Are you up for the challenge?

As I was catching up on the Bookin it in 2010 challenge, Jessica at Life as Mom shared about a challenge she was doing to read the bible in 90 days.... 90 DAYS. Thats basically three months. The entire bible in three months. Wow!

A year or two ago I read the bible in a year with my college church home, and that was a great exeperience. We read it chronologically, which was really helpful to piece things together. But a year is a long time... 365 days to be exact. And I am not sure about you, but I struggle to remember things I read a year ago.

So I stumbled upon this challenge of reading the bible in 90 days and thought, what a good way to get the full picture without forgeting half of it bc it's been so long.

Maybe I am crazy but I decided to go for it.... and I am hoping some of you will come along for the ride. I know I will need someone to keep me going around day 13, so I welcome some accountability! You can find the Reading plan here, and so far the reading is taking me 30-45 minutes total (some of which I have done all at once and some of which I did throughout the day).

What do you say, anybody up for the challenge??

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A quick MPM

"MPM" as in Menu Plan Monday, you know that time of the week when I share with you what the Pate family is having for dinner? I know, it's been awhile and you have been dying to know what we have been eating. But summer is the craziest time of the year for us, so actually I have rarely cooked at home. That makes for some unhealthy choices! But things are slowing down and I actually have a plan this week- so that's a start. Here's the plan:

::: Monday- Creamy Chicken and Spinach Pasta

::: Tuesday- Salmon Turnovers, green beans and corn

::: Wednesday- dinner at dustins

::: Thursday- Open house at NW, church is providing food for the families

::: Friday- Teryaki(sp?) chicken on the grill with pineapple and coucous

::: Saturday- Leftovers/ I'll be at a wedding

Are you having anything good this week?

- Mrs.Pate via my iPhone

8 things

Heather at Live.Love.Laugh posted this and I thought it would be fun, feel free to join in and leave me a link to your post!!

8 things I'm looking forward to...

1. A day trip Friday to have some girl time!!

2. A Saturday with zero events to go to. It has been so long since that has, actually over a month ago! I am so looking forward to the downtime with mr.pate!

3. Sunday night our youth small group is starting our own book club. First up: I kissed dating goodbye, which several of them need to do. Dating at that age is nothing but drama!

4. Sheldon coming to visit us soon.

5. New episodes of my summer shows: Top Chef, Design Star (woo hoo for Nina getting the boot!), and Next food network star.

6. The book I am reading, Radical. It is a challenging one.

7. The photography class I am taking in the fall!! Woo hoo!!

8 things I did yesterday...

1. Fed my animals breakfast.

2. Went to work.

3. Went to two orientation events to promote our department.

4. Went grocery shopping at good ol walmart.

5. Ran into two people I haven't seen in forever and caught up in the middle of walmart.

6. Had a game night with the youth at dustins and played catch phrase music edition, which means I sang loudly alot!!

7. Played some words with friends and totally creamed CORT!

8. Cuddled with mr.pate and Joey!

8 things I wish I could do...

1. Take a vacation to the beach or a cruise!

2. Freezer cook two months worth of food and not think about grocery shopping every week!

3. Walk inti my bathroom without a tile sticking to my foot!

4. Pay someone to do the landscaping in my yard.

5. Have a marathon movie day and watch all my 80s and 90s favs!

6. Go spend several days with both my side and mr.pates's side of the fam.

7. Have a scrapbooking weekend with Becky and Cameron and finally do jeanices scrapbook.

Your turn!

- Mrs.Pate via my iPhone

They need your help people!

My friends Jenny and Stuart are beginning the process of adopting from Ethiopia. The Borders have 2 children already, twins Spencer and Kate, but have felt the burden to adopt also. And if you didnt know, adoption is a crazy expensive process. Which is soo annoying I think, but then again that further represents the gospel because it was a t a great cost that we were adopted into the family of God.

ANYWHO, they are selling these awesome candle holders to raise money for the adoption! Please please please head over to their blog and buy one or two or twenty ; ) !! And spread the word! Here is the link:


http://borderspatrol.blogspot.com/2010/07/it-time.html

So far

So far this summer...

- I have not painted my toenails once. I wear flip flops everyday with my bare/all natural toes.
- I have gone to one amusement park and ridden two rollercoasters. I have gone down 2 waterslides.
- I have been to the lake twice, camp and elizabeth's.
- I have yet to clean my house from top to bottom.
- I have a pretty good tan on my shoulders, but that is all.



- Mrs.Pate via my iPhone