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Andrea

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. - C.S. Lewis

My Interests

Music:

Chris Freeman, Josh Groban, David Crowder Band, Live, Joss Stone, Eric Clapton, Colbie Caillat, Imogen Heap, B.B. King, Collective Soul, Skillet, U2, Selah, Janis Joplin, Anberlin, Ray LaMontatagne, Cranberries, Madison Greene, Caroline's Spine, movie scores, and worship music.

Movies:

Out of Africa, Sometimes in April, Power of One, Invisible Children, The Greatest Game Ever Played, Office Space, The Patriot, Shawshank Redemption, Cinderella Man, Braveheart, Gladiator, Tommy Boy, and anything that will make me laugh or cry, think deeply, or all three.

Books:

Mariane Pearl and Sarah Crichton - A Mighty Heart, Lois Lowry - The Giver, Gracia Burnham with Dean Merrill - In The Presence of My Enemies, Donald Miller - Blue Like Jazz, all of LuAnn Rice, the Bible, Jon Krakauer - Under The Banner of Heaven, all of Nicholas Sparks, anything on cults.

Heroes:

Anyone who has endured much and persevered.

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My Blog

15 things you never knew you wanted to know about me...

I was tagged in this, so watch out I'll tag you too. The point here is to tell you 15 interesting unknown things about me. Here goes: 1. When I was little I thought climbing trees was the best th...
Posted by Andrea on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:12:00 PST

Camping and the ER

We took our family vacation a couple weeks ago. We headed north on July 21st. Got everything loaded in the Jeep (barely) and took off. Before we even got to the highway we stopped to rearrange all of ...
Posted by Andrea on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:21:00 PST

The promises of marriage

Or maybe this isn't about the promises of marriage? Not sure yet what exactly I will say tonight...   Mark and I are blessed. Compared to some, our marriage is pretty solid. It's built upon tr...
Posted by Andrea on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:02:00 PST

Balloon Fire

Kaileigh and I drove down the road tonight to see some balloons that landed in the yard of the local Catholic Church. While we were observing the four balloons that landed there we smelled a burning s...
Posted by Andrea on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:09:00 PST

Displace Me Take Two

Here is the link to the finished Displace Me video, with footage taken from all 15 cities involved. http://www.invisiblechildren.com/displaceMe/video/medium.htm lI also found this beautiful video on Yo...
Posted by Andrea on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:51:00 PST

July 4 and other

My favorite time of the year in my puke town is around the 4th of July. Every year we have a balloon festival, which includes hot-air balloon flights for 5 days morning and nights, cool fireworks, and...
Posted by Andrea on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:02:00 PST

A Wild and Crazy Night

Kailegh had a birthday party tonight, with a sleepover to follow. Let me tell you, the title to this blog pretty much says it all. Age 8 girls are CRAZY with a capital C. I can't believe how loud they...
Posted by Andrea on Sun, 27 May 2007 07:18:00 PST

CeCe Winans and World Vision

Tonight I volunteered at the World Vision table at the CeCe Winans concert. It was pretty neat, and I sat with two pretty amazing ladies -  Joy Winans - CeCe's niece who is about my age, and a wo...
Posted by Andrea on Sun, 20 May 2007 08:42:00 PST

My new forever friend

Tonight we went to the Humane Society to look at dogs. We have been kicking around the idea of looking for another dog lately, but haven't been too serious about it. I told Mark I didn't want a dog un...
Posted by Andrea on Sat, 19 May 2007 10:55:00 PST

JPUSA, homeless, and me

This past weekend I found myself in Chicago for the second time in two weeks. Mark and I had planned a very short mission trip for Merge (our college group) to serve the homeless with Jesus People USA...
Posted by Andrea on Tue, 15 May 2007 11:42:00 PST