and they were all yellow

Well it's been a billion and one years since I've updated my blog. So sad. I was so excited at first and had many many plans on keeping it updated everyday! Fail. It happens. Well let's try to update as much as possible.. shall we? I'll start with my paintings. When I lived back at home I would painting everyday! I found it very relaxing and just.. fun! Not that I was any good, but that's completely besides the point :) Now, I introduce to you- Porky Pig!

and then there's Daffy Duck!

yep. They are friendly ole pals. Next thing on my list to update you is that I recently made dirt cake! I know, it sounds.. disgusting.. but basically you make Oreos look like dirt so it's really yummy! I suppose the last thing I can think of at the moment are my yellow plates. Seeing how I am a college student, who is also a poor one, I love the thought of free stuff! That's where these babies come into the picture..

I was driving home from school one day and I passed by this house that had about 5 boxes outside that said "FREE" .. I saw the yellow plates from afar and I snatched these babies before anyone else took them! A steal.. that's what I would like to call this situation. Well anyways, I think I'd done a pretty good job at updating my blog with my life lately. Oh yes! And.. I made a purchase of two wonderful things last night.. a book called " The Shack" and "Selena" the cd. I know what you're thinking.. it's one of the best purchases ever made. Anyways, I think I'm done for the night. Bye bye blog site! Until next time!

cherish the memories

This weekend I went to Brownwood for a family reunion. It was pretty cool. On the way there Jackie and I stopped at a few antique stores and I bought the game croquet for $10! I know, I was pretty excited. I also bought a gumball machine and a wooden framed mirror, but that's no biggie. So at the antique store I found all these really neat things! One thing I saw was a super cool old treadmill. Check it out! Isn't it crazy? I bet it was made in the early 1900's. Maybe the 1890's, I'm still doing my research. Well I had a good time with my family this weekend. My camera broke so that was the only sad thing that happened but on the happy note.. I have been wanting to get another one so I guess it's finally time! Good thing I took pictures in my phone... cherish the memories. Well it has been a fun filled weekend but I suppose it's time for me to begin studying and get back to reality. I always hate that. Although, I will share some splendid pictures of me and my family.
Very cute. I know. But I must say, I did come back home with several bruises from chasing around these little boogers and running into things. Oh well, life goes on. Well, I hope your day is wonderful and full of happiness and happy thoughts! So basically I hope you have a Happy Day! Oh by the way, while researching the treadmill, I found this super awesome video.. check it out! :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAAsCNK7RA

P.R.A.Y.

Wow. Today I learned a whole lot of greatness. It's always a struggle for me to be up and ready for the Matrix (bible study) at 6 am. Luckily, I live three minutes away so I don't have to leave ten minutes before for a drive. Well today we learned about prayer. Praise Repent Asking Yielding. It was such a huge blessing for me to be there and listen to this. Some important questions that were being asked were: 
1.) How do we do it? By being in the Word of God?
2.) Are we asking in God's will?
3.) Are we asking knowing that God's going to answer it?
4.) Are we listening to God or are we answering our own prayers?


There were many questions that were brought to my attention today that really helped me examine my prayer life and certain parts of it that need to change. One amazing quote the speaker had quotes from someone else was, " We do not pray because we do not have enough faith that God will answer our prayers." Wow. As much as I hate to admit that, it is so true. I know deep within my heart that there are definitely times where I choose not to pray to God about certain things not necessarily because I don't have enough faith but because I just don't think His answer will be yes. Does that make any sense? Well we sang "Come ye sinners" with the thoughts in our hearts about what we had just learned about prayer and some lyrics that really stuck out in my head were:

"I will arise and go to Jesus. He will embrace me in His arms. In the arms of my dear Savior,Oh, there are ten thousand charms. Come ye weary, heavy-laden, Lost and ruined by the fall. If you tarry until you're better, you will never come at all"

Maybe the way I interpreted the song, for myself at least, isn't fully correct, but singing these words after such a powerful teaching on prayer gave me the assurance that talking to God, whether big or small, He will embrace us and ready with love, to show us the way. Have a lovely day!

delightfulness

Summer school began three days ago and I'm already exhausted! I have three classes everyday and am in class from 10- 4:20 Monday thru Thursday. Which, by the way, I made a friend today! I have her in two of my classes so that definitely makes things more fun and exciting! I also woke up earlier than usual today to have coffee with a friend at Panera. Yes, I had coffee. I broke off the bet and you know what? It was totally worth it! Never in my life will I give up coffee and not only that, I wasn't at all tired today. It's like coffee refreshes me and makes me feel delightful.

Oh, the wonderfulness that coffee brings to one's life. Anyways, I was really blessed to be able to go out with her because not only was I able to share with her the things that I have been struggling with lately, but also share the encouraging things that I believe God has been showing me. It was a very encouraging conversation and knowing that while I have struggles, God is still working, just brings a sweet peace in my life about certain things.

