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So I started my drive down to practice last night only to get about five minutes away and decide after just putting my equipment in my car that there was no way I had enough energy to actually practice hockey. I called coach told him I thought I was going to be ok but then started driving and decided I just couldn't do it. I ended up just going to the doctor, luckily it went a lot faster than the last time haha. the last time it was about five hours, or at least that is what it felt like. The doctor ended up telling me that I had Bronchitis.... YA. Haha. So I just have a cold on top of that, which is the congestion part. The good news, however, is that I have pills that will be over with in five days and then it will all be gone :) maybe not all of the congestion but the bronchitis will be :) which is awesome.

So I still have not been to practice though this week, and I know coach is pretty worried haha. Not because of my health or that I alone won't be able to play but rather, Boyko is out too I just found out last night with the flu. So now coach is looking at going on a road trip with his first and fourth string goalies only, that would be stressful no doubt haha.

Em and I are still just so excited to see each other for christmas break! It is jus going to be so exciting to spend such a great holiday together! With both of our families and all our friends again, it is just going to be such a great experience!! I cannot wait!

Goodness

Goodness I really have been awful about blogging for you guys since I have been at the new house. I guess that is a good thing if you look at it from the right point of view, that mean that I am simply enjoying being here, and not just being cooped up in my room all day haha. I have been pretty sick since Saturday, coughing, headaches, chills, sinus infection, all that fun stuff. I ended up missing practice yesterday because I simply did not have enough energy to play at all. I am starting to feel a little better today, which is awesome because I still felt awful going to bed jsut last night.

Hockey still seems to be going pretty well, still not a lot of ice time for me but that is ok. I was interviewed at the last game and you can go and look it up on our website you just have to follow through our media guy's website, I'm not entirely sure how to get there in detail but if you just keep looking around I know the name is Ryan Krall Goaltender Puget Sound Tomahawks, something similar to that at least. haha Everyone really enjoyed it that already got to watch it.

I cannot wait for Christmas it is going to be so amazing to be home!!!!

Emily and I are so excited to see everyone again! We are doing great and just cannot wait to be in one another's arms again. I love you baby girl.

I love you all thank you so much for reading, I will try and get better, I know I have said that in the last few haha but I really will try and get better about blogging for all you guys out there. Thank you for your support!!

Sorry

Haha I am so sorry, now that I have moved I have been horrible at blogging for all of you guys. I apologize for that. A lot has been going on. For thanksgiving Aaron, Jessica, Mom and Dad all came out here to spend it with me :) Jason and Kellie went to her house for thanksgiving and will be with us at christmas :) dont' think they just didn't want to come haha :) But anyways the Patton's, my new billet, made dinner for all of us! It was so great!! We all had so much fun! They got to see me play even! I wish I had played my best but I was just a touch off that night, I went in for relieve after the starting goalie got pulled but i didn't do much better haha. But they got to see me play and they were happy with that! and I was too!! I was so excited :) We got to wonder around Seattle and just spend time together :) I was so glad that they were able to make it out here :) It was so fantastic. There weren't even any tears when they left! well... I guess I will be seing them in about three weeks haha. That isn't very long! I cannot believe that Christmas is really almost here! I am so excited!

Emily got to go home for thanksgiving! her and her family had so much fun! It was so great I got to hear about it all and she would tell me about home it worked out great! She said it was harder with none of my family there but she loved it! We are still going so strong with the lord in the center of our relationship! It is so great! Such an amazing feeling!

Thanksgiving

So this week, by the way I am terribly sorry to be so lazy on my blog lately I have been busy trying to do school work, college stuff, getting to know the Pattons and just other things so I apologize, but this week has been fun. I have learned quite a bit actually through God. He has really put on my heart the true importance of Thanksgiving. How it is seen in the Bible, how the world sees it today, how we as individuals can decide that it is something more, and just so so much that I can't even really explain but it has been a journey for sure.

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I started out the week seeing a video and really thinking about it.... What am I thankful for? What are all of my blessings? What do I take for granted? Who don't I let know I am thankful for them and how can I ensure they know? Why is it that the world has changed it so much from what it was originally meant to be? As an individual how can I take the thanksgiving spirit into full effect?

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That list that I made, oh my goodness, I had to stop, it just kept going and going and going and going. When you think truly think about every single thing that you can and should be thankful for no matter how big or how small, how expensive or how cheap, how complex or how simple, the things that we take for granted every day is astonishing. I challenge each and every one of you out there to take a good hard look at someone that you do not feel you let them know how thankful you are that they are in your life as much as you should and you take this week and you ensure they know how much you care and how thankful you are to have them a part of your life. It is putting yourself in a vulnerable spot I know, I am struggling with it too. But it isn't about us during this time of year, from here through christmas this time of year is all about others, not us. Take the time to really let someone know how thankful you are, you never know the difference that can make for someone to be made known that someone is that thankful for them just being a part of their lives. I hope that you do not disregard this and you take this challenge seriously. If you don't at least make a list of all your blessings, even that can really change the way you think a little bit.

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Emily and I are striving still :) We are both so excited to spend time with our families again over the Thanksgiving time :) We recently looked back on our relationship, :) we have seriously learned more and grown more than I think either of us really expected so quickly. It has been such an amazingly God filled journey that I couldn't explain it if I tried, unless you have experienced it I cannot tell you, I so wish I could though. I love you so much sweetheart I cannot wait to see you again :)

First Start!

Just got home from my first Junior game that I started it! It was the worst team and it was pretty boring to be honest but it was so fun! I played well and ended my first ever junior hockey game in a Shut out!!! I didn't get scored on at all!!! hahaha I was given the game puck too by coach! Such an incredible experience. I felt kinda bad cuz no one was able to watch it, the web guy was gone one family business :/ But they followed on the stats and that was so exciting to hear about how all of them were excited about my play! Well I have Boyd and Boyko over tonight for the night so we are headed to bed thanks for all who are reading.

Em!!! I love you so much sweetheart! I hope you and David continue to have such an amazing time this weekend :) miss you and love you!!!

Late night early morning

Last night was great! Had a great practice and just was able to have so much fun with it all! I was able to play with the confidence carried over from the game that I played in on Sunday, it was just so relaxing and really fun. I played the best out of all of the goalies, all of the team mates have been congratulating me and were telling me how great I was doing in the practice too. It was all so very encouraging and so satisfying to know that I had proved myself, I had represented my state, family, friends, myself and God in a way I was proud of. Praise God for all that he has blessed me with, I must admit that i had not been as quick to give him all of the credit as I would have liked to see myself but I know that nothing that I do here on earth is done by my own strength, wisdom, courage or ability, I know that God was there the entire time and HE allowed me to do so well in the situation.

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So I got home at about 1 in the morning but then I had to wake up and leave by 6:30 for work in the morning, that wasn't so much fun. Work this morning was kind of obnoxious for a while for half of my shifts I have been working while the store is not open, because I get all of the opening shifts due to my hockey schedule that is usually how it works. I just sweep, vacuum, wash mirrors and sometimes set some new clothes out or something, really unexciting. Those shifts are really fun, however, when you are friends with the manager or the people that you work with, which is usually just the manager, but since I haven't been at this store long I am not really friends with anyone yet, which is kinda a bummer. But once the store opened and there were people going in and out, it went back to normal, I really only enjoy the job due to I get to help people find things for themselves or to make others happy. I do believe that that definitely the only real reason I can enjoy retail, because honestly it is not very fun haha, it becomes repetitive and boring if you don't enjoy it like I do.

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But work was ultimately good. :)

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Miss you all so much!!! I love you and thank you so so much for reading!!! :)

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First Game!

Last night was the first time I was able to actually play! My first ever Junior Hockey game! We were playing the worst team in the league but they played well, their shots were kinda scarce but they were pretty good quality. I was backing up for my buddy Boyko, he one hundred percent hates playing them because they are not great and their shots don't come very constant. Boyko let in four goals in the first period and a half, that is when coach told me to go in. I honestly have never been more nervous in my life to play. Not only was I taking the spot from my friend, but I that was only the second game that I had even dressed in, so I had literally forgotten what a game even felt like. I made some pretty good saves and was able to keep all but one goal out which was very good, the one goal I really should have had but it was a pretty decent shot so I wasn't too worried about it. We ended up winning 8-5. It was very intense and EVERYONE on my team was happy for me quite literally, I hadn't experienced that part before, everyone really was waiting for me to get a shot to play. They all congratulated me on playing well. Coach even gave me the game puck at the end of the game for playing well. It was al such an amazing feeling couldn't believe it.

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Now I'm back in my new house sitting in my nice bed, really reminds me of my bed back home :). We have the day off completely today no practice, I don't think I am going to go down and work on my own I will probably just work out a little up here, maybe a run or something. I am for sure going to do some school work today though and hopefully get some college stuff done as well.

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Emily and I are just super too, we are both so excited about the game still and just loving all of this right now. It is so exciting, I am so glad she got to listen along with my family and her family. I was so honored that they did. Baby I miss you and I love you so much!

