Well, hey everyone  It's been quite a while and incredibly much has happened since I last updated but I'll try to start where I left out. I'll spare tiny details so I can get to the really exciting happenings of this morning!!!
1. The day that Laura Shunta and I went out to the Sears Tower (the day after they found those guys that wanted to bomb it) and then to Potbelly's (where we saw Jef Sarver break the World Record for the Longest Gig ever - 44 hours) was absolutely one of the best days of project. This guy, Jef, had been playing his guitar and singing for the past 42 HOURS STRAIGHT. So Laura and I hung around and watched him break the World Record! It was so cool!! Then I got to hang out with my staff friend Sandi for HLIC. Good times.
2. Then I left Chicago, and this was really sad. I do not like saying goodbye to people, but it was so different this time! I had this peaceful peace inside of me that was assuring me that I would see these people again. (At least the Central Ohio Catalytic people!! YEAH!!!!) I LOVE my staff team and I love the students. They are all so wonderful and were such a blessing to my summer. I miss The Rooms a lot. I miss sleeping next to her on our married couples bed ;) haha So if any of you are reading this, know that you all blessed me crazily and I miss you guys a ton!!!!!!!!!! Pray that I would be able to come back for the banquet...we'll see.
3. I went home on Thursday, July 6th, and unpacked, then packed for Florida AND for Northern in September. This was a huge accomplishment. I even had time for a nap. My mom and I got up early on Friday morning and drove down to Florida. We stopped to see my cousin Stephanie and her family on Friday night just northeast of Atlanta. It was hillarious - her little boy named Kyle attached to my side quickly once he found out that girs like baseball, too. "Wait, you're a girl and you like baseball?! I didn't know that girls like baseball!!!" was his response when I said I loved baseball. He had a Jon Garland card and this made me happy.
4. Got to Florida on Saturday afternoon and just hung out with my aunt and uncle (LaMar and Patty) and Grandma all evening. Sunday went to church (amazing church, really excited to get more involved) at The Tabernacle. Panera for lunch with one of their good friends then swam in their pool and relaxed the rest of the afternoon. It is so great to be living here with them. They live their faith out every single day and it is so encouraging to see a couple love each other so deeply because they recognize that God has loved them first. (My uncle when he leaves my aunt a voicemail: Hey there love of my life...) So precious. They are truly a blessing and I can't wait to spend more time with them and learn from them about the Lord.
5. Monday started the job hunt. I can't even tell you how many places I applied to. I was bummed at first because the nursing home I had been in contact with misled me on the job situation. I went in there Monday morning and they told me that they don't hire for the summer and don't have any positions open (when they have been telling me since March that they always have positions open and need help for the summer...Lord bless them.) But I am so excited that didn't work out. After many "I'll give you a call in a couple days and we'll get something worked out"'s...I HAVE A JOB!!!!! It was the first place I applied to and the place that I wanted to work at the most. God has truly given me confirmation that this is where He wants me to work this summer. It is at a restaurant named Yoder's (Amish/Mennonite owned if you couldn't tell...) and it is a great friendly and encouraging environment. I start tomorrow morning at 8! I will be working Monday through Saturday, 8-2 (or until it gets slow in the afternoon). It's so perfect and fits in perfectly with the other things I will be doing (helping my cousin out with her two girls and taking an online course). 36 hours a week, $7.50 an hour (not the greatest, but I dont' care one bit.) Man, I am so so excited. Yay God!!!!!!!!!! He is so faithful!!!! I felt today was going to be the day that I got one and it was! And it was where the Lord had given me a sign for from Monday. Praise Him He is so good!
6. I'm praying about whether or not to go back to Chicago for the banquet. I think I would be able to ask for the day off and I would have to make it a quick one day (maybe spend the night in someone's room?) thing. So if you think about it, pray for me that I would follow the Lord's will on that one and not my own will (which says of course, obviously, duh, why the heck not, etc...) haha I love Chicago and I love the people there.
7. Going back to before Florida, I have really been thinking more about joining staff after graduation. Again, pray that I would be obedient to God in whatever He wants me to do. I see Him at this point leading me in that direction and it is exciting but I want to be open to whatever God has planned. But staff life sounds really exciting - especially with some sweet other people I would go through new staff training with  But I don't want that to be the reason I join staff, obviously.
8. I'm going to go now because this is a really long update. Hopefully I will update more often. I'll let yall know how my first day at Yoder's goes!
Woot! | 
plus i barely ever update, so it's not like people are looking at this everyday...haha maybe i should get better at this whole updating thing 
I seriously love them and really want to see them before the summer is over. I pray this would be able to happen, not so sure about it.
