friend Aaron who is currently working at the Dream Center. We went to Malibu and he shared his testimony with us and told us about all the thins he does at the Dream Center. I hadn't seen Aaron in about 3 years so it was nice to see him and see what God is doing in his life and through him. Hopefully we'll get to see each other again so...

Boxed Water

We went to Malibu for Lunch on Saturday and saw the coolest water, boxed water that is. I want to find it and see what the difference in price is and why it is not everywhere; I love ...

Adopt-a-Block

Saturday Morning we woke up early, had breakfast and headed towards the gym at the Dream Center for a big prayer meeting; it was great and after Caleb was asked to dance which was actually pretty funny but I'll show that video later. After the meeting everyone divided into teams and we headed out to different areas in LA to bless the community.  The outreach is called adopt-a-block and every week hundreds of people go out and knock on...

Westwood

I loved walking around Westwood, I know I keep talking about it but the place was beautiful, I want to go back and figure out were these signs lead ...

The Golden Monte Cristo

When we got to Westwood for Diddy Riese we parked right across the street from Jerry's Famous Deli and my husband almost died; he was so excited he could go and get a Monte Cristo which is a ham, turkey, bacon, swiss Cheese, deep fried egg bread sandwich with preserves and fruit or apple sauce. Yeah, the thing is a heart attack in sandwich form, but I must admit it is incredibly good, it's breakfast and lunch in a delicious deep friend bread...

Diddy Riese

After getting back from our second trip to the communities to hand out food we rested for about an hour, had dinner and then got ready to head out to Skid Row around 7pm to talk to people, invite them to church, pray for them and give them a snack. It was pouring rain so that added an interesting twist to our night.  We had a chance to meet a lot of wonderful people at Skid Row, some of them people that live there and some of them people...

Food trucks

Friday morning we spent loading trucks of food and right after we headed to communities in need and handed out the food after sorting through it and putting it in bags to make sure everyone was getting the basics. We couldn't take pictures at the sites so I snapped a few while loading the food and left my camera and phone behind.  We did it twice so we ended up doing this all day Friday since loading takes a few hours and taking it to the...

Church at Angelus Temple

After Skid Row we went back to our room at the Dream Center to rest for a little bit and then head out to service.  I had been to the church at the Dream Center before and every time I've been amazed at their passionate worship; I am also secretly wanting to steal their screens and amazing projectors all the time I am there but let's not share that with them.  We had a great service and we headed back to the rooms to sleep after...

Serving food at the Jonah Project

We arrived at the Dream Center Thursday morning and after orientation and lunch we started serving at a ministry called Under The Bridge. We went to Skid Row where most of the homeless people in Los Angeles gather to offer a meal and prayer to everybody there.   The Dream Center partners with the Jonah Project, a church located right in the heart of Skid Row. They opne up their facilities to everyone in the community and they allow...

The Dream Center

We spent the last few days at the Dream Center in LA with the most wonderful group of ladies. For those of you that are not familiar with these wonderful place, the Dream Center is a non-profit outreach dedicated to serving the needs of inner cities. They not only work hard to meet their physical needs by providing food, furniture, clothing and other basic essentials; but they work hard at meeting their spiritual needs by having a discipleship program...

Community Group

As you may or may not know from our 2011 plans, K and I started a community group for married and engaged couples at church. The Community Group has been going great and we are really enjoying sharing with the couples and hearing from them. Duing our Connection Weekend 6 couples signed up and we were beyond stoked. Three weeks have gone by since we started the community group and we've had 10 couples join, some have missed a week but in general...

Single's Dinner

The servers and our pastors Johnny & Maria The "photo booth" The amazing Beth, our first supporter Cathy in the middle is an amazing woman who ministers to the other ladies in this picture on a weekly basis, it's truly inspiring. The ladies I work alongside every week. Johnny and Maria are a wonderful couple that has been going to Urban for quite a while. Their whole entire family is amazing, I love them all and I am so blessed to get...