SENIOR!!

School started today.
which means summer is officially over
and it is time for Amber to start her job hunt!!

I had youth tonight, and it was a good night
but after i was sitting in a chair really just thinking.
I have had alot of different tests taken in my life.
MRI, something with Radioactive stuff, i don't know.
name the test i have had it.
Every time I've been sick or hurt i have always sensed this peace that
i am going to be okay.
I will spare you all the details of why i had testing done,
but this time around i don't have that peace that i have had in the past.
I don't want to just jump to conclusions that something is terribly wrong,
because it very well isn't but i am more nervous then i have ever been before.
please keep me in your prayers!!
not just that everything will be alright, but that God gives
me a peace!!
Hope everyone has a GREAT week!!
i'm going to bed!

So i guess i have been really bad at posting lately.
well let's just say my life recently has been so hectic!!
i am never home!!!
I am always going some where, or leaving for another trip.
and it is catching up on me!
I had to go to the doctor yesterday,
one) my mom had to be there because she didn't know what they were going to do once i got there, but she just stayed in the waiting room and did her work. it was my first time ever being in the doctor's room all by myself the whole time!! :)
two) they had me do two tests and blood work done, they took THREE vials of blood!! ((*side note* I HATE getting blood taken, as a kid i would kick the nurses)) and mid way through the lady dropped the third vial and had to reach over and grab another one.
it didn't hurt at the time, but afterwords i couldn't move my arm. :( now i have a huge bruise there!
i haven't gotten the results back yet, but she gave me two different medicine's.
and if the first one doesn't work after ten days i have to go back. :(
i HATE doctor's!!

Two Amazing Leaders. Mike & Katie

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go; some people move our souls to dance; they awaken us to new understanding with the passing whispers of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon; they stay in our lives for awhile; Leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same" -Flavia Weedn

Katie and Mike, you both are leaving HUGE footprints in my life.

Last night at youth just seemed like every other night there.
I got there early with Zanette and Reichert for worship.
We all were joking around and then it was announcements time.
I honestly don't remember the first announcements, but then Pastor Erik
announced that Mike had an announcement, and Katie came up with him.
The first words he said were "We're leaving" and honestly I thought he meant they were going on a long vacation this summer, but then he continued talking. Mike has been offered a job down in Oklahoma, and Katie and he are going to take it. I sat there and couldn't believe it. I didn't, but the tears came anyway.

I am always praying for the leaders/pastor of Stone Crew, and pray that God would just bless them so much for everything they do for us crazy teenagers. I guess I never realized that praying for that could mean them leaving. Because this is God's blessing for them.

Mike and Katie mean more to me then I think they realize.
Although I love all the leaders, to me they were "my leaders"
I could always go to either one of them for anything and everything.
When ever it seemed like I was having a bad day, or wasn't doing okay, you could be sure that there would one of them be coming over to talk, or to listen. I also have shared MANY fun times with both of them. Katie was my group leader for game, w00t w00t GO BROWN!! lol Mike and I have gotten into plenty of food fights and are always joking around. They always cared, and always put them selves out there for me. I remember one night I was going through a REALLY hard time, and was thinking about leaving the youth. Mike came over to talk to me and I told him that, these were his words for the most part lol
"Amber, I don't want you to leave, you are an important part of Crew, and it wouldn't be the same with out you, I know Katie and I would miss you."

Well Mike and Katie, I am throwing those same words back at you. Although you don't really have a choice in leaving like I did, I just want you to know how much you will be missed by me and the whole group, and how much you are loved. Stone Crew will NOT be the same without you. And I truly mean that. Thank you so much for everything you have done for us!! and for me!!!

You both are extraordinary people and God has His hand on your lives and it is evident. He is going to continue to use you in amazing ways!! I am so blessed to have had you in my life.
Although I am extremely sad to see you both leaving, and I am so excited about the works God is doing and going to do with you.

Katie and Mike, you both are leaving HUGE footprints in my life. I will never for get you guys. And you better not forget about us!!
I love you both.

Update on Dave

First i wanted to thank you all so much for the prayers. It means so much to my family, and Dave.
He is doing better!! alot better!!
I'm not positive if the tingling is totally gone from his head, but when we went up to visit him Tuesday night he said it has greatly decreased. His blood pressure is still HIGH!!! but we will keep praying for that.
They released him from the hospital either Tuesday night, or Wednesday morning.
The doctors say that it was not a stroke, but are still running tests to see what the
final conclusion is.
They found "spots" on his frontal lobe. The neurosurgeon is had a spinal tap done to see if he can rule out multiple sclerosis. If it is not that, it is either nothing, migraines, or serious stress.
we don't want to say that it is the worst, but we have never heard of a reaction like this from just stress or migraines alone.
but thank you so much for the prayers!!
it really means alot!!