South Alabama SNOW DAY!!!

So since I am going to procrastinate all day anyway from homework due to being "snowed" in I thought maybe now would be a good time to blog! I haven't posted in a while but I was talking to a friend a couple of nights ago and she has started blogging again so why not! I read many different blogs DAILY and enjoy it so much! I feel like I "know" so many people from the blog world that I have never even met. 

Sometimes when I think about blogging I'm like "my life isn't really that interesting".. but it really is! I'm having trouble deciding where to start because SO much has happened since my last post. 

I guess it would be appropriate to start with one of my favorite people ;)....

My sister. Hillary graduated from Troy in July and is now working full time as an accountant in Opp. One weekend after she graduated we had a graduation party for her at our house... little did she know that party would turn into her engagement party! :) I am so excited for both of them and can't wait for Tyler to officially become my "brotha Tyla"! I love them both so much and wish them nothing but all the happiness in the world! (with lots of children)

I cannot wait to be able to stand right beside you on your big day!! 

She was in full force planning mode before he could even get up off his knee. LOL! But really, she has been on top of things and I'm pretty sure it is going to be the prettiest wedding of the year!! 

Here are some pictures from several of her showers so far...

Just doing my MOH duties...

Okay.. enough about Hillary. :)

Football season came and went way too fast! Go Bobcats!!

I dare you to tell me he is not the cutest thing you've ever seen. Seriously though. 

We love Coach Dent!

& our baby brother!

Football Friday's with my sister! #42 :)

So many fun memories made on the plains this year! :)

WAR EAGLE!

One weekend I stayed here and decided to have some people over to watch the game. I love hosting things and hope that one day when I have my own home I will be able to do it often!

Late night road trip to Auburn with my BFF!

Thanksgiving came and went very quickly. I was only home Wednesday and Thursday. I went shopping with mom and Hill on black friday and then went to the Iron Bowl on Saturday. We had the Hall's over at our house for Thanksgiving and I only have a few pictures (thanks to Jess!). 

Sometime back in the fall I celebrated this sweet baby's 1st birthday! Love her so much!!

During finals week right before I left I went to Bellingrath to look at Christmas lights with this sweet family. I am so thankful that God placed them in my life! 

(notice the orange and blue.. I wore these colors every single day the week after we beat BAMA!)

So, on to Christmas break.. I took my last final on a Thursday and headed to Auburn to spend the night. The next morning my group picked me up to head to Atlanta to catch our flight for our mission trip to New York! We spent a week in New York serving and sharing the Gospel with the homeless. I will devote an entire post to the trip soon. The day I left for Auburn, my sister face timed me with some very exciting news! I knew that I would be receiving a letter soon because I had heard of people already being accepted. Hill face timed me as she was walking to the mailbox and I HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED INTO THE MASTER'S PROGRAM FOR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY AT SOUTH! I am so excited and blessed to have this opportunity. I know that The Lord is going to use me tremendously as an Occupational Therapy to tell others about Him! I will begin the program Fall 2014 so please be in prayer for me! 

Hillary posted this on Instagram from our FaceTime conversation. I think this shows just how excited I was/am!

She posted the acceptance letter on the door for everyone to see. I'm so blessed to have such a great sister and parents who love me and support me! :)

When I got home from New York we started Christmas festivities! I am just going to sum it up with pictures! Enjoy! :)

Christmas with the Hall's

Shopping day with the Harrison girls!

Another shopping day with my BFF ;)

Pretty sure she said something that was inappropriate.. 

My beautiful family!

The Hall girls!

Hall grandchildren and great grandchildren

Some of these pictures were out of order. But they are all from Christmas :)

Whatever works really at this point! I have been working on this post all morning and I am about to wrap it up! 

This semester has started off well other than the fact that I cannot seem to get motivated. I thought maybe this would be the week it happened BUT this "snow day" is throwing me off! This is my last semester of undergrad and I will graduate in May with a Psychology degree! I am very excited about being at home for the whole summer and preparing to start graduate school in the fall! 

I am also looking forward to a cruise in about month and Holt's senior year of baseball season coming up! Hopefully I can commit to blogging at least once a week so I don't have to play "catch up" and spend this much time blogging at one time. 

I hope everyone has a great day and stays warm! I have potato soup in the crockpot for supper and I am super pumped about that!! :))

"You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden."

Matthew 5:14

The Truth

I really don't have time to be blogging right now because I am swamped with homework today but I just need to get this off of my chest and out here for the world to see. :)

I do not like to put controversial things on Facebook because people like to argue and honestly, I really don't care about anybody else's opinion on this matter. I am 110% sure mine is right and I will leave it at that. 

