We're moving on Monday! Details and photos then! (:
Happy Mommy's Day tomorrow!
LOVEYOU.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Bloom where you are planted.
When I went to Billings for my test I stayed in a small town about 20 miles away called Ballentine, with one of my best friends Amanda and her boyfriend Trevor's family. I seriously love Trevor and getting to know his family was so much fun. My test was on Sunday, it was so relieving to get it over with! Sunday night Amanda and I had dinner with our friend Shevon. She made us spaghetti, my favorite! After eating dinner we went back to Ballentine, I washed my face, took out my contacts, changed into my pj's and I was seriously SO content. Being full, comfy and relieved. It was such a great feeling to not have to stress about my test anymore. Hopefully I'll feel the same way when I get my results. ;)
So Monday morning I got up in no rush to get home. Amanda had to go to work at 2 that afternoon so my plans were to leave sometime before then (especially because my driving time would be cut in half from my trip there!). That morning we were watching HGTV. I don't remember the name of the show but basically it was about this counselor/home designer/problem solver/marriage saver. She would come in and say this is what's wrong w/ how you're living, this is how it's effecting your marriage. Watching this show a lightbulb came on for this post.
I don't think we realize how much how/where we live effects us. Where we live is a lot of who we are. Example. When I went to college in Fargo, I seriously hated my life. For so many reasons we won't go into now but I was very unhappy there. My sister and I had a joke about calling my apartment Your Home (Your Home as in my home) but spelt Year Home. As in, it was my home but I only had to be there for a year. I didn't love being there and because of that I made it a point not to make my apartment homey. I didn't hang pictures. I didn't personalize. I didn't do those things because I was only going to live there for a year and I didn't want to get comfortable just to have to take it all apart when I left. I think that was the worst, worst, worst idea. No wonder I never felt comfortable or at home there. Hello!
Either way. If you're home isn't a complete reflection of you. Or you aren't head over heals in love w/ it. Do yourself a favor and change that! Maybe it's effecting your mood or your relationships and you haven't even realized it. In this life we're going to find ourselves in places that aren't ideal to us. I think that's when we need to step up and make the changes that will make our situation as ideal as possible. It's kind of like loving people that love you, not impressive. It's shows character if you can love those who don't love you back, if you can find happiness or make your own happiness where you're with out.
"Sometimes we may find ourselves providentially planted where we would rather not be. A true test of character is whether we wilt or bloom in these places." --Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Have the best..omgosh, IT'S THURSDAY. (:
LOVEYOU.
So Monday morning I got up in no rush to get home. Amanda had to go to work at 2 that afternoon so my plans were to leave sometime before then (especially because my driving time would be cut in half from my trip there!). That morning we were watching HGTV. I don't remember the name of the show but basically it was about this counselor/home designer/problem solver/marriage saver. She would come in and say this is what's wrong w/ how you're living, this is how it's effecting your marriage. Watching this show a lightbulb came on for this post.
I don't think we realize how much how/where we live effects us. Where we live is a lot of who we are. Example. When I went to college in Fargo, I seriously hated my life. For so many reasons we won't go into now but I was very unhappy there. My sister and I had a joke about calling my apartment Your Home (Your Home as in my home) but spelt Year Home. As in, it was my home but I only had to be there for a year. I didn't love being there and because of that I made it a point not to make my apartment homey. I didn't hang pictures. I didn't personalize. I didn't do those things because I was only going to live there for a year and I didn't want to get comfortable just to have to take it all apart when I left. I think that was the worst, worst, worst idea. No wonder I never felt comfortable or at home there. Hello!
Either way. If you're home isn't a complete reflection of you. Or you aren't head over heals in love w/ it. Do yourself a favor and change that! Maybe it's effecting your mood or your relationships and you haven't even realized it. In this life we're going to find ourselves in places that aren't ideal to us. I think that's when we need to step up and make the changes that will make our situation as ideal as possible. It's kind of like loving people that love you, not impressive. It's shows character if you can love those who don't love you back, if you can find happiness or make your own happiness where you're with out.
"Sometimes we may find ourselves providentially planted where we would rather not be. A true test of character is whether we wilt or bloom in these places." --Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Have the best..omgosh, IT'S THURSDAY. (:
LOVEYOU.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Saturday from H-e-well, you know.
Good Morning.
