Birthday time!

This past Wednesday was my 22nd birthday. It started off at midnight when Josh gave me my present, which was a 45 min massage from the local spa like place and a cute mug that says " i need coffee!" . I loved it.. it was a perfect gift for me! Then i went to bed and was awakened by my two roommates telling me i had to get out of bed because they had a surprise for me. They blind folded me and brought me to their car. They then took my to a restaurant, where they uncovered my eyes and there was a whole table of my friends there to celebrate with me!! I was so surprised! Then I had classes, and it was such a nice day ( 45*) that me and pam went for a run outside!!!!!! I had a special meal cooked by Diane, which included roast beef, mashed potatoes, salad, corn, and grasshopper pie for dessert. It was soooo good!!!! (THANKS DIANE!) Then later that night they invited a bunch of people over for cake.. there were about 30 people here.. so that was fun to see! Pam made me too pretty cakes and my mom bought me one. It was really nice of them. Then I watched some veronica mars with Josh and went to bed. It was a really nice birthday and everyone was so kind to me. Then to top it off, on Friday josh took me on a date to Sioux Falls and we went out to eat at famous daves (YUMMY!!!) and went to a movie, (The Holiday) which was also really nice! Saturday and Sunday we had a big storm and got about a foot of snow.. which was kind of disappointing because it was just warming up a bit and all the snow was finally melting.

And everyone who gave me anything,, or sent me a card.. or even said happy birthday. THANK YOU!! :)

Finally a post from Josh

Happy Valentine's Day! Boy did I ever pick an expensive time of the year to start dating! First this then her birthday next week! What was I thinking? She's worth it, as I'm sure you all know. Well Rachel is busy studying, and I have all my homework done for the week, so I thought I should update you on my life.
So what did we do for Valentine's Day? Well I got her some flowers and made her supper. I made a (rather tasty) Cajun Chicken Linguini, and for dessert, what better than my famous Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake? She spoiled me and got me some cologne that smells awesome and some chocolate golf balls. Pretty awesome.
I led a 40 minute discussion on Insider Trading (with special attention payed to Martha Stewart) today in my Senior Seminar case. It was one of 3 big projects we have to do during the semester, so it's nice to have that done. I think it went really well, I put a lot of work into it; I think it payed off. Its kinda funny, Rachel and I start "officially" dating, then for the first 3 days we hardly get to see each other. She had a couple big tests that she studied hard for and I had this presentation that I put a lot of time into. But it'll be good the next while, I'm far enough ahead that I don't need to do MUCH homework. Of course I can always study investments and watch Bloomburg, but Rachel thinks I'm a nerd if I do that. She likes it though, she just wont admit it. But anyways, time has come for Praise and Worship. Have a great week everyone, and Kyle and Lori, keep the pictures coming! Maybe we'll come visit you the first weekend in March?

news for you

Hey you all:)
I have good news.. me and Josh are now offically dating :) This weekend we went to his house and I got to meet his parents and see where he grew up. His parents were pretty much amazing and I had a great time playing different games with them and just hanging out with them. He lives in a small town called Edgerton, Minn.. but it was a nice little place. I got to have a tour of it on his snowmobile.. which was SO much fun!! Then on the way home.. we got caught in a big snow storm.. but we had a lot of time to talk about stuff... and we finally made it offical :)

Other than that.. not much has been happening. It keeps getting colder and colder around here.. and I keep freezing and wearing more clothes. I have two tests this week, but i think I am pretty studied up for them.

Well, more information will come later!
-Rachel
( ps. sorry josh did not write too ..:) he is already in bed!)

"It's a Great Day to be Alive"

Well, its actaully Rachel here writing.. I guess I decided I did not want to be lazy and I do have some pretty exciting things going on in my life!!
As Josh has already said, in the previous post, this semester has been a very good one so far. It is sad to think that college is almost over.. only three months left. ... We are making the most out of it.. but here first is Josh's opinion of the last week I guess??--- here he is.. the one and only Josh.........

Hello all: your second favorite poster on Rachel's account here (Josh, just to clarify). Rachel sent me an intelligence test about a week ago (for those of you who took it, it was Noah on the ark, not Moses) and I got lucky and did a little bit better than her. Well then we (read as: Rachel) decided that we should take an emotional intelligence quiz. Well, apparently my emotional intelligence is a fair amount below the national average. Could that be because women design these survey's assuming that they are more emotionally intelligent than men? Maybe I'm just a little upset. But Rachel still talks to me, embarassed though she may be about her emotionally handicapped friend.
Its Super Bowl Sunday. However this year I am less excited about the Super Bowl than any other year that I can remember. Is it because my Vikings proved quite incompetant again this year? I would argue no. This year, I really wanted to see the Saints go to the Super Bowl (well, of course Seattle was my first choice, but they choked). Now all we have to watch is one of the best defenses in the league match up against one of the best offenses. That may be exciting, but the other half (when Chicago's offense is on the field), we'll be forced to watch one of the worst QBs in the league go up against a less-than-mediocre defense. Excuse me for not being excited about that. Of course the commercials will be good, they usually don't disappoint. Well, enough about that.
Quite an eventful week ahead, I have 3 tests, 2 of which should be quite easy, and the other should be very difficult. I started studying today, in hopes of feeling quite comfortable with the material by Thursday (test day) so I won't have to worry and will be able to think clearly.
Instead of Rachel telling you all, I will be honest and say that Rachel actually did beat me in bowling yesterday. Maybe that means i should give up. No, I just won't let it happen again. The day she beats me in golf though, well, nevermind, that won't happen:D.
Well I'm sure you're all eagerly waiting to hear about Friday night. I asked Rachel to go out to Sioux Falls with me. We went to the Olive Garden, out to a movie (Pursuit of Happyness), then out to Starbucks for some coffee. I hope I can speak for both of us when I say that it was a great evening. Maybe she'll let me take her out again, if I'm lucky ;)
Well, I need to get back to homework, a lot of stuff to do before the end of the week.
Its been a pleasure, have a great week.

