Kristin McLendon: March 2009

Middle School Retreat Video!

Be sure to watch the whole video through--it pauses in the middle and the really good stuff is at the end! :) Enjoy! **If you are getting this in an email or on a feed, be sure to mosey on over to the blog to watch it!

A lifelong dream fulfilled!

In following up with the last post I just had to let you know Robert fulfilled his lifelong dream as.....

BATMAN

Our professional photographer caught the true essence of batman in the picture below--with his cute little crooked ear (I mistakenly called it his antler once this weekend---I promise you--I only made that mistake once as I was quickly corrected that batman does NOT have antlers!!!) and batman not being able to breathe out of his nose...so he has this little thing going on with his lips! :)

Here's our whole crew: Super Heros: The Incredible Hulk, Spider Man, Super Man and Batman, the villain of Middle School Retreat: Darth Vader and Team Gold--our amazing core leadership team!

I just couldn't resist one more picture of Team Gold since they did such an AMAZING job! (And a side note--the Lord has used these two girls mightily and I mean, MIGHTILY in my life and my transition here. I praise Jesus for them!)

And last, but not least, me with my Batman!

Middle School Retreat This Weekend!

Somehow I found myself on a blog hiatus (minus the picture of maddie in the dishwasher!) The hiatus wasn't really on purpose--just kinda happened that way! Sorry folks--Ashley was even on spring break so you didn't even get a "moment" from her (although I enjoyed seeing her smiling face around here!) Sorry!!!

Okay, so why have we been so busy??? This weekend is MIDDLE SCHOOL RETREAT!!!! It is the most ingenious thing I've ever heard of and a) wish I had thought of the idea and b)wish i had thought of it about 6 years ago!!! c) thank you Mark Fritchman!! for dreaming this when you were Youth Pastor here! It's a retreat for our middle schoolers, but it is completely planned and lead by our high school leaders.....we have been meeting with our core team every wednesday and our high school leaders on sundays for the past 3 months and it is all finally going to happen this weekend!!! One of my passions is to raise up leaders and this is the most incredible thing I have ever seen! We have roughly 35 high school leaders going this weekend and over 60 middle schoolers (how exciting!!) going ....I tell you this....to........PRAY FOR US PLEASE!!!!!!

Every year there is a "theme" and this year it is "FASCINATE" based off of Psalm 27:4 and our team themes are super heros--and ladies and gentleman, my husband is living out his life long dream this weekend. They picked up the costume today and he just had to try it on this evening---please take a look at the picture below and please comment on this post (if you get this in an email--click the title and it will take you to the original post and the comment section on the bottom) and guess which super hero Robert has always dreamed of being!!!

Do know that after making the flyers, we decided that Wonder Woman--well to be quite frank, she's a little sketchy, so we changed her to the Incredible Hulk.

So, there's our weekend for you--Robert leaves at 9am in the morning to go "prepare the way". I leave at 5:30 tomorrow afternoon with 2 charter buses full of youth that we are believing God has HUGE things for this weekend!

Maybe when we return I'll have a little extra time to write some blogs I've been wanting to write...wait....Summer Camp will kick into full gear when I return...which brings me to some exciting news!!! Remember when I told you about our Summer Internship?? Well, someone near and dear to me applied and I am so super pumped that I will be having my dear Amelia from the Hill be an intern at RiverStone. I am just beside my self with excitement!!! Our moment with Ashley, Ashley is also going to be an intern (we will have 7 total)--so maybe we'll get some "special moments" from her--and maybe even Amelia will write us a blog or two...what ya think?

Love you all! Thank you for praying for us this weekend and sharing life with us!!!!! And don't forget to guess which super hero Robert is living out his life long dream as this weekend!!!! Can't wait to hear your responses!!!!

Maddie thought she would help...

....do the dishes!

KSU Fugative

So what had happened was...

Just another day here in paradise...

Robert

Just a snapshot....

...into our crazy weekend! We had our Kingdom Expansion Conference this weekend--absolutely incredible. Still processing what the Lord showed us!

The conference started Friday night and I needed a little help with a project, so I had some girls come early. I step away for just a few moments and I come back to look through my window into my office and this is what I see...welcome to my world, crazy girls, imac w/photo booth and a hubby aiding them...

After the conference we headed to the other side of the ATL to meet up with Amanda and Ricky to celebrate her 30th birthday....so she thought :) We knew what was up!!!

Thank you Ricky for letting us be apart of such a special night!!!!

We are so excited for the two of you and can't wait till your special day! :)

Saturday was an early morning and a full day of amazing miracles of the Lord....Sunday morning we headed back to church and before the 9am service was out the snowflakes were falling!!!! Later on in the afternoon, things were cancelled for the evening and we headed home ---to take the pup out for her first snow! Well, Robert took her out...I stayed on the balcony and took pictures! :)