Is It Official?

Does this...

...Officially make me a geek? haha lol
I have 3 computers set up here, 2 are mine one is the church computer that I work on all the time.
Oh yea, and I use this SWEET program called Synergy that lets me share a single mouse and keyboard between all three computers, and its as simple as just moving the mouse to the screen you want and you are immediately controlling that computer. :) Pretty amazing I know... :P

Oh yea! I just recently finished building my new computer! Lovingly dubbed "Natasha" or "Tasha" for short... hahaha :D
Here are a few shots of her...



So yea... good stuff... :)
For those who know.. or care...
Its has a Dual-Core 2.13 Ghz processor
2GB Dual-Channel DDR2 RAM
A 256MB XFX NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT

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Workin' Away...

Well we're here at the reception, waiting for the people to finish eating and start dancing so we can start the sweet slideshow that we just finished! :)
But here is a shot from earlier when we were shooting the bride and groom and Sarah told me to to hold the bouquet. lol

Anyways... lol I'll post the slideshow later. :P

This Me, Sarah, Beth, and Kristen after the wedding.

Whats goin on?

Were in the car headed to a wedding and I'm on Sarah's laptop connected through her blackberry... its pretty sweet cuz you can be anywhere and be connected! Anyways, were going downtown for this wedding so it should be pretty sweet.



Sarah has a new girl coming in to intern with her for the month of August and shes gonna be staying with us, so her and her mom and sister came in last night to kinda meet the family and make sure we aren't crazy people... (little do they know..) ;) lol

But it was awesome because as we started talking at dinner, we found out that our families have SO much in common. Both families have 7 kids, homeschool, both moms are RNs and we both even have a dog next door named Jojo... lol

Her name is Kristen Snyder and she is really an AMAZING photographer, you can check out her blog here. Its gonna be so cool when she stays here in August, because she kinda just fits right in with the fam... :P

Hillsong United!!!

Last night we went to the most AMAZING concert EVER!!!!!!!!
The band is called Hillsong United and the worship experience that they created last night was indescribable!

Check out one of their concerts here^^

Their stuff is on Itunes and I would recommend any of it.

Our friend Kenny had a press pass for the event so he got a TON of amazing shots! Check them out here

Here is one of some of us in the group

Nashville... Day 4...

day 4...

Today we got to sleep in till 8:30!!!! OMG it was incredible!!! :P lol

So we got up and got ready for church, we decided to tryout this church that my cousins go to whenever they are down here. Its called Newsong, and it was absolutely amazing!!! :) The worship and the message was great! And during the "greet the visitors" time 2 of the girls that I know from the Barlowgirl Messageboards saw me and came up and said hey. It was Shay and Lindz so after the service I made sure I got a pic with the two of them :)

After church, well, I was on the phone with my mom for mothers day and I wasn't watching where we were going, so we went the wrong way on a highway for about 20 min... :-/ so I mapped us out a detour to get us back on track, and well, we finally got on the right highway and we were cruisin along and all of the sudden traffic stopped... dead....after waiting about 20 min, and seeing a helicopter land a ways up on the road, Matt, Josh, and I hopped out and started walking on the side of the road up to the accident. On the way up there... we saw some people gettin pretty comfortable, and settling in for the long wait.

If you look close you can see the guy in the lawn chair behind the trailer... :P

So anyways, we got up to the scene, and from what we heard there was a guy going over 100 who flipped his car and it went into the woods on the side of the road, so they had to land a chopper to airlift him.

So after waiting for about an hour, the chopper took off and we finally got through... after the we went to a dam. Commonly known around here as the "Downtgivay Dam". rotfl...

Anyways, 4:30 comes early... ugh... talk to yall soon :)

Nashville... Day 3...

Today was... pretty amazing...

We woke up at about 7 and headed over to help out a guy who runs his ministry off of the campus that we are working on. His ministry is called Layman's Lessons and its a ministry to the homeless. So basically we drove down to downtown Nashville and set up a bunch of tables, chairs, a stage, and a sound system. Then the show started, lol we blasted worship music, and when I took a walk it could be heard from 6 blocks away... lol but the homeless people came to see what is going on. And when they showed up we gave them a hot cup of coffee and then told them that we would give them a hot meal if they would sit for about 30 min and listen to a message. By the time the message was over we had about 75 people there. It was awesome!!! When he gave the alter call 9 people came up to receive Christ!!!! It was AMAZING!!!!

I took a ton of video, but barely any pictures... :-/

here are a few that I did take... lol

The (wet) Sound System that we used... lol

Never go anywhere without your korky flapper tank balls... :P

I can't wait to post the video when I get home... :)

Talk to you soon...

Nashville Day 2...

Hey yall... I'm down in Nashville right now, me and my best friend Matt, his brother/alien Josh lol, and their dad. We are putting a new roof on an old hospital that the ministry that Mr. swanson works for owns. I'll put together a whole video when I get back, but here are some pictures from what we've done so far...

Right now we are sitting in the hospital, and we had to hack their mainframe to get internet access... :P

Me and the hott pig (skinny white nut job) at famous daves... lol

Us all after day 2 of roofing

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Hey yall, I'm back in town, just for a few days, I'm heading out Wednesday Night for Nashville... ahh!!! Crazy story, but I'll post about whats goin on later... anyways.
Today Jeremy Flanagan and Mark Collins came over for a meeting for the web design ministry at the church. Bryant, (who is staying with the family here at the house for a while) joined us in the meeting. So after it was over one of the things we discussed doing was making a recruiting video for the web design ministry. So we got the camera and this is what we came up with...


haha so yea... that was it...
talk to yall soon :P

Outta Here... :P

Hey yall! I just wanted to let everyone know that I am going to be out of town a lot this month...
I'm leaving for michigan right now for 3 days, but I'll post later :)

Spring Formal 07!!!!

