DECEMBER 23

Well technically it is the 23rd, only cause it is 1am!! It is so close to Christmas and that is so wonderful. I am getting a bit excited now, this year I just haven't been feeling as Christmasy so now it is coming and I think that because I have to work too, right up and including Christmas eve, but I do not mind. Costco has been absolutly CRAZY I can't imagine working in a retail place!!! Well I got my Dad's gift today and have to get my brothers tomorrow. I did leave it to the last minute but I knew what I was getting I just never had the time to go and get it, now I do not have much choice but to MAKE the time to go and get it. Well that is all I am going to write maybe till the New Year but we will see so for now I am signing off....I pray that you all have a wonderful and blessed Christmas!!!

Okay so here the other pictures that I wanted up. The first on is one of my friends that had 2 boys in the same project and this was the best picture ever I think of the together. The next one it Emerson (the clown and translator) and our fearless leader Karen. The other pictures is one of our whole team and the other having lunch at the Compassion headquaters in Nicaragua. Very interesting!!!

Well I decided to put up a few more pictures on here. I can't fit them all on but will add more a
different way. So as you can see me with my little Gabriela, me with a parrot, a few pictures of
kids, my friend with her little girl that she sponsored when she was down there and the very top
picture is one of the guys on our team (in the middle) with our 5 translators from left to right:
Emerson, Vanessa, Scarlette, (Darwin) Virna, and Flor. They are all SOOOOOO AMAZING and
I LOVED each and everyone of them!! So yeah that is about it I will post this and then add some
other photos too. The are just a couple more that I want to put on here.

DECEMBER 5

So yeah, in my last blog I said that a lady from work quite and I was a little frazzled, WELL I was supposed to have had yesterday and today off and the other girl working got sick and so I have been working since last wednesday and work up till friday (non-inclusive) so waht is that 8-9 days in a row. I figued that at the end of my pay period though I will have scooped up 60+ hours in 2 weeks!! That'll be nice but I hope not to do that to often!!I do not know how some people do that all the time!!! YIKES!! Anyways, I have a really AWESOME friend that I LOVE talking to and today I was talking to her about alot of stuff that went on in her life and I don't know what it is about people who have had a hard life and have come to Christ it is just so amazing to hear the love and understanding that she has. I mean I have been a christian almost my whole life and I am humbled by her and just love her all the more!! I just LOVE her sooo much! Well not much else exciting going on yet just wait a couple of days though, my life is like Alberta weather wait 5 minutes and you can pretty much guarantee (sp?) that it will change, sometimes for the good and sometimes for the bad. Either way it is ALWAYS an adventure!! Talk again soon!!

DECEMBER 2

Almost the New Year already!! Can you believe it!! I sure can't. And it is almost Christmas, it doesn't even feel like Christmas to me. I need to have someone to come and listen to Christmas music (Ricky Martin anyone=Þ) with me and have a cup of CHAAAIII!! (Right Char!!) Anyways I am having a really hard time getting into the christmas spirit this year and the day is drawing closer as we speak! YIKES!!! Well life has been UNBELIEVABLY busy for me lately. One of the ladies at work just quit and so now the other 3 of us have to fill in her shifts which I do not really mind but, because it is getting so busy I do feel quite frazzled at times, but will not complaine as I will be getting paid well!! Which is good to pay off the loans I have and the money that I owe to a few people. It will be feel really good to be free of debts for the first time in my life that it will actually matter!!

OKAY so here is my plea.....You all know that I am an Avocate for Compassion, I would like you all to consider sponsoring a child this year PLEASE!!! Even if you have one can you consider sponsoring another one? Can you tell EVERYONE you know about considering sponsoring a child? I NEED to see children sponsored I am trying so hard to think of ways to appeal for the kids and have an idea for my church but need to talk to a few people in authority first. Does anyone know of any groups of people or musical artists that would like to be with Compassion. I have one that I am working on still!! PLEASE if you know me even a little my heart is FILLED beyond capacity of LOVE for these children and would sponsor untill it would be unrealistic for me to sponsor children so the next best thing right now is to PLEAD with all that I know. Check out the website ( www.compassion.ca ) or if you live close enough to me talk to me as I am ALWAYS carrying kid packs with me. Okay I am done now....

Well now I do not have anything more to say so I will sign off for yet another day!! ADIOS AMIGOS.....