my new job

hi everyone! well ive been busy lately so bloging hasn't been happening but working definatly has been happening! i've been so tired though. my job is basically stocking anything in the grocery part and the freezer. it may sound simple,and it is but its hard work cause its lifting heavy stuff. if u guys don't have any plans this summer then come get a job with me!! (cough erin) everyone is super nice there and im really enjoying myself. at least im getting a good workout!

and i can't come on the retreat because (actually leon and i) are working at VBS during the morning of the 13th and the morning of the 15th. i really wanted to go this time since i didn't get to go to the winter retreat. but i don't think it's gunna work out. but yeah...

update ur blogs guys!! i know u have nothing to write about steph but that doesn't matter! well i better go. see you guys at church tomorrow!!! ugg i have to work from 1 till 10 today, so im not gunna be able to chill today!

one year

hi everyone! wow i haven't posted for awhile. Well yesterday was my one year with leon. i couldn't believe it. Definalty doesn't seem that long. it just seemslike a few months ago he asked me out. haha, anwyays... Today is my first day at work. yay..lol pray that i won't screw anything up please! hahah well i've got to go. summer is finally here for me!!!!todays my last final, science... it shouldn't be too hard. Hopefully see you all soon!

YAY GOD!

God's amazing guys! he answered my prayers. I got the job @ Sobey's!!!!!

scared...

i never heard back from the guy at Sobey's. but it sounded as if he would call me either way. maybe he forgot?

request

well i just posted but i need you guys to pray that i would get this job at Sobey's. i had my interview yesterday and he is phoning me today. thank you!
xoxoxo

la ti dah...

the end of school is approaching most of us...
finals are starting, summer vacations are beggining...
things are winding down and plans are forming...
but this is all good. summer is so nice, its so realxing and amazing cause the sun is out and the birdies are singing.. and also waking us up at 5:00 am..lol steph.. (nature woke us up!) and i love looking at all the beautiful things God has created for us to look at and take in. Yesterday Leon and I went for a walk. we didn't know where we were going, we just walked. We walked towards my school and then came upon the forestry farm. We decided to take a walk through there because Leon had never been.. (can u believe that?!) and yeah, so we walked though there and Leon and I came upon the white tigers. They came right up to the glass and looked at us. it was truely amazing. And leon was just in awe...lol i realized how God has made such beautiful creatures in this world. Hes done it all for us. He gave his LIFE for US...
that is the amazing thing. now im having one of those moments where its like a train hit me and i realize that God died for us and he loves us so much. God's cool...

thinking...

hmmm... i was thinking about the sermon on singleness with pastor chet. It was really interesting to me. at first i was like ohhh brother, why do i need to listen to this? im not single... plus i've heard talks about being single anyways. But then he started to talk about what our family can do for singles. We can take them under our wing and be their family. We can take them out with us and let them be part of our family. I realized that I can do that with some of my friends who are single. I don't have to feel like they are a third wheel, unless i make them feel like that. They can just be hanging out with me and leon. steph, leon and i sorta did that last summer. We hung out almost everyday and it was fun, not akward. anyways...

well congrats to Katelynn and Keith, who are officially going out! awww u guys are cute. keith had on a shirt that said Katelynn, will u go out with me? and then he gave her a rose and asked her. it was adorable.

Oh can u guys please pray for leon cause he has been having stomach problems for the last three weeks and he is in a lot of pain. Please pray that God would heal him. Thanks guys. Love you all...

xoxoxoxo

random thoughts...

its just another day...
im bored..
at school....

well lifes goin pretty good for me.. (goot..lol steph) im still feeling so far away from Him. After hearing how God was working in all of your lives at bible study last night, it made me sad. i realized how nice it is to have a relationship with him. God gave me strength last night so that i could stay up and write in my prayer journal. Those things are truely amazing. I love journaling but this is ridiculously amazing. God is amazing, i know that. He changed my life but how come i can't feel him, how come it doesn't feel like he is there. There are so many questions running through my head. Something that has really hit me hard lately is that God loves me. God loves everyone, equally. It blows my mind knowing that he loves me the same as a person who has murdered somebody. he loves all of us no matter what we've done. God has so much love, God is love...

