"So live your life"

I have the best friends in the world...God is so good!

This weekend Sarah and Eric came into town for the weekend [Katie was going to come to but decided to be responsible and stay home to study! =) ]
It was so much fun! Friday night we pulled an all-nighter...as in we didn't go to sleep till 6:30am! I hadn't done that since Na, and it was awesome. Saturday consisted of football games (on tv and one of our own), How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days, mom's amazing lasagna, and late-night bonfires.
Sunday we went to church, went to lunch, and then Sarah and Eric headed home. But I get to see them in two weeks!

Today was a special day...my little sister was baptized!! I remember I was her age when I was baptized, but it seems like so long ago - well 10 years - so yeah it was a while ago. I am so excited for her and I have been praying for this for a while now. Trey Taulbee and Joel Walley were baptized as well. It's amazing to see the next generation grow up and give their lives to God!

Oh, I got a job! I will be working at NFRMC as a prn unit clerk! I'm on my moms floor so I might be working with her sometimes! I'm excited...God blessed me with this and I am so grateful! But I would ask that you guys be praying for me because this is a fast-paced floor and it's going to be difficult for me to learn everything. I need to learn how to multi-task better and also be more organized. Please pray that God gives me patience to learn and that the people who train me will have patience with me learning! =)

Celebration is in less than three weeks!!

Pickin' at the daisys

So I must say that my 20th birthday was quite interesting. A good interesting though. It was interesting in that people kept telling me, "Oh you're old now!" and in the words of my little sister, "I can't believe you're 20! I thought you would be married by now!"

Now I know that everyone was joking and just poking fun at my "new" age, but it made me think - Is 20 old? Does everyone expect you to have a boyfriend/fiance/husband by the time you are 20? (or even younger?) Well I hate to dissapoint...but that probably won't be happening anytime soon for me. Of course I have NO idea what God has in store for me in the next year or two, but I am looking forward to seeing what He brings my way!

You are all probably wondering about the title of the post and the reference to daisys. Well this year for my birthday was the year of the daisy! I received two bouquets of Gerbers from Mallory and Stephen, and my Granny bought me two pots of Gerbers to plant! Then I went and bought a pot of the white daisy. Ah, I do love them so! They are so friendly and always seem to be smiling...and I can't wait for my pansys to bloom, they seem to be always grinning too!

Other than the flowers...I had three red bulls, went to Panara with mom and dad for lunch, watched We Are Marshall (and cried my eyes out!), had desert at T.G.I Fridays with Mallory, went home and ate dinner with the family, went to the ladies meeting, and then had starbucks with my friend Brittany. I must say it was a very good day.

I am so blessed to have my friends...I had 50 people leave comments on my facebook and I treasured every one them! God is so good to me.
I am very blessed to have such a wonderful family. They truly made yesterday so special for me!
And I would also like to thank Mallory, Nicole, and Chelsea for making me cry on my birthday! They were definately good tears and I am so grateful that God blessed me with such great girlfriends!

My last day as a "teen"-ager!!

Today was just another normal day...just another day in the life of me.

I slept in, which was nice and then I headed over to Littlewood elementary for my volunteering hours. I love the kids over there! Some of them are a bit hard to handle, but others are amazing and are already showing me that they love to learn!

Oh...and today was the FIRST day of FALL!!! Which is always exciting in my book! =) So I treated myself to my first Pumpkin Spice Latte of the fall season! Ah bliss!

Then I cleaned the church and of course that's always eventful, especially when I'm with my granny! =)
In the evening I made myself an amazing dinner of shrimp scampi (complements of lean cusine!) and then some chocolate pudding. (yum!)
I ran to Blockbuster with Micah and got 'Sleeping with the Enemy' and 'We Are Marshall'. I only watched the first movie...which was REALLY creepy!! Great, but creepy. I'll probably watch the second one tomorrow.
Then I went for a run and talked for a while to Nicole and now I'm getting ready to call Chels.

Happy Autumn!

Much better

This Sunday I was blessed with an encouragement that a friend had for me that God had given to her during worship.

I was so broken and felt like what I was doing wasn't helping anything or anyone. I was a drifter, just wandering along the road.

But God has so much for me and He has my future in His hands. He told me to stop worrying and to continue to serve my family, especially my mom, and what I am doing now is preparing me for the future.

"Praise the Lord

O Praise His name

From the heights of Heaven He reigns

Seated in the highest place

Surrounded by unending praise

Let everything that has breath Praise the Lord!

Let everythings that's in us Praise Him!

Let everything that has breath Praise the Lord!"

Update on life:

1) Still no job

2) Still haven't heard from UCF

3) Me moving depends on UCF

4) I'm still single...unlike the rumors that have been going around (haha)

5) God is Faithful and He has my future in His hands!!!!

"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened."

Matthew 7: 7-9

God is so good!!

It's been 7 years...

...7 years that have flown by like no time at all.

And yet, I remember where I was and what I was thinking...just like it happened yesterday.

I think we will always remember what happened that day. It changed our country, it changed our outlook on the world. Some people for the worst and others for the better.

But for me it changed my eternal perspective and brought me closer to God.
I was not even 13 and what I saw on the television that morning scared me. I had so many questions and even worries. But as the day dragged on and I saw the replay of those towers falling...over and over...I had a peace. God was working in my heart.

I can't say if 9.11 made me more patriotic or more committed to my country. It did make me grateful for the leaders of our country and their wisdom, and even more grateful that our president saught God throughout the whole tragedy. But it made me trust God even more and brought comfort in knowing that through any storm God is with us.

I still pray for the families and friends of those victims that died in New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania. I pray for our leaders of this nation. I pray for the terrorists that planned the attacks. I pray for the people who helped plan the attacks. But I pray even more that if something like this was to happen again, that I would be prepared to share God's love and that He would grant people the same peace that I felt seven years ago.

I will praise You in this storm

I will life my hands

For You are who You are

No matter where I am

And every tear I cry

You hold in Your hand

You've never left my side

And though my heart is torn

I will praise You in this storm

It begins again

Ah...the first weekend of college football...it was amazing!

LSU KICKED APPALACHIAN STATES BUTT! (41-13)
I was reading all the articles that were posted about App. St win over Michigan last year and they all said the same thing, "Is App. St going to give another upset?"

*laughs*

Yeah, I don't think so. LSU could so take App. St any day...they would even stomp all over Michigan. The fact that sports writers were even comparing LSU to Michigan is an insult. The Big 10 is nothing but a massive popularity contest, they don't even compare to ANY team in the SEC.

Okay...ranting over with. I know most of you are rolling your eyes at my post, but honestly I can't help it that LOVE football. =)

So in other news Hurricane Gustav is slamming NOLA & BR. I'm praying those levees will hold up and that there will not be a lot of flooding. It looks pretty messy over there - from what I have seen on the news - but I am just grateful that the government got everyone out of there. GOD IS GOOD!!

Please pray for the people of NOLA & BR and the surrounding parishes and city's. Also for the families that attend Lakeview Christian Center!


"Not to us, O Lord, not to us,
but to your name give glory,
for the sake of your steadfast love and
your faithfulness!
Why should the nations say,
"Where is their God?"
Our God is in the heavens;
he does all that he pleases.

O Israel, trust in the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.
O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.
You who fear the Lord, trust in the
Lord!
He is their help and their shield.
The Lord has remembered us; he will
bless us;
he will bless the house of Israel;
he will bless the house of Aaron;
he will bless those who fear the Lord,
both the small and the great."

Psalm 115: 1-3, 9-13