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!