twenty.

Today i turned 20 years old, once again i am the same age as my love jaylene.

This morning a most amazing package came to my door, on a sunday, weird i know. But we had both been praying that this package (from Jaylene) would get here before my birthday, and God got it here on the very morning of my birthday. God is Good. It was an most amazing package to, full of love, inside jokes and Creativity.

I wanted to give you a glimpse into this Wonderful gift, true you wont understand some of it and that is ok. And also i really want to show the world that i am in love with such a creative woman, its it truley amazing.

1. Sitting on top of the whole surprise was this amazingly knitted yellow envelope, with a Note to me inside. : )

2. A Guide book to Paris where we will be going to in 4 months and about 5 days or so, and she went through and wrote through out the whole book little notes for me.

3. Little wooden statues of us : )

4. An amazing painting done by jaylene, it is so amazing i will surely keep it forever and ever. Incorperated into it is little aspects of us, India, Kona, Stars, our Wall.

5. Real Fruit Gummies. Camrose -> To Kona. Kona -> Sao Paulo.

6. Yarn & Knitting Needles, because i am going to learn how to knit. : )

7. Hearts from You & Me Dinner. (this was a fundraiser dinner Jaylene and her girl did to raise money for there book, and i really wanted to be there to take her to it. so jaylene sewed a bunch of these little hearts for each couple that signed up and they used them as place holders at the tables.)

8.Nate’s Birthday Book. This was my favorite by far, a book of the top 10 memories or moments so far in our relationship. all hand made by Jaylene.

9. Sleeping At Last Yearbook shirt. So cool you all know our love of this band, there is a whole tab devoted to them.

10. Super glue & Electircal Tape. True i did ask for these because they come in so handy when traveling.

11. 2 White Shirts. I like having clean clothes. 🙂

12. Star Fruit This wasn’t in the package, but it was given to me from my lovely track mates.

There you have, the content of one of my favorite gifts i have ever been given. that god brought at jsut the right time.

I Guess Now It’s Official…

The other night Jaylene and her brother Braden got their flights to come visit me in Europe!

this is very exciting because it’s real now it is not just a thought or hope in our minds, She is coming to see me in rome in august. This has been quite the process of getting the ticket, Jaylene has been looking at these flights for six months now, since october, and now she was finaly able to purchase them! I am so excited for this, just saying. Oh

and there could be a couple more people to with us, we shall see what happens.

Europe Our Adventure:

So our adventures in europe will take us to three diffrent countries, Italy, France, and Switzerland. I (Nate) will be ending the Biblical core corse in Rome, Italy and Jaylene and braden will be meeting me there. We will be there for a couple of days, and then we start out journey up to Paris, France where we will be for one week. Along the way we could stop in the countryside for a bit or other towns along the train route,  Braden has mentioned that he wants to stay in a castle for one night, so we will most likley do that. And after our amazing time in paris, I have to be back in Burtigny, Switzerland for the start of the humanities and Science corse. Braden leaves a couple days before Jaylene, so she will be there in switzerland with me for a couple of days during class. That is what our adventure looks like we know a couple more details, but not much yet.

An Update of sorts….

Well we have not updated you guys in a while on our lives, but we are both alive and mostly healthy. Jaylene is back at home now in Camrose, Alberta with her family for a couple of weeks until she goes down to California to meet back up with her girls to start the tour for their book.  The book is called Act Here. Love Now. and is a collection of stories, reflection and photos from their journey around the world the purpose of which is to inspire people to seemingly small actions within their communities, cities, and the world.  More info on it, as well as an opportunity to pre-order, can be found on the website at the link below…

Act Here Love Now.

I am in brazil still for 20 more days, finishing off the Photography Core corse. Then i move onto South Africa for 6 weeks. You can see some of the pictures i have taken throughout my time here in brazil over here.

http://nathaniellynch.wordpress.com/

“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” ~ Walt Disney

An inspirational quote.

 

P.S. There are 4 Months & 24 days until we are reunited in Rome.

16

I was 16 going on 17…. Yup

I just got back from a two week outreach a couple of days ago and waiting for me was a package from the wonderful Jaylene, and in that package was a mix Cd of music she listned to when she was 16 years old. That got me thinking how much a person musical taste can change with in a couple of years, cause i know mine certainly has changed from back when i was 16. So i made a Dropbox Mix for her of the music i listened to when i was 16, and it was weird t see how much it my taste changed and in ways how much they stayed the same. I wish i could tell you more about Jaylenes taste i only know a little and what i do know is that her musical taste have changed since then to. Why did we listen to the music we did at that age? why did we like it so much?

Jaylene’s Mix

1. Three days Later – Fm Static

2. I Need You – Relient K

3. Fight Inside – Red

4. Move – Thousand Foot Krutch

5. Is Forever Enough – Hawk Nelson

6. I Will Go – Starfeild

7. More Then Useless – Relient K

8. Definitely Maybe – Fm Static

9. Part One – Wavorly

10. Rebirthing – Skillet

11. Simply – Pillar

12. Hold Me Twice – Fm Static

13. I’m Taking You With Me – Relient K

14. Breathe Into Me – Red

15. Shut Me Out – Kutless

16. Up And Up – Relient K

17. Turn It Up – Pillar

18. Nice Piece Of Art – Fm Static

19. Never Be The Same – Red

20. The ONe I’m Waiting For – Relient K

21. Inhuman – Thousand Foot Krutch

22. Mystery Of You – Red

Nate’s Mix

Mini Intro 2007 – this is the introduction i made for our soar team this year, there is choregraphy to it and it i right here for you to enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cN-B-i1S7E
Second Chances – Stellar Kart
High of 75 – Relient K
Serial Sleepers – House of Heroes
More Than A Revolution – Eleventyseven
Burn Out Bright – Switchfoot
Friday Night – House of Heroes
Odds And Even SOS – Eleventyseven
The Next Big Thing – Fm Static
Feelin’ So Fly – Tobymac
Comatose – Skillet
Boomin’ – Tobymac
I’m Not Alright – Sanctus Real
Sorry’s Not Good Enough – Mcfly
Hero (Red Pill Remix) – Superchick