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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!
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