rollercoaster of emotions

There are three things I want to write about today:

1. In March I went on a mission trip to Swaziland, Africa. I fell in love with the kids and with the missionary program and the missionaries. I left a piece of my heart there. And when I came back I felt compelled to do something about the 80% price increase of the food they are buying for the kids. So working at a place that packages meals for starving kids I had a connection, and with the blessings of the church we raised enough money to send a shipment of Feed My Starving Children food to Swaziland. We shipped 270,864 meals for $8,000. A couple weeks before I left for Colorado my family got to be a part of packing the food and I got to see off the shipment. I have been praying for the shipment to arrive safely for a couple months now, and have been anxiously awaiting news from the missionaries. Well today I got an e-mail that they received the food!!!!! I screamed when I opened the e-mail and saw the pictures of the food in the hands of the missionaries! I can't wait to see more pictures of when they are distributing the food. Below is a picture of Ben Rodgers (the Africa director for Children's Cup) with an FMSC box!

2. I had a bridesmaid dress fitting today! They need to take it in a little bit more, but it was exciting to see what the dress is going to look like! When a dress is too big it is hard to get the mental picture of what it will look like, but with the dress fitting better today, I think it will look beautiful. It made me wish that I was at home helping with last minute wedding plans, and it made me very excited for the wedding! November 3, hurry up!

3. Every Tuesday night, the Canon City Tigers have a home soccer game, and every Tuesday night we have gone in to see the game. The Executive Director's son plays on the team, so that is how we found out about it. I like to watch soccer so it has been a treat for me. They are a pretty good team, I think they are 8-2-1. Tonight was an intense night for the Tigers and for the fans! I went through a rollercoaster of emotions. And of course fans feed off each other's emotions, so it was crazy in the stands. The refs were being pretty unfair as far as the calls being made, there was no home field advantage by any means. However the Tigers managed to fight and play hard and within the last couple minutes they scored their third goal to pull ahead. The other team didn't think it was quite fair, so at the end of the game instead of coming to mid field and shaking hands, they grabbed their bags and walked immediately to the bus. In the stands there was joy for winning and frustration at the other team and some anger towards the refs. However, it was a fun night and we laughed a lot and yelled a lot (I am pretty sure I will be hoarse tomorrow).