What a Day!

Yesterday was such a great day. I got to color! Yea, I know sounds dumb but it was really fun. I hung out with my friend Tess and Mallory at Biola and we colored by the coffee shop. It was a whole bunch of fun!

Me.Mallory.Tess.

While we were hanging out we got to see this huge guy. His name is Maestro. He was like a small horse almost. I wanted to take him home and cuddle. He just hangs around Biola sometimes with his owner. No Big Deal.NBD.

After a great day of coloring and hanging with good friends we made the traditional trip to MOLCA SALSA! YEE. It's my fav late night treat! Me and Tess performed our rap for the group. Treats on us!

I mean who wouldn't want to be friends with us?

Happy Mommy's Day!

Today is the day that we choose to honor our mothers. Not that we don't do this every other day of the year but today we especially want to thank and honor our mothers. So today I would love to share with you a very special person in my life. My Mother. AKA by me as Mommy. Yep I still call her mommy. Judge me.

This is the women who raised me. The women who has given so much of herself to help my happiness. With out this women I would not be the person I am today. Words can not describe what she means to me.

She is a women who fears the Lord and even though I am so different than her I have always wanted to be just like her. It's funny when you are younger you don't really think that you want to be like your parents. I think it has taken me be out on "my own" to realize how much she means to me and how much I truly do want to be like her.

Today I am honoring my MOMMY! I love her bunches. As part of this entry I am going to share some of my favorite Mommy quotes. Trust me these ones are pretty funny.

Here.We.Go.

"Would it be bad if we drove through that puddle and got those people wet?"-Mom

"Yes."-Me

"Oh, You are no fun."-Mom

CONTEXT: This little conversation had taken place the sunday after I had my big surgery. Mom had come to stay with me during my recovery. We were leaving the parking lot of the church I work at when this conversation went down.

"Wouldn't it be ironic if you survived brain surgery and then died in a car accident with me?"

CONTEXT: Again this was the sunday after my surgery and we were turning onto the street that Chipotle was one because my mommy let me choose where we went for lunch! Anyway the light by that street doesn't have a protected arrow and so my mom just turned with out waiting. Then the infamous quote was said.

One of my favorite books my mommy would read me when I was younger was called, Mama do you love me?. The whole book was the dialogue of a daughter and her mom. The daughter would always ask Mama Do you love me even if I...(whatever she did wrong). Then she tells the girl what her emotions would be and adds "but I still love you"! I remember I loved the book because I knew my Mama was the same way. She always loved,loves and is going to love me!

My mom has a funny way of having random humor and it is one of my favorite things about her! I love her so much! So mom this is to you! I love you bunches! Thanks for being the wonderful women you are!

I LOVE YOU MOMMY!

Cinco de Mayo

This is one of my favorite holidays. I know. It's a pretty americanized holiday but I still love it! For most it's an excuse to get wasted and have a party. For me it's not like that.

My favorite part of Cinco de Mayo is the TACO'S!! YEE.

They are so tasty!! Nom Nom Nom.

I also like the culture that we often see on the day. My favorite that I also see in food places is the mariachi band

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These are my favorite things about Cinco De Mayo. I hope you have had the best day!

The Royal Wedding.

I just wanted to share a little of the royal wedding with you all if you haven't already seen it. I know pictures are everywhere on the internet but I just wanted to show you one. The one part of the wedding that I think took my breath away a little bit.

Have you guessed what it is yet?

Yep. It was the wedding dress. For those of you who don't know, I LOVE weddings! They are beautiful and I think they express so much about a couple.

We know that this wedding was one special one for sure. Just a little fun fact for you thanks to People Magazine, Do you know how much the wedding cost?

Everything including the security costs?

Maybe a guess?

$65,000,000 Approximately.

WOW. I know.

Here are more numbers if you fancy.

2,000,000,000 people watched on T.V. around the world.

5,000 police officers deployed.

1,900 invites to the wedding.

35 sniffer dogs on duty.

7 Planes in the ceremonial flyby.

5 horse drawn procession carriages.

4 of William's former girlfriends invited.

2 of Kate's former boyfriends invited.

What does that get us?

One happy couple.

The End.

Remember Dreams Do Come True!

San.Diego.Serve.2011.

Well this is a little over due but we all know that it wouldn't really be my blog if it wasn't right? Yea Buddy. Anyway I'm here to share with you my great trip to the beautiful city of San Diego. Actually again I am going to show you in pictures. First off I will give you some background.

The trip was for the Herd. It was the students opportunity to give up a few days of there spring break to go help others in need. Our group has been working with a man, Pete who started a church down there for years so we continued to go and help him out. The trip was three days long. Monday-Wednesday. I, unfortunately enough, could only stay for monday. But let me tell you that what I saw on Monday was more then enough to wake me up and watch my students really be followers of Christ in there service. It was truly amazing to see God work in and through them.

