Cool Quote

“A woman’s heart should be so hidden in Christ that a man should have to seek Him first to find her.” – Maya Angelou

Weekend Update

• I managed to drive approximately 10 hours with NO speeding tickets even though Daniel’s Garmin character, The Elf, kept telling me he was going to tell Santa I was speeding!
• Visited Biltmore with my mom, dad, sisters and Crystal – Heather teased that we should go ahead and put a down payment on the house I just couldn’t get over how BIG that place is. RIDICULOUS!
• It was COLD!!!!! We’re all stubborn and refused to wear coats that we would have to carry around with us, so it was just a tiddly bit nippy walking to the Biltmore from the parking lot. Also, pretty sure we managed to “beat” the suggested amount of time it takes to walk from the parking lot to the house. Even though Alicia had to stop the stopwatch several times so we could stare at the house! Yeap we clocked ourselves! haha
• No one was bit by the biting dog at my parents house! Even though I had to scream for Crystal to run for her life at one point.

SURPRISE!!!

By the time you read this I’ll be in NC! Friday’s my mom’s birthday so Crystal and I decided to drive up and surprise her! So today me, my sisters, and Crystal are taking her to the Biltmore… never been there before but I’m SOOO excited. What girl doesn’t want to visit a castle?

GREAT Quote

I was listening to a podcast recently and I can’t get this quote out of mind. Here’s the background… there was a 29 year old missionary named Jim Elliott who was called to be a missionary to a violent Indian tribe in Ecuador. He left his young bride and set off for Ecuador with his team.

His bride wrote to him and asked him if they were attacked by this tribe would they use their weapons. He wrote back to her and told her that the weapons were for protection against animals. And if the tribe reacted violently, his soul was ready for heaven, and the Indians were not. He would not use his weapons. As predicted, Jim along with his team were met with violence and killed by the very people he came to help.

He had written his wife prior to his death and told her “Remember you are immortal until your work is done.”

That has resonated with me. I guess because of all of the fears that constantly creep into my mind… what do I have to fear? I’m immortal!!! I’ll be here on this earth until I’ve done what I was put here to do…

A moment of silence

Some of you may already know this, but I suffered a tragic loss this year. My stuffed bear died… I’m just now able to talk about it

Let me explain why this is SUCH a big deal. This bear was the first gift Daniel EVER gave me. We had just barely started dating, I was sick, he went to Walmart, bought the bear, and PH’d him to my dorm room which instantly made me feel better. (PH = different sororities/fraternities took shifts delivering little gifts from friends and lovers to one another each night… kinda like our own little mail system. I literally have shoeboxes filled with little notes Daniel and I wrote back and forth… aaahhh… isn’t that sweet? Yeah I know you want to puke… sorry)

So anyways, I’ve slept with that bear EVERY NIGHT (well except maybe two accidental nights when I’ve forgotten him) since I got him.

So Bailey chewed his face off. He’s always tried to kill that bear. I’ve had an on again, off again war with Bailey over this bear since we got Bailey. I think Bailey’s been secretly jealous of the bear. I’m pretty sure Daniel thinks I’m a lunatic because I think I cried for 35 minutes after the massacre.

What’s worse is he did this over 3 weeks ago and I still have him on my shelf. I can’t bring myself to get rid of him. I don’t think I ever will… How weird would it be if I sewed a giant patch over his face? Probably no more weird than a 28 year old woman sleeping with a bear, right?

Bachelor Question

Okay can anyone tell me what the big deal with the “After the Final Rose” show is??? Chris made it seem so very dramatic…. I’m dying to know what’s going on!!!

And by the way, I had to KICK Daniel out last night while I watched it… he had a negative comment just about every 47 seconds and was totally raining on my parade! What’s with boys sometimes?

Our heat’s broken and I like it!

Yeap I like it!! It gives me an actual, legitimate reason to stay snuggled up in bed with Daniel

I’m lowering my standards

Yeap… I’ve decided, I can’t live up to myself and my ridiculous expectations! Sometimes I put way too much pressure on myself to do things that just don’t matter. Not saying that I feel this blog isn’t important, I think it is. It’s my own little online diary, that occasionally other people might read… but there are more important things. I think I’ll give myself a break and stop trying so hard! So if you don’t see me on here as much, it’s okay… I don’t feel bad about it anymore.

10 years ago…

The most wonderful man in the world made me dig around in a box of candied hearts for close to 5 minutes looking for I had no clue what…

I thought he was just giving me a bunch of nasty candied hearts but he ”made” me dig through the candy. I finally found it. It was a promise ring… he promised that day, 10 years ago Saturday, that he wanted to spend the rest of his life loving me and no one else, that I was the one he wanted to stand by while we pursued our dreams. Sometimes I wonder if I had any idea what I was getting myself into at the time and then I think that I never could have imagined just how great it would be… happy 10th valentines sweetie!

OH MY GOSH!

I’m a bad, bad blogger. It’s been since 1/20… wow!

Since then… I’ve been ferociously studying for a final which I took on Saturday and passed with flying colors! To be exact, I only missed one question (which I never would have figured out anyway). So got a 94 in that class! YAY

I was bitten by my dog who has always loved me… which severely traumatized me for several days. That also resulted in me having to have a Tetanus shot… didn’t remember those being SOOO sore afterwards. Now Bailey has been subjected to being locked up whenever company’s around.

We did our taxes and found out, once again… that we owe! BOO Better luck next year. Please keep the “have a kid” comments to yourself.

Despite that, we’ve decided to keep our cruise plans… feel like we need that for our own sanity! haha

Met with our new small group for the first time to watch the Superbowl! Had a great time and am SOO looking forward to our future times together. Also… we’ve decided to go through a book called “The Love Dare”… should be pretty interesting… we have to do a “love dare” each day! I’ll let you know how that goes… or maybe not!

Paid our youth camp deposits… so it’s official now! We can start getting FOR REAL excited! 128 days to go…

Daniel found Facebook… So now I have to hear stories every 17 seconds about people he’s found.

Other than that… just a bunch of life stuff… I’ll try to be a better blogger!