Howdy par-dner! Ok so I received several impromptu lessons in how to "talk Texan" but I soon realized that even those from Texas have different ideas about how words should be pronounced. So, I did the only thing I could do...made up my own accent and said I was a California-Texan....which they all agreed was ridiculous and I could never pull off being a Texan. I just returned from serving on the staff of Houston Presbyterian Cursillo #45 this past week, and definitely feel like I am still trying to recover from the lack of sleep, long days, and time changes...but I am also still floating on a cloud of the love, encouragement, and grace that always comes with a Cursillo weekend. I got to see friends I have made my last several trips to Houston, and I got the chance to make several new friends this weekend--and once again I was reminded of how huge the Body of Christ is and how deep God's love is for each of us, the children that He calls by name. Here are some pictures from the weekend...
Sophie and I with our friend Sam, and the t-shirt we bought him for his birthday from the Bubba Gump Shrimp Factory (it says "my mama says I'm special")...we think he's pretty special too!
Sophie and I--we have experienced every Cursillo-related adventure together this past year, and I'm not quite sure what a weekend without her there would be like...
Sam doing a solo on the saxophone
Back in September, someone made Kernie (our monkey) his own green apron to designate that he's a staff member too...but unlike the rest of us, he chooses not to spend the whole weekend in one role, he likes to make the rounds to the different teams. So Friday Kernie spent the day with his uncle Sam and the rest of the music team leading people in worship and celebration.
Our illustrious spiritual advisors (ordained pastors on staff for the weekend)...yeah...about the hats....don't ask...
Kernie spent Saturday as a spiritual advisor, so they made him a hat, which I don't totally understand, and then sat him on top of the communion cup, and then put whopper candy in the bottom of the cup to be monkey poop...and then they spent the rest of the weekend throwing the monkey poop at the camp coordinators sitting at the next table...yeah it was a wonderfully mature weekend! 
So when we took the monkey away, the spiritual advisors got a little sad, so they stole our observing moderator's stuffed chicken--the chicken was being used to illustrate a point earlier in the weekend and then spent the rest of the weekend substituting for Kernie as a spiritual advisor...poor chicken.... 
My wonderful team I got to serve with all weekend
Sophie and I were helping with something Saturday afternoon, hence the outfits. "Seriously" was picked up by everyone by the end of the weekend thanks to our skit...seriously, it was.
I got to see my first sunrise over the water! It sets over the water out here, so I was very excited to see the water on the east coast...ok so later I was told it was the Gulf Coast, but it still rose over the water, and was absolutely glorious!
We really didn't mean to match most of the weekend...it's just that when one of us finds something with butterflies on it that we think is relatively cute we buy two, then we got there and realized everything in our suitcases matched...
Like our "Life is Good" shirts...here we are with our friend John who we met back in September--John decided our monkey was pretty cool and even made Kernie his own official Cursillo nametag back in the fall!
My new friend Robert and I--we spent all weekend serving together, and he was a HUGE encouragement to me!
We needed hats for something...so we sent out an email asking for help, and received more offers than we could count--apparently a lot of people in Texas own hats! Us putting them on only confirmed to everyone that we weren't ever going to be able to pull off the Texan look.
This wonderful group of women were such a joy to serve with! This was taken Sunday night after our staff party...we were a little tired!
Our spritual advisor, Mike, hanging out with Sam 
Uncle Sam hanging out with his neph-monkey at the staff party
Except when Uncle Sam wasn't looking, Kernie finished off his margarita...bad monkey!
Ashleigh, Sophie and I--roommates for the weekend, we are convinced our room was somewhat possessed, we didn't sleep really at all for about 4 nights....
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