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

Another good day, and Back at the Scougale's

I am now writing to you back at the Scougale's, home? haha no sorry my house, Colorado will always be my Home. But I am back at my house out here and I am pretty happy about it. I am much more appreciative of the Scougale's I believe. That week at Kris's opened my eyes to how ungrateful I was being I think. They have opened their home to a stranger, opened their family to someone they had never met, they took a chance on me to hope that I wouldn't be a problem causer. I hope that I have at least proved that much wrong. They are great people for doing this for me. It still isn't a perfect fit for me, however, it could be a whole lot worse. Kris's house was nice and it was fun being able to hang out with him and his brother don't get me wrong. The family as a whole, however, was simply something that I could not handle. I look forward to seeing how this next week goes with the Scougale's.

Practice today was great, it felt so incredibly professional hahaha. I have gone to see a few Avalanche practices back home, however, it was never a full blown practice with drills and such. They seemed to have more free skate type of practices where the players who wanted to come would come and work on things that they wanted to work on, no real organization. That was the type of practice we had today, we only had about ten guys including two goalies. We scrimmaged a little bit just to get some game situational experience and the players tried out their new gear, they don't seem to like it too too much. They say their gear is pretty stiff and not too comfortable. So I guess I didn't miss out on much haha. So practice was simply just some fun. Which was great to be able to go out there and just have fun like I used to. Hockey is still super fun for me but at practice it often feels much more like work. Because it does mean so much for me out here and this is a huge opportunity that I have, it feels much like a job sometimes. Especially since it is everyday pretty much. But I couldn't ask for a much better job.... unless they paid me for it haha.

I just got back from Chris's surprise 18th birthday party. I had a ton of fun, we just kind of hung out and talked around a fire for most the night then we watched a movie to wind down at the end. It was really fun I met some of his friends from school and a couple other hockey guys from the midget team that him and a few of the other boys play a little with as well as on our team. It was a ton of fun, however, I am super ready for bed at this point haha. I think I am going to go and watch them play tomorrow, they really wanted me to come, I think me and Chris will become pretty close. Aaron Ward, he is a defenseman on my team we talked a lot tonight, he is a really nice kid, I think that we will become pretty close as well. We talked most of the night it was great. I also met this kid from the midget team, a goalie, I do not know his real name but everyone just called him Penguin.... Haha I love it haha. He was really nice too, we talked quite a bit too. I'm excited to see how those relationships progress.

Emily went to a youth group retreat tonight and will be gone most the weekend from school. I'm excited to see what the Lord has in store for her out there. I will be praying for him to show her clearly what he has for her. Again, I cannot believe the amount of blessings that God pours out on this relationship, it is only through him that it is truly possible because it is truly impossible to even completely comprehend it all from a human mind let alone imagine doing all that he has done on our own, it is simply not possible. I love you Sweet Thing!

12 Days now!!!!!!!!!! O MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE Y'ALL!!!!!

Good day

It has been a relatively good day. We had an afternoon skate today so we were done and back to the house around seven ish. Which was nice to have happen :) early to bed??? Maybe? Probably not haha. We still haven't gotten too many new kids out there yet but hopefully we will next week and the week after. We got some new equipment today, ok so the players got some new equipment. We goalies got a new bag though, it is a weird shaped hockey bag though haha. It is super boxy, if we don't pack our stuff just right into it there is not a chance that it fits in the bag either, it's pretty small, especially compared to my huge bag that could literally fit me and someone else I think inside haha. Still really cool to get stuff :)

I also went and did a quick little job for Kris's dad, for about an hour, got paid twenty bucks. I was happy haha. I had Applebee's for lunch and unfortunately we had Mcdonalds for dinner, but I had chicken so I didn't feel 100% gross haha. only 85%.

We continue to have great weather up here, I think I might have stolen it from Colorado and brought it up here haha. We'll see though I hear the winters out here are the worst parts. I'm not really looking forward to that part. I am glad that most of my breaks that I will get will be in the winter ish times. So the times that I do get off I will get to leave the scary winter out here to go back to actual fun winter haha. I cannot wait for christmas, o goodness haha I'm already saying that? Yikes. I love it up here though so far it is fun for sure.

I will be starting class on the fifth or the eighth of next month, for what ever reason I just forgot what the actual day is. Just have to tie up a few lose ends :) I have been in contact with an architecture firm in Seattle, just waiting for my name to be passed around to see if I can be of any help. In the mean time I will be looking for alternative employment in case that does not work out :).

Emily and I are doing great. She had a lot of studying to do today, wish I could've been there to help. I hope that we will be closer sometime in the near future so that I will be able to help when she has tests that stress her out. Feels kind of like I am unable to help at times from this far away. She assures me I still do :)

14 little days!!!!!!!!!!

Starting to see a team.

Tonight we had another good practice. It was fun. I played pretty well too which was fun. I did have some issues with one or two drills, just still having some mental issues with getting it all together. But it is coming around, I am not worried about it at all. We are still working on getting new players, Derrick, Kris's brother is going to start skating with us now I believe tomorrow. He is a good skater he has been out with us a few times so I am excited about that. We did some work on power plays and some normal skill drills as well today, we have two good power play and penalty kill lines so that is good to see. We are starting to become a team, which is just incredible to see. I don't know what happened last night but something seriously just clicked amongst the boys.

We have a few things planned out for tomorrow, just some erron type things. Goodness do I need to get a hair cut though, the only problem is I want to get one hair cut now and then make sure they do it right so they know what to do so I can get it done right before the wedding, ya ok I'm kinda a girl like that hahaha.

Emily and I still striving to become the Godly couple that we are called to be. This journey is long and sometimes hard but ultimately incredible and worth every single second that we have gone through, I wouldn't change a thing. :) I love you so much Emily!

15......14 Days NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AH!!!!!!!!!!!! TWO WEEKS?????? JUST TWO WEEKS TILL I GET TO SEE Y'ALL!!!?!?!?!?!?TWO WEEKS TILL I GET TO SEE EMILY!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I'M SO STOKED!!!!!!

