rehearsal

Chris and Emily
At St. Luke's Methodist church in OKC

at the alter

Chris, Cameron, Jon B, Kyle, and Eric

The rehearsal was great, but super cold in there. The church was gorgeous. There were tornado warnings the whole time (suprise suprise). Dinner was awesome. The culinary institute of Platt college was doing the dinner, and it was like 5 courses! Wow!

Afterwards, cam and the boys went to norman for the bachelor party and i went to hang out with laura and andy before they left for owasso to see andy's bro that was in town! The boys had fun too! I picked cameron, jon, and brad up at coaches at about midnight :)

sophie lynn rabus is 6 mo old!

We arrived in oklahoma at midnight on wednesday. We got a rental car (pretty much a minivan...boo) and drove to blake's (cameron's bro) old house. He was moving the next day into his first home!!!! On thursday monring we ate Donut King (my fav donuts ever). Then Susanne, Sophie, and Sus came to Blake's and we (just the girls) went to Genesis's house to eat with her and Josiah and the fetus! Gen was craving this little diner's food in Newcastle, and boy was it good! Genesis was about to pop and is due June 20th!!! Josiah was super cute and was just playing and playing and talking and talking. He kept talking about his "monies" which were some pennies Gen had given him. He thought he was rich! Sophie was being so good too. She rolled over for us and laughed so much. Her laugh makes me want a baby... but don't worry, not yet.

This is at Laura and Andy's house that Thursday night with Yoda. They took us to Louie's for dinner on the lake. We had fried green beans and they were good. See Laura's post about them re-doing their house... it was crazy how handy they are getting! Yoda is 1 now!
Laura and Yoda Man Froese


Genesis, Me, and Susanne! I look like a midget,
but I swear I am a lot taller than Susanne!

Sus and Sophie, I think my sis was about to walk out with that baby.

Isn't she sooooo sweet? Mike's mom made sophie's dress!!!!!

Gen's belly! Genesis told me not to put this on the blog,

but she doesn't know how to get on to read it... so there ;)

Her soon to be new baby's name is: Judah Malechi (sp?)

cool huh? Nickname: Jude

Josiah talking on his cell phone!

Genesis finally got a new cell phone and gave her old one to him!

Josiah and Sophie

We would ask him to give Sophie a kiss and

he would be so sweet about it!

my fav pic of sweet sophie! i should probably censor the boobie part :)

t-3 days

We will be in oklahoma wednesday night! I can't wait! I get to see all the cool peeps! Call me if you want to do lunch/breakfast/dinner/hang out!

yippee!!!

Prego Lo

My cousin is a fat lady!!! I love it so much! She's due in November!!! yeah baby schat!

She's only 12.5 weeks in this pic, can you believe it?

Way to go Brad!

Practicum Cameron

Cameron has his first "client" tonight at his practicum. Practicum means in counseling terms that you are a student counseling some poor soul who wants Christian counseling cheap. There is a sliding scale from $1-$15 based on income or how much you feel you can pay. The session is video taped and then cam and his teach watch it and the teacher critiques him. Cam was al ittle nervous leaving tonight, but was excited. He was all dressed up (even with brown lace up shoes!!). I am very excited for him to be able to see the fruits of his labor.

On another note, the new car is holding up awesome!!! We found out on of the best things about the car! On the back of the sterring wheel are bottons to change the radio station and volume!! Cool huh! I have always wanted that!

Cam "counseling" scnoozeberry.
"act like a counselor cameron"

Cam dressed up, check the shoes out! No sandels!

We Owe Some Money to Some Peeps!

Yes, it looks as though I have Bells Palsy or got hit in the face with a large object, but in fact, I had 4 cavities on my left fixed today! Yes folks, 4 cavities... but wait, there are 3 more I have on the right I get fixed Wednesday. I have never had a cavity in my adult teeth EVER... until now....???!!!??? See how my lips were all funked out? Well, I couln't even tell if I was drooling or not. Sad, but true. Cam has 3 cavities, at least I don't feel soooooo bad.

Stroke-like face or no? My speech was slurred too. So sad.
Cam.... IN THE NEW CAR!!!!!

The new dash!

WOO HOO!! a 2003 Jeep Liberty Sport! We are so pumped! The story is: we were driving back from the counselors office in Highlands Ranch (south east of denver by 15 miles) and our belt started screeching like when it gets wet. Cam wanted to check just to make sure nothing bad was going on. We get out of the car, open the hood and that thing is smoking!!!! It smelled so bad too. We re-started the engine, but it was shaking so bad I thought it was just going to jump on out of the hood. Long story short, we had to wait 5 hours at Target for a tow truck, got home. The car fixer people called in the morning and it was going to be $900 to fix our car that's worth $1500. It was the compressor to the a/c. So we decided to not fix it, but use it without the a/c but invest in a second car!!! With 4wd!!!! It rides like a dream! We love it so much! And we've only had it less than 24 hours!

Steve (who is 25 today), Patrick, and Cameron leaving to go on their long awaited camping trip (scott will meet up later this afternoon). The Jeep is all packe dup and ready to go for their trip!

A side view! We love it!!! Yeah yeah! We owe more people money now! Alright to debt! Maybe we'll win the lottery! P.S. we'll be in Okla in less than 2 weeks, get prepared for the cannons!

Lawerence or Bust

The Kramer's Porch

p.s. that swing is so high i can barely get in it!

p.s.s. they have little baby broccolis growing!

Right before chris beat us in phase 10.

We KNOW the real rules sus, not sreet cards.

Tha mac daddy chris. Are you a ventrilaquist???
"how are you doing today"

a natural pose.
Full after we made sushi and choc covered strawberries and ate a picnic on the porch before the thunderstorm! It was soooo yummy! Saturday afternoon we made a picnic at the KU campus and it was delish and veggie (fried plantains and blackbeans rolled in a tortilla)

At the hukka (sp?) bar!

I for ths reals smoked a hukka (seriously how do you spell that?)

Sus

Looking high. It was jasmine flavored tobacco, and it was awesome.

Chris got rosewater lemonade and we got hummus (shout out to Lo) and pitas!

Going to The Merc (a natural food store). We walked on Mass street and browsed in shops. Sus found the perfect brown dress for her Europe trip (she will basically only wear the brown dress all throughout her travels!). We got some sinus tea for Cam ad some pistacios for us. We had breakfast/Brunch at i forgot what it was called, but i had some amazing french toast and tea. Sus had a mediterranean omlet (delish) and chris bless his heart got veggetarean biscuits and sausage gravy...tasted like a pot pie.

Sus, Chris, and I ate a snack at a little mexican place and had margaritas. Later that night we babysat 2 little girls that were oh so cute! Then Saturday Morning Sus and I cleaned her car out and got around 5 sacks full of trash and or toiletries :). We also went to the farmers market and got roasted corn on the cob!!!!

We had so much fun and I didn't want to leave, but Chris had to get his portfolio ready for his art show this weekend and finish stuff for finals. Sus took me to the airport during a crazy downpour. But she and I made it back safely!

Yeah for sisters!

going to lawerence

Suckkkaasssssss! Since my last post i freaked out b/c i missed my sister so much, and cam said it would be okay if i flew out for the weekend to see her! So on a total spur of the moment idea, i called her, and what would you know, she doesn't even have school on friday! So she's picking me up at 9:30 and we have all friday and all saturday and morning sunday. Her hubby chris is sacrificing a lot b/c he has to get ready for his finals and all that jazz! thanks chris! and cam is pumped b/c he will ahve the house to himself to study!

Yeah for sus!

I've never been to lawerence before!

And sus is gonna make me bread and ice cream!

T-3 days!!!!

I miss this girl

This is sus, in between me and cameron.

This was about midnight on the night she got back from Honduras 2 summers ago.

We are wearing shirts that proclaim how much she loves veggies (they didn't eat them down there, and once sus even cooked gram's amazing green bean recipe for her household, and only one lady ate them just to be nice).

I miss this girl so terribly mucho.

I keep trying to convince her that living in CO would be the best thing of her life, but somehow she has other plans... like living with her husband or something. I mean geesh, he could live in CO too. What's the big deal?

I love my sister, she's so cool.

po po

I got pulled over.....in front of the seminary....

It was embarassing.

I didn't make the illegal turn I usually do off the highway into the school to pick up cameron.
But I did go the correct way, but ran the stop sign in the parking lot (which is stupid anyhow, noone ever is in the Hudson Garden P-lot esp in cold weather).
But that is besides the point, he pulled me over, wouldn't let cameron get in the car, but was very nice, and did not give me a ticket.
But i have to live with all of cam's friends making fun of me for getting stopped with flashing light in front of the freakin seminary.

Way to go Liz.

Fellowship Group

Me being silly (liz aka slambitch/slambiotch/slam's biotch)
some guy, steve (aka the eXtreme), Kevin, and Wes

JD (john david hortel aka the incinerator), katie (aka punch face), andy (lives next door to us), cam (aka slamcake), patrick (aka spiritual chocolate)

So, we have this fellowship group from church (fellowship denver)(it's the first church i've ever felt at home at)(people i guess are done being fake, and they are real and normal...well if you count me normal)
We drink beer and make vulgar remarks, but we love God!
We meet every other sunday evening at our house, but we changed it up a little b/c it was supposed to be super nice sunday, so we went to Wash Park at 4pm. well, the weathermen lie, and it was cloudy and coldish.

Anyway, Cam and Steve came up with these nicknames. One time (in an old post) they ran a 10K. They said at one point they needed to make shirts and on the back they needed nicknames. Steve came up with the Extreme, and Cameron came up with Pancake.... well at some point he decided that was not manly enough, so he changed it to Slamcake. Then JD wanted to be in on this... but cam and steve were wary of letting anyone in team cobra (by the way, they ARE team cobra... and yes they have a handshake... it's like making your hand like a cobra and the other person does an upside down cobra, and they touch and make a hissing sound), since they were so nervous about letting anyone in Team Cobra, they made JD their intern...and called him The Incinerator.
Well, then nicknames were all the rage in fellowship group, and katie wanted one, but cam named her punchface.... i don't know why bc she's probably the nicest person in our group. But then people thought i should be slam's bitch, but i just shortened it to slambiotch. names started rolling off people's tongues like: spiritual chocolate... and i don't know.
It's all very crazy.

Wes: leader of the group; goes to denver seminary; starbucks employee; grad of OU; brother-in-law pastor and 1 of 3 founders of fellowship denver; very southern...from hobert

Spencer: pilot, leads the group a lot

Cam(slamcake): student at denver seminary; fellowship at our house

Liz (slambiotch): Nurse; fellowship at our house

Patrick (spiritual chocolate): student at denver seminary; starbucks employee; from wash dc

Katie(punchface): graduating from DU in less than a month with some type of social work thingy; cooks like emeril; went to John Brown in AK

Lauren(larrrrren): Goes to DU for social work; went to JB in AK

Steve (the eXtreme): Grad of OU; from tulsa; sells software to insurance agencies

JD (the incinerator): rides his bike everywhere; works at REI flagship; works at a coffee shop; is gonna work in the city as a bike peddler... biking people around on carts; from Ohio

Jenna: works at some rich chinese dude's ranch with their horses; nanny for chinese family

Ashley: about to grad nursing school CU, from AK, got a job on days at a hospital there

Lisa: in a band with her hubby; from OK went to ORU for a bit; has habib the dog

Michael: in a band with his wifey; from Tulsa; went to north texas for a while; went to michigan for a while; led worship at Mars-Hill for awhile with wifey; has habib the dog

Kevin: runs this prostate freezing company in CO

Our group is unique!

And cool!

sorry if i missed anyone.

Beaver Brook

A lowly purple flower in the side of the mountain of dead leaves

I'm a poet and didn't know it ;)
This doesn't look steep, but let me tell ya... wooo eee

Cam and Schnoozeberry

Where we took a wine and cheese and cracker picnic by the babbling brook (to the right). It was actually really cold and I wish I had worn gloves and a hat. Then it started raining :(.

THE babbling brook. We will go again in the summer, b/c then we could play in the brook.

Me. That jacket is a $200 jacket Cam found for me at the REI garage sale for $30. So REI has this amazing return policy no questions asked, no matter how long you have had the prodcut. what they do with all those returns is 4 times a year they have a garage sale and mark things down extremely low. this jacket's zipper hsd been getting a little hard to go up and so the chick returned it (and probably got herself a new one) and I saved $170 on a #1 rated jacket. It's waterproof and windproof! Sometimes at the sale there are things people merely tried on and bought then decided they didn't want anymore. Cam got a brand new pair of hiking boots for $15 that are normally $150. We got snowshoes for $80 that are normally $160 that had been worn once. The only catch, you have to be a member (a one time $15 fee). You also get dividends back at the end of the year... 1% of everything you've bought. That's cool too! We love REI!

