good times

What a great weekend! God is so good!! He has allowed so many wonderful people into my life...I am eternally grateful!

I am so glad for the opportunity I had to spend time with my wonderful family and great friends on Thanksgiving! It was an incredible day!!

I'm glad that I got to see Darren today! That was so great! I have really missed him while he's been in DC! He's going back tomorrow, but he'll be back for 2 weeks for Christmas! Yay!! He's such a sweetheart and I'm really glad we got to hang out for awhile tonite!

So yeah...I'm grateful for the wonderful weekend and I'm happy to be going back to school and work tomorrow. I truly am. I am so blessed!!

so thankful

Thank you very, very, very much...

Ya know that song? Well, that's how I feel today.

I am extremely, eternally grateful today...

For my family...
For my friends...
For my students...
For my church...
For my job...
For my school...
For my youth group...

FOR YOU!! If you are reading this, it's cuz you are a friend, or a friend of a friend, so that means I'm thankful for you! Thank you for being my friend or my friend's friend!! Seriously, it means to much to me to have so many wonderful people in my life. I have so many, many things and people to be thankful for, I could never name them all...

Thank you, God, for being my Savior and my Friend. Thank you for my wonderful Christian heritage, and my supportive and loving family. Thank you for the incredible friends you have sent into my life. Thank you for the amazing students with which you have blessed my life. Thank you for providing for me by giving me a wonderful job (several of them, in fact) and for allowing me to teach at a Christian school where I can teach about you. Thank you for my awesome church and youth group and the incredible blessing they are in my life! I could never thank you enough! I love you, Jesus.

I love you Friends and I love you Family! Thanks for being an important part of my life and for allowing me to share in yours! I love and appreciate you very much and I hope this Thanksgiving is wonderful for you, and that the holiday season is a blessed and Christ-centered one! May God bless each and every one of you!

rate my life

Okay, as Kelso says, everyone else is doin' it, so here goes...

This Is My Life, Rated
Life:	7.7
Mind:	7.3
Body:	5.9
Spirit:	9.2
Friends/Family:	7.1
Love:	3.8
Finance:	5.9
Take the Rate My Life Quiz

life in drive

For those of you who don't know, I also have a Xanga. I sometimes update it a little more often, but here is what I posted on it last night...


Have you seen those car commercials? Life in drive? I don't even know what car it is, but I like the commercials. Cuz it makes me think of my life. Sometimes...my life is in overdrive...but it's all good...

So I had a great weekend. Everything went well, thanks to all the help and prayers of so many people! We had a lot of fun, and I got totally exhausted! First of all, Friday night (Homecoming) was great! With only a few minor problems, the entire night was good. The lock-in went well, and I think everybody had a great time. We came home about 8 AM on Saturday morning and slept till like 3:30! That was awesome.

It was also awesome to have my nephew, Alex, with us for awhile this weekend. Scott went and got him Saturday morning (his mom and sisters didn't end up coming) and took him back Sunday night. It was a lot of fun having him here. He is an adorable kid and I look forward to getting to know him better. He's almost 10, by the way.

Today went well. It also went fast. Tomorrow is my last day of school and work for the week! Yay! I am so excited!! On Wednesday, I get to have brunch with Leandra (yay), go to the dentist (ick), and go see Rent when it opens! SO EXCITED!!!

Tonight I went to a sneak preview of The Producers with my friend Jenn. Oh my word. Guys, that movie is so funny. I am not gonna recommend it, cuz frankly, there are some pretty disturbing and offensive things in it, but Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane are just insanely hilarious.

Thursday is going to be so amazing because we are gonna have like 15 people at my house for Thanksgiving! And then we're gonna go down for the Plaza Lighting Ceremony and on Friday, we'll probably sleep in then go shopping and then Friday night we're gonna have a Friends marathon and watch the 10th season! (Anyone who's in the area and is a Friends fanatic is welcome!)

It's just gonna be an amazing week and I am so excited!! Hope you are all having a fantastic week so far and that your holiday goes really, really well!! E-mail, call, or post a comment! Love to all!!!

it's been awhile...

I haven't posted for awhile. The past few weeks have gone by really quickly! I've been extremely busy! This week is incredibly busy with all the Homecoming stuff going on. Today I took a bunch of girls to the CYT (Christian Youth Theatre) production of "Beauty and the Beast" at YouthFront. I think everyone enjoyed it. It was fun just to be together. Then tonite was the Homecoming Banquet. We went to Cinzetti's. There were 25 of us, and we had a great time! The girls were absolutely gorgeous in all of their dresses and the guys were handsome too! Tomorrow I get to spend the day in the gym decorating for Homecoming which is tomorrow night. We have some cool things planned, and I think it's going to look really great. The festivities tomorrow start at 6 PM -- during half-time of the alumni game, we will have the Crowning Ceremony for the Homecoming Royalty of 2005. After the games are over, the lock-in will begin and will go all night until 7 AM! It promises to be a fun, but exhausting day and night! To top it all off, my nephew and his mom and sisters are coming up tomorrow night and staying the weekend. That will be fun -- I just hope I have time to actually spend with them!! I will have to make time!

Well, anyway, I just wanted to let everyone know what's going on with me, and to let you know I'm alive and well...and busy! Take care everybody! Leave a comment! Love to all!!

what a life

Isn't life amazing! I am continually amazed by life. Maybe some of you have become complacent with life...I hope not! Have you lost your wonder? I hope not! Life is amazing! Life is filled with so many challenges and so many blessings and so many responsibilities and disappointments and failures and victories...I could go on and on but I'm sure you get the idea. It seems that when God sends challenges into my life, He also sends a blessing right along with it! When I have a difficult student in my class (for example), God also makes sure there is a student who comes along and blesses me with laughter or inspiration...or both! I am grateful for the balance...the beauty along with the ashes, so to speak. And...to be somewhat random, I will leave you with this. Have you ever wondered about the beauty of the process of death? Just look at the trees right now and you'll see what I mean.

Happy November!

Hope everyone is having a happy November so far! I have been incredibly busy! But there are good things going on...like....

~Went to Branson this weekend and got to experience Silver Dollar City (or as the locals call it, Steal Your Dollar City...haha...). There is nothing that quite compares to the sights, smells and tastes of SDC in the fall!

~Spent some quality time over the past couple of days with my fellow-teachers at the annual teachers' convention. It was lots of fun!

~God is teaching me some wonderful lessons! Maybe I'll be able to share more of them with you later.

~My family got some interesting and exciting news today. Maybe I'll be able to share it with you sometime soon as well. Stay tuned!!

Okay, I'm gonna stop there but I just thought you would like to know that good things are going on. Life is beautiful!!