--Korey and Crystal Henry New Blog--

Our New Blog --
We can't keep kchollrah.blogspot.com forever since we aren't Hollrahs anymore.

Here's our NEW BLOG!

The Henrys

Korey and I had decided to change our last name and started the process this summer. If you didn't know the story, here's a small breakdown.  Korey doesn't know his birth father and that's the name that he had for 23 years. As Korey has thought about his future as a pastor, he realized he didn't want to create a legacy, write books, or be known as Korey Hollrah - his Mother's maiden name is Henry. This is the family name that he is connected to and loved and supported by. Because of this and Korey's desire to build a legacy... we will change our names to represent a family of love and support. Today we had our court hearing here Norman and walked out of there as Korey and Crystal Henry. Now there is a list of many many things we have to change our names through and one of those happens to be this blog. 

The world now has 2 more Henrys and 2 less Hollrahs. 

Glorifying Christ as a Henry....

Class of 2010

When you first step foot onto the beautiful campus of The University of Oklahoma, you are usually a confused, excited, anxious young adult that just completed 13 years of mandatory school. Now, you are most likely choosing (on your own) to continue school for 4 more years to get a bachelor's degree in some sort of area that you are hopefully interested enough in that you enjoy some of the classes. They even give you a shirt that first year that says "University of Oklahoma Class of '10." So from this shirt, they assume you'll graduate in 4 years. They also hand out free shirts that say "Think 15". This is to help you get in the mindset of taking at least 15 hours a semester to graduate in 4 years. However, I was never prepared by anyone or any program to know for sure what I wanted to major in. So of course, after a full year and 30 credit hours later, I changed my major. I have completely enjoyed the past 3 & 1/2 years in my education classes and that leads to my exciting statement: I am graduating in December! (It's still Class of '10)  

This semester is cramming a lot it. I have two field experiences. One is at an inner-city elementary in OKC and one is in a suburban elementary in Norman. The two are very same and different, but I am learning things from them both. Organizing the hours I need to observe and juggling homework and class is quite a task, but I truly enjoy having a schedule and being in a routine. I also will be substitute teaching again this semester. I'm excited to sub for the people I know, I feel that subbing in the same classroom over time helps a lot. 

I'm back to cleaning the offices and working for my mom and I'm done taking my antibiotic.
Korey's flag football started this week as well. It's football time in Oklahoma and I can wear pants that button. 


Life is finally normal again. 


As soon as life is normal, as soon as you can breathe and you are comfortable with all aspects of what God has placed in front of you - that's usually when he changes things up!  So as much as I say life is normal again... well He's decided to change things up. Never a dull moment. 


In normalcy, dull moments, and the rare times they come around - My chief end will be to glorify the One that died to set me free. 

Rainy Days = Hot Chocolate w/ Marshmallows

Glorifying God even when drinking hot chocolate...

Wordle

I had a freaking blast today in my technology class! I learned how to make a wordle! So amazing! You can make it off of a blog. So I typed in this blog address and it made this wordle. The bigger words in the wordle are words used more frequently in the blog. It's just an awesome site and I really enjoyed it.

glorify GOD in your wordles... :) He is one of my bigger words!

3 Round

Friday night we had Game Night. Something that I really enjoy hosting on a regular basis. As I was getting the house ready for guests and game space, I found out that we were only going to have maybe 4 or 5 guests. Well Charades and Catch Phrase are great, great games, but with only 4 or 5 people.. it's just not AS fun as it could be!! So on the basis that game night could be a dud... I thought about canceling or readjusting game night. We planned for maybe a little bit of games and then maybe a group outing to the movies. Then some great friends showed up that I wasn't for sure were coming! A couple more were able to show up sooner than originally planned and that equals a fantastic game night with 10 people!


As we considered Catch Phrase or Charades...  Mary Rachel and Andrew mentioned this game called 3 Round. 3 Round is amazing --- You can play with groups of 2,3, or 4, but you want more than 2 teams. Then each person writes down 3 nouns and puts them in a bowl. 
Round 1. A team starts. One person from the team has 30 seconds to try and go through as many words as possible from the bowl in Catch Phrase format (saying anything other than the word on the paper and no motions to get your team to guess it). Once 30 seconds is up, you keep the words your teams guessed and the next team goes. You continue this (switching players when your teams goes again) until all the words are out of the bowl. Tally up the scores for each time and then put all the words back in the bowl. Round 2. Same process with same words. Instead of Catch Phrase format, you are only allowed to describe the word with ONE WORD. Go around until all words are out of bowl again. Tally up your scores and put all the words back in the bowl. Round 3. CHARADES TIME! Same process, but no words and only motions!


-- The most Fantastic Game Night Ever! It was EPIC! We hope to have many more!

What a Week!

This past week has been a whirlwind for sure!

Tuesday morning I had the consult with the surgeon and scheduled the surgery for Thursday afternoon. Wednesday was full of getting life/school together before going under. Thursday came and after 4:45, I don't remember much! :) Now I'm on the road to recovery, able to sit and stand on my own and going to attempt class tonight. I am still very sore and slow. My body will take anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months to adjust to being gallbladderless and then my insides should start functioning normally. And oh golly gee am I glad to be sleeping in my bed again! Three nights on a couch in the same position gets old fast!

In the past week we signed some papers to move along in the name change process. Sooner or later we'll change to The Henrys! That kind of looks funny... I'll get used to it.

Monday, Korey started seminary! He and Jeff left at 4:30am Monday morning headed to Ft. Worth. They had a class at 8am and at noon (Old Testament and Elementary Greek). Korey loved it. He is really looking forward to this semester and I am so happy for him and proud of him!

Today, I start my last semester of undergrad! Yipee! I am really excited to be back in the swing of school. I really enjoy classes and routine and love the girls in my education sequence. It'll be a great last semester and I didn't really want to share it with my nasty inflamed gall bladder anyway!

I feel so blessed in this time of sickness and recovery. I really appreciate the thoughts, prayers, and company of everyone. Thank you!

May the Chief end of your new school year and in times of whirlwinds be to glorify the one and only (not OU) Christ! :)