Here I am, finally posting!!!

Hi y'all. I have not posted much in a while. Labor Day weekend we had our friends Peter and Denise from the Bay area come up and we had a lot of fun. Their newly married son Chris and his wife Lea came too. On Saturday Peter, Chris, Lea, my dad, and I went hiking practically all day and saw a bunch of waterfalls, they were very cool!
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School started on Wednesday the 7th. It's just not the same without Dale and Brandons' loudness. It's really small and very quiet. Elyse said that everyone's probably just on their best behavior for the first day of class. Hopefully that is true. Anna did try to liven it up by opening her fizzy water during lunch and having it spray all over her. It was really funny. (I love you Anna.)
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This Saturday, the 10th, my mom and I drove with my dad and another doctor, Mark Nicholes (also a good friend of my dad's) to the San Francisco airport. We dropped my dad and Mark off and came home. There was another car with 5 people in it that were going too. My dad is going to Gabon, Africa for 26 days on a medical missions trip. (For the very few of you who don't know - my dad is a nurse) Although they will probably be having him do more construction work than medical stuff.
I miss him. It didn't really hit me until today when I was cleaning out my desk and I opened one of the drawers and there was a hidden note for me from him. It was really sweet and it made me all teary. I'm even teary just writing about it. :-) The cool thing about the note was that he had photo copied a doll that we have and that was the front of the note. Now I must tell you about the significance of the doll: When I was a baby my Aunt Sharon gave me this cute little stuffed doll. It looks like a dwarf - with the beard and the pointy hat. My mom liked the doll and kind of adopted it. So years ago my parents started this tradition that whenever they (we) went on a trip (together or apart) they would take the doll (whoever could get it first!) and hide it in eachother's suitcase or if they were going separately they would hide it under the other's pillow or in their drawer etc. So when I opened my drawer and there was a photo copied version staring up at me I was just pleasantly surprised. He hid the real doll for my mom, but we haven't found it yet!
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Today is my half birthday! I am officially fifteen and one half. Yay! :-)
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~ Have a good rest of the weekend! Jamie