A crazy ride...

These past few months have been some of the best yet...I finished my junior year of college with flying colors...meaning a 4.0 for the semester, pretty good for a girl who finished high school with just slightly above a 3.2.  I know what some of you are thinking, you must have taken a few more of those camping classes, dance classes, and whatever other ridiculous classes they offer for my major...I guess the answer to your question is that I only took one of those classes, the rest were real and challenging.  I am liking school more the longer I am in it.  I took two summer school courses and I would have to say that they weren't half bad..biomechanics and mesurement and evaluation.  There were some dry spots, but pretty interesting.  I feel like I am in the right place...finally.  4 majors later, I feel like God has placed me at one of my destinations, but I know the second I begin to think or say anything about that, God goes and changes my life again...but i must say, always for the better and I have learned to trust Him.

I am loving my job, I work for an adventure center about 1/2 mile away from my apartment which is really convenient.  I get to do all sorts of fun things like push people off of our climbing tower (of course they are connected to the zipline :)  be up in the high ropes course, teach outdoor ed classes, teach tree climbing, and I just got back from a week long trip with a bunch of junior high kids canoeing, rock climbing, and we even got to go to the water park!!  So no complaints, God is faithful and blesses me more than I deserve. 

My older brother is getting married this weekend and I am really excited!!  I get to see some family I haven't seen for years.  I am going on a backpacking trip to Isle Royale with my best friend Liz for a good while. 

I love the days you can just sit in amazement with how good God is and thank Him for the things that are going well. 

I had to say goodbye to a beloved friend this week.  First time where I actually felt relieved when someone has passed away.  He has gone into the arms of the Lord and gets to spend eternity with his wife...LUCKY.  See ya someday friend. 

Life is filled with so many unanswered questions.  Sometimes I wish I had all the answers...but then again, life would be pretty boring because isn't the most adventerous parts of life the journey towards finding those answers??  That's what I think at least. 

It is crazy how complex God has made people to be.  I mean people have so many dimensions...their mind, their body, and their soul.  Even to begin to study one aspect of human life is mind boggling.  I would have to say one of the greatest gifts that I have ever recieved from God is being surrounding by some of the most amazing people to piece together his creation and the meaning behind all of it...love.  So much weight in one word...if you really start to think about it...love itself has so many dimensions.  If only the people you knew truly knew how much you love them... 

So it is officially spring...right?  I am not really sure but I thought that march 21st is the first day of spring...or maybe it is april?  In any event...it is starting to get a lot nicer outside and that makes me happy :)  I am sick right now...not like dying sick, just cold sick and it is funny because just the other day liz and I both said to each other...we have not been sick all winter...go us!  Then one day later she got really bad allergies and I got a cold...goes to show that you can't be too sure of things. 

Spring break is coming very soon :)  I am not doing anything too exciting.  I am going bridesmaid dress shopping with my future sister in law...then working...going up north to visit my parents...coming back and working some more.  So the good news is that I will be making some money which is much needed.  I am excited to see my parents as well...have not seen them in a long....time.  Who knows I might be able to go skiing  when I am up there because they still have snow. 

Oh yeah...work...for those of you who don't know, I started a job not too long ago for a recreation center right in lake geneva so I am really excited for that!  I like the people I work with and I think it is going to be a really great experience. 

Not much else going on...I have lab in 5 minutes...yeah for anatomy! 

I was just looking at some old posts from about a year ago and it is weird to think how much my life has cahged in just a year.  To look back 12 months ago and think that I am not that same person anymore is a strange reality.  I guess if you look at the bigger picture of things, if you look back just one day you really aren't the same either, all experiences change you in some way, therefore we are always changing whether it is in big ways or not. 

Doesn't feel quite like march, I wish it would stop snowing already so that summer can be here!  I miss the sunshine, the warm weather, you know...all the great things that I really didn't get to experience last summer because I worked too much.  Hopefully this summer is different, where I actually have time to enjoy it and have time to enjoy lake geneva...that would be super nice.

Life is moving pretty steadily, nothing too big going on these days.  Just moving to the next steps.