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ok, i have no idea how to fix it quickly, so all of the pictures are out of order.  sorry about that.  if you hover your mouse over it though, it should tell you the date.

September….almost

just as promised (months and months ago!), i’m back with the rest of my Project 365 pictures!  here is september at a glance (minus Sept. 13-16.  those pics are on my other computer still, in vancouver).  i’ll try to eventually come back and add some captions, as some of the pics are incredibly random, but no more promises!

the crazier life gets, the less time there is to blog and the more there is to blog about!

hello all!  once again, i’m sorry it’s been so long since i’ve updated.  life has been crazy, but great the past few months and somehow blogging about it all has fallen completely off my radar screen!  i will update with Project 365 pics soon, but for now, i’ll just give you a brief update:

my sisters were here for a week to explore vancouver and celebrate Thanksgiving with me.  we packed as much as we possibly could into a week and had an absolute blast.  i hadn’t seen either of them since the beginning of this year, so it was great to be reunited!  i’m already looking forward to my trip to Ohio in a few weeks.  it will be so good to have our family all together for a bit!

our second group of ULI participants are doing well.  this round has not been without its hiccups, but it has been really good.  i’ve enjoyed getting to know our TCKs and their parents, and i am constantly reminded of how blessed i am to work with the ULI team and be a part of all of this.  God is so good.

i was recently invited to an imb retreat in Istanbul this spring.  having never traveled outside of the americas, i am really excited!  i don’t know many details yet, but will try to remember to keep you posted.

i’ll leave you with a few of my favorite pics from last week with my sisters.  hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving and are enjoying the Christmas season!

late night, all you can eat, sushi after church sunday night:

in stanley park on monday:

cold and wet, with my friend Candice, downtown monday afternoon:

at squamish/shannon falls on the way to whistler on tuesday:

in the olympic store in whistler on tuesday:

with the olympic mascots:

mal and i with the pumpkin cheesecake on thursday:

em and i with an unamused izzy on friday while putting up christmas decorations:

an exhausted izzy on friday night:

people magazine

i know it’s been forever since i last blogged and that i owe you all a serious catch-up post, and i promise it’s coming sometime in the next few weeks, but first, i just had to tell you some exciting news.  as some of you know, one of my best friends ever, mrs. adrian hitt, is a fantastically (is that even a word?  wordpress says it is) talented dog and child photographer in nashville, tn.  several months ago she had the opportunity to photograph Emmylou Harris and her photos were recently published in an edition of people magazine’s country special!  HERE is the link to her blog post with the photos.  i am so very excited for her and so proud to call her my friend!  way to go adrian!

and, because i just couldn’t resist, here’s a pic of adrian and i when she visited me in Guadalajara last year:

off to find me a copy of people’s country edition…

FINALLY…an update!

yikes.  somehow time REALLY got away from me this summer.  sorry it’s taken me so long to finally update.  i lost my camera battery charger, so that’s complicated things a bit as well.  i’ve had to resort to using photobooth on my computer, so it’s mainly been self portraits for a couple weeks now.  oh well.  better than nothing, right?  i’m working on getting a new charger….  anyway, here’s the last 2 1/2 months at a glance!

quick update

hello blog world.  i know it’s been a ridiculously long time since i’ve updated, but it has been a busy month or so!  i’m still taking a picture every day but haven’t had the time to upload and post them just yet.  my mom’s coming in tonight and will be here until the end of the month, so look for a REALLY long update sometime at the beginning of august.  hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the summer!

go get something to drink, this is going to be a long post!

alrighty folks, it’s been a few weeks (sorry about that!), so we’ve got a bit of catching up to do!  sorry for the delay.  here we go:

may 17 – i got some new sandals and am super excited.  so glad that sandal weather is finally here!

may 18 – i also got this fun new jacket.  i love bright colors!  (sorry, i couldn’t figure out how to rotate the pic once i uploaded and forgot to do it before!)

may 19 – i hosted our team meeting this morning and made monkey bread.  this was what was left.  it was a HUGE hit!

may 20 – izzy loves her new bone so much she sleeps on it!

may 22 – sweet potato fries are quickly becoming one of my new favorite foods!