It is Tuesdayish and I'm back as promised. (: Okay, it's Wednesday. The best news first, we're moving in (ready, ready? Count them..) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 days! Counting today and next Monday when we move, meaning there are only FOUR days between now and then! Who's amped? This girl! This boy! Ahh. So exciting. I hope you're all prepping to come visit, because you're invited. Duh. ;)
The not so fab news. For those of you who haven't heard we had a m-o-n-sterous winter storm this weekend. Yes, that's right, on the last day of April. Really. So bad. We lost power at about 3 am on Saturday which was back on before we were up the next morning, it flickered a little through out the day. Our neighboring town Williston lost power the same time Saturday morning and didn't regain power until late Monday evening. Can you imagine? Winter weather and no electricity for three days and two nights. Insane. Needless to say, Saturday as you know I was on my way to Billings for my exam. Oh the joys of driving through snow. I seriously have never, ever, ever, ever driven in weather so bad. I didn't have a choice, my test was on Sunday! So I left my house around 10 am on Saturday morning and 5 hours later I was fifty miles from home. Of course I have a story for you. Are you ready?
I first left in the car, pulled out onto the highway, drove, mm, a half a mile? Then realized the snow on the highway was deeper than my car, there was no way I could drive. So I attemped to turn around which was quite possibly the scariest thing (okay, not that scary) of my life because I was trying to turn around and my car kept getting stuck in the middle of the high way because of how deep the snow was and I couldn't see anything in either direction. Awesome. I make it back home with the car in one piece. Erik scraped the snow off the pickup, seriously a challenge. It's snowing and blowing so much the first time I left I had to use my ice scraper to break the snow off to get into the trunk. So bad. Aand just days before we were wearing shorts and t's! Okay. We move all of my things from the car to the pick up. All of my testing supplies. My overnight bag. My purse. I have everything I need and I'm back on the road. Now feel special, because I took video/pictures to share w/ you, but as I type they're in the car so yes, I'm going to get out of bed and go outside for you. Brb. Bleh. ;)
I know, I know. I was a big idiot for driving. An even bigger idiot for taking pictures while driving in this. Seriously, if I didn't have to drive to Billings it would have the the perfect day to drive around and just take pictures of all the wild things I spotted.
This was my view driving down the highway.
One of the many trees blown over, most of them were torn out of the ground roots and all (in Williston tearing up yards and landing on houses and vehicles). This storm also broke telephone poles, power line and light post in half.
Right after the camper and cars this semi was in the ditch on the other side of the road.
I zoomed in and took a close up of what the high way looked like. This is what I was driving on! Stupid. Ha.
Real life! Isn't that insane. Everyone kept saying as soon as I made it to Glendive it wasn't snowing and I seriously could not believe them until I made it there. So the weather was great the rest of my trip. I'm planning to stop in Miles City and get gas, as I'm plotting it out I realize..ohh man..I grabbed my purse and I LEFT MY WALLET IN THE CENTER COUNSIL OF THE CAR! Yes. I am the biggest idiot in the world. So not only do I not have any money at all, zero dollars! I don't have my drivers license which I absolutely need to get into my test. I call Erik and with a few not so pretty words explain to him what I've just realized. So I turn around and he takes off in the car and meets me back in Glendive. I load all my things back into the car, careful not to forget anything this time. Bleh. Aand FIVE hours from my starting point I'm ready to leave Glendive for the second time. So my trip from Sidney to Billings that should have taken 4 hours took 8. 8 joyous hours. Ohh so much fun! Bleh. Ha. It was seriously the worst.
What is it they say about April going out like a Lion?
BUT. On my way home on Monday I was talking to a friend and she was telling me that another friend of hers was complaining about her day until she shared my Saturday story with her. My friend's friend said "Wow, that really brings out the silver lining on my day." Kind of one of those don't complain there are always people less fortunate than you things. But seriously it made my day to hear that my misfortune helped her to feel better about her day. Ha. (:
That's all I have for this morning. I need to get up. Unpack my bag from this weekend, get some things together for moving, get ready and be to work by 9:30.
More soon.
LOVEYOU.
