Babies, birthdays, and special moments

The days were quite full last week, family was out from BC so we spent a lot of time partying. My cousin Chrystal stayed at my place in the city for the week, we had lots of fun catching up! We spent our time playing our favorite card game "Phase Ten", watching some good movies, trying to make a first class meal for ourselves (note the emphasis on the word trying, our desert was pretty much a disaster), and of course what girls do best; talking. During the week we also had quite the loewen get- togethers. Faspa at Aunt Mary-Anne's to celebrate grandma's 80th birthday, this also inculded oohing and aahing over the new babies in the family. We had a baby shower for cousin Jocelyn and little Aiden on Wednesday, and of course the big celebration on Friday night at the Drop-in centre in Warman. There we put on a small program for Grandma which included a funny skit put on by the cousins (at least I hope it was funny!!) , a slideshow, a few songs, and a poem. Good times are always had with the loewen gang, I am so thankful that our family is still able to get together and celebrate.

Yesterday was also a pretty good day, I had the day off work which was really nice. My mom took me out for lunch and we had a good talk, I love her so much! The evening was spent with friends, dinner out at Chianti's, and then and time of sipping Timmy's and singing worship songs. I love times like that!! Oh and the flowers are a gift from my roommate; how sweet!!

I have been anxiously awaiting word on Romania stuff but still nothing has come. It's hard for me to wait patiently because I like to have my life figured out however God always seems to point out that He is the one that needs to have control over my life, not me. It is forcing me to trust God because time is slowly creeping away and so much stuff still needs to be figured out. There seems to be a lot of things in my life right now that I catch myself worrying about, however His words from Isaiah have been a good reminder for me;

"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." Isaiah 41:10