I cooked!!

Haha today was a pretty good day. There was not a cloud in the sky the entire day, we had temperature of about 86 today, way too hot hahahaha. I heard that Home is supposed to get snow tonight.... I miss waking up to the snow at such weird times through out the year back home. I don't think we will see too much snow up here. I am curious to see how the winter goes. I then got to cook, well kind of, twice!! For lunch I made hame and cheese crescent rolls, which were great but I don't know how much that counts as cooking. I then, for dinner, made chicken, the way I make it back home, just with what ever ingredients sound good at the time. It all turned out great! I loved it and so did Kris.

Hockey was scary today, to be honest. Our team again was not putting in the effort and the mental work to truly be out there. Coach was not happy at all. I was struggling a little bit with just some basic things that I know I was able to do, so during the break everyone got their head on straight I spent my time focusing and visualizing. We all played so much better the second half of practice, two of our players fought because there was so much tension, we had some lines that were just connecting so well on the ice, we had some huge, fair hits, we had players running the goalies like they should and would in games, we had some sniper shots. It was a great second half I sure hope we can continue it. Both coaches told me that I played well tonight, which was very encouraging.

Emily and I, still just growing, so much together, there is so much to explore and learn through our lives and experiences. It is such a grand adventure! One that we are taking together in some ways and separate in others. It is great to know that you always have someone to talk to or just to say something nice if there is a bad day. It is fantastic. I love you darlin!

15 Days!!!!!

Mainly just practice

Today we didn't do much besides play hockey. We had a three fifty practice so we left the house at about one thirty to get there an hour before we got on the ice. After we got there, tried to get our skates sharpened, the lady wasn't there, not there till Wednesday, we just sat there and waited for people to slowly wonder in. We had a decent practice, I was off my game again today though, so was the other goalie that I am paired with usually at practice, we got pulled aside and talked to actually, which was not very fun but we just have to remember that it is truly for our benefit and that it is nothing personal. So I just have to tweak a few things so that my game can be at it's best for practices as if each practice was a game. I am excited to see where I will end up in all of this adventure.

Tonight, chipotle and then video games before bed again. Tonight we are going to bed earlier, we have a late practice tomorrow night. We will have have to be there at seven forty five for dry land prior to practice time. The ice time that we have is at nine. hopefully we will have a pretty good practice tomorrow too. He warned us that if we weren't prepared that we would simply skate for the entire two hours that we have ice. Yikes, talk about not fun.

Emily and I continue to grow through God's will, God's wisdom, the path that He leads us down, the Holy Word that he gave us to learn and to follow. It is not always the easiest path to take, however, it is the best and the only way to truly live our lives both individually and as a coupe. I continually am still falling head over heels in love with her every single day and every time we talk or I get to hear her voice. I love you sweetheart!!!

17 Days!!!!!!!

Not too much....

Today was again not too much that went on we had practice this morning at 10:30 we left Kris's house at about 8:30..... We didn't think that one out too well. We got there an hour and fifteen minutes early. So luckily I know the combo to get into our locker room so we were at least able to get in.

We had a pretty good practice, we started having kids on actual lines so we did a lot of more team work kind of drills. So we were able to do drills with kids in lines, so that was kind of fun to see. We had a couple of kids that simply could not pay attention or something, they kept messing up the drill time and time again.... so we skated for about twenty mins. It obviously wasn't too bad but, we shouldn't have had to at all. We did our skating stretched then got off for the Zamobi after about half an hour on the ice. After the Zamboni we came back out and they ran a couple of situational dills but they didn't really need a goalie so us goalies were able to just go off and do our own things. We all did some sort of positional movement drills, I focused a lot on simple movements and save visualizations to try and just get back to basics and get my muscle memory on track so that in practices I'm not lazy in any of my movements. It was really pretty good.

We came back I found a lot of colleges and am working one emailing them tonight and tomorrow. Tomorrow I get to call about an architecture firm that might be able to help me with a job of some sort. I will hopefully get classes set up that will start October 5th early on this week. There are only a few things left to get classes started so now I have been working on actual college for next year in case I do not get the scholarship opportunity that I was hoping for out of this year. I'm not losing hope on that though, both of my coaches have plenty of connections in the college levels. The head coach when he promised me ten games this year told me about a kid that he had promised seven games and then played 17, he is now playing d3 hockey in college, so my hopes are still up. But I am also looking at colleges that might not accept me and give me a scholarship right away but perhaps I go play club with them for a couple years then earn a scholarship while I am there. There are still a ton of options.

Emily and I are just simply fantastic it has been great so be hearing from her, seeing here makes all he difference and means so so much every time. I love her so much and I carry her love with me where ever I go.

I love hearing from you guys so email, text call, comment, anything, I love you guys see you all soon!

17 Days officially right not!!!!!

Full day

Today we woke up just nothing really too planned. We knew that we had to get my oil changed in my car other than that there wasn't any plan. And for those that read last night, no I didn't work out at all :/ oops.... wish we had in some way. oh well we'll just have to work super hard at practice. We ended up going getting some food, then getting my oil changed.... That is SUPER expensive now!!! o my goodness! After that we went out to Seattle, a few of the teamates were out there just hanging out. Some of the kids that live here were showing some of the other kids around Seattle sight seeing sort of stuff. We met them over there and picked them up. We drove around a little bit then walked haha. We walked just randomly they had already seen most of downtown and since my parents and I walked around and saw a lot of the sightseeing things that there were to do out here. So we didn't stay too too long. It was really fun though, just to hang out and meet some of the boys and get to know them.

When we got home we just got some dinner from a chinese place and ate while we watched a little baseball. When we were done i got to talk to Mom and Dad and see them for a little while and talk about Uncle Gary's wedding and just everything out here, we haven't been able to talk too deeply with both of them in a while so that was really really nice! I loved it!

Uncle Gary!!!! I'm so sorry I couldn't be there I heard it was fantastic!!! Congratulations! So excited to see you guys!!!

