Oh the Crazy Life We Live

It sure has been a while since I have blogged so lets catch up... life has been nuts.. I got married and everything went off without a hitch! Always a plus. I can defiantly say that with the stress it caused that I would not want to do it again. (pictures at the end) Then we went to Disney. It was pretty much awesome! We had such a blast! The rest of the summer has been filled with plenty of things such as creation, busy weekends, family get together, love and excitement! Now has started the back to the grind time. Nate is back into school full time so I have taken on baking... Last week I made apple pie!!!! this week Im not sure yet but I will be sure to post pictures on here! Heres a little taste of our summer!

Busy Busy Busy!

Life... Has just been crazy! So much has been going on with life and such that I have not had time to share! My Bridal shower was on the 8th of May and that kind of kicked everything into wedding gear. It was a lot of fun and exciting to be surrounded by family and friends that love you. We got a lot of cool things and are so excited to start using them!!! In fact we have used a lot of them already! I cannot wait til Nathan moves in so that I can use them on a more regular basis. Soon enough! After my shower, well two days after on the 10th I graduated from college. That was fun! Our speaker was Terri Thomas and he of course was great! He kept us all entertained and was exciting! It was so nice to have that special day. I will miss some of the girls who I spent many days and late nights with and I will miss them! I will see them again soon though!!!!
The next week... Nates graduation!!!!! I am so proud of him! He got so many cords and did really well in college!!! So exciting!!!! Oh!!! and we managed to get all the center pieces done.. all the presents are wrapped and now all we have to do is to finish the calls and do the gift (which cant be done until right before the wedding) This shall be a fun 25 days!!!!! I cannot wait

bad day....

Have you ever had one of those days where nothing goes right? I mean nothing... it all started out with me waking up way to early and not being able to fall asleep. Then I got to drive to New Castle to find out that person did not need to be there til June.. arg... So I was taking it in strides... When I went to back up.. Someone decided to hit the back of my car.... wow.. luckily it wasnt that bad... But still.. it shook me up a lot... So after all that... I drove back to work and work was ok... The highlight of my day..... being thankful that I work for the Lighthouse. I realized today that when so many places will turn you away with nothing because you dont fit their program, we can help them find something. These are people too. They need some love and someone to care for them too...
Soooo... the rest of my day.... Went to get my glasses.. thought that would be exciting.. well not really! I got them home and of course.. the lenses were broke! what the crap.... to top everything off.. I had a situation.. lets just say people who dont know you can be vicious... and then someone else ends up blaming it on me.. apparently this is all my fault... why not.. and to top everything off, I really dont feel that well..... have a paper to write.... AND 2 make up assignments to do tonight.... Sounds like this is going to be a nice long night.. Im just waiting for something else to go wrong... lifes ironic isnt it?

wedding fun!!!

This weekend was full of wedding!!! to begin... Steve and Jaime got married!!! Of course... everything was beautiful and elegant! Their first dance.... loved it!!! so congrats to them and hopefully they are enjoying their honeymoon...


After the wedding things had to be thought about for my wedding!!!! So on saturday.... we went to pick up our flowers for the wedding! You can see them here but they look so much better in real life! http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4344088&id=173656695779 and my bouquet! http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=173656695779&aid=132135&s=20&hash=77400bf511fa985f44ef5ee235eb64e5#!/photo.php?pid=4137936&id=173656695779 and let me just say.... I love my flower girl basket!!!! It gets me really excited!!!

SOOOOOOO that evening... since my shower is SATURDAY !!!! ( i know!!!!) I decided since I was making my own thank-you cards.. I should get a start on that one. So... while Nate was working on his homework, I decided to do them! The process.... a long one.. it began with gluing 75 pieces of paper to another 75 pieces of paper... Not fun.. Then came stamping.. let me tell ya.. stamping was not as fun or easy as I thought it would have been.. In the end.. everything worked out though.. here is the final result


and after that... since nate was still working on hw.. I decided to adventure onto out idea for the table.. the getting a picture part.. easy.. the making a quote on each card.. no so easy.. not only was it messy.. but none of the stamps went the way they were supposed to.. I suppose this will become a project for another day.. along with about 10000000 other things that need to be done! More to come!

Flying By

So, we have come down to the end of the semester... unfortunately, this is also the time that I was thinking to myself, I think that I should really get back to blogging... SOoooo... I am going to try to do both.
School has always been crazy. My one class has taught me a lot... we were able to cover so many different topics but as the end of the semester roles around I get to think about the huge project that I have been neglecting to do.
Along with that, its almost wedding time! 53 days until the big day. I am so thankful to have such a great fiancee who helps me out with all of the wedding detials. I have been so blessed not to have to plan this wedding alone. He was great and put together a couple of centerpieces! Now all we have to do is get together the last minute details that remain.
Only 2 weeks til graduation for the both of us!!!! Time sure flys by! more to come!

update on life

Ok.. I figured that I should put an update of my life since september was the last time I did this. life has been going well. It has its ups and downs but that is to be expected.
This semester is almost over which is awesome. I'm starting to develop this thing called senioritis.. which is why I am on here blogging instead of writing the papers i need to be doing. I have learned a lot this semester. I think one of the most important things that I learned is that as a society we need are constantly looking for the things that are big and huge and wanting to change the world all at one time, by ourselves. I have come to realize though work and Shane Claborn that that is not the best way. I know that I cannot change the lives of my residents... I dont consider that my job. my job is to empower them to change their own lives. I can says as much as I want but if they do not want to change then they wont. I have found that something that I can do is love them, or show them love. Ive seen this more and more lately... One of my residents the other day just wanted someone to be proud of her. I didnt know this at the time, but I had been telling her how proud I have been of her for a long time. Shes working, raising her child, getting back on her feet of course Im proud of her. She just doesnt get to hear it. After I spent some time with her the other day (I got to hold her little one and help her decorate her Christmas tree) she sat down and told me all of this and how she liked having to talk to. She knows Im her resident manager but yet she still wants to tell me that shes struggling. the other thing I have learned lately is that what I wanted to put into place at KD is really starting to work. When I started, I really wanted to build a community. I really did not think that it was working until the other day. One of my resident had to go to the hospital (shes ok now). While I was trying to take care of her kids before they took her to the hospital, a couple of my other residents came over to see if they could help. then they went down to check on her when she got home. They are also working together to see what they can do for each other to make Christmas special. It has been awesome seeing them trying to help each other out and supporting one another. I love it.
One thing I do ask anyone who reads this for is prayer. Things are stressful currently, txt, email, or shoot me a message and I'll explain.
Just remember that God is amazing and he is still working. I know he is in me.... Now.. time for some hw....