Through wind & rain, sleet or snow, blazing heat or bitter cold, Habitat will be there. Ok, so this week there wasn’t much rain, sleet, snow and the cold was only bitter during closing ceremonies, but Habitat was still here building away and so were we. Amber and I have been bff's since college and since our birthdays are only a week a part, we have celebrated them together every year since graduation no matter where we are living.
Here’s a little info on who we are, because we know you care.
Terri Ellen Waddell
# of Habitat Builds: Stopped Counting
Current Occupation: Is anyone hiring???? I used to work for Habitat Int’l
Favorite Color: Dirt on skin
Hard Hat Size: 7 ¼
Where she resides: Currently, anywhere she can find a friend with an open couch.
Favorite build site activity: drywall
Age: 26 & 364 days
Amber Leigh Skorczewski
# of Habitat: 3
Current Occupation: Marketing for Target Corporation
Favorite Color: Lip gloss with SPF
Hard Hat Size: 6 7/8
Where she sleeps: St Paul Minnesota. Amber just bought her first Home!!!!
Favorite Build site activity: Siding
Age: 26 & 7 days
When we heard that JCWP 2007 would fall during the week between our birthdays it seemed to be the only option for this year’s trip. We mean, what better way to celebrate another year of life than with former President Jimmy Carter, his wife Rosalynn and about two thousand strangers building houses in LA? If you and your bff had birthdays only a week a part from one another wouldn’t you want to do the same thing?
Off to our computers we went to get ourselves registered. Guess what… we were selected, so we jumped on a plane and flew out to LA to join the party.
Upon arriving we were assigned to “Media”. At first we felt a little bummed that we wouldn’t have a chance to wield a hammer or cut some siding, but it turns out that our assignment would give us a chance to not only check out both sights, but also do a million other super cool things. Check out some of our highlights below:
•Practicing our stern face. Which if you meet Amber, you know is for her.
•Sharing a laugh with former Mayor James Hahn while standing in line for opening ceremonies. If only we had known who he was while we were chatting with him.
•Getting secret service to crack a couple of smiles. We thought the stern face was one of the job requirements.
•Chilling with D.B. “ay papi, we luv u”
•Learning dance moves from 4 year old Kelis, She will soon be living in one of the homes that you all have been working so hard to construct.
•And many more that we are happy to tell you about next year in the Gulf.
We would like to give shout outs to the following who helped make our week even more memorable:
Emily & Sara and the rest of the Golin Haris Girls and guy, Little B, the bomb diggidy PR gal
Nancy & Carolyne (Pres. Carter’s right hand ladies)
All the Secret Service Men who got the memo on matching polos. #1 & #2 U guys ROCK
M&M of the Philly Soul- till we meet again
Dustin the bouncer at the door, we cant believe you made a walk up the hill so many times
Billy AKA Cookie Monster
Tom, if you ever need someone to touch your toes Amber is your girl
And of course all of the other volunteers, staff, and everyone else who helped make this event happen
As we drove to the sight this morning Amber, with her cheesey Hallmark emotional self turned to me and said that she had had a great birthday week. She said “ “This is the kind of present I really like--- they’re like memories, you can’t put a bow on that”
Thank you all and super special thank you to the homeowners for allowing us the chance to share this amazing time with you all. Blessings
See you all in the Gulf-
Terri and Amber
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