Fourth Week of December!

Tis the last day of 2013 and it has been super memorable this year! I am really thankful for all moments!

Giving Thanks
-I only worked one day last week which was pretty sweet!!!! Ate at GUPPYS with tony kat aaron pam and jose :)
-Christmas Eve i was able to relax, finish last minute wrapping, and spend the evening at Jose's house with his fam!

-Christmas was too fun! Our tradition is to open gifts by the tree and watching one another react to their special presents from one another! We watched the laker game ate great food!

-Thursday jose finally had me watch lord of the rings! the first movie only... haha. and i have to say that i like it! then he surprised me with a sweet boat ride around newport to look at christmas lights!

-I finally watched FROZEN! such great music, casting, story, humor! Had lunch with my bud Austin who i rarely get to see but is such a great brother to me!

Later there was a fun get together with loved ones! We ate (my homemade chili hehe among other yummy foods) and played games! That was such a fun time!

you can see videos here and heremade brilliantly by Aaron!!!!!
-We had family over for dinner and games the next day! I love them, they are always so fun and kind to us!

Church was helpful- knowing even more the importance, reality, and beauty of God comforting Joseph of Christ's birth!
We hit up Wang Chos for dinner as a family before the grandparents left the next day!! Weeee
-Today shall be spent with sweet friends :) All glory be to Christ!

Third Weed of December!

Christmas has approached so quickly!!!! It has been difficult to keep up this blog. Here we go! This past week was a bit tough for me which had prompted me to write my last post about God being good in my trials. I have seen a lot of true forgiveness and grace lately which has softened my heart and helped me deal with things.

Giving Thanks
-I have been able to spend some time with my visiting grandparents which is always awesome because i love them!! weve gone out to lunch, hung out at home, talked, preparing for these holidays with eating, wrapping gifts, and laughter!
-going to mission inn with jose rachel and nieman :) pretty place with encouragement in the faith!

-seeing fiona at starbucks. i love that girl, listening to her and getting to know her
-OMG SAVING MR BANKS WITH MY SISTER. we love love mary poppins with my family and we had been looking forward to this. and it didnt let down!

-My family went to Chino to look at the houses be lit up over there! verrrry nice!

-We also got to spend time together at Sea World and a hotel :) Gotta love fam time!

-Caroling around diamond bar! We do this every year with Sammies neighbors and its always a blast to sing and eat!

-Every day this December, one coworker would bring a holiday treat to the office for us all! Here are some of the yummy foods we snacked on throughout our work day :)

God is good in my trials

For the last four months, I think I've been going through a handful of trials that challenge my heart, my trust in God and how I am able to glorify Him in these situations. I haven't written my thoughts because I tend to over think, bottle it inside, and have a fear of man issue. But here they are now.

Issues.

Oh I've had a good amount of issues that have ached my heart! I do understand everyone have problems.  Good friends have stopped speaking with me for reasons I don't understand or have control of. Health of family continues to worsen and I feel helpless. Arguments with my guy for three weeks back in October or so and it brought out a lot of selfishness and bitterness on my end. Seeing people I care about in my church and life hurting and broken. Carrying burdens for those I love.  Lacking in rest and caught up in busyness. Feeling burnt out. Job stress. Dealing with bad emotions such as anger and self righteousness. Tough conversations about living a life for Christ. Deaths...

I've learned these things 

1. I must trust Gods goodness, surpassing peace, and His complete and absolute sovereignty. Rely on the Holy Spirit

2. Pray in all circumstances, rejoice in all things, persevere in the faith and gospel, read bible

3. Repeat your identity and gods word to yourself. Example, you are a slave to do gods will from my heart, His righteousness, daughter of a Loving father, indwelled by the Holy Spirit.. Etc! Philippians is an encouraging book.
4. See I am broken, messed up, wicked and deep need for Jesus Christ, the Savior, Redeemer, who does all things for my good and sustains all things.
5. LOVE OTHERS. SERVE OTHERS. LISTEN. SPEAK HELPFUL TRUTH. LEARN FORGIVENESS. BE COMPASSIONATE. STRIVE FOR PEACE AND UNITY AND FOR GOD TO GET THE GLORY.

If you speak with me, help me in these areas where I lack and put too much pressure on myself. please prayor me too! Thank you for reading about my transparency. God is good. 

Second Week of December!

