This weekend.

So summer finally decided to come and visit us! I was ready to play too!! I feel so blessed to have such awesome friends to play with. Saturday started with a sweet phone call from my long lost African friend Marci, she had some pretty encouraging words to share with me...super helpful! I love that Gods lets you keep friends even when you are thousands of miles apart.
 Then my two partners in crime came up to Portland for the day!! Jess and Megan are usually in the cards for my days to have fun.

Jess, Meg, my sister and I got all ready and went down to the river in West Linn. It was sooooooo HOT!!!! We LOVED it, but boy oh boy was it hot. We only lasted about an hour and we thought that chips salsa and MARGARITAS sounded better! Yes, we were right:) We sat outside for hours, talking, laughing, playing in the fountain (not suppose to, but way to hot not to). I love my sister and my best friends!

We came back and laughed and ate and drank a little more sitting outside while Josh was doing hard labor tearing apart the deck...he had four girls telling him how we thought he should do it:-)

Megan and I can make eachother laugh and we did. My sister happen to catch it:-) Love ya!

I love my friends and how they are more like family to me...they love me and my family and my family loves them right back! I love that we have so much fun together.

So Sunday rolls around and I went back to South Lake with Necia and Josh. It was funny because it was on parenting! I thought it was a sign they should have a baby...they didn't think so:-/ Oh well it was good:) I really like it and maybe feel like it could be a good home...Next week I'm going to try a new one in Lake Oswego with a new friend. So we'll see how that goes.
Later Necia and I went to a Portland Timers game...way fun but way hot!!! (don't worry I'm NOT complaining!!!) So many people came out, I hope to go to more!

This is one of my "I don't care smiles" But I really do, I just couldn't see and my back was burning off from the melting plastic;-)

So I thought I would update and show that I am starting to get a life...kinda... does it count when your friends come up? I think so! But I'm still loving it and learning lots at my job and how to get around up here.

PS Keep my brother in your prayers! He is coming home soooo soon! Pray for safe and easy travels!

Mary

Time for another

Time for an update,
 I still love my job very much! There is so much to learn still! My boss told me I will be learning something new for about 6 months...sigh. It makes me tired to even think that there is so much more to learn! :) BUT it's worth it. I love the little interactions I get with the patients I check in, and the people I work with are still so helpful and great.

 The search for a church was off for about two weeks...I went to the Oregon Jamboree with some girlfriends two weeks ago. It was so fun! My friend Sarah got us all ticktes and we had a blast camping. The last weekend I got bored, so I went down to Salem and hung out with my mom. (since I still don't have a life up here, I need to go back to my old one in Salem)

 Today I went with my sister and husband to their church called Southlake. I really enjoyed it! The message was great and worship was great as well. It was nice to go to a church that felt..."normal" whatever that means:) But I liked it a lot and will try it again. I met a girl a few weeks ago named Rachel (weird story how we met) BUT she attends a church in Lake Oswego, she wants me to try with her next week:)
This is harder than I thought!!

I'll be happy when I can figure out what to do and when to go! Then I won't have to keep being the third wheel to my sister and Josh ;-)