All Dunskis...

Whose face looks the most rediculous? When saw these four pictures I was cracking up. They are all great. Here they are for your enjoyment.





















































































I'm pretty sure that's all I have to say for the day. Happy weekend of thanks!!! -From M and the rest of the Heart. PEACE!!

Christmas, Comfort, and Uncomfort

Alright wonderful readers, here is life at the heart. We have now decreed that it is perfectly legal to listen to Christmas music starting today! This is great for us because it always makes life more livable if you are allowed to listen to this kind of music. It is bad because this process is preparing me for something that is still over a month off! I have to wait for my family to come, which they come in less than/about a month, but this only makes me think it is soon than later. I cannot wait for Christmas and have been loving the music but it is still hard, i know you understand me.

Now, some things that have taken place since our last post. We have been each individually ostracized since the revealing of the car washing pictures. I know that the short shorts are short and that it may be gross for some and amazing for others. Please understand that we had this event to be funny and not to have others make fun of us. We really didn't do it for anyone else but i feel as though others have turned their back on us. I will now move on.

The best parts of this last week probably was when Keith, Matt, Evan, and myself all played hearts listening to Christmas music (yes we cheated and listened early) and had a fire smoking out the house in glory! It was great and very comfortable. Sitting in front of the fire and just hanging out was just what I needed that night.

This last wednesday at tea at the Heart we had an amazing time. There were about thirty people there, all enjoying themselves and no one feeling as though there needed to be structure. I love the feeling of no need for structure. For some reason, the way I would continually describe this week is both comfort and uncomfort.

Though this week did have many comfotable moments, it always must include uncomfortable moments. I continue to learn about others, life, and myself as I go through each week. It is the uncomfortable that does this. It is the hard and mean or mad or sad or boring situations that are when I seem to learn the most. So why would I want these to stop. Though they are hard and can be miserable to live through, I am sure that God knows the reasons for uncomfortableness. May I forever live in both comfort of God's promises but uncomfort of everthing else that I may become whom Christ desires me to become.

I gotta go be uncomfortable and define Hinduism for the world in a six page paper. I'm Out,
Joe C.

A tribute...

Over the past few hours between Bruiser, Hangman, and I our gmail notifiers have been going off the hook. I'm not kidding, if our inboxes were phones I doubt that we would have even had time to tend to the necessities of life this evening. We all are very popular but not to the extent to warrent the amounts of emails we received tonight. After the men of avalon convened for a strategic meeting we came to the conculsion that we might know what the cause is for all of the ridiculous amounts of emails. We discovered it was our from most recent amazing facebook album. When making this ablum we, the men of Avalon, had no idea what great amounts of controversy this would spark.
This afternoon Hangman, Bruiser, and I decided that since our cars had been written on and decorated by some lovely ladies (not going to name any names, Trisha & Brynn) they were due for a nice wash. Everyone knows that washing your car is not always the most fun thing to do with your valuable free time. I totally agree with my own statement. On a Sunday afternoon I would much rather take a nap than go get wet and wash my car. So it was impeccable that we somehow spiced up our car washing adventure. As all of our regular readers know, when the boys of avalon adventure we don't just do something fun we do something ridiculously fun and over the top stupid.
Today we hit an all time high on the absurd scale. Hangman and Bruiser decided that it would be great to wear crazy tight and short shorts without our shirts on, just like our fathers use to wear. It was at that point we headed to our driveway in all our white thigh glory. Looking back on this epic event, everyone worked really hard to clean the cars and it was just a great overall collaborative team effort in topless car washing. As a team we experienced some great victories such as washing three cars in under an hour and a few set backs. There was a car that drove by and yelled "you're gay," we took it kind of rough until we realized that the guy in the car had driven bye four times in about five minutes prior to him yelling his derogatory comments. We all kind of wonder what side of the road that guy drives his car.
So back to the beginning, with the massive amounts of emails. We made by far the most amazing Facebook album known to facebook itself but I think that it wasn't appreciated for it's intended time period. We at the heart, were just trying to portray the way our parents would have washed their cars at our age. Since posting our authentic pictures online we have received a very mixed review from our various viewers, ranging from death threats to encouraging notes. At this point we are going through an emotional rollercoaster with so many different emotions all at once. The only way for us to get through this time is to jump in our nicely cleaned cars and glide through the air.
Get excited in less than seven days our house will begin listening to Christmas music. We sit on the edge of our seat eagerly awaiting the day.
Until next time-Keith

The Dialogue of a Bum and Robot

"Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg, I'm a bum! a bumski bum bum with some fellers dancin up on my binski."



"Dude thats wack, check me out, I'm a robot, and I'm all up in the place."



"Mahhhh see? arrrh, I've got my pipe, see, I've got some trash! its mine! ALL MINE, IT'S MY RUBBISH. You can't have my filth sunny. I've also got this trash man to move me around the place. it works out pretty well... Why don't you just go to the moon and let me be. "



"Been there done that shizzle. Its boring there. I've been alot places. You know, like the zoo, the dunes, pipeline, you know, like pretty much most places. Why don't you ever leave your bin? You aint go no legs? Yous a chicken. a big fat Chicken!"