Well I get to go to Brownwood on Friday. We have the family reunion on Saturday which is super exciting! I enjoy hanging with my cousins and playing with the babies. Okay so tomorrow is the Matrix so I'm going to get some stuff done now so I can wake up early tomorrow and learn alot of wonderful things!
Asta manana!

The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows

Holy moly! It's been way too long since I've last blogged! I apologize to everyone I have let down these past two days but sometimes blogging is hard to do every single day. Well this weekend has certainly been all sorts of craziness but I will tell you something that was very disturbing for me. Name: Rocky Balboa.

 

I found Rocky Balboa at Recycled Bookstore the other day, for a whopping five dollars! I thought, what a steal! I've heard so very very much about Rocky so I figured I'd buy the first one, if all went well, I'd buy the second one and so on. Apparently, I bought the last one. Now, I just feel disappointed and almost want to give up on the longing to watch all Rocky's. It's still up in the air, I haven't made any final decisions yet. 

Last night, I stayed over at Alyssa's house in Allen. We invited our friend Ashley over and all played wii fit together. Yesterday was not my winning day. But that's what wii fit is for, to humiliate yourself and have lots of laughs in the process of participating in the embarrassing exercises it offers you. I give wii fit two thumbs up for the fun exercises and for creating it to be a fun get together for family and friends.

Well as my friend Roy Rogers, would say.. " Happy trails to you, til we meet again."

Matrix

Today is one of those amazing God days. I haven't slept for about twenty four hours now, mostly a mixture of talking to God and studying, with a little distraction on the side of course. I've been listening to the song "reign in us" by Starfield, over and over again. The part of the song that really has caught my eye is..
"Lord Jesus, come lead us, we're desperate for Your touch. Oh Great and Mighty One, with one desire we come, that You would reign in us. We're offering up our lives, a living sacrifice, that You would reign, that You would reign in us."


Today was the first day of the Matrix. A bible study with college life. As we began singing worship, I felt God speaking to me in a way I haven't felt in a long time. It was so refreshing. Once we got started, I was so excited because I knew, something Jeff was going to say, God was going to use to speak to me. Identity. He said " our activity does not define our identity but our identity should define our activity." I definitely needed to hear that. Personally, I would love to say I learn from the first time somebody has words of wisdom but truth is, I need to be reminded. Today was a reminder. I gave my life to Christ. I was God in my everything because He is my everything and everything in my life I want to be about Him. My head has so many thoughts right now, great ones. I'm amazed. God is good.

Thank you Lord for showing me the true meaning of love! Have a great day!

chitty chitty bang bang

Sadly, this was my day today. Watching my car get towed away. Oh well. At least I know when my baby comes back, she'll be working just fine! I guess that means no going out and buying ingredients for Wednesday dessert nights. It happens. Have a happy day!

Fly me to the moon

So the other night, my roommate Alyssa, said when I was sleeping, I was breathing so heavily I sounded like a man. I immediately said to myself, "this will not happen again." So last night when I felt my nose getting a little stuffy, I would immediately go blow my nose, even at 3 and 5 a.m. I was up blowing my nose making sure I wasn't asleep sounding like a man. I mean, I'm a woman, I should sound like a woman even when I'm sleeping. Finally, I just gave up and gave into my super awesome love for Zicam.

 

I basically believe Zicam is the answer to all your nose issues. Plus, you have to admit, sticking a q-tip with gel, up your nose is kinda fun! Well I went to class today, came home and finally decided to take some benadryl. Normally I wouldn't but I believe there is something in my house making my allergies go all sorts of crazy so I figured maybe I'd get the problem over with before things get worse.

Well today I plan on going to the gym. I'm pretty pumped about that. Maybe I'll leave looking like this --->

... who know?! I guess we will have to find out and see. Well my crazy nose is acting up again, I think I'm going to let benadryl do its thing while I take a nap and dream of precious things. I hope everyone's day is wonderful so far!

Happy June 1st!

who would've thought..

You want to hear something aweful? I woke up at 2p.m. today.. TWO! I did NOT have that in mind. Although, I guess it's expected when you watch tv shows with your roommate til 5a.m. I'm surprised I stayed up that late, I was thinking I'd go to sleep around 10:30 but apparently, that did not happen. But the day has not gone to waste! Alyssa and I woke up and cleaned our whole bathroom! Just by doing that we could say we had a productive day. Well I'm pretty excited I get to go swimming with some friends today. It's always a pleasure to do that. Anyways, I probably should go and do something more exciting with my day then blogging, although, I do love blogging. Until tomorrow! Happy Memorial Day!


oh! and here's a picture for you..

It's Steve Saint and the Waodani Indians.. pretty awesome stuff. God is amazing.

