I actually tanned!!!!! Rather than get te-totally sunburnt, part of me tanned!!
I have spent the past 2 days at Holiday World with my cousin Tanner. We had a blast! He is 12...I can't believe he is 12...it makes me so sad. I don't know what I will do when my own children grow up one day...maybe I just shouldn't have kids? Ha, just kidding, y'all know I want kids more than basically anything else in the entire world! Anywho - we rode rides yesterday and spent today in the water park. Aside from a few spots that Tanner missed applying sunscreen to, I didn't get fried! My legs and arms actually tanned! I am amazed :)
In other news, I love the song "I Shall Believe" my Matt Brouwer. If you haven't heard it, you need to drop whatever you're doing and youtube it and listen to it. It...is...amazing...and I love it. I'm listening to it right now, as a matter of fact, and a few parts jump out at me every time I listen to it...
And not everything is gonna be the way you think it oughta be...
I know it's true,
No one heals me like You,
And You hold the key...
Please say, honestly You won't give up on me,
And I shall believe
Isn't it great that God never gives up on us? And even in the hardest times, when we have no idea why things are happening the way they're happening, He has a reason for it all and He promises to help us through it.
Woah. Awesome.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
No More Brace Face
The braces came off today!!!
Talk about Christmas in July for this girl! :)
I was so excited last night I couldn't hardly sleep, and this morning I jumped up out of bed and was way too excited and perky for even myself, haha.
I have to go back tomorrow morning to get my retainer - which is going to be Tropical Pink...I think that's the color I decided on anyways! And then I will be on my way to Holiday World with my little cousin Tanner! Yay! I'm so excited!
Talk about Christmas in July for this girl! :)
I was so excited last night I couldn't hardly sleep, and this morning I jumped up out of bed and was way too excited and perky for even myself, haha.
I have to go back tomorrow morning to get my retainer - which is going to be Tropical Pink...I think that's the color I decided on anyways! And then I will be on my way to Holiday World with my little cousin Tanner! Yay! I'm so excited!
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Worth It
I have so much I want to tell y'all about that I don't even know where to begin!
I will start by saying, God is awesome. I have been challenged so much this summer, tested, molded, changed, and blessed. We just finished a Crazy Love study at my church. I met with an amazing group of young ladies each week for 4 short weeks to talk about the book, and just how much God loves us. Each day I think about how much He loves me, and it blows my mind and just flat out makes me giddy! It's amazing how He loves me, what He's done for me, and what He continues to do for me.
Last week was my last full week of work for the summer. I am thankful to have had such a great summer job. I did not like 3rd shift at all. No one does. But let me tell you a little story...
Thursday was my last day, and I was actually on 1st shift last week (yay! normal people schedule!). Thursday morning one of the ladies I got to work with on 3rd shift all summer, came to my work area to tell me good-bye. Now let me tell ya, she is quite possibly one of my favorite ladies on the face of the earth now. She may be a bit grouchy but there is just something about her that I absolutely love, not to mention she's kinda short and I just want to put her in my pocket and take her everywhere with me :) So she comes up there, tells me it was great working with me, she's going to miss me, and proceeds to hand me her phone number and tells me to call her sometime because she would love to hear from me. Then she gave me a hug and told me not to cry, because my mom told her I would probably cry (which I have every summer when I've left Pepsi, no lie). Then she left...and I got a little teary eyed. But in that moment, all I could think was, "It was worth it." It being working 3rd shift all summer, having a messed up sleep schedule, not getting to do a lot of what I had hoped to do this summer, not getting to see the people I wanted to see so much over the summer. If I had the opportunity, I would do it all again. I just felt so incredibly blessed in that moment. I got to work with new people, made some new friends whom I hope to stay in contact with, I was challenged by nearly everyone to stay positive and be a light all summer, and as frustrating, painful, and downright just not fun as it all was, I can't imagine my summer being any different. I honestly wouldn't want it any other way.
Francesca Battistelli has a song called "Worth It" and it talks about how hard love is, what is requires us to do, but ultimately how incredibly worth it it is. That song was in my head a lot throughout the summer, it kept me going many nights! And Thursday morning it was in my head. As I sang it to myself I thought of how that song was kind of my theme song for the summer...
