Update from the last few months...

Well, life in my world is always grand! There has been so much that has happened, and i'm just plain horible at updating my Blog, so for those of you who actually read this, i hope you enjoy my update and pictures. Ok, from graduation, May and June i spent alot of time working at Fabricville as well as getting the process ready for the basement in the church. for those of you who don't know, the church gave me a decent sized amount of money to totally redo the basement. Our final kick off for that is October 22. Which is SUPER exciting. not ot get ahead of myself. But i have been working with a few other peopel to get the renovation set and in place. In May i had a meeting with Rod Wasson and his wife Tony( Moncton Wesleyan children's pastor) to go over some ideas as far as what we would like to have done. It was a great time and we got so much completed in a day. Thanks so much to them for coming! So from there, all the details had to get completed, and as workers go, we have to wait for the right supplies to come in, but they have been doing an excellent Job with our basement! new paint, murals on the walls, new ceiling, a ventilation system in place.. new tables and chairs. The basement is looking liek a children's ministry center! It's AWESOME!

So from June, into July i was at Beulah! woop woop! best place to be....or at Caton's. BUT, It was an exciting time, i loved being able to see so many familiar faces. Dartmouth.. it can be very lonely here.. i don't have many friends that i can really jsut go and hang out with. something i can deal with i guess. i have been for the last 8 months. However, God is good and He provides in time. I have my precious little bunny who keeps me company... he's so cute!

So, Beulah, it was great to see Jer Ordained! Congrats to you Jer! that was the highlight of my week, as well as seeing so many faces that i dind't think i would get to see. Three months from graduation was alot of time! i'm glad alot of us keep in touch on msn.

AND, my brother, for those of you who know, Jason's MARRIED! he got married July 22, in Holland Michigan, to a wonderful young lady named Christine Reidsma, who is now my sister! YEY! It's great having a sister when you have never really had one. She is a beautiful young lady whom i adore! I'm so glad she is now a Blaikie! The wedding was beautiful! Christine and Jason, made everyone cry. I love it the most when they said their vows... you jsut knew they meant it... with ALL their hearts. It was really touching. Kyle and i had the priveledge of singing in the wedding. Bebo Norman "a Page is Turned" great song... it had a great story to it. Wow. It was a memorable day!

It was also very fortunate for me, that i was able to be 30 minutes from where i did my internship, so i had the priveledge of seeing all my friends again! I miss you guys so much! It's hard being so far away from so many people. BUT, it was great to see them again, and show my parents around where i was living for 6 months, a place i learned to love very much!

August 12, Andy's wedding. Kyle and I sang in that wedding as well! It was very memoriable, it was sweet! Andy and Sandra make a really sweet couple! It was so fun to see Andy get married. God really had his hand on thier lives when He put those two together! they are a great balance together! and they take great looking pictures together! Much love and success to the Scott family!

August, still renovations going, but we had VBS- it was AWESOME! It was the first one that i was in co-leading with, but it was GREAT! Chrissy and Kathi did an amazing job also! The kids had fun, they learned about the Bible... by thte end of the week... we had 209 different kids i believe. about 125 different families, which is awesome! we had about 250 poeple in service fo rthe Sunday finale event... in which case, becuase we did a survivor theme... i had to eat a sucker with a cricket in it... specially brought over from NFLD... ok.. it was very crunchy.. and i finally bit into it the end of the service, jsut before everyone went for the BBQ. It was good times. It wasn't half bad after i ate some of it.. the orange sucher part tasted worse. It was soo much fun! i would do it again.. NEXT YEAR! It's funny how we can have so many different complications, and issues that occure, but God still takes all of our weaknesses.. as well as our strengths and makes something amazing out of it. " I Love it"

August 26, had a Blaikie Family reunion, in celebration of my Grandparents 50th wedding anniversary! It wa SOOO fun, neat to meet a whole bunch of relatives that i have never seen in my life. kind of scary when that happens. But it was an experience. My uncle had a gator- 4 wheel tractor that we went up into the apple orchards in and pick apples. who knew that we could have so much fun in an apple orchard and sitting on the back of a gator. It was great! so many memeories and stories... and man.. do you ever get tanned once you come off those things... ok.. maybe it was dirt...

Long weekend in September, Jess and Anita came down to visit.
It was great! it was again so nice to have friends down this way! it has been so long, i loved having you ladies there! come again soon! we should try the pirate cruse again... and get the entertainment rolling.. and Jack Astors...there's just something about that place!

And up until now. My Grandmother Foster is engaged and to be married October 7, to Mr. Neil... i don't even know his last name...but it's the same day as Jer and Sarah's. torn between two.. not so fun... But the ring on grammy's finger is SOO beautiful! on my gosh... he was a good picker-outter! and he seems like a really nice man. My grandfather had passed away very young about 3 years ago.

Up to date, last weekend we had our kids kick off with the curriculum, which... is very exciting! I can't wait to see what God has in store for the kids this year! the renovations is only one thing, but to have a goal of about 75 kids downstairs will be awesome and then hopfully more as years progress.

For those of you who don't know.. which are alot of you, I'm dating a very nice young man named Bryan Wiens. "Tall, dark and handsome" just what my grandmother Blaikie suggested. He's a wonderful man of God, he helps out here at the church on the board level as well as with the youth group. He has his masters in Business and Communications; works with Aliant mobility.. wireless department. GREAT guy, like him lots. Has a very adventureous spirit to him.. definitly pulls me out of my comfort zone... which is a good thing.. and he can tolerate my family... i know they are so hard to get along with... there all Nuts. (smile)

So that's my life update up until now. At least those are the major events that have happened... and will be to come. There is sooo much to do.. and not enough time in the day to get it all done.
Enjoy your fall!
And for some reason.. this thing isn't letting me put pictures on... sorry.. i will try again later!