at school...

im at school, again. i don't know why im typing in orange, i hate orange... i don't really like oranges or orange juice. oh well. nothing really interesti. nothing really interesting happening these days. oh today our school went into a peremiter lock down. apparently someone saw some person with a gun. but it was actually a construction worker with a paint thinger that had a trigger on it. hahahah, wow thats about as interesting as it gets. well how are all of your guys' weeks going?? this week seems to be flying by.... i haven't been doing anything excpet homework. oh and now im worrying again... i get my history mark back next week.... u.gggg i hope i don't fail cause if i do, i have to pay for lessons and they are SO expensive.... so pray that i pass guys. anyways..... what else.. nothing. theres nothing to write about. grr im so bored. im supposed to be working on an English project about herbicides on grass.. WOOHOOOO!!!! yeah im gunna go look at pictures of grass now...

just another day...

im sitting here writing, or typing i guess, to all u guys while watching rent...which i got for my birthday. its not bad, but theres sooo much singing. luckily i know one of the songs from choir.. so i can sing along, although leon gets annoyed... oh well who cares, hes asleep anyways..hahah he was supposed to be watching it with me but he fell asleep and i moved to the computer. yay me...lol oh well. oh i guess i should tell y'all wat i got for my birthday.. ummm some shorts, and an i pod... rent, and flip flops from walmart... i got a pretty good tasting cake too.. yummmy! anyways, well i don't have much to say but im so bored that i thought that id post. Oh me and katelynn are making medieval food tomorrow. its gunna be funny. We are doing medieval cookery for our final project in history. hopefully we are gunna get a good mark. hmm well not much else to say... hope u all have a goood week.. opps..too many o's in good..lol....
xoxoxoxo

last day....

well its my last day of being 15. lol no this is not what this post it gunna be about. im not sure what this post is going to be about. Im bored right now and i felt like writing. have you guys ever had one of those weekends where you have soomuch stuff to do but you don't really want to do it and you don't know where to start. yeah, thats me. but i can look forward to my birthday dinner tomorrow! yummy.. ribs and ceaser salad! my favourite. my other options were sushi, or homemade southern fried chicken. my mom makes some good stuff but i love ribs. me and nathan usually have ribs on our birthdays and dad usually has the chicken.

Topic change..

Well i have to find a job for the summer and i thought that i was getting a job babysitting everyday from 8-12, but it turns out the lady doesn't need me anymore. So now i have to go into the real world and fill out application forms. I have one from sobeys. I know some people who work there, it doesn't seem too bad. Plus its close to home so i can get there quickly. I also was thinking of applying at the new Boston Pizza but i just can't see myself being a waitress, i go wayyyyy too fast. i think that working at Starbucks would do me better! but then again Starbucks is my coffee place and apparently "you don't want to ruin it for yourself" Leon says.. oh well i guess he's right, look at him. hes a vegitarian working at KFC. Clothing stores don't reallly appeal to me... i dunno...

Another new topic.. ive been up since 5:40 am. haha funny story... well im sick and my dad came home with some sinus nightime pills for me and my mom told me to take one about 8:30. I did and i asked her if it would make me drowsy. she said maybe a little. Leon came over at 9 and we were just talking and all of a sudden it was like this wave of sleepiness came over me. And i just started to close my eyes. Leons like Gracie its time for bed. So i ended up going to bed at 10:00. i don't sleep much and i woke up at 5:40am. Thats my story, i hoped u liked it... i didn't..lol

oh i LOVE the one way girls blog. awesome!!!!

well i better go i have a four page essay to write on medieval food, ohhh food, im hungry!

xoxoxoxoxo

Mexico

well here i was thinking i would have so many things to write about mexico. and i can't even process this whole experience. when people ask me how it was all i can say was amazing! it was such a great experience that it just blows my mind. I don't know what words to use to describe it. One of the things that God taught me on this trip that i spoke about Sunday, was the power of patience and listning. Im so busy all the time and god really spoke to me when I listened to him and took time out of my day for him. I never thought that God talked to me but i know now that i was just not listning to him and making him important. Another thing that happened on this trip that was really fun was going to adult evangalism. This one night we went to a new neighborhood and about a dozen people gave their lives to God. That was truely amazing. Church on Wednesday night was sooo powerful. Even though we were worshiping in Spanish, it still touched my heart. I loved all the songs. God blessed all of us, i know it. I have become so much closer with him. But what do i do next? Amanda Bendel told us a few things that she recommended we do after the missions trip. One thing that im definatly going to do is continue my prayer journal. Other than that im sorta unsure. Anyone got any ideas???

