Rest, Relaxation & Friends

The last 3 days I have been up at my friend Erin's cottage with the Ignite team! We were having our final Holiness retreat of the year...let me tell you...it was SO amazing and beautiful up there and we had some really fun and amazing times together!

The scenery was beautiful and I really could not get enough of the lake...I wanted to always be swimming in the lake.

We had some amazing times and lots of great prayer sessions that went really well. It was great to get a chance to reflect on our year together (well...half a year for me!) and also to just remember great times and share fun stories with one another!

We were able to participate in lots of fun activities (I didn't do the whole water skiing
thing)! It was just really nice to get a chance to relax and hang out and spend time with God and friends and not really have anything else on the agenda! It was amazing!

The boys of course were boys and so here's a photo of Colin and Mike throwing Bethany into the lake!

Erin, Curtis and Luke were also up at the cottage and Erin was cooking all the food for us which was AMAZING!

All in all the 3 days was a time of sharing with one another and relaxing with one another...and communing with God in His beautiful creation!

So now their graduation is on Friday and it should be really great! I am so proud of the team this year...it's been a tough year and they've been through much transition but they've pulled through and now they are almost done!

Here are some more photos of the week

CN TOWER!!!

So last night Jono and I took our house of the Ignite team up the CN Tower for dinner. We had such an amazing time and it was so beautiful to watch the sunset over Toronto. We had so much fun! The food was amazing and we laughed so much...then after dinner we went down and went on the glass floor and the outside lookout and stuff...it was great fun. I'm actually gonna try to post my first picture...so I hope that it works!

I hope that it works well...anyways we laughed so much and it was just a really great way to celebrate our year together! It was funny because Jono mentioned that only 2 of us had actually bee there for the full year because Paul made a last minute decsion to come to Ignite, so he missed the first couple of days...Jono was deported and I came home from Australia from the School For Youth Leadership and ended up filling in for Jono...and then Jono came home and we both stayed on as leaders...so it has been a pretty interesting year for our house.

We also really missed Casey last night because she ended up having to leave the program in February for personal reasons and go home to Australia...so it was really hard to see her leave. So we really missed her last night!

The 360 Restaurant was amazing. Bethany and I were loving the women's washrooms because they were so nice! We liked that we could wait until the washroom came around to us and then go to it...as the floor revolves but the middle part stays the same...so every once in awhile the washroom would be right near your table! Random I know...but we enjoyed it!

Anyways...the night was just really fun and a really great chance for us all to get to bond with each other one last time before our year together is finished!

Not much to say...

I really don't have much to say...but if I didn't post a new blog soon people would start to miss me...hmmmm...not really. Just Fiona really! Well...this week has been busy with getting ready for the Kids Venue at Roots...Denise and I are having so much fun preparing all the Bible stuff...and thinking up games and stuff. I am really excited because in 14 days my beautiful and wonderful friend Cate is coming from Australia to visit. She's coming down for our friend Denise's wedding which I am really looking forward to. And she's also bringing me a block of my favorite Australian Chocolate (Cadbury's Black Forest Chocolate)!!! I can't wait!!!! This past weekend was so unbelievably cold. I bought some new summer clothes on Friday and I've not even been able to wear them yet cuz it's so cold :( So that makes me awfully sad. But I'm hoping that I can wear them tomorrow! Made 2 trips to Buffallo over the last week...so at least I will know the way so easy when I have to go to pick up Cate! Dropped Fiona off there on Thursday to go visit her parents in L.A. and then dropped Elais there on Saturday to go and help out with the hurricane relief in New Orleans...so I had a lot of driving to do in the last few days...! Well...not much else to say...I will write again soon (I promise Fee!)

What A Day...!

Well...today has been quite the day in the life of Heather. I ended up cooking the sunday meal for today after church with Fiona and we were cooking all morning...but it did turn out really good if I do say so myself! We made pasta bake and it was a hit (I think). We did that all morning...and then we had soldiers class at 2pm, right after that we had church...which is where the worst and most embarassing part of my day happened.

So...I had my laptop there for powerpoint (as usual)...Well for some reason this week my computer managed to pick up a really good wireless connection (which it usually doesn't there!) and so it automatically connected to it...which in turn made it automatically connect to my MSN...and me being completely oblivious to all this happening is turned away from the computer and focusing on Sandra's sermon...when I catch my friend Fiona's eye and she's pointing at the screen. Someone had started a conversation with me which made MSN and the converasation box pop up onto the screen. Talk about embarrasing...Then I'm looking around to see if anyone has noticed and I see two of my best friends standing at the back of the church and they are just absolutely losing it! Erin told me later that she literally collapsed to the floor in laughter...it was so bad!

Following church I went to hear a lecture on Social Justice which was really good. It was at DHQ and I ran into some people who I used to baby sit their son when he was 2 years old and we got talking and I asked her how their kids were to which she replied "Oh they are really good Nathan is 12 now..." and I was floored...It does not seem like 10 years ago that I babysat him and he is now 12 !! It was so crazy!

Now I'm home and trying to recover from my busy and interesting day! I think I'm gonna go and watch Walk the Line and just relax!