Happy Sixteenth Daphne!

Hello dearies!

To keep you updated, Shantel and I spent a beautiful Saturday celebrating Daphne's sweet sixteenth birthday! The day started with Shantel defeating MBC at volleyball (awwww yis), before I met up with her at cultural bus stop. Took a while to decide which platform we were supposed to take the bus from, but good thing we bumped into Johnny and Wayneeee at the stop :)

The long bus ride consisted of many "Um where are weeeeeeeeee"s. 

Anyways we got there safely in the end, and walked smack bang in the middle of an intense Taboo game of Grace vs Everyone Else as seen below:

"I DIDN'T CHEAT!"  "Yes yes Grace you won the entire game we all lost okay?" <3 <3 

After scoffing our faces with deliciousness and filling up 4 buckets of water balloons (which were devoured in a minute once we started anyways), we got on our way to Rockside Riverside Rocky River Whatevers Park and commenced a huge waterfight. 

It started off sensibly with waterguns and balloons, but before long, everyone just grabbed buckets and started dunking them on people aha!

B Blockers Groupie-Chelsey with Cassia being sneaky. 

Twas was a lovely day, thank you Daphne and the Ho fambam for organizing such a fun-filled day! May you be blessed in all the years to come Daph Daph, love you heaps <3 

UQ Open Day,

Hello hello, how's everyone's week going?
Hump day almost over! Super quick update. Have a well-deserved picture of some eye candy.

Yum yum. Now that that is over with, here comes my adventures at UQ Open Day thirdwheeling Mindy and Fred. Frindy. Mindy slept over the night before, and we did some cray cray girlie stuff, you know, the typical dancing around the room, pillow fights, oh and totally snuck out to have a little volleyball sesh. #livinglifeontheedge 
She dragged me out of the bed in the morning and to UQ, where she lost me, then found me, made slime and listened to a few lectures. Free photobooth and pens was the source of my joy that day!

We spent a while in there. #soznotsoz

Fred and Mindy being cute and all. I just spent 10 minutes on the ground squealing.

Will be back with more soon, have a lovely week :)

Secret Women's Business Part II,

Are you guys ready for Part II? 
I apologize in advance that I cannot think of witty introduction sentences like Joanne can, but even as I am typing every word right now, I remain dumbfounded by the awe-strikingly amazing past two days at SWB Conference 2013. After the incredible experience last night, we really thought the second day of this conference couldn't get any better. 
We were very wrong.

There's something so magical about the way so many girls come together as one, singing and praising with all of our heart with hands raised high in the air. Today, we were spoken to by the most intelligent, God glorifying women I've ever met, Caroline Leaf. She's a fab neurologist and spoke in a way that penetrated our hearts, where grace meets science. She teaches people how to think, and in turn, see the light of God in their lives. Everything was so scientific it was startling at first. It wasn't deep or emotional or tear-jerking in the slightest, but I was so captivated and intrigued I could probably listen to her talk about brains and God and neuroscience and cognotive dissonance for the rest of my life. 

We also learnt how to cook today. Yay for girls in the kitchen.

So to save you from me going off on my own tangent about how perfect everything was;
You guessed it, it's photo time.

Bubbles in the air while we are being shaped into housewife material. 

Revisiting the caravan. Irresistible caravans, dammit.

We like to match. #SWB2013

Free Magnum icecreams and Calipo's. You have no idea how delighted I was.

I'd like to leave you with one, final word.

CORAMDEO

"living in the presence of, under the authority of, and to the honour and glory of God"

Secret Women's Business Part I,

PINCH AND PUNCH FOR THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH WHITE RABBIT 5EVA. 

Now that that's over, it's time to recount and and flip through our mind, trying to comprehend the genuine momentous swelling of utter joy that we experienced tonight at the 2013 SWB Conference. The theme, Body Soul Spirit, points the direction as looking at our bodies to steward, our souls to nourish and our spirit to revitalize! (What a wonderful cacophony of words that un-jumbles the goals we strive for in life, and reveals to us the purpose on which we live in this beautiful Earth for!)

Tonight's message centered on what it truly means to have decided to follow Jesus, finding Him in the middle of our trials and tribulations but continuing rowing our boats down the path on which He has called us to go. In the midst of our problems, we need to rely on Jesus for the strength and courage to push through, to near our ultimate goal: tending the sheep. 

 Crafty merchandise with meaningful imprints

 We found a caravan. A decorated one.

It's not okay to have so many shoes. 

 No boyfriend, no problem, we got Jesus.

Dancing for Jesus. 

Scribbles on mirrors=ecstatic cries of joy!

Matching bracelets with owls. Hoot hoot. 

Something about the glass shattering bass, the angelic voices of the singers, and Christ-centered women from all around the world coming together under one roof, praising and dancing makes our hearts feel like we're never going to be the same again. 

Conference was amazing and we can't wait to rest our hearts, ready for another awestruck day tomorrow! Will post more photos and sharings on here soon after the last session. Have a good night, God bless.

"May God Himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole put together - spirit, soul and body - and keep you fit for the coming of our master, Jesus Christ. The ONE who calls you is faithful and HE will DO IT."

1 Thessalonians 5:23