Tonight we just sort of hung out a little more some video games, dinner just nothing really important as normal haha. Oh well, making friends right?

Working on colleges still, I will be starting classes on October 5th. I decided I will for sure be taking Calculus and I might take an entry level English class as well, just to see how much time I will have to invest. I have a connection set up to call on monday to try and make an interview with an architecture firm up in Seattle, it would be quite the drive everyday, but I think it would be completely one hundred percent worth it to get myself into the business. We will see how that goes, I will for sure let you know how it works out on monday.

Emily and I were able to talk for a little while today, it was great. We were just able to grow even more as usual. I love it when I get to see her, however, I cannot wait to see her and pick her up at the airport at the Wedding!!!! O my gosh I cannot imagine how fantastic that is going to feel!!!!

18 Days officially right now!!!!

New House?

Today I woke up in a new house, talk about weird haha. Another new house. This time I wake up on an air mattress not a bed anymore haha. Oh well, it's a house, and I am thankful for what God has provided me. I am starting to become good friends with the two brothers that live here. The one, Kris, he is already playing on my team and his older brother, Derrick, is trying to work out a deal to play with us too. They played on the same team last year and just loved it they are only two years apart. They have a little sister who is 10 and we picked her up from school. It's been really fun. We just had a relaxing day today played some video games, started transferring music between computers, turns out the new iTunes has a feature to let you share music between connected computers on a network. Great stuff.

Tonight we went to a WAHL hockey game, a lower level of professional hockey, for the local team, the Seattle Thunderbirds, it was such an intense game. It was just as enjoyable if not more enjoyable as a NHL game. Since all of the players are under 21 and trying to do their best to make it to the Show, NHL, they are playing their hearts out because they don't have any real promises yet. There were a couple kids that actually played in the NORPAC, my league last year. I was surprised because I was not sure how good the league that I am in is, so that is encouraging to know that it is a pretty good league. I cannot wait to play in my first game, I was talking with Kris and he says it feels like you are so professional your first time playing. We have a twenty minute warm up skate, we have starting line introductions twenty minute periods, it just feels incredible he says. I cannot wait!!!

Tonight we have just gotten back, we are just going to hang out a little bit more maybe play some video games. Just more relaxing haha. It's been a nice day. I need to do some sort of a work out tomorrow I feel kinda gross tonight haha. Back to my air mattress for the night haha, not as uncomfortable as it sounds though.

Emily and I just incredible right now still just powering through all of this that the world tries to through at us. Nothing can beat the power of God, NOTHING. I have truly became a witness to God's glory and grace and just everything that he does for us. I love you so much Darling!

20 Days!!!!!!!!!

Situated

So today was a bit hectic haha. The Scougale's left this morning early with me still without a place to stay for the next..... oh about 8 days. I had no idea what I was going to do, luckily I had a sort of back up to stay on Chris's, kid that lives in Puyallup, couch at his house till I was able to find somewhere. So I was a little worried from the start about that one haha.

Went to practice hoping that Donna, the team owner, was going to have a place for me to stay. I did not have time before hand so I had to wait till after. It was a pretty fun practice, we are still doing a lot of skill styled drills, I am slowly growing more confident in my position on this team, which is great! We are still trying to get quite a few new kids to come out, our one new kid from Colorado is just not very good, all the other kids that had played with him before keep saying that he used to be able to be one of the quickest and best kids on the ice. So I don't know if he is just not trying for what ever reason, or if he just lost what those kids saw in him. All I know is that so far we have a pretty short team and are trying to expand that a little.

So after practice I was able to go and see Donna. I came into her office, she looked at me and before I even said anything she goes..... "you need a place to stay huh?" Immediately I was like well here goes the couch haha. I guess she had told Coach to find me a place to stay.... Why? don't ask me. :) But there was one of the kids that I didn't think will be playing with us there and he said he could make a call. Called his dad and before I knew it I had a place to stay. As it turns out, no I hadn't made this connection before, it was Kris, the other friend I have, his brother. So I am currently staying on an air mattress set up in their living room haha. They are super nice, it is good company, I'm liking it here.

I'm planning on trying to make it up to Mount Raineer tomorrow or Saturday, however I think I was invited to go to Seattle with most of the team on Saturday to hang out and go eat. Since most aren't from around here they were curious and wanted to go see. It will be fun to go there with someone from here so they can show us around. And I'm just kind of excited to go and be a part of the team.

Emily and I still just so amazing. We are both pursuing God's path and plan and doing our very best to follow him, even though we do not know where he will lead us. All we can know is that he is leading us where we NEED to go and where is best for us. Even though it will be hard at times and that He will challenge us, We can do all things through him who leads and saves s from the devil's grasps.

Love you all thanks again for reading. Love to hear from you if you guys have time.

20 Days now!!!!!!!!! considering it is past midnight now haha.

keeping busy enough

So far I have been able to keep myself relatively busy, save a few hours each day it seems haha. Yesterday I went to search for a Kohl's.... they aren't so popular out here as it turns out its abut a forty minute drive to the closest one..... and it was so hidden, I had to ask about three people separate times for directions on how to get there haha. But I now have directions that will get me right there every time :) I wrote them down haha. Hockey is still going great too. I started car pooling with that kid that lives in Puyallup that I told you about Chris. So that is good, good company.

Like I said hockey is still great. I am really enjoying it. The kids are fun, the coaches really are pretty nice, as long as you don't mess up because you aren't paying attention, then you are in trouble. Yesterday, we had a pretty good practice, we are still doing mainly skill stuff simply because we really don't have a huge talent pool, or any depth. We had a huge hit a couple nights ago that I forgot to anyone about but it was two of our best players, one called and said the doctor said he fractured two ribs but he is going to play tonight I guess??? Don't know how reliable that story is. But the other he showed up yesterday in a sling. He tore a little cartilage and popped his shoulder out the doc apparently said just a couple days off for that so I assume the cartilage isn't bad?? I don't know though. We are still a pretty small team, Coach is continuously trying to get new players in, he says he has been working on it all week. We had a couple come on monday like I told you I believe, and none of them have returned. We had another kid come out yesterday from Pueblo, CO, he didn't do much to prove himself though. Then yesterday we also had a kid kicked off for not trying and working hard at all. He never really does work very hard this kid, which is really annoying. I guess he was on the team last year and got traded early on in the season because he wasn't working hard, he seems to be on that same track.

