Adieu

How depressing is that?

We once had a great view of the mountains, now we see that the new apartments are 3 stories high! Very shortly we will be staring at nothing but a wall rather than the beautiful Montana countryside. BOOO!

Craggy Range

Mmm almost dinner time.

Delicious food, cool atmosphere, and a great conversation with the Operation Christmas Child lady and the former coordinators for the Flathead.

Great Northern

We're in Whitefish waiting to have dinner with someone from occ. Johnny is the collection center coordinator. We decided to take a walk to the train station

Autumn

Oh snap! Look at those colors! It's coming.

I've been anxiously awaiting all the color change. I've always wanted to live somewhere where there were enough tree to really see vibrant colors everywhere!

Rock Climbing with Active

Tonight Active had it's Switch event and we went to the Summit gym to go rock climbing. About 8 students showed up and then the leaders. It was really fun.

 Elisha and Johnny like to go high!  

Some of the girls were afraid of heights and didn't get very high but they tried it, and that's all that I ask.

 

Kelsey only got about 6 feet off the ground.

Johnny helped belay since we weren't sure if his elbow could handle climbing and that allowed us all to go a couple times at least. 

It's much harder than it looks, not so much because finding the right rocks is difficult but most of us rarely work the muscles needed to do this kind of exercise.  We all got to talk and laugh while we watched others climb, but mostly we just laughed and chanted the name of whoever was climbing. I would have to say that Johnny Nasrallah won the award for best climber tonight. He scaled up the hardest part of the wall, several times, in a matter of minutes.

 

Way to Go Johnny!

So yesterday we had our pastor's meeting. =lm so blessed to be serving alongside a Godly group of guys who love God and see His kingdom grow.
So, towards the end of our meeting we decided to stop by Starbucks to refresh ourselves with coffe. While we were waiting for our drinks to be made I turned around and all of the pastors were playing on their iPhones. I was totally amazed by the effort that they were putting into their iPhones. So a great idea came about to combine all the powers of the iPhone into one. This is the closest we got. It kind of reminded me of power rangers uniting their forces. Great times.
As you can tell I was the foolish one who did not have the iPhone, so I had the privilege of taking the pic. FUN! jk

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Poor Mommy....

So, most of you know that my mom came up to visit about a week ago. A month prior, she had gone to summer camp with Velocity and, while there, decided to wrestle with my sister. My sister fell directly onto my moms knee in the process and hurt her badly. My mom likes to think she's tough and decided that since she could put some pressure on her leg, she was fine. She started swimming to strengthen it because she really wanted to be fine when she got out here. She completely got off the crutches and seemed to be walking around fine.

During their visit, we took my family to a park in Big Fork. My mom, the tough woman that she is, decided to neglect the fact that she had just hurt her knee and proceeded to leap up to grab onto some equipment. She pushed off with her hurt leg and we all watched in horror as she crumpled to the ground.

That was the first day they arrived.

She spent most of the trip on my couch, in pain, heavily medicated. They couldn't afford the emergency room and knew the diagnosis was going to call for surgery, which they didn't want to do here, and my mom's doctors didn't want to refill her pain meds since it had been a month since her previous injury. Johnny had to share his leftover meds (his elbow wasn't broken by the way) and we had some great friends help her out as well (you know who you are, THANKS!).

Well, she finally got to go to the doctor this morning. This is what she just told me about her injury, "My ACL is gone, and my meniscus is torn severely and bones fractured and muscle torn. I will be off it for at least six weeks after surgery, and 12 months of pt"

So sad! Her knee must have been worse than she thought from the first injury and this second one just kind of finished it off. Hopefully she'll learn to sit some things out and allow herself to heal. Just thought I'd update all of you who saw my mom crutching around.

Rewarded?

I was gone for 2 weeks from work while my family was in town and I was making the roller skate cake. Previously, I worked behind the office managers desk in the main lobby area. When I came in today, I couldn't find my stuff ( I got in before my boss).

Finally when they got there they led me back to this...

I have an office all to myself and it has a window! Now I know I'm not really being rewarded for being gone, and mostly I just have the office so the lobby looked better and it was already empty, but it doesn't mean I don't like it any less. I'm still a temp, so I don't know how comfortable I am decorating. So it'll be bland, but it's mine!

I try...

So I've decided I'm a lame blogger. Many of the blogging aficionados up here won't count a single line blog with a picture as a true blog, and, I'm sad to admit, more often than not, that is me. I'm not particularly clever or witty so I'm always afraid a long blog will bore my readers. I get more comments on the short ones with a picture than I do my long rantings anyway. But I will confess, blogging is not all I think about. In fact, I have to really like something to consider it sharable with the outside world. It's not that I don't want to share silly little details of my life, I just don't think about it. I have yet to become an avid camera phone user and thus, my blogs are sparse. I will try to think of it more often, but honestly, sometimes pausing in the middle of a girls movie night to talk about how Alaina and I have a couple hours on Sunday nights where our husbands aren't around and we're gonna start watching chick flicks (starting last night with Becoming Jane) isn't exactly what's on my mind. And then life swirls past and it has been a week since I've done something blog worthy, which then really makes me not want to mention it. I will try to be better!

Birthday Cake

I had the opportunity to make a cake for a friends birthday party last night. The theme was "Let's party like it's 1969" (the year she was born). It was a rollerskating party and we all dressed up 60's style. I was dressed Mod and some of the students from Active said that I looked like Daphne from Scoobie Doo, maybe that'll help you picture it better. This is the cake that I made! It's Chocolate fudge cake, mmmm!

 

beautiful

Always threatening rain.