Thursday, December 28, 2006

Christmas Time...

Christmas with the Family... Jonathan's big gift was a djembe. So Josh and him played together a lot on Christmas. One of my gifts was the first season of I Love Lucy. Caleb was excited to get a little taste of European Chocolate. I was so thankful to be home for the holidays. I love my family...






Wednesday, December 27, 2006

The Blackout...

We played games, ordered Pizza Hut, and sat by the fire.

Life...

"My Dad would get these far-off looks in his eyes and he would say 'Life doesn't always turn out the way you plan'. I just wish I'd realized at the time, he was talking about MY life" (Sandra Bullock in While you were Sleeping).

We have to put my dog, Copper to sleep. He's really sick. I sat in the rain with him for an hour and a half yesterday. He cant move. Ive never had a dog die before. I didnt realize how hard it would be.

I got in a sorta fight with my friend. I hate fights, even when they are just sorta fights. We are planning on getting together to smooth things over.

I spent the evening with Mike and Amber yesterday. I was sad so Mike let me hold his Denver Bronco's McCaffery Beanie Baby. We watched The Devil Wears Prada. That made me laugh.

Im going to my brothers in Kirkland now. We are going to bbq steak. Its just been a sad few days.

I have some nice christmas photo's though that I will post soon. Until then...



Friday, December 22, 2006

Passports and BirthCertificates

Yesterday I ran around downtown Seattle with my mom. Trying to get myself a new passport. My old one was starting to look real bad and I was getting border gaurds who were starting to glare at me. So in order to get back to Slovenija I needed to put a rush on this passport. Which meant first getting a new Birth Certificate (my original one is in Slovenija--I hope). Then having a meeting at the Passport Agency. A few hours and a hundred and fifty dollars later they told me I could pick it up tomorrow--which is today.
Amber and I finallly get to see each other today! We are having breakfast together and then she will come to Seattle with me to get my passport. I can hardly wait to spend time with her! Oh and Becky flies in today too.....not sure when I will see her but probably really soon!
Ummm and I still have a few more gifts to buy for Christmas---yikes! Well I better go get ready to go...

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Portland Time...

What a whirlwind!! Here is a bit of what I did down in Portland....
Saturday Night: Met up with Heidi and Matt and Heidi's boyfriend Chris. We went downtown Portland, sat in the Heathman and listened to Jazz...oh the Portland life. I LOVE it!!
Sunday: Church. Dropped by The Pearl then over to Glenwood. The Glenwood quilters gave me a quilt!! Stood up in the service. I hate standing up. People were really sweet though. I really love that church. Went out to eat at a place on the Portland waterfront. Again, love the Portland life! It was Johnny, Melissa Jones, Aaron Lemen, Joel and Andi McMartin, and Natalie Christianson. That evening went to a party at John MacMurrays. Saw a bunch of people from Good Shepard that have come over to Slovenia on mission trips. Played a bit with John's kids...they are really cool kids.
Monday: Heidi Mae day! We had breakfast at this cute French Resteraunt. Got our nails done. Laughed a lot. Then met up with Johnny, Ryan Donovan, and Matt Baldwin. Had Thai food on 23rd in Portland. Walked up and down 23rd....its always so pretty during winter! Made Gingerbread houses with Heidi and Chris. Drank Hot Apple Cider--burned my tongue. Laughed a lot more.
Tuesday: Today. I had this video interview thing at Multnomah. I definitely should have been more prepared then I was. At the interview I ran into Sky Cady who was also being interviewed, random! After the interview sat in Starbucks and read. Hmmm White Mocha Valencia.... Had lunch with Kristin Gibb at Red Robin. Talked about how she is moving to Slovenia soon! Then headed back up to Seattle. On my way I stopped in Longview to visit my friend Paul. He's a youth pastor of over 200 highschool kids! It's so wild to see all my friends so grown up and doing so many...grown up things!

Now Im back in Seattle with my family.... yup thats whats been going on lately....

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Back in the States

Ok so I arrived safetly back in Seattle. Just in time too cause the night I landed we had a HUGE wind storm. Trees were uprooted EVERYWHERE and one million people lost their electricity. I slept 11.5hrs and didnt hear a thing! However the next day--we were one of the million---my dad climbed up on our roof to fix our shingles and he fell off the ladder and broke his elbow! So my first day back I spent in Urgent Care sitting in the waiting room with my mom playing Mexican Train (If youve never played its a lot of fun!!). Today was relative day as my Grandparents came over for brunch and then this afternoon the family went down to Olympia for a big family get together. All except for Dad, he found out he probably needs surgery and so he stayed in bed today! After the family time I drove the rest of the way down to Portland where I will be for the next few days. Im staying with my dear friend Heidi Mae and will be hanging out with Matt and a few other fun friends! More to come....

Babysitting in Zagreb


Well babysitting was a blast! The first day we wanted to go explore Zagreb, but after waking up and taking the kids to school we went back to bed and slept till 11am... kids were done around 12 so that gave us just enough time to shower and jump in our car and go get em. The next day however we were a lil more on top of things. We got out, explored what we thought was the Center, but still not sure where exactly we were!! Oh I got a marriage proposal from Brenden. After talking about our 15year age difference we decided to be ring buddies! All in all it was a fun surprise trip to Zagreb!!

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Zagreb

So basically this morning Anna and I packed our bags and jumped in our car for a last minute trip to Zagreb (captial of Croatia). Some JV missionary friends, the McSheffries (postmodernirish.typepad.com) needed a babysitter for their three children and Anna and I JUMPED to the rescue!

Today consisted of Pictionary Junior, a walk with all the kids and the dog, charades, grilled cheese and tomato soup, and our own private viewing of the classic Chicken Run.

Tomorrow will begin a bit earlier then usual... 6am (!!), we will take kids to school and have a few hours to ourselves to go explore Zagreb, and then pick the kids up, and begin all the fun and games again!!

We are here until Tuesday night. I have Wednesday to get ready for America. Thursday morning I fly out!

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Just an ordinary day...

8am Woke up & rode my bike to the office (yes we now have an office).
10:30am Rode my bike to Naja's school. We went shopping. Then talked about our
lives while sitting on my couch. Then she went back to school.
1pm Neja dropped by and her and I went and met Nina at one of my favorite coffee
shops. Yes I know every waiter and they all know me. I accidently hit one once. He
came up behind me and I guess I assumed the worst...not really sure what I was thinking actualy. But he dropped his tray. yup, that waiter REALLY remembers me. Anyway, in the course of our conversation Nina asked if we could start a Bible Study together. I thought really hard and said, well I guess. :) Im thrilled!
3pm Came home grabbed rent money and headed back out to go the bank.
Coincidentally I ran into my landlord. He told me he's thinking about going on trip around the world. Yah, i think he is able to afford those kids of things.
5pm Made dinner. Taco Salad. Yummmy....
5:30 Walked downtown. Got on an EXTREMELY crowded bus. Rode to my dance class.

6:30 Danced. The girls that are normally there were gone. There were new girls.
And somehow Naja and I ended up in the front row....not sure how that happened.
9pm Naja's mom gave me a ride home. Checked email. Got one from my Grandpa. He was replying to my birthday wishes. Its his birthday today. He is 73years old. I
love my Grandparents.
9:30pm Updated my blog and am now thinking about getting some more
dinner....Im hungry again.

Nina and I at her Senior Prom.........
Yup just a typical Tuesday!