oh, family.

Vacations with my family are always so much fun.
My mom is a great planner. She thinks about the stuff we're interested in and finds a way to incorporate that into our trips.
However, I must say though my favorite parts of this trip were:

-beat boxing with my brother for hours in the car

- "your mom" to everything

-full bodyslam wrestling with my family in the hotel every night for the remote

- yelling "that's my brother" every time he made a three pointer

- not noticing that our table in branson rose all the way up to my chin while i was eating

- screaming "chipotle" every single time we passed one

-refusing to give my mom bathroom breaks

-laughing so hard my stomach hurt

even though I ended up spending some of it in urgent care and definitely didn't enough sleep because of that, it was a fun trip. Can't wait till summer.

Hardships and blessings

For the past couple weeks, my family has been having a hard, hard time.
Money issues. Grade issues for me and my brother. Car issues. Friend issues. Stupid financial aid.
Stress, Stress, Stress.

Every day, more things kept happening. It got to the point where I was past crying and just laughed the more terrible things got.
My mom kept saying "eventually things are gonna turn around".

And then they did.

I got a call from my mom saying that we got a couple thousand dollar donation to our mission trips, and now are pretty much paid for.
I went to remediation for a test that I had barely failed, and my teacher raised my grade for going and now I'm passing the class with a B.
My dad got a really great car.
My brother got another chance with a messed up paper for his college class.
Financial aid is in the process of being worked out.

I love that God is so faithful. If we wouldn't have had the hardships, we wouldn't have realized how great what we got is, or how he really does take care of our every need.

So if you're going through a really hard time right now, take it to God. He'll help when you ask.