Night of Pamela Glory

we had such a fun time out in Denver with some amazing women and a special Pamela. It was refreshing to be with so many great women but most of all we loved being with Pamela on a night so close to her wedding day. We love honoring her and David by celebrating her greatness.on the way down to Denver from Fort Collins. oh the traffic of 1-25, gotta love it. thanks for driving shanyn.

backseat babes.

dinner at Maggianos, little italy did it right.

we enjoyed going out. our first stop was of course the purple martini. it is the only place to go for a night of pure fun and dance.

then we went to Pats for some more movemaking.

And Pamela showed us some of her special moves on a nearby pole. thanks Pamela! She knows how to move. ha. thanks women for helping us celebrate the new mrs. teten.

back in titletown

wow, I feel silly that I have not blogged. I think when I do not have fun pics to share I make excuses for not sharing at all. but the real news is that we are home. we have been living the past three months in fort collins with my lovely sister and her gracious husband. thanks hofmanns. despite their great home and wonderful guest bed we are delighted and refreshed to be in gainesville. by refreshed I mean that our souls are alive, our bodies happen to be stinky in the swealtering heat.
we spent our last days in colorado celebrating our great friends and family members David and Pamela, the newest Teten family. we had an incredible time with them and all the people that came to support their wedded union. we love Dave and Pammie. thanks for getting married.
so here we are in gainesville, and I am wearily sitting on our couch trying to stay cool. we spent our day helping freshman move into their dorms on campus. and I had the privilege of seeing two of my favorite gator girls also, Brittney and Nikki. somehow they got even cuter and greater over the summer. I cannot wait to dive into life again with some women who make my life here so vibrant. I also cannot wait to share some stories of our adventures here in the gator nation, year II.

Missing Florida and Friends!

July 4th

Let Freedom Ring!
if you look close, you can see John jumping off the cliff. He has argyle swim shorts on.

Fourth of July sprinkler fun!

Tour De Corn, a midwest travel (first edition)

Oh the Midwest . . . John and I braved the corn and the rain for a trip to see some of my family and our friends that live along the way. Our prayer this summer is to add financial partners to our ministry in Florida. Going out to share our vision was fun and we are looking forward to more opportunities to travel and share.

We had to stop and see Rush. They really age well those men. We had both been there before as little children. But it was fun to see as a family.

John is thinking of running for president? What do you think?

He has that stoic good lookin' man with great hair face.

Really, he has no problem with Abe.

It seems like we have not matured much since the last time we visited this national monument.

Maybe next time.

Tour De Corn, a midwest travel (second edition)

My husband and I really enjoyed our time in South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska. We tried to fall into tourist traps, but we only succeeded in the free or cheap traps. We took a brief little jaunt through Wall Drug. It is a small town that used to have one shop called Wall Drug. A store with your typical drug store finds. But it became pretty popular and so other stores copied the idea and started selling more and more souvenier treasures. Today it is a street long store, shop after shop is connected to each other. Naturally John tried on a cowboy hat and holster. And naturally he looked a bit goofy and sexy at the same time.
It seems goes well with the basketball shorts and new balance tennis shoes.

John tends to have a desperado smoldery yet lone on the range look right.

A famous treat at Wall Drug is 5 cent coffee. I am not sure what I expected, but brown watery mud floavor is not what I had imagined.

We stopped for a little stretch break and found a little haven next to the Missouri River. A relaxing and memorable little moment.

And we had the privilege of seeing the home in which my mom became a baby. She grew up in this house in Brandon, South Dakota before they moved to Minnesota. A cute little home for sure. I can see a baby momma running around in the front yard.

For he's a Johnner good fellow

I know we already celebrated John's birthday blogger style. But there are some great pics to share. For starters we will see Mr. Teten's handcrafted sign for John's special day in Colorado Springs.

What a big boy

He schooled his brothers and sisters in a game of "everyman for himself"

We were able to celebrate in Fort Collins a couple of days later. My Dad shares the same birthday as John. The guys made a makeshift putting green in our backyard.

And my beautiful cousins entertaining me!

Man these girls love their cousin John. They drew him pictures for his birthday. Thanks Katelyn and Averi.

How Boring!

