Please Send Your Good Thoughts

I need all of your prayers and good thoughts right now...

I don't think I've mentioned it on the blog before but my closest and favorite aunt has just found out that she is battling breast cancer. Only a few weeks ago they found a lump and were able to remove that but it looks like the battle wasn't won and they are going to have to go in and fight a little harder. She is too strong and spiritual a women to let the fight beat her. My Aunt Chantelle was the person in my life who got me to begin thinking of my spiritual self, about reincarnation, numerology, and spiritualism in general. I have never told her but back in high school when I was in "Career and Life Management" my teacher Mrs. Baxter gave us an assignment to write about someone in our life who had been an inspiration... I wrote about my Aunt Chantelle and how she got me into new age spirituality. It's funny how life works cause only a few years later my aunt moved into the apartment right below Mrs. Baxter and they actually became friends. I'm going to dig into my archive boxes in the storage room and see if I can find that old essay in my high school stuff. I'd love to read it and I'd love to give it to my aunt. I believe that all your thoughts and prayers would create powerful energy and would help make her stronger so please send them our way if you have a moment.

My grandmother is also having some pretty big problems with her heart (which I am not supposed to know about) and she is going in for surgery on Tuesday so she could use a few prayers sent her way as well.

There is a lot going on and a lot of changes happening all around me right now. Change stresses the hell out of me and makes me tired and frustrated. Sorry to all the poor people that got snapped at the last few days :(

At least there are some good things going on as well like the preparations for my trip to Holland this summer... and my house renovations pretty much being done.

I know Ronaye is sick of hearing me say it but I really do miss her and the boys SO MUCH and I just wish I could run up the street and hang out and vent all night with her right now. Them being so far away creates such a huge hole in my life...

Well until the next update :)

The Shadbolts

My Uncle scanned in a whole bunch of old pictures of the Shadbolt side of the family growing up in England. I was playing around with my photoshow program and made the following video... enjoy :)

And here is an updated picture of my little niece TEVIN...

Bowling

We had a wellness event at work on Thursday... So we all went bowling!


It was great to get out of the office for a few hours...

And as you can see from these pics we were really good!


Here I am... I accidently signed up onto two teams and did really good on one (149) and really crappy on the other (80) !

But I had great teammates on both teams!!!

I had a really sore but by the end of the day but it was definitely worth it :)

This is what the Alvena dance hall that my cousin Ronaye just bought looked like at the beginning of April...

And this is what it looks like now!

I guess there was an electrical fire that started in the roof and burnt the whole thing down to the ground. Kind of a bummer but maybe a blessing in disguise! The purchase had not gone thru so they are not out any money... I guess they will just have to put their dancing plans on hold...

Just an Update

Look at my little niece! I had to start with a couple of pictures of Tevin!

I went for a quick little visit today during my lunch break and she is sure getting big... totally holding her own head up and full of smiles :)

Ben and Jaike are totally buddies now... they were all loving and cleaning each other the other night so I had to snap a picture of it.

We finished all the renovations at work last week so I am in my own office again and getting used to all the space! I moved my desk into the other corner for a change (where my officemate Jessica's desk used to be) and got a little desk in the corner for my work experience student to work off of.

I do miss Jess thou... she was good company... I do hope that she is happy up the hall...

And I hope that Jenna is enjoying the new phone system and has enjoyed this update :)