Four Fair Maidens

I have been thinking lately about how much God has blessed me with the gift of friendship. It's so amazing to have friends in my life who support me, can laugh with me and knowing I can lean on anytime. I don't deserve what God gives me daily and I'm really thankful I can reflect on this aspect of my life and just simply smile 💕 ~tanya

Yesterday was so amazing! We went up to Larch Mountain and had such a blast having hot tea by the fire, singing old Russian songs, getting stuck in the snow, breaking a sled and having the most intense snowball fight ever (along with free snow facial exfoliation)! It's so good to spend time with such good friends and I hope I get to do stuff like this more often. Love you guys. 

Wow, I can’t believe I actually have a free moment to sit down and share with you all a vacation I took over 3 weeks ago.   First things first, praise God I’m officially done with this semester and am now enjoying winter break.   This semester was really demanding and I wrote so many papers I honestly lost track.   Our family flew out of rainy Washington and into sunny Mexico and stayed there over a week.   Our resort was all inclusive and wow, we tried so many good foods, fruits and smoothies...   Every night we went out for dinner at different restaurants located on our resort, including Japanese, Italian, international, Mexican and Brazilian!   We spent much of the days swimming in the warm Caribbean waters, reading books under the sun, snorkeling and exploring.     We also went on two different tours around the area.   One was to Chichen Itza, a place the Mayan people lived and built their pyramids.   It was eye opening to learn...

I cannot believe it's the last month of the year already!! This year has flown by way too fast with so many changes that have happened for all four of us! 

It's so crazy how so often we plan our happiness for the future and dread the present. The future is bound to have the same kinds of troubles as the present: learn to be happy now. 

I know it has been a while since I've made my presence known on this blog, but in my defense, I haven't even been posting on my own blog. Well, something exciting finally happened so I figured it was time for a post. In June I graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Health Studies with a focus on Community Health Education and was completing an internship at Northwest Health Foundation. After my internship ended at the end of August I began to look for a job, and after only 2 interviews, I accepted the Care Coordinator II position with Sea Mar Community Health Clinics! I am so excited for the opportunity and look forward to a new change and working in the field that I went to school for. I am only 2 months shy of being at America's Best for 3 years and am going to miss the team that I work with immensely (especially my most amazing boss ever)! Hooray for new life happenings and looking forward to good things to come. Praisaloojah!  -Vee

Last time I posted something was back in August.   Time has flown since then.   I’ve been so busy with school it’s unbelievable.   Here’s a true story that happened to me over this weekend; I found out I had a 9 page paper due by tonight.   Praise God I was able to sit down and write it all and submit it on time.   It’s amazing how going through school, God gives strength to do these “paper marathons”… oh and I have another paper due Tuesday… I am so grateful for friends and sisters.   Here are a few pictures from last Sunday when we went exploring Reed College.   The buildings and library on campus have so much character, feels like you’re going back in time almost. We also took a challenge to find the most random book in their library and read a page.  Here is one of the books we found: