Ready or not

Well I wasn't really ready for another birthday yet, but I guess that didn't really matter :)

I had an awesome day, starting with going down to The Cities to meet Jess after just a little more than to years. Mitch went down there to pick up the Horol Missions Team from the airport and I thought it would be a nice opportunity to get there!
We met at Caribou to talk and catch up on each others lives, so good!

When we got back home I could already smell my birthday cake and I was really excited to have carrot cake again - something we need (more of) in Germany!

Somewhere between coming home and eating dinner Tirzah asked how old I was now and when Mitch said 'She's 19 now', Tirzah said 'Oh so you're a mom now?'. Best quote of the day!

I got to choose my favorite meal for supper just like every other Theis kid, thanks to Steph for cooking and baking for me!

While eating Mitch started a round of "Memories we have of when Kathi first came here" which was really fun to remember little things of my exchange year!

After supper we had the cake with ice cream - yummy!

Parents + birthday child photo

Now I just got home from a friend's goodbye party who is going to Uruguay this year - yay going abroad!

Thanks for all the congratulations, I had such a great day!

Ready or not

Find my way back home

Not me... not yet.
But my little Teddy!

When I was born my mom's co-workers gave her two Teddys from Sigikid and I have them with me when I travel around so they are here now too!
Anyway a couple days ago I thought I lost my little one. We have our garbage can right between our beds (Eden's and mine), and I thought it might have fallen in there while I was sleeping and it's now gone :(

I thought I looked everywhere for it and I was kind of hoping Tirzah grabbed it and put it somewhere else (she likes them too), but I also kind of started to accept that it was gone - I mean it's just a stuffed animal, right?!

I found my little bear tonight when I came home from a game night with a couple exchange students, host family members and YFU volunteers. I was soooo happy so I really had to blog about it. I originally wanted to name the post 'Lonely' when I first thought about writing it, because I didn't find him before that, but anyway.

Big Papa Bear

Back together :)

Tirzah with it a couple of days ago

Yeah.. I seriously just wrote a blog about my teddy bear :D

Find my way back home

Brothers & Sisters

Most of you probably already knew from Facebook or Steph's blog that she is pregnant :)

I'm so excited to get another brother or sister and I just wanted to post pictures of all of my siblings. 

I love every single one of them! 

I'm very glad and grateful to live here now and be blessed with this wonderful family!

Tirzah (1)

Malachi (3)

Joshua (5)

Ezekiel (6)

Caleb (9)

Eden (11)

Micah (13)

Marcel (18) I don't have a portrait of Marcel here on my laptop, sorry, but I like this picture a lot.

Because today was only an orientation for freshman and new students at school I will post about my real first school day tomorrow :)

I have to finish my volleyball sister's presents now because we have a home game tonight versus Sauk Rapids

Brothers & Sisters