Just Another Day on The Road

Well this weekend didn't start out so great as far as hockey goes. We got off to a really good start last night with the first goal but it went down hill from there. Boyd got pulled after two pretty week goals about mid way through the first period. Boyko went in to replace him and he got scored on twice pretty darn quick, both weren't his fault though, a couple of weird bounces and just deflections that he couldn't have seen coming, just unlucky. Boyko then got pulled and Boyd was put back in..... talk about not looking good haha. We ended up losing 5-4. On the positive side though we scored more goals last night than we have over the last oh..... 5 games combined..... haha. Tonight Boyko is starting, I don't know who is backing up yet. I am hoping that I will get to back up though, I was told that if I don't start on Sunday night that I will start next weekend for sure. So I would really like to be able to be in a game again as a back up before I have to play.... I have only experienced a game once.... It is kinda important you know? But either way I am happy and excited and know that I will show them what I can do when I get that chance no matter what, I can play with these guys, maybe better than Boyd and Boyko, if we all played our best..... who knows.... It is kinda a toss up I think.

Today is just kinda a relax and hang out day until 4 so I thought I would blog and I was going to try and watch Emily's school's football game, but I can't get it to work... Which is a downer. I am still pretty tired though so I will probably take a nap in a little bit here, I need to try and do some college stuff to this weekend to try and get a head start for this week.

Fantastic!

Today was a fantastic day!!

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I am really tired at this point though so this isn't going to be too too long sorry.

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I woke up and started/finished packing all of my stuff up from the Scougale's house. I then left and went to Auntie Bee's for breakfast, which was a fantastic time as always :) I had a little bit of quiet time and had a nice breakfast :) After that I went to starbucks to use their WiFi there, Emily and I helped Mrs. Wurtzbacher out with designing some logos so that was really fun too! :) I then went and had one of my best practices in a long long time :) Even though I have been playing so well lately I felt today was especially good so hopefully we will actually see a game this weekend!!! :) I will be sure to at least let Emily and Papa know when I know so I will be sure to have them tell all y'all if I play you can only listen to the games though this weekend which is kinda a bummer but I guess it is better than nothing. :) It just happens so fast when he tells us who is starting that I need to start focusing right away if he does tell me. I built a lot of confidence in my game today so that was very nice to have happen :)

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I am now sitting in the living room of my new house :) The Patton's. They are so nice :) I have way too much stuff though, it is kinda ridiculous I didn't even realize it really. I can't wait to sleep in that bed though, it is a queen, I haven't slept in a queen sized bed by myself since the hotel we stayed at out here when we first came out :) and it looks so unbelievably comfortable :) Everything is going great :) we leave tomorrow at noon for our games this weekend :)

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Emily I love you so much, you are the best girlfriend anyone could ever ask for. You are such an amazingly Godly woman, who trusts and depends deeper than anyone I have ever met our age, and you bring me to him so much everytime I hear your voice or see your face I hear and see him through you as I know so many others do as well. I love you sweet thing. :)

Another good day!

Today I worked my second day of work. I worked from 8:00 until 12:30 this morning, of course after our latest practice the night before, that was a fun wake up. It was a pretty good day at work though, it was a little bit busier so it was much more of the "fun part" of working at American Eagle today, so that was nice. So I had a pretty good day at work just 4.5 hours, nothing big but it will still be money coming my way, so what ever I can get. I filled the floor a little bit, bringing clothes out from the back and basically filling the spaces that they are meant to be in according to their style and size, then I basically worked with customers most of the day, I had to clean in the beginning in order to open the store, sweep, vacuum, dust that sort of thing.

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After work I went on a quick little search for a present. I went on a search to find the Scougale's a thank you present for housing me for these past months. I got a nice vase and a nice thank you card and a bow :) to add a little something to the vase haha. It worked out well I brought that back for them signed the card and all that, thanked them and told them that I was moving out.... Tomorrow. They were pretty nice about it too, they didn't get defensive or anything like that. Thank you everyone for your prayers on that conversation going so well, I greatly appreciate it. So I have to simply pack all of my stuff into my car and head out tomorrow straight from practice up to Cindy and Harry Patton. Oh and I'll put my address in my profile for my blog so on the left under my picture you can click on view my complete profile and it will give you the address at the end there. You can, if you want to be "a creeper" as Jessica would say, and see the house you are more than welcome too, I will take pictures as well but you can for now go onto google maps and find their house with the address and then you can use the "street view" tool to get a picture from in front of their house. It is a really just cute house, very small but very well done inside, she is an interior designer, so she has done such a great job with making not much space be very functional and not feel small at all, i am very impressed.

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Emily was joking around haha, because while she was out here she stayed here obviously in the scougale's house in this tiny bed that i am pretty sure is smaller than her dorm room bed and the room is probably smaller as well haha. Now I am going to be sleeping in a queen sized bed that she would have been able to stay in haha oh well, it all works out she is very very excited for me, as is everyone, and I thank you all for that. It is probably one of the things that I appreciate the most about Emily, she supports me in ALL that I do, really no matter what. I'm not saying that she encourages me to do WHATEVER I want,she does help me rationalize and see what I should do and sometimes she is there to tell me that I shouldn't do this or that. But she is ALWAYS there to support me and encourage me to do what is the best, I love it. I Love you baby, thank you for always being there both as my girlfriend but first and foremost my best friend, I love you and miss you.

Self Work Out

Today was pretty relaxed, not too much going on. They had technically canceled practice, but we still had the ice time. The team needed the time off because we haven't had a single day off in about three weeks. Well with me not playing or anything on weekends I didn't really need the break. I decided that I would go in to work on my own. I went in and it was probably the most fun I have had on the ice in a long time. I was able to only dress half way, I put on my skates, my leg pads, my pants and my gloves. I wore my warm up jacked over my under armor and put in my iPod. It was so amazing. I was nice and relaxed, simply just comfortable. I did skating drills the entire time, just doing different game type movements and visualizing saves. I worked my legs pretty well and I was pretty happy with my work out as a whole. I just was able to really enjoy it.

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Uly, one of the other goalies, and Kenny, a Defenseman had also come out, but they were doing shooting drills so they pretty much stayed on the other side of the rink. For the last ten to fifteen minutes though Uly had left and so I put on my chest pad and helmet and went out with Kenny to have him shoot on me. I was rather happy with that as well, as far as my performance was.

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besides practice i haven't done too too much, simply looking through some school stuff for next year and some work that I have to do for class as well. So overall a pretty relaxing Monday. I am actually feeling pretty tired at this point which is crazy, its only eight thirty haha. I am going to try and get some more work done and then we'll see how early I fall asleep :) This may be good for my body to just catch up and relax nicely.

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Emily is an amazing woman, she continues to impress me everyday with her godliness and maturity and simply her heart. She promised her friend that she was going to do something for her or rather with her, and she was struggling with it but kept telling me that there was no way she was going to cheat, even after her friend had to cheat because she was struggling as well. She is just such an amazing friend not only to everyone that she meets but to me as well, I couldn't ask for a better best friend. Emily you truly are my best friend and that isn't going to change I love you!

0-3 weekend

Well we are on our way back from a three game weekend with out a single win. It is very frustrating to have to sit there and watch the team to not do anything and to lose time after time and not be able to do anything about it. It's not even that I feel as though I could do better this weekend we had very good goaltending, I just want to be able to be a part of the team I guess. We had three scouts this afternoon at our game and Coach said that not a single one of them asked about any of our players.... Not one of them, that is not good at all. I am really glad that our bus this weekend is so nice, I actually have wireless on the bus so it is really convenient.

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I have been growing so much in my faith and in myself just as a person and my character. I really have been able to see such a difference from the way I think to the way I hold myself and I can deal with so much more since I have been out here simply because the Lord has really put me here to do such things, the devil has been out here much more than I would like to admit but he has been, God has been there with me very much so keeping me true and strong giving me the power to carry on and do things the way that is honoring to him. Mom gave me a very good quote or short story. "the shepherd sometimes has a sheep that continues to wonder off and get lost. The shepherd always goes, finds it and brings it back but obviously he wishes that it was different. Eventually the shepherd will break one of the sheep's legs so that it cannot walk or wonder, he carries it day after day on his shoulders, laying it in green pastures and bringing it to calm waters. When the sheep's leg is finally healed enough to walk on the shepherd will splint it if it is needed for extra help and let it go as it did before. The sheep has now become so accustom to being around the shepherd constantly that it no longer wonders." This story has truly helped me to stay strong and positive during my time out here so thank you Mom. I am crippled and am healing, when my shepherd allows me off of his shoulders again I will both be more dependent on him but also much more appreciative of everything that I have. :)

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Emily and I have both been struggling with frustration and anger of me not playing, we have been able to take our turns to calm each other down and help each other out haha. We make a great team especially in that aspect. I love her so much but she is also very much my best friend and she knows what I to say every time to make me smile or make me calm down it is fantastic. :) Baby I love you so much, it is all apart of the master plan that we are not meant to know, we are meant to trust and just know that the path that is laid before us by our Lord and Savior is the very best path that we could possibly take. :) I love you.

Tri Cities

We are in Tri Cities this weekend for a three game weekend. Last night's game did not go so well. we were down three zero after just 14 minutes. Boyd, the starting goalie most of the time, got pulled and Boyko, my friend from Colorado that i usually car pool with, was put in and finished the game. We lost 3-2 and we really shouldn't have lost at all, they aren't that good of a team, we just played poorly. Tonight Boyd was already told he wasn't even dressing so he told me that I am most likely either starting or backing up tonight. It is pretty exciting, once I find out for sure I will let you guys know who I can. If you need though if nothing else Emily and Dad will know to let everyone else know.

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I am rooming this weekend with a couple kids that I don't usually talk to and we don't necessarily get along but it is alright for sure. I had to sleep on the floor again this weekend though, I am the only rookie in my room so.... But it isn't too bad I don't mind too much.

