God's got His hand on you, so don't live your life in fear..."

It has been a while, and I am truly sorry for that. It is really difficult to find time to write here since the site is blocked at the ranch.  There are many things that are going on in my life right now and they are all incredibly hard.  I don't want to talk about may of them here and now, but that is ok, the internet doesn't need to know all of what I am going through.

There has obviously been a lot of things that have been going on in the past  umm... fiveish weeks? Wow.  It has been over a month. Well I went to see a cute kid for her birthday :)  That was a lot of fun.  I really enjoyed seeing her and her mother... and even her father.  BTDubs, that is Scout, Breena's daughter.  I really miss them a lot.  And I haven't seen them since the day after this picture, so that is a little bit difficult for me, but Lord Willing I will be seeing them next week!  HALLELUJAH! I can't believe that she is already a year old, that is crazy!  I miss getting to see her every week.

L-R:Victoria, Kelly and Samuel, Jessie, Sarah, Madison, Me!

On August 3, Mrs. Sarah, the house mom had her baby! Finally!  She was thinking that she would never have him after she past the due date.  But he was a BEAUTIFUL baby boy, 9 1/2lbs.  Way to go Mrs. Sarah! His name is Samuel Aaron, and he is a cutie!  I can't wait to come back from break and being able to watch him grow daily.  And honestly having Mrs. Sarah back will be a blessing as well, forreal.  While Sarah and Jay were off on maturity leave and such all the girls moved down to the other girls house.  Although we have had a lot of fun, I am thankful that all the girls moved back yesterday afternoon.  The past couple of weeks Kelly and I have been going back and forth from Pleasant Hill to Laurel Ridge and it hasn't been easy for me at all.  It may be easier for Kelly, but I think even she is ready for normalcy again.  And now we have it back!

The Ranch students at Cirque de Chine

Mom and Michael also came for a visit the first weekend of the month.  It was really good to see them, but I am a terrible host because I don't know what we can do in the area still.  We ended up going and seeing the Chinese acrobats one of the nights and that was a lot of fun, but not as much fun as when I went with the ranch this past week.  They even changed the show up and it was a lot better the second time.  It was awkward for me this time because the guy who gave us tickets was the PR guy and he was saying that this was probably the best show in the area and I wasn't really in agreement with him, but I did enjoy it, the second time.

The last thing to add before heading off of here, is a masquerade ball kind of night!  Ok, maybe I will just add some pictures :]

Everyone with their masks!

Pleasant Hill girls!

Madison's Mask and a feather

Well I believe that this should be it for now!  I will try to be better about updating once school starts :) for the girls that is, not for me because I done graduated!