pictures from jesse's band concert...

ELLIE IS BACK IN MINNEAPOLIS

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we just went to dixie's on grand. it was a grand time....haha...grand. get it?

time for dirt dessert! hurrah!!

it was a pretty flippin sweet time

let me tell you. grandma and grandpa froehlich's annual music party. there was lots of singing, solos, instruments, jokes, food, laughing. one of the favorites...

Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day

joy in life

1996 Summer Olympic Games.

Who taped the women's gymnastics and watched them over and over???? Dominique Dawes was a favorite.

TWINS GAME vs. white sox

news

We have a house guest for a couple days. Hershey Currie has been welcomed with open arms, along with his kennel.

One of Steph's coworkers, Christy, has a Shih Tzu she is giving away. We have a picture of the dog on our fridge. HOPING, PRAYING that dog will soon live at 2520. The dog's name is Chloe. Christy is a little aprehensive of the neighborhood.

steph wants a sweet that starts with an s and ends with an s. there are some sitting on the dining room table...hmm...oh, Dan is now offering one to Hersey, but still has not offered any to Steph...although she has made many hints about wanting some. could she be any more obvious?? HELLO.

we are going to rainbow (or cub!) to get SKITTLES (hint, hint), and then switch the movie at blockbuster. yep, did i mention SKITTLES? yes, i did. wild berry. seriously, i love them, and no offer has been made. goodness. ok, i'm out.

mohawk

we like em. whatever makes the guy taller...according to sarah heefner.

knowing that you are all lovers of knowledge, we would like to direct you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk_hairstyle

pictures of 2520...finally!

neighbors!

please pray for our neighbors here in the phillips neighborhood. that we would love them, and be salt and light to them. pray earnestly that their hearts of stone would be changed to hearts of flesh. pray that we would have opportunities to share with them about Christ. thanks!

favorite food of the week...

the other day i was with rebecca at rainbow foods. she told me of the goodness of peanut butter covered pretzels. SO good. try one. love it.

wearing your heart on your sleeve

what exactly does this mean?

chewing gum

some say it kills brain cells because it may release mercury from cavity fillings into your body. some say it gives bad gas. and others say it actually helps increase your learning capabilities. let us just add that it can cut cravings.

being the lovers of knowledge we are...we really want to know the truth about gum and brain cells and the correlation between the two.

in the words of dj mertes. we can never be sure.

Failure to Launch...

"Is that a spaceship movie?" - JP

spiders are not my friends

life at 2520 is going great other than the two huge spiders...that was a problem. both dead now. dan and jesse.

we went to the uptown art festival earlier this evening. awesome.

just watched hotel rwanda. amazing movie.

are there ditches in the cities??

AMY CARMICHAEL:

If I have not compassion on my fellowservant, even as my Lord had pity on me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I can easily discuss the shortcomings and the sins of any; if I can speak in a casual way even of a child's misdoings, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I can write an unkind letter, speak an unkind word, think an unkind thought without grief and shame, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I am afraid to speak the truth, lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand," or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve around myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I do not give a friend "the benefit of the doubt," but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I take offense easily; if I am content to continue in a cool unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.

If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forget," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the shores of all the world, could not wash such memories from my mind, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If the praise of man elates me and his blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstanding without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If in the fellowship of service I seek to attach a friend to myself, so that others are caused to feel unwanted; if my friendships do not draw others deeper in, but are ungenerous, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

That which I know not, teach Thou me, O Lord, my God

U-G-L-Y

upsurd...absurd. what's the big diff? no comment.

MUDDIN'

red-neckinn it up in the south of minnesota.

a few nights ago...

ANDREA: "Dan, what are you doing?"
DAN: "I'm cutting up celery and putting it in water so it doesn't get bad."
STEPH: "I've never heard of that before. I didn't know water got bad."