Just finished my quiet time this morning, Emily helped me to start that in the mornings instead of at night. I used to always do it right before I went to bed. She suggested I try it in the mornings. I have just loved it. I need something to do in the morning anyways considering I don't do anything during the day that is really of any purpose as of right now. It also really allows me to start the day off right and with a positive and good note, that I think about through out the day, I like to believe that it helps to keep my mind right through out the day. O NO! I forgot a verse for the day, I'll go back and find one.

James. 2. 26

Emily and I are still doing just fantastic. It is truly incredible to take a step back and look at all that God has done for us both as a couple and individually. We are truly Blessed! It is incredible to watch our relationship blossom even through the difficulty of the distance. It hasn't even seemed to be an issue or a hinderance at all! It's wonderful. I love you Sweetheart!

22 Days!!!!

Two Days

Today has been a good day so far.... just have no idea what I am going to do for the rest of the night. hmmmmm...... Today started out slightly frustrating. I went to go and find a store that apparently isn't so popular out here even though it is crazy popular back home. I drove around for about an hour asking people and getting all sorts of different directions leading me back and forth across town haha. I eventually gave up and then went home for practice. We had a good two hours of ice, we only had to skate for punishment once! It was great! haha Then we got our dry land canceled because coach went out after us to help with the younger kids that practiced after us. I played really well for pretty much all of the practice I only played poorly in one drill and it was a break away drill so luckily it wasn't a hugely important part. Still a bummer but the rest of practice went a lot better so I was pretty darn happy :) We also were able to bring out about three new players out to the team today. I don't know if they will stay at all or what the deal is we weren't told too much about it. So we will see how they work it out and we will have a good amount of players for depth :)

Emily and I are continuing our growth as believers and as girlfriend and boyfriend :) It is really fun to watch our relationship grow and have so much fun with it all the whole time! I cannot wait to talk to her again tomorrow!!! haha

Can't wait to see everyone again!!!!

24 Days!!!!!

Fun Stuff

First off I set up a page for all of you to look at photos. If you copy and paste the long..... well thing above under my name at the top? Where it says photo link.... And put that into your browser, it should bring you to picasa where I have uploaded photos, I'll try to keep it updated too :)

Yesterday was pretty fun, didn't do too much but I had a lot of fun with it. I met up with Chris, the kid on my team that offered to take me to a free movie, we saw Gamer..... I do not recommend it to anyone, it had a ton of language and just things no one needs to see, with out all of that, however, it was a good movie good concept. After the movie we went and talked for about an hour at starbucks. We got to know each other pretty well it was a good time. And he lives in the same town as I do so that is good, he goes to high school still though so I still don't have anyone to hang out with during the day haha. But hopefully I'll get into school and a job pretty soon here as well.

After that I still had nothing to do so I went to Walmart haha. I got some snacks for me, I really kinda don't like the food that the Scougale's cook unfortunately, now don't get me wrong it's not bad food or anything, its not like unbearable to eat. There are just some things about it that bother me for some strange reason, they aren't even big reasons haha. I guess I just really miss Mama's cooking. So I got some healthy snacks that I can have during the day to make sure I am eating enough to fuel me at practice :)

Today I went to First Presbyterian Church here in Puyallup. I did not really like the actual church or the services. It just wasn't really what I was looking for. However, I met the youth pastor and his girlfriend and they were super nice!!! They immediately asked if I had any friends in the area or know any believers, I said not really, and right away without missing a beat they invited me to lunch!!! God is good right? haha And they live right down the street from me :) So they ran to the store to get food and are going to call me soon for me to head over :) I'm super excited about it.

Emily and I........ Goodness!! haha I continuously fall deeper in love with this girl every day the Lord gives us. I am incredibly blessed to have her in my life in such an important way. I could never describe it in words to anyone. I could go on and on and on and on about her if you wanted me to but nothing would ever be able to live up to how I feel. I love you sweetheart!!

25 more days!!!!!!

New Friends?

So last night I really messed up. I mixed up the times between dry land, which was before practice and the actual ice time that we had. I missed dry land entirely and was late on the ice. DUMB! luckily the head coach was rather gracious, thank God, I did get punished but it was very reasonable and deserving. I had to just do twenty up-downs, which is as fast as you can from butterfly to standing position. After practice I went and privately talked to each coach to apologize and each was very nice and gracious and just told me not to let it happen again. I had made sure that I was working the hardest that entire practice and doing everything that I could to make up for my mistake and I think that talking to them personally helped, that was one thing the head coach said at practice I remembered he said to all of us if we make a mistake that is fine, it happens we aren't perfect but don't just avoid it or make up a story to get out of it, just talk to me and tell me what happened exactly and you will be punished for it but just make sure you man up about it. So I did.

I did make a couple of new friends now finally! haha I got their numbers last night. One of the guys, Chris, he is a senior in high school and lives in Puyallup too. He works at a movie theater here in town and gets free movie ticket so he offered for us to go today to a movie for free..... Free movie? Of course haha. I don't know what we are seeing yet but I'm pretty happy I just have something to do besides work out. Then I also got Uly's number, he is one of the other goalies, he is from Maryland and he for sure talks like he is from Europe. He is nice, quiet and shy but nice, I hope we will be able to hang out sometime soon too. Then I had already sorta been talking to the other guy, Kris, for most of the time out here. He is really nice, lives here as well, about forty five minutes from the practice rink. He is nice and encouraging and he is funny haha, it's fun to play with him out on the ice, he is a good player and pretty good kid from what I can tell so far. So that is all very exciting haha

Yesterday I was also able to get my plane tickets for the wedding finally!! I am so excited to see everyone and I cannot wait for it! I have already gotten measured for my tux out here, I am just ready to go! I am so excited to see my brother get married, to add on to our family, to see and visit with everyone there, and to see the love of my life again. :)

Goodness Em and I are GREAT! haha my love for her just continues to grow and overflow. The love that God enables me to give her is so incredible that it amazes me to feel how much I truly love this beautiful, gorgeous girl. As we both continue our faith growth towards our Lord that love grows like wild fire! It is an incredible experience and such an amazing blessing. I cannot say enough about her. I feel truly blessed to be in love and feel the love of a woman like her.