Oooh! Since I didn't post yesterday a belated Happy 2nd Anniversary to Josh and Amber!!!!!!!!! (:
It is Tuesdayish and I'm back as promised. (: Okay, it's Wednesday. The best news first, we're moving in (ready, ready? Count them..) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 days! Counting today and next Monday when we move, meaning there are only FOUR days between now and then! Who's amped? This girl! This boy! Ahh. So exciting. I hope you're all prepping to come visit, because you're invited. Duh. ;)
The not so fab news. For those of you who haven't heard we had a m-o-n-sterous winter storm this weekend. Yes, that's right, on the last day of April. Really. So bad. We lost power at about 3 am on Saturday which was back on before we were up the next morning, it flickered a little through out the day. Our neighboring town Williston lost power the same time Saturday morning and didn't regain power until late Monday evening. Can you imagine? Winter weather and no electricity for three days and two nights. Insane. Needless to say, Saturday as you know I was on my way to Billings for my exam. Oh the joys of driving through snow. I seriously have never, ever, ever, ever driven in weather so bad. I didn't have a choice, my test was on Sunday! So I left my house around 10 am on Saturday morning and 5 hours later I was fifty miles from home. Of course I have a story for you. Are you ready?
I first left in the car, pulled out onto the highway, drove, mm, a half a mile? Then realized the snow on the highway was deeper than my car, there was no way I could drive. So I attemped to turn around which was quite possibly the scariest thing (okay, not that scary) of my life because I was trying to turn around and my car kept getting stuck in the middle of the high way because of how deep the snow was and I couldn't see anything in either direction. Awesome. I make it back home with the car in one piece. Erik scraped the snow off the pickup, seriously a challenge. It's snowing and blowing so much the first time I left I had to use my ice scraper to break the snow off to get into the trunk. So bad. Aand just days before we were wearing shorts and t's! Okay. We move all of my things from the car to the pick up. All of my testing supplies. My overnight bag. My purse. I have everything I need and I'm back on the road. Now feel special, because I took video/pictures to share w/ you, but as I type they're in the car so yes, I'm going to get out of bed and go outside for you. Brb. Bleh. ;)
I know, I know. I was a big idiot for driving. An even bigger idiot for taking pictures while driving in this. Seriously, if I didn't have to drive to Billings it would have the the perfect day to drive around and just take pictures of all the wild things I spotted.
This was my view driving down the highway.
One of the many trees blown over, most of them were torn out of the ground roots and all (in Williston tearing up yards and landing on houses and vehicles). This storm also broke telephone poles, power line and light post in half.
I spotted this camper in the ditch, with two cars right behind it.
Right after the camper and cars this semi was in the ditch on the other side of the road.
I zoomed in and took a close up of what the high way looked like. This is what I was driving on! Stupid. Ha.
This semi was in the ditch, facing me, on my side of the road! And you can see visibility was swell. (:
This is what the roads looked like once I got to my part of the trip under road construction.
I wish I had pictures of the mailboxes, they were all blown up and packed completely full of snow. At one point there were a few hay bails on the west side of the road. The wind/snow was blowing from west to east so on the east side of the bails was a big patch of untouched green grass in the midst of all of this blizzard. It was really neat to see. I truly wanted to pull over and get a good picture of it, but I didn't figure pulling over to get out and snap a picture would have been the safest thing. Ha.
I also took a video to share, but right now it's not loading correctly.
Either way. Driving the 50 miles through this, from Sidney to Glendive literally took me THREE HOURS. 50 miles. Bleh. But as soon as I make it to Glendive this is what I see..
What is it they say about April going out like a Lion?
BUT. On my way home on Monday I was talking to a friend and she was telling me that another friend of hers was complaining about her day until she shared my Saturday story with her. My friend's friend said "Wow, that really brings out the silver lining on my day." Kind of one of those don't complain there are always people less fortunate than you things. But seriously it made my day to hear that my misfortune helped her to feel better about her day. Ha. (:
That's all I have for this morning. I need to get up. Unpack my bag from this weekend, get some things together for moving, get ready and be to work by 9:30.
More soon.
LOVEYOU.
Oooh! Since I didn't post yesterday a belated Happy 2nd Anniversary to Josh and Amber!!!!!!!!! (:
Friday, April 29, 2011
8 minutes.
I know I said I wouldn't be back on again until Tuesdayish. Buuut.
Today I spent the day teaching high school French, right now I have a whopping eight minutes before the bell rings to signal the weekend. I know, I'm officially the worst sub in the world, blogging while in class. Right now I'm teaching French 4 which means there are only seniors in this class. They're busy plugging away on their final projects and there are only two of them in the room right now. I think I'm alright. When you sub, you have to come prepared w/ something to do or you're going to spend the day passing out assignments and then counting the different colored tiles on the floor or reading the cliqued posters on the wall. I spent my today reading blogs. Which, exhausting as it was reading the screen all day, I thoroughly enjoyed. I seriously think it's exhausting.