This was the church we worked at.

Naturally we are students. Mini vans are a MUST!

We had to take a shoe pick.

Can you tell which one is mine?

Think about it.

I tend to stand out.

Gotta Love the Red Heads. Gingers. Whatever you want to call us.

Waiting with the girls for our mini orientation. Beautiful church.

Me and LaceFace in front of the fence BEFORE we painted it.

IN the midest of painting but you get what it's going to look like.

(L to R.Angelica, Me and Katie) Me and my girls putting packs together to give out to the homeless the next night! Loved working with them!

All in all the trip went great. Students live were changed. What got me so excited was they they were able to see the community and realize that where we were in San Diego was not much different then Long Beach. It was a good chance for them to see that they can be doing the same things in there own community!

Loved to see God work in amazing ways!

Small Group Out. Neon NIghts.

Last Wednesday was S.G.O.(Small Group Out) for the Herd. It is exactly what it sounds like. Going out with your small group. For my small group out I joined my sixth grade group with the other sixth grade girls small group. The best idea EVER! I have to give mad props to my girl Amy Green for planning this one.

I would tell you what we did in detail but I thought pictures speak way LOUDER than words. So here you go. Pictures with some words.

Let the story begin. For the 6th grade small group out the plan was to go to roller skating at Fountian Valley Skating Center. To rent skates and skate for 2 hours it was going to cost $11.50. The perfect thing to for our small group out!

My Name is Cheryl Kay Krake. Can we be friends?

We all had to wait for everyone to arrive for our 80's/Neon night skating extravaganza to begin!

More Waiting...

they started to get comfortable with the camera.

Some were too cool(Cold) to hang outside.

My Signature pose. Naturally.

By this time I had noticed that people were going up to the door but not being let in. Long story short we got times and dates mixed up and there was no open skate that night until 8:30. The time the parents were going to be back to pick everyone up. Bummer I know. In the mean time we were going to go to boomers which was conveniently next door.

Fortunately enough for us we had a mom found out what was going on and she didn't want us to miss out on our skate night since we were all dressed up and such. She went up to the group who happen to be a church and asked if we could join them. She even talked to the pastor. He happened to know our Pastor, Mr. Greg Rhodes himself. The pastor the said that we could join in there church's private party. SCORE. Even better than that is that they only charged us $5 to get in and get skates. DOUBLE SCORE.

Once we got in it was on like Donkey Kong. The night which got off to a slow start was off! Of course we start off with the group shots.

Cute Picture.

Silly Picture. Naturally.

How could you resist not hanging with us. I mean COME ON.

I mean really.

This was the only photo of all the leaders. Lightening is kinda bad but whatevs. We are real cool!

This is what we call the Whip people. Actually I don't think they were actually trying to do it but it looks like it. Basically in this epic move in roller durby this is where you true to use man power to push a team member(Left in the Picture) ahead of the other players. *If you want to learn more about Roller Durby you can either ask me or watch Whip It. Viewer Discression advised.

Obviously she is the dancer of the group.

And this was me. I only made it around the rink 5 times. Definite struggle.

So naturally from all that rollering I would get a Diet Coke.

Win.

By the end of the night we were all tired and ready to go home. A very successful event!

No Electricity. Bummer.

Welp today Edison, the electricity people have decided to do some maintenance on my building from 8:30 am to 5 Pm meaning I have no electricity in the WHOLE BUILDING! Now when I first head I thought no big deal I'll just shower the night before and put my hair up. I won't even need to leave the apartment early I can just do my normal morning thing and then to to work at the church at 1:30. Perfect schedule right? WRONG. No electricity means EVERY thing in the building is down. Do you see where I'm going? I live on the 18th floor. Got it yet? Ok I'll tell you. No electricity means no ELEVATOR! Yea. Now I would say that's fine but if you have ever tried to walk down 18 floors then you know it sucks bad. Last time I did it I was weezing up a storm after and ended up taking the elevator back up to my apartment to rest.

So that leads me here to starbucks where I am spending my morning blogging, facebooking, doing homework, taking pictures of myself and naturally people watching. I mean this is what I call a very successful morning. Don't you agree?

I mean this picture obviously shows how productive I'm being!

Hi! My name is Cheryl Kay Krake. Can we be friends?

I would get stuck at the table by the bathroom. Awesome.

Ok folks, I'm going to leave you now. I need to do some actual work.

I leave you with my song of the day as I sit at Starbucks.

"Fantasy" By Mariah Carey

Check it out. Dance it out. I know you want to.