Love you all and thank you for continuing to keep up with me. It is great to hear that you are following and reading :)

26 Days!!!!!

First Practice With Dry Land

Hey Everyone, Sorry I didn't Blog last night I might start to Blog in the mornings now, I was exhausted last night, bed sounded too good. Last night the ice time we had was pretty darn good. I played much better and was able to put a whole lot more of myself out there than I had the previous day. It felt great. After ice time we had our first dry land practice. Haha one of the other kids from Colorado was making fun of it saying, "it's not really day land our here, Colorado we have dry land, out here it should be called wet land." Haha which is also funny since for the time I have been here there have only been maybe two days that I haven't seen the sun..... It feels a lot more like Colorado out here, minus the mountains, they are different out here. Thank God for helping it feel more like home out here quickly :)

I also got a lot done yesterday, I was on the phone for about three hours straight having conversation after conversation and none of which lasted more than five minutes haha. I was trying to work out college, I think I finally got it all worked out though! I looking at taking an english class through Red Rocks Community College, That will not only help me get a head start on college for next year but also it will act as a good distraction for the days I have nothing to do haha.

Emily and I are still growing strong, sure again there have been bumps but in no way are we not continuing out growth together and separately. We are both doing GREAT! I love her so much and will continue to strengthen and grow that love as the days, months, and years go on.

26 more days!!!!!!! I love you Emily!!!

Working Through It All

So today I felt very productive and eventful haha. Even though I really didn't do too too much. I woke up earlier than I have been lately, A.K.A 10:30, so I woke up at about 9 ish. I got ready had some Life cereal to try and stay as healthy as possible out here haha. Then I headed down to that huge market I told you guys about that Mom, Dad, and I went to while they were here. I got Mom a couple of extra mugs that she wanted from the original Starbucks, and then I just kinda walked around a while, since I accidentally paid for two hours on the meeter that I parked at downstairs haha I figured I'd try and use it. So I walked around, tried to see every part of that crazy market. Turns out there are about three different levels in that thing! Had no idea! That thing is HUGE. But I also found out something really neat that will be fun for our family at Christmas! We have a tradition from when we used to go to Grandma Krall's house for Christmas eve, we always have seafood for dinner and we try to always have seven different things on our plate. So this year since I am in such a huge seafood market out here I thought, "well maybe it would be cool to be able to ship some actually good food back home for Christmas Eve." So I asked, haha oh ya there are about a billion fish sellers at the market..... ok 5 but they are really big and all of them just pulled their fish and crab and lobster and all kinds of seafood out of the Sound that day! or the day before! So I asked them, THEY SHIP!!! So ya if anyone else would like some seafood from out here let me know..... I'm not going to lie though I don't have the money yet to pay for you guys haha. But he told me it was about $50 to ship..... So let me know if you want to pay for it hahaha. wish it was less expensive

Practice............. BOO haha I'm a little frustrated right now with how I practiced. I don't exactly know how to explain it but I'll do my best. I am of course trying to make an impression to ensure my spot on the team and so I am trying to make sure I'm giving a hundred and ten percent of myself a hundred and ten percent of the time. The only problem that I am facing right now with doing that is that well, I wasn't able to get myself do to so tonight. For what ever reason my mind just wouldn't let me go there. It was a bit frustrating. I don't know exactly how to fix it but I have faith in God's plan that if it is meant to be it will work itself out. I just wish I could have more confidence in the security of my spot on the team. So it is a little frustrating, But like I've been told by many who I've talked to so far about the whole experience, God is going to push me to my limit and really push me to rely on him and have faith in his plan. "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself, each day has enough trouble of its own." Mathew 6:34. God calls us to trust in him wholeheartedly, to not worry about where we will end up or where we might go in life, He already knows all of this, He knows the decisions we will make, the mistakes we'll make, when it gets harder and seemingly impossible, "When it gets hard and it hurts just remember the pain and how hard it was for Jesus to carry the cross, all of our sins being poured on him at once as his father turned his back on him." Emily Wurtzbacher. Nothing is impossible unless you tell yourself it is! God is always with you! Just look for him!

Em still continues to teach me about God everyday, it is incredible! God has really blessed our relationship in so many ways, I have never had such a deep connection with another person in my life. She was really truly able to encourage me and she is always in my mind reminding me to never give up and to always stay positive, I could never have asked or dreamt of a more amazing love. She helps me so much everyday, I only hope that I help her half as much! haha I love you sweet thing!

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27 Days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First Practice with Coach

Hey everyone, I just got back home from my first practice....... well first for a lot of reasons. haha ok only two. The head coach Chadd Olson was there tonight, I thought it was going to be miserable, I hardly ate before I went because I thought it was going to be just a full on skate till you throw up kind of practice. Thank you Em for making me eat something, I would have died haha you always know what's best. But we did a lot of complex drills, not his full blown drills I don't think and a lot of more fun, I think he is trying to ease us into everything. I know this first month is going to be a lot of conditioning. He was kind of disappointed with the talent that he was able to get for this year, he flat out told us that one, he said not to say that we were all awful but that most of the team this year would not have made the team last year, and the kids that were on it last year weren't playing too much. So he wants us to be the hardest working team in the league, obviously because it sounds like that's the only way we'll win. So this month will be extremely good for me.