Anyway, back to the babbling brook. We decided to go on a whim, and left saturday afternoon, drove 20 minutes, saw a buffalo, hiked on this trail (which blind people can go on... they have signs in braille and a cable that leads them down), had a picnic, came home, showered, and ate dinner at OLIVE GARDEN. man i love that dang place. and i love italian margaritas!!!!

I forgot to say we have been searching for a recycle cener forevers, and we finally found a can bank... we had 2 1/2 trash bags full of cans, and made $1.75!!!!!

We also cleaned out the closet, and had 15 walmart bags plus a trash bag (i ran out of trash bags) and 2 pairs of shoes and some coats!!! we donated it in one of those clothing donation boxes by the grocery store. (they have those in norman in case you okies need one). it felt good to purge!

Also a bummer of a deal: May 15th I have to start wearing stupid carribean blue scrubs that the crotch go down to my knees at work. Boo.

Also, my pt's family member bought me a snickers... that was really sweet!

accupuncture

cameron's cousin mari (say it like martyr not mary) is in a chinese medicine degree thingy at berkley and is studying accupunture. so, she did it on us!!! it was so cool. she is also very cool!
in cam's foot

for cam's sinuses, and one in his left ear area to pop his ear from the flight and for his sinuses.

(keep in mind we had flown for 27+ hours and then got to jackson and then took a shower and was up all day and this was 1:30 on sunday, this is why i look like a druggy)

in between my eyes (for a headache) and behind my left ear, and on top of my head

ear

this is mari with all her needles... she is crazy but oh so cool.

hard at work.

Kristin and Chad

Cameron and his cousin (the bride) Kristin. She is sooooo awesome and hilarious!
Kristin and Chad Hatten... aren't they cute!

Kristin being Kristin (that was just after they were announced husband and wife!

the back of her dress. also, her dad was under terrible circumstances and they have been working for years for him to be able to get to this wedding, but he couldn't, so uncle frederick walked her down the aisle, and when asked who gives this woman... he says: her mother, father, and i do. ohhhh it was soooooo sweet!

leigh michael, i just want to squeeze this kid!

Lea Ann and David at the wedding (cameron's rents)

the chapel (it was supposed to be an outdoor wedding, but crazy storms were blowing through jackson, ms

me and cambot. look he has on new clothes!!!

So, the saga of getting to jackson was pretty much hell. We left friday morning at 0800 expecting tons of snow (6-12''), but there was none, so we thought we were home free. Yeah right. We had delays (instead of leaving at 1120) probably about 3ish hours of them (we left dia at 3:45ish). We missed out original flight to dallas, the dia lady put us on a different one, we missed that one, and when we got off in dallas the dallas lady put us on another flight to leave at 5:50 (our flight we had missed by like 5 min). So we think we are doing great, we'll just miss the rehearsal dinner (a good ole southern fish fry), but we'll make it in time to hang out with everyone. NOPE.... we sit on the runway for about an hour waiting to take off... finally we are next in line and the pilot who had just taken off ahead of us calls and says there is hail at the end of the runway... so we think fine it will go away in a minute... NOPE... the sky to the west is seriously torano black. Yup that's right folks... we sit through a tornado on the runway in the plane. i think the plane is just gonna take off on it's own b/c all the crazy wind. 4-5 tornados touched down around the airport, so they canceled our flight and we had to de-plane. about an hour later we finally make it to the front of the line to get a room in dallas (a pretty ghetto one) and some food. we have already been traveling over 12 hours too. boo. so we get a flight for the next morning at 0745. don't worry, ill make this short and sweet... it was delayed in the end about 3 hours too. so we finally make it to jackson at 1130 and have 24 hours before we have to get back on a plane back to denver. Just so you know... it's AMERICAN AIRLINES... DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT FLY WITH THEM EVER. they screwed up our honeymoon too. anyway, the wedding was fabulous and gorgeous. all of the family was great to see, especially mima!!! She read a passage from the new testament at the wedding, and it was so sweet!

we love that family!