Coins (once chucked at you from 3 stories high) hurt.

(Believe me from experiance...lol)
Well...Youth 2000 was so much fun!! I'll talk about it, but won't bother to mention all the lil details that no one cares about! lol
I rode down with Lauren and Claire and her family, along with Lorenze and his brother Dominic! The first day I managed to almost knock myself out by whamming my head on the van's car door...but other than that...day 1 was very fun! But...it was tiring from the 3+ hour trip down there, and the late night was hard too (we staying worshiping, kneeling, praying, and sitting on a gym floor until midnight!! uhh) And, it was hard getting used to going to bed at 1:30-2:00am and getting up at 5:45-6:00am every day! Oh well! Day 2 was long!! All day, Lauren, Claire, Liz, me, Jake, Felicia, Miranda, Caleb, and Sean hung out! We were pretty crazy! That evening was my favorite time of the whole retreat! And, after day 2 was over, some of the Redding group (around 50 people at 11pm) went to Denny's for a midnight snack. We just barely fit in the party room! lol That poor server! We occupied all the left over chairs, silverware, cups, plates, etc! lol It took the girl 30 minutes to get all the orders! haha Anyway...that was really fun! We girls (Lauren, Claire, me, Elisabeth) saved Jake from the hilarious but quite annoying three-some of girls that wouldn't leave him alone! haha Day 3 was sad! It ended so fast! I got to lead a decade of the rosary that morning! If that were about 3 years ago...I would have been SO scared to speak in front of that 1000 or so people. It's hilarious how you grow and get more and more confident! I have no idea what made me go off on that subject...but anyway. The really sad thing about the whole trip...is that I didn't have my camera with me until the last day! So...I managed to take these 6 pictures. Here:

The Crowning of Mary!

Yeah...the famous "No Julia! Don't take my picture!".......I have a few of these.
The Lizzies!
Elisabeth, Lauren, and Me (it was EXTREMELY windy! omg!)
yeeeah. did i mention the wind? we won't talk about this one.
Last song at Youth 2000! Most of the picture has some of the Redding group in it.

The most hilarious thing about y2000 was that, when we were getting dismissed for our meals, you get dismissed by the town you live in. So, when Redding was called, it seemed like at least half of the people got up and left! That's how many of us were there! It was freaken awesome! Anyway...that was my youth2000 experiance!!

Not much to talk about lately. There is the one thing which is (as most of you who get on my blog know) that I'm getting a new baby brother! Dominic Francis is 1 years old and will be living with us come April 10th! We've been spending every single day with him for the past 3 weeks, and he's such an adorable baby!
As far as anything else goes though...my life's kinda at a hold right now. It's Spring Break...so I'm not doing much. Lazy days!! lol Isn't Spring Break supposed to be like a big deal? hmm...I haven't done much with friends. Elisabeth came over last Sunday for a few hours before YG. That was fun! We picked our song for camp! 'You Raise Me Up' by Josh Groban. I'm so glad Liz talked me into picking the song...cuz I wasn't the most enthused about singing it cuz Josh (in the original song) goes a lil too low for me to sing in a few parts. But...we figured out that Elisabeth can sing the parts that are too low for me (by singing a few octaves higher! haha)! Yeah...anyway. I also learned that Youth 2000 is coming to Redding next year! We are all so happy at YG! I can't wait for January 11th, 2008!

Anyway...I hope ya'll (lol Liz) have a great holy week and an awesome Easter! (Don't eat too much chocolate!)

~talk to you all soon!~