may 24 – izzy made her first trip to the beach!  one of my new friends from the dog park asked if i wanted to go with her and her dog and, of course, i said yes!

may 25 – we’ve been having school in a church basement (the adults were having their sessions upstairs) and the kids have been a bit crazy, so i taught them jumping jacks.  they love it!

may 26 – i met these ladies at the dog park and we quickly became friends.  tonight we went to a pizza place that serves pretty good tacos (it’s owned by mexicans).  i loved it!

may 27 – we had a big cookout with our participants to celebrate all that God has done since they arrived.

may 28 – we took a field trip to the IMAX theater.  it was so much fun!

may 29 – back to the beach (a different one) with my friend, jeanne, and her dog, Goguma (Korean for sweet potato).

may 30 – jeanne lives in my building and loaned me a couple of eggs.  i know it might sound silly, but i am so thankful for a close friend that i can ask for an egg at 10:00 at night!

may 31 – jeanne made some korean dishes for me and the other “dog park ladies” (Lalaine and Anita) and we went to Lalaine’s house to eat.  it was my first time to try squid.  i doubt i’ll try it again by choice!

june 1 – the kids were excited to start on their “graffiti wall” at the resource center

june 2 – “please mom, can we go to the park??”

june 3 – it’s SO HOT this week!  i made some iced coffee and it really hit the spot!

june 4 – this was taken a few minutes after 10 pm.  do you see how bright it still is??  the days are getting verrrrry looooong!  it’s getting light at 4:30 am and dark after 10 pm!

june 5 – i headed out with my church to Vancouver Island for the weekend to help get a camp ready for the summer.  it was a 2 hour ferry ride, then a 45 min. bus ride and worth every minute!

june 6 – Candice and Nastenka after spending the day staining a new building.  it was a long day of hard work, but lots of fun!

june 7 – if you click on the picture, you should be able to see them better, but there are two bald eagles soaring over the camp.  it was a great way to end our time there.  i also got to see dolphins and seals on the ferry ride back!

june 8 – izzy is a crazy sleeper

june 9 – Goguma spend the evening with us.  izzy didn’t mind!

june 10 – i made a lemon cake for our team dinner.  it was a big hit!

june 11 – izzy has started hiding out in my closet while i get ready in the mornings.  crazy dog!  (please ignore the mess on the floor!)

june 12 – i took the remains of the lemon cake to the dog park ladies.  they loved it!  this is all that was left!

hopefully it won’t be quite as long before i update again, but you know how that goes.  thanks for looking!  have a fabulous weekend!

look! i’m posting and it’s only been a week!

i’m up to date on my pics and had them all loaded onto my computer from my camera, so i figured i’d go ahead and get them posted here.  i’ve honestly wondered if anyone really even ever looked at these, but i’ve heard from at least a small handful of you that you do, so i’ll keep posting them here.    on to the past week….

sunday – i saw this sign from the bus.  i have no idea what it was advertising, but the MEXICO stood out.  i’ve really been missing mexico lately.  the past 6 months have been crazy, but the dust has finally settled and i think i’m just now having a chance to really miss the life i had there.

monday – i LOVE tulips and have really been enjoying these that i picked up over the weekend.

tuesday – i don’t think i’ll every quit laughing at izzy’s crazy sleeping positions!

wednesday – we took our first field trip!  it only took one train, one boat, one bus and some (read: a lot!) of walking/hiking to get there, but we had a great time at the salmon hatchery and all the kids seemed to enjoy it!

thursday – i tried a new recipe from Pioneer Woman Cooks (i don’t have the exact link, but you should totally google her if you’re not familiar with her site) for some kind of lemony-creamy pasta.  it turned out pretty good and even looked kinda pretty!  (what can i say, i’m easily amused)

friday – some of the tulips were drooping, so i cut them off and stuck them in little vases on my windowsill.  i love them!

saturday – i’ve been meaning to make these little things for my bathroom wall for awhile and finally got around to doing it today.  i used some of my digital scrapbooking stuff and printed the pages out for some frames i bought awhile ago.  i really like how they turned out!

welp, that’s all folks.  hope you’re all doing well!