Hello again to all my loved ones!! Well, as most of you know, the Lord has released me from the Phillippines and I am now back in sunny Cali for the time being! After weeks of discerning, talking to mentors, praying with Colby, and crying myself totaly dry, the lord spoke to me one night while I was laying in my bunk bed in Davao and said " My daughter Tiara, I release you now. Go to Colby." and the very next morning, I told the directer that I would finish up the semester then I would be leaving Davao. The transition back to the States was all of heartbreaking, relieving, and an overdose of anticipation all at the same time, not knowing what the Lord was and is going to make of this life, that belongs to Him...next! I have come home to be with Colby so that when and where the lord calls us next, we will follow.... Together!! I know that He gave us the option whether to finish school in Davao and be apart, doing ministry and living separate lives, or, we could decide to take a different route, a complete leap of blind, deaf faith and JUMP! Head first. In a lot of ways I fight off feeling the sense of "moving backwards" being back in the U.S, but I know that it's no true, I know that God is faithful and if He put Colby and I together in the way and time in which He did, and if being apart for 5 months only made us stronger and more secure of who we are as a couple in Him, then it's a simple choice... Serve Him together, or apart. And we chose together! SO... My midwifery route has taken a different route all together, starting with nursing school! But I am not worried about it anymore, it is all in His hands and Im not speaking metaphoricaly! It is literly in His hands and I know that if He has called me to be a widwife... Then all I gotta do is be simply faithful and obedient in the next step!

With THAT said!!....On to the new stuff! A few months after jumping a few flights across the world back home and landing in colbys driveway in a forex shipping box ( I jumped out when he came walking from his house to look at the box thinking it was gifts that I had sent him, considering he wasn't expecting me for another week! I thought I almost killed the man I love by giving him a full blown hert attack because I scared him so badly)... Colby and I were engaged on March 31st, a windy, sunny day... the day after my 23rd bday!!! On top of a wild flowerd covered hill in Peters Canyon, a place where we spent a lot of time hiking and talking ( and kissing) before I had left for Davao. It was the amazing!! He secretly put the ring in my wallet and blind folded me the entire drive there!! After He proposed anD I answered " of course!!" we decided on having a march wedding in 2011!!