Bonding

Today started out good... got bad... but got better.

I don't really want to get into the bad, but let's just say the Remschel girls were treated unfairly.

The good news is, it caused some major bonding for us. We started hanging out pretty much non stop starting yesterday evening, staying up to watch Harry Potter, then waking up first thing in the morning to spend all day together.

I'm really blessed. I really love these girls company. I really feel like God gave me the perfect group to work with. I know I can call any of them at any time to hang out or talk, or just walk down to their doors and hang out like we already do. We're already starting movie nights every night. It's just so much fun. We are all hard workers too, so all our work is getting done super fast!! Just pray that I can make it through training, I think after then I'll be great.

Your love is a song.

There's a song, that every single time I hear it... I truly feel closer to God. This song completely expresses my relationship with Him.
It is one of my all time favorite songs, not just because it's beautiful or cause it's from one of my favorite bands.
When I hear this song, it's like my consciousness fades away and all I can think about is my Jesus.
The song is Your Love is a Song by Switchfoot, and even if you've heard it, I really encourage you just to take a moment and let it sweep you into His arms for a second. He loves us so much. Just take a moment to rest in His beauty.

I hear you breathing in, another day begins. The stars are falling out. My dreams are fading in, fading now.
I've been keeping my eyes wide open.
I've been keeping my eyes wide open.

Oh Your love is a symphony, All around me, running through me.
Oh Your love is a melody, underneath me, running to me.
Oh, Your love is a song.

The dawn is fire bright against the city lights. The clouds are glowing now, the moon is blacking out, blacking out.

So I've been keeping my mind wide open.
I've been keeping my mind wide open.

Oh Your love is a symphony, All around me, running through me.
Oh Your love is a melody, underneath me, running to me.
Oh, Your love is a song.

Oh Your love is a song.
Your love is a song.
Your love is a song.
Your love is strong.

With my eyes wide open,
I've got my eyes wide open,
I've been keeping my hopes unbroken.

Oh Your love is a symphony, All around me, running through me.
Oh Your love is a melody, underneath me, running to me.

Oh, Your love is a song.
Your love is my remedy.
Oh your love is a song.

Lake with my family.

Oh life is going so well :)
I recently had the best day ever, getting to catch up with friends I have missed.
The best day ever went something like this...
Wake up,
Take microbiology final,
Drive to Tokyo Grill to eat with Caleb,
Go to my friend's to pick up Katie,
Spend the whole rest of the day with her, waiting for my family to come into town at 3:30 A.M.,
Played with them and went to bed,
Woke up to have a ton more fun with my family!!

Since then I've been having tons of fun with my family. My little niece and nephew are, without question, the most beautiful kids I've ever seen. I love them.

We went out on our boat the other day, here's some pictures of our day.

Ho Hum.

Well, summer is slowly ending. I've been busy all the time, and yet this has been such a fantastic summer.
But now I'm coming to the very end... less than 2 weeks before I'm moving into my dorm room. I can't believe it's August! This summer went by so quickly.
But I've just got so much to look forward to, all the way to the very end of summer. I have microbiology tests every day this week until my final on Thursday, which is also the day my FAVORITE people come down... my family. I have actually gotten everything I needed down this summer finished and so much more...

well, except getting a tan. That was a major fail.

But now I'm meeting up with my friends this week, getting as many in as I can before Thursday so I can spend time with Leslie.

This summer, God has opened my eyes to so many wonderful things. He has taught me sooo much and taught me how to rejoice in the little victories, the little seemingly insignificant moments. I feel truly joyful. Which, trust me, is not always easy in 5 hours of microbiology.

I know things are going to be different this year than they were last year. Last year at school, I always felt something holding me back, not showing people everything that I was. It really took a really good friend that I was with this summer to get me to open up with friends and really be myself again. This year, I've already got plans with tons of people, from UMHB, from Baylor, from A&M... and I've got a roommate who I absolutely adore, which will just make this so much fun. Only a couple of weeks and it'll all be starting again, but totally different from before.

Jesus is always a good reason to smile.

A couple days ago, I felt kinda down.
My mom and brother were in Dallas for a couple days on a mission trip and my dad was at work, and my normal everyday hangout buddy was gone at camp, so I had hours to myself. Also, a couple weeks ago, I broke up with my longgg time boyfriend. I had honestly felt complete and total peace with it for weeks. In fact, I kept praising God for making something I thought would be so difficult, so easy. But this one day, it was like satan was just playing tricks with my mind.
It was really easy to feel lonely.

But God helped me through it.
Isn't He just wonderful?

Anyway, at first I was letting myself feel lonely. And then it was like God just spoke to me. He said "Why are you doing this to yourself? You know I didn't go anywhere." And I just sat there and realized how true that is, and how easy it is to tell yourself "I'm doing what God wants" and totally believe it but sometimes still feel He's not totally there supporting you.

But since then, it's like, I've got this passion. I feel free, and yet totally surrounded. He's made it SO clear that He loves me.

All that loneliness is gone.

And all I can do is sing. I just find myself, in the car especially, singing out songs to him. All of them. Even if it's just me jamming to my Taylor Swift cd (don't judge, she is my favorite) I just smile, knowing that I'm smiling for Him. And even more, because of Him.

And so, I wanted to remind you, that even on a really terrible, boring, or lonely day, Jesus is always a reason to smile.

summer

Well, we had a near panic in my household today.
I did the CPR class, which had to be a certain one for nursing school. I did it a couple weeks ago. I have been slowly knocking out the list of things I've had to do to turn in to the nursing school. I finished it all, and was putting all my paperwork in the mail when I noticed the CPR card said "heartsaver".
Which is not allowed for nursing school.
I was in a panic, but it was Saturday, so the hospital section that gave the course was closed when I called to ask about the class. On Monday we found out they had given us the wrong card. Close call.

But now all my nursing stuff is turned in and it's a happy day. I've been thinking "I can't wait till microbiology ends, I can't wait till microbiology ends" over and over, but now I'm realizing that when it ends, I'll have less than a week with my family before going back to school and summer being over. And though I'm super super excited about this year of school, and seeing my friends, and rooming with a great friend, and having a fun job, I still don't want summer to end. Not yet.

All in all, even with microbiology, it has been a great summer. One of the best I've ever had.

California

Well. I have not been writing on here at all! I will start slowly catching back up.
I have slowly been knocking out all the things on my to-do list from last time.
Shots- done. Miserable, and I have to finish the hep B shot soon, but hey, at least it's pretty much done.
YEC- done. It was amazing.
Microbiology- started now. It is MISERABLE. HORRIBLE. SLOWLY SUCKING MY LIFE AWAY. I mean, 5 hours, 5 days a week, only to come home to read and study. But it will be over soon.

But on a whole other note, I went to California to be with my sister, brother-in-law, and her two most precious kiddos. It was an amazing 10 days full of:
reading to Ry,
cuddling Caders,
making headbands to sell,
eating chocolate cinammon bears,
playing card games,
swimming in freezing weather,
getting spoiled by Les making me clothes in no time at all,
eating yummyyyy shrimp,
playing at parks,
watching Arrested Development,
and playing bunk-o.
It was beyond amazing.














I love them, and I really really wish they lived closer.