Mama was sick this past week so a lot of my time was helping to prepare the gifts for the company party yesterday while watching all three episodes of sing off last week!

Giving Thanks:
-jchen was home to come with me to pilates!!! amazing work outs!!
-went out to eat sushi with beautiful praise who has been an amazing sister to me!
-friday- i was sooooo excited to go to the shane and shane concert with pamela, aaron and jose! IT WAS AMAZING. great singing christmas songs and praise songs to the Lord! we loveee their voices :) after we went to rancho to see christmas lights!!! they were amazing and ive never seen anything like it! wooooo! sooo pretty!

-saturday i spent with my grandparents at home, reading the third book of hunger games :) i already feel myself gaining weight from my popos cooking! my poor ma was bed ridden but we surprised her with pentatonix concert tix!
-sunday was my pops company luncheon! love seeing the people he works with and have trained him. we ate bomb food and had our characatures done!

-later i took some friends to our night service in LA and i was encouraged by them being blessed and the preaching of christ being exiled for us!!! omg i was jaw dropping and wowing! the theme of the old testament of redemption, israelite covenant, land, king to the new testament of redemption, new covenant, the new heavens and earth, and king jesus was crazy! :) BLESSED!!!! we hung out with LA folks after eating and playing games

-work has been just wonderful- weve decorated our desks, been eating well, ive been stressed because im fairly new to handling all the ruckus but was recently praised for doing well:p PHEW.

What is my Job?

Soooo i thought I would write about what I actually do for my 7am-4pm job! I think a lot of my friends and fam do not have a good idea, so I thought I would make it clearer!

I am a project coordinator for AEHI (Eagle High International). I am in the aerospace industry. My company is a broker, reseller, distributor of sorts. We arrange transactions between a buyer and seller for a commission! This is my first salary paid job! I feel so grown up!

A typical day for me is BUSY and time goes by soooo quickly! I am constantly communicating with others via email, phone, or in person. I walk in to work and immediately check my email full of new requests for airplane materials (metals, chemicals, parts, hardware), issues of current projects I am working on, and responses from vendors and customers. I facilitate requests for airplane parts and speak with possible manufacturers or distributors, quote our customer, then if they agree, we are given a contract, then purchase it from the vendor, then have it sent to us, and we send it through a freight forwarder to our customer! There is paperwork for everything and a paper trail to keep everything organized and legitimate! CRAZY!

I am really thankful for my coworkers who have really welcomed me and on a daily help me out. We help one another! We all have our strong points (I am learning my own as I grow in the company) and we are able to lend a hand whenever there is an issue. My managers are great and knowledgeable. They are helpful, kind, and generous!

It is so crazy I have a business job. It makes me feel all adult-y! It truly blown my mind I was able to use my degree in business to find this place and learn so much! I hope you were able to get a better idea of what I do!

If youd ever like to check out our website here it is: http://aehiinc.com/

First Week of December!

Giving Thanks
-Actually I will take it back to Thanksgiving! My pa fried up a delicious turkey and made too much food! But we scarfed down what we could! Jose came over then we went to Jesscas house (a tradition for at least 7 years now!) for more food and games with her fam and friends!

-Friday we woke early for shopping time with my ma and sis. I lasted only three hours!Im not much of a shopper, but Im thankful during this time to buy for my fam!!!!
-Saturday we picked up our trees!!! At night i went to support my church fam at the danika benefit concert.
-Sunday I was blessed by Dannys preaching on gods mercy when sin consumes our identity and to give thanks and glory to God. Jose taught on church history and i looove learning that! Then marika and sammie helped me create wonderful things for my desk at work at night! we crafted away and my best friends are great!!

-Throughout the week its been sooo fun decorating up my desk area and seeing what my coworkers are doing!!! It has given us reasons to smile and help one another.
-Tuesday I had lunch with marika!!!

After work i went to LA to babysit the Tibayan kiddies!!!! We ate, watched a movie, and played a bit :) Jose and I were able to have great convos with them afterwards!

-Wednesday I ate with my cousin Justin and he came home with me to talk with my parents! Loved catching up!!!

-Thursday jose and i hit disneyland and ca up for christmas time!! :D we love that place!

-Friday I read revelation 2 with kat and pam, then celebrated dannys bday at coconut bay!!!!

-Today I went to Lucilles with the city group gang and we planned our next party and played games :) Helped my fam wrap a bajillion cookie boxes so i can make goodie bags :D