SO you can zoom zoom.

Ey.. It's been May over a week now.
It is officially BUSY season at work and in Youth Group as summer activities are starting to kick up especially in the Indianapolis area. The Indy 500 is Memorial Day Weekend, as well as our huge Youth Rummage sale and a Bestie's 40th birthday. The Indy 500 takes a lot of preparation because we drive by the Speedway on our way to work, church, shopping, our everyday lives. Road closures prevent that travel, and traffic becomes insane as you can imagine. Most of the times we have just walked the 2 miles to the Speedway and kept our $20 for parking. I LOVE the excitement of the Track in season. We hear the zoom zoom at our house most nights, get free passes to the race, and love every minute of it; sunburns and all.

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See all those people in the stands? They have to come from somewhere...
Traffic is INSANE. We can't even get home because they block our streets off.

And this weekend, the Cultural Trail OFFICIALLY opens! I cannot wait to explore that, too. It's become my personal bike and run trail that is close to home. We live just a mile from a starting point of it and we really enjoy being so close to everything downtown Indy like the Indians Games, Lucas Oil Stadium (go Colts!), Banker's Life FieldHouse, the ZOO, the State Museum (which will host Star Wars things this summer!!!), and many more. We've fallen HARD for our city and will have a hard time saying good-bye when the Marine Corps moves us away.

Did anyone watch Iron Man 3, yet? We watched it 2130 the night before it "premiered". Our Local Regal Cinema had a 9:30 showing that technically made the movie end at 12:30 so it became a "midnight" premiere. It was an amazing movie and MUCH better than Iron Man 2. If you watched it, did you stay for the ending after the credits part? Best.Part.Ever!!!!!

Oh, and let's not forget Fast and the Furious coming up May 24th! zoom zoom.

Gulf winds in the Jazz Club.

This past week has been crazy. 

Chaos.

Excitement.

Adventure.

Madness.

Insanity.

Sinful.

All of those things! The front room is re-painted. I'm in LOVE with it, and finally decided to paint it whatever I wanted too instead of what everyone thought would be goofy. It looks amazing. Even the Marine finally LOVES the color in there, too. He thought he'd LOATHE the color, but it turned out amazing.

It's come a LONG way from it's random flower to stripes to yellow walls since we've moved in. 

It's not grey and blue-ish/green perfection. Color is: Behr's GULF WINDS.

Which we have decided is another go-to color for all future homes, bathrooms, hallways. It'll probably be our neutral color against grey; like the rest of our home.

Look at the little photo Bomber.; Stealing a peek outside on his perch above the couch. 

This is the same wall a couple weeks ago. We lost a LITTLE bit of brightness but brought in a whole bunch of character and room flow from the living room that's painted JAZZ CLUB by Valspar. 

SO, what do you think? Those frames now have to move to a new place in the house or get repainted because they CLASH with our new paint. But if that's the LEAST of our troubles, we're stuck in "first world problems".

This weekend was also a Marriage retreat, an accident in the workplace for both the Marine and I, and   exhausting prayer warrior time!  So we're both helping clean up the messes in our respected jobs, being spiritually beat-up, and committing time to focus on the important things like salvations, worship, and the things that MATTER in life.

Let's start a new week all refreshed since spring FINALY arrived and it will be 80 the next two days and then back to 50 this weekend with rains. ACK. Bi-polar weather.

 

#OneComment

Last night a college kid (who is younger than a couple youthins) posted a comment about #hashtags not belonging on Facebook. FOUR hours later, 1000+ comments later, we all finally went to bed.

We #hashed out every topic including #notstudyingforfinals #procrastinating
#Marinesisalwayscapitol #StarWars #disney #workingout #ornot any many many many more topic changes.

It was a blast. I am sure the people who commented early and went to bed are waking up this morning thinking, what HAPPENED last night. It was a great night of fellowship and procrastinating on studying for finals and their part.

SO, it's Friday and there's the Youth Open House tonight.  Basically it's a meeting for the parents but meetings are boring so why not spice is up and call it an Open House? Yep, that's exactly what I did. Games, prizes, food, information, fellowship, food, more food, and a tour of all the new rooms we've been working on. (We painted all three rooms and spruced them up for all those who think Youth is an exclusive club!)

The Marine's Birthday was yesterday and as a birthday present, the Marine Corps decided to send him to the field! Yay for sleeping in a tent on your birthday, right? I haven't purchased a gift yet, because he'll pick something out and buy it instead. Always does. I DID buy him two packages of OREOS that he's been wanting, so there's that, too. One of them is Birthday Cake flavored filling. SO that works, too.


And #onedaywithoutShoes Happened the day after Boston was attacked.
I had shoes on because I was in meetings all day and my toes were frozen. I still brought awareness because I talked about it and I wore my race short in support of Boston.
#Boston and I have a love/hate relationship just like running. I love it and hate it simultaneously.
But I wouldn't want to cause HARM to people running a peaceful, amazing race of the WORLDs Elite runners. What next, bombing the PGA? Wimbledon? Olympics?