To all of my home dawgs leaving for CAMP tomorrow~

HAVE FUN! Actually...have a BLAST! I'm not sure which one is better =)
I will be praying for you all. And I expect to hear lots and lots of stories, okie dokie?

Love you all!!

Dearest Brobergs,

I'm not sure of any other way to get ahold of you at the moment. I don't know if you're still living with the parents, or if you have your own house with your own phones yet. I really really really want you guys to call if/when you have the chance. So if you ever check this, please call! If you don't have my # information, please email me at miss_ambie_100@hotmail.com

It has been exactly 59 days since I've talked to you. And in my opinion, that is 59 days too long. I miss you. I love you. I am praying for you.

Love, Amber



Simply the best.

Consider me Shainerz the Chef

Holy schmolie olie! Sorry for leaving you guys hanging for a week. I actually have an excuse to be busy now! My job occupies a lot of my time. I've been working about 5-6 days a week. I'm not complaining, i'm just explaining. :D Anywho, so I will take advantage of this day off.

Yesterday I decided that I was going to be the one who cooked dinner. I rarely ever (or have never) take over the meal or even help my mom as much as I should. So, I thought since I have to cook meals at work, that I should probably get some practice in. I looked up some recipes online and made my own little recipe book. I decided that we were going to have Beef & Mushroom Stir Fry, and it turned out to be super good!!! My family loved it and I was told that I must make it again soon. YAY! So I have one successful meal down. Hopefully now I am a professional chef that can make any meal any time! --not.

Anywho, there's no point to that story. Except to say that I want to take up cooking as a hobby. Can cooking be a hobby? Well, I just need some practice for work, anyway. I tried making biscuits and gravy for breakfast one of the days and let's just say it didn't turn out. I had to end up throwing it ALL away. I felt bad wasting, but there was no way I was going to make the people I work for eat it. :P So I just made some oatmeal and eggos instead :D

Anyway...that's my story for the day (hopefully not for the week).

HAPPY FRIDAY! WOOHOOO!!!! The best day of the week!!! Especially when you have it off from work :)

I'm going here in September!!!
So Stacy...is it o.k. if I stay at your apartment??? =)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOYUM!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEPH MENKE!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MONICA!!!




Have a good weekend everyone!

What's New?

Seeing as how nothing too, too exciting has been happening in my life, I decided I'll share some random things. If that makes sense....no, no it doesn't, but here you go! (not to mention i'm copying Brooke's & Jackie's blog...w/out the numbering :D)

**I've been spending quite a bit of time w/Bobbie, since she is leaving for Texas again in 5 weeks. :( We've had a couple sleepovers and bonding time, which have been wonderful! Don't want to take the time w/her for granted.

**Adelyn turned 1 month (i almost said year...YIKES!...not quite...) on the 4th of July. I loved having her, Jon & Shannon visit for a weekend. She is still a healthy, beautiful baby!!

**As always, still thinking lots about the future. Do I want to take a year off from college and work? Do I want to go on a missions trip somewhere? Do I want to move away for college? or just move away just because? ....Of course, I'm praying about it. I guess I would like to know ASAP, but then again I do realize I do need to be patient and wait for God's perfect timing.

**My brother is in Texas for 10 days! The exclamation point's not because I'm happy that he's gone, but because I am excited for him. He's on a missions trip to Austin & San Antonio. I guess there's a total of about 20,000 kids there. I am hoping he will get a lot out of the trip. They are mostly helping paint and build houses. I hope they are handling the 100 degree (no exaggeration) weather o.k. Thank the Lord for air conditioning!! He will probably be extremely tan when he gets home, which will make his sister extremely jealous.

**Unfortunately, due to scheduling conflicts, I am no longer able to go on the road trip to Colorado I had been anticipating to go on at the end of this month. But that won't stop be from visiting there. It's my goal to travel to each of the 50 states at least once, so I WILL get there. Perhaps next year or something? It's a bummer and a 1/2, but what can you do?

**Work is wonderful. Yes, I will repeat. Work is wonderful. I LOVE IT!!!! This job is incredible and I thank everyone who suggested to me to apply there. I've learned a whole lot more patience and just to love others. I love helping others, and I know this job was definietely for me. My co-workers say they've only heard good things about me from the supervisor, so that's pretty encouraging. I thank the Lord that there was an opening, espeically when they had told me 2 days prior that there were no openings. Definitely the Lord's doing.

**I'm starting to like vegetables. This isn't normal. I have been eating salad, brocolli, radishes, cauliflower, tomatoes (sp?), and a bunch of foods I never used to eat. I am such a picky eater that I'm even surprising myself. I guess it really does help to try new foods, rather than just automatically saying you don't (or won't) like it.

**I'm hoping to be able to go to Sioux Falls in early September to visit Stacy & to go to the Lifelight Festival, which if you didn't read my comments in the previous post, is a FREE weekend w/a bunch of good Christian concerts. Really, REALLY hoping to go to that, seeing as the last time I saw Stacy was when Adelyn was born.

**If you remember, please keep my mom's 3rd cousin (I hate being proper..) ,I'll just say my cousin Addison, in your prayers. He's having surgery tomorrow. It's a one day in and out thing, but it's still surgery, ya know? He's 1 and would prefer running around and being a normal kid rather than having to be lazy and relax...so I hope for a quick recovery for him.

**I'm hoping to go camping at least ONCE before the summer ends. If all else fails, I will resort to setting up a tent in my backyard and having a bonfire. I didn't go camping once last summer and i almost went insane.

**And last but not least, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to CHRIS POPE tomorrow!! He's turning 18!!!
Welcome to adulthood!! I hope your day is wonderful.

Dunno What Else to Post

Since I don't have much to say, I decided to continue showing off my darling baby cousin. Too cute to pass up.


This is Adelyn & her friend Brielle, who was born only 1 day after her! Brielle is my cousin Stacy's best friend's daughter. Confused, kinda? I actually work w/her dad..kinda cool.


Only 1 month old and they are already models :)


Brielle has hair. Adelyn doesn't. :)

Guess Who's Here to Visit!?

Our little 4th of July visitor :)