Beaches, Bonfires, and Beautiful Sunsets
While this experience here on project so far has been nothing short of AMAZING, there are some things going on around here that can get hard at times. We have 3 more weeks here and only 2 more weeks with everyone together, but understandably after being here day in and day out with 60 people for 7 weeks straight, people are bound to get on each other's nerves and start to become frustrated with each other at times. Also, I think that some are realizing we are leaving soon and thinking that if they just begin to detatch themselves from people here now, that will somehow make leaving here not as hard. I completely disagree with this theory, I know that I have made some friendships that will last far beyond this place and this project and i also realize that many of these people I will honestly never see again. Either way I have no regrets about any relationships I built here at all and I dont want to pull away here towards the end, if anything I think we should cling to each other and enjoy each others company in these last weeks more than ever before beause we dont know for sure when we will meet again. I just feel like a lot of people here need to be given a new refreshing perspective on how amazing and precious these last few weeks can be if we let them!
Today we had day of outreach as usual for sundays here. I had a good time sharing with a couple of the girls here and we all got to share sort of our testimonies and get to know each other little deeper so that was great fun! Then I went and had din din with my sweet Jen Chen, my new Asian friend who goes to shool in Utah,also in my Ation group and my roomate......well so we went and grabbed some dinner and then headed out to the weekly Bonfire on the Beach were there was, SMORES! MMMM so good.....we had a good little talk about Prayer, our new week's theme being Prayer, and some worship songs, perfection!
God's totally still revealing himself to me in such real ways all the time here. I'm excited to learn about Jesus's heart for prayer this week and to stretch myself in my prayer life! I heard a rumor that we get to have 2 dates with Jesus this week and I got so giddy! I an't wait I've been searching out the perfet place for me to take Jesus to dinner on those night, somewhere nice! =) Miss yall!, A
Drama
So with 60 christian college studens guys and girls living together for 7 weeks, theres bound to be drama, I just had no idea what this was going to look like until the last 48 hours. First of all Saturday was the weirdest day of work ever. Dawn was off and it was just me and Zach and all the other guys that we work with at Beach Treats. Aparently I had a sign on my head that said " Talk to me about your girl problems and ask me advice Please!" Ok so there was no actual sign, but there might has well have been. So through conversations with Zach and with another guy at work about some girl drama in their lives I was just overwhelmed, needless to say. I was given some rather shocking news that I didnt see coming at all, but eventually led to a great conversation, that led to some serious sparks flying for two of my friends here on project! It was so cute for them to both find out they had feelings for each other and to talk about it and I could seriously see this turning into something big for the two of them and I think its SO great!!
More drama, people are starting to get on each others nerves. i'm not dealing with this personally, but one of the girls rooms here is having some serious issues and we are in desperate need of some community around here! More on this later .....
This is the Story of a Seal
Today being my day off, and absolutely no one around here having the day off with me, I decided to borrow my good friend Zach's bike and ride down to the Wedge and have some time with God. So i'm journaling and reading a little and listening to music a bit and all of the sudden I see something coming up and going back into the water with in front of the rocks and bench where I was sitting and then I hear the woman on the bench near by say " Oh my goodness, Look its a Seal!" And sure enough there she was Sally the Seal. Sally was content living in the ocean but being the Beautiful sunny California day that it is she just wanted to layout of the water and get some sun! So as she got closer and closer to where I was sitting, she slowly made her way over to the closest dock at this huge multimillion dollar estate right near the wedge. She uses all of her power and might and body weight to throw herself upon this deck. I watched her roll around on this deck, looking so Happy to be up there out of the water and finally into the sun. She tossed and turned and clapped her fins together, for she had never been so happy to just bask in the warm beauty that the Lord has given her to enjoy. I stayed there for a while watching her, and it brought amazing joy to my heart as well, she was so cute and so big and I have never seen anything like her in person ever before.
I imagine that after Sally was done napping and rolling around in the Sun, that her mate Sampson soon came searching after her, for he just was not a complete Seal without the Love of his life Sally at his side. I imagine that he came and rescued her and then they swam off together fin in fin, into the sunset and lived happily ever after!
Ok so the first half is totally true and was amazing, and the second part is mere speculation, but I have high hopes for Sally the Seal and her finding the Love of her life Sampson out there somewhere! Of course this was the perfect day for me to NOT bring my camera with me! I was so mad at myself! But I will never forget Sally the Seal and the gift that the was today from God to me!
