In the hotel after a twelve hour drive today. It was really quite beautiful we drove through valley's with mountains all around us the entire day. We couldn't have asked for better weather, o and for those that don't know Mom is making the trip up with me where we will meet up with Dad Wednesday night after I move into my Billet Family's home. Who speaking of which we just found out who they were! They sound like they will be a great fit I'm excited to meet them. I am hoping to see the rink tomorrow night, we will have a eight and a half hour drive tomorrow since we made it to Boise, ID tonight. It feels so great to be in a nice hotel bed right now I cannot even tell you haha.

Emily had a nice easy load of homework..... AKA still more than I ever had to do in high school.... maybe I never want to go to college??? haha JK of corse I do I cannot wait. I'm also looking at the possibility of taking some online courses this year to get a jump start on my college class load. We'll see how it works out with hockey and a job though.... But seriously every time em and I skype we grow closer and closer, It's been quite a journey for the both of us with we have already grown so much both together and in ourselves separately which is such a blessing I cannot even describe the amount of love and confidence I feel through God and through her. Now do not get me wrong we have our ups and downs by no means are we perfect but in each down moment one of us has been able to be the stronger one and help the other see what needs to be done, and we have worked as quite the team to get back to the ups. We have been doing so great and look forward to where the rest of our time apart will bring us. It will be an amazing experience in the least!!!

All Ready

Well it's finally here. The car is packed and we're headed out at seven in the morning tomorrow. Yikes.... when's the last time I got up that early??? hahaha I'll probably be driving most the time, Mom likes to sleep a lot on road trips, the sounds of the road put her right to sleep. It'll still be great to have her there with me. So I'll for sure let you guys know tomorrow how that is going, it's a 21 hour drive about so tomorrow we're hoping to be a little more than half way. Em and I just had such a fantastic conversation and visit over Skype, if anyone else has it and would like to Skype with me at any time let me know I would love to see familiar faces while I'm up there. But Em and I have been skyping every night since she left and it has helped so so much I can not describe it to you, just to still be able to see each other live helps so much. Makes you feel so much closer. She is starting to run into the whole studying part of college...... they have that??? haha no but it's been rough, she's been a real trooper I'm super proud of her, she has made some excellent friends as I mentioned before and her roomate is very smart and has been helping to make the studying times a little easier with a study partner there with Em. Church was fantastic for the both of us, the last time in a while I'll be at my church haha hmmmm I'm going to miss so much back here it's all starting to sink in.... I'm going around with everything I do..."The last time I'll_____." hahaha it's kinda humorous. Most everything is all packed up and ready to go just the last minute things for tomorrow morning to fit in. I love you all thanks once again for keeping up with my Blog means a lot.

Packing

Packed my first bag now. Quite the large bag..... I might have too much clothes. HAHA nah. Most of my drawers are now empty which is one of the weirdest things ever I must say to open your draw to look for something then realize it's in the bag behind you. I still have yet to find out where I'll be living, which is so frustrating to not even know where I'm going even though I leave in four days. O well hopefully I'll know before I get up there. I've been getting kinda bored lately with EVERYONE out in college, all I have to do is really just pack and clean, which trust me is quite the task on its own haha. But it's fine nothing has really gone wrong yet as far as I'm concerned so I'm pretty happy about that so far. :)

Emily is having such a great time out in South Carolina I am so excited to see where the Lord takes her through her journey out there. Our relationship has only really grown stronger it seems from the distance instead of fade which is so encouraging and amazing. We're really doing great and staying so strong in both our relationship and in our relationship with God both individually and together as one soul. I have no doubts in my mind that our relationship is going to continue to grow and only get better from here.

Thank you all for following me again. It means so much to be able to talk to you all and know you can be thinking and praying for me at any moment. Love you all. Have a good one. :)

Getting Ready

Hey everyone. Starting to get everything ready to go to Washington. We're leaving on Monday for a twenty one hour drive in my little car with everything I'm bringing up inside it haha that'll look interesting. It hasn't gotten too hard yet, I mean it's really hard for sure but it only hits me at times you know? never really constant. But boy when it hits it sure hits hard. I don't really know if I'm ready for it or not. I just keep praying every second that it starts to get hard. I'm trying to stay so positive when ever it starts to get hard but man it's hard to even do that sometimes. It'll definitely take some time to get used to everything. My schedule is finally up on the Tomahawks web page. http://pugetsoundtomahawks.pointstreaksites.com/view/pugetsoundtomahawks . hopefully that will get you guys to the home page. If not you can just google "Puget sound tomahawks" it'll most likely be the first site that comes up. Thanks again for following me you guys it'll make it easier to be "talking" to all of you while I'm out there.

Anticipation

So it all seems to be coming closer and closer. The days are going by very quickly. This keeps becoming more and more real as the day draws near. I don't even know when we start our drive out there. All I know is that I must report on the second of September. If anyone has any ideas that might help any of you or that might be fun to see in coordination with this blog please feel free to ask me and let me know how I can do it. I don't know what I will be doing as far as the time I will not be playing hockey so what ever you all suggest is a very welcome suggestion. Thank you again for following me and I promise I will be blogging basically every single day I am out there so starting about the second of September be sure to start checking in to keep up :). Love you all.

Goalie Camp

So this was a very long and exhausting week. I had to go to a goalie camp run by GDI, for any of you that know hockey camps and all. But GDI is a goalie specific development camp run by some of the top goalie coaches in the nation. I was up in Arvada from seven forty five till six thirty every day from monday to friday. Each day i would have fitness development and eye hand coordination as soon as I got there. I would then get on the ice for an hour and a half at eleven thirty before lunch. After lunch we would proceed to have fitness testing which was not a big deal it was simply personal goal type of testing just to see where you were at in terms of each type of fitness element. After our fitness testing we would have a relaxing type of activity for about and hour an d a half which usually consisted of playing a game of stick ball on the baseball field across the street from the ice rink. Then we would get on the ice for another hour and a half session before we got to go home. That was what I was doing all week haha, it was hard and challenging but not too hard that I couldn't push myself through it. I enjoyed every single little second of it. It was hard but I was able to see great improvement each time I stepped out on the ice. That week of camp put me into a much better situation going into the season. I'm looking forward to the improvements that I will be able to make as the season starts and pushes me like I've never been pushed.