Today I think I might have gotten set up for an online college course, I'm really hoping so anyway. After I get that set up and going I'm going to start to just apply to different schools that I want to go to next year, and who knows maybe I'll be able to get a scholarship enough to go there even if they don't offer one for me with hockey.

Em and I still plugging along, lots of fun, she is still sick though so please continue to pray for her, it is hard for her to get her rest being up in college. Too much that she NEEDS to do, and yes truly need. God will continue to bless us, as long as we keep him at our center, which I do say we are doing quite the job of.

Well I'm off, sorry this one is not quite as long haha. I'm sleepy, practice again 7:50-9:50 tomorrow, oh ya! I don't know if I have told y'all this yet but we always have two hours of ice time. Hope everyone is doing well. Can't wait to see you guys at the wedding!

28 Days!!!!!!!!!

SUPER BORED

So turns out when you don't really know anyone where you live and don't exactly have any places to meet anyone new it's really boring haha. I struggled finding enough stuff to do today to fill my entire day.

I started out thinking..... lots of thinking, and talking with Em of course. I decided to go up to Bremerton, where the game rink is, because when Mom and Dad were here we had seen that there was a blackberry festival that was going to start this weekend either today or yesterday. So I drove up there super super worried about it, I had started driving and of course ran into rain on and off the whole way up, and realized half way up that I had forgotten a jacket.... That won't happen again. Luckily though the Lord provided and it didn't rain at all and i was actually kinda warm while I walked around the festival. The festival was rather disappointing considering I hardly saw anything about any blackberries..... Thats dumb. There were no samples or anything, there were plenty of salsa and meat stands and of course jewelry and art stuff like that but really? you'd think everything would have to be somewhat related to blackberries..... Nope. So I had an italian sausage and left haha.

I still had a whole heap of time before I had to be back for dinner. So since I was up there already I went and watched people skate around on the game rink for a bit. There is something about a hockey rink that I just find so soothing and relaxing, it really just makes my day sometimes to just sit and watch a piece of ice. I love it sometimes I could just sit there all day and just look at it. I left that to go back and check out the progress on the new ice at the practice rink. I was really excited about this. They were redoing all of the lines and putting a logo in the middle, from what I had heard. All of this was true it looked great all of the lines were so crisp and the crease now super visible, unlike before, and that logo in the middle is pretty sweet. The ice still looks as if it has some issues but the lines and all of that look great.

I went back to the house to have some dinner that Mrs. Scougale had prepared. I got back and they were all doing their part to clean her car haha. It was a huge family event I thought it was funny because if Mom had ever tried to get us to do that back home all of us would have laughed haha until Dad told us we had to, or that they would pay us. It doesn't quite work like that here. They are good people I'm very blessed to be a guest here.

I found out that I will be needing to find a place to stay for about ten days here coming up, starting on the seventeenth. That should be interesting since I don't know anyone yet. I guess it will be a great way to kind of introduce myself and I'll be forced to really throw myself out there. Obviously I could just talk to the owner and have her find somewhere for me but I need friends so we'll see who offers to help.

Em is still not feeling too great so if y'all could please keep praying for here, I guess the Swine Flu is out in South Carolina pretty bad, I'd hate for her to get that. We're still doing great, we both have been having good and bad times, not in our relationship but rather our separate situations, and so we have been able to encourage and motivate and really just up each other's moods. It has been working out just splendidly. I love her so very much and can't wait to see her again, it's amazing however to really think about how far apart we are and to realize how great we are doing with it. Like the distance doesn't even matter, who'd a thunk it?

Tomorrow I plan to start looking into schools calling to get started on an online course shortly if not right away. Then I am supposed to have practice tomorrow night, however, I do not know the time of that, I think it is dependent on when they get the ice ready, so we'll see how that is, but Coach Chadd, our head coach, will be back so..... hopefully I won't die! :-P haha

I love you all so much thanks for reading! Means so much more than I could tell you.

29 Days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First Sunday

So Em helped me find a church for this morning!! It was fantastic. It was called Harbor Life Church, the website is theharborlife.com. It was a really small church, one where everyone knew everyone, on a first name basis. I had a difficult time finding it but it was fine, God lead me around town on a great rainy day, which yes I'm still enjoying since I am still used to Colorado weather haha. The moment I walked in, I wasn't even sure that I should I was so late, The sermon started up. It was perfect timing as always. It was such a great sermon for me too, so perfect. It touched on so so many things that either I could relate to or that I was and am currently struggling with. It was so amazing for my first "church searching" service. :) So thank you my love :) it meant so much to me too that Emily took her time to help me find a church to go to that she looked for with my interests and what I would like in mind, see how well she knows me?? haha.

So then after church I got back to the house and no one was here, I was informed a little later that they were going to be out of town for a while till tonight, so I would basically be alone, Beth was here and there but again I hardly saw her, as usual haha. I was able to call Mom and Dad and then I was also able to talk to the Wurtzbacher's for a little bit too which was really nice to be able to talk to both of them for a while today. It was raining on and off all day so I decided that I would go on a run since I have these three days off and I know that tuesday is not going to be an easy practice that I need to keep working. From what I figure I ran about two miles? I don't really know it was mainly up hills and down hills so I got a lot of that work which was nice to be able to work my legs a little more than on flat ground. It was nice to be able to run in the rain, which my slight asthma the moisture in the air and the coolness allows running to be much more enjoyable for me.

After my run I was able to get quite a bit done, got a letter written to my family back home and to Em so I just need to get some stamps tomorrow and I can send those out. :) I watched a show or two on Hulu. com and then watched the beginning of Miracle..... I love it haha. I had a piece of pizza from Papa John's where Beth works ah.... and ya it was super greesy and I got some on my shirt.... I was not very happy, that better come out.

I went to Walmart and got myself a nice little lamp for at night since there isn't one here and I don't really enjoy doing a quiet time and my blog at night in bed then having to get up to turn the light off to go to bed.... ya call me lazy I'm happy with my lamp haha.