I'm headed to the Beach to get some sun. The Traveling Team is coming to talk to us tonight, the same group that came to Texas State this past semester. Should be good, and then we are all going out to this place to do Kareoke tonight! So excited! Blessings, A
2 Weeks Notice
So today at work Dawn my new friend from project who works with me at Beach Treats, and I put in our two weeks notice at work. Two weeks from today will be our last day of work and 3 weeks from tomorrow I will be on a plane flying back to Texas. It's all starting to hit me that this amazing experience, and my whole world here will be over and done with a lot sooner than I think. We have quite a few people here that will be leaving early from project to get back for sorority stuff, RA training, and for school starting early. Jessica my roomate and Zach my new friend and Co-worker will both be leaving a full week early I just found out. This news overwhelmed me with saddness that I was not expecting to feel from this whole thing. I'm trying not to think about the end, but its a reality that will be faced sooner rather than later. While that last week here will inevitably be one of the saddest most emotional weeks I've ever known, I have things that I am excited to get back for. I'm so excited to move in with Bri and Corrie to our new little quaint apartment at the Herndon House. I'm excited to reconnect with all the people who ent on projects all over and chat about everything we learned and experienced this summer. I'm Super excited to have some quality girl time with all my beloved girlfriends back at home ( Lindsey and Kim, and the coolest 242 group ever). And most of all I think about how this summer has been training for the real world, the real world for me going back is Texas State and using everything I've learned here when I get back will be the real challenge and exciting thing for me. God has stretched me beyond belief here and I've made some relationships that I know will continue to grow even as we leave this place.
The Cross, and A Stirring Heart
Sunday for our day of outreach we did something a little unconventional, but ended up being so good. One of our guys built a huge wooden cross and as we all spit up into groups along the coast, we ended up taking turns carrying the cross all the way from our Balboa pier, to Huntington Beach. For those of you in Texas, this is a very long way, we carried it down the boardwalk till the boardwalk ended and then it was transported by truck over to where the sidewalk began again. A lot of people here on Project were very nervous about what this was going to be like. Its definitely out of the ordinary to see people carrying a Cross, and down major walkways along the beach too. But I found that for the most part it just sparked peoples interests as to why we are doing it, and through that we handed out lots of tracks and people got into spiritual conversations through it as well. After the cross left my location I just went out sharing on the beach like normal with another girl here and we got into a couple of great conversations with some girls on the beach. It is really becoming so much more natural for me to share my faith, I know that going back to school it will look a little different from sharing on the beach, but we are just getting lots of good training and opportunities here.
Later that night we had our weekly bonfire on the beach, man I will miss those! Then I watched the movie
The Passion for only the second time ever, and it really put the exercise we had done that day with the Cross in perspective for me.
Last night after a long, but fun day at work, a discipleship time with Anna my new discipler, and our Action group leaders meeting, I decided to throw on my hoody sweatshirt and go spend some alone time with God on the Beach ( this almost never gets to happen, so I was thrilled!). The Stars were so big and clear, and it really reminded me how small I am in comparison to our Big God! I just chatted with Him about how it has been so easy here in this place for me to fall more and more in Love with Him, and how my heart is constantly being stirred for Him here, and nothing here is robbing my hearts affection for Him here. But I also realized that it wont be just like this when I go home in a few weeks and leave this place and these people and this environment. The amazing thing is that He never changes, through location, through time, we are the ones who change, not God. While I'm a little bit nervous about how things will change when I leave this place, I'm confident that He has taught me so much about intimacy with Him, and has given me a new perspective on the power of the Gospel, and these are things that can't possibly forgotten. There is just something about this place though, something about the sand, and the waves, and the palm trees, that is so familiar, and yet before these last 6 weeks I've never seen them before! Crazy!
Sneaky Girl Thing
Another Amazing sunset!...So we the ladies here on Project planned a special night for our boys!
Here is one group of guys in the dessert room where the ladies here had a plethera of dessert choices and provided back massages to the boys while they indulged in chocolate and great coversation. This room was southern theme, YeeeeeHaw..and it wasnt even my room! Hahahaha
This room was the Salad and bread room and they decided to go with a camping theme! Here is Steve, Mr. Jones and Zach, my fellow beach treats worker! The boys all looked SO nice all dressed up and were so surprised at what all we had instore for them!