WEll back to the main reason you read this blog.. aka ..ME, RACHEL ANNE FEUCHT! :) So the week ahead of me is going to be busy .. I have a test on thursday and then physics test on Friday. I will have to get a lot of studying in before then, I will have to make sure I cut all connections off from Josh for the week ;) . But like he said we went on a date and it went really well. He even got my a pretty rose ( as seen in the bad picture of us!!) I would go on another one if he wants to! He is an amazing guy who treats me way to well.. ( he even opens the car doors for me and gets mad if I open my own door!!)

Like he said.. I beat him at bowling,.. which is no little feat. He has been bowling since he was born, and he even has a bowling ball with his name on it!! So you would think someone this serious about bowling would be awesome at it.. but I guess I distacted him enough so that I did better than him!! YAY!! He also bowls with Diane for a class, so it is sweet of him to put up with my little sister. And about his football blurb,,I hope someone understands what he is talking about.. because I know I don't watch football!

In all, this semester has been awesome so far :)

Well, that is about it for now.... I also wanted to say happy birthday tomorrow mom, but I am sure you will hear from me ( and maybe josh!! ;) )

Hope you all have a GREAT week!!

It's my last semester!

It has been over a month since Rachel updated her blog, and I came to the conclusion that this was simply unacceptable. In this day and age, blogs are a very easy and efficient way to keep people up to date on what is going on in ones life, so to leave family and friends without a blog post in more than a month is something that is unacceptable. I (Josh) after discussing this problem with Rachel have decided to take this into my own hands. She logged me in to her account and I will update you on whats been happening in her exciting life.

I picked her and Diane up from the airport on Monday the 15th of January. School started the next day.
I have a pretty easy semester, so I am using my free time to keep Rachel out of trouble, and I'm also doing an internship at Hope Haven. Hope Haven is a non-profit organization that builds and refurbishes wheelchairs and sends them to people who are in need all over the world. Last year, they shipped over 63,000 wheelchairs to children and adults in 101 countries. They also help physically and mentally handicapped people find jobs and live as normal of a life as possible. I really like my job, I'm helping to solicit money and item donations from many local businesses for the annual benefit auction. We hope to raise $50,000 this year, which will sponsor a lot of wheelchairs. I find my job very rewarding, and I also get to help plan for a benefit golf tournament, and I love golf, so thats really exciting. I also just became an uncle! Caleb Wallace Fey was born to Kyle and Lori Fey on Thursday January 25. A healthy baby of 7 lbs. 5.5 oz. He is adorable; I got to see him yesterday and I want to go back already!
Well, back to Rachel's life. She resumed working at the day care here in town, which she seems to love. Her classes are going well, and when she struggles with a Physics problem, she asks me for assistance, (if only I remembered how to do it). Her room is now down to 5 girls as Jessica went to Washington DC for the semester. She is definitely missed, but I don't think they complain about the extra space. Rachel has been watching a fair share of Veronica Mars, and I watch with her sometimes. I am trying to get Rachel into bowling, but that has proved to be quite ineffective. Maybe golf will prove more successful when the spring comes around. Otherwise she stays busy playing Settlers of Catan and making some amazing pancakes (I've heard that she can't wait to make me waffles, so I'm excited for that). She told me to write that she is doing very well on her homework and studying all the time, but whether you believe her or me is up to you. She does miss her family (she didn't even tell me to say that), especially Patrick and Sammy, but she's quite the social butterfly here at college too. We went to Diane's art show on Friday night, which was fun. I have to admit that it is the first one I have been too, so its good for me to get a taste of high society once!
She's happy to be back, but sad that it is her last semester. She's on track to making it her best one yet though!
Well, she actually needs to use the computer for homework, so I'll wrap this up.
Have a great day everyone, I'll try to make sure she updates this more regularly (so you don't have to hear from me again!).

Going home!