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Emily is out on a hike right now, so jealous haha. We are still having so much fun and enjoying the growth of our relationship, sure we wish that we had the situation a little different but you know what? It is all a part of God's plan and we both know that, as hard as it is He is giving us the strength to just continue to push through. I love you sweetheart hope your hike went well!

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Thank you all for reading, I appreciate the ability to know that I am really able to let you guys keep up with what is going on :) I am going to put up pictures from where we are staying too so you guys can see :)

Good Day!

Today was great! :) We had a good practice today, I did pretty well I felt which was so nice, especially going into a weekend of three games that I truly have a good chance at playing in! :) So hopefully I will get the call this weekend :) I am excited to see how it goes.

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I also made Mom's Pizza!!! It was so great!!! O my goodness! haha But it wasn't even close to as good as when she makes it but it was still pretty good :) Boyd, our goalie came over tonight to hang out and have some pizza :) we had a good time, we get along pretty well. Hopefully we will get to hang out a little more as time goes on :) That would be fun I think, he is really nice.

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I have enjoyed my time here and hopefully it will continue to work out this well. I am truly enjoying life out here as we speak :) It is great :)

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Emily I love you so much. I cannot imagine where God is bringing our love yet I know being in his hand is the most amazing feeling and for us to go through all of this together is so amazing! I know he will provide he strength to allow us to do anything that we want and anything that he needs us to do :) I love you! 44 Days!

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Thank you everyone for reading! I love you all, hope everyone is doing great!! Miss you guys

Missed a day again haha

Haha sorry I missed yesterday again sorry about that, I'll fill you in don't worry, o did I miss two days..... hmmm. Well ya I guess I did. Tuesday was fun I woke up, spent the day just doing college stuff and living in Donna's, the owner, by myself with the three dogs! I love it :) I have been here all week and it is going so well! It is so much fun to just be able to be where I want in the house, eat what I want when I want, make what I want to eat, I have made a good meal for every meal of every day since I have been here it is fantastic!

On Tuesday I also went to this couple who offered at the game last weekend to take me in as a billet, they had heard that I was looking for a new billet somehow or another. So I went over to their house for dinner to kinda see how it was, see if I would like it up there, that sort of thing. It is quite a ways away but we had a great time, They are so so so into hockey! We talked for hours about hockey and how they want to see me play and all of this. It was really fun. There weren't too many down sides. She definitely spoiled me while I was there made me this great fettechini alfredo with chicken, a caesar salad, and backed cheesy bread. Then she made home made chocolate eclairs for desert..... YA. I would for sure need to be working out if I were to live there haha. I would have my own master suit in their house, they have two. It is a small house but it is well designed so that you do not feel the size too much. They have a dog that has a ton of energy and is very playful. They offered to pay for the toll that I would have to pay for to get to practice, which is excellent. I was worried a little bit about the distance but there are people that live along the way to practice so I would be able to car pool most of the time. They are the nicest people I have met out here too so that is a plus, they are much like grand parents of the team, they come on some of the road games even and the cook the scratches brownies and cookies haha :) So we will see just a decision to make now.

I have been enjoying my time at Donna's so much, the dogs are great, aren't too much of a pain or too annoying... well except for the chihauhau haha but ah..... come on it is a chihauhau. They also have a cocker spaniel and I don't know what the other one is but she is my favorite haha about the same size as the cocker spaniel just with short hair. I have so far made my breaded chicken, pancakes and sausage and bacon and eggs for breakfast two days haha and a sandwich, and.... what else did i make? o donna and I had chineese the night before she left haha :) it has been fun.

I had my first actual shift this week too. four hours haha. It was so boring haha. We didn't do anything in that for hours maybe twenty people came in. It was pretty much filled with me walking around not doing anything the whole time. After thanksgiving it will probably pick up quite a bit though.

Today I made Mom's pizza!!! The dough is rising right now as I am typing this! Boyd, starting goalie, and Vivian, our captain, are coming over tonight to have it with me :) I'm super excited haha I haven't had her pizza in so so so long!!! :) Thank you Mom for giving it to me! I'll let you know how it turns out! Probably not as good as when you make it :) I'll give it a shot though!!! :) Love you!

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Well I'm off I will try and blog tonight when I get back, hopefully I will remember! Love you all thanks for reading!

Fun Fun Fun

Today was a scary day haha. We were told that because of our play this weekend and our poor performance that we were going to be "bag skating" during practice today, bag skating is when we really do not need any equipment on, but we put it on really in hopes that we won't simply skate the entire practice, that and coach would be mad, but during a bag skate we skate back and forth back and forth either across the ice or between the different lines. One bag skate drill is a latter, from the goal line to the blue line to the goal line to the middle red line back to the goal line to the far blue line back to the goal line then down to the far goal line and back to the goal line you started at..... Like if you have ever watched Miracle? The famous "again" scene where they skate in the dark and one of the players yells his name and where he is from and then says that he plays for The United States of America, that is a bag skate. It is no fun. My body was tired haha we went off the ice to go and get the ice cut after our bag skate and sitting in the locker room for fifteen minutes as coach talked to us and went over face offs we had to stand up and go back on the ice, never have I NOT wanted to get on the ice worse. haha But luckily coach was nice and we had a easy second half of practice, I probably only saw about six shots all day today. I played really well though, which surprised me after being so exhausted from the first part, but even coach was yelling good save or good work to me :) Very encouraging!

I am now sitting in a chair in the family room of the owner's house with her three dogs. I am dog sitting for her this week, she is going out of town early in the morning. I am really excited and amd excited really to cook for myself! :) super excited!

Emily and I are doing so well :) I am super excited to continue to watch our relationship grow through our time apart :) it has been so much fun, sure hard at times but we expected that :) We are doing so so well! I carry your love with me every second of each and every day that I am here my dear! :)

Can't wait to see you all again! thanks for reading!

Wow

Emotional roller coaster haha. I spent this glorious Sunday in a glorious God given sunny day all day!!!! :) It was like Colorado!!! I loved it!!!! :) Church this morning was fantastic!!! We discussed what it meant and how to have a generous heart, also about smart finances, which is something that we are going to continue to discus for a little while. How we are called to God in so many ways, many of us forget about the financial side, that we are called to come to him in that as well to depend on him fully in our finances as well. Sure we all know that money can become dangerous to our faith and relationship with God because it can very quickly become an idol to us without even realizing it. It isn't all bad though. We aren't supposed to fear money at all, that's not what God instructed. We are called to have faith and trust solely on God and trust entirely that he will take care of us so dearly. Luke 12:13-34, that is what we looked at throughout the morning. It talks about how well God takes care of his creatures from the lilies in the field to the birds of the sky. The lilies do not work or do anything really, and yet God dresses them so beautifully, God dresses the GRASS of the fields more beautifully than any kind, are we not to believe that we are better than the flowers??? Look at the ravens of the air, they do not store up food or work for anything really, yet God ensures that they are fed, are we not more important than the ravens?? We are blessed by God to rule over these things, he holds us deeper than anything else on earth. Jesus says directly in Luke 12:29 "Do not worry about it." JESUS haha I find that hilarious! I picture just Jesus leaning against a wall just saying that so casually, almost in a Chicago accent haha, can you see it? God doesn't want us to worry about all of that, just to have faith and trust in our lord and savior, the one who saved us from the Egyptians, from the flood, who CREATED us, take a second to sit there and think.... How many times in your life has God literally saved your life??? Either physically or spiritually? I don't know about you but if I am honest with myself and with God, He has literally saved my life more times than I can count. He is continuously looking out for us and protecting us, even when we aren't paying attention or looking for him or simply don't even notice. If he saves our lives don't you think that he will simply provide what is necessary for our saved lives to live healthily? He doesn't promise that the road he has for us will be easy, however, God promises, which is truly the only promise that is 100% of the time 100% fulfilled, he promises that it is the single best road for us, it is always to do what is best for us, he is our Father! He always knows best always. God has allowed me to learn so much since I have been out here, to grow so deeply with him, and to see so many things that I don't think I ever could have seen without coming here.

The hockey game did not go so well tonight, however. We ended up losing 7-0...... we are going to be skating quite a bit tomorrow. Sweet huh? I get to sit there and get frustrated for how bad we are playing and then get to skate for it..... Dumb. Oh well, we are a team no matter what, that is what is supposed to happen, someone is always going to have to be watching, that is just how it works.

Emily and I are doing fantastic, missing each other every second of everyday but at the same time we carry each other's love with us every step we take. We have learned and are obviously continuously learning strength and patience and faith and trust and just so much and simply adding it on to our relationship to better it with everyday that we face and every obstacle the Lord brings before us to show us how to get around and to strengthen us each time. We have grown so much already and continue to grow more and more in love. It is incredible to truly feel that "I love you more than yesterday and yet less than tomorrow." I love you sweetie I cannot believe how amazing we are doing. :) I miss you!

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Good day kinda busy

Today was good for the most part, it was slightly hectic in the beginning but ended really well. This morning woke up, worked out a little bit and had breakfast. I got to talk to Dad for a little while after breakfast. That was really nice to hear his voice and just talk a little bit, help keep my spirits up out here, sometimes just a familiar voice does more than you'd think :) thanks pops. After talking with Dad I got to the post office to send something off, then we headed to Chris's house to leave for the game! Wore my black suit with a black shirt and a pure white tie :) I looked pretty sharp if I do say so myself. The game did not go so well we ended up losing 5-1 but that is okay it was actually pretty good to watch, as long as you didn't try to root for our team haha. Now I am writing to you from Chris's house I am sending the night here tonight, try to save some gas. I also got some good news today to make some money and to get out of my billet house for a little bit! I will be staying at the owner's house this whole week to dog sit and just to hang out. :) I will be living there on my own she is going to leave me money to get groceries and they have three dogs!!!! I am so excited!!! I will stay there until I leave for the road weekend next weekend. :) I love all of you thank you for reading and like I said don't hesitate to contact me :) I love hearing from you. Thank you Aaron for calling today it was so great to catch up. :) I love hearing from all of you, I hope you feel better soon too! and school continues to go well!

