and the countdown continues!!!

67ish HOURS til WE LEAVE!!!!!

thoughts going through my head are excited jumbled chaos!!!!!!! i love it! and to let you know. the hours are passing very slowly!!!!!

im off to go finish packing for school!! mucho fun-o!!!!!

ode to the Garmans!!

i never thought i would highlight anyone in my blog, but ey, its worth it!

Annie, Colby, Darcy, Haley!

(yes, i got the pic from your blog!!! heheh)

i know that if you are reading this you are probably like, "oh come on Becky, your such a sap!"

well i dont care!

i dont get to tell them this enough so here goes!

Thank you so much for everything! you have meant so much too me and I love you all dearly! I could always come to you with anything and i know that wont change when you go to iceland/when i go to college, it will just be slightly more difficult with you in another country and not just across route 1.

this is so not goodbye! as ive said before, i dont like that word AT ALL!

But you've been in my life for so long that i cant picture it with out you all in it on a regular basis! no longer will i be able to pop in on annie and the girls for the sake of randomness, or bug colby at work with questions or nonsense!

well, i have so much to say, but yet not really, it wouldnt make sense right now.

thanks for being so Amazing, and for teaching me so much and welcoming me into your Home, and for being there for me since day one! I thank God for bringing you into my life!

dont let the girls forget me, cause that would stink!!!

love you!!!!!!!!!

Good luck in Iceland! I know that God will use you in awesome and wonderful ways there! keep blogging too!

the evil "g" word

im holding it together. two major goodbyes down, many more to go... i dont like goodbyes. so i refuse to say that anymore. from now on, it will be "see you later" this then means that its not forever, and i will see you all again!

gotta love stafford!

they def closed schools today, which means that i didnt have to work!!! exciting!!! hope everyone is stayin safe and dry!

8 DAYS!!!!!!

so today i actually made it to church, (sorry for not the last couple weeks, babys christening and then a ball game hindered my coming to church, but were both awesome events!!!!)

this week is a week of lasts for me. last sunday school. last monday night bible study. last tuesday night pillar youth group. last wednesday night stafford youth group. and then next sunday will be my last sunday at Stafford Baptist. last time to see colby and annie and the girls for about 2 YEARS! im probably gonna tear up alot this week. its my last week with the kids at work, with friends, family. its kinda crazy. ive never had such a bitter sweet feeling in my life! Im so EXCITED for the summer, and for school, but im not a good goodbyer...i hate doing it. infact i usually avoid it at all possibilities.

That you to my wonderful most fav. sunday school class ever for this morning...while i didnt really know how to react to all the good stuff being said, it was encourageing. thank you for everything Jason & Tracee! you are AMAZING! and im gonna miss you and the kids like crazy!!!!

If there is one thing I will miss, it will be my Stafford Baptist Family, and all who are connected to it.

i gotta save my tears for later so this is as far as i write tonight about this whole goodbye thing.

so until i regain composure...

11 DAYS!!!

Today i completed my file transfering. (i moved all my documents, pictures, music, etc. from my home computer to my laptop)
after needing to find it a new battery, then a new charger, and an external harddrive, i finally finished it all off today by adding the pics from my camera to the computer so i will have space for the summer.
it was a long process that was shortened by the brilliance of my tech savy friend Kristen Marks!
bless you!!

Michele and I depart in 11 days to Georgia.
if you would like to know the specific dates and locations of where we will be, here is a lil list for you.

Camp Schedule

May 19-23 Orientation- Global Retreat Center (Georgia)
May 26-30 Camp 1- Shocco Springs (Alabama)
June 2-6 Camp 2-Global Retreat Center (Georgia)
June 9-13 Camp 3-Laguna Beach (Florida)
June 16-20 Camp 4-Eagle Eyrie (Virginia)
June 21-25 Camp 5-Shocco Springs (Alabama)
June 25-29 Camp 6-Shocco Springs (Alabama)
June 30-July 7 Reorientation Break/Team Building (Georgia)
July 8-11 Camp 7-Cohutta Springs (Georgia)
July 14-18 Camp 8-Bradenton (Florida)
July 21-25 Camp 9-Blue Ridge (North Carolina)
July 28-Aug. 1 Camp 10-Twin Lakes (Mississippi)
August 4-8 Camp 11-Laguna Beach (Florida)

im rather EXCITED! to say the least...

today is may 3rd, and in an hour that will change.

15 DAYS!!!!


ok, now that that was the updated countdown, i dont have much time tonight to write cause im tired, but really am looking at how the next two weeks of my life are panning out thus far in my mind and tonight, for some reason, i just got a sense of overwelming craze. if that makes any sense.

in the next two weeks, i have to figure out how to pay for school, and i also have to pack up my life, one third for global, two thirds for college.
to attain those goals i have to go through some boxes, i have to do around 6 or so loads of laundry, (i kinda thin out my laundry or hide it in corners in my room casue i never have time to do it...) which include the need to wash all my sheets and blanket and pillow cases. i have to pack for global completely, and then set those two bags aside so i can box up the rest of my life for my parents to ship down to my school over the summer. thursdays are all i have to do this. and i only have two of them left. im feeling a bit uncertain...

so time i have to do all this might seem like two days but in reality, its only 4 days. (2 thursdays and that saturday and sunday before i leave.)



weird thing is that even with that all in my head, somehow, my excitement for the summer and for starting this next chapter in my life, it out ways and beats out everything else! some how im still on cloud nine! only Jesus! HE IS AMAZING!!!!!!