**so... i'm looking back over the past year... and realize i'm not the same. and i'm glad. i think it would be sad if i was the same. i want to grow! i want to change... i want to become more like Christ... and i know that i fall soo short of that... and i always will... but "if you shoot for nothing, you'll hit it every time"

**i look back and see all the blessings i was given this past year. all the friends that have been placed in my life... i keep replaying the night me and Am just sat in her car for an hour and a half... talking about everything on our hearts... i think of the day i found out that Whitney was going to PCC too. i think about graduation. i think about my last visit to camp. i think about my first day at PCC. i can't forget how alone i felt at first... and how quickly that passed. i think about the day my no-dating commitment ended... and how my suite all made it special. i think about going on my dating outing w/ some random guy that my roomates found at the soccer game the night before :) (now i have a story to tell all my freshmen in the future. hehe) i think about mid-terms. i think about Chels standing in the middle of the room screaming that we pull tighter and zip her into the formal that she's determined to zip. lol... and how she ended up wearing something else. haha. i think about my blind lunch date that my sis set me up on... and how i was shocked that he was really cool. i think about finals... and how God totally took care of it. i think about my last breakfast on campus w/ Mitchell (my best guy friend)... and i laugh about how he went from 8 to 90 demerits in one week. haha. i also think of all the times God totally guided me... He was there w/ me all the way... and i see how blessed i truely was in 2005... now i'm trusting that God has so much more instore for 2006

**this next year i really just want to focus more on ministering to others... and not myself. i want quite making excusses and go on Christian service... i want to serve those around me more... i know i must have been a terrible roomate... but anyways.. i'm gonna go. night, kiddos. ~Hope