*Had a great Christmas with family in Phoenix. Best gift was a DVD of home videos from my childhood that my dad converted from 8mm tape. Second best: the first season of my new favorite TV show, CHUCK. Had good times with family playing games and eating too much.
*Went on cruise to Mexico Dec. 27-Jan 3. Rusty's family is awesome. They get along so well with each other and have a good close family vibe. They like to play games together, go on adventures together, and smuggle alcohol in mouthwash bottles onto the boat illegally.
*Cruise excursions were the best part:
-Cabo = ride ATV's on private beach. Didn't get pictures yet.
-Mazatlan = take salsa and margarita making class. Learn to dance salsa.
-birthday in Mazatlan = playing on beach and parasailing (a gift from Rusty!)-Puerto Vallarta = ziplining and repelling in jungle. No pictures allowed, sorry. It was fun though.
*Moved to Colorado!Drove 14 hours in one day with my sweet friend, Rachel, through NM and CO.
Visited downtown Boulder where I will work. This is Pearl Street, a famous shopping and hangout district in the area.This is where we ate lunch. I drank an algae smoothie. When in Boulder...
We went to Denver the next day. This is the skyline. It's not the best picture, but I took it without looking while driving on the freeway, so what do you expect. It's a surprisingly beautiful city for being such a large place. I really enjoyed it.
We went to Colorado Christian University because Rachel might want to transfer there in the fall to study music. It seemed like a sweet place. I hope she goes there so we can be Colorado friends.
This is Longmont, CO where I will live for the next few months. It is ten minutes east of Boulder. It is 30 minutes north of Denver. It reminds me of Flag. I love it. Here are some pictures of the downtown area. I am currently sitting inside Ziggi's coffee shop and enjoying the cold, overcast day. 
Hope some of you will come visit me while I am here!
*Start my internship on Monday
-Let's not talk about that. I'm not ready.
*The family I am staying with is awesome. Pictures to come. It's a married couple in their 30's and their three INCREDIBLE kids: Izzie, Sam, and Chicory.
Basically, I'm trying to quickly recover from the chaoticness that has been the past few weeks, and to trust God in his leading me here to Longmont.
Today I was encouraged by Psalm 95:
"Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the wilderness, when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work..."
I have seen God's work in the past. He does not have a single failure in the books. So today, I will follow him and listen to him, and enter into his presence with thanksgiving. He is a great God.
