Mrs. Christensen signs on

My new name still kind of throws me off and it is strange to meet people and have them only know me as Emily Christensen. I mean I sound like an OLD LADY!

I thought that I should give an update on our new life. The most exciting thing is that I have started (as of two weeks) a few job at George Fox University in student life. I am an administrative assistant for housing. Yes that means I have a lot of angry parents and students calling about their placements but so far it has been a lot of fun. I love the people that I work with and we get tuition remission for Brad's gradschool courses (which is SO HELPFUL).

Some days are slow since school hasn't started yet, but I can't complain. I worked at an attorney's firm for three weeks as a temp before this and it SUCKED. I hated it so much, it was wonderful to get this job with such a wonderful work enviroment and I love being around college students!

Brad has been on vacation for the past two weeks and has been my househusband as I am working full time :-) He starts up grad school again on the 24th of August and will be inendated with school work again. It has been fun to have him around to play with. It is so great living with your bestest friend. Don't get me wrong some days have been hard and marriage is a lot of work but we are having a blast.

One of my biggest accomplishments this summer is: I learned to drive our old stick shift and I had my first time driving it alone last week.

Brad and I just went up to Canada to see his extended family that came to the wedding but we really didn't have a chance to hang out with. It was a whirlwind trip and involved a lot of driving, but it was a BLAST. They are all hillarious and have funny accents. :-)

You could all pray for Brad's sister Stacy. She has had some bleeding in her brain that has stopped but she still has been getting bad headaches. Also she is still with her looser boyfriend/fiance. She finally wrote me an email telling me how unhappy she is with him but doesn't know how to get out of the relationship....which was HUGE for her to admit to. Pray that I have the right words to say in helping her make the right decision. She is living with him and is trying to keep is a secret (yet everyone knows). There is a lot of healing that has to happen.

Sorry to end on a downer. I love you all and you are in my prayers. I have your picture up in my office and everyone wants to know who all those students are and I just say "well they are my students from mesp and they were fabulous people."
love Em