updating of the blog. check!

Got so much to update! Apparently since im not in school at the moment, i have to find something else to procrastinate on since i dont have home work to do and that is now my blog...oops!!! time to fix that!!

Last week I met with one of the most amazing women i know!! (Mrs. Cindy B!!!!) Love her with all my heart!!!! Anyways, during our much needed starbucks visit, she told me about this amazing thing called Blurb.com. Basically im creating a book out of all my blog posts!!! its sooooo freakin awesome!!! Its going to be my present to myself, kinda like a house warming gift but for my dorm..haha The book will have all my posts from day one up until i leave for NMSU. That will be my Volume #1 of Em's Junk Drawer. I cant wait for it to be finished!!! I work on it like everyday now. not gonna lie, prob the best book ever, besides the bible of course(: haha small side note about my blog, found out today that there are a bunch of random people that I dont even know reading my blog!! People in Moldova have read it!!! along with many other countries. How crazy is that?!!! Just think, something I wrote may have in a way helped them out or been just what they needed to hear. How cool is that?!!! or......they now think im some crazy lady.........i hope its the first one!

Another big thing that happened for me last weekend was my trip up to Sams house. My girls (Kelly, Taylor and Jess) and I took a road trip up to Kirkland to visit Sams parents and pretty much go through her things. We were all dreading the trip, but just like with her funeral, it was really good for us. We remembered the good times. Told stories. Laughed. Sam was definitely with us. Of course it was hard since that was the first time for us to be up there without Sam. Yes it hurt, that pain will never go away but being there, together, remembering Sam and all the good memories we shared was just what all of us girls needed. Out of all the things I brought back from Sams, probably my most favorite is her horse ring. I have yet to take it off. Every time i see it, it brings a smile to my face. I remember how much she loved horses. I remember going horse back riding together. cutting pictures of horses out of magazines and making a horse book (which i still have!!!!) I remember my birthday party at wild horse ranch rescue and Sam fell in love with Pistol the lil buckskin. I remember going to Bush Gardens and running into the Budweiser Clydesdales barn with her to see the horses. I remember visiting her in the summer up in Baghdad (AZ) and she took me on a tour of the town and pointed out each and every horse there was. I remember talking to her in the hospital about her final decision on her "Make A Wish" and that she decided to get a horse. (A palomino of course!) Who would have thought that a tiny ring could be so powerful?!! Sam, even though you are gone and no longer with me, you are not forgotten. Not a day goes by that I dont think of you. I can still hear your laugh. You had the best laugh. I swear I heard you laughing with us when we came up to visit your parents. (yes i know, crazy talk!) as you said in the poem you wrote me, "even though we will be far away, you will never be gone from my heart, because our friendship will never be torn apart...." Gosh i miss you woman, so freakin much! I know youre up in heaven right now, blessin all them angles and Jesus with the sweet sound of your laugh!! so jealous!!! Love you Sam. always and forever!!!!

So I leave for Africa on thursday(TOMORROW!!!!!)...to be honest, never thought I would ever be saying something like that. I have dreamed of going to Africa for like ever!!! and now its happening. This is insane!!! Not gonna lie, totally freaked out for this trip but I am sooooooooooooooooo stinkin excited!!! I cannot wait to see how God works through my team and I. I cannot wait to meet all the lil kids we get to work with! I cannot wait to tell you all about it when i get back! I just cannot wait!! I feel like this trip is coming at the worst but totally best time for me. (if that makes any sense at all!!) My life is moving at super speed right now, I am just so caught up in GO GO GO! ME ME ME ME ME! life is just so stressful and overwhelming and i feel that Africa is just what i need to get me outta that cycle even though knowing that i will be gone for 11 days and not getting stuff done here at home is stressing me out lol but im ready. I need this trip. God has a plan an i wanna see what that is!! So Africa, here I come!!!!(:

Thats all for now, so too-da-looooo!
-em

quotes for the day are now back in action!! mainly from the kiddos i nanny..

"my tummy hurts. A video game will make it feel better Emilie."-PJ

"The black bees dont eat people, just wood."-Beau

"How am i supposed to cyber stalk him if he does not have a facebook?!"-girl in one of my classes last semester

"yes i know you have a cut on your finger, you just showed me."-me
"its not my finger. its my thumb silly."-Beau

"Eww, he looks gross. Been eatin his vegetables. Too much broccoli. He'll be dead in twenty years."-Beau

"Brother, that looks kinda fun but youre freaking me out."-PJ

"Its, its, its like kil medicine. but for bugs. it kills bugs. But your not a bug so dont worry. Brother look! Its kill bug medicine. Emilie open your mouth, gotta check for bugs....AHH!! Dont panic. There is a spider in your mouth. BANG! killed it. Oh Grace, would you stop eating scorpions!"-Beau

"As president of the United States, here is 2$"-says grace as she hands me 3 pennies.
"Um, Emilie, those are our pennies and they are staying here."-PJ

"Whats that called? A fruit cake?"-kate
"No, thats what youre called."-randy
"Its a FRUIT PIZZA!'-me

"That was poison-chocolate-kiwi. It will make your brain get books in them."-Beau

"Um, Emilie, my girlfriend just turned 38 because that was her party."-Beau

"What if horses had horns? like a bull?"-me
"that would be scary."-jess
"well, if it was like a unicorn horn, that would be cool."-me
"then its just a unicorn. duh Em."-Taylor

"You trying to get to Kirkland junction"-police officer
"No, Kirkland, Arizona!"-kelly