Spirituality Personality?!?

What does "spirituality" look like? Does it have to look like anything? I often ask myself questions like these. I feel very "spiritual" though I am probably not classified as "religious". I feel I have a very close walk with God. I talk to God a lot and listen for his answers almost everyday. I don't attend a church, church has never been a place of comfort or belonging for me. I do have a major connected feeling with God when I'm hiking, like Ashley's whirlwind :), enjoying the beauty of creation, being thankful I am part of it. Being with family and friends or sharing a smile with a stranger walking down the street or at school. Is that enough? I know the Bible says we should fellowship with other Christians, but I don't really meet that many "Christians" who exude the loving and accepting energy I have connected with spirituality, and I definitely haven't found a church. Really, I'm happy with my connection to God and I feel overwhelmingly blessed with my life.

This all may sound very lofty and new age-ish or whatever, but Ashley writes about her feelings so I thought I would try it. Thanks for listening or, i guess, reading in this case.

My Daily Meditation: "Dear Lord, please guide and protect me. Let me be a radiant beacon of Your endless love and our endless gratitude.
- Amen"

My love and gratitude tatoos, they are in my own handwriting.

Could I maybe get 1 more hour in a day?

Because that is basically what I need. :) Sorry I haven't been posting more but I've been busy and I'm sure you all know how that feels.

Let's see last week, Christopher was in Albuquerque and Nicole called in desperate need of help with the boys. So, I took my backpack of homework over there. I spent Tuesday, Thursday and Friday over there, wow! I hang out with boys probably 3-4 times a month, but usually for 2 hours or so. Since Nicole was really needing a little space I told her to go run some errands and I could watch the boys. It was good, we played baseball then we splashed in the mud puddles, then we took a bath and then we watched this Anima movie they love kiki something. It was fun but. . . parenting is a risk I cannot take. It is definitely the most difficult adventure a human being can embark upon. I love hanging with the boys especially now that they are 2.5 and talk. It's way cooler! I still don't change diapers, not one ever! Still proud of the record :) I thought I would post of few of my fav pics of the boys.


I get to visit with Ash and Lincoln this week. I love being a real life aunt. It's super fun! I'm so excited to be part of Linc's life and be there to see all that he does. You'll be seeing a bunch of me & Linc pics later this week, I know there are not enough yet!! So get ready!!

I'm gonna dance dance dance!

Well, I thought my 7 credit french class would be my hardest class this term, but my hip hop dance class is a close close 2nd. Today my teacher thought we were break dancers. I'm not sure if you know why they call it "break" dancing, but its because you b-r-e-a-k yo-self. We did some crab walking, spinning down the floor on our hands and feet and they squat kick out jump up things. Anyways, I feel like I'm 8 feet tall and it takes me twice as long to get all my legs and arms in the same positions as all the cute petit dancing girls. No worries. I've got inspiration and a lot of determination! :)

This video is of Christopher Burns (grey tank top) Nicole's partner and the twins' Dad. He's so amazing, I hope they inherit some of those genes.
B-BOY at home 01

Picture this. . .

So, I thought I would share some of my wedding pics since I know some of you haven't got to see them yet. I needed to take a break, I've been studying French all day everyday since I started school. I will definitely be learning A LOT this term! Whoo! So here's some pics . . .

All of our family that made it.

The tunnel of love.

The train!

That's our little Lexus cruising down the aisle.

The jewelry I got to wear. Leo's dad, David, made this when he was a jeweler.

John took some really cool pics.

Well, there's a few. Hope you enjoyed. I can post more if you would like to see them. We've got like 2000. Crazy! Love you all!

Back to school

Well, I'm back to school and boy am I in for a whirlwind of a term. My schedule is nice since I don't have to drive to town everyday, only Mon/Wed/Fri. Which is nice. I'm taking the Yogilates class again, which is Mon/Wed @ 8:30 a.m. I really like this class it is an awesome workout! I still can't put weight on my elbow (since the Heely insident :). But I'm gonna work it out, so don't worry!

Now here's the big news . . . . . I'M A DANCER!! Yeah!! I'm in my 1st dance class ever! Hip Hop 101, perfect! So on the 1st day the teacher asks, "Is this anyone's 1st dance class?". So of course me and my friend Hannah raise our hands enthusiastically! There were me, Hannah and 1 other girl raising our hands. "Awesome." I thought. "We're going to look like idiots." So the teacher got up and started the warm-up and it was like everyone had done this 1000 times, while me and Hannah are laughing so hard at ourselves we can hardly breath. I pretty sure no one ever said the life of a dancer was easy, so I'm in for the trip!

So, if that wouldn't have been enough for 1 day I'm also continuing my quest for "bilingualism" :) Je etudie francais tes les jours! I really want to speak French now! Learning a language has been the hardest thing I have ever tried to learn. I took FR101 and got an A- and I've also taken private lessons for a few months so I thought I could kind of expediate my learning curve by signing up for FR151. What I didn't realize was how far ahead of me they would be. I ended in chapitre 5 and they are starting on chapitre 8. Yeah. Needless to say I felt a little overwelmed on my hour drive home. No need to worry though, I am going to kick French's butt! I'm determined to master this overly complicated language, similar to English, so that I can travel to France in 2009 and be standing in le Louvre being my own French tour guide on my 28th birthday. I've already started saving. C'est un magnifique! My whole fridge is postit noted with all the food names. I'm going to teach myself the 2 chaptires I missed by next Wednesday (Mecredi).

Well just thought I'd keep you posted and typing in English makes me feel so successful after trying to right in French! :) Love you all!

P.S. I'm going to a super hot reggae show tonight my friend in producing, Luciano. You should take a listen it's really nice. You can find him on myspace.