Minturn Family Shirts

Yes - they have family shirts. And tie-dye rainbow ones at that. You can't see it from this picture - but Carrie and Bryce have them too. It is pretty epic if I do say so myself...

Goodbyes

Instead of going to our site today - we had a thank you lunch for the agencies that we worked with all summer long. This was our team from Light and Life - they were an amazing group of people. It was sad to part ways for the summer. I never noticed it before - but poor Kevin was the only guy working with us. Well he never complained.

Milk Gives you Strength

This should be a new milk campaign - see little Alys (pronounced Alice) kicking away Steve, thanks to the power of milk. Gives you strong bones and muscles my friends.

Blackbeards!

During the last week of our site, Kevin and I took the kids to as many cool places as we could. Yesterday we took them to a movie in Riverpark and today all of Light and Life went to Blackbeards. It is a mini golf/ go carts/ water slide/ arcade family fun center. This was after many trips down the water slides that me and some of my girls wanted to go the bumper boats. As you can see they are so happy to do so.

FIRM Family Festival

Carolyn and Jaret who work with FIRM (Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Mission) invited us to go to the FIRM family festival where they have crafts and hang out time with the refugee families in Fresno. We brought sidewalk chalk and drew with the kids. We also were encouraged to participate in other activities, which included face painting for many of us. It was a great day, not only to see another person's site, but to play with these kids.

Monte and Wang Productions

So last night we did a Talent Show - it was great. And I performed a rap of epic proportions with my partner in crime - Joyce Wang. Jason beat-boxed for us. We are the coolest. I will now put my rap below for you to read.

Jason: FUI 2010! Word. This is a rap about all ya’ll

M: Here in Fresno it’s hot

J: Cool is something it’s not

M: Unless you live at Stone Pine

J: Where we have air conditioning all the time

M: Or live in the house of Pink

J: With swamp coolers on the brink

M: These are the peeps

J: You should meet

M: Inside both these cribs

J: We don’t tell no fibs

M: Hey Danae

J: Got money, money, money, mon-ey

M: Mack, Mack

Watch out for Lauren’s knee attack

J: Maybe you should be a ninja

M: Watch out Kevin may getchya

J: Unless you’re Jaret or Shannon Baker

M: You best be ready to meet your maker 

J: I think that’s really

M: RUE

Jason: Hey that’s my word!

J: Overused

M: If you’re a fly watch out for ALiu

J: He’ll beat you with a shoe

M: Eric can’t shut the door

J: Eric, door! Eric, door!

M: We have to tell him some more

J: Eric, door! Eric, door!

M: Vivian may think you’re crazy

J: And Betty says don’t be lazy

M: Maybe if you give Matt a cookie

J: He’ll shout just like a wookie

M: Glenda’s eyes stay open when she sleeps

J: That gives me the creeps

M: Sol would say don’t be scared

J: You best be aware

M: Because if Tramaine wasn’t saved

J: She’d cut you just the same

M: Tracey listens to heavy metal

J: I know! I know!

M: But Sarah plays the piano

J: I know! I know!

M: Lawrence sings all the time

J: Amanda writes up her own rhymes

M: They should collaborate

J: They will, just you wait

M: Sarah kidnaps her process group

J: (spoken) trust me, I know

M: (spoken) Oh, how long do you guys really meet?

J: (spoken) Monte – we are in the middle of rap – let’s continue or we’ll be here til midnight

M: (spoken) Rue!

J: Cameron’s foot is cursed

M: Only if a hammer hits it first

J: Shayne should be a model like Tyra

M: And maybe so should Lissah

J: Josth has a ‘T’ in his name

M: It sounds just the same

J: Krista makes good green beans

M: Zoe may sound mean

J: When she says “Get out, get get, get out of my house”

M: We could make a rap about that

J: (spoken) I know, right?

M: Shout out to Marissa Guzman!

J: And Marissa Newman

M: Don’t get in a fight with Bryson

J: He’s got muscles like Mike Tyson

M: Mariah likes to donate blood

J: It’s something that she loves

M: Maybe Julie can use a ton

J: Because falling down isn’t fun

M: Opera is Carolyn’s thing

J: It’s what she loves to sing

M: Michael had a fowhawk yesterday

J: After ten minutes it went away

M: Meghan does flips in the pool

J: I think that’s really cool

M: And that is all our interns

J: Can’t forget about Todd Minturn

Both: We say Todd, you say Minturn

Both: Todd!

Audience: Minturn

Both: Todd!

Audience: Minturn

M: This is FUI 2010!

J: What! What!..... What! What!

M: This is FUI 2010!

J: What! What!..... What! What!

Jason: Monte and Wang productions

M: Featuring Rue beats

J: What it do 

Process Group

Isn't my process group cute? Oh don't let them fool you, they are stubborn and difficult, and rarely want to process during actual process group time. But they can be cute sometimes. :)

From left to right you have Meghan, Michael, myself, Lauren, and Glenda, and we are holding Lissah.