The Underground kicked off the year with an incredible carnival! With 300 students in attendance it was a great time of crazy events, contests, and meeting tons of people... one of whom was a gorilla... Ok, so when I was a child my dad was the PolkaRoo...and now I'm married to a Gorilla! Oh the things a Youth Pastor does...

The wedding pictures are now on candace's website...you can use the link provided:)

Just as sample of some of the fine work of Candace Naidoo our photographer! Our pics will soon be on her website for you to check out..and pics on Ang's wedding too!

African Lion Safari!
Matt and I headed out for the afternoon for a spontaneous trip to the Lion Safari! We had a blast getting up close and personal witht the animals... a little too close... at one point matt cheated and rolled his window down to take a picture not seeing that a huge dear was charging for the car... by the time he noticed and went to roll the window up he realized that the window was stuck! With some quick hands the the stick shift he took of just before the dear took a bite out of him! We also saw a poor girl sit in her car watching a zebra rip her side mirror off...yikes.








These are from the elephant show which was really impressive. In these pics the elephants are doing tricks with their trainers. One has lifted the trainer into the air with its trunk and the other is about to lie down right on top of him! It actually did!

The NACK reunites! It was so awesome to have us all together for a night exploring Little Italy...enjoying patio dining, gelato, and tons of great discussion! I had requests for more paintings so below is one that is hanging in our hallway and I wish that the above was actually a painting! Oh the wonders of photoshop!