My point of this post is I've spent the last week scouring Pintrest which is my newest obsession and other's blogs for inspiration for our future (as in less than two weeks from now) home. Looking at others photos and reading about their lives, they're always so attractive aren't they? [P.S. Here is our stance on Glamour and Dishonesty. We promise to always be real w/ you.] It's hard to see the appealing lives of others and not want that. But my conclusion is, maybe it's a "the grass is greener" sort of situation. I think to have that, that life that rocks, that everyone reads about and wants, it has to be about doing what's right for you. What is it that makes you the most alive? Do that. And then share. You just might bring life to someone who wasn't sure where to find it.
Don't just live, be alive.
Have the best weekend. We love you. Sincerely.
Today I spent the day teaching high school French, right now I have a whopping eight minutes before the bell rings to signal the weekend. I know, I'm officially the worst sub in the world, blogging while in class. Right now I'm teaching French 4 which means there are only seniors in this class. They're busy plugging away on their final projects and there are only two of them in the room right now. I think I'm alright. When you sub, you have to come prepared w/ something to do or you're going to spend the day passing out assignments and then counting the different colored tiles on the floor or reading the cliqued posters on the wall. I spent my today reading blogs. Which, exhausting as it was reading the screen all day, I thoroughly enjoyed. I seriously think it's exhausting.
My point of this post is I've spent the last week scouring Pintrest which is my newest obsession and other's blogs for inspiration for our future (as in less than two weeks from now) home. Looking at others photos and reading about their lives, they're always so attractive aren't they? [P.S. Here is our stance on Glamour and Dishonesty. We promise to always be real w/ you.] It's hard to see the appealing lives of others and not want that. But my conclusion is, maybe it's a "the grass is greener" sort of situation. I think to have that, that life that rocks, that everyone reads about and wants, it has to be about doing what's right for you. What is it that makes you the most alive? Do that. And then share. You just might bring life to someone who wasn't sure where to find it.
Don't just live, be alive.
Have the best weekend. We love you. Sincerely.
The Sweet Life presents: Good Life.
Quick. I'm going this weekend to take my cosmetology boards exam to get licensed in MT. I could use some serious prayers, please send a few my way? I probably won't be back on here until, mm, Tuesday? Just wanted to give you a heads up on that. I hope you have the best weekend. We'd like to dedicate this post to our friend Theresa who shared w/ us that the song Good Life by One Republic reminds her of our blog title. (:
Woke up in London yesterday,
found myself in the city near Piccadilly,
don't really know how I got here,
I got some pictures on my phone.
New names and numbers that I don't know,
address to places like Abbey Road.
Day turns to night, night turns to whatever we want.
We're young enough to say:
Oh this has gotta be the good life.
This has gotta be the good life.
This could really be a good life, good life.
Say oh, got this feeling that you can't fight,
like this city is on fire tonight.
This could really be a good life,
a good, good life.
To my friends in New York, I say hello.
My friends in L.A. they don't know,
where I've been for the past few years or so,
Paris to China to Col-or-ado.
Sometimes there's airplanes I can' t jump out.
Sometimes there's bullsh_t that don't work now.
We are god of stories but please tell me-e-e-e,
what there is to complain about?
When you're happy like a fool,
let it take you over.
When everything is out,
you gotta take it in.
Oh this has gotta be the good life.
This has gotta be the good life.
This could really be a good life, good life.
Say oh, got this feeling that you can't fight,
like this city is on fire tonight.
This could really be a good life,
a good, good life.
Hopelessly,
I feel like there might be something that I'll miss.
Hopelessly,
I feel like the window closes oh so quick.
Hopelessly,
I'm taking a mental picture of you now.
'Cuz hopelessly,
the hope is we have so much to feel good about.
Oh this has gotta be the good life.
This has gotta be the good life.
This could really be a good life, good life.
Say oh, got this feeling that you can't fight,
like this city is on fire tonight.
This could really be a good life,
a good, good life.
Good, good life.
To my friends in New York, I say hello.
My friends in L.A. they don't know,
where I've been for the past few years or so,
Paris to China to Col-or-ado.