Em and I celebrated NINE MONTHS today!!! How exciting! That is so crazy! I cannot believe how incredible it is to be with someone this long even so far away how much joy I get out of this! I love it! I love you so much Em!!! I miss you but in a good way I promise!!! I cross my heart! :) :)

Love you have a goodnight y'all!!! don't forget about your clocks! Emily reminded me about that tonight haha would have never remembered that.

Day off

Today I had a day off..... From hockey. Haha I have managed to make myself rather busy recently. I have discovered that I really need to start applying and getting college stuff set up for next year incase I do not receive a scholarship from hockey, which would be unfortunate. I am excited to say that the college search and work has been pretty successful in progress and am looking at applying to multiple schools for early action and hopefully some others a little later. I have also been working in my one online course to ensure that that grade stays up. How sad would it be if I did horrible in that class? That would be so dumb, I would waste my parents money and my time. I am keeping up with it and I promise that won't happen, school has become way too important to me for that. I cannot describe the excitement I have to go to college and be a college student :) I don't know why that is but I sure am haha. Weird how that works huh?

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But today was a day off, I worked really hard in my search for a college, I spent most of my time today on the computer taking notes on different schools and looking into oh.... I'd say about 50 different schools today, unfortunately I didn't find too much as far as options but I learned quite a bit about architecture programs so that was good.

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I was able to go and hang out with my team mate Chris, who lives in Puyallup as well. We just hung out we had dinner with his parents, who I really enjoy being with, and watched some different hockey games. I had to be in tonight at ten to call coach from the house phone here to say that I was in for the night, curfew.

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Emily and I are just fantastic. She did something really cool this afternoon with her church actually that I thought you all would find interesting. She went reverse trick-or-treating with her church and some poorer local kids. They went to a bunch of poor houses and a bunch of wealthier houses to show how different people at different stages of society react to acts such as that. She said is was so much fun and she thought that it really helped show the kids that money isn't all that is important... There is so much more to life than money, we get so caught up in how much money we have and how much we have to have it all in order to be happy, when in reality the only thing that is ever going to truly make us happy is the love of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. He is the only one that will ever be able to fill us with love and happiness fully. I love Emily, but I also know that there is no way that I have enough power or love in me to send it across this entire country for her to feel it, the only way that she is able to feel my love is by loving God first and foremost, then I am able to love her through him.

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I love all of you and cannot wait to hear from any of you :) I promise to keep this more up to date still haha.

Catch Up/ Sorry.... again

Sorry for not catchin y'all up when I told you that I would. I've been searching for schools, writing my college essay, playing hockey[obviously], and trying to get a job situated and figured out. sorry this one will probably be pretty long, I am just going to go at it till I catch you all up.

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So now to truly catch you all up. We will start back with last weekend, when Emily was out here for Fall Break. She arrived later on Wednesday night, Mrs. Scougale was nice enough to pick her up from the airport and drop her off at practice that night. She got to the rink about five minutes into practice. She picked a nice seat in our FREEZING practice rink, out in the corner, not in the warm room but in the rink on the bleachers, she looked so adorable sitting there, she was so happy to be watchin me again, as was I happy to have her watching :) We went out for dinner after practice, nice little Apple Bee's late night dinner.

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Thursday I picked her up around 9 and we went to the Original house of pancakes for breakfast. afterwards we went to Toys R Us :) ya we are much like little kids sometimes. We went and played with some of the toys.... Until we found something...... Don't break the ice!!!! WE bought it :) She said she used to love playing that game, I didn't really remember playing it too much so we decided that would be an amazing activity for another day. We then went back grabbed clothes for practice and then we grabbed a change of clothes for dinner. We went to the space needle after practice for an amazing dinner, thank you so much Mrs. Wurtzbacher! After such an amzing experience there together, dinner, desert, having fun laughing at how hilarious the concept of a rotating restaurant was, and going up to look around on the observation deck it was time to go back, by this time is was around 2 am Emily's time. We went back to Chris's house for a little bit and hung out with him, we watched a little tv and just talked a little.

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Friday was pretty ordinary :) we went to breakfast and quiet time at my favorite little mom and pop cafe, Auntie Bee's, and we had a good time there just spending time with each other in God's word. we then went to go and see a movie, our goal was to see Where the Wild Things Are..... That movie time didn't work with the schedule that I had with hockey so we got to see a 3-D movie! Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs!!! Another classic story from our childhood hahahaha as if we aren't still children haha. Then we went to my game, the FIRST game that I suited up for. I didn't get the chance to play but I was able to back up and do the warm-ups which was really cool, Emily got to see me play for the first time with my jersey on!!! :) It was so intense, I felt so much pride and honor to be wearing that. After the game we just went back and went to sleep, it was really late, especially for Em.

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Saturday we went to breakfast and quiet time at Auntie Bee's again, this time not as leisurely though. We headed up after to Seattle, for the Pike Place Market. We visited the original Starbucks, all the great fish stands there, the flowers, tasted some of the food, saw all the amazing produce, it was spectacular. We both really enjoyed it. It is a market that if you lived within 20 mins of it you would never visit a grocery store for meat or produce, there is hardly anything you would need to go to a grocery store for, and it wouldn't make sense because the market is really cheap too! We then took the ferry across the Sound to the game that night. We really enjoyed the Ferry! It was so much fun! We stood out on the front and danced and took pictures!! It was incredible!!! I did not suit up for that game, however, which worked out because then I got to sit with Em during the game and watch with her. After we went back and we watched the start of a movie haha the start before Emily had to go up and go to sleep because she was so exhausted.

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Sunday was incredibly hard. Not only did we have to say goodbye but Emily had begun to feel incredibly sick. She was nauseous and her head was killing her, she just was miserable. No one wanted her to have to fly but ultimately she flew and she did alright, it wasn't a fun plane ride but she made it. We also went to my church here before she left and just spent a little time together. I was able to go behind security with her to watch her take off, it was such an incredible experience, such a God thing to allow me back, I am pretty sure I broke some rules and such, or rather the guy who gave me the ticket might have bent the rules for me. I was so thankful to see that, It was so incredible to hug her that one last time and to watch that plane take off, if I cannot protect her I want to be able to watch and make sure it all goes well, and watching her take off was more than I thought I would have been able to do haha. It was so great!!!

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Monday we went back to the normal, me doing hockey and emily doing school. Honestly the first couple days of her being gone was really hard, I didn't want to be out here and all I wanted was to go home and be with family again! But God got me through it, Emily is feeling much better, not a hundred percent but better, and I am back to playing really well again. I hope that all this hard work will pay off pretty soon, I know that once I am given that shot to show my abilities in the game I have the opportunity to really blow people away, in no way do I doubt I can play with and above these guys, I simply know that I can. I am not trying to be cocky just I am confident in the talent and skill God has blessed me with and I know that I have improved and I see the shots and the opposition and I seriously can play here and succeed, no doubt in my mind. I know that I play much better in game situations then in practice because in practice I am trying to improve and be thinking about my mistakes and how to correct them, in a game I am simply playing. I can PLAY with these guys, once I start trying to correct myself and improve on what I have, I over think things and I do not play as well, if I am just playing my game, I can do much better than most of the goalies in this league, no doubt in my mind. I just need the opportunity to show it, and be able to come out with this same confidence and not psyc myself out.

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This week in practice two out of the four times that we had practice I had the biggest and best saves in practice, sure I wasn't perfect and I made mistakes other times but I was able to make the biggest saves of practice. I have been performing well and our performing most the other goalies at practice even. I have talked to coach about what I need to improve on, what he wants me doing and I am going to be starting that tomorrow. I need him to see I'll do anything to play, that I CAN play. I was even half joking with Boyko about asking coach to fight our "fighter" to earn a playing spot in a game. If I don't play for too much longer I might seriously consider it. haha.

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Tonight I went to a college church youth group type of a thing. It was like a church service but all college aged or just out of college aged kids there. It was super powerful and I really enjoyed it. I cannot wait to go back next week to see if the intensity continues and I feel as much love and simply filled as I did tonight when I got out. It was so much fun to be there with a bunch of college kids who CHOSE to be there and just to worship and love the Lord OUR God!

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Again I apologize for being so lazy lately on updating this, I promise to be better now. I love you all and thank you so very very much for supporting me I will put up pictures from when Em was out here on that photo link for you all to see :) they are already up on Facebook for those of you that have one! I love you all!

Sorry

Sorry I have not blogged in so long. Emily was here last little while. We had so much fun!!! We were pretty busy, but we had a blast the ENTIRE TIME. It was so fantastic to have her out here. The first night she got dropped off at the beginning of our practice Wednesday night. I will blog much more tomorrow I am So exhausted. I am so sorry for being so lame on my blogs lately I promise you Wednesday I will catch you all up. I love and miss all of you.

Baby thank you so much for such an amazing time and for flying all this way! you mean the world to me!!!! I love you!

A good day!

A good day today overall :) nothing too too eventful. I got a package of clothes from the mama :) Thank you so much Mom I love you very much! I cleaned my room up and I cleaned my car out. After that I went over to practice :) Nothing too big like I said but, a good day. My voice is mainly back which is awesome I must say :) Emily comes out, technically today :) and I had a good practice :)

We got a lot of shots today at practice which was a lot of fun, and I thought that I did pretty darn well, another encouraging day pushing for this weekend :) Before practice we went over to Bally's and had a personal trainer work with our team. That was so hard haha we were all sweating and huffing and puffin after just a forty five minute work out. It was quite impressive how hard they made us work and how much you felt if after such a short time. We will find out tomorrow or Thursday if we get the memberships or not. I would love that, there is a Bally's right across the highway from me, I would be in there so much for different classes and such. Thank you again to Mom and Dad for being willing to pay for that if we get it on top of everything else. :) Love you both and am very grateful for all that you do for me :) I cannot thank you enough!

Emily, my dearest Emily, I will be seeing you in such a short time, I cannot wait to have you out here and to drive you around again and to just hold you again. I know it seems like the wedding was not that long ago but I am looking forward to this weekend so so much. I cannot wait for you to discover how I live and see everything around :) it is going to be so fun! I love you so so much I will see you tonight!!!

practice and relaxing.

The day that Emily come out is getting closer and closer, I cannot believe how soon it is. I am still not a hundred percent, although it is mainly my voice so i'm not worried about it just would like to be able to talk normally with my girlfriend when she comes :).

Hockey went well yesterday, coach told me I had a really good practice so that was again very encouraging. I of course was not perfect, and still have quite a bit of work to do still, as I always will. No matter what level you play at or work to you can always improve yourself, there is literally nothing that we can do that we cannot continuously get better at. God made us imperfect, and therefore we can never be perfect. We continuously strive to be perfect but will never be able to get there. And we cannot determine or worry about our future for God already has it planned out, we have to just give our best in every situation that he presents to us, he may have a plan for us, but it does determine partially on how much we help him in doing so. He is not going to simply give us fortune and happiness for sitting doing nothing besides being nice. We have to work hard to ensure that we do our parts in God's plan.

I am feeling much better, just a couple little after cold things to take care of :P nothing a nice shower can't take care of :)

I miss all of you and cannot wait for christmas to see the most of you :)

Easy Sunday

So turns out my voice is gone..... My cold came back, while we were on the road. Today I took it easy. Not only do I need to keep pushing myself and not allow coach's compliments get to my head. I need to take them as a compliment and encouragement but not allow them to go to my head, and make me not play as well. I just need to keep working and being a team player like he complimented me on and be sure to show him that he is right in what he has seen and that it wasn't just what I was doing for a little bit but how I plan to be the rest of the year. I just need to keep pushing, God will allow me to take my stand and show what I am capable of when the time is right, turns out He is kinda good at that sort of stuff, the whole timing and all :)

I went to Bethany Baptist this morning again it was a great sermon and message I really enjoyed it. I was able to talk to someone afterwards and talk about college aged kids and how I would get connected. There is a Thursday night thing that is built for college aged kids, like me haha. So I am super excited to try that out and see if I can't make any more friends, some good quality friends :) I am really stoked for it :)

Emily will be coming out this wednesday :) hahahaha I am so excited :) :) I cannot believe that it is so close!!!! Goodness!!!! :) :):):):):):):):):):):):):):) I love you so much baby so so much!!! 3 Days!!!

Back to the house, no longer on the road

Our first road weekend was, well, not a success that is for sure. We lost both games, didn't play very well in either of them and are now tied for second place. It went by really fast, the weekend, it was rather surprising. We share a room, there are three kids to a room for the most part, there was one room with only two kids but everyone else had three. I shared with two other rookies, both of whom I like, Chris, from Puyallup, and this kid Jared, I don't know him that well, however, he is a really nice guy. So the room situation worked out very well, which was nice, we all had fun.

I just got home, my cold is back again, it really does just need to go away, it was great at the wedding, then when we came back I got it again, it was great right before the road trip then I got it again. I am simply tired of being sick. My mommy, however, as great as she is sent me out some goodies and my nebulizer for my breathing to help all of this.

Emily comes out in just four little days, on Wednesday, the Scougale's will be picking her up that night and bringing her over to the practice rink to watch what ever is remaining in our practice. We have so much that I want us to be able to do I am so excited for her to be here. I love you so much baby :) I cannot wait to hold you again.

Well as much as I love all of you, it is nearly 3 AM I'm going to bed, I want to be able to wake up for church in the morning :) o and I would love to hear from any or all of you still :) just when ever :) email me, even just comment here really anything text message phone calls, I love to talk to you guys. Miss you and love you all, goodnight.

First Road Trip

I am writing to you from Eugene, Oregon. We are on our first road trip right now. We headed out about ten this morning and got down here about two. It was alright, all I really did was sit there and listen to my iPod as they watched movies. As we got closer we watched some game film from previous games as coach pointed out things to work on and things we were doing well. It was fun, it felt rather professional, I enjoyed it a lot actually. We played our first game tonight and we lost 5-3. It really was not a bad game we played pretty well, a few unlucky breaks and we were out played but not badly. This is supposed to be the best team in the league, and we really didn't play badly against them, we still have a shot to win tomorrow when we play them again. So we will see how tomorrow goes. I had to record stats for the team along with Boyko tonight though haha, that is not very fun, and a lot harder than it sounds.

Emily comes out to hang out and spend time out in Washington with me. I am unbelievably excited!!!! I cannot even begin to describe it I don't even know what to do with myself. FOUR DAYS???? :) That is unreal! Haha I know it seems silly, I just saw her not a week ago haha. But this time she is going to be able to see where I am living and what I am doing for herself, she doesn't simply have to just talk to me now, she will know exactly what I am talking about. I cannot wait to do the same for her!!! I wish it were sooner that I got to go out to South Carolina though, that is for sure. I Love you so so so much though baby girl!!! I will see you very very soon! :)

First Paper

This morning I was able to get up and go out to my favorite cafe in Puyallup for breakfast and to write my paper, Autee B's! I had a wonderful waffle and scrambled eggs with some coffee, it was incredible :) I have yet to have anything that I have not enjoyed from there. I got all of my paper done too! I just had to type it up when I got home. I really really enjoyed writing it too!

Practice again went alright, not my best but certainly not bad so I'm ok with it just really want to keep improving everyday, which I know is hard to do but.... it's what I need to do in order to play the most I can. I am out here to play hockey, to earn a scholarship, I need to be improving in order to allow that to happen. I guess it gets frustrating when I don't see improvement when I know I need it. But I am still playing good hockey, and I am still here, and it is still all a part of God's perfect plan, it isn't about what I want. :) I just have to remember and have faith in that.

We got our warm ups today for the team they are really nice, I really like them and they seem like much better quality than any other warm up I have had before. So again it is still really exciting to get free gear haha, even if it isn't really that big, and if we actually did pay for it...... lots of money haha Thank you so so so so so so much Mom and Dad!!!! I love you guys thank you for all you have sacrificed to allow me to come out here.

Emily and I are slowly getting better, I think I have been able to get better a little quicker, however, simply because I am able to rest a bit more, I wish we could just make you better sweetie I'm sorry you still aren't a hundred percent. We appreciate all of your prayers still, we have both felt them. Baby we will see each other in six little days!!! It is going to be a blast!! I promise you will have such a great time! I have all sorts of plans!! :) :) I love you so so so so much!!!!

Healing day :)

Today I made sure to take it really easy, I didn't do anything all day up until practice.

I slept in a little bit to try and give my body a bit of a rest and I took a long shower to try and clear my sinuses. I sat in bed and watched tv most of the day. For lunch I had some chicken noodle soup. It was quite good actually, I enjoyed it, which was weird because I usually do not like soup at all. I just finished my bed time tea, to help me to stop coughing and just to calm my mind and body, it is very nice. I was able to get more cough drops and buy a vaporizer. My vaporizer is a little weird I don't know if I like it....... we'll see, ask Mama :).

For dry land today we went and we looked at the gym that might be able to get us in for a very cheap price, Bally's it was a great gym. If we get the memberships we would be able to go to anyone of the Bally's when ever we wanted to to, be able to go to any of the classes, they would maybe be able to set our team up with a personal trainer once a week for who wants to do it, the only thing we wouldn't be able to do is tennis, which is fine, it wouldn't really be too beneficial to our games anyways. It was a really nice gym, there is also one right by my house too so that would be excellent if we were to get that. Another great part is that they have all kinds of classes that I would love to at least try, especially if it is fee I want to get the most out of that twenty dollars :). There is a spin class I know for sure, which is something that was recommended to me for hockey conditioning. I would also look at yoga, pilates, aerobics, etc. those sort of classes as well to see what my options were as far as that went, that would allow me to work on flexibility as well.

I am planning on going down to my favorite little cafe that I found in downtown Puyallup tomorrow morning to write out my paper for class and to do quiet time. I am kind of excited about this. I love this place too so the environment is always good for this sort of stuff and all the food that I have had there so far has been incredible, I don't know what I will try tomorrow :) then I have an early practice, 3:15 and then I will come home and relax a bit. We will be meeting at our practice rink to leave for Eugene on Friday at 8:30 in the morning. Our game will be at 6:30 and Eugene does have video and I hear it is much better than ours so I would suggest checking it out if you have the time. :) That is 6:30 Washington time too by the way.

