Last year was an awesome year of new experiences, new friends, and learning tons of new things about the Lord and what it meant to walk diligently after the Lord. 2007 has wrapped up and the 23rd year of life is coming to a very swift end for me but of course I wanted to look back on the blessings, in anticipation of all the cool things that I'm sure will happen in 2008.
In January I celebrated my 23rd birthday with tons of friends (new and old) several of them drove down to SD to see Baywood House for the first time. We celebrated JR's birthday (and i found my "twin" brother.)
And of course, prepped and played in Mission Bowl in the awesome offensive line- I had the battle bruises to prove it! (JenLee, we won't be as strong without you!)
February brought several memorable times...Experienced Resolved for the first time...(and this was the first time I had ever talked to Ms. Stephanie Shin - aren't you glad I forced you to take a photo with me...I guess I knew I would need the documentation eventually.)
I was starting to miss so much of the my UCI years, especially the several fun tea parties that Kristin would have. To help ease some of that reminicing, in March, Anna and Tiff helped me host my first San Diego tea party, which we prepared for some of the college girls who have since then become dear friends.
April had a sweet start as my college buddies from UC Irvine came down for a weekend together - i got to show them the best San Diego had to offer. including lunch at Super Sergios.
Tim and I undertook the daring task of planning a birthday celebration for the girl who has done everything... so we took the girls on a hike and the boys set up a picnic for Naomi's birthday. It was super cool to celebrate a friend so dear with all her close girl friends. Carol Lim and Carol Kim burned up the trail and left us all in their dust.
May was a lovely and bittersweet month. We celebrated Tiff's birthday with a very dear circle of friends as well as prepared to say goodbye as she determined to start nursing school at CalStateLA.
Celebrated God's faithfulness to LBC at the annual banquet. (I think this may have been our small group's first official photo) and reunited with childhood friends at Christie and Micah's wedding.
June was jammed pack full of many joyous occasions... Got ready for missions in the Czech Republic, did the girliest thing to date: had tea with the girls of my family, watched the UCSD class of 2007 graduate, and had a yard sale for missions!
July was that big step....to yet another country: Czech Republic! Had a
wonderful time with the church family in Ostrava, learning and teaching about the disciplines and the fundamental truths of the Christian life . Another shout out to all my supporters - you guys are awesome! (Praying about going
again this year!)
In August, I decided that was going to be a Dodgers fan.
September was the month of
S's...
Sara's birthday and
sad because this
was our last official small group time during Friday Night Light.
October was the month full of costume assembling for one incredible family for the Fall Festival. I will never be able to top the girls with the Ronald McDonald but it was fun getting everyone to wear tights.
November's LBC family camp was 10x's better than my experience from last year...thanks largely to Lillian and the rest of the "crew". We had
some photoshoot fun after everyone else had emptied out the cabins and was getting ready to drive home. This is our "and1" shot.
December has been a doozy.... Singlelife Christmas banquet, Anna's birthday,
Becky's birthday, catching up with friends from home, since this is the one weekend that I was actually home for an extended period of time, Christmas with the family, deciding that I was indeed going to be changing jobs, etc.
2008, I hope you're great!
