gone, back, gone.... that's my pattern. heading off for the lake tomorrow morning and getting back late monday. i hope it's nice, since i plan to spend most of my time on the dock or in the lake!!! hope everyone's having a great summer..... :)

i'm back! it was AMAZING!!! i can't even begin to describe what an awesome, powerful, emotional trip it was. the best week of my summer.

so i'm down to two days here in minnesota before i head off on my eight day excursion to Benton Harbor, Michigan with my church for a mission trip. exciting eh? so anyways before i get into that whole mess again ( Read more... )

so long time no entry. nothing really is new or worth writing about, or i just didn't feel like it. yesterday i started shopping for dorm stuff. i was completely amazed by all the stuff at bed, bath and beyond. who knew there could be so many types of sheets and bath towels?! anyways, got some stuff .... down to 7 weeks and 4 days until my first ( Read more... )

to re-cap: summer has been in full swing. late nights on the porch, crazy three amigos not knowing what to do, up until 2 am, dawson's creek watching, random day adventures.. and more. so went to the lake last weekend where i got really tan, nice weather. bad day on sunday with anna (my dog) being bit by my uncle's dog.. but she's okay!! anyways, ( Read more... )

so i leave tomorrow morning for the weekend for the annual trip up north over fourth of july weekend. but i'm back sunday night, we don't even get to stay there for the fourth :( is anyone up for doing anything for the fourth, if anyone is not doing family stuff?? let me know, call my cell. so yes, i'm off to the lake, away from my computer, away ( Read more... )

ALOHA! i love summer. and i love that it's not super super hot outside today!! so much socializing has happened for me lately (paul i've been breaking out, no need for that list anymore!) . tuesday i went out to dima's for awhile and looked at all his photos from ukraine, very interesting and got my "kinder joy" toy/candy. we all had fun putting ( Read more... )

sooo it's been a little bit since i've last wrote in here, and while nothing HUGE and exciting has happened, i have been up to a lot. thursday night was oppie's open house which was fun and even though it was very very hot out, it was a nice night. then hung out at dairy queen with fran, ilse, and mary. i hadn't been to the dairy queen at all this ( Read more... )

so today turned out to be a really really good day. met with justin (my pastor) this morning and we went through all my gustavus stuff and planned out some options for my schedule. it was a big help (he went to gustavus recently) so he was able to help me see which professors to make sure to have and the other ones not to have. good time chatting ( Read more... )

it's all over... but it was a great time. thanks to all who stopped by yesterday, it meant a lot to me that you came. and those of you with cards and gifts thank you so much, they were so sweet. wow seven hours actually went pretty quick, i mean i was walking all around mingleing with everyone (family, friends, church people). it was a beautiful ( Read more... )