Here is the first group of guys we had here in my apartment. We served Dinner and had a black and white theme, with lots of candles and romantic music, very classic. The guys were so cute at how they responded to all of this. They were so thankful and just kept saying how much they didnt deserve this, which just shows how much they do deserve it!
This is me and my roomate Ashley, shes from Ohio and so cute! She reminds me so much of Bri! Behind us is a wall where we made little keepsake note things for the boys. We wrote 10 character traits about each boy on there. They liked them a lot I think.
Another shot of our apartment Decor for the evening. My roomate Hayley lighting some of the hundred candles we had in our room. It was so much fun!
The amazing Sunsets, I just can't get enough of them here!!
This was on fourth of July it was FREEZING and we were all cuddling trying to keep each other warm, Girls only cuddling of course. HA
Here I am with 8 of my 9 roomies and two of our staff women and action group leaders. This is our apartment Living room too.
This is Brandon, Steve, and Allen......no real reason for this one, It just made me laugh and I knew I had to put it on here for yall!
And of course another Sunset, I'm out of control with them, I know!
Another week slowly approaching an end here on Project, they are going by faster and faster it seems. A few things to update: Tuesday was my day off and I got to have my discipleship times with two of the girls in my Action Group for the first time. It was wonderful, these girls are all SO different and so different from me, but thats why this so great I think, because I have Zero doubts that the Lord Divinely place the five of us together as Roomates and Action group. Tuesday night we had our first Action groups without staff. I led and it couldnt have gone better. We are studying Jonah these first two weeks and we were all really into it and got a lot out of it I think.
Last night we had Impact Dinners. Myself and the other guy and girl leaders of our impact group cooked dinner for our group, well we decided to cook Breakfast for Dinner, the girls in my 242 at school know all about me liking to do that. It was so fun and after dinner we all proceeded to have a disney song singalong to one of the BOYS' Itunes, it was hilarious and so fun! then we had womens time and thats always a highlight of mine. Tonight we had our first weekly meeting without the staff. Steve, aka Brother Jones, brought a great message and did a great job for his first time preaching as student project director.
All of us ladies here are way excited about thowing a little surprise for the boys here tomm night. More on that later. Thats about it for now. I got to talk to Kim, Corrie, and Bri this week and it was SO good to chat and catch up with all of them! Miss yall and love yall!, A
Some pics
Here is the Pacific Ocean, and a very large wave approaching the shore. We dont see too many big waves here and not a lot of surfing, but over at Huntington Beach the waves are Ginormous!! and they have big surfing competitions and stuff there.
This is a picture of our view from the Wedge on the fourth of July. If you are a faithful watcher of the television show The OC, you will recognize this from the opening credits of each show, I got pretty eacited about that. The houses all along the coast there are Phenominal!
This is a pic of all the Ladies here on project! We are standing on the stairs here at our apartments, I'm on the rightside, middleish. This was the night we were told to all get dressed up and had no idea where we were going, but ended up at Chuck E. Cheese for the evening. Such a fun night!
This is the view from our back yard! You have to walk out a litte ways to get to the actually ocean, but its pretty amazing to walk out to that everyday!
MMMM California Sunsets are the best, I'm convinced! Thats one of the things I will miss most about this place!
So yesterday was my day off and my roomate Liz lent me her car for the day. So two other girls here Meagan and Annie and I took off in search of the Rainbow outlet, Rainbow flipflops, they sell them SO cheap here and everyone wheres them, just like everyone in Texas wheres Reefs, So of course I have to get a pair while I am here. Anywho, so we think we have directions of highways to take and such, because none of is from California or had any clue where we were going, and I was driving for the first time in 5 weeks, and for the first time in California, scary, I know. So we are driving one direction on the 405 highway and realize we are about to hit the 101 which meant that we were about 10 minutes from L.A.! about an hour opposite the direction we were tryin to go to get to San Clemente where the outlet is. So we still had about 3-4 hours to kill and we starving, so we decided to be spontaneous and though we didnt plan it, we spent the day in LA, Beverly Hills, and Hollywood!!!!! We drove up and down Sunset Blvd., Rodeo Drive, and took lots of pictures and we being so Touristy! I could not believe I was driving around LA! It was so fun and i really got to know these girls, which i had not really had good conversations or gotten to know these two ladies very well yet. It was a day I will never forget.