Emily comes out now in just less than a week. She still isn't feeling too well, and of course I am still not a hundred percent myself, we still ask for your prayers in our health, and appreciate all that you give us with out our asking for it. I am looking forward to all the things that we will be able to do out in Washington! I will be sure to tell you all about them all, and of course take lots of pictures too! I haven't been taking many lately so sorry for those who have maybe checked my photo link a couple times to see..... ya I don't really take many pictures out here, there is not much around where I live that I think people would really want to see.

Baby I know it is so hard being away from home and from our mommies and from each other at this time, during our sicknesses. We will be ok though, we just need to keep praying and loving :) I cannot wait to see you in 6 days!!!! that is so so so soon!!!! Goodness :) :) :) :) and if you are still not feeling well don't worry I will take excellent care of you :) I would love that :) but I am sure you will be better soon :) we both just need to keep taking care of ourselves, lots of fluids and take the pills that we have for colds. We will get over it quickly don't worry, I know it is hard. I love you so very much, I thank you for all of your support and love that you give me, it means the world to me, I could have never imagined, asked, or deserved as great of a girlfriend as you :) I am truly blessed. I love you so much sweet pea!!!

Make up for yesterday

Hey sorry I didn't get to blog yesterday everyone, by the time I got home I wasn't really feeling up to doing much else than sleep.

I haven't been feeling too great lately, I don't know what it is whether it is just a cold or turning into more. Most of the team has a cold so I am pretty positive it is just a cold, just kind of obnoxious.

Yesterday I had an interview for American Eagle, which I felt went really well. I had the most retail experience the only one that had worked at American Eagle before and I thought that I had some of the best answers for her questions that she asked. It was a group interview for those that didn't know that. There were two other guys one that was probably 19 or 20 and the other was senior in high school. The only thing that I think might hinder my chances of getting the job is that I was the only one there that was unable to work the holiday season because I am clearly going to be home :) So I will hear about that job with in a week she said.

Practice didn't go super well, my cold got in the way of me being able to focus too too well, but I didn't play badly which was the good part. Someone forgot to bring the pucks into the locker room the day before however, luckily the zamboni guy picked them up for us but we had to skate the first fifteen minutes of practice because of it, which was no fun for anyone's cold. But after that practice wasn't bad at all and the second half was just a fun time. We had a shoot out and then we played short-sided three on three. So it wasn't too bad, he knows that we are all sick right now.

It just started to rain here, the rain is starting to come, it hasn't been constant just everyday, in the mornings or something like that just for a couple hours nothing bad at all :) I just had a big bowl of chicken noodle soup to help me feel a little better, which it did just that. I have to go and buy a vaporizer today, and I need to get a notebook for my online class. I have my first assignment doesn't seem too hard more of an opinion and not very in depth so I just have to get that cranked out and we'll be set. I am excited to be in school, yet very nervous as well. I have no idea what to expect out of online college, I know college is hard, online will either be worse or better, we'll see.

We got gym memberships for twenty dollars a month now at Balli's we head over there at four thirty today, I'm not sure how he really plans on having us use it considering there aren't very many gyms were you can have a hockey team of twenty plus kids doing the same circuit at the same time. We'll see how it goes, I have no idea what it even looks like yet so.

Emily and I are both pretty sick right now, and of course it comes and goes, gets worse and gets better during the day. So it has been hard on both of us and would appreciate your prays in that. She of course has a harder schedule, with a little less rest and just a constant list of things to do, which I know makes it harder. We are still just happy to be in love, just wish we could be laying on the couch at home by the fire together instead of across the country with no mom's to take care of either of us. I love you baby we'll be together in 7 days!!

Wedding weekend!!!

Sorry it has been so long since I have blogged! Most of you know why since I just got to spend a whole weekend with the majority of you :) haha. But for those of you who do not know or did not pick up on all of the count downs, Jason, my brother, and Kellie, my new sister! Just got married!!!! It was the first wedding that I had ever been to and it was so cool considering that I was a part of it as well! It was so exciting!!! I loved it I had so so so much fun!

Emily was so amazing, I couldn't believe how great it was being with her again, as if it was all new like I had almost forgotten, which is scary but no way could I forget that hug, that kiss, that touch, those eyes or that heart. I was able to pick her up at the airport, just outside of security. She came around the corner and my heart stopped, she was GORGEOUS! I couldn't believe it! I picked her up, held her in my arms hugged her so close, then we looked back at each other, it was so weird. We had gotten so used to not seeing each other that it was weird for the first few minutes to get used to the fact that we no longer had to kiss a flat cold screen, hold hands by holding our hands up in the air just open, our touch was no longer imagined but real. It was one of the most amazing feelings to hold her again, to have the love of my life right next to me instead of thousands of miles away. It made me realize how amazing our God is for allowing this love to continue to grow regardless of the circumstances, how incredible it was that we had already gone 51 days without seeing each other. We are doing so incredible! I love you so much darling!!!

The weekend all went so so fast, a little bit too fast to be honest, coming back was hard but I'm alright just back to the usual in Washington now. Practice is early today so that is good, hockey will be the best thing for me right now. :) I miss everyone, that was so great to be with everyone again it was so so great. I couldn't believe how much I missed it all, I thought I knew until I actually got there and was able to be with you all. Such a fantastic weekend. I am so blessed to be in this family I cannot even tell you. I'm sorry I have not been as thankful as I should have been in the past. I am extremely blessed to be in the family that I am, I love you all so so so so so much!!!!

Emily is flying out on here surprise fall break trip in just eight short little days!!! :) I am so incredibly excited!!! We are going to do so much it is going to be such a great time to have her here. I cannot wait to be able to fly out and experience Furman though, that I cannot wait for, I wish that was what was happening, but I will figure that out soon. Hopefully be able to work all of that out quickly and figure out when I will be able to get out there. I love you so much darling!!! My love for you will never stop growing!!!

8 Days!!!!

fun fun

Today was fun I ran a few last minute errons before the big wedding this weekend!!!! I cannot believe that it is already here! That I am getting a new sister this weekend haha, that sounds so weird. I cannot wait to go to a wedding, I've never been to one, I hope I don't mess it up somehow with being a part of it and standing up in it without ever attending one, I have no idea what to expect. haha I'm so excited!!!!

Today's practice went well too, it was not quite as well as the other practices recently but I did play well and I was happy with it, not satisfied with it of course but for sure happy that I didn't just tank it. I have been worried that with all of the good practices I have been having that I might have a really just awful practice soon, but a decent practice compared to a tanked practice is great haha I'll take that any day.

I cannot describe my excitement to see everyone, I have been kinda lonely out here recently I don't know if it is just because I know that I get to see my family this weekend and so I am just remembering all that I miss about them or what. I even get to see the Wurtzbachers!!!!!! I get to see everyone!!! I am so incredibly excited, I just hope it doesn't make coming back harder. That would be a downer, but I don't think it will, it will just be great to see them again and have all of these great memories nice and fresh in my head to last me.

EMILY!!!!!! For serious!!!!!!???????!!!!!!????? I get to hold her again? I get to look into those gorgeous eyes again????? I get to hold that amazing hand again???? I get to feel her touch on my skin again????? I get to feel her incredibly soft hair again????? I get to feel her physically close to me again? actually standing and sitting next to me???? I get to hear her voice not through a microphone again?????? I get to see her not on a computer screen again??? I get to feel that perfectly soft skin again???? There is no way that this can be real........... We were actually talking about it today and how it truly doesn't feel real yet. Sure we get super excited on and off but it literally doesn't feel real yet because our bodies, minds, and eyes simply have gotten used to not being together...... It is such a weird feeling, you know that it is coming and you do, like I said, get crazy excited on and off but if just doesn't feel real yet, as if our bodies don't want to get their hopes up haha. I love you so much Emily!!!!!!! I cannot wait to see you.........THIS AFTERNOON!!!!!

It's here Y'all!!!!!! Today is the day I get to see everyone again, speaking of...... I have to wake up in an hour and forty five minutes..... shoot. Well It was good to talk to you everyone, love you thank you again for reading I love to hear what you guys think of it :) goodnight y'all

GREAT DAY

Today was fantastic!!! I woke up got ready and then I headed out on my journey for the day, JOB HUNT!!!

I drove around shirt buttoned and tucked in, nice khaki pants, brown shoes, we were set. I drove around looking for anywhere really that might be interesting or fun to work at, and some that I might only sort of enjoy. I had ten resumes to give out in the beginning of the day. I ended up only with four resumes left. I have about six applications and at least three promises from managers of at least an interview, one with most likely a job opportunity. I am very excited to see how those play out. I will keep you updated, the promises are from Apple Bee's, American Eagle, ya I know I know, and Express.

I had an amazing practice tonight. I ended up robbing quite a few guys tonight, I played really well. My gloves were working most the night, my skating was a lot better, much improved, and my head was just in it.

Hahahahahahahahaha I totally forgot I don't know how on earth I haven't blogged about this to you guys!!!!! I mush have been too focused on getting school worked out and with everything going on I must have just kept forgetting, I'm terribly sorry. I just worked out and told Emily of this great surprise that I worked out with much much help from Mrs. Wurtzbacher. I am going to be able to fly her out here for her fall break!!!!!!!!! October 21-25, That is incredible!!!! She will stay here with the Scougale's while I stay at Chris's house, about fifteen minutes. I have so many ideas as to where we will go and what we will do while she is here. She is so unbelievably excited about it she cannot believe it!!!! She is going to get to see two games and one practice. She will be here Wednesday night through Sunday afternoon. I am so stoked for her to be here and see where I am living. I hope I'll be able to see where she is soon :/ I'll have to figure that one out now. I love you so much sweetheart!!! I'm glad you were so happy about it.

