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August Update

New York Part 2

New York Part 1

Updates, Pics, and Vids oh my!

Sorry for the delay family and friends, but we have updates coming soon (hopefully later today!)


Love,
Jason & Becky

4th of July

End of the Month post

Baptism Pictures

Texas Baptism: Part 2

Texas Baptism: Part 1

The Winery

Picnic

The Office

New Intro for video blog

Blessed Be God!!!

Introducing...Our Video Blogs!!!

Blessed Be God!!!

We hope you all enjoy our new series of video blogs. *WARNING* This video is LONG! (We're sorry for that) We had a lot to catch up on. Videos will be shorter, and we'll have guests and have some fun with it : ).

God Bless
Jason & Becky

New Blog!

So I don't get in trouble with Lauren. Here is my "blog post" : )

I'm doing something special...I'm having some technical difficulties (not my fault. Websites fault). Anyways, get ready for a whole new blog from us!

God Bless

Jason Spoolstra

LOST FINALE!/Biggest Loser/ Bugs

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St. Matthias, pray for us!

Aloha everyone,

So a few things to report back:

Anyone LOST fans that read this? Becky got me hooked on the show! Last night was a great season finale, and now we have to wait till 2010! ugh! Patience I know. Seriously, if you don't watch you, you really need to. go to ABC and start from the beginning, otherwise you won't get anything else.

Speaking of Finales. We watched the Biggest Loser finale. Besides having technical issues with the DVR, it kept screwing up, Helen won! UGH! I did NOT want her to win. I wanted to see Tara, Mike, THEN Helen. I never liked Helen. I don't know why, I just annoyed me. Anyways, great season overall, definately inspired me to do a Half-Marathon in November, but more on that later. For my personal weight loss, if anyone wanted to know, I'm down 55 pounds! I have a little more to lose, but I wanted show my before and after pictures:

MAY 2008

MAY 2009

(Same T-Shirt)

I wanted to share with you the crazy bugs up here! First this past weekend Becky and I were working out and my Aunt Linda told me there was a big bee in the laundry room. I went to go check it out, and this thing was HUGE!!! Probably about an inch in length and the abdomen had to be about the diameter of a nickel. Biggest Bee I ever saw.

Then we have Cave Crickets/Spider Crickets/Camel Back Crickets (many names same bug). They have a body of a cricket in a smaller size, but have long spidery looking legs and long antennas. These are not black, but a green, grayish, weird colors. These things are VERY jumpy. They are also not afraid of people. If you try to attack them they jump AT YOU! I usually find one a day. Oh and they can climb walls! So I try not to think about that when we're going to bed. Linda says they are only during the spring time so hopefully they'll be dying off soon.

I promise I will get pics of our picnic up tomorrow. My mom comes in tomorrow too! Pray that she gets in safely and has a great time while she's here.

Until next time!

Love you all and miss you guys

God Bless

Jason & Becky

Mount St. Mary's

Blessed Be God!!!

Bl. Rose Venerini, pray for us!

Aloha all!

So I finally got around to putting up the pics of us visiting Mount St. Mary's in Emmitsburg, MD. This place is must see! Simply beautiful. This place will always have a special place in my heart because when I was 10 during Holy Week my Godfather took me and my cousins (his sons) up to visit this place. This is where I learned how to pray the rosary. It was different than what I had remember, but it had been 13 years since I last been there. Hope you all enjoy!

Jesus welcoming us!

Huge statue of Mary greeting up on the way up.

One of the many trails

Becky smelling the flowers

St. Francis, pray for us!

One of the Chapel's there

Lourdes Grotto

Statue of Mary in a pool

close up on a mosaic of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Another mosaic of Mary

Up Next: Pics and Blog of our Diocesan Youth Minister Picnic where Becky and I rode a paddle boat!

God Bless,

Jason & Becky Spoolstra

Catholic Underground/Aggies!

Blessed Be God!!!

Howdy y'all!

Last week we went to the Catholic Underground here in Arlington/D.C. area. It's just starting up here, and they are doing a GREAT job. The holy hour was just what Becky and I needed. They chanted just like we are use to chanting through song so that made the transition a lot easier. We ended up not going to see the acts unfortunately do to the crazy weather that night.

Also during that day I had worn one of my Aggie shirts. This one was grey and had the quote from Gen. Patton about if you gave him a corp of West Pointers he could win a battle, but if you have gave him a handful of Aggies he could win you a war. Anyways, the first part of my day I went to help with Rent-A-Teen where the parish hires the youth to help around their homes. I went to two houses, and the second house I went to the lady asked me to turn around to see my shirt. Then her eyes got really wide and quickly asked if I was from A&M. I told her I wasn't, and she told me she was class of '81 and that she was in the Corp and is military. Great lady. Later than day during lunch my Uncle Joe had an old friend come in town, and during lunch she had asked my Aunt Linda if I went to A&M as well. I think she just knew the college. Then later that day driving I saw a truck with a Texas A&M sticker on the back. To cap off the night after the Holy Hour at Catholic Underground, Becky and I were about to leave when a gentleman asked me if I had gone to Texas A&M. I told I didn't, and I looked at his shirt and sure enough he was also wearing an Aggie shirt!

In one day got hit with FOUR Aggie references. CRAZY! You can take the man out of Texas, but you can't take Texas out of the boy I guess or Texas A&M at least.

Next blog we'll have pics of Emmitsburg, MD and today's fun!

Hope all are well and remember we love comments! : )

God Bless,

Love in Christ

Jason & Becky

Easter/Granparents/Warm Weather!

Blessed Be God!!!

Hello all! This is Jason giving a blog. Don't worry, Becky will still be posting, but I know a lot of you have been asking for updates, and my wife has been busy with her new job, so I thought I would step in for a little bit and help out.

So it's been while so let me catch you up:

Becky and I celebrated our first Seder, which is a Jewish tradition of the Passover. It said to drink four glasses of wine! We stuck with four sips. My great aunt Judy was able to come over for it, and we had a great time.

We also helped out with the Living Stations on Good Friday. I was a guard! (So don't mess with me). There were several hundred people out there to watch us. The youth led all the other parts and did a great job!

Becky and I then went to the Easter Vigil mass. Becky got a little sleepy b/c they left the lights off all the way until the Gospel reading. There were lots of baptisms, confirmations, and first communions! Praise God! I also shaved off my Lenten Beard. My cousin cried that I had shaved it. haha. Then after the Mass we came home and Becky and I got to put out the easter eggs for them to hunt for the next morning. Of course the next morning we find all but one! Oh well, it'll turn up somewhere. The lunch/dinner was AMAZING!!! My aunt Linda went way over and beyond with her 7 desserts and unending food. yummm. She even did a great job with our dessert, Tiramisu!

My Grandparents (on my mom's side) came up for vacation this past week. They traveled all over this area to visit family. We got to spend much the past weekends with them. It was great having them up here. Pap Pap killed me at 500, I finally beat him in our last game (after he beat me the first 4).

Finally, the weather up here has been unseasonably warm! 90's for the past 4 days! It's been warmer here than it has been down in TX! Craziness!>!?! BUT the trees are finally starting to bring out their leaves and everything is beautiful and green.

I think that's plenty long.

Stay tuned to up coming posts! (sneak peak: Emmitsville, Catholic Underground, and Texas A&M)

God Bless

Jason & Becky