Sometimes there's airplanes I can' t jump out.
Sometimes there's bullsh_t that don't work now.
We are god of stories but please tell me-e-e-e,
what there is to complain about?
LOVEYOU!
Woke up in London yesterday,
found myself in the city near Piccadilly,
don't really know how I got here,
I got some pictures on my phone.
New names and numbers that I don't know,
address to places like Abbey Road.
Day turns to night, night turns to whatever we want.
We're young enough to say:
Oh this has gotta be the good life.
This has gotta be the good life.
This could really be a good life, good life.
Say oh, got this feeling that you can't fight,
like this city is on fire tonight.
This could really be a good life,
a good, good life.
To my friends in New York, I say hello.
My friends in L.A. they don't know,
where I've been for the past few years or so,
Paris to China to Col-or-ado.
Sometimes there's airplanes I can' t jump out.
Sometimes there's bullsh_t that don't work now.
We are god of stories but please tell me-e-e-e,
what there is to complain about?
When you're happy like a fool,
let it take you over.
When everything is out,
you gotta take it in.
Oh this has gotta be the good life.
This has gotta be the good life.
This could really be a good life, good life.
Say oh, got this feeling that you can't fight,
like this city is on fire tonight.
This could really be a good life,
a good, good life.
Hopelessly,
I feel like there might be something that I'll miss.
Hopelessly,
I feel like the window closes oh so quick.
Hopelessly,
I'm taking a mental picture of you now.
'Cuz hopelessly,
the hope is we have so much to feel good about.
Oh this has gotta be the good life.
This has gotta be the good life.
This could really be a good life, good life.
Say oh, got this feeling that you can't fight,
like this city is on fire tonight.
This could really be a good life,
a good, good life.
Good, good life.
To my friends in New York, I say hello.
My friends in L.A. they don't know,
where I've been for the past few years or so,
Paris to China to Col-or-ado.
Sometimes there's airplanes I can' t jump out.
Sometimes there's bullsh_t that don't work now.
We are god of stories but please tell me-e-e-e,
what there is to complain about?
LOVEYOU!
Thursday, April 28, 2011
The Spring of Things.
Good Morning Lovers!
Today is going to be fabulous. Just because. And because today is, you guessed it, THURSDAY. My favorite day of the week. Erik's not so favorite. He so much despises Grey's Anatomy that he now refuses to call it Grey's Anatomy every week it's a new form of Grey's Papapomy. Or Grey's Schlatomy. Or Stupid. I'm very okay w/ that. (: I hope you choose to have a fabulous day.
I always use to really believe things like "You can change the way you think, but you can't change the way you feel." Which I still believe to an extent, but in growing up I've learned so much that life really is about the choices we make. The way we feel is the product of our decisions. In every day in every situation we're faced w/ choices. Sometimes the right way is very clear, other times not so clear at all. Deuteronomy chapter 30, verses 11 until the end of the chapter are all about this. I don't know what is says in your bible, in mine this section is titled Exhortation to Choose Life. As I was typing that out for you I realized I had no idea what exhortation meant so I looked it up, basically it means advice to choose life but too important and urgent to just use the word advice. Reccomendations or warnings. Powerful. No matter what it's titled in your bible, or even if it isn't, the words from verses 11 on are going to tell you the same thing my bible tells me. It starts out by explaining that what you're being commanded isn't too hard, or too far away. It's not in heaven, neither is it beyond the sea. It's right here for you. And goes on to say this life is full of choices. Choices or blessings and curses, life or death. Verse 19 says "I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life.." I hope this helps you in all times you have decisions, to choose to be a blessing. To choose life.