Goodbye's to the Staff
Thursday night we had a Last Supper which was our last event with our staff here. It was really fun, each action group got to get up and do a litte skit or a song or say a little something about each staff person. The boys al had pretty funny ones and the girls were all more sentimental and heart felt, as to be expected. Then all of us new action group leaders got up and prayed for each of our staff member we are replacing and that was really cool, kind of a passing of the torch kinda thing. Then our staff all washed the feet of each of their action group members, its such a sweet biblical symbol of servanthood and while I've done it before, everytime it still means so much to me. Then the staff project directors commissioned the new student project directors. It made it very real seeing a physical passing over of responsibilities from staff to students. Our project leaders are so strong and I have compete faith that they will do a great job.
After all that a bunch of us girls headed to starbucks to get our caffine-fix and to be chatty. Lately there have been a lot of project chattering about DTR's that have been happening among students here. First of all, in case you aren't familiar with the term, it means Define the Relationship. This is a common term used among christian singles and esspecially crusade people. So for some reason the last few days people here have felt the need to do this. I understand the idea behind it, but one girl here said it best in saying that it should mean Destroy the Relationship. I just fee like, unless both people are clearly on the same page and feeling the same way about each other, this conversation will do nothing but hurt the friendship and cause lots of awkwardness. One of my roomates had one of these conversations with a boy here and it establish that they were only going to be friends, which is what they were to begin with, but after this conversation the friendship which was building strong and they were both enjoying has begun to change and they are talking and spending less and less time getting to know each other now. So basically these talks do more harm than good in my opinion and I hope I never have to have another one myself.
Now that staff is gone I'm sure I'l have more updates from here in that area of relationships. I anticipate lots of Project hook-ups, which will be hilarious, but inevitable. I'll keep you all posted on that!
All at Sea with the Ladies!
We had the most amazing womens baquet last night! They surprised us with a sunset dinner cruise on the bay! We were all dressed up on this amazing yacht with a chef and a bar tender making us non-stop shirley temples and lots of yummy fancy foods! The Sunset was SO beautiful from that view too! We had amazing fellowship, took lots and lots of pictures, and one of the staff women gave a great talk about satisfaction in the Lord and body image. While we were doing all of this and stealing all of of the budget for mens and womens time...the boys went down to the beach and had rootbeer in bottles with tiki torches and played some game with a bat and woofle ball! HAHHAHA they did have a mens talk though and they were happy that we got to have such a nice time on our fancy yacht! We also returned home to our apartments to find the boys had left us flowers in cups in all of the bedrooms and did our dishes for us! They are too good to us! But, we've got a little something in the works for them for next friday evening that will make them and their stomachs very happy! More on that later. Today is my day off and I'm looking forward to a phone call with my Corrie!! Also, I'm planning on getting some sun and heading to the beach this afternoon. Tonight we are having what they are calling "The Last Supper", and its our last night with the Staff. More on that tomm, Have an incredibly blessed day all!, A
The Bittersweet Halfway point
Things are moving at such a fast pace around here. I can't believe our staff is leaving in just 2 days. Sunday was a blast. We started off the morning with a community potluck breakfast. It was hilarious to see what some of the boys came up with the bring, but it was so neat for us all to just come together as all eat a meal together, that almost never happens here.
Then we paired up boy/girl and went out sharing. I went out with a boy here Dennis, a native Californian, and we along with 4 others went over to Huntington beach to go sharing our faith. He and I got into a great conversation with a man named Mark from Austria. He was very interested in talking to us about spiritual things, but seeing that he didnt speak very good English and He for sure could not understand anything I was saying with my Texas Twang, I decided to just go ahead and whip out the four spiritual laws booklet. We went through the whole thing with him and we got all the way through and he seemed to be understanding everything the book was saying, so when we got to the prayer part he said it was the desire of his heart, but he didnt want to pray with us right there but that he would do it on his own later. So, needless to say I felt great about it and God was SO faithful to break down the language barrier and use us to speak to him anyways through the 4 spiritual laws book. It was so fun.