O may my soul be found in Him

Well hello! I've had a super awesome day today! So I thought this evening I would go to a different church then Denton Bible, just to mix it up some, no biggie. Not trying to switch or anything, so I went to a certain baptist church, which will remain nameless, and with all the respect in my heart, there were pretty much only elders there so I decided to leave. After that I drove to about 5 or 6 other churches, until I finally decided that this was God's way of saying " Go to Denton Bible." So I did. I heard something that I very much enjoyed tonight. My pastor was talking about praying and said something along the lines of "Jesus didn't pray so that God's will would change," and that really hit me. How many times do we pray saying "God if you could just do this for me, or God please change this.." we pray that instead recognizing God's grace. Then we sang the song "I boast no more," Which has always been one of my favorite songs.
Here are the lyrics:
No More My God, I boast no more
Of all the duties I have done
I quit the hopes I held before,
To trust the merits of Thy Son

No more my God
No more my God
No more my God
I boast no more

Now, for the loss I bear his name,
What was my gain I count my loss
My former pride I call my shame
And nail my glory to His cross

Yes, and I must, I will esteem
All things but loss for Jesus' sake
O may my soul be found in Him
And of His righteousness partake
Amen, amen

The best obedience of my hands
Dares not appear before Thy throne
But faith can answer Thy demands
By pleading what my Lord has done

Yep. simply amazing. I felt the Lord was speaking to me and.. like i said.. amazing. Well yesterday, Brad, took me to movie trading company. It was my very first time there and they were having a huge sale! Naturally, when there is a sale, you simply CANNOT pass it up so I decided to buy a little somthin' somethin'.. If you know me at all, you will know I have this wonderful crazy obsession with friends.. so I bought 2 sets (with four discs) of "The best of friends" and " Dan in Real Life."

I was pretty excited about that movie because I have been looking for it this past week in about 4 different movie stores. Someone lent it to me and then I kept it, then I lent it to someone and they kept it so now that I finally have it, I will never lend it to anyone ever again. I'm just kidding. But I will make sure I get it back. Well I also rented to movie "Beyond the Gates of Splendor,"

which I'm pretty excited to watch because Jim Elliot is who inspired me to want to be a missionary when I was a little girl. Well God is good and it has been a wonderful day. Well happy sleeping!

Romeo and Juliet

Last night I went to go watch letters to Juliet and I'm not going to lie, it was probably the best love movie I have EVER seen. I mean, there was an old couple love AND a young couple - thats like two birds with one stone! I cried and I laughed, basically everything you're supposed to do in the best movie ever.

Well today is a sad day. I've officially decided it was time to depart from my favorite pair of jeans. I've had them for almost 6 years now. They are the best pair of jeans anyone could ever ask for and i get compliments on them everywhere I go! Sure, they may be a bit "holey" but that doesn't stop them from being amazing. Anyways, in loving memory of my jeans, here is a picture..

Well, I think this is where blogging should end today. Have a marvelous day!

coffee-holic

If you don't already know this, I am, what they like to call.. a coffee addict. Two weeks ago, today, my friend Wade, made me a little bet that he would give me $200 if I didn't drink it for a whole year. That was two weeks ago. The first week was the hardest week of my life, I kid you not.. on day two.. i was ready to give in.. but a free $200? how could I just give that up? To help me with my constant thoughts about coffee, I decided to begin drinking Tea. English Tea in fact. My mentor had me try some after I told her about the bet, and might I say, Thank you English Tea, for making my life easier.

Well, remember my dessert I made last night? There it is! Pretty simple, I know. And to tell you the truth, it didn't taste as good as It looked. Berries and warm chocolate just bring a sour taste to your mouth. At least it did mine. Well, I'm going to go make some corn bread so have a fantastic day! Yay for Jesus!

my solution: desserts

Morning Morning! Today is a pretty exciting day. As much as I say I hate it, I really love being awake in the morning rather than waking up in the afternoon. My day isn't wasted! Waking up at 6am gives me not only a longer day but a better one too! Anyways, I decided to go the park and read. I've had the book "Blue like Jazz" by Donald Miller since I first moved to Denton but never read it! Well, today is my lucky day to begin this wonderful book that I've heard so much about.

So today is the first Wednesday that I don't have student ministries, sad day. I've been trying to come up with all these cool things I can do to replace my Wednesday nights until August comes back around. My solution: desserts. Since I am absolutely terrible at baking, cooking.. the food stuff, I thought, why not begin with the 3 ingredients recipes and work my way up. So for this Wednesday, my desert will be Fresh Berries with Dark Chocolate Syrup. It sounds challenging, I know. I will take a picture later tonight of how it came out! As easy as it sounds, I am well capable of messing this up so I'm hoping I don't. Well until picture time, have a delightful day!

happy day

Good afternoon world! this is my first blog ever! i'm pretty excited, I've been wanting to start a blog for so long and now that i have, it is a happy day for me. I have a test tomorrow so studying is calling my name but hooray for first day blogging!