I don't know where that came from. I had no intentions of typing any of that into today's blog, but maybe it was what you needed to hear today. Sometimes I check out the odb.org (Our Daily Bread Daily Devotionals). I'm not oOober religious about the site by any means. I'm sure there are loads of great devotional sites out there but everyonce in awhile I check in there and see what they have to say. This morning I read there's long story short (they actually aren't long stories at all, they're really quick if you want to check out what I read this morning find April 28ths at http://odb.org/) today's was basically about how people that love God have a hard time loving people that don't. Dear Christians, that's rubbish. Seriously. If you think that just because you love Jesus it makes you more worthy of being loved than someone who doesn't, you couldn't be more wrong. Either way. KJ-52 is a singer who a lot of people think has a look/sound like Eminem. He's a Christian singer and after getting told 8.4 million times that he looked/sounded like Eminem he wrote a song to Eminem called Dear Slim, kind of a play off of the song Stan by Eminem. Just kind of asking if it's worth it to gain fans if it means losing your soul. And how he always hated the way people would say they sounded alike until after a concert a kid came up to him to say that he used to listen to Eminem but found KJ and threw out his old cd's to follow what KJ was singing about. He just wanted to say, Eminem if you don't know Jesus loves you. If you haven't heard it you should probably check out. Later he wrote another called Dear Slim Part Two. My favorite part is where he says, "A lot of Christians, all they do is hate on you, instead of dropping to their knees to take time to pray for you." Isn't that so true? It's so easy for us to hate on people. I know it's so easy to do. We all do it. Have negative feelings when we see something that we don't agree w/ or don't understand. Does that make us above it? Love, friends. Back to it, today as I read through odb's devotion I thought of this song and how it's so easy to hate the haters of Jesus when obviously they're so much in need of our love, acceptance and prayers. The end.
News. Tomorrow when my new phone gets here I'm pretty possitive it will be my 5th? new phone since Thanksgiving! I was on Verizon w/ a slider phone when the slider broke, I needed a new phone so I switch phone carriers to Sprint and got a new phone. When the phone came it quit working, I couldn't use a lot of programs on my phone, I took it into a store and it wouldn't work for them so they sent me a new one. The next one had a few bumps but worked find until I dropped it..literally like a foot and a half and it completely demolished the phone. Awesome. My next phone came, phone number 3 and..wouldn't work! It would randomly turn on and off all of the time until finally it just wouldn't turn off any more. Phone number two I did break, but the 1 and 3 were new phones that I just recieved and wouldn't work. Next long story short Spring quit offering service in MT and WY so we had to switch back to Verizon. Erik and I decided to go w/ the basic, I can text and make phone calls, phone. No internet. Nothing special. We got the rugged versions, the one's you can get wet, mine can go under water for 30 minutes, you can run them over w/ a car and they're supposed to work. I've had mine a whopping 11 days and you guessed it. ITQUITWORKING. The screen quit lighting up so if you hold it just right in the sun you can see that my phone is on but it's too dark for me to use and all of my speakers went out so it won't ring and I can't hear in phone calls. Needless to say, phone number 5 is in the mail. I have a friend who's husband has phone issues, his phone will shut on and off all of the time, just in his pocket. He was a watch wearer and he had the same issues w/ his watch, not working. He took it into a watch shop to get fixed (okay, probably a jewelry store) and the guy changed the battery and sent it home. Same thing happened again and the guy fixing it had set it aside for a bit before he got to look at it and it started working again. The watch man explained to my friends husband that our bodies emit energies and that more than likely it was the energy from him that was causing the watch to stop and explained it could cause other issues, hence the cell phone. I'm pretty sure that's my issue. That's atleast my guess at the situation. Hopefully phone 5 shows up on Friday prepared for me. ;)
I was going to fill you in on our new place this morning but I spent so much time on other things I have to get up for work. Today I'm a middle school social studies teacher. (: Ha, awesome! More on the new place later. (:
A quick shout out to our friend Dessa, a big congrats on her engagement! Matt we look forward to recieving your background check and blood sample in the mail for our examination. ;)
LOVEYOUALL.
Choose to have the best Thursday.
Today is going to be fabulous. Just because. And because today is, you guessed it, THURSDAY. My favorite day of the week. Erik's not so favorite. He so much despises Grey's Anatomy that he now refuses to call it Grey's Anatomy every week it's a new form of Grey's Papapomy. Or Grey's Schlatomy. Or Stupid. I'm very okay w/ that. (: I hope you choose to have a fabulous day.
I always use to really believe things like "You can change the way you think, but you can't change the way you feel." Which I still believe to an extent, but in growing up I've learned so much that life really is about the choices we make. The way we feel is the product of our decisions. In every day in every situation we're faced w/ choices. Sometimes the right way is very clear, other times not so clear at all. Deuteronomy chapter 30, verses 11 until the end of the chapter are all about this. I don't know what is says in your bible, in mine this section is titled Exhortation to Choose Life. As I was typing that out for you I realized I had no idea what exhortation meant so I looked it up, basically it means advice to choose life but too important and urgent to just use the word advice. Reccomendations or warnings. Powerful. No matter what it's titled in your bible, or even if it isn't, the words from verses 11 on are going to tell you the same thing my bible tells me. It starts out by explaining that what you're being commanded isn't too hard, or too far away. It's not in heaven, neither is it beyond the sea. It's right here for you. And goes on to say this life is full of choices. Choices or blessings and curses, life or death. Verse 19 says "I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life.." I hope this helps you in all times you have decisions, to choose to be a blessing. To choose life.