Then we had our Date with Jesus #2 and it was Such a good date! I went and grabbed some dinner at Ruby's this restraunt on the pier here that is so yummy. I took it out to a spot on the beach that was virtually empty which is so hard to fins here at 7 oclock at night. I watched what couldve been a little nicer of a sunset, but I loved it nevertheless. I just spent those 2 hours just listening to praise songs, reading some psalms, journaling and a whole lot of praying. With staff leaving and project being half over I have a lot that I am trying to rely on the Lord for. Taking over my group and discipling girls, and for our new project leaders and to just soak up everything that the Lord has for me for these last 5 weeks here, because I know it will be over before I know it.
Last night we had our last Action group with our leader Amber and it was wonderful. We had an affirmation time where we all just showered each other with enouragment and praises. It was fun to do that to the other girls, but a little hard to take it all in when it was my turn. Although I tried to just take what they said graciously and it made me want to be more of the things they were saying they had seen in me. I love these girls so much!
We have a womens banquet tonight that we are all getting dressed up for, but its al a surprise where we are going and what we are doing there! So many surprises here on project I just ant take it!!
The Seastar: Memories in the making
I dont know if I mentioned this before but the apartments that the 60 of us have taken over for project is called The Seastar. It's a U-shaped building with two stories, 7 apartments, 2 lounges, and a pool. All of the girls live on the second floor and the boys all live downstairs. Building communtiy is inevitable here, but can be challenging. Our staff has given us some rules that are seemingly becoming harder and harder to follow for people here to follow. They call guys and girls in each other rooms after a certain time "Purple Time" ( Red and blue mixed together; red for girls and blue for boys, ridiculous I know!). So now its almost become a joke around here when things are "purple" not everyone is taking the rules about curfew and stuff very seriously. I understand that we need to have some rules and guidelines, but I will say that its been harder to get to know some of they guys here on a very deep level with the rules the way they are now. But that could be not such a bad thing I suppose. However, our staff is leaving this coming Friday and the new student project directors may have some changes to make for us in those areas.
I'm really excited about staff leaving. While I love my bible study leader/discipler here and will miss her, I'm excited to see all of us unite together to run project the way that we want to and come up with new ideas for outreaches and socials and the way our meetings and bible studies run. I was asked to be a bible study leader and take over my group and to disciple the girls in my group. I am so excited. We had training last night for all of us who are leaders and they gave us some great resources and tools that I will not only be able to use here, but also when I get back to mine and Kim's bible study back at school. I really look forward to bringing everything I've learned here and for Kim having been on project as well......our girls are going to get so sick of us talking about project stuff i'm sure, but I feel so prepared and have a fresh outlook for what leading a small group and disipleship should look like.
Today we have a potluck community breakfast here and then this afternoon and outreach and then tonight we have another "Date with Jesus night"! We had one of those the first sunday night we were here and it was SO good, so I am excited to have another one, I've been longing for it! It's easy to have consistent times with the Lord here in the project environment, but a scheduled time of 3 hours to get away, alone and just have some quality, fun time with Jesus is so exciting. I've got some great date ideas in store for this evening, more on that tomorrow!
I cant believe we are starting our 5th week here! Five down and five more to go....There are still so many fun things I have on the list to do while here in California! Love and Blessings, A
International Dinner
Last night we all attended the international dinner that we all received super secret invitations to earlier this week. We were not allowed to talk about what each invitation said because it would ruin the surprises that the evening would hold. I used to think I liked surprises but in actuallity it turns out I really dont! I like knowing whats going to happen before hand! but anyways, it turned out to be really great. It's still pretty secretive een after teh fact they dont want us ruining it for others who may in the future attend a summer project or experience an evening like this, but I will give you the overall low down. It basically showed us how other countries may or may not get to experience the gospel, they illustrated this but lots of different instructions to each different group of people, and with different kinds of food. I thought the whole thing was so effective in giving us a small taste of reality of how we as americans take advantage of our ability to know and share the gospel so freely here. It opened my eyes to a lot and really made me want to go to China. Thats all I will say about that so that I dont say too much.
I finally got to talk to Corrie on the phone today! It was so good to hear her voice and to chat about our different projects and just comforting to know that we are going through a lot of the same emotions and stuff right now. Its my day off today so I am headed to meet with my discipler and then to the beach to get some sun! Hope your days are filled with Joy in even the littlest of things today!
