time for a post...

hey everyone
so i got tired of no one posting so i guess i will. so some news, umm work is going well. my sister and sister in law are pregnant... again. this will be number 6 and 7. my mom asked me if i felt left out...haha i don't think so. nothing else much is going on, i booked my flight for school in september. i am so excited to head back out to caronport and finish up school.
so on the sadder note, i have to have surgery. o no!!! well its not that bad, i am having all of my wisdom teeth pulled next friday. i will be put under which means i have to have a needle. that is what scares me, no one in the family likes needles. well so if you guys could pray for me, friday, july 7 at 2:30pm that would be great.
hope all is going well and i want to hear from people at camp and how staff training went.
love you all,
kristi

Summer 2006 is closing in....

Yup, so here we are just about at the start of summer 2006. Do I feel ready...maybe...maybe not. I just thought I'd pass on a couple photos I've been taking here so far this advance crew.


This photo is from the Waterski Workshop weekend. We have 3 lovely we Tige boats.



These photos are from the recent trip that we took into Victoria for the Advance Crew special event. We had dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory then roamed around Victoria harbour a bit, then had a special bus ride tour around Victoria.

This is a photo from Open House. We had roughly 1150+ people at this years Open House. More then ever before, and it was actually sunny and warm out!

Anywho, I should go.

Cya later all!

Prayer Requests.....here we go again!

Hey Guys! Before I get started I've got two catagories of prayer requests:
1. Personal:
It's been a while since I've blogged, I've been reading the comments lots but not taking the time to write, life has been super busy and I feel like keeling over from exhaustion about now... I just have until the middle of next week until my one job is done, then I only have one to deal with! I'm tired of 11 hour days that's for sure! pray that I have the strength to make it through and to recouperate over teh next few weeks.
So Jim.. I decided to stay home in the end afterall... I got the "now I must stop running from place to place" talk and so I'm ticked enough that I want to persevere until my end date of sometime in August (I'm currently working that out....)Anyways, my three plans for the summer are
1. Pay off student loans
2. Go visit Myles in NYC
3. Come to BC.
And I hope to do all three (maybe it's wishful thinking but anyways!)
I'm really feeling tired beyond belief at the moment, please pray for strength, I'm really not able to concentrate or remember things well... I need to cut things back... and to top it off I have no vehicle for the summer so I'm biking 7 miles into town to work everyday... pray for my patience with that... the truck finally died. (poor Tiny Tim!)And my muscles ache! oh man!
2. Dean:
Some of you may remember one of my best friends from high school named Dean (I definatly talked to the girls about him...He's the one that had just gotten married before I came to Kaleo) Anyways, I was coming home from Camp last night (the director invited a few of us up to watch the game... which sucked by the way, we lost :( ) And there was alot of smoke coming from the direction of the church. Being curious and scared that it could be Dori's house or the church (Dean hasn't been home much to worry about) I followed Dori home and found Dean's house up in flames and the fire crew there... it's gone now, I was there til after midnight with him and his Fam. and I went back to take a look just half an hour ago and it's gone, there's nothing left... it was a two story house and thereis one full wall left, and the kitchen walls are maybe waist hight, it's crazy... that there's nothing left. Dean just has no "luck", and this is why I'm asking for your prayer.... He's attempted suicide before and well... in the last week he's been in and out of the hospital with kidney stones and an allergic reaction.. and today he went in to get his tonsel's out... so he's not doing so well health wise, and I'd probably guess his walk is doing much worse. Could you guys pray for him? he's not doing well. and even though we've had our problems as friends (and really haven't seen eachother much in the past two years, he's a trucker and I'm only recently around) I still care about him... we were close friends for eighteen years...I've just had troubles with his life choices, and supporting him with those.
ANYWAYS! please pray for him... he needs it daily so he can get through this. and I want to reach out to him and still be his friend but his actions and words have hurt me alot in the past so I'm scared about what will happen if we resume our friendship. We're going out for coffee next week so please pray for that.
3. Miscelanious Breakdown
I came home last night and broke down. I'm so sick of this place... so tired of the dryness that is Dauphin and my life right now. The dryness from a lack of community and the dryness from being scared to let God Shock me out of my state of numbness, scared that Dad will continue to get worse, or worse yet, that he'll be this way forever. Tired when I think how bad uncle Dave is doing, how fast he's going down hill (he lost his eyesight and has to walk with a walker now) Tired of waiting for the end of summer, for a chance to begin living again, to begin filling up the dry cracks of my life that have become like a desert in my few months here. Home is supose to be a refuge and it's instead been another large weight on my shoulders that I don't know if I can take anymore.
Please guys... I need some prayer.
I love you and miss you all
Amber

Qwanoes time!

Im going to be at qwanoes in 3 days!! Im sooo excited. I am also extremely busy with work and class right up until I leave, could you guys pray that I get things done before I go like my biology and my packing.
I will probably be ok but I have been stressing a bit about money and time restraints and I need to just chill out and focus.
your prayer would be much appreciated.

qwANoessss

This is Kailyn writing about the times at this camp where we all lived. Today I painted that skate park - it looks WAY better now. The colours are Black and Grey (kinda silvery) -- they used to be a burgundy reddish colour and like sickly mint green...ya. All Jordan ever does is walk around and take pictures like this:



yup. it's not a real job. I'm just joking. He works real hard in his office. I don't have an office. I think they expect me to work out of my hut. But I think that's dumb cuz it stinks and has a rat and there's no way I'm ever sitting on that chair in there!

Last week(ish) I saw Julie, Lisa and Kristi! That was exciting and probably the most kaleo 1ers ive been with for a long time. Jordan has nothing to say - I just asked him. Oh well, we're only missing out a bit. I mean a lot. Oh woe is me. and you. Okay I think I'm still a little wacko from a mixture of paint, burning metal and crazy juice. bye bye.

Back to Canada!

As of this Wendsday at 5:45 pm I will officialy be back in Canada. Am I excited......yes. I miss my Canadian friends a lot but oh gosh will I miss New Zealand! I have been so stinking blessed with the most amazing friends over here, they honestly are constantly blowing my socks off with how amazing they are. I think everyone should put going to New Zealand on their lives to do lists! When I get back I have a day off than on friday I start training for my summer Job, I'm the supervisor for a Mountain Bike camp called Peaddle Heads. Supervisor, like fully in charge of it and everything! Crazzy, but I'm super excited! So that's pretty much my life, up-to-date!

Hey, when can we officialy have a Kaleo, Year 1, Reunion? Do we need to wait till the like all official 5 year mark, or can we have one like next year? Let's start thinking about this, getting the wheels in motion!

Ok, that's all from New Zealand! Pray that I have a safe plane ride home!

~Dotto~

Winnipeg

Hey fellow kaleo friends!! Well here I am, I am as of today an official manitoban resident. I arrived yesterday after a 22 hour drive from Toronto with my dad, we stopped in and picked up Julia, who's car is getting fixed, had dinner with her parents and moved me in. I am living with two christian guys named myles and nathan just north of the downtown along the river. Things are going pretty good so far, my dad has been here helping me with residency changes and liscencing, insurance, that kind of stuff and goes home tommorow night. So yeah that is where I am right now, I am sitting as I write this in my house and finally unpacked.

Talk you all soon;

James

Happy Birthday Tarchuk!

Sorry Kristi, you were too slow on this one!

Happy Birthday, Ashley!

Apparently this is the only picture I have of you...enjoy! I hope you're having a fabulous time in Banff (or wherever you ended up!) and that someone's throwing you a wild and crazy party!

Love you!!!