okay everyone. mark your calanders because on Dec. 1st we are going to have a big blow out fiesta for amy and RACHELbonin. so in case you were wondering...that is what we will be doing. so don't make any plans.

that is the word that describes exactly how i feel. i went to the doctor this afternoon and aparently i have some kind of infection. but my best friend in the whole wide world came over and brought me a balloon, card, and my favorite kind of candy. i love my lauren! my throat feels like a thousand knives were stuffed down it...sad times. well...that pretty much sums up my day. hope everyone had a better day.

also..one thing i did realize is how boring daytime tv is. i watched the flippin martha stewart show and her guest host was rosie odonnell. but suprisingly i found it pretty interesting. they talked about rosie going to visit martha in jail. but anyways...i learned how to make candy apples and boonilla shakes. mmhmm...you read right...i said boonilla shakes. which in all actuality is just a vanilla shake with a "ghost" face drawn on the glass cup. that is such a sad sad story..but it my sad sad story. but i am on day #2 of being sick and staying at home. maybe me and martha can learn how to make a halloween wreth or something.

winter is my favorite season. (even though it is only fall but it feels like winter.) i figured that out about myself. i really do enjoy getting all bundled up and putting on the hats and scarves. but the best thing of all is when you are walking and the cold wind is blowing in your face and then your eyes start to water. to me that is the best feeling. i also love how everytime i am about to leave the house my moms tells me to put on a hat and that it's cold outside.<as if i didn't know> but i thank the Lord that i have a mom that cares enough about me to tell me that.  just the way she says it makes me happy. but the only sad part about it is that i can't wear my flip flops anymore. i tried the other day and i way too much of a chicken. maybe i will bust them out every once in awhile. I LOVE WINTER!

::can u please pray for my grandfather. he was sent to the emergency room tonight from the nursing home and we don't really know what's wrong with him. he has alzheimers so being sick like that really doesn't make things better. so just pray for the doctors and my family. thanks so much.::

yeah kids..that is my best friend. me and lauren went to downtown franklin and it was amazing! we went to starbucks and then went to go see elizabethtown again, but it was the theatre that orlando bloom was in. mmmhmmm that's right i said orlando bloom. he was there for the premiere. then what came after was the best part. me and lauren rolled down her windows and danced insanely in the middle of a street. i do need to add that there were hardly any cars on this road. but i had never danced like that before in my life and i have to say that is was the best thing i have ever done. i felt God in the most powerful way when i did that. it was like i was doing it for Him and i could feel Him smiling and just laughing at me. it was really cool. the only thing to do now is to go to bed and not wake up until an extremely late hour. hope all of you do the same.

The Lord your God is amoung you, a warrior who saves. He will rejoice over you with gladness. He will bring [you] quietness with His love. He will delight in you with shouts of joy. -Zephaniah 3:17

The perfect love is described in this verse perfectly.

i have an itunes question. whenever i get onto to itunes music store i can't click on a specific song i want to listen to. it doesn't even show the individual songs, only the whole cd. so if anyone knows what to do to fix it...that would be GREAT. i updated it to the new version but it still didn't change anything. everyone have a blessed day and....JOSH AND STEPHANIE ARE MARRIED!!!!!!!

i can't wait to fall in love! i am just so excited to know the love story that God is writing for me. so many times we settle for guys that aren't who God has in mind for us and if we only give Him a chance He can make it so much more beautiful then we could possibly imagine. but the one thing that He does ask for is patience. i am not the best at that but i am totally going on the fact that God is in control of my life and if i try to do things on my own, i just end up messing it up. God will always take care of us and be there for us. all we need to do is let go.

you may be asking yourself where all this came from. i went to go see elizabethtown tonight and it was amazing. its not really a "chick flick" like i thought it would be. but i would definatly recommend this movie.

well i am headed off to steph and josh's wedding tomarrow!! i am sooo excited for them. oohh man....

I crumble at Your kiss and grace
I'm a weakling in the dust
Teach me how to cling to You
With all my life and all my love

Father come to me, hold me up 'cause I can barely stand
My strength is gone and my breath is short, I can't reach out my hands
But my heart is set on a pilgrimage to heaven's own bright King
So in faltering or victory I will always sing

And on the road to beautiful
My seasons always change
But my life is spent on loving You
To know You in Your power and pain

You're my portion in this life
You're my strength now in my fight
And to You I pledge my heart
In the pain and in the dark I'll love You
I'll love You, I'll love You

I'll love You...

And my heart is set on a pilgrimage to heaven's own bright King
So in faltering or victory I will always sing

I love You
I love You
I love You

-charlie hall

i am in love with a man who can give me everything that i need and He loves me more then anything of this world. i can't live without Him.

