An Update

Well I have now officially met every member of Owen's family. That may be just a very slight exaggeration. I met a lot of people and heard a lot of family history. It was good. I feel like I got to know Owen more in the process. Meeting his parents and little brother was good too as it'll now be a year until I see them again. I cried while leaving after saying good bye. It was kind of an overwhelming weekend.

I took my camera in an attempt to liven up this blog with pictures, but then did not end up taking any photos. Sorry.

We visited Joshua too. That was good. Apparently we made his day.

It was easier to leave because Owen is coming up this Saturday. Sunday we plan on visiting Nakamun which will be an adventure of its own.

Candace and I made plans for a sleepover Friday night. That is exciting. I haven't had a girly night in quite a while and I am realizing just how much I need it.

Mexico is frustrating me again. Having to tell all of Owen's family about it this weekend really hit it home that I am going soon and its for quite a while. So I'm going to go pray now. I need some Jesus time.

Crazy Weather

Well today we took the kids to Hawerlak Park even though it was saying we had 60% chances of rain. There's a big picnic shelter right by the playground so we figured "hey why not?" So we're there for like half an hour and the kids are loving it when it starts to spit rain. The staff all congregate to discuss the weather and the children and decide to just let them keep playing until they complained. All of a sudden my boss goes "look at the field over there... its pouring!" We all looked and within three seconds me and some of my co-workers suddenly realized that we were watching pretty much what seemed to be a solid wall of rain coming towards us at an alarming rate. No sooner did we yell for all our kids to run for the shelter than we were surrounded by screaming children...

In other news I won't be able to make it to Owen's grandfather's funeral, but thankfully I can still go up this weekend and at least meet his parents who flew in from Kauai. I say at least, but really its quite the deal as we all thought I wouldn't be able to meet them until I got back from Mexico in about a year. So I am excited about the chance to meet them this early. Especially seeing as how I've already met a number of his other family members. I head up Thursday after work. It will be good, but hard too as I know that this is a really difficult time for the Scott family.

Hope everyone who reads this is doing well. Did my fundraising stuff work for anyone? I got some emails saying it turned itself into computer language and not a word document. Which is frustrating seeing as how that is the second one I've tried for emailing. Let me know. Take care!

Working with Children is... rewarding?

I had a post from Tuesday entitled what it is above and it was in the editing phase of putting it up, but I felt like erasing it and putting up another post. For clarification sake it is now Sunday July 23rd that I finished this post on.

The past week of my life has been rather crazy. A week ago today I was in Dawson Creek meeting Owen's Grandpa and Grandma and seeing all the major landmarks of Owen's childhood. This morning his Grandfather passed away. I only met the man once, but I cried and not just because I feel for Owen and his family as they go through these next few days of greeving, but because His Grandfather made an inpact on me in the very short time I met him. He had very kind eyes and he welcomed me warmly. I will be trying my best to attend the funeral later this week at some time.

Inbetween those Sundays was a week of hell at work. For the most part anyways. That's why my post was titled what it was. I was sworn at, had a tongue stuck out at me, completely ignored (by a child who was under my care in the middle of West Edmonton Mall), told everything I plan is boring, threatend to be made handicapped and well many other fun things. Needless to say I reconsidered my main passion being Children or even having my own children. Despite all of this though I am still passionate about kids, maybe even more so as I watch all of the ones I work with show me just how desperately they need God in their lives. That was my biggest frustration this week, not being able to minister to the kids and my coworkers as incident after incident occured. I look forward to returning tomorrow though.

Besides that, there have been many serious conversations going on in my life. Its like I'm standing on some turning point in my life or something. Crazy. I like the way I'm headed though, but have to keep reminding myself to not get too attached to my plans as its all in God's hands and I can't see the bigger picture with quite the same certianity as He can. God is good though, as He has turned some of my frustration about the future (mainly my long distance with Owen) into glimpses of His complete faithfulness. So that is how I am doing right now.

The Pictures (that wouldn't load)

Owen driving
The picnic he set up for me.
I waited with my eyes closed as he set it up.
Me in the car. I helped find the places we were going

(inbetween my naps).

Why I Hate Technology

Okay so I've tried to create a post about ten times the past two weeks and then was anti-blog for a few days. Owen was here on the July long weekend and I kept trying to put up pictures of when he was here, but then when I tried to publish the post (everytime without fail) suddendly the internet would be "not responding". A little message box would pop up letting me know this fact, I would then sigh heavily and click the nice little "end now" button. As this scene continued the sighs got louder... and a little more violent. Needless to say the days away from the blog were good for me.

So, Owen was here. The pictures proved how good looking we are. Too bad for you that you cannot see them. I met his sister and brother-in-law. I wasn't nervous which was surprising, because usually I get pretty self-concious, but it was all good; I liked them a lot. They had just gotten a "puppy" a few weeks before we came. That puppy's name was Tonka and there was a whole 72lbs. of Tonka that greeted us when we arrived.

We also celebrated our 3 months, as cheesy as we know it is to celebrate monthly anniversaries (but we'll only ever have a possibility of two together). First we went to dinner at the Olive Garden. Then Owen made me close my eyes as he drove in circles to hide the fact that he was taking me to a park by my house for a surprise romantic picnic that he had planned for me. Yes, he is a keeper and I am a very lucky woman to be with him.

Besides these fun things, we also read through parts of Isaiah together... by the edge of a pond in the park. Chapters 41-60 were recommended to Owen to try and answer some questions he has about visions that were given to him. So of course I read it too because I am a very curious person. You should read it, its a very interesting passage.

Then he went home. I didn't cry this time, mainly because I knew I would get to see him two weeks later when I went up to Grand Prairie. Which is now... (drum role please) THREE sleeps away! Woot! Woot!

Other than that, I plan on maybe writing about work someday soon as there are few little stories I would love to share, as well as frustrations. Mexico stuff is going well though. Fundraising is showing me how much God is going to provide for me and I am blessed by it. So that's enough for now... this better load to the site or I'll cry.