in him is the fullness of all things

...in the Father's hands we know that a lifetime's not too long to live as friends. (If you're truly a child of the K-LOVE 90's era, you should have immediately recognized the fact that this is a Michael W. Smith HIT simply by reading the title. But just in case you're not, you can see what you were missing out on and listen to the cheesy touching song HERE ) It has been an amazing couple of months here in the lovely PNW, but alas, the time has come for me to leave. I will miss everyone dearly but I also know that He who called me to Chicago, has good things for me there and I am excited to experience everything that he has for me. Here are some pics so you can get a little taste of my Oregon summer. beach day with these lovelies my best friend graduated from college! introducing mrs. sara brubaker! baby Esther was all about Bethany's sunnies. Two of the most amazing women I know. I love me some hard pear cider! ...

Sometimes, I really crack myself up with how terribly inconsistent of a blogger I am. Don't you find it funny how it's when you have the busiest schedule that you find time to do the most insignificant stuff? And when you have a ton of free time you don't do as much? My point isn't that blogging is insignificant. Or that I have a ton of free time. It's just that I want to apologize to the 3 people in cyberspace that have been on the edge of their seats for over a month waiting for me to update this thing. Your patience has been rewarded. What have I been up to these last couple of months? Working full time at the hospital. Boo for 40 hour weeks. Yay for paychecks after several 40 hour weeks! Studying! I am such a little nerd. Who studies during the summer? Someone who doesn't exactly work in a pharmacy and doesn't want to forget all the drugs that I worked so hard to learn this past year! Learning to honor God with my finances! A wise/dead man o...

So I have reached the two week mark here in Chicagoland and I've made a few observations that I feel are worth noting: Everyone and their mom wears Sperry boat shoes. (many)People from the midwest cannot pronounce Oregon correctly. They prounounce it like "Or-eee-GONE". Chicago sure looks a lot like Oregon when it rains. Gas is flippin' expensive here. What do you know, even in grad school Pinterest can still serve as quite the impressive distraction!  Did you know that you can pay ~$35,000 a year in tuition and your school can't even afford a decent gym? Well now you know. No one knows where Corvallis is. All these things have only made my love for Oregon grow exponentially! I am counting down the days until I get to return to the luscious, green northwest. But in the meantime... Pharmacy school isn't too bad! (I'll probably look back at this and want to kick myself in the face for ever uttering these words...) Everyone said that I would h...

For all you Corvallis/Albany natives: Have you ever gotten on highway 34 or highway 20 and thought to yourself "Gee, this highway is so deplorable, I really wish that I was charged a small fee every time I got on it so that the city could 'maintain' it!" ? What's that you say? That's what our tax dollars are for? Yeah, I am aching to give a good kick in the rear to whoever deemed that to be a good idea. However, that is one of the many ways that I've noticed that the Chicago area is different than Oregon. Aside from that there are the other small details of sales tax, pumping my own gas, HIGH gas prices, and SIDEWALKS( or the lack thereof)! And bike lanes. But this whole experience has really opened my eyes up to how blessed I was to be living in Oregon...the rest of the U.S. has to deal with this stuff on a fairly regular basis! Oregonians are spoiled!* *But I would say we make up for it with the amount of rain we get, yeah? On Tuesday and Wednesd...