"let's have a party! i think we'll have a party now! we'll throw our heads back and yell 'PARTY'! we'll throw our hands up and yell 'PARTY PARTY PARTY!'" ~Prof. Hess, American Astronaut.
natalya with her meat and cupcake.
the zeiger bros. they're climbing mt. rainier in a couple weeks. i enjoyed our conversation about mountains.
party at the pesters. natalie brought me flowers!
kenadie sue.
cody and treyton. (btw. it's shark week.)
"cody go to sleep. go sleep!"
natalie clark. :)
trey trey's shark tattoo.
lotsa cha-chillin'
beautiful natalya.
brian hill and his arm with the screw.
the wonderful shawna pester. i love her.
natalie, trey trey, cody, and kenadie sue.
don and spencer.
tobin's graduation from fire school.
tobin before.
"firefighter tobin." woohoo! proud of you, sir.
chief trey trey
"firefighter tobin" and cody with their super serious faces, moments before exploding due to the effort exerted in being serious.
oh how glorious people are! i am blessed with an abundance of friends. their presence is teaching me to laugh and be childlike in the midst of all things. their souls are truly beautiful. i appreciate many things about each one of them individually. cody, natalya, tobin, shawna, noah, natalie, alisha, amara, and every one of my clients. i have much to learn about beauty. the conversations and quality time spent with them stay with me long after i leave their presence.
yesterday i had my party.
the workout was "roving grace."
clean and jerk, then roll the barbell out till you are lying on your stomach, then roll back. repeat. 30 times.
unfortunately i could only watch because i'm competing in a lifting meet next weekend. (it wasn't entirely sadistic because i did my workout, 30 bodyweight c&js, on monday, my actual birthday.)
i think chet took some good pictures of the workout. there was meat and cupcakes and other less important delectables. later chet took our jet city crossfit trainer pictures as seen above. they turned out really well.
natalya and cody took me to the pesters for a little get together they planned for me. it was super sweet. lots of chilling and laughing at the kids. i received a surprise birthday call from greg amundson! yes... THE greg amundson. he was just in annapolis and saw nicole carroll and was pleasantly surprised to learn that nearly all my family lives over there. apparently cody, who is super tight with him at his job down in san diego, gave him my phone number to surprise me at my birthday party. thanks cody, it was definitely a highlight. i hope to see him in october, as he will be up here to run a "goal setting and positive talk" seminar at CFA. super.
after the party we headed over the the fire station for tobin's graduation ceremony where i proceeded to eat my third BBQ of the day.
people are beautiful, i told alisha at church today, but exhausting. i'm glad to have time alone to refuel and decompress. i was called a "social butterfly" (with positive connotations, of course) for the first time in my life last week. the realization hit me like a wooden mallet in my spleen. woah. i've been growing inside my cacoon in the last months. finally i've come into a new world, but i'm still finding my wings. i wonder where the winds will take me in this season.
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