family photo!

We FINALLY got one of all 7 of us :) with a little help from a self timer of course!

left to right:

Melissa, Jayme, Emily popping her head in, Brittany Allen, me, Natalie & Brittany Harwell, phew! that is a mouthful!

we were bored lol
Jayme, Melissa and Emily

There you go! Now you can make a face to the names of all the girls I talk about :)

A new house calls for a party

Well last night was a success! We had a house warming party last night with lots of food, friends, and flowers! We had an assortment of good from pumpkin bars to homemade cookies, vegetables to chips and guacamole! We also had hot cider from Trader Joe's which everybody loved!

Natalie's delicious pumpkins bars :) perfect for a fall party

Our bright orange sunflowers :) which everybody seemed to be amazed by

Me and Natalie :]

The 3 basement dwellers~me, brittany harwell & natalie

seriously LOVE these girls!

we didn't plan the tights or the moccasins...we just have cold feet in our house

(no shoes allowed lol)

me and emily, my roomate from last year :)

our first guests! Me, Ashley Stockman (from Lynden) and Julia (was on my floor freshman yr)

More girls from 1st west :)

I promise I will out up a house picture, but its on another girl's camera, so it'll have to wait for now. But it was so great to get the house good and clean, cook lots of food, and see all our friends from the dorms who we clearly do not see enough of :( Living all off campus in our houses with dfferent schedules makes it quite difficult. Thank goodness for parties to bring everybody back together! My PA from freshman year even came, along with a ton of all of our friends :)

Just a side note, I'm sure everybody at home is not very happy about the UW game, but since half of the girls in my house are from Oregon, they were quite stoked this afternoon lol

Can't wait for Thanksgiving to see you all! Love you!

Pepsi Health Fair

Yesterday our nursing class got to help at the Pepsi Health Fair, downtown on Alaksa Highway. We were split into 2 shifts and we were there to take the worker's blood pressure and talk to them about their BMI, lifestyle, activity level, etc. They had a delicious lunch ready for us, and after they finished their presentations we got to mingle with the workers to see if we could convince anybody to get checked :) Of course the majority was macho men who, "just had it checked" or whole BP "was perfect" or simply turned in the other direction when they saw someone in a white coat coming towards them :) But I did get to check a few peoples, and now I believe in the White Coat Syndrome - when their BP goes up when getting checked by a Dr. but no where else...

But we did get to meet the Vice President of Pepsi and got our picture taken with him

A mini photo shoot on the balcony lol we were stoked to be in our "Professional attire"

Krista is the PA on 5th East, the floor I lived on last year :) We sat at the same table at the fair and now have lots of stories to tell!

We are having our house warming party tonight so our friends can see where we live - pics to come of that later :)

Blessings

I cannot express how thankful I am for strangers, friends, and family! First, our landlord's friend came yesterday to look at a "funny" smell that was coming from under our sink, little did we know it was a dead creature in a trap...so thankfully he removed and disposed of it for us :) Second, one of my housemates let me borrow her car so I could go to church this morning - I was asked to do childcare on short notice so it was a little stressful figuring out how I was going to get to Capitol Hill with a LOT of people gone this weekend. Anyways, made it over there and had a great first day of Sunday school! Currently the only kids we have are our pastor's 2 kids (3 and 5 months-I think). This morning I was with their little girl Sophie in the preschool section and I came away with more than I expected! We worshiped to Hillsong Kids, and she loved it! Jumping and dancing around saying, "Thank you Jesus!" and then we did the story about how God created light and dark and did a craft with it. After doing the craft she came and whispered, "chelsea, did you know God made the day?!? AND the night?!?" She was so enthusiastic, we were so glad something had stuck with her from the lesson :) But then as we were praying before we left she said, " Jesus told me to let the little children come to me." The other teacher and I both looked at each other and couldn't believe what we heard! This was the verse we had prayed about last week because we are hoping for more families and kids to come to church. We asked her mom if she had heard this verse somewhere but she didn't think so. Its amazing how God can use little kids to remind us of the important things in life :)

Prayer requests

I know a lot of people are getting sick this fall, and that doesn't exclude students at SPU...one of the girls in our nursing program has missed a few days of class because she wasn't feeling well and today she left class to get checked out at the hospital. I don't know any of the details but we're all hoping she will be able to return soon. It's stressful enough trying to keep up with the reading load, assignments, lack of sleep, and not feeling well definitely help. If you just keep her in your prayers that would be so appreciated! Thanks! Love you all!

Shannon's scarecrow

Well if you're downtown this week you might see some scarecrows - and Shannon was the brains behind Reichhardt & Ebe Engineering's "nerd scarecrow"

And I think she went above & beyond with the plans, computer, pocket protector, textbooks, etc

Curly hair, glasses, and a button nose :)

Finally moved in

Well I survived week 2 of nursing school, getting up at 4:45 for clinicals, and I have my first exam on monday, but I thought I should put up some pics on my room and the house!

First, the lovely desk my dad put together :)

My room :)

I neededa book case to hold all of my nursing book, 30 and counting....

The basement bathroom

Granny Momo came back! (the couch from my dorm room last year)

more of the basement (very coloful ;)

Living room

Our FRIENDS kitchen table - notice the chairs?

and the kitchen!

Pantry...


In our entry way

The Zoo!!!

My first weekend in Seattle and I got to see Tasha, Brock, and the zoo! I think its becoming a new pattern for when, "Chelsea goes to seattle" as Brock puts it :) And I'm ok with that! When we first got to the zoo Brock and Cooper both were so excited about the squirrels and crows, not even thinking about all the exotic animals lol and of course Brock had to look through the fence at the excavator :) But the boys had fun, saw LOTS of animals, played in the playroom (I think thats what it was called, with a tree house slide and a foam egg that Brock hatched out of! His words, not mine :) But by the end, Brock was trying to convince Tasha he should carry him, "because it was a very long way to the car..."

It was a great little break and I'm so glad Tasha's friend Jessica could be tasha's navigator and Cooper could join in on the fun! Can't wait to see you all!