Love's not a feeling
Love's not convenient
But I know love will change your life.
Love takes sacrifice
Love cuts like a knife
Sometimes love will make you cry
Love's not easy
But it's worth it.
3rd shift was certainly not convenient, there were many nights when I went to my truck and cried on my breaks because I was so mad or brought down by how negative some people were, it wasn't easy by any means.
Love is a hunger
But love won't leave you empty
See it's a language of the heart
Love can steal your pride
But love won't let you hide
It takes everything you've got.
Love's not easy
But it's worth it.
One of my favorite parts of the song, especially the "love can steal your pride" line...woah. God helped me get through this summer and He helped me stay positive when I just wanted to quit and give up. Only a God like ours can do that!
Speaking of things only our God can do, God has laid some pretty big ideas on my heart the past few weeks. I don't know exactly where He is leading me with them, but I am meeting with my minister this week sometime to talk to him about them and hopefully getting our church involved with these ideas that God's planted in my mind. I'm not sure about any of it, they may all fall through because God doesn't want them to go through, but we'll see! I'm excited about it all though! I have discovered the past few years that I have a heart for my small hometown and I don't see that changing. I will be graduating next year...oh my...and I hope to be able to come back here and serve and love the people of this area for however long God wants me to. Maybe some of these ideas will help me do just that! :)
VBS starts tonight, and I can only help tonight and tomorrow night, but I may get to help with preschoolers...I am SO EXCITED!
19 hours and 24 mninutes until my braces come off!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you tell I'm excited?!?
Have a fabulous day y'all :-D
I will start by saying, God is awesome. I have been challenged so much this summer, tested, molded, changed, and blessed. We just finished a Crazy Love study at my church. I met with an amazing group of young ladies each week for 4 short weeks to talk about the book, and just how much God loves us. Each day I think about how much He loves me, and it blows my mind and just flat out makes me giddy! It's amazing how He loves me, what He's done for me, and what He continues to do for me.
Last week was my last full week of work for the summer. I am thankful to have had such a great summer job. I did not like 3rd shift at all. No one does. But let me tell you a little story...
Thursday was my last day, and I was actually on 1st shift last week (yay! normal people schedule!). Thursday morning one of the ladies I got to work with on 3rd shift all summer, came to my work area to tell me good-bye. Now let me tell ya, she is quite possibly one of my favorite ladies on the face of the earth now. She may be a bit grouchy but there is just something about her that I absolutely love, not to mention she's kinda short and I just want to put her in my pocket and take her everywhere with me :) So she comes up there, tells me it was great working with me, she's going to miss me, and proceeds to hand me her phone number and tells me to call her sometime because she would love to hear from me. Then she gave me a hug and told me not to cry, because my mom told her I would probably cry (which I have every summer when I've left Pepsi, no lie). Then she left...and I got a little teary eyed. But in that moment, all I could think was, "It was worth it." It being working 3rd shift all summer, having a messed up sleep schedule, not getting to do a lot of what I had hoped to do this summer, not getting to see the people I wanted to see so much over the summer. If I had the opportunity, I would do it all again. I just felt so incredibly blessed in that moment. I got to work with new people, made some new friends whom I hope to stay in contact with, I was challenged by nearly everyone to stay positive and be a light all summer, and as frustrating, painful, and downright just not fun as it all was, I can't imagine my summer being any different. I honestly wouldn't want it any other way.
Francesca Battistelli has a song called "Worth It" and it talks about how hard love is, what is requires us to do, but ultimately how incredibly worth it it is. That song was in my head a lot throughout the summer, it kept me going many nights! And Thursday morning it was in my head. As I sang it to myself I thought of how that song was kind of my theme song for the summer...
Love's not a feeling
Love's not convenient
But I know love will change your life.
Love takes sacrifice
Love cuts like a knife
Sometimes love will make you cry
Love's not easy
But it's worth it.
