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here is the last group of pictures from the gardens that i'll share.


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after much anticipation, will finally took me to frederik meijer gardens here in GR.  i had a great time, we got quite a few cool pictures and guess what, i'm gonna share them with you!!


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the other day will and i tried to take the car through the carwash.  they wouldn't let us because they were afraid things would fall off it.  but they gave us a couple tokens for the car vacuums.  eight free minutes of suction power.  that was on my list too, and i got it for nothing.  sweet ( Read more... )

so guess where i've been for the past week?  yeah, that's right, grand rapids.  i've been staying with my friend lauren and her family here while i've been going to training and starting some shifts at pine rest.  already i have a plethora of interesting stories that i will never forget.  this job is certainly not going to be boring.  it's ( Read more... )

the last couple days were so busy!  angie (my best friend from high school) showed up at my house monday unannounced (which is cool) and we have been hanging out a ton.  we visited goodwill, as was a favorite past time of ours in HS.  we had a picnic of sorts, checked out the changes in ludington she hadn't seen yet, and went to the beach.  we ( Read more... )

so it's been a while...and some things have definitely happened since i last posted.  i got a job in grand rapids for pine rest Christian mental health services as a residential care provider in the locked adolescent unit!!  for the last couple weeks i've been driving to GR and back going through orientation and training.  i've been in training ( Read more... )

last night i missed you hillsdale people terribly, just so you know.  i shed mournful tears lamenting the passing of the "best time of my life" and will tried to remind me that maybe the best time of my life is still to come.  maybe it's my wedding day.  or maybe it's when i have my first baby.  i look forward to those milestones and i am anxious ( Read more... )

last night natalie and i went to hang out with april and andrew hoxie again.  the youth group from their church was here too, vacationing under the leadership of jeremy and caitlin (nichols) lantz.  it's good to see hillsdale folk, even if it's for only a short time, especially when they have a BABY! :) we played volleyball and had a campfire.  ( Read more... )

the other day i felt in a "lewis and clark" type of mood and i took a new way home from work.  this included intentionally traversing a road marked "no outlet" and exploring an old country cemetery for which i've had a fascination for years but had never stopped in.  the cemetery had no more than thirty head stones, half of which were impossible to ( Read more... )