Pickles and Ready whip

sounds kinky right?  or maybe a craving for a pregnant person?  (amber is not pregnant either).  

no this is the flyer that my cousins kid received as an invitation to a church in the area .  Now mind you this church is a 30 minute bus ride from where my cousin lives.  i'm sorry, but this is just wrong in several ways.  

First, location.  if someone is offering a pickle and whip cream to a kid and they are located well outside of the area, my radar is activated. 

second, perversion.  with some of the people out there today, my cousin had a right to be concerned.  

third, belittling the pickle and ready whip.  they are awesome items on their own, but in no way should they be degraded to a bribe!! (spranger's take their pickles very serious!  they are at every family gathering and during the summer they are amazing snacks.)

okay, so that last reason was joking, but ya know, as a person that works in the church and i try hard to create a safe environment and try to avoid any situations like this and it bothers me when churches use stupid ploys to lure people in.  think through your flyers please.

Lady Chargers

My first experience as a head basketball coach has come to a close for this season. Overall i had a BLAST!!! The girls were an amazing group of young ladies that just flat out "got after it." they played hard and attempted to do what we asked. Did we have our mental lapses? yep...its jr. high students, did you expect something different?

overall our season finished around .500 (12-11 i think) and we achieved 2 out of our 3 goals.

1. we beat Rockridge (16-12 was the final score). it was a very physical game and the girls stepped up to the challenge and matched push for push. At a couple points i was nervous someone was going to get hurt.

2. We played for the championship in our conference tourney. We had to play Sherrard and they were a better team. i still believe that if we play them on a good day when at least 1/2 of our shots are falling, we can beat them. But this game was not that day. We lost (26-9 or something like that).

our 3rd goal was to beat Sherrard. We didn't achieve this goal but hopefully the girls discovered that they can at least play with them. I know in our first match up, we were defeated before we even stepped on the court. the second meeting, we lost because of a mental lapse of about 3 minutes and they took advantage. The 3rd meeting, we had them within our grasps at home, but hit our mental block and when they went up by 4 with 2-3 minutes left, we gave up.

all in all, i loved every minute of our season. Now that its over i miss it greatly. i miss seeing the girls every day and teaching them. i miss our inside jokes and games. I miss being able to encourage them on a regular basis.

my dream has been to coach some day and teach this game that i love and i'm grateful for the opportunity and look forward to doing it again.

if you have time, one of the grandparents put together a dvd of our season and pictures of the girls. His granddaughter plays on the 7th grade team and picked out the music. its 11 minutes long but if you want to peek at it, you can see why i enjoyed my season.

What a great group of girls.

testing a new program that updates various apps at once

a video for youth ministry

i subscribe to the youth pastor from Saddlebacks website and he had this video on his page.  it is very funny if you have ever spent any time working in youth ministry.

hope you enjoy as much as i do.