3rd shift was certainly not convenient, there were many nights when I went to my truck and cried on my breaks because I was so mad or brought down by how negative some people were, it wasn't easy by any means.
Love is a hunger
But love won't leave you empty
See it's a language of the heart
Love can steal your pride
But love won't let you hide
It takes everything you've got.
Love's not easy
But it's worth it.
One of my favorite parts of the song, especially the "love can steal your pride" line...woah. God helped me get through this summer and He helped me stay positive when I just wanted to quit and give up. Only a God like ours can do that!
Speaking of things only our God can do, God has laid some pretty big ideas on my heart the past few weeks. I don't know exactly where He is leading me with them, but I am meeting with my minister this week sometime to talk to him about them and hopefully getting our church involved with these ideas that God's planted in my mind. I'm not sure about any of it, they may all fall through because God doesn't want them to go through, but we'll see! I'm excited about it all though! I have discovered the past few years that I have a heart for my small hometown and I don't see that changing. I will be graduating next year...oh my...and I hope to be able to come back here and serve and love the people of this area for however long God wants me to. Maybe some of these ideas will help me do just that! :)
VBS starts tonight, and I can only help tonight and tomorrow night, but I may get to help with preschoolers...I am SO EXCITED!
19 hours and 24 mninutes until my braces come off!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you tell I'm excited?!?
Have a fabulous day y'all :-D
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
6 or 7...8.5...110...12
6 or 7 - the number of days per week I have been working this summer (for the most part). It's kicked my butt too! I am so thankful that I am able to go to school to complete my education so I can enjoy my career one day as a teacher.
8.5 - the number of hours per day I spend at PepsiLand. Sounds something like CandyLand...I'd much rather play CandyLand than go to PepsiLand.
110 - the temperature in my work area last night. No joke. It got up to 115 yesterday. Thank goodness 3rd shift is slightly cooler than 1st and 2nd. I drank 8 bottles of water last night, sweat more than I thought one person was capable of, and I still got dehydrated...not cool...no pun intended.
12 - the number of days I have left at Pepsi!!! I am somewhat sad though. Not because I will miss working, because believe me I do not enjoy this job what-so-ever. But I will miss the people I work with. I have met a lot of new people this summer and gotten to know them. At the beginning of the summer I was very anxious about it, going into work not knowing anyone I was working with. But God has really blessed me by giving me the opportunity to get to know them and share a little bit of life with them for the past few months. I'm even more sad that this is probably going to be my last summer at Pepsi. I get slightly attached to the people I work with...in case you couldn't tell.
Summer has FLOWN by...as usual. I am looking forward to getting back to school (not for over a month, thank goodness). I miss all my friends! I am very excited about the Small Group I will be leading for ladies this semester too. I can't wait to get to work with some more kiddos for my classes. Then comes student teaching in the spring...woah!!! I'm so excited!!!
8.5 - the number of hours per day I spend at PepsiLand. Sounds something like CandyLand...I'd much rather play CandyLand than go to PepsiLand.
110 - the temperature in my work area last night. No joke. It got up to 115 yesterday. Thank goodness 3rd shift is slightly cooler than 1st and 2nd. I drank 8 bottles of water last night, sweat more than I thought one person was capable of, and I still got dehydrated...not cool...no pun intended.
12 - the number of days I have left at Pepsi!!! I am somewhat sad though. Not because I will miss working, because believe me I do not enjoy this job what-so-ever. But I will miss the people I work with. I have met a lot of new people this summer and gotten to know them. At the beginning of the summer I was very anxious about it, going into work not knowing anyone I was working with. But God has really blessed me by giving me the opportunity to get to know them and share a little bit of life with them for the past few months. I'm even more sad that this is probably going to be my last summer at Pepsi. I get slightly attached to the people I work with...in case you couldn't tell.
Summer has FLOWN by...as usual. I am looking forward to getting back to school (not for over a month, thank goodness). I miss all my friends! I am very excited about the Small Group I will be leading for ladies this semester too. I can't wait to get to work with some more kiddos for my classes. Then comes student teaching in the spring...woah!!! I'm so excited!!!
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