Welcome to my Big Wonderful Life

This is the first of many posts to come about my big wonderful life. Instead of deleting the previous posts from years ago, I decided to add on to them and simply change the blog to fit my purposes.  This blog is titled "Welcome to my Big Wonderful Life" because of a talk I had months ago with my step-mom Kim.  While sitting in church (obviously not paying as much attention as we should have) we passed a sheet of paper back and forth and had a quiet conversation on it.  This conversation most likely took place in February.  We mostly talked about the trip to Ecuador that I would be taking that summer.  As we talked she told me about the Bot Fly, and many unpleasant things that I just might encounter in Ecuador.  She then proceeded to say "welcome to your big wonderful life."  Although in the sequence of the conversation that phrase was a bit ironic, we both knew it was true.  So when choosing what to call this new chapter in my life, I could think of nothing better than to use that simple phrase.  As I travel to Ecuador on my first adventure after graduating high school, I am sure to encounter all sorts of new things. I may like some of them and others not so much. But I am sure to find that my life is big and wonderful.