Sarah's in Ethiopia

My sister Sarah has been in Ethiopia for the last month working at a school called, Kechene, the kids are all either orphans living with relatives in the community, from destitute families, or from families whose parents are HIV/AIDS positive. But I am MAJOR jealous. I want to go to Ethiopia and work in the orphanages so bad. Can't wait till God reveals and provides his plan for my life. For now all I can do is hope and Pray. :) Anyways, you can read all about Sarah's trip on her BLOG, she has been posting journal entries from each day. She comes home on Wednesday! I can't wait to see her and see all the pictures, and hear all her stories. I did end up getting a call from camp to CIT, so I'll be there when she gets home :(, but I'll get to see her on Friday. :)

Storage Unit ...Bed Room....Same Diff....

My bed room is a wreck. And not just like a little messy. It looks like a bomb went off in a storage unit. and then a bed and a bunch of pillows were thrown in the corner. You would think that the cause for this would just be laziness. I mean there might be like a 5% laziness factor in there some where but that's not what we're focusing on right now,what we're focusing on right now is the other 95% :) 75% is because it's summer time, and summer mean that Sarah is home from College. With allllll her stuff. And I'm tellin' ya, her stuff has like quadrupled in size and quantity since last summer. We've got suitcases, duffel bags, laundry baskets, shelving units, rubber maid drawers and containers, full of stuff allll over the room. not to mention all the clothesss! and most of it I can't even borrow, cuz a majority of it is winter clothes because it's always cold in Boone.(major bummer) I can barely even make it to my closet! haha, it takes a lot of agilty and perservearance to get something out of the closet. And then the other 20% is because I'm always packing or un packing, so I can re pack! I get home from somewhere and there is a day to only a couple days till I have to leave for the next "adventure" So I have bags and stuff laying around and trying to laundry and stuff ...And don't take me wrong I love "traveling" and vacations, and I love having Sarah home. But my room? I don't think it's too happy right now.

SUMMER 09...So Fineee?

so during the school year (especially towards the end) your start getting anxious for summer, for the days by the pool, the family vacations, going to camp, and just a break. Well every year I seem to forget just how "busy" summer can be. So far (since the the beginning of June) I have worked as a CIT at New Life Camp for a week of over night camp, gone to NLC as a camper during high school week, and have had I think 3 sleep overs with friends. This is all with in a little more then three weeks! Well right now I am home for the week, and we are trying to Paint the kitchen and and the cabinets and such. And for those of you who don't know, our kitchen has looked the same basically my whole life (the whole time we've lived in the house), and the wall paper that has been up, in my taste is just, well plain ugly. Two words to describe it: Pineapple and Alphabet. I'll just leave it at that and let you guys imagine the rest, haha. So I am VERY happy that we are finally redoing the walls and such. So the last two days I've been washing and scrubbing the cabinets getting them ready to prime and paint. Hoping to have them painted be the end of the week?~maybe it's wishful thinking, but I think we can do it! :) The walls will come next after the cabinets are done. I'll post before and After pictures so you can all see the glorious transformation! :)

Anyways, enough about our kitchen. Back to summer. So like I said, this week I'm home, and then next week I might be CITing at NLC again, I'll find out tomorrow for sure, ~the call the CIT's the Wednesday before the week they want you to work ~ So hopefully CITing at camp next week, and then two day after I would get back from camp, our Family is going camping for a week. Where? we haven't decided yet, everyone wants to go somewhere different (I don't really care, as long as it's not Boone because we go camping there during the school year) all we know is that we're going camping, and then when we get back from camping, two days later is my birthday parttyy :) I'm not doing anything big for my Sweet 16, just a park day with a bunch of friends, we're gonna play capture the flag, sardines, flag football, basically what ever we feel like, and are just gonna hang out and have a good time. Pray for good weather please!!

Then a couple days after my party we are going to the beach for a long weekend for my birthday!! I'm soooooooo exciteddd! Some friends of ours graciously are letting us stay at their beach house. So the whole family is coming, plus Eric's girl friend, plus four of my friends. So we're gonna have 11 there. I CAN NOT WAIT. I have been looking forward to this weekend for months! and it's finally weeks away!!ahhhh! :) :) :)

Thennn after the beach we're home for a couple of days and then we are all going to MA for our annual summer trip, to visit all the relatives. I'm excited about that trip too. MA is always fun, and this year Sarah gets to come, cuz years past she's had to work. So that week should be fun.
Oh and did I mention that as soon as I get back from MA, volleyball will be in full swing? I didn't? well, when I get back, volleyball season will be in full swing.

So I sit here laughing at my self that only a month ago I thought this was actually gonna be a relaxing, peaceful summer. HA! man I got that wrong. But it's all good, cuz all the stuff that is taking up my few weeks of summer I lOVE, and it's all the stuff that we don't have time for during the school year to do. And this summer is sooooo much better than what I imagined at the end of the school year. And don't worry I'm still getting my pool days in, even with the crazy schedule ;)