yeah, i like to dance.

i recently found all my old photos from middle school and high school on my old computer and it was too funny. {you know the ones where you go, i wore WHAT?? i did WHAT??} obviously i had to stay up all night looking at them all while reminscing with whetus and sum 41 playing in the background. {what can i say? i was filled with teenage angst!} i was a total doofus and i loved every second of it. one day i'll bore you with photos and stories but for today i'll just leave you with this little gem i found. yup, a dancing rountine! me and katie's equivalent to the michael cera on arrested development's great star wars disaster. hysterical, embarrassing, and i have to share. remember this was way back when in 2003!

did i just surpass my love for the biebs confession? or my pink beard? perhaps! don't be surprised if i realize my mistake in posting this and its deleted in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....

have a fantastically wonderfully goofy and danced filled day!

that time i'll never forget.

i've mentioned peru before because i love it so. and i wish i could share every single memory from when i was there but for now i'll share one of my many favorites.

let me tell you something... peruvians are master prayers. hour long prayer before breakfast? done. someone stub their toe? let's pray. oh we are getting on the bus? let's pray. they are praying constantly and in all seriousness, it's a beautiful thing. they are talking with God throughout the day and i can learn a lot from that. because i am a self proclaimed bad public prayer. {as you can probably tell...} i stumble and go on and on and i don't ever end sentences. i'm not one of those graceful prayers who just amaze you with amazing words. so on the last night of a giant conference we were throwing for young adults and teens in peru they asked our team to go out and pray for a peruvian. most peruvians don't know english and i had taken 5 years of french so i knew no spanish so i just prayed in english. and strangely i wasn't nervous or stumbling. i just prayed for this sweet girl and for her walk with Christ and for her family and future. about 20 minutes later i closed the prayer and gave her a hug.. she was bawling and to my surprise she said "i speak english and i understood everything you said" i was so stunned yet so thankful for that. she took off her bracelet and said she wanted me to have it. and i still do. i will absolutely never forget that moment.

little did i know someone snapped this photo of us. i was so thankful because it was so hetic afterwards and she had to leave to get home quickly before the streets got really dangerous. its become one of my favorite photos because we were both so in the moment. and we are matching haha!

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