Michigan Living: Winter weeks 29-30

Oops-- we got a little behind with the blogging! So sorry, we were just out having too much fun! Here's a couple highlights of our last two weeks:

ATF Lunch

There's are tons of youth type events that groups pay to go to every year, this one is called Acquire the Fire, and with it comes a free lunch for the Youth Pastor and a guest. So Chris brought his favorite guest- Emily- and had a great lunch. The only reason I even put it here is because we saw James B's lost twin brother... no seriously, looked just like you man!












Food Drop

Every February Northpointe Community Church takes part in a huge event where they "drop" a box of food to over 1800 families in the Lansing area. The portion we got to be part of this year was the call center. Basically it's the place the families who need a box of food call to register. Think of a phone bank at all those Jerry's Kids telethons you've ever seen- exactly the same. Between the two of us we got to talk to around 100 people who were in need of food. Pretty cool way to be the hands and feet of Jesus!















MSU Spartans

Some friends of ours scored us 4 tickets to the MSU hockey game... that happened to be the day it snowed around 6 inches. Driving was pretty awesome, the games was pretty awesome, and Tammy and Vic are pretty awesome!














Winter?

So the weather is more ADHD than Chris is, which is saying a lot. The temps have ranged from 8 degrees to 56 degrees (day or night doesn't matter), and from 6 inches of snow to totally dry. Super weird. But, in all of it we have decided that the weather won't stop whatever plans we've made which means we're getting a lot of snow driving experience (as well as a lot of non-snow driving experience). So far we've managed to stay out of the ditch on the side of the road, and only one of us has slid through a stop sign... we'll let you guess who.














MI Historical Museum

One of the heaviest snow days we decided to drive into Lansing to visit the Historical Museum-- basically the desire to save $20 because it's free on Sunday won out over the 6 inches of snow on the ground and consistently heavy snow falling from the sky. We got to see some pretty cool early model cars, some 50's music memorabilia, an 1800's school house, and a bunch of other cool stuff- and to top it all off we were nearly the only people there!



























All in all we still absolutely love Michigan!