band trip!

heyy guys, man i had soo much fun on the band trip. Here's how it went:
MONDAY
i woke up at 5:45, yeah im an early bird... showered and dressed and went to school. We packed up the bus and left for red Deer at about 7:30 ish. and yeahh so the bus ride there was fun. i mostly watched movies and listened to my iPod. I sat with Vicky (who plays trombone) and behind me were two grade 9 boys who were trying to flirt witgh me. they kept winking at me and then they would play with my hair and then they would slap their ties on my head.. not fun..... oh well. so the first thing we did was drive to an elementry school and perform there. it was sooo funny cause all the kids were pluging their ears...haha it was soooo loud. then we went to the hotel and checked in and stuff. For dinner I had chinese food at the mall and then we shopped for a bit which was sorta boring. The highlight was that some of the dumb grade 9 boys got escorted out of the mall by the security gaurds for shooting us with nerf guns..ahahahah... that was awesome. then we went back to the hotel and swam for a bit and then afterwards the party started. katelynn, Kayla and Caitlin and me were all in a room together. We all bought 10 dollers worth the junk food and ma was there a lot. There was red bull, starbucks frappacinos, chocolate, everything! then some of the guys came into our room and we listned to music and watched them dance really badly..haha yeah. then Kayla and I stayed up packing and ironing our shirts till 2:00 am..lol then we had to wake up at 6:15...uggg

TUESDAY:

Well waking up wasn't too bad. I was the first one up and i just hopped out of bed and started washing my face and brushing our teeth. Then the other girls got up and we got some of the guys and we all walked down for some breakfast. It was kinda gross.. a crappy cup of coffee and a frozen cinomen bun... yay... oh well it wasn't too bad. at least it was food. anyways, then we all went back upstairs and the guys came into our room to hang out for a bit and then the teacher came and shes like you guys have to get ready!!!! and we were all still in our Pjs and so the guys went out.. lol all except for Mark and he was hiding in the window sill but then Mrs. Mortenson (teacher) looked for him and we heard him scream and run cus his leg got stuck in the window sill..hahaha yeah then we left and drove to the college and played fairly well. We had an adjudication and then sight reading. After that we listned to two bands and it was off on the road again. we had A and W for lunch and drove some more and like 2 hrs later we had dinner at Boston Pizza. I wasn't hungry at all so me and Adam shared some hot wings. Haha all the guys kept taking the sugar packets and eating them. Then we drove. I slept the whole way pretty much and yeahh.. then i got home and went straight to bed.

It was sooo much fun but soo exhausting. anyways, i got to go. love you all and I miss you. 2 DAYS!!!! (to mexico if ur wondering...) heeheeeeeee

What is Faith?

FAITH--->seeking and knowing Jesus
FAITH-->complete confidence in a person or plan
FAITH-->believing iin something that we can't see our touch

Faith was the topic of discussion last night at youth. It was very interesting. Faith is something most Christians struggle with. It's so hard to trust God with everything, your life, your family, your friends, your future....
We all know that God loves us and he wants the best for us, so why is it so hard to give everything over to him?
because we like to control our life. most of us think that we don't need help from God, we can control our life. But really, we need God to control our lives. Without him we are hopeless. we need God to be our provider, we don't need to worry about anything. Faith is hard to have... but when you do, its amazing. One interesting thing said last night was a quote from the screwtape letters by C. S. Lewis (who is an amazing author by the way). it said that if a person who didn't have any faith when they are in a situation but still did the right thing (what God wants), that is what frusterates the demons the most. Anyways, i just thought that was cool.

