I Married A Barbarian

See!

And if that doesn't convince you, look at this catapult he built! The whole time he was out in the garage making it, I kept telling him that our neighbors must think we are crazy!

He made it for a life size version of Angry Birds which we played with the youth group. They loved it! :)

Then he also built this Tranquilizer Chair. It was a prop for a play for one of our friends who is a drama teacher. 

This is how it looks being used. It was originally created in 1811 to keep the mentally unstable restrained. It's basically a torture device, and my Hubby built one!

Conner looked pretty cute in it though :)

So I buy Hubby tools for his birthday & Christmas, and he makes torture devices! At least they are for a good cause... right?! ;)

Youth Convention

Hubby & I left Friday afternoon with a van load of teenagers to drive to Houston for Converge - Youth Convention. It was great to see teens from all over TX coming together to worship God. One thought kept running thru my head over the weekend...Teens are loud, rambunctious, & spirited, & when they get loud, rambunctious, & spirited for God amazing things will happen! This weekend renewed my love & desire to be a youth sponsor. I love our youth & know God can do great things with them! I was made to think about my years as a teen, & remember my youth sponsors, & how they so deeply impacted my life. I truly hope I can be here for our teens as my youth sponsors were there for me!

Halloween

I love Halloween! The scary spooky, the candy, the fun, what's not to love! & yes we dressed up :)

Do you know who we are?

Do you have a guess?

If you are like most people you will say a sunflower & a Zombie, which is technically true. But do you know what these two things have in common?

The video game Plants vs Zombies!

If you got it, then you are super cool in my book! :) Which may or may not be a good thing...

 I had a pretty busy Halloween weekend! On Saturday we had a scavenger hunt with our youth group in which we did things like hum the theme to Mission Impossible while acting like spies in a Walgreens, we wore fake mustaches, we climbed a tree...ok the teenagers climbed a tree I had to stay on the ground to take a picture for proof. They had a great time, and so did I :) Then Sunday was our church's Fall Festival which is always a huge success! I helped prepare nachos & hot dogs in the kitchen, then I went & played games with Conner. Then Halloween night Conner helped me pass out candy to the neighborhood kids. He had a great time & the kids thought he was really cute (how often does a 2 year old hand you candy?)
So Halloween was a lot of fun for our house! What about you? Any excitement for Halloween?