The importance of friends...

I just felt the need to verbalize my appreciation for friends that take time out of their day to just encourage me. I just spend about 2 hours discussing life with Rachel Hinton, a God send I would say. She is a mom and a wife and a youth minister and a devoted Christian on top of all that. Why wouldn't I want to pick her brain? We talked about everything...I mean EVERYTHING and I am so encouraged and feel like I have a new wind after today. How good is our God and how strangly does he work! A year ago I knew Rach as the youth minister's wife of the guy my boyfriend worked for and now here I am working alongside her and getting to learn how to be a better woman because of her. So here's to you Rachie! Thanks for being an encourager, a friend, a Godly woman, and a faithful servant of the Lord. You have impacted my life more than you will ever know.

Psalm 112:9

STRESS!

So have you ever had so much to do not even more hours in the day would help? Well thats how I am. I am cram-packing my days with stuff to do (all productive stuff though) and at the end of the day I still don't seem like I made a dent in what I needed to accomplish. I think it is causing me to go as little insane too. And on top of all that, I haven't seen my girlfriends in 2 months! Now, who does that? I need a major friend va-kay! I think that would do the trick. So all you lovely ladies...bring it on. Well that did it for my venting session for the day. No more complaining...I am off to do God's work.

LATER GATOR!

Welcome to the world of blogging!

So I was always reading other people's blogs and I decided that I would finally start my own and join the blogging craze. An update on this summer so far... I have fallen in love with 30+ girls and can't stand the thought of leaving in the summer. Some days I can't get enough of my job and some days I wonder what God was thinking when choosing me to be in this position. Its so hard and demanding but oh so rewarding at the same time. My girls some how know exactly when I need a hug and when I need to laugh and when I need to be serious. They are so smart and precious. Ok Ok I'll stop...I feel like a proud parent going on and on.

As for the relationship, it has been a very challenging and different time for me and Nathan. We have had to learn to appreciate phone conversations and phone service for that matter. We only see each other about once a month (twice in a good month) and we love that time together. And even more exciting is the fact that we will celebrate 2 YEARS in August. With two years of dating comes lots of big questions and landmarks...Nate will be buying a new car within the month we hope (if i knew how to speak spanish i would say "audious" to the jeep.) Also Nathan graduates in May and that poses a whole new set of questions about the future. But we will get to those in another blog!

So I think this concludes my first real blog. I feel modern and adult-like now that I have blogged! Whoop Whoop!

Until next time...

LOVES!