missions

well i think that last nights meeting was one of the most fun ones ever. the food was amazing!!! thanks sooo much lynn. and yeah the foot washing was really interesting and tickly too..lol but it made me feel very greedy and bad because i felt like someone was being a servant to me, id rather be the servant. i know God is going to use all of us in Mexico and it is going to be an experience that we will never forget. We willbe His servants. Last night's meeting made it all seem real to me. not like well mexico is coming and well yeah... its like WHOOOHOOO ITS MEXICO!!! lol im pumped for it and its going to be an awesome time, especially in terms of bonding with eachother. I think that its going to really be like we are all brother and sisters in Christ. I've got sooo much packing and whatnot to do and plus on Monday and Tuesday I'll be in Red Deer, AB (srry its Alboyta for me and steph..grr Steph and I) for a band trip. woot!! and that means late nights, and movies and food!!! hahah are plan is to bring popcorn and go to the front desk and ask them to pop it all for us.. yuppers.. well i got to go study some more. reallly nervous for my test but not toobad. i know God is gunna help me get through this and im just thinking of how good its gunna feel when its all over and done with. Anyways, i better go. Love you all!!!

another embarassing story...

well on friday, i was opening my locker in the gym. my lockers one of the little ones on the bottom row. i bent over and swung my locker open and i like totally banged my nose realllllly hard on the edge. it really hurt! luckily nobody was there but i have a red bruise on my nose...lol yes that is my story...

hahahaaahahahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

<--- steamy Jack sparrow..haha steph that was for you!!!!!!!!!!

guess wat? the funniest thing just happened! there was a police man in my house, yes i know it doesn't sound that funny right now but just listen to my story. Well my mom walked in the house and our alarm went off. she forgot to key in the code to shut it off so the people at securtek tried to phone her to see if everything was okay...cept my mommy was on the phone. so they sent a police man over. so heres grace, standing by my back door with the baby and a police man walks into my house! and i was like uhhhhhh.. my mom says oh im sorry i was on the phone! and yeah so he asked her if everthing was okay and she was like yeah. then he said have a nice day and walked out! so yeah... the he came back again because i dropped my cell phone getting out of tanners car and he picked it up and gave it to me...lol so yeah... my family is super cool...

post 84!!!

haha guys this is random... its my 84th post...lol yeahh.. im at school again... and yeah, i got first on my duel piano thinger this morning with my teacher. i was pretty excited about that. but yeah got to go...

sicky poo....

im sick... as you could probably tell from my title. on saturday night my tummy started to hurt bad and then i started to puke...yuCK!!! yeah i decided that going to work was not the best option. so basically i stayed in bed the whole day. i thought i was better this morning but i got up and i almost fell down. im soo dizzy and my head hurts. later today i thought i was soo much better that after only eating a table spoon of plain rice i could eat some spaghetti. BAD IDEA!!!! i felt soooo sick after that. now my tummy still hurts so i took a gravol.. so im gunna be knocked out pretty soon.. woohoo.. i love gravol..lol yeah well when ur tummy hurts and you can't sleep, gravols the best. its like the toothfairy.. k i don't know where that came from..lol ooohhh guess wat!?!??! i killed 2 spiders today!! there were two big ones... haha the last time i showed my dad a spider to kill he told me that it was a sad excuse for a spider.. i guess my version of bug ins't so big.. haha.. yeah hopefully going to school tomorrow.. if i can't get up then im definatly not. that would be sorta hard to get to class when you can't see straight.. yeah. anyways... so yeah. i should go.. ugg i keep forgetting to do my prayer journal!!! haah i likehow enji (erin) calls them PJs!! lol thats amazing. but yeah i better go ita 10:41 already. love u all!!

xoxoxoxo

work

heyy girls.. i had my first day of work today. yes grace does work! well its not really a job. its at this place that has something to do with milk. all i can say is that im extremly tired and sore! standing on your feet for 6 and a half hours can hurt you!!! the job that i did was wash lids that were covered in this yucky orange goopy stuff. i was working with brynner.. a.k.a Bryn..lol and her sister and her friend. they've been their before. oh leon was there too. hes sooooo tired.. haha. met some interesting people there. Everyone was really nice there. anyways, i better go. i have to do my homework. i have to go to bed early tonight too! 9 am tomorrow morning.. woohooo