I get to go home tomorrow! YAY!! I am really excited cuz i miss my family and it will be good to see them again! Finals went well, I passed all my classes with good grades, and I am packing to go home! Its sad next semester is my last one at dordt.. and it has already been sad saying goodbye so some friends who won't be back next semester. Well, I have not taken very many pictures to post, so I am sorry... :S Well, if you are reading this in washington.. i will see you in a couple days, if you are from Dordt, have an AWESOME christmas and I will miss you all, and if you are from somewhere else..... quit stalking me ;)

Sad day at dordt

Monday- Driving home from Thunderbay the girls and I were talking about how we never see ambulances around Sioux Center and how nothing really terrible goes on around Dordt.

Wed. morning- read my brothers blog about gravestones and the actions in our life determining what happens when we die. Talked to Pam for a good while about this pondering how we could die any day and we need to remember God as the focus of our life.

Wed. 4:30- Got out of work, could see Dordt and an ambulance pull out and heard the sirens and horns honking all the way down the street.

Wed. 5:30- talked to Brian bouma, who was there when the kid was passed out on the ground. He said he had no pulse when they took him away, but I figured the doctors could use thier cures to make him better. Besides he was only a freshman and way to young to die.

Wed. night- Got an email that he died after playing racketball which he said on his webpage was his favorite new thing.

Wed. 10:00- had a prayer service for him

Wed. after- talked to one of my friends who saw the kid being put on the stretcher and saw his ghostly white arm flop off. He kinda knew he was dead.

Its really sad how fast a life could go. I feel for his family who is in California who were anxious for him to get home from his first semester of college.

I did not even know Jon, but he reminded me of an important lesson. This life is not my own, but I belong to Christ. Therefore, I have to live my life in accordance to him, so that when I die I will be ready to see my Savior. I also want everyone to know that I died loving my Savior up to my very last breath.

Thunderbay!!

This thanksgiving break I took off and went to canada! I have a friend that lives on a cheese farm so I went to see how they make the gouda cheese and see her little dutch store. Her parents both came from holland 25 years ago and they both have heavy accents. I could not understand her dad at all, so it was pretty funny trying to figure out what he was saying to me. She also lives in a trailer while her family builds a new house so that was quite fun living in that! Here are some pictures of my time there, so of us working on the cheese farm making cheese curds and flipping the cheese and the others of thunderbay!

Nothing to new!

Not a lot has been happening here... I just had a busy couple weeks of test so that now I have nothing to do because I am starting new units in almost all my classes. This weekend was very low key, I went to the nursing home to play bingo with some old folks for a class. It is every interesting about how you almost have to treat them like they are children. It will be depressing being that old. It was good.. something that I would never really do unless I had to. :) Otherwise nothing else is new.. I will post a couple pictures of my cowgirl outfit for a costume party!

pretty cake!

It was my friend chad birthday so me and pam made him the most awesome cake ever! here it is!!
I also am sad that I did not get to make to see my little nephew turn two on Oct. 18:( butI love my little patricks!!

more!

i am a hunter too:)

two city girls on a farm~

This weekend my friend shannon and I decided it was about time that we tried out the farm life. So our friend chad let us come on his farm to try it out. WE got to see his cows, pigs ( the pic of one shows it pooping all over me!!) and we got to combine corn!! It was really fun and we enjoyed our time! here are some pictures of proof to show that city girls can get down on the farm ;)

emo!!

This weekend I went to Emo Ontario, to my friends house and cabin. At first I did not really think I should go because I should do extra studying for physics and calc. but somehow they managed to make it so I had no choice but to go!! So we went on a ten hour trip straight through min. to ontario. WE made it there at 2 in the morning, so we just went right to bed. When I was there I was able to go on four wheeler rides, shoot guns at targets and make it on my 4th try, canoeing, fishing, boating, had a couple bon fires, had a canadian thanksgiving meal, and we were just able to do a bunch of fun exciting things! here are some pictures of the weekend~

Top of the evening to you!

Tonight I figured that we all needed a little break from school. SO my friend Judy and I planned a formal hookah and chocolate party, were everyone had to bring chocolate and come dressed up. Here are some pictures!!

Much needed post!!

WEll, this semester has been very busy.. which means I have had no time to write in this blog. However, now I will try hard to keep everyone updated despite the busyness! Well, this semester I have been taking the hardest classes ever, both Physics and calculus. They have been very challenging so far and I have had to spend a lot of time trying to figure out what the heck is happening. Slowly I am getting it, with the help of tutors and many engineering friends who are more than eager to help me with this "easy" stuff :) . For work, I still get to work with the little kids, right now they are 6-12 months old. It is really fun to work there because it is a break from the regular college life. Living this year is awesome! WE get to live in the seniors apartments which are huge apartments, with walk in closets and much more room than all the other places we have lived in at dordt. .... What else is new... not a whole lot. This weekend I might go to my friends farm and work with the pigs but we are not sure about that. The weather here has been cold and rainy but today was nice and warm. I hope it stays like that for a while!!!

WEll thats all I got to say for now, here are a couple pictures that I have!! I will have to start taking more because this is all i got! The one of my friend Dave and the cake was from our coffee, cake, and hookah party! WE made the cake the night before and made it so it did not get missed up by putting sticks in it and putting the covering over the sticks. funny and dumb i know!


i hope everyone is doing well, I will write more when more happens!!:)