kickboxing baby

today baby g was extremely active. i was almost late to work because i stayed in bed a little too long just feeling her kick around. she was practicing her kickboxing for sure, pow pow pa pow! all day long it was like that - even now as i type. so far it is my favorite part of pregnancy. 

the trip to st. george finished well. my team did not do as well as i had hoped but they had a good time and i hope they tried their best. the 3rd quarter is now over and we have entered the last 9 weeks of the school year. in many ways i am so excited, but i am a little sad because i won't be back next year. i am very glad i decided to stay home next year and i have many goals i am working on even before the baby comes, but i know i will miss teaching - however long i am away from the classroom. 

geo - challenge is my new favorite game on facebook. i play it a lot, but not as much as gerald (you must play all day long or something... we are out to get you, watch out) i love it not just because i am a geography geek, but because it is good information to know. 

next week i will be turning 25 years old! quarter of a century. 

i have to go read my Bible now, i haven't read it yet today... have a great week! 

st. george adventures

this morning i left for st. george with my academic decathlon team from school. we left at 7 am, which was a bit early for most, and drove 5 hours to st. george - made it with one stop just like i thought. series of events: check -in to competition and pick up t-shirts, drive to hotel, check in, find rooms, unpack, decide what to do next. work on speeches with some students other people from our group went to the gypsom (sp?) gypsum (sp?) mine nearby. 5pm we went to dixie high school so the team could give their speeches and participate in an interview - total time there 1 hr. we had to arrive on thursday for one hour of competition. anyway, we went to in and out burger for dinner - not my favorite this time. we might get ice cream later tonight at the blue bunny or nielsen's frozen custard. right now some students are swimming in the pool. i am watching brian reagan (sp?) right now with my recruits - three students who i asked to come last minute to help our team because three students could no longer attend. so far the airport stuff is my favorite - "now that i see what is in this essentials bag, i realize i was overpacking" 

tomorrow is the rest of the competition. we are supposed to wear our team t-shirts we had made before we left - guess who left their's home? yep me! the most prepared/organized/paranoid coach in the world. it is sitting right now in my dryer because i washed it last night thinking it might shrink - even though i knew the tag said "preshrunk" so i will be wearing the coach polo they gave me today that i may never wear again, we'll see. 

also, baby is doing good. right now i feel pretty tired and my stomach is stretching or something, i can feel a tightness in my sides. i also may have eaten too fast at dinner. we took a photo with just the girl students and i made everyone stand side-ways! it was really funny.  

so that is all for now, have a great day - Bible reading update, Jesus just entered jerusalem for passover, and aaron (moses' bro) just died in the wilderness. 

a bit uninspired

i am very uninspired to blog which is why the posts come few and far between. i recently haven't experienced much that would be interesting to blog about. this week i ate a lot of food, worked out at the gym three times, and read my Bible every day. 

i was very excited about the food because i have enjoyed food more during pregnancy, and i have to eat all the time because i seem to always be hungry. my top favorites: mexican food of any kind, baby carrots, oranges, strawberries, string cheese or laughing cow, and cereal - cinnamon toast crunch or coco pebbles. 

i worked out on tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. tuesday was me at home lifting weights and stretching really well. wednesay and thursday were both 1hr workouts at the gym, mostly cardio on the elliptical machine. i went by myself which is normal, but lately everyone stares at me because of my big belly. it weirds me out but i would look too if there was a 6th month pregnant lady working out by herself on the elliptical (mostly because i think pregnant ladies are cute.) 

pete and i are still reading through the Bible. we are in mark and numbers. so far numbers is the hardest for me to read because it is a bit boring. but God cares about the details and i am trying to learn from it anyway. 

pregnancy update: baby g is moving around a lot lately. she doesn't kick all the time, but when she does she kicks hard. it doesn't hurt but she can make my belly visibly move. i really enjoy this part of pregnancy because it is like her signal to me that she is still doing good and growing big. sometimes i sit in bed in the morning a little too long because i like to just watch and feel her moving. on weekends that is okay, but i have been rushing to work most days this week. 

thanks for reading, i will try to put some pictures up soon. pray for me next week as i have to travel to st. george with 9 students of my academic decathlon team for our state competition. it is a lot of extra work for me right now. 

forgiveness, full and free

i am reading a book for Bible study: when sinners say i do by dave harvey. it has been great so far but very humbling, which i think is the point. this week the chapter is about forgiveness and i knew the basic ideas of the chapter, i even use ch. 18 in matthew to help me remember what real forgiveness should be. but often times i know it in my head and not in my heart. the following passage displays God's forgiveness of our debt and our poor realization of it in how we treat other sinners just like us. 

 ^23-25"The kingdom of God is like a king who decided to square accounts with his servants. As he got under way, one servant was brought before him who had run up a debt of a hundred thousand dollars. He couldn't pay up, so the king ordered the man, along with his wife, children, and goods, to be auctioned off at the slave market.

 ^26-27"The poor wretch threw himself at the king's feet and begged, 'Give me a chance and I'll pay it all back.' Touched by his plea, the king let him off, erasing the debt.

 ²⁸"The servant was no sooner out of the room when he came upon one of his fellow servants who owed him ten dollars. He seized him by the throat and demanded, 'Pay up. Now!'

 ^29-31"The poor wretch threw himself down and begged, 'Give me a chance and I'll pay it all back.' But he wouldn't do it. He had him arrested and put in jail until the debt was paid. When the other servants saw this going on, they were outraged and brought a detailed report to the king.

 ^32-35"The king summoned the man and said, 'You evil servant! I forgave your entire debt when you begged me for mercy. Shouldn't you be compelled to be merciful to your fellow servant who asked for mercy?' The king was furious and put the screws to the man until he paid back his entire debt. And that's exactly what my Father in heaven is going to do to each one of you who doesn't forgive unconditionally anyone who asks for mercy." - the message paraphrase

in my life i no longer want to act like a child of God who has been forgiven so much yet expects so much in return from others. i want to be forgiving in light of how much i have been forgiven. i hope this can encourage you today. i leave you with a quote from the chapter by ken sande, 

"forgiveness can be a costly activity. when you cancel debt, it does not just simply disappear. instead, you absorb a liability that someone else deserves to pay. similarly, forgiveness requires that you absorb certain effects of another person's sins and you release that person from liability to punishment. this is precisely what Christ accomplished on Calvary." 

think about that because forgiven sinners forgive sin. (also from the book)

update

on life: this weekend is a four day weekend for me unlike most teacher's three day president's day holiday. we had parent teacher conferences last week so we got friday off as well because wednesday and thursday were 12 hour days for us. see snippets for my favorite quotes from those days. 

we (the grandmas and i) went shopping this weekend for baby furniture. i bought a recliner/rocker and i think i found the crib/dresser set i like; they also bought some clothes that were on sale. i found two cute outfits and some shoes today at gymboree because they are having a good sale (10 things for 35 bucks, talk about good deals.) i have a hard time buying things for the baby because they are so expensive all the time, and there is not a little one actually here to use them yet. it is still fun and the grandmas really like it. 

pete is at avi 2 training all weekend - that is code for avalanche level 2 class to prepare him to be even safer in the backcountry. i like that he can do that now plus he will let me use his text books in my classroom later. the students don't really care, but i love learning weather type snow things. 

we are still reading through the Bible together this year,  finished exodus and almost through matthew. my favorite section so far was learning who was related and married and how they are somehow connected to Jesus. 

in other news, i am currently watching simpsons in hd and thinking about dinner. i think i need to eat more food in general on the weekends. my whole snack system gets thrown off when i am not at work. signing off until next time, amy