Hey Yall! Well last saturday me and my sister Natalie went to a homeschool formal. It was awesome! We went with a group of about 15 kids, first we went to our friends house to take pictures then we went to the place. We hung out for a while, dranks some (kiddie) cocktails, then they finally brought the food. So after we finished eating they started the dancing which was awesome!!! lol Here is a short little video of the dancing,


the camera was low on battery so I couldn't take a lot so its only like 30 sec... lol and kinda blurry cuz it was so small...

But anyways, here is the ** slideshow ** from the night.
It was great getting to see old friends and meeting new ones.

Anyways, ttyl

Chicago Thunder Oklahoma Trip

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Chicago Thunder Ohio Basketball Trip

Hey Guys, I'm finally posting!!!! lol This is the video I just finished from my bball team's trip to the regional championships in Cincinatti, OH... Hope you like it!

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Hey yall! haha its been a while... a whole lot has been goin on with me, were working on getting a new building for the church, basketball season is in full swing... and a whole lot more. lol

So first basketball... First of all I'll talk about my team, Its been kinda crazy because this year there are so many guys on the team and basically the rule is if you pay then you play. So, there are about 10 seniors this year so they decided to put all the seniors on one team and all the juniors and lower on a "B" team, both teams are playing in the same league, so it is kinda crazy because my team isn't a very "big" team. Then we took another blow when one of the guys who was supposed to play on my team decided to desert us and go to the "A" team. And he was one of our top 3 guys. So we are all having to really step up as a team and fill in the gaps that are left.

The main league that we play in started 2 Saturdays ago, and man, we have all really been stepping up! Our first game this year in this league was 2 Saturdays ago and man, we all really did step up! We won 62-48 and I had a Career high 24 Points as well as 4 Assists, 10 Rebounds and 2 Blocks. Then Last Saturday we had another blowout win, 77-38, I had another big game... :P 22 Points, 3 assists, 15 rebounds and 8 steals.
But it really takes more then just me stepping up, the team is doing an AMAZING job at playing at this higher level. we only have 3 juniors. The rest of them are JV guys. So I am really proud of all of the younger guys who are stepping up to play (and dominating) at this level. Our total record as a team so far is 6-0. GO THUNDER!!!!

So yeah... I am gonna try to get Sarah out to one of our games soon to get some shots of us playing. So if I can get that to happen, then I'll post some pictures.
Oh yeah, if any of yall live in the area and want to see us play sometime, just let me know and i'll get you a copy of the schedule.

Talk to yall later!
I'll try to post more often... lol
-Andrew

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Hey yall, My friend Mark Collins just wrote a great post on his blog. Check it out! Its mainly for you Guys, but i'm sure the girls will love it too! lol talk to yall later

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BG Concert!!!!!

Well, last Friday after my football game, our whole family made the 1 1/2 hour drive down to Bourbonnais, IL for the Barlowgirl concert. It was an AMAZING SHOW!!!!! This is the girls first tour that they are headlining, so it was pretty awesome!!!

Anyways, they had this thing where you could text a message through your cell phone to this number, and they would put it up on the screen during the intermission. And then they told us that one of the people who texted would be selected to win a Barlowgirl electric guitar!!! So like tons of people were texting in messages. I decided, what the heck... might as well try it out... lol I tried from my 1st cell phone but it said "access denied" lol. So I pulled out my 2nd cell phone, lol and texted from there. I didn't even see the message go up on the screen, but then about 15 min into the girls part of the show, I felt my phone buzz, I thought someone was calling me, so I pulled it out, and when it said "message" I was like oh great, I texted one of these things and now i'm gonna get text spam for the rest of my life!!! lol but when I opened the message it said, "YOU WIN!
Code: ****
Congratulations! You're tonight's winner! Head on over to the Barlow Girl Merch table to claim the guitar now!"
HAHA isnt that CRAZY??? lol so I went over to my aunt Maryanne (the BG's mom) and showed her the message, when she saw it she like freaked out! lol she was so excited! she was like go over to my merch table and show them!!!! So I went over and got my new BG Guitar!!!!

I know what some of you might be thinking... "That is so wrong!!! It was probably rigged!!!!" lol So I asked them how it works, and there is this lady in texas who runs the whole text thing, and she sits at the computer for 3 hours during the concerts, screens all the messages then randomly picks one of the messages and that person wins the guitar. So it was NOT rigged!!! lol

So after the concert our friend Shyla who is a photographer was like "lets do a photoshoot with the guitar!!!!" lol so here are some of the shots from the shoot
P.S. In case you couldn't tell from these shots... Shyla is a BEAST!!!!! lol

Oh yeah!!!! I start drivers ed today!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!! Finally!!!!!

PARTY TIME!!!!!!!

Wow.. its been a while since ive posted!!! lol
So lets see...
Last saturday we had my 17th birthday party!!!! It was great!!! There was around 20 people there, so we started by playing games for a while because it was raining... then later after dinner the rain stopped so we all went over to a field and played some awesome Mud Football!!!!!!!
Here is the slideshow from the party. Enjoy!!!