To end my posting today, I leave you with a cute picture of Daniela and Kim listening to music and eating apples after our 1-0 victory! 

I took a ton of pictures at our last soccer game against Bear Creek. This is one of my favorite! Good form, Mike! 

Here's my Dad and what's left of our deck. It was rotting I guess... maybe he just wanted an excuse to demolish something! ;) 

OK, so here it is... the infamous fish picture posted in the office! Mr. Sarr insists that I look like I just gave birth. Anyway, I got to go fishing with Mr. Kacker and my dad last Saturday and caught a 12 lb salmon. Less than 20 were caught that day out of 77 boats! Once again, the Lord blessed me hugely! He was pretty tasty! Yum! 

Doesn't anyone else have a testimony?!

Howdy! I was just cruising the one28 website and found to my dismay that, yet again, I am the only one with a testimony online! I seem to remember SKH telling EVERYONE that they could send him their picture and testimony oh, only about a YEAR AGO! I want to hear how my one28 brothers and sisters became saved... someone please be added to the list! I would just love that! Anyway, now that I've gotten that out of the way, I am so excited! This year has been full of homework already, but God has blessed me with tons of fun things to do too! I've gone to the fair, Olive Garden, great small groups, soccer party @ Coach's, soccer games... and I get to go to JH retreat, Cristiano's, Master's Trip... the list could go on and on! I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for taking care of me like that! Just allowing me to enjoy many things when I am faithful in my school work! After having to take all last week off from soccer because of a strange, humongous bruise, I feel ready to play again! I am sure I will be exhausted after the first practice due to getting out of shape, but praise the Lord I can even run and kick again! Because I wasn't playing last week, I had enough time to sit at practice and do homework and even make a fun movie/slideshow of our game against Bear Creek to show in Chapel this Wednesday! It was all part of His great plan! Sorry for the mumble jumble of thoughts, but it was just a short update. I need to get back to doing homework for next Thurs. and Fri. when I'll be on the JH retreat as a cabin leader! Hasta luego!

P.S. If you see Chris McAuliffe this week, say: "Hola, Sabio Pato!"

I Am So Cool! (Just for you, SKH!!)

Actually, the title has nothing to do with this blog, but was a joke for our dear shepherd! Ok, muy bueno... I STARTED SCHOOL ON WEDNESDAY!! (I know, it's a big shock for all of you... NOT!) I was very much looking forward to starting. With the first day games/events out of the way, I finally got a glimpse of what my school year was going to look like. I've come to the brilliant conclusion that it is strange. Mainly due to the fact that I am driving and that senior year feels very, very close! It's also bizarre realizing that I'm not going to be at Grace Academy for much longer. I've gone there since kindergarten, so it's like my second home. I truly belive I spend more time on our beloved campus than my actual home at least during the school year. What's exciting is feeling like you're used to how things go and you can share your experiences with younger grades and newer students. SLC is also a huge opportunity this year as well. God in His sovereignty allowed me to become vice president and I pray I can live up to that calling. I hope we can truly lead our high school to a spirtual revival of sorts (or to use one28's favorite term- reformation!!!). I don't want to go through another year just sitting through 7 classes, doing sports, or planning events without keeping God's agenda for my life first. I don't want to look back on graduation day June 2007 and realize I missed a huge opportunity. I've got to give a last push... finish the last stretch... sew the last button (or any other comparison you might think of) so I can give a positive account for my 17th and 18th year of life! College is going to be a huge change, so I should make sure to cherish the wonderful environment, teachers, and friends at Grace! Well, in closing, I will type the first part of 2 Timothy 3 that we were to memorize tonight for tomorrow in Mr. Peter's Bible class (more to follow as we memorize the whole chapter) and a few choice "Word of the Day" highlights:

"But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come." (NASB)

tintinabulation- the sound a bell makes
(This was extra humerous because I thought Stuart said "the sound a bull makes" when he said the definition. tintinaBULation- it makes sense! :))

chiasmus- inverted relationship between syntactic elements of parallel phrases
(Um... thanks Webster, I guess.) It mentioned something like: "to stop too fearful and too faint to go"

P.S. Our first soccer game is tomorrow against Orcas Island. I love ferry rides, don't you? We'll certainly give it our all! I'll have to post the scores when we return!