Church! Family Fall Fest 2010

This past weekend Andreas and I helped out with our church's annual Family Fall Fest. Taking over one park on Saturday and another on Sunday (in two different areas of our neighborhood).

Over the two days we had just over 250 kids and families show up for the festivities. Doing things such as pumpkin carving, goodies, and games.

Here I am drawing up the sign for the day's sack races.

Andreas busy making balloons for the kids.

Katrina (who I'm often working with at the Church's café) doing face painting for the kids.

Sack RACE!! The kids were great, even when they were falling over each other.

Playing carnival games, such as bean bag toss and Fat Cat.

Many parents and passer-by's asked "What's going on?", "This is FREE!?", "Who's putting this on??", "This was really great!" "It's a good thing you're doing here."

Hopefully we'll have some new comers or visitors to church, but even more than that hopefully people were some how touched and effected by our attempt in trying to show God's love by doing something for the community.

Husband's Birthday

October 2nd! ~Andreas' bday!~

We had a full day on Andreas birthday. He ran a Half-Marathon at the Norwegian Festival at Central Park (NYC).

Where we were surprised to find that MADCON performed, yes! Even their great break-beat "Beggin"!!

We went to Governor's Island for the craziest game of mini-golf I've ever played (Noooo organization what so ever!...but it was free!)

Then we FINALLY went to ChinaTown. (Ever since we moved here Andreas had been dying to go there for some Chinese food).

We topped the night off with a movie & cake. :)

Libby's Wedding

Andreas and I traveled down to VA via bus to show our love and support for Libby's big day. (I did scripture reading and helping with the book signing table, while Andreas directed parking traffic) ;) It was so good to be at her wedding!! I feel I've missed so many big days in many of my friends' lives because of traveling and ministry, but God knows! (the biggest day of our lives will one day come and I know I'll be there for that one!)

Here's a few of my fav's from the pics that I took at Libby's wedding weekend. September 24-25.

Libby & I have been joking about starting a wives club! :) First meeting coming soon - details pending. ;)

nyc with mom

Day one of mom's visit was consumed by our dancing/Broadway Blessing event. Which you can check out the vid on my previous post.

Day TWO: Included Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Batman movie set, WTC (no pictures from WTC sorry)...

Andreas proud of the Norwegian Copper used to build Miss Liberty.

After leaving Liberty Island and Ellis Island we stumbled upon the set of Batman!

Day THREE: Included Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Terminal, Junior's, Central Park, and WEST SIDE STORY! (guess which part was my favorite?)

Galavanting around Rockefeller Center.

Lunch at Grand Central Terminal, followed by us devouring delicious NY style cheesecake at Juniors.

Forever21 in Time Square, had a pretty impressive advertisement display, which included pre-recorded model's taking pictures of people passing by on the street in real time? Crazy? check it out:

This was the pic I took of the huge display screen. That's us in the pic she's holding!! (and a few other street walkers....)

Finally....

Yeah!

Day FOUR:

Which I don't have pics of got even more exciting....

My mom and I rode bikes around Prospect Park.

Andreas and I went to work at the cafe, and then the TORNADO HIT!

While at the cafe the winds suddenly picked up, the sky went black/green, and rain was falling horizontally. Trees were down on almost every block! Fortunately no major injuries, except for one death :( Weather experts said with absolutely no warning it's amazing that there weren't more casualties.

Day FIVE: We scurried over to Brooklyn Bridge Park before my mom had to fly off again.

At Brooklyn Bridge Park

This was the crazy line waiting for some famous Grimaldi's Pizza, located under the bridge. There's ALWAYS a crazy line for Grimaldi's! Side note: girl in pink shirt - NOT me. haha.

Needless to say the week was very eventful. After working at the US Open for two weeks, then the eventful week with my mom I was tired. :) Work has been up and down, last week was a very FULL work week, but this week has been extremely slow.

Last weekend we did make it up to VA for the weekend for Libby's wedding so many some pictures soon for that too!

Want to see some DANCE!?

Hey guys~ I know I've been "bad" by not posting more updates! It's a bit out of control how long it's been.

Here's a nice vid from us performing with Project Dance at the annual "Broadway Blessing" event (Monday, September 13th). Kudos to my mom for filming with my little digital camera (she had just arrived for a one week visit to NYC, that afternoon!).

Every year a "Broadway Blessing" is held at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. It's very interesting...because although it may sound very christianese the actual event is a group of "spiritual" people coming together asking for "God's" blessing.... Everyone in Project Dance is sold out for Jesus of course, but other groups invited or involved in this particular event included Christian Scientists, a Jewish Rabbi, and other mixed faiths who believe there is a "God" but not necessarily a Saviour.

The event went very diplomatically, and professional. Several artists from Broadway performed. And of course....Project Dance got to point to Jesus! :) Check it out...

(A pic of us after the show.)