| - What's a Guy Gotta Do to Get a Girl In This Town? Well hello all...
Yep, I'm at work and it seems like an eternity since I"ve actually made normal contact with you all, so here goes! :)
Not much has been going on here in ND.....school is absolutely nuts of course: I'm getting research-papered out, so I'm thrilled that the end of the school year is coming fast...in fact, it's about 53 days or so according to the Senior's countdown calendar. Yay!!!
I'm looking to spend my summer at home (probably my last there)...I'll still be working at the hospital...but doing an internship there 3 or so days a week and aide work 2 days a week if all works out as planned.
Thursday nights I"m still attending a women's Bible Study which is totally awesome...it's a bunch of gals around my age getting together for the study...right now we're going through Max Lucado's Experiencing the Heart of Jesus....totally love it...I recommend it if you're looking for something to help get you more into the Word...it's actually set up to do one section each day, but we only do 2 sections a week, sometimes only 1 depending on the week everyone has ahead of them...but anyways, it is an awesome study and the girls there are great...it's so awesome to get together with other believers and learn more and more about the character and love of Christ.
Other than Thurs. nights and work, I don't really get out much right now. We try to take a break each day and go for a walk...outdoors if it's nice, but if it's not, we go mall walking (yep, like the old folks hahaha)....it's just feels so good to get a break, expend some energy, and get a change of scenery for awhile. I'm looking forward to this summer when I may actually have some time to do other activities besides studying...In July my mom, my coworker and friend Deann, and her mom have already made plans to go up to the state fair and see Tim McGraw, Big and Rich, and Montgomery Gentry.....we are so "Gone!" :) for those concerts!! We're all skipping out on Terry Clark, as she's not a favorite...just don't like her music style I guess. But anyways, that should be fun, and I'm excited to get to some more concerts again....
Which reminds me....the Newsboys are coming to Bismarck in March so Sarah and I are making plans for that....tickets aren't on sale yet but we're going to be getting them when they do....seeing as the month of April is nuts with school and we won't have time to actually celebrate our birthday's, we're going to go the concert and make that our birthday celebration - a month early, but oh well!!! :)
We've had a beautiful couple of days here in ND....the air has just been so fresh and invigorating....it's been in the 50's, and when you step outside, you can just feel the light crispness of the air seep into your lungs...and it feels so good. We decided to take our Thurs. walk down at one of the parks in Bis and it was so great....like I said, the weather was so beautiful and we were so blessed to have been able to enjoy it!
Let's see...any other interesting news?? Oh, lol....yeah I totally sliced my hand the other day....I was washing this glass and all of a sudden it just broke and my dishwater turned red.....so I bled for like 45 minutes before I finally got it to stop, and then nicely bandaged myself up lol...of all dumb things to happen.....and it would happen to me too...eiyayeiyayei..lol lol
Oh...and a quick update on my grandparents...
Great-Grandma Helen is doing well and is being sent to stay at home with my Grandma Marlys and Grandpa Harley.....she can't put any pressure on the broken knee for at least 4 more weeks but the doctor says for now she can stay with my grandparents and do her therapies there...we are continuing to pray for her strength, health, healing, and good spirits. She is such a positive person and she knows God is right there by her side....
Grandpa Harley is going to start radiation treatments in April....the radiologist who looked at his test results is afraid there might be slight metastisis to some of the small cells around the prostate, so he wants to do radiation to erradicate it....we are continuting to pray for his healing, strentgh, and encouragement....the Lord is the maker of miracles and we know that he is in ultimate control of everything...
To all of you who have been praying for them...thank you so much..it means a lot to know that you have been praying for them and it is evident in their healing and attitudes that the presence of the Lord is there and that people are praying for them....
Anyways, I guess I don't have much else to say at the moment....I pray that the Lord's presence is very real and very close to each of you and that you will experience the joy of His peace and strength as you go about your week...take care and God bless!!!
Shelly Marie | 