Just one more day OFFICIALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long Day

Today was pretty long, I was on the phone from about 9:45 to about 2:00 this morning and early afternoon getting my college online courses finalized. That was back and forth for so long. There were so many mistakes made with miscommunication or just confusion I don't really know. But I got is set and approved by the Mama. I will be taking three credit hours of English this semester. I am excited to get that started up here soon, this week actually I can start working on it. Never thought I'd say I was excited for school did you Mama?

Practice went really well today too actually. I made one just massive mistake, it was so awful I was so mad, but luckily I played well all of the rest of practice so I am not too worried about it. I just cheated over, trying to read the pass, but I did it too soon and the player recognized it and scored short side on me which should never happen. So I had to apologize to coach after to let him know that I recognized how bad it was and what I did wrong, which I think he took notice of and I think he liked so that is good.

I honestly cannot wait to hug my love, my sweetheart, my girlfriend, my Emily again. That is going to be the most amazing hug ever! haha I cannot wait to see her face when she comes out of that tunnel from the airplane. I love you honey!!!! I cross my heart!!!

3 Days Everyone 3 Days only 2 Full days!!!!

Catching Up

Sorry I didn't blog much this weekend. Just never really felt too much like it or didn't have time. So as most of you know we had two games this weekend, both our season and home opening weekend. We played pretty well we won both of the games. It was good to see the team work together and see how they reacted in the game situations. It was such an amazing experience to be a part of. I am truly blessed to be a part of a team like this, I cannot believe that I am really here sometimes. I didn't dress at all this weekend, which wasn't too bad. I was a little disappointed but at the same time i definitely expected it to an extent. The goalie that played he is the only return player the only one that really has experience at this level and he is a good goalie, so you go with the goalie that you trust can stand in net for you and win, you don't take risks on your new goalies that may or may not be able to handle the pressure playing at this level. So from a coaches perspective I understand the move.

We had quite a crowd actually more that i had anticipated. We probably had a hundred people there? I don't know we filled our stands, they are about six rows high and span blue line to blue line. We also had quite a few people in the lobby, it is set up so that you can see the ice from the lobby, and it is nice and warm in there. We also had people that lined the home side of the glass, so it was a pretty big crowd. I do not expect that crowd to continue for the entire season but it was still so cool to play in front of a crowd of people that may or may not know someone on the team and they just came to watch hockey, and not only that but everyone watching you, they paid to come see you. It was quite the experience.

The starting line up fro the home team is announced before the game, following that we have the national anthem. It is also cool because we have a regulation time game, NHL times. So we have a twenty minute warm up at seven. They Zamboni the ice, puck drops at seven thirty five. we then play twenty minute stop clock, the clock stops every time there is a whistle, periods. I do not know for sure what happens if there is a tie, however, I believe that it is a three on three or four on four ten to fifteen minute extra period followed by a shoot out. So it feels very professional and real. It is really cool just to be a part of even though I am not dressing yet.

I do still believe that I may get a shot to play in a game sometime pretty early on, I have been playing really well and I have been working so hard. I hope that I will be able to prove myself soon, I know I can play at this level and I am just waiting for my shot to show that. I believe that if I can keep up my efforts and keep my head in it that I could very well be competing for that second string spot and get a lot more games than what was promised me when I signed the contract. I know that God has brought me here for a reason, I just have to work my hardest to allow his plan to work the way that he planned it, obviously no matter what his plan will work itself out but I need to do my part to get the best and most out of it that I can, to do my part in his work.

For everyone out there that doesn't know. All of our home games will be broadcasted live online for you to watch. If you simply go to our homepage, Google "Puget Sound Tomahawks" and it should be the first one, there is a link to "listen live" should be on the left hand side of the page. Click on that link and it should bring you to our broadcaster's webpage and if you just look around a little bit you should find the games on there. They do not record the games though which i think is dumb but oh well, they are there to watch if you ever get the chance. You can check the schedule on the homepage as well, that way you can see what games we will be at home so you guys can watch as well. I never really know if I am playing or not but I will do my best to let everyone know as soon as I know if I am playing or not.

Goodness Just four days now until I am with everyone....... wait now that it is past midnight it is now officially Three Full Days!!! That is insane!!! I cannot believe that it is so soon!!! I cannot wait to see everyone! It is going to be so so so so so so great!!!! I cannot wait!!!!!

Emily and I are doing so great still too! We are so super excited to get out to the wedding! I cannot wait to introduce her to everyone out there, you guys are all going to love her. :) She is so excited and we are both so grateful to Jason and Kellie for inviting her to come, it meant a lot, she is so honored to be a part of the family like that. I love her so very much, we both had such a great time at our churches this sunday, she was super touched by her's and I was able to get so much out of my sermon. It is a great time to be able to find your own church and really start to figure out your own faith just that much more.

This morning I was able to return to a church that I went to last sunday as well, Bethany Baptist Church. It is about a five minute dive from my billet house, which is great. The pastor speaks and it feels very personal and as if you are in a room with him alone, it is a great experience. You never feel as though these words are his own but rather God is truly speaking through him. He has a great sense of humor that he will throw in every now and again just to keep the mood of the room up, when you talk about deeper stuff people start to get quite and depressed looking at how they have failed and messed up, he does a great job of keeping people happy, because in the end God forgives us with all of his grace, he already knew all of our mistakes before we made them, now by no means does that make it ok for us to do these things but he forgives us for them. As long as we truly love and come to him and trust in him whole heartedly and we truly depend on him, we are forgiven, he promises that. It is a great church and I am just loving it!

I love you all, thanks again for reading!

Emily sweetheart I love you so so much and I cannot wait to see you on Thursday!!!!!!

3 days!!!!!!!

Sorry Again

Sorry I am again really tired tomorrow I promise you all, after church I will tell you all about both games. I love you guys. we won tonight 2-0.

Emily You are my shooting star, I wouldn't change anything about you or anything about our relationship, this is God's plan and I am loving it. Wish we could be in each other's arms everyday but, again it's God's plan. I love you so much!!!!

4 Days!!!!!!

First Game!!!

Hey Everyone!!! Game went great! We won 3-1 in or home opener! first one coach has won with the Tomahawks! I am too tired tonight so I will wake up and blog for all of you to tell you everything about it for those that didn't get a chance to watch! Love you all hope all is well!

I love you Emily just 5 More Days!!!!!

EXCITED!!!

So tomorrow is our first game!!! That is crazy!!! I'm nearly one hundred percent positive that there will be video coverage online starting at seven my time. If you just go to the Tomahawks home page there is a link to listen live, but when I go there the guy had already put up a pregame insider video up so I am hoping that he will do a video as well. I am so stoked for it. I will not be playing nor will I be dressing tomorrow, so I will be sitting somewhere watching in a nice suit. Which honestly I am just as excited about. I still cannot wait for my shot to go out there, to skate and to show the team, my coach, the fans, the other team and everyone what I am capable of. I know that I belong out here that I can play with these kids I just cannot wait for my shot to prove it. The first game is going to be intense just to watch so I am equally excited, which is weird for me because I usually cannot stand at all to WATCH my team play. but I think in this situation I am happy for it because I get to see what it is all about before I have to be out there at all. I get to watch a whole game see the intensity compared to my team and our practices and I will be able to prepare myself just that much better when I get my chance. I am so excited to go up there tomorrow!

Other than that I didn't do too much today, I tried to get a few more things done on the computer as far as school goes. I really probably could have done a little more with my day, but it was nice to just relax. especially since I woke up with a cold haha, forgot to tell you guys that one. I woke up not being able to really breath. I hadn't slept well most the night, but not till this morning did I realize why. It isn't that big of a deal now, it is still just a cold. Just a big pain in the butt for this to be happening, I have to give all my body can give everyday and now I really can't because my body simply can't give it all. It isn't too bad still like I said so instead of 110% I have to deal with about 105% haha. But still frustrating. I struggled with giving my all mentally earlier, I talked to some of you out there about that, and like I said then I am really truly ok with being cut simply because I am trusting that that is God's plan, I sure do not want to be cut and I am working my hardest to make sure I'm not, But that's the frustrating part about being sick or not being able to do it mentally. When you cannot force yourself to give all you have and more, when you really need to it's a terrible feeling. I do not want to be sent home knowing that there was another level that I could have played at that for some reason my body just wouldn't go to. So having a cold is a burden but not one that I am really looking at as a problem. I can get over a head cold.

Emily helped me a lot actually today, I was being a baby this morning, I hate getting sick because I never get sick. But she was super nice about it and just told me to get up, go to the store and get.... well there was a lot, ah, Cold EEZE, EmergenC, and Mucinex. I got all of those then got a sinus rinse, then I talked to my mom haha she had some more stuff for me to pick up, haha I have so much cold stuff in my room now haha. It is hilarious. She is fantastic I love her so much!!! She even helped me pick out which suit to wear tomorrow! I love you so much sweet heart!!!!

nearly 6 more days!!!!

8 Month Anniversary!!!!!

Today was a great day! Beautiful day, just everything felt so great all day!

Today was Emily and I's EIGHT MONTH ANNIVERSARY can you believe it?? :) it is incredible to me. The longest relationship either of us has ever been in. Even with the distance between us, we can feel so close, that is something Em brought up today, God has truly blessed us to allow us to feel so incredibly close even though we are literally a country apart. It is amazing. Today we were able to do something kind of funny in concept but an amazing thing to do. We had an anniversary dinner together. We both went on iChat, were dressed up and she had dinner and I had an early dinner/late lunch. She wore this amazingly gorgeous black dress that was rather simple with subtle polka dots all over and a pretty jewel accent at the top, It was simply stunning, :) I loved it. I wore a red shirt and a white tie. It was great to dress up for each other again. We both just got some food to go from where ever we could and we sat down together. :) It was fantastic. We had so much fun with it. She had great weather out there, it was great weather here. It was such a God sent day. :) and yet I still cannot believe we haven't seen each other in person in such a long time...... August 20th?!?!?!?!?!!? For serious??? hahaha. Praise the Lord for all he has done for us.

Just to add on to the great day I had, Hockey went really well too! I have been truly playing so well that I feel as though I am competing for first or second string on this team this week. It is a great feeling. I think that I may actually be able to play this weekend. Of course there are always some drills that you struggle with, no one is perfect. But in general I have been out playing most the goalies nearly all of practice if not all of practice. It is fantastic I cannot wait to see if I get to play! Our first game is FRIDAY!!!! haha Crazy!!!

So I'm now done with my peanut butter sandwich, and pretzels, I guess it may be time to head to bed. I love all of you, thank you so much for continuing to read.

Jason and Kellie!!!! I am so excited and honored to be a part of your wedding! It is going to be amazing! I cannot imagine the excitement you two must have. I love you two!

Just 7 more days now until I get to see everyone.

SEVEN DAYS till the love of my life is finally in my arms again, where I have been saving her spot for 41 days!!!! I love you so much Emily!

oops

So my oops is that I did not do much today, I felt pretty busy all day, however, when talking with Mrs. Wurtzbacher today I couldn't come up with much that I had done. So therefore tomorrow needs to be a bit more productive haha. In fact I am sitting here eating a sandwich and grapes for my late night meal. I tend to have to eat another meal after late practices due to how hungry I am afterwards.

I just got back from hockey practice, it was really pretty good. I played well again tonight, didn't think that I out played every goalie out there the whole time, however, I think I did a pretty fair job in out playing them most of the time. I am still feeling pretty confident about the chances I have of playing this weekend. I am so excited to see if I will or not, I hope he tells us soon. Oh and about those sticks that we are getting, I may have told you prematurely. We may or may not be getting sticks, it was a slight rumor, although it is a very good chance that we will. We are going to ask the owner tomorrow at practice, she will know for sure. Speaking of tomorrow. I guess coach doesn't think that our dry land that we run on our own is quite good enough. Tomorrow he is bringing back his old assistant coach, Coach Gardner. He is an ex Navy and used to train men to go into the Navy. The team says it is sort of insane what he has us do. That will be interesting to have to do before tomorrow night's practice. Only two more practices until our first game though. So So excited!!!

Emily and I are so great. We are both so so so excited to see each other in ...... now eight days. I cannot wait to see everyone out there, it is going to be so much fun. I cannot wait to get a second sister either. It is going to be such a cool thing to have happen. I have never been to a wedding and now the first one I go to not only am I in it but it's my Brother!!! That is crazy!!! I am so happy and excited for them. Cannot wait for it all. But Emily and I are just fantastic, I am so excited to watch our lives grow and our relationship grow in that.... O MY GOODNESS!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) speaking of it only being eight days away!!!!! today!!! Right Now!!! It is Emily and I's 8 Month Anniversary!!!! I cannot believe it. That seems like such a long time haha. :) I am hoping that we might be able to do a skype dinner or something together today. I think it should work out. I wish more than anything that I could be there with her for this whole day though. That would be so amazing. Well I will tell you all about how our anniversary goes tomorrow night. :) I am so excited!!!!!!!!! I love you so so so so so so so so so so so so so so much Emily Suzanne Wurtzbacher!!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MY LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!

8 Days Y'all!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Today's Day

Today....... I really did not do too much haha. I got to talk to Em a little bit which was fantastic of course!! :) I caught you all up on my day yesterday haha. So really there isn't too too much to talk about, which I am sorry about :/ don't be mad hahahaha. jk jk

Alright so I started my car pool today with the other goalie, his name is Aaron Boyco, we all just call him Boyco. So Chris's dad actually drove us, he wanted to watch how we were doing in practice, but it was Boyco Chris and I going to practice, it was really pretty fun, I look forward to continuing that car pool through out the year. We had quite a few new faces put out on the ice today. we ended up with a total of 20 skaters and still 4 goaltenders. Coach is talking about two other guys headed out now and I guess a couple of those guys that were here today are not for sure staying on the team. It was a really good practice too, which always makes it more fun. Everyone was trying and playing pretty hard and people were really connecting out there, it was really fun. I played really well, and outplayed most if not all of the other goalies most of the practice, which was just so amazing. We didn't get our sticks today, nor do I really truly know that that is for sure happening :) But either way it is extremely exciting to think about receiving free gear from a sponsor :)

I hope that all of you are doing great, I would love to hear from any of you if you ever have the time just email me, facebook me, comment here, text, maybe call even, I don't know, I love hearing from people so if you ever want to don't be afraid to do so :)

Emily and I are still just so great, it is such a blessing to be honestly in love with your best friend, it is indescribable. Such an amazing feeling, and that feeling only escalates when you bring God into the mix :) He tends to make everything so so so much better!!!

10 more days!!!! almost 9!!!!

Sorry about yesterday.

Hey Y'all sorry about not blogging at all yesterday, I just didn't end up feeling like writing by the time I had time to do so. No worries though I'll tell you all about it now.

Yesterday I tried out a Baptist church here in Puyallup. It was fantastic. I loved the Pastor, his message was just great, and the way he spoke and preached was just very personal and just a great message over all. It was bluegrass sunday, however, for their fall kick off. So it apparently wasn't the same as how it usually is. That was ok with me though, I loved the country style music and the band and it was just great to be there. They were nice people too, I didn't get a chance to meet too many of them but the ones I met were very nice and very welcoming which was great. There are three services, first: more elderly people, Second: more families, Third: younger crowd. So next week I think I am going to try and make it to all three services and then decide which I like the best. I really liked it. I think I might have found my church.

After church I was invited by Chris to go to the Western Washington Fare, The biggest fare west of the Mississippi River. It was really fun and they had gotten free tickets from their high school and so me and another one of the goalies, we got to go for free. I think I only spent about eight dollars the entire day, which was just fantastic. I went on one ride, which was really cool, but I was done after that, most of them spin haha. This one I went on it was pretty cool, it was a G-Force ride where there is a large cylinder that you stand on the walls of and it starts to spin you around faster and faster, you all of a sudden feel all this weight on your body pressing you against the wall. The floor, after it gets up to speed, then drops a good nine feet below your feet. The centripetal force, however, holds you against the wall as you spin around. It was a really cool ride and it wasn't too bad on my stomach but I wasn't about to go on another one, I'm a big baby when it comes to my stomach haha.

We then went back and just hung out at Chris's house for a little while. Nothing much just sat around and talked for a while. We also found out that for hockey, all the players got their new sponsor gear at the last practice, well of course goalies didn't get anything haha. So the goalies I guess complained enough and they ordered us sticks for the season. So I'm excited to go to practice today to go and see how those are. I hope that they are pretty nice sticks.

Emily and I just continue to grow she had a lot of studying to do yesterday so I was there when she needed a quick one text message break haha. She has been working very hard out there I am so proud of what she is doing, she just got a 92% on a spanish test that she was really worried about, it is one of those classes, from what I understood, that only has about three tests all year long and that is your grade that you get are those three scores. So that was so exciting to hear that she did so well on the first one!!! I love you so much baby keep it up!!!

10 Days!!!!!! We can all count on our fingers!!!!!! hahahaha

Fun Day

Today was really fun, I was able to go to a couple of hockey games to watch some of my teamates play on the U18 team at the rink we practice at. They play sometimes on that team when we are not playing and they have the energy. The owner of our team is the head coach of that team, so they sort of have to do it even when they do not want to haha. But usually they are happy for the ice time. I went to one game this morning and then I was able to see some of another game tonight. I hung out with their parents which was really fun too they are great people, very nice. I am hoping to be spending more time with their families as the year goes on. I enjoy the company.

I do not know if you all remember a while back when I went to lunch with a couple from a church that I went to out here. Well I received a call from them this morning about picking them up from the airport, and if I was available to do so. I figured why wouldn't I? They are nice we do not connect entirely but they are nice and they were very nice to offer me lunch that day the very least I could do was pick them up from the airport. I hope to be seeing them more as well. It is good to have Godly company.

Tonight was pretty mellow, I made some hot chocolate that my Mama sent out to me, I watched a movie and am now just laying in bed about ready to fall asleep, however I wish to wait until I can tell you all that I only have 11 days to wait to see you all. haha yes I am serious.

Emily and I continue to grow, every second, every word we say it seems that our love grows deeper. We are there to build one another up and we are there to help, we are there to encourage and we are there to set each other right, we help each other in countless ways and it is great to have someone who is not only the one you love but also your best friend. I love you so much Darlin'

11 Days!!!!!!!!!!!!! tomorrow we can count on our fingers!!!!!!!!!!

so I noticed that it still says 11:50 on the time that I wrote this...... you'll just have to take my word for it that it is now currently 12:02 so therefore my 11 days is correct :) Love y'all