Emily is out with Mason's family for Labor day weekend. She is LOVING it. They spent a good portion of their time today on the water, Mason has a lake house with a boat and all the fun toys to go along with the boat haha. They had some just hilarious stories about the water and their time out there, it sounded like so much fun. We just got done talking on the phone for the night, she didn't bring her computer down so no skype tonight. But we had a great talk on the phone for a little bit :)

Well I'm going to get to my quiet time and look into a little bit more of what the pastor at Harbor Life Church preached about this morning.

I love you all and am so far really enjoying this blogging thing, please keep writing comments to me though, it makes me feel like more of you are reading and I feel more in touch with all of you which is much of the point of doing this haha. I love you and hope you guys are all doing well!

If anyone wants to skype let me know! text or call too 720 320 1282

31 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Adventure here we come

Dropped Mom and Dad off today at the airport, talk about hard. It was so hard to watch them go and to see how much it hurt Mom to leave me there. I miss them already but will always feel their love with me where ever I go. Still hard though, already getting better though so hopefully I won't feel too alone for too long.

This morning, however, before they left we went to the glass museum. It was so cool and so impressive what people have learned to do with simple glass. It is incredible and so so so pretty. We were able to walk around and see just tons of unbelievable glass sculptures, bowls, plates and even masks. It was such a neat experience.

haha It just started to rain....... better start getting used to that one haha.

I went to a stick and puck with Mr. Scougale and Buck, the 14 year old son. It was fun, I mean there was no real talent for me to use as shooters at all haha but it was fun. I was able to get a pretty good work out with doing movements and things such as that and then I was able to stretch for quite a while, maybe thirty mins? O my legs are so happy haha.

Tomorrow I am going to Harbor Church, a church that my incredibly amazing girlfriend found for me online today. I do not know exactly what type or size or anything because I couldn't find it online when I looked haha. I will let you all know tomorrow about how it all went. I'm really excited for it though she was pretty positive that I would like it so we will see.

I received my first care package from Em today. :) it had tons of cool stuff inside. and I got a letter as well both in the package and one in the package. Perfect timing right?? Right when Mom and Dad leave. :) Weird how God works that way haha. It was great to get that stuff from her :)

Em and I just got done skyping again, she isn't feeling very well so if you could pray for her that would be great. But I opened the package with her and just was so excited haha it was so much fun to open it with her. She looked so cute though, I wish y'all could have seen her, even though she was sick and so ready for bed again she just looked incredible haha so adorable. her hood up because it's cold in the dorms and just this cute delicate facial expression she had, that was a lot due to her not feeling well, which made me feel bad that I was enjoying it, but it was just so adorable. She is going to get to spend time with her room mate this weekend. Since Em obviously doesn't have any family out there to spend the holiday with Mason's family invited Em over. So nice of them!!! But they will have fun it sounds like they are going to their lake house so they'll be on the water a lot with the boat and the tubes. It sounded like it will be a great time out there for the two of them. Another reason I hope and pray she starts to feel better soon because that would just be no fun and I know she would feel so bad if she didn't feel well enough to really do much.

Well it's off to bed for me tonight. Love you all! Talk to you again soon!

32 Days!!!! :)

Lots of Washington

I cannot believe I did not tell you all about last night! Mom, Dad, and I went to go and eat dinner last night at the Space Needle!!! It was an incredible experience for sure, definitely not something you do often but it was really fun and a cool thing to see. That was pretty late though so after that we went home. Today was quite eventful as well, however. Started out with an early practice at 9:30, we had another two hours of ice time, this time we didn't get a break in between to get the ice redone by the zamboni. We did a lot more skating today but our head coach was still not able to be there, he'll be there on tuesday I've been told. I also have been told that we will be doing a lot more skating once he gets here. I have three days completely off for the weekend, they are redoing the ice at our practice rink so we literally cannot skate, nice break huh? It'll be interesting to see how practice goes once our head coach gets here. After practice we went straight up to our game rink, Dad hadn't seen it yet. There we ran into the rink manager and he automatically guessed that I was one of the players. He introduced himself and showed us around the rink and the locker rooms and explained that we generally have two locker rooms for the size team that we have. After we left the rink we headed to the Seattle Ferry. We took the ferry across to downtown Seattle, one of the coolest things I've done out here so far. We then walked around and got ourselves to the Market up there it was incredible!!!!! There was so much amazingly good looking food there! Everything was so so fresh and so perfect I had never seen such amazing fresh and perfect produce before it was unbelievable. There were tons of huge fresh fish and huge fresh fruit! The best part though, it was so so cool, THE ORIGINAL STARBUCKS!!!! hahaha it really wasn't too too different but just the idea of being in the very first starbucks ever was really cool. So of course we got a drink from there, it was necessary for sure. It was so so cool.

This morning we started the day off with an early practice at nine thirty. Two hours of ice just like last time, only this time we didn't get any break in the middle for them to Zam the ice. Bummer. We did quite a bit more skating today than yesterday and I still was able to keep up, I'm not nearly in shape enough but I was able to keep up. Our head coach still hasn't made it back yet he will be back on Tuesday I am told. I've also been told that he runs practices a little bit harder. So I guess I have a little bit......a.k.a a ton..... more skating to do haha. We'll see how that goes.

We then headed up to show Dad the game rink, in Bremerton! It worked out perfectly because as we walked in the rink manager met us and immediately guessed that I was a Tomahawk player. He very nicely showed us around and talked about the rink so that was very nice. It worked out great he made us all feel very welcome to his facilities.

Then we got to take the Seattle Ferry! It was sweet! It was cold, but it was really cool. There was food onboard there were tons of seats for everyone, you could stand out on the front and watch the water and the boats and feel the wind. The sea gulls loved to ride the draft winds from the boat. They just kind of glided along over our boat chasing each other talking to everyone haha. "Mine!" haha.

