birthdays, retreat, adventures- oh my!

Hello, once again! This month has been quite the crazy one! In the beginning of the month we had the True North Conference up here hosted by my church, New Life! The conference went through both mine and Jeff's birthdays! It was really sweet cause my mom got to be up here to wish me a happy 18th and go to the conference as well! Thanks to some awesome friends, my birthday party turned out awesome! A bunch of us went down to Kelly O' Brian's and had a nice late supper then we just walked around down town and had a hilarious, good time! After getting a parking ticket, climbing a mountain in the dark, and deer watching, it concluded to be a great day when i came home and (thanks to my dear sister) my room was all nice and birthday spiffy for me! For Jeff's birthday, in the evening, Jeff, myself, and our friend Dan went and did a late evening swim/zip-line into the lake then we all went back to Jeff's and watched a movie! It was an amazing couple of days! ALSO, On October 17th, my school went on a retreat! It was so great! We drove down to Gardom Lake Bible Camp (which is about an hour and a half from here) and got to spend Wednesday till Friday out enjoying each others company, God's beautiful outdoor creation, and a sauna! It was such a good time! The 17th was also mine and Jeff's "2 years" dating anniversary! Best 2 years of my life <3. Life is good! Lately however, not too much exciting has been going on! Other than lots of rain and lots of homework, nothings really been happening! The other day, though, me and Jeff took quite a little journey up a mountain to see some snow!! It was a beautiful adventure! Every time i get out into nature i just get overwhelmed by God's goodness and love! He is so good! OH! On Thursday's after school we're going to start having outreach and instead of doing supernatural street evangelism stuff (like i had previously thought) i'm going to be going with a little group of girls to a Christian high school to start a mentorship program! I'm really excited! Sadly i'll be missing it this Thursday though, because tomorrow i'm leaving to go to... LA CRETE!!! Suuuuper excited!! Jeff's sister is getting married on Saturday!! So tomorrow after school we start the long trek down to the great white north! Its going to be so neat to see some people again! It'll be like a mini taste of what my Christmas is going to be looking like!! So Good. Hopefully once i get back from this chilly trip i'll write about it all! Goodnight!

Time to drag out my parka, 
Al.