Kari Jobe

My wonderful friend, Lauren Grace, texted today and asked me to go to a concert with her tonight.  It was at 1st West in West Monroe.  I hadn't seen my Lauren Grace in a long time, and I love me some worship music.... so I went.

Kari Jobe was amazing.  She is totally anointed and talented.  She sang a few songs from her new CD. 

Then she and her band did some other worship songs.I'm so glad we went.  It was good.  And I got to see some other friends there.

Here is a pic I took of myself.  I curled my hair for the first time tonight.. let me know what ya think!

And, here is me with Lauren.. I love this girl!

It's BAAAAACCKK!

My computer that is!  I got it back today and I'm so happy.  I still don't have time to upload all of my pictures though, because I'm getting ready to go to a concert tonight.

But here are some of those before and after pics of the cabinets...

I know these aren't the best pics, but I'll post more after we get more finished.  We still have ALOT of work to do.  This is just to see the difference in color and hardware.

I'm excited, too, because we picked out tile for the countertops and backsplash!!!

Well, here is one sneak peak of Miss Ava.  I just can't stand not to post one of her..

It's All About Me!

I did the note on facebook.. 25 random facts about me. Well, since I was just dying to blog about something, but don't have access to any of my pictures... here is my list--

1. I love God. I want more than anything to live the life He's called me to live.

2. I got married to my husband, Justin 8.8.08 after only dating for about 6 months. It's been one of the best decisions I've ever made.

3. I love my family more than life, even though they are ALL crazy!

4. Speaking of family, my niece is the light of my life. Ava Nicole is one special and beautiful girl.

5. I absolutely cannot wait to have kids of my own. It's all I wanna do "when I grow up". I'm having trouble being patient, but I know I want the time to be right.

6. I graduate school in May. Woo-Hoo! I've been in college forever.. or so it seems.

7. I have a passion for children. I know I'll work with children alot in my lifetime in different ways.

8. One day I will go to foreign countries with my husband and preach about Jesus to people who have never heard His name. We are called to missions and we love that we are.

9. I'm obsessed with photography. I could look at photography websites all day long. I just got my first "real" camera and hope to pursue that someday soon.

10. I love food. Especially sweets. Icecream is my all-time favorite food.

11. My parents divorced when I was 10. I hated it then, but now I can see that I learned and grew alot from the whole ordeal.

12. I blog. I like to have a way to express my thoughts and to remember the day to day details of the past. I also like reading other people's blogs. I do it daily.

13. My favorite color is green. I just painted my kitchen lime green. It's crazy, but I LOVE it.

14. I miss my momma. She lives about 45 minutes away, and I hate not being able to see her at least once or twice a week.

15. I'm not coordinated or athletic AT ALL. For example... I cannot jump rope. I cannot dribble a basketball. I cannot play tennis. Etc, Etc, Etc.

16. I wish I had a good, or even decent singing voice. I would love to be able to sing.

17. I can't stand for anyone to touch my bellybutton. It freaks me out.

18. I have two black and white kitty cats, Samson and Sylvester. They think they are human.

19. I drink sweet tea every single day.

20. I desperately want my husband to get a regular Mon-Fri 8-5 job so we can actually spend time together.

21. I"m not at all a morning person. I have to drag myself out of bed every morning.

22. I love HGTV and Food Network.

23. I have lived in only 2 states... Louisiana and Florida. And Florida was only for about 3 months.

24. I could watch a movie every single day. I love movies. I just don't have the time.

25. Cooking is still very new to me, but I'm really enjoying the learning process.



I thought it would be hard to think of that many things, but really, I could have easily kept going.
Now, everyone that reads this should tell me a random fact about yourself! :)

Tidbits

I have been LOVING the weather the past few days. It's gone from cold outside to perfect. It's been warm but with a breeze. The sun has been shining. It's just been lovely. :)
To prove that I love it, I even got outside with Justin and did a little bit of yard work. He was blowing off the patio in the backyard, and I decided to rake the leaves into a big pile. This is huge for me because I never, NEVER do yardwork.. haha!!!

In other news, my computer is still not back. I'm missing it. But.... I'll live.

Church yesterday was incredible. Sometimes on Saturday evenings I start thinking that I would rather not go. I would like to, for just this once, sleep late on Sunday. Sometimes I just don't feel like going. Well, I'm so glad that I always push myself to make it... It's always SO worth it. It uplifts me and refreshes me and makes me feel like I can make it through the rest of the week. I believe everyone should have a church and a church family that can support them and encourage them the way mine does me.

And finally, a peak at some before and after. We still are not finished. It's a slow process. But here goes....
Well, nevermind. Justin's computer won't read my memorycard. :(
I'll have to wait til I get my computer before I can post any pics.

Sick Computer

My computer is at the doctor right now. My anti-virus ran out and my computer is running really slow. It's not so bad since I still have Justin's at the house. The only problem is that I have tons of adorable pictures of Ava and Riley from today that I can't do anything with... :(

As soon as the computer comes home, I will upload, edit, and post some.

Harper's Going Home!!!

That's right.. I just read Kelly's update and this precious baby girl gets to go home tomorrow after 20 days of hospital living.  All wires, monitors, tubes, etc. have been removed as of today.

...And they said she might not live. 

She is a true picture of God's power.

random happenings from the past few days...

1.) This past Sunday was a great day for our nation..  THE SUPERBOWL.  We didn't have church that night so we could have watched it.  But I just didn't care to and Justin hadn't kept up with football this season... so we did the unthinkable.. we skipped it!  Almost.  We both took naps and watched some CSI.  We did catch the end of the fourth quarter though.  It was quite a game from what we saw.

2.) Student teaching has been going okay.  I can tell the kids are getting more comfortable with me.  Two year olds are a handful but so much fun.  I got observed for the first time today.  I was a ball of nerves, but it actually went really well.  I got good feedback and some good suggestions.  I know I'll still be nervous next time though.  Oh, and tomorrow my lead teacher will be out.  We will have a sub.  I'm interested to see how that goes!  Hopefully the kids won't be too wild and crazy!

3.) I'm really behind on my Bible reading.  I hate that I am.  It's just that, like I haven't had time to blog, I haven't had made time to read.  I'm determined to get caught up this week/weekend though.

4.) We bought the hardware (pulls and hinges) for our cabinets yesterday.  We've been working, slowly but surely on getting the cabinets stained.  Here is a peak of our unfinished product..

5.) In my extremely limited "free" time, I have been trying to read up and learn more about photography and how to use my camera.  I found a new lens that I want as soon as we get some extra cash.  This growing passion for taking pictures is really making me wish I had some babies of my own to practice on.  But for now, here are some of my cats.  (no post processing)

6.) Justin and I have decided that we want to try to go on at least one missions trip together before we have children.  We are talking to our pastors at church about getting something together.  It's on both of our hearts to go to Mexico sometime soon.  I'm excited and scared and nervous and happy.  I just pray that God use the time between now and then to really prepare and equip us for what is to come.