I don't know where that came from. I had no intentions of typing any of that into today's blog, but maybe it was what you needed to hear today. Sometimes I check out the odb.org (Our Daily Bread Daily Devotionals). I'm not oOober religious about the site by any means. I'm sure there are loads of great devotional sites out there but everyonce in awhile I check in there and see what they have to say. This morning I read there's long story short (they actually aren't long stories at all, they're really quick if you want to check out what I read this morning find April 28ths at http://odb.org/) today's was basically about how people that love God have a hard time loving people that don't. Dear Christians, that's rubbish. Seriously. If you think that just because you love Jesus it makes you more worthy of being loved than someone who doesn't, you couldn't be more wrong. Either way. KJ-52 is a singer who a lot of people think has a look/sound like Eminem. He's a Christian singer and after getting told 8.4 million times that he looked/sounded like Eminem he wrote a song to Eminem called Dear Slim, kind of a play off of the song Stan by Eminem. Just kind of asking if it's worth it to gain fans if it means losing your soul. And how he always hated the way people would say they sounded alike until after a concert a kid came up to him to say that he used to listen to Eminem but found KJ and threw out his old cd's to follow what KJ was singing about. He just wanted to say, Eminem if you don't know Jesus loves you. If you haven't heard it you should probably check out. Later he wrote another called Dear Slim Part Two. My favorite part is where he says, "A lot of Christians, all they do is hate on you, instead of dropping to their knees to take time to pray for you." Isn't that so true? It's so easy for us to hate on people. I know it's so easy to do. We all do it. Have negative feelings when we see something that we don't agree w/ or don't understand. Does that make us above it? Love, friends. Back to it, today as I read through odb's devotion I thought of this song and how it's so easy to hate the haters of Jesus when obviously they're so much in need of our love, acceptance and prayers. The end.
News. Tomorrow when my new phone gets here I'm pretty possitive it will be my 5th? new phone since Thanksgiving! I was on Verizon w/ a slider phone when the slider broke, I needed a new phone so I switch phone carriers to Sprint and got a new phone. When the phone came it quit working, I couldn't use a lot of programs on my phone, I took it into a store and it wouldn't work for them so they sent me a new one. The next one had a few bumps but worked find until I dropped it..literally like a foot and a half and it completely demolished the phone. Awesome. My next phone came, phone number 3 and..wouldn't work! It would randomly turn on and off all of the time until finally it just wouldn't turn off any more. Phone number two I did break, but the 1 and 3 were new phones that I just recieved and wouldn't work. Next long story short Spring quit offering service in MT and WY so we had to switch back to Verizon. Erik and I decided to go w/ the basic, I can text and make phone calls, phone. No internet. Nothing special. We got the rugged versions, the one's you can get wet, mine can go under water for 30 minutes, you can run them over w/ a car and they're supposed to work. I've had mine a whopping 11 days and you guessed it. ITQUITWORKING. The screen quit lighting up so if you hold it just right in the sun you can see that my phone is on but it's too dark for me to use and all of my speakers went out so it won't ring and I can't hear in phone calls. Needless to say, phone number 5 is in the mail. I have a friend who's husband has phone issues, his phone will shut on and off all of the time, just in his pocket. He was a watch wearer and he had the same issues w/ his watch, not working. He took it into a watch shop to get fixed (okay, probably a jewelry store) and the guy changed the battery and sent it home. Same thing happened again and the guy fixing it had set it aside for a bit before he got to look at it and it started working again. The watch man explained to my friends husband that our bodies emit energies and that more than likely it was the energy from him that was causing the watch to stop and explained it could cause other issues, hence the cell phone. I'm pretty sure that's my issue. That's atleast my guess at the situation. Hopefully phone 5 shows up on Friday prepared for me. ;)
I was going to fill you in on our new place this morning but I spent so much time on other things I have to get up for work. Today I'm a middle school social studies teacher. (: Ha, awesome! More on the new place later. (:
A quick shout out to our friend Dessa, a big congrats on her engagement! Matt we look forward to recieving your background check and blood sample in the mail for our examination. ;)
LOVEYOUALL.
