Wedding To-Do List (upon request)

1.Pick out a cake and a design (I want something simple but cute as well)
2.Finish collecting all addresses
3.Order Invitations
4.Send out invitations
5. I need to start collecting favorite photographs to use in the slide show
6. Find a flowergirl dress
7. Figure out what my three little ring bearers are going to wear and if we need to order anything for them. (Jenni and Lisa let me know your imput... I am pretty relaxed about what the boy's will wear so let me know what they have already or what you think will look okay!)
8. Come up with fun songs to dance to for the reception...( I would love some suggestions!!!)
9. Find a unity candle song and a song for me to walk down too. I haven't found one I just love yet....

** Please let me know if you have any great suggestions!

Old Soul

In the last couple years I have always heard people tell me that I was an old soul but I never really new what that ment. For awhile I thought hmmm maybe that means I am like an old person....(over the age of 85)? Or maybe I am just not that good of a time? But really when it comes time for new years I really do start beleiving that I am an old soul. I would so much rather hangout with friends at my house, have SOME drinks (but not enough to not remember the night)and play games. Is that wrong? Should I not be a home body and have a desire to go out and party hard. I mean I just don't find much meaning in getting wasted to the point I can't even remember the night, making mistakes I would probably regret the next morning and adding an extra hundreds of calories to my diet that my love handles could relly do without! I don't why this has been on my mind but I guess I am just battling with whether or not this is something that should change. Should I be acting my own age? And really what is the definition of an old soul? If you are finding yourself reading my blog and have any type of insight please share with me!

Christmas Day 2007

I can't believe that it is Christmas all over again! I was able to spend Christmas Eve with Adam (my fiance) and Christmas Day with my family! Christmas is one of the best times of the year for a couple of reasons, (1) Starbuck's will have white chocolate non-fat peppermint white mochas available for ME to buy, (2) The birth of Jesus Christ which is really the greatest gift of all (even before Starbuck's) and (3) Getting to be with family and being in a atmosphere of anticipating Santa and soon to be opened gifts.
But really I think my favorite moment this year is when I woke up on Christmas Eve morning and looked at Adam for him to soon tell me he barley got any sleep the night before because he was so excited to open his gifts. I began to laugh as I couldn't believe my 23 year old fiance kept himself up most of the night in anticipation for his 18volt DeWalt cordless drill! Oh man do I love that boy!
Not to forget the fact that it was a WHITE CHRISTMAS! I couldn't believe that it actually snowed on Christmas Day. In my family we talk about it all the time, "how we wish it would just snow?", or "wow wouldn't it be the best Christmas if it would just snow?" But this year it did and don't think anyone could believe it! It was so beautiful and topped off all of our Christmas's.

A boy named Adam

I can't believe I am saying this but......I am getting MARRIED, May 17, 2008 SAVE THE DATE! That will truly be the best day of my life! My whole life I haVE wondered the question that most girls do.."Who will I spend the rest of my life with?" I remember asking my dad all the time if he knew who I would marry and if he could just tell me his name....that's really all I ever wanted; just to know his name. My dad would then go on to tell me about what a beautiful young woman I was and how I needed to trust that God would bring me the right boy at the right time. I was also guilty of making a list. A list that contained all the qualities I felt I needed in a life partner...ya know handsome, funny, loyal, honest etc. but really all I was doing was setting limits on GOD. In college I realized that by making a list I was limiting God to who I thought was best for me. Not who he thought was best for me or what he thought I even needed. I came to the realization that God knew far better then I did that aside from Him a boy named, Adam would be all I ever needed and so much more. I don't think I can describe how amazing, how unreal and how much love I have for this boy who I get to marry! Through so many different events, trials and seasons it has been so clear that Adam is who God has planned for me. Over the past two years of dating this boy I have slowly fell in love over and over again. This is totally embarrassing but I still get chills when he reaches for my head and when he leans into kiss me those butterflies keep on turning. It is amazing how God has slowly shown me different qualities and characteristics about Adam that I never even knew I needed. He is a man of God, honest, loyal, trustworthy, goofy, nerdy, tall dark and handsome, sweet, fun loving, outgoing, adventures, kind hearted and SARCASTIC! But, honestly I could go on and on about my feelings for this boy but if you would like to know more like how we met or the amazing adventures we take together let me know and I will do my best to update you.

Nursing School

If you haven't met me yet I am graduating college in 4 months (April 27th, 2008?) and can't believe it! I have worked so hard through nursing school and I am so excited! It has totally been God's grace that has helped me survive college. I have been put up against every trial you could possibly think of. Here I will let you into a quick glimpse of the last 2 years......When I first applied to nursing school I was told I probably wouldn't get in because I didn't have a good enough grade point average of a 2.9. I was told by a professor at George Fox University ( where I go to college) that I didn't have the brains to be a nurse, I have been told by someone else in the program that I should highly consider another major and as a result I began to worry and stress my way into having gastric ulcers (ouch!). The result of my first semester in nursing school, my professors telling me I couldn't do it and living with ulcers for over half the semester (which means no caffeine, only eating rice, bananas, toast and sometimes turkey sandwiches for months...oh and not to forget lots of pain!) resulted in my being put on probation and almost eliminated from the program.
I came back the next semester struggling to skate by through my body trying to heal and making up for all the time I missed being so ill the semester before. Today I am proud to say that I have just finished my first semester of my senior year with all A's and one B+ and I think it has been one of my greatest accomplishments.
See I have never been the kid that anything ever really came easy too! I like most, like to think that I have had to work hard for most things in my life and things just don't seem to come easy to me. But when someone tells you that you can't do something and then you work hard to prove someone wrong.....it's just....I can't even describe it! The best part is it's really God's faithfulness. I mean....yeah I have worked stinkin hard but he knows the desires of my heart and this is a plan he has for my life and has been so faithful in his promise to pick me up when I fall and help me cross the finish line at graduation! That will be a great day!