Hola Everyone!

Its been over a month since I've written on here! Whoa how time flies when your busy having fun!

A lot has happened.. actually right now life has slowed down a bit....

Heres a real quick update on recent activities!

DOTY 2006 @ Hope College... Was wonderful! The three districts bonded great! We made New friends and strengthened old friendships... Friday night I came a lil later than everyone due to my wonderful work schedule But when we pulled up i was excited as ever to be with Detroit, South Bend, and Cinci! I was so excited i was literally screaming lol That night was VERY exciting seeing everyone again!
Saturday morning was breakfast with everyone, team building, and seminars.. Which were awesome of course.. After all that good stuff we were off for some Dune Rides!! I had my fav Canadian right by my side! Fun fun!
After that Pr. Rocha drove us to the beach! We swam for a bit, then headed back for dinner. That night was had some special entertainment. Dedicated to our Two very dear Bishops! It was hilarious, Each district did a couple skits showing different stories from thier lives. It was awesome and very emotional.. Both bishops retire in a few weeks . After the lil program, we got to go for pizza and "social hour kinda thing. That was a lot of fun! We got to spend a lil more time bonding and hangin out!
Sunday morning was early rising again! Breakfast then a lil packing and socializing. The we went early to sing in the choir. We heard a Beautiful service from our Dear Bishops. Afterwards, was lunch and of course everyone started to part thier own ways... And of course there were the parting tears, hugs, laughs, smiles, e-mail and phone number exchanges.
After a tremendous weekend like that your hearts filled with a joy for weeks to come.. Our light has grown even brighter, new friendships were made, our faith is once again burning super strong. NAC weekend are amazing! But as we leave theres a lil sadness.. knowing we wont see eachother until probrally next DOTY, But thanks to technology, our friendships dont fade, they grow stronger.. I am so thankful for e-mail, cell phones, Instant messaging, myspace, zanga and text messaging! Whoo Hoo! It makes staying close to my NACs so much easier! Its so amazing to have so many friends across the nation, its kinda funny sometimes i think im closer to my friends that live states away and i only see a couple times a year, than i am with some of my friend that live a couple minutes away... I love our faith soooooo much!

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Sherman LAke is also over, and also proved to be another awesome weekend! We got to spend a lil time with our Bishop. And we even had some of our fav Detroiters come for the weekend! Oh and MIke.. hes hiarious...
My Detroit Girls Alyssa, Sara, and Bethany (who is now a part time South Bender!!) It was great having these four! They make everything more fun! Oh and we can never forget out 3 Langlais boys! They drove up for the weekend! It was great having them back!

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Germany is almost here!!!!!!!!! I leave the day after Christmas and im sooooo excited!*********************
Oh im moving into my parents basement! Its gonna be sweet! Its gonna be my mini apartment! Oh and my Grandparents just gave me a buncha furniture! I got this sweet King sized waterbed! i Love it!! Its sooo comfy!
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Umm Davids back from the Army!! Yea!!     Joes leaving for New Orleans  for a couple months.     
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Oh and a bunch of my friends from high school are pregnant or married! Its so crazy... Holly and Allen are married and have a baby girl on the way!    Amanda and Chris are having a baby!    Sparky and Heath have a lil on on its way.     And of course Tina and Jestin have their adorable lil twins!!     and so many more! Its crazy.... But oh well we all grow up i guess... Some of us just take a bit longer
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Oh my grandma Wanders was in the hospital with a few medical problems. So i've been spending a lot of my weekend in Chicago helping clean, and stuff. Its really hard cause we all live so far away. Were trying to get them to sell that house, and move back to the one out here.
Its been nice cause i've gotten to spend a lotta time with my Dads side of the family. Its really a joy cause when i was younger i spend 1/2 my summers there in IL with them and every other weekend we would make a trip out there cause Dads business was out there. Now that my Dad works out here we dont do those Chicago trips very often. And most of us kids are all older and in college and very busy so its been nice to see everyone again. Even Aunt betty flew up from FL a few weeks ago! I was really glad I could spend a lil time with her!!
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OH boy this was supposed to be short! .... Sorry!!!

Anyways so yea for some reason youth and stuff has slowed down a lot, there hasnt been as many activities... Which makes me sad.. It sucks cause everyones away at college.
About a month ago, we had a really fun night at Aunt Danas! We played hide n seek in the house!! We shut off all the lights , it was so much fun! 

So lately I spend a ton of time either at Marys or hangin out with Lee and Jaime! Its so much fun! The other night we went quading and i got soooo muddy! Not as muddy as the boys though, cause they were driving and when there was mud i lifted my feet up!  Haha and Lee tried to go in the swamp LOL Oh gee it was sooooo funny he got totally stuck You shoulda seen his face hahaa... Its always an adventure hangin out with those two! Tonight Im making Apple Pie!!! YUMMY!! Ya'll know what im talkin about ... every one of you fools that invaded my house on Labor day weekend! lol It was a hit! lol Good times Good times.... But yea im makin it tonight!! Yea!! Im excited

Oh and im super duper happy these days! I've been "Miss Happy" since Sherman Lake cause it was awesome! And its fall, footballs on, im reconnecting with my Bangor Buds and spending lotsa time with my crazy family....

Well adios for now cause i wrote waaaaaaaaaay to much, but seriously whats there better to do  at work jk jk

Oh i got my eyebrows waxed today.. OUCH!.... and my eyes are still super red! Im such a loser!! lol
 

Im tired, sunburned, and I have a million and one things to get done!

ANYWAYS
What a weekend! It was really fun!
Friday- Youth @ the Fries's in Constantine :) Constantine is becoming one of my favorite places to be!! And im actually getting really good at finding my way there! lol haha Brian didnt have to drive me to 131 haha

Saturday- worked till 4:30  went to Joes grad party, hung out @ the lake, went grocery shoppin w/KJD and Lee "intro to roomate shoppin lol" haha  Then we went out to Dannys and watched fireworks! We almost got hit by some thanks to Josh and Timmy! lol , A Pricker bush attacked my flip flops!!!!!!! after fireworks we went to my house and hung out with  Squeak for awhile. Then headed to bed!

Sunday-KJD went to B-93 birthday bash. I went to church in KZOO, then went out to the lake. Me Keehan and Kasper went fishing! I caught two fish! Then we decided to go back in cause i had to go to choir practice. Well.... the boat battery had gone dead! Ughhh! i was soooo mad lol so we  try everything to get us closer to shore. and nothing works. so i made keehan  and kasper swim to shore, well these idiots dont go to shore they decide they wanna swim in the middle of the lake! ughhh well nick show up on the dock so i yell to him to go get my uncle. Well instead he grabs the paddle boat and come out there. so we started pulling the pontoon with the paddle boat. all is going well. until some big huge speed boats starts racing by and our paddle boat and pontoon go straight into a dock and were stuck! So we jump out into knee deep water, push it out a bit then fall in the water w. all my good clothes on. Then more waves come and finally my uncle come us and saves us lol
Needless to say we were late for choir practice! Everyone really enjoyed our story though haha. Oh and i got sunburned sooooo bad! It sucks really bad! Anyways goodbye for now Til we meet again!
Love you
Shell