Choose to have the best Thursday.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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Hola Followers!
Happy(belated)Easter!
I have missed you. I'm sorry Erik refused to blog while I was gone. What a brat. Ha. I feel like I have so much to fill you in on. Here's a quick little update on us.
PROMHAIR!!!!!!!! I did hair for 5 girls for Sidney's prom, here's a sneak peak.
Erik bought a new car.
The last day of March I was parked by the middle school while I was subbing there for the day. I came outside after work to find my car had been hit and run totalled. I don't have a photo for you, but it wasn't pretty. The mirror was hanging off the whole drivers side was dented in, so badly the back door won't open, there were pieces of my car laying down the street. The best part..drum roll please..THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT. (: Ha. Awesome, right? But it was a Thursday so that was a blessing (Grey's Anatomy was on, nothing could take the joy out of that for me).
That week Erik's brother Josh and sister-in-law Amber had a baby. Lily! Here's uncle Erik. (:
Precious!
We took our first road trip in the new car to visit our great friends Devin and Ashley for Devin's graduation from BYU Idaho and the blessing of their son Crew! We were so excited to meet him and spend the time w/ their families!
Such a great trip! They're seriously so much of who we are.
I got a new job doing massage in town, at a little place called An English Touch (yes, my boss is from England!). It's a very short term thing, but a great experience. I'm still subbing a couple days but mostly massaging until May 31 when I go back to my daycare for the summer! Ekblad Development Center in Williston, ND. I'm so, so excited to spend the summer their w/ my kids. I can not wait. Ahh, love you EDC family!
Erik spent Easter at home w/ his family.
I spent Easter at home w/ my family.
(:
This coming weekend I go to Billings to take my boards to get my cosmetology license in MT. And the next week Erik and are......MOVING! (: So amped. We'll have a new place about a half of a mile from where we are now, but we're SO excited to be moving and to finally have our own space. It will be so nice. I have no doubt I'll like my parents so much more then. (: Ha.
Either way. I love you all so much. I have to peace out and read a little of my Bible then study up w/ my manicans (thrilling, bleh).
How are you?
Happy(belated)Easter!
I have missed you. I'm sorry Erik refused to blog while I was gone. What a brat. Ha. I feel like I have so much to fill you in on. Here's a quick little update on us.
PROMHAIR!!!!!!!! I did hair for 5 girls for Sidney's prom, here's a sneak peak.
Erik bought a new car.
The last day of March I was parked by the middle school while I was subbing there for the day. I came outside after work to find my car had been hit and run totalled. I don't have a photo for you, but it wasn't pretty. The mirror was hanging off the whole drivers side was dented in, so badly the back door won't open, there were pieces of my car laying down the street. The best part..drum roll please..THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT. (: Ha. Awesome, right? But it was a Thursday so that was a blessing (Grey's Anatomy was on, nothing could take the joy out of that for me).
That week Erik's brother Josh and sister-in-law Amber had a baby. Lily! Here's uncle Erik. (:
Precious!
We took our first road trip in the new car to visit our great friends Devin and Ashley for Devin's graduation from BYU Idaho and the blessing of their son Crew! We were so excited to meet him and spend the time w/ their families!
Such a great trip! They're seriously so much of who we are.
I got a new job doing massage in town, at a little place called An English Touch (yes, my boss is from England!). It's a very short term thing, but a great experience. I'm still subbing a couple days but mostly massaging until May 31 when I go back to my daycare for the summer! Ekblad Development Center in Williston, ND. I'm so, so excited to spend the summer their w/ my kids. I can not wait. Ahh, love you EDC family!
Erik spent Easter at home w/ his family.
I spent Easter at home w/ my family.
(:
This coming weekend I go to Billings to take my boards to get my cosmetology license in MT. And the next week Erik and are......MOVING! (: So amped. We'll have a new place about a half of a mile from where we are now, but we're SO excited to be moving and to finally have our own space. It will be so nice. I have no doubt I'll like my parents so much more then. (: Ha.
Either way. I love you all so much. I have to peace out and read a little of my Bible then study up w/ my manicans (thrilling, bleh).
How are you?
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