It is so unreal of me that I have not blogged in a month. While in Fort Collins John and I live with my sister and brother-in-law. And April for sure reminds me when I have been lacking in my updating dilligence. So sorry, John and I have been trying to keep up with Fort Collins life with all of our family and friends close by. I have been up to my nose hairs in textbooks. But it has been refreshing to be on campus at Colorado State and enjoy FoCo in the summer, a true delight. We have visited New Belgium Brewery our fair share and are looking forward to doing some tubing the Poudre before we leave.
The Hofmanns have been so gracious to us. Allowing us to come and go on our hectic and uncertain schedule, and they are so incredible for it.
I will do my best to post a bit here and there about our time.


On our first anniversary John and I stayed in Denver, and the next day we went back to Belmar to have some lunch. It was so rainy and frigid that we hardly spent any time on our friendly balcony of love and quickly drove home to warm up.

All of the weather and construction made us so thankful for God's provision of perfection the day we got married. We had a beautiful view of the mountains with warm warm weather.

Birthday Boy

My baby is 25. We celebrated his entry into a quarter of a century with Vangaurd Church, brats, basketball, homeade salsa, frisbee and fajitas! What an amazing husband I have, and now we can rent a car! What could be better?

Hooray! For the Birthday Boy.

Best First Year of the Rest of My Life

Wow, John and I just celebrated a whole year of marriage. It has been the best year of my life. Even with all of the changes and challenges, being united with John under Christ has been incredible. God surely does love me in wonderful ways. And one of the best ways is through John. Praise the Lord.
We spent the day and night in Denver and went back to the Belmar. Here is a little trip down memory lane.

Thanks for everyone who remembered and thank you to all who have made our life together so amazing. We love you!

Mom's Day

This Mothers Day my fam drove to Colorado Springs to enjoy an evening with Mom Teten and fam. We went to Vangaurd church, which is my favorite church in the Springs and America for that matter. The fam had never seen Glen Eyrie or Headquarters of the Navs. So we took a small tour of the castle and grounds and took a hike up to the waterfalls. What should have been a small hike turned into a challenge due to all the rushing water that no one had seen in years. So we helped my poor mom cross the river many times, and she gracefully did not get wet at all.

Eric's Mom, Geri, joined us too on the day of Moms. This is just before those with tennis shoes stopped and the Chacos went on. It was too hard to do without getting wet.

The boys: John, Eric and Brandon hiked up further to the punch bowls. They are little pools of frigid water formed in the hollows of rock. You have to run up the side of the rock to get any air into the pools. Here is my brave husband before he looses all ability to breath submerged in the icy water. Oh I wish I could have watched.

Because there was so much water the waterfall was more powerful than I have seen it. It was misty and cool just standing yards away from it. It was so much fun to see with my fam.

And here are those brave men before they hike further to the cold bowls.

Later we had BBQ with the Teten fam and played some card games before my fam had to head home. But Mom Teten made some delicious food and we enjoyed homemade ice cream before they left. Thanks for such a fun and delicious day Fam. I am so blessed to have such an incredible family and I could not have even dreamt of a better family to marry into.

Victory in Christ

John and I are so proud of his Dad. Bill ran the Colorado half marathon. He had been training for this goal for a while and it was so exciting for John to see him cross the finish line. (I was still at Starbucks.) Sorry Dad Teten!

Here he is representing the running legs of the body of Christ.

Later we went to a new place in Fort Collins called Dempsey's for breakfast. David and Pamela (tired from her late night bridal shower) joined us.

And so did John's beautiful sister Kristi and her husband Jens. It was a lot of fun to get some Teten time! Thanks.

End of Spring

We ended the spring semester with a wootie! The graduating women shared some delish dessert at the Melting Pot as we celebrated their accomplishments. Good Luck you girls.Then we had our regional staff meetings in St. Pete beach. We spent some great time with our staff that we really love to see. While the men went golfing, we were given money to spend at the cutest little scrapbooking store. We scrapbooked one page about what God has been doing in our lives for a while

This is my page. God has been teaching me for about 3 yrs now. He has been reminding me time and time again about the true freedom that I have in Him. A verse that has been huge in this process is Psalm 119:45. It says: "I will walk in freedom for I have devoted myself to Your commandments." So I had fun creatring a free page. With the verse written on the card with a key on it. I believe so much that by devoting my heart to the Lord, it has set me free. I just need to remember it and chose to walk in freedom.

We then got to share these lessons with the other women on the beach. With chai and cookies! A little bit of worship and prayer ended our time.

Beauty!