I'm back! Sorry for the break, I've honestly been super busy and haven't had much time to really sit down and blog a ton. Well here's an update on what I've been up to!
This is from Formal Friday. As you can see, Danielle and I are dressed very lovely for the morning. These two volunteers got corrupted to be our prom dates for sakes of this photograph. Theme days are fun, but I only really get into a few of them. Formal Friday being one of them. My other favorite is Tat-tuesday. I have a ton of colored sharpies and I give "tattoo" designs to the volunteers. I've done everything from snakes all up and down their arm to an octopus on someone's face. I've got talent, what can I say.
Here's me performing a turtle save. Turtles in Appalachia tend to cross the road a lot - which is DANGEROUS. So we staffers save them. So far I've saved 6 this summer - the most on my staff! We name all the turtles we save. This one is Alvin.
Here's Victoria and I with a work crew at a home in the Wyco Holler. We're standing on the family's new porch! Currently we're working on a roof for this family. All the new rafters have been put in place and we put in the order for the tin today! We're also working on a bedroom for Raven, the little boy who lives here. We re-did his floor, walls, built him a closet, and now we're on to painting the room and laying down laminent flooring. I LOVE THIS FAMILY.
Above is just a picture of me being an awesome staffer of course.
The baby above's name is Halie. She's a 1 year old living in another home we're working on in the Wyco Holler (home's code name is Love Shack). She has the biggest smile ever and whenever I come, she always wants me to pick her up. He's adorable. Her mother is actually my age. I've spent a good amount of time talking and bonding with her, and she's an awesome person. It's hard to imagine that someone my age could be raising a child and living in the conditions she currently is. We're doing our best to make their home a safer place for baby Halie to live.
Here's Danielle and I exemplifying another theme day: Wacky Wednesday. It's pretty fun going around town looking like this. Summer is officially over halfway over. Time has flown by. I LOVE my staff, we just always have a great time. Our motto is "work hard play hard". We get our work done then just hang out and have a blast with one another. I'll miss them a ton at the end of the summer. Our families are amazing as well. I'll have a harder time leaving them then I did leaving families last summer. It'll be a hard goodbye come August.
I'm already prepping myself for my transition back home. I know it will be hard at first, but I'm looking forward to a lot of things this fall. One being my sister, Annie, being a new member of the Spartan Marching Band! I cannot wait to share the experience with her. It's going to be great having her with me all school year. I miss her a lot. But overall, I think next year will be great. I know I'll miss ASP as I always do, but I think I'll be able to make the transition home even better this year. God's been great to me this summer, I could not ask for more.
"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you." Deuteronomy 31:6
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