"I'm a BUM, But I just got meees some chiggin. Looks mighty fine. Chicken right on top of my head. yep, thats what I like, some chicken on my head. And I guess my arms kind of turned into some drumsticks. thats weird..."



Yeah, well, I, uhhhhh, I gotta go... now. soooo, don't uhhh, don't ummm, be sure to get the chick- I mean, well, okay, Thats a chicken on your head. I mean, you might want to get those arms checked out. This is my turkey. I'm going, and thats my turkey, and you have a chicken on your head. Later Bumski!"



"Later Roboto Man! I'm out as well... Trash man, come take my bin away! yeah, thats the way we roll, PEACE"

We have a Problem

Alright, so here is my problem. I haven't written on this thing in WAY too long. What am I doing??? I am very sorry to all of our avid readers (that is like 2 people, my roommates) but I hope to do better now that i have much I can say...so this might be long.

First, our tea at the Heart has been amazing but I must make a change to the previous post. Both Erin Bailey and Emily Mentink were founders of the tea at the Heart wednesday nights. They actually were there before both keith and I, though we joined later that night. We do enjoy our tea times and think they are stupendous. We have them every week after crusade. They are most delightful and I believe that in weeks to come we shall see an amazing growth in both attendence and spectacularness of this event.

Second, I really like lists so i shall try to make this a REALLY long list.

Third, I am sick. Do NOT fear my glorious friends and family. I have gone to the health center and shall be getting better shortly but I had never had a pressure head ache until I got a sinus infection, not a fun experience.

Fourth, Work is work but now i must work a little more because one of the hostess quit. I must cover her shift in order to be someone's hero. You know, i do what I can!

Fifth, A wonderful weekend here at the heart because of some amazing moments that have taken place. A nice game of softball was played that I couldn't take part of but I heard it was great. Unbelieveable reading of scripture while having live guitar in the background put all Matt, Evan, and my own heart in a state of peace and pure joy mutiple times during this weekend. I have come to enjoy another form of worship. This I hope to spread to everyone I know. Which brings me to my next point.

Sixth, I hope, more than anyone else in my house and if i am the only one setting it
up i am okay with that but, to set up a night of worship taking place within our house. I want others to experience freedom of different forms of worship. I think it is going to be amazing and i don't know how many people come but if it is only me and one other person i will be very happy, though with many it may be even more amazing but God can do big things with just a few (those that choose not to come will just miss out on what God might have had for them here at the Heart).

Seventh, I told you I like to make lists!

Eighth, I have decided to shower soon so I cannot continue my list making for all of eternity. I miss my family but am excited for their trip to South Africa and hope that those here in the US will be praying for them and the country, that it can figure things out in a safe way.

That is all I have for you all, now a shower and maybe I will read for class tonight or go see my nephew, though I can't get close since I am sick.
I'm Out
-Joe C.

Tea Time

To start off I want to apologize for not posting so often. I think that it might be a result of school really starting to kick into gear, and what I mean by gear is not 3rd or 4th but about 8th and then all of a sudden into reverse. You might think that a car can't go from 8th gear to reverse, at least I did, and then I opened the door to week 5 and 6 of school and well we went from 8th gear to reverse. It's a pretty crazy time right now on campus. We have reached the time of the quarter where so much is happening that it is hard to capture it in words so I'm going to do my best to describe a few things that have occured this past week.
Last weekend was Fall Retreat 06 at Hume Lake which was an amazing experience. I'm not even sure how to begin to describe it other than mind blowing, way to quick, and a sweet time with the broski's. For me, fall retreat started thursday night when our band began our marathon practice which set the stage for the weekend. We practice in the dungeon for 5 hours and for some reason it didn't seem that long. In fact it was awesome for me cause while we were practice we were all able to worship freely and enjoy God's presence. About 3 hours after practice we woke up again and left for the mountains. Our car ride was full of dinosour fruit snacks, teddy grams, and red bull. On the way up we attempted to play catch with the teddy grams between cars. Instead of catching the teddy's the hit Lissa's windshield. Let me tell you it was a teddy gram blood bath on her windshield. It was just like bugs getting splattered all over the windshield except they were poor little teddy's. As far as the weekend itself, I had a great time just enjoying God's creation and being in His presences. I also had the best worship experience of my life, and that might have been because we woke up morning at 6 to practice. If you want to know more about the weekend just ask or I could just write forever, but it was great.
Tea at the heart has become a weekly occurance that is a tradition we would like to continue for months to come. It has become one of my favorite parts of the week. Tea at the heart is wednesday nights after crusade when we have tea, cookies, and usually a great discussion question. The weekly regulars usually include; bruiser, hangman, lefty, splitpea, and patch. There are a variety of others who add to our great night. Tea at the heart is truely a sophisticated event for tea is involved. This last week we had a special guest and live music by our very own Patch, aka pat little. Come join us next week and who knows what could happen. Enjoy the great weekend.
Until next time-Keith