People spend so much time
every single day
runnin' 'round all over town
givin' their forever away
but no not me
I won't let my forever roam
and now I hope I can find
my forever a home
so give me your forever
please your forever
not a day less will do
from you -ben harper

i know i hadn't updated in awhile but God has totally broke my heart and remolded it into a heart that longs for Him in every since of the word. I can't even describe what is going on in my heart and the changes that I feel. all i can say is that its AMAZING! God is the love of my life and i only have come to realize that truely in the last couple of weeks. He has completed my heart with His love for me.....WOW!! i guess the word "peace" is coming to mind.

I hate goodbyes... my best friend is gone for 6 months.

okay i was texting on my way to class and out of NO WHERE came this branch. it almost hit me in the head but i dodged it. so..i did the logical thing and kept walking like it never happened. that is really my day so far. nothing else to really report. i'll update if anything else happened.

michael buble's version of "you don't know me" is AMAZING!!!! i could marry him...well not really. but if he loved jesus then maybe..haha.

"You don't even know what tomorrow will bring-what your life wil be! For you are a bit of smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes. James 4:14

God totally slapped me in the face with that. We always plan our lives for tomorrow, but we forget about now. What we end up doing is not paying attention to now that we miss you on what God wants to show us today. What is He showing you today? Have you taken that moment to stop and ask God what He wants to reveal to you today?
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Thanks so much for everyone who tried to make me feel better yesterday. I really appreciate it. It was just one of those days where nothing was wrong but nothing was right at the same time. But luckily it is tomorrow and not yesterday.

COLDPLAY in 4 more days!

that is how many more days until coldplay!! i am beyond excited and i can't wait to go with my best friend lauren.

alot is happening and way too much to write it here. but i love you all and the Lord loves you more then you will ever know.

Amazing....
"No houseehold slave can be the slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't be slaves to both God and money."

Luke 16:13

::you can insert whatever you struggle with in the part of money at the end. but that is so true. God should NEVER be second in our lives.::

"Hate the sin and love the sinner ."

Gandhi

::i think that is how God views us and how we should view other people and ourselves. we shouldn't hate the sinners because we all do that but hate the sin that is in our lives. the Lord is great and has showered us with grace that we don't even deserve. the Lord is flippin' awesome!::

LOVE college and all the cool people that i've met. i have really appreciated everyone and how nice they all have been. ao was AMAZING wednesday night and i really got into the worship. i have been praying to find some good christian music that i like and the Lord has totally been providing. i went to the echosflow concert wed night and then on thurs. i went to see ryan horne.

i am gonna tell you what i don't like...i DON'T like hearing a dave matthews band song about what a pig bush is and how the believers just stand behind him and smile. i think as christians we get judged most of all. there are so many assumptions about us that are just not true. but i can say that the Lord didn't promise us EASY, he promised us GRACE. that is what i am doing this all for, for Him and Him alone.

went to hodge's house last night and i can say that is was a good time. met alot of new people and got to catch up with some people i hadn't talked to in awhile.

i hope EVERYONE has a WONDERFUL day and full of AMAZING suprises. haha.

i think i am gonna like mtsu. its alot better then high school and i am able to hang out with my friends more. i started my job today in the records department and i love it. that is all i really have to say so catch you guys lata.

I think that it is kinda funny that Riverdale has to go to Ohio to play games because no one here will play them. when i was in charleston i went to this nursing home to visit with the residents there. well this guy named james overheard that i was from the big tn. he apparently played football in tullahoma and knew who riverdale was. i told him that we won the state championship this past year and you know what he said? He said,"yeah, because you cheated. you all are a bunch of cheaters." now how in the world does this blind old man all the way in charleston, south carolina tell me that riverdale is a bunch of cheaters. i thought that was funny.

tonight was fun at starbucks. i love my friends and how we can play on a certain situation for the longest time.good times.

1. trying new things with my girls, like sour slushies
2. taking pictures in a grocery cart at the movie theatre parking lot
3. guys stopping to ask us what we are doing with the shopping cart.
4. yelling at movies only to discover that they can't really hear us screaming at them
5. being mature enough to be imature(you girls know what i am talking about)
6. lauren yelling at boys as we drive by them and then getting embarressed when they speed up to talk to her

::tonight is what i needed. its been fun hanging out with just the girls and knowing that something crazy will probably happen, whenever all of us are together there is always something. when we were sitting at an intersection i looked over towards the corner and there was a stand down at the gas station. these two men were on their knees with their hands over their head while the cops had their guns pointed at them. it was like the show cops. rachael decides she wants a picture and that made it even more funny. but it was kinda scary at the same time. you just don't see that stuff in the boro. well i hope everyone had a great night too. off to buy my books tomarrow.::

Sometimes I think to myself how cool it would be if I could be in a band and totally rock out! I watch some of these bands and how into it they are. It would be awesome to be able to pour out all your emotions into a song and playing. They are so into it. But unfortunatly God didn't give me that talent. I admire those people though. It all depends on how you use it. They are very lucky.

Here is something that I saw in my notes from a sermon that I heard this summer....

Gods plan wasn't to be housed in walls in a church. The power of the Lord is in us. Its wherever we walk!