Bye Rachel

My sister is leaving for the Philippines today! Rachel is going on a mission trip to the Philippines for 3 months to work at an orphanage in Anti Polo, she is going to be helping out a lot there, there is 18 kids at the orphanage right now.
So My two sisters, a friend, and myself our driving up with Rachel to the airport to wish here farewell and goodluck this afternoon, we are leaving around 1pm.
I'm gonna miss ya Rach!:) <3

Please have my sister and the orphanage in your prayers.

-Always love, Mikayla

It's been a long week.

The word "tired doesn't" even mean something to me anymore, I am always tired. This renovation has been a really long process for my family and myself, but I am VERY happy to announce that we are weeks away from finishing! Of course there is still the bathroom downstairs, and the living room on the main floor, those are minor compared to what we have been doing. For those of you that don't know much about my family's renovation, we added on to our house making the kitchen and dining room a whole lot bigger than what they used to be! Also we have made a room downstairs underneath the kitchen/dining room which we don't quite know what it is going to be yet, but it has a ton of possibilities.
                         So, here is the status of my house:

• No kitchen sink, so we (mostly Rachel) have been doing the dishes in the bathtub
• Mess Everywhere! If any of you have had a renovation I'm pretty sure you know what I'm talking about...
• We have tools and appliances laying all about-New fridge in the dining room, new dishwasher and microwave in the living room, built shelves in the new kitchen/dining room, a scafholder in the old kitchen holding tools and such.

We started to put shelves up and floor down on Saturday and Sunday, It looks really good. :)
Painted the walls in the kitchen/dining room last week this color-



Other stuff I have been doing in my life:

• School
• Youthgroup
• hanging out with my friends
• Chores/ helping with reno
• hanging out with my sisters

Yesterday My family and myself went up to Lloyd to celebrate Julia's birthday. We went out to eat at Tony Roma's, I got Ribling with fries. :) We were planning to go shopping afterwards but decided to go home early and stop at co-op and get icecream. We came home and got the icecream dished up and watched 'In Time'. Here is the movie trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fdadZ_KrZVw

It was a great day. :)