When we got to Seattle we went to the Pike Avenue Market. It's this huge huge farmer's type market where all these fantastic farmers and fishermen and just all sorts of produce come out. There were beautiful flowers, huge and just perfect looking fruit, wonderful looking fish and shrimp! It was spectacular. Just wonderful to see, I had never seen a grocery store with that many varieties of just fantastic things to buy, let alone a farmer's market. At the end of the market, however, was the best part. THE ORIGINAL STARBUCKS!!!!!!!! It was so so cool, well I guess honestly it wasn't really all that different from the normal starbucks but just the knowledge of it being the very first starbucks was such a cool experience. We had to get a drink there haha, it was for sure necessary.

Tonight I am spending the night with Mom and Dad in the hotel. It is their last night here so I thought that it would be nice to be able to spend as much time as possible with them before I had to go and live out here with no chance of getting back for a weekend or just a day to say hi. Wish I was closer so that that was an option. Oh well, the Lord took me here for a reason. That's why I'm here, to find out what that reason was haha, then I'm going home haha just kidding I'm going to do my best out here promise you all that, I'll do you proud.

I made that realization actually the other day, I no longer am out here just for me. I represent so much more that the way I act, play and present myself will reflect on so much more than just myself. I now represent my Family, Jason, Aaron, Jessica, Mom, Dad, Kellie, All the extended family too! I represent my state, people will look at me and expect a lot of how I act and present myself and play to be how a lot of Colorado will be. I represent a lot, a lot more than I listed or that I can comprehend even haha. No pressure though right?? haha

I'm now going to be looking into getting at least one college course done this semester too which is rather exciting. I have to try and work that our this weekend before hockey gets too intense and I forget about it.

Em and I are again just fabulous. It's been so great and such a blessing everything that has gone so well for us. God truly seems to be on our side, and we have always promised ourselves to pray that if it isn't his plan or that we don't keep him at the center of our relationship that he allows us to fail, or to show us how to fix it. And so far he seems to be very pleased with us, which seems to make every part about this experience to be so much easier. We just got off of a call on Skype, which is such a great invention haha. She was so so adorable. She was exhausted. She had had a long but sounded like such a fun and amazing night. She was so tired at one part near the end of or conversation that her neck apparently decided it was time to sleep. It just wouldn't hold her up anymore haha her head flopped off the screen on one side then she got it back up, only for it to flop off to the other side and off the screen again haha. I kept trying to get her to go to bed but refused of course, she said, "my day wasn't complete yet." :) hmmm I love you so so much Sweetheart!!! We talked a little bit longer, after she configured her computer to show her in the screen even with her head flopped haha. She was so so adorable, as always.

Love you all thanks again for checkin in on me. If you have any questions let me know, you can also always text of call me, I'd love that. And for those of you on Facebook I'm trying to take as many pictures and put them up as I can so y'all can see. I'm working on figuring out how to get this set up so you can all see these pictures that I take, so if anyone has any suggestions on how to do that please let me know on that as well.

33...... Oh I guess it is officially now 32 Days!!!!!

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Sorry it has been a little bit since I have written anything, I kept forgetting to get the internet code from the Billet family. I moved in a couple days ago this will be my second night in the house. It is rather weird being her it hasn't quite felt like home yet, and I have no doubts it will after a while it's just a matter of how long that will take. Puget sound is really just a fantastic area, we have also been very lucky weather wise. We have not run into the continuous overcast and rainy days yet which is fantastic coming from Colorado where God blesses us with nearly 365 days of sun.

I had my first practice today and I was pleasantly surprised. I fit into the group rather well as far as skill level, I was rather nervous that I would discover that I had a ton of work to do just to get caught up...... if they weren't doing anything to get better haha. But I was able to stay with them for the most part and make a fair amount of stops and some that others thought I'd miss so that was encouraging and the team is actually a rather good group and they seem like they will be a pretty good team to spend the next several months with.

Emily and I are still just fighting strong and growing with everyday that the Lord gives us. I love her more everyday it seems and that is so incredible considering the two of us seem to pretty continuously hear about other couples not being able to make it work with any little distance between them. And yet here we are making it work and actually doing better than that making it thrive. Again I don't want anyone out there to start thinking that we are having a perfect relationship or anything like that, that is not what I am saying. We are not perfect none of us are and in a relationship there are going to be issues that come up no matter what type of relationship it is. Emily and I have just been able to continue the growth in our relationship even with the distance that has been put between us. We love each other very much and are very happy with the situation and adventure that we have before us, obviously it would be much much better if we could be able to hold each other and be literally together through every step of the way but we are still happy and enjoying all of it and being very encouraged by each other through everything. It has been and will be great.

33 Days!!!!

Here

So I'm finally here, I'm.... Home haha. It still feels really weird, we haven't moved in or even met the family yet though just in a hotel for the night. We found out about the family their name is Scougale. The have three kids, one twenty year old daughter one fifteen year old son and a seventeen year old daughter.... Yes I know it'll be weird. But that's OK Em and I have already talked about it and while it will be hard there is no doubt we'll have no problems. I'm anxious to move in and start trying to make it feel like home though. We'll see how well that works and how quickly I can adapt. We move in tomorrow around ten so we'll see then.

My coach's grandmother just passed away and so I won't see him for a while, my assistant coach is going to be running my practices for a little bit until he gets back but that also means it looks like I'll practice thursday and friday and then potentially have the weekend off which will be nice to have that kind of easy transition into this whole situation. I'm really excited to see the rink too, I didn't get to see that tonight simply because it is an hour away and we don't exactly feel like spending more time in the car right now hahaha. I'll let you guys all know how the family and the rink are tomorrow night.... When I'm staying in their... my house!

Emily and I are still great as ever, I think we might fall asleep on the phone tonight to feel a bit closer considering we're so so so far away right now haha. God has blessed us and has kept our hearts close, however, and has done so much more that I cannot even describe to you. But we are still simply amazing and are still very much so looking forward to this up coming year. We are most definitely counting down the days until we get to see each other again, which will also be helpful to some of you out there considering it is also a count down until Jason and Kellie are getting married!!! 35 Days Left!!!

Thanks again to all of you for following I'll talk to you again tomorrow night.