Family Reunion

Hey everybody!  Sorry, I have not posted very regularly for a while, but I am going to a family reunion on my mom's side in Orville? Wa, it is past Omak and Okanagon and almost to Canada.  I am really excited to see my family, but there is zero cell service and I am guessing no internet.  We will be camping at my families farm and I will update you all later.

This is what I think it will look like:






Here is a list of posts I will be doing next week (so stayed tune!):

-Hubby and my 2nd wedding anniversary via skype (I will explain later)
-Moving from Moscow for the last time ;( after 6 plus years
-Getting a job!!!!!
-Family Reunion
-Bus people

Get excited!!!

Have an amazing weekend!

I am so Blessed!!!!!

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The Lord is so good to me!  My family and I have been through a lot lately, but God has been blessing Sean and I.  In a time where the economy is not doing so good and a lot of people are unemployed, Sean has a job!  I found out that I passed the WEST-E test to be certified to teach History in Washington!  It was so hard and to tell you the truth, I thought I was going to fail.  I had to get up at 4:45 am and leave by 5:00 am to get to Spokane (1 hour and 30 minutes away) before my test started at 8 am.  Megan, my friend who is so amazing and a wonderful woman of the Lord rode with me and she was such a blessing!  I got there and only had one pencil, sat in the wrong seat and did not have any coffee!  I prayed and prayed because this test was so hard!  But God is so good and I passed!!!  It was not because of me, but totally God!  I studied for over two weeks, but it was tough!  I think they need to change the way they test teachers, because that is not how we are supposed to test students, and they are testing us that way?  Multiple choice questions and even trick questions, when people know the material just isn't right.  I hate it.  But I passed!  WOO HOO!!!

Also, God has blessed me with a job!  I am not sure if you guys knew but I was being paid by a grant for my position as program coordinator at WSU for a program called Imagine U.  The grant ends on August 13th this Saturday, and that is how I get my pay check!  I found out that WSU wants to keep me doing the same job but working over in Kirkland, WA where Sean and I live!  WOO HOO!  Have a said that God is good?  And that he has totally been blessing Sean and I!!!!!!

P.S wish I could jump like that woman in the picture!

Kelsey and Adam got hitched!

It was a beautiful wedding!  On August 6, 2011 they joined in marriage!  The wedding was at Kelsey's families river house and it was gorgeous!  The ceremony was beautiful and even hilarious at time with the commentary and Adam's cute slip up with the vows.  Gotta love these two!  Plus, I hope Sean and I can go on married couple dates!  Sean could not go because of work, but it was so much fun to catch up with all of the soccer girls.  I did take a lot of pictures, sorry about that.  I just cannot help it, it was so beautiful!

The wedding took place at their cabin in Entiat, WA

The bride and her dad

 Bridesmaids:  Last two are soccer players from U of I: Britta and Mandy

 Groomsmen:  Four of them were Idaho football players

So happy :)

 Adam was having a little trouble repeating the vows and had to read it, he was nervous and it was hard

Jenny, one of the bridesmaids

 So stinking pretty!

 The receiving line to say hello to the bride and groom

 Soccer ladies plus Darcy!

 Eija and Scott

 Table pieces

 Amazing food: Ashley's plate

 My Plate :)

 Beautiful bride and me!

 Couples first dance

 Mandy and Britta

 Dance floor

Bouquet toss

And the winner is.....Anna!

So pretty!

So much fun!

Korby-Manning Wedding

I am so excited to go to a wedding tomorrow!  Let alone, one of my old team mates at University of Idaho. I love weddings as you can tell by my blog, and I cannot wait until they say "I Do".  I do not have my camera since the move, but hopefully, I can steal some pics from others of the big day.

Congrats Kels and Adam!!!

God brings Peace

I am okay

Hey guys sorry to leave you with that post about Loss.  I am doing better.  It will take time, but I am doing okay.  My brother in law, Stefano, who has always been my brother passed away.  He obviously, being my brother in law was married to my sister Ashley.  This is has been really hard on her and that sucks that I cannot take that pain away from her.  Stefano was only 25 years old and that is too young to leave this world.  I know that God has a plan for all of our lives, but it is hard that Stefano is gone.  I am trusting in the Lord and am at peace because Stefano is in Heaven.

A quote that represents his life from Abraham Lincoln is:  It's not the years in your life that count.  It's the life in the years.

He lived a life full of passion, love, and everyone that met him liked him.  He served his country in Afghanistan and died doing what he loved, riding his motorcycle.  I miss him.