Best Action group ever
Tuesday nights is our bible study night , we call them action groups. We had so much fun with ours last night. WE went to eat dinner at Joes Crab shack which is always a blast and then we went and did our bible study part at one of the many starbucks around here. We each led a differnet part of the study because our leader is getting us ready for when staff leaves in a week and a half when we will all be leading the whole project ourselves. I led the actual bible study part and it went really well. I love these girls so much and I love them more everytime we are together and the more we get to know each other. I love the intimacy and honesty that we have with each other and I really want to implement these things into my bible study at school and in my girl friendships at school. I think its so important for us as women to have these soul sister relationships and to share in the good and the bad with each other! i'm off to work at the Beach Treats making funnel cakes, balboa bars, and snow cones all day! Absolutely having a ball here! Lots of love and blessings and missing you all terribly!, A
Fireworks
The 4th of July was a blast. It was so amazing sharing this holiday with all these people here. We went over to the Wedge, a spot very far from our apartments, but closer to where we could see the fireworks better. They were so big and beautiful and it was so fun cuddling on the sand, because it was SO cold, listening to the waves coming in and watching the firworks, I'll never forget it. Tomorrow is my last morning this week to have the early shift at work, praise the Lord! I'm looking forward to get to sleep in a little bit and regain some energy.
Our theme this week is International week and learing about God's heart for the world. I'm excited to learn more about it and see what all they have for us this week. We have an International dinner on Wednesday night that we got invitations to and that are a surprise of whats going on we all have different locations to go to and have no idea whats going on. I love surprises. Happy fourth of July to you all my friends! Lots of love, A
Light the Fire
Today was absolutely wonderful! It was the end of Killing the Giants week and we had a big day. First of all, I got to sleep in for the first time in a week and it was glorious! We began our outreach at the park near the beach at around noon and it drew quite the crowd. We had all kinds of water games planned. A big slip and slide, 2000 water balloons and 3 launchers, volleyball, etc.....we all went out on the beach and invited anyone and everyone to come and play with us and many came to join in the fun. I ended up getting to chat with 2 high school girls who came by to see what was going on. So one of my roomates and new friend Hayley and I went over to talk with them. They were so sweet and were very interested in what we were doing here for the summer and why and we ended up getting to share the gospel with them in a very real way. They were both raised catholic and we asked them lots of questions and in return they had lots of questions for us. It was so fun to share with them and to just get to know them.
We also had an all day prayer at the fire pit chain going. Every 30 minutes or so two people and one staff person would take turns praying and singing worship at the fire pit we had reserved for the whole day and night on the beach. I spent about an hour there after I shared with those girls just praising God for all He had done this past week and what a pleasure it was for Him to let me be a part of all those amazing conversations and being able to even have a tiny part in seeing people come to know Him this week. I am/was truly in Awe of how absolutely faithful He has been this week.
Tonight we had at our reserved pit a fire and time of sharing and praise and worship on the beach with everyone. It was so neat to hear everyones stories from the week and so encouraging for all of us to just be challenged to keep up this lifestyle of eveangelism , not just this week but for the next seven weeks here and for the rest of our lives. Nights like tonight I will definitely remember and miss so much as I think back on project when I return home. These people are amazing and I am loving getting to know them more and more everyday.
Tomorrow is the 4th of July, and I cannot believe its already here! I'm working all day and we are going to watch fireworks at the Wedge, a hot spot on the beach tomorrow night. Should be amazing!
Ooooh the summer nights
Well killing the Giants week is still in full effect. People have been going out sharing left and right...I just finished a full straight 5 days of work, 8 hour shifts each day and tomorrow I finally get a day off Yesssssss. While I love making some extra money and my job is wonderful, a girl needs a break every now and again!
So last night we had a free night and one of the girls rooms here decided we were in desperate need of a good old fashion girls night in! So of course I was thrilled and on board. So we all threw on our comfiest of clothes and all gathered in one of the living rooms around a laptop computer and watched A Walk to Remember while eating Ice cream and of course having a little "girl talk" throughout the evening. It was fabulous! I love times to just hangout and build our girl community here on project.
Tomorrow is a HUGE outreach day for us. Its our last day of killing the giants week and the beach is going to be insanely crazy with it being the 4th of july weekend. I'm excited about conversations that will continue to be had throughout these next two days. This week has stretched me in my faith so much and while its been hard at times, the Joy far out weighs the strife. I'm headed out to the beach for the first time in days! I'm super excited! Its almost the end of week 3 here, how crazy is that! Corrie and Kim's staff's on project are departing this week and mine in 2 more weeks, things will really start to get fun then! Lots of Love from the Sunshine state, A
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