hmm, so it seems quite a few people are super duper interesting in the gift i received from the netherlands. :) well, let me fill you in then! i got a little notebook with a picture of a really cute little girl on the front...with her finger wedged up her nose! at the bottom it says "life delights in life" it's so perfect, i love it!! i also got a stud muffin bank card! hehe...i haven't tried swiping it yet, so we'll see what comes of that!
when i talked to bex and lenneke on skype on friday (which was a hoot, btw) they requested (or was it demanded??) more photos of me....so here you are ladies!! they're not all of me...but they're a few of my favorite pictures from this summer. most of them are taken by crystal (thanks) because my camera was on the fritz for a little while.

Isaiah, Luke & me

Auntie Steph & Isaiah

Shiloh and Me

Shiloh and Me

E-rock and me

Crystal and me
Pst....we stole those flowers from some one's garden.

Crystal and Lukie (roar!)

and that's all folks....it most definitely feels like summer is coming to an end. fall is coming: people are going to new places, doing new things. i'm sticking to niverville...trying to see what God has to teach me this year.

"Here it is again, the Great Reversal: many of the first ending up last, and the last first."
Matthew 20:16

well, Good God, so be it :)

my day was just made


i received a lovely package from a location called
Nunspeet, the Netherlands
Eeeeeeeeeeee! Thanks Lenneke and Bex! i can't stop smiling :)

random ramblings
warning: this is an insanely boring post...do not read if you are overtired or uninterested in the common life of myself.

well there's 15 minutes left of my friday workday. i'll be out for the week-end and i figured i'd just send out a little hello. my day today has been filled with youtube clips of the office. it's been pretty sweet. last night eric and i went to folklorama, i know that i for sure talked to lenneke about this wonderful winnipeg experience (definitely a plus for coming to visit me in the summer) for all you who don't know what it is, it's a cultural showcase that's up for 2 weeks every august in winnipeg. different cultures have pavilions in different locations to show off their culture. so we went to the mexican one...because it looked really good & eric happened to be wearing his mexican soccer shirt, so you know. and we also went to the scandinavian pavilion....need i say why? ok, it's because i was in scandinavia! the food looked strangely familiar, and although i couldn't understand the language, it made me smile. i love folkorama. i love scandinavia.
ok, i've got to go and close shop. i'm off to the cabin this week-end for a mentor retreat. and then on sunday night jules and i are off to see josh groban :) i finally got some of his music from chantelle....so i'm madly trying to learn some of it before hand. i have to sing along to at least one song, i mean, seriously!

see ya
wouldn't wanna be ya
bahahahaha

ok, i know, it's time. it's past time. it was time like 2 weeks ago. my only excuse is that i've been house sitting an air-conditioned-but-internetless house for the last couple of weeks and coming to my parents non-air-conditioned-internet house was not very appealling in the +40 weather we've been having. today though i'm at home working & thought i'd take a break and update you all....plus it's cooled down today to a lovely +26. you know something is seriously wrong when +26 is cool. but my final push back into updating this blog was the lovely helen wilson :) i feel really bad about not updating all you guys on the other side of the world. but i'm BACK, and i'm going to try SOOOOO hard to keep this puppy up!

so i suppose the major updating goes back to june 30-july 15. that was when i ventured out to vancouver with the Flying V's (the official name of our mission trip group) ok, where do i begin? maybe i'll start by saying i love our group. Mmm! we were all friends before leaving, but spending this much time together, doing the things we did & having this much fun made us tight. i don't have time right now to talk about what we all did, but i'll post some pictures here for your enjoyment :)

introducing: The Flying V's





































































































and this is the point where i turn 21
























p.s. eric made that dessert pizza