Since College ...

On December 13th, after I had finished all my exams and finished moving all my stuff back to my parents, I got on a plane and headed to Florida.

My friend Lindsay lives there. We met on the ship last year in Liberia. She was a nurse, and she is the one who taught me how to do blood draws. It was great to see her again and catch up. I got to see four people from the ship while I was there, visit Disney World, shop a lot, and have a great time!

I was really thankful for that time to just rest after a tough semester. It was a lot of fun!

I was a first time visitor so I got a special badge! You can kind of see in that picture that I'm "tanned". Well - a fews days now I've been home, and it's already faded!

Little did I know what the Wild Cats had in store for me the next day!

So I am a huge High School Musical fan (I know it's lame, but that doesn't matter. It still warms my heart!) and lucky me - I got chosen in their street show to go in an dance with them! Haha. It was a lot of fun. I even for a "Star Dazzle Award"!

These is made of lego. I think Lynette's kids will enjoy them. It was amazing.

Hello Shayla! She was there before I got on the ship and left after I left. She and I were good friends!

American love Canada!

Florida was made all the more better when I got to see Alison as well! She and I were rather close on the ship, so it was great to see her again!

When I was in Florida we had the best desert ever. It was cheesecake lollipops. They were amazing!

My flight home from Florida was a trek and a half!

I got up at 3:30am and headed the airport around 4. I flew from Tampa to Memphis. Once I got there, I saw that my next flight had been cancelled! Yay! Not! I got rerouted then to L.A. That flight was delayed about 3 hours so I sat in the Memphis airport for a long time.

Once I got to L.A. it took me a long time to find my new terminal since the airport is set up differently than any airport I've ever been in (and I've been in a fair amount these past few years). As I walked to my terminal, I watched different departure screens for each airline and saw flight after flight being cancelled.

I finally made it to my terminal, figured it all out and sat down for about seven hours. My flight left about two hours later than expected and the flight crew that was on my flight volunteered to take our flight since our intended flight crew was about 2-3 hours away in the air! I also had got upgraded to first class for that flight, so my last flight was a lot nicer than any I had had before!

Mac picked me up and after over twenty-four hours of being awake and almost as much travel time I was home!

Christmas was great today! We had breakfast and then opened stockings and gifts. I got some pretty cool stuff and it was fun to give present to the family.

Merry Christmas to all!

May the last few days of you year be filled with genuine peace, love, and joy!

To close I thought I'd share a portion of a song that has probably been my favourite this holiday season.

It's still a mystery to me that the hands of God could be so small,

How tiny fingers reaching into the night were the very hands that measured the sky.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Heaven's love reaching down to save the world.

It's still a mystery to me, how his infant eyes have seen the dawn of time,

How his ears have heard an angel's symphony - But still Mary had to rock her Savior to sleep.

God bless you.

Merry Christmas!

Bells and Bows

These are the three lovely ladies who call me "Mom"! They call it, and I respond ... So yeah.





So Friday night was the annual CBC Christmas banquet, followed by a non-CBC dance party, and then followed by an even further non-CBC more exclusive wine and cheese party! It was a super fun night and it was fun to get all dressed up and see everyone looking lovely.

Where am I?

It seems funny to me to write a blog sometimes. When I was in Africa, it made sense because of the circumstances, but now sometimes it just seems silly, but then I'll get a letter from my sister questioning why I haven't blogged, and how her kids love to see the pictures, and I get inspired! So here is come catch-up!

For Halloween I was a Greek goddess/Roman princess/cave woman!! I was supposed to be a cave woman, but it ended up looking far too nice for that. So I morphed into whatever people thought I was. I worked that night and some of the kids that came in were so cute! One girl looked at me and questioned if I was even dressed up! I smiled at that (Why yes sweet child, I typically wear this to work!!)

As much as this time at CBC has not been my favourite time, I have made some incredible friendships and I am excited that God has brought new friends into my life. I have made kindred spirit types of friends, silly crazy friends, encouraging friends, and some that have become sisters and brothers! I love it a lot!

Clara here (my peace friend!) is quite the encourager. She gave my the flowers from the last post. I am quiet appreciative of her. She is very aware of those around her. I always know she'll give me a great hug and tell me that I am beautiful!
Kara here is my crazy fun, super nice, sister, kindred spirit friend! Last night she dropped her homework and came with me for a late night chat (and a few minutes of homework). She is my most-used of my 5 on my phone!!!


I heart Hannah!

Holly shares the same last name as me, but pronounces it differently, and we have an idea of making shirts with our names on them, but writing our last name twice because it's different!