My fish have names!!!

Firstly, huge apologies for taking so long on the fish names!! Things have been kind of hectic and I wanted to properly take pictures of my fish and really look at all the names. Thank you everyone for your input! I really enjoyed all the creativity that went into it! And Amy, I really did enjoy yours, but somehow I didn't really want to name my living fish after dead ones I would eat (might become a self-fulfilling prophesy or something!) Sorry the pictures are a little blurry, they wouldn't sit still for the photo! One actually died nameless.. so sad. But there are two in the tank that are previously named: Grover (the deceased Oscar's younger brother) and Ugfi (stands for Ugly Fish, cuz i thought he was kind of ugly..) And here are the rest of the names, the winner will be announced at the bottom!















Since I only got a group shot for this one, it is the little orange and white one just above the archway. And his name is Fergie Jr.















This is Ndizi















Santorini















Ferguson















Maximillion















Rembrandt














Montgomery Millington Kristin III

And the winner is: Kristal!!

Thanks everyone for all your contributions! I will hopefully be busying some more fish soon so there can be a party in the tank, so stay tuned for another competition (and i will name them sooner this time!)

Bye! Hope you enjoy all the new posts below this as well!

Pictures of Fall

Halloween Fun!

I dont' really care too much to do much for Halloween, but was super excited to be able to spend the day with cousin Desiree! We baked jam filled cookies, which turned out amazingly!! Even though we always put more than average jam amounts inside (tastes better that way...) We didn't have any eggs for the icing, so we walked to the barn, waited for the chickens to lay one and then came back (okay so there was a flat of eggs waiting for us, but my first story is better). Then we went to Red Robin's for dinner and came back to the house for a bit. All in all a wonderful day!!

Birthday Party Fun!

So, on Saturday my friend Sandy was hired to plan a birthday party for a 12 year old girl (she's an event planner). So, I got hired to help drive! We rented four vehicles, piled 35 kids in and drove to Vancouver where we all went for dinner to the macaroni grill and then we went to granville island theatre sports afterwards. it was tons of fun and great to hang out with friends while "working". Interesting as well to see 12 year olds and to hear a lot of their thoughts and the things they talk about. mostly shocking actually. I had a van with six boys!! It was fun times and I was close to being deaf near the end after all the yelling! But as i hope you can see with the pics, it was fun times all around!!

promotion

Sorry for my lack of posting. I have lots of pictures I'm eager to post! I'm just waiting for some free time to be able to do it actually! This past weekend was great! I will tell you more about it when I have the pictures to go along with it.

I just got promoted at work! I am now the new front desk manager-hooray for me! this means that i won't have much more free time, but i'm so excited for this job!

The moon is amazing tonight in the sky as dusk takes over the sky turning into a plethera of different blues. As I'm driving I continually see the amazing fall colors as well as the mountains taht are newly laden with snow and I am in awe. What a wonderful God we have!! Praise Him!

fall

Our fall has been absolutely beautiful here this year! For the most part, the weather has been amazing! Thank you Lord! I would like to say that midterm time is done, but alas, I have about ten midterms that extend throughout the whole semester, averaging one or two a week!

Fall is about death... All the leaves falling off the trees is a cycle of the leaves dying and falling to the ground. I've been thinking a lot lately of my own life and where there exists some leaves that I need to let die and fall to the ground. What are my priorities? What are the things in my life right now that are making me stale as a Christian? Where am I spending my time? What am I investing in? So just a thought of thinking through the things in my life that I need to let go of and let die in order for there to be room for new life to come. And I'm looking forward to it!

right on

the weekend has come and gone and another week of school is here. only one midterm this week, so not so bad, but i really hope i get a chance to study beforehand (rather than simply the night before...)

last night i was feeling really discouraged and lots of other stuff was going on, but i was reminded again that in everything, it doesn't really matter what mark i got on something, or if i didn't have everything absolutely perfect. I need to keep my focus on Christ and have an eternal perspective. Yes, it means I still should try and put my best effort into it, but that's my part, and I give it over to God for His glory. And He's going to use it and I can trust that. I often put my standards incredibly high and so it's hard for me to attain them and i feel like a failure if I don't. But I am learning over and over and over again that I need to do all unto the glory of God and from there on in, the results don't matter, it's my heart attitude in the whole process that matters. good reminders.

I went golfing again on friday and beat my previous score by two (yay!). I have taken up swimming in our beautiful fall weather. Our pool is still open for some strange reason and it's about 90 degrees F and fabulous! I could spend hours in there. You just have to make sure you fish out all the caterpillars first!

Tonight I said I was going to go to bed by ten. It is almost midnight. Perhaps i'm living in a different time zone that's two hours behind us?

yay for midterms!

The midterm insanity has begun! I counted today and I have eleven midterms total. This means fun times for me! I have two tomorrow morning, both back on back, same classroom, same subject, just different information. Perhaps I should have studied earlier? Now it is almost midnight and I think I should go to bed. Besides, the memory chapter tells me studying and then sleeping is the best way to retain information! haha.. helps if you studied more i guess. i went swimming today instead of studying and it was nice and well worth it. then i drove my mom to the airport to pick up her vehicle and when I arrived back home I was locked out of the house. That was my time of productivity! YAY! Well i'll keep you all updated on how the midterms go. :) Fun fun fun til her daddy takes her t-bird away awoooo!

thanksgiving weekend fun!

sanctuary

i didn't have golf class this morning after business so i decided to kill some time and drive somewhere. i used my gps to find a park and went off in pursuit of walking on some trails in the woods. However, all the trails were grown over so i ended up bush wacking a lot! i sat down in the dry riverbed and just enjoyed being surrounded by the forest as the sun found its way through the trees. What a beautiful reflection of how great our Creator is! Once again, nice to take those little moments out of my day to simply be.

celebrating life

today was a wonderful day! i think the thing that made it particularly wonderful was that it was full of freedom. freedom to be myself, freedom to share, freedom to cry, freedom to do whatever came next to mind, freedom to simply stop and relax... wonderful.

had business class this morning followed by a great golf class. got my video analysis of my swing, so i'm looking forward to checking that out. then i just got a lot done while at school and then I headed off to one of my favorite places to be alone: Cascade Falls (pictured above) I crawled under the safety line fence and sat near the edge of the cliff, just watching the falls and giving up a lot of things that I've been holding on to. Also releasing some memories that have been plaguing me and giving them up to the Lord. That's partly where the freedom part comes in a little as I felt something lifted off of me and as I returned down the trail to my car, I felt like skipping and leaping as I sang at the top of my lungs in the middle of the woods. It was beautiful! I hope to return again soon.

pile up

So I thought I was pretty close to being caught up on schoolwork. Then I made a homework to do list (bad idea). I have thirty-four items on this list. I am learning it is bad to let certain assignments and readings fall to the wayside...

I have to continually remember to make the choice for God rather than choose to be overwhelmed.