So, about an hour ago I was sitting in my Social Problems class discussing a specific topic from the text book, Mental Illnesses. After a while of discussion, he pulled out the DSM four and told us that this specific book was pretty much the "Holy Bible" for psychiatrist. I didn't really like that comment but I continued to listen to what he had to say (obviously because it is going to be on my test). Anyway, he goes on to say that mental illnesses are nothing but labels and based on the values of the society. 

He continued on by saying that in 1950 homosexuality was listed as a mental illness in the DSM four and it was because of our values as a society. Now, it has been taken out and renamed to something else. This is very, very sad to me and makes me very frustrated. Where are all the believers at and why are we not standing up for what we know to be right, the TRUTH.

If you are not sure what I am talking about when I say the Truth, I will explain. It is THE Holy Bible. It is the book that NEVER changes. It is the same yesterday, today, and forever. It is very straight forward and there should be no other question about it. Mark 10:6-9 says “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female. ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

I am so thankful for His Word and although I am not perfect, I will strive to do what I know is right and to live according to His Word. 

July 4th, Birthday Weekend, & more!

Finally catching a break to blog!

This summer semester has been crazy busy but it is almost over! Praise the Lord!!

The Harrison girls finally made it to Mobile!

It was pretty difficult going from seeing them every.single.day then moving to college and not seeing them except for on some weekends so I was really glad to have them here!

They came down on Wednesday afternoon when I got off work and I cooked spaghetti and brownies. We ate, talked, and then it was raining so we drove around the campus to show the girls where I go to school.

On the fourth, I got up to have my quite time before everyone else got up and Emmy decided she wanted to come with me. I told her that she could sit on the balcony and eat her breakfast and play on her iPod until I finished but she had to be really quite while I read. She eventually gave it up and went inside and told Lorrie "I can't quit talking mommy". That was hilarious to me! It really was like she had been sleeping and quite for so long that she just had so much to tell me! I love that kiddo! :)

We went to the pool for a couple of hours but the sun never really came out...

Love Emmy's face in this picture! :)

Later that evening we went to O Charley's for supper and to the Battleship Park for fireworks! Probably the best fire work show I've ever seen besides Disney! 

AK and I shared pecan pie since our birthdays were both coming up...

The next day was another rainy day so we went to Zaxby's for lunch and went shopping for a couple of hours before they headed home...

While they were here, AK got snapchat and sent me this picture of Emmy :)

She can do the "duck face" better than anyone I know! 

They left about 5:00 that afternoon and my mom, sister, and Tyler got here around 8:00 to celebrate my birthday weekend! 

Saturday morning we went to Cracker Barrel to start of the birthday weekend with some yummy breakfast and then went shopping for the rest of the day!

On Sunday my daddy, Holt, and Granny came for my birthday lunch at Olive Garden. After we ate we came back to the apartment for cake and presents :)

I had a great birthday and I am so glad everyone got to come! :)

I ended that night with these girls singing happy birthday to me and praying for me... sweetest thing ever! I love them so much and it blesses me to see them raised in such a godly home! 

I am one paper and one final exam away from being finished with this semester. It has been a rough one since everything has been so compacted! I have really had to stay on top of school work and I will be glad for a break! I am heading home Thursday afternoon, Hillary graduates from Troy on Friday, and we are leaving from there headed to the World Series in South Carolina! I'm sure I will have much more to blog about when life slows down a little! Hope everyone has a great week! :)

"Let all that you do be done in love."

1 Corinthians 16:14

Glad to see the weekend!

Good morning!

I ended my last post by saying that this shouldn't be a busy week at all... BOY WAS A WRONG!

I was offered a job a couple of weeks ago but turned it down because I had planned on just babysitting here and there all summer for a family in town. Well, I waited about two weeks and only got called once to babysit and realized that the job that I was offered was constantly on my mind. I quickly realized that I had not prayed about this situation at all and I had tried to take it all into my own hands.. BAD IDEA. I prayed about it for a few days and knew that I needed to get in contact with the man who had offered me the job. I called him on Tuesday afternoon and he hired me over the phone and I started working on Wednesday morning. So, I am now working part time in the purchasing department at Safety Source. The people have all been so friendly and sweet to me! Although school is my primary focus right now in life, I am blessed to have this opportunity! 

Thanks to anyone who prayed for me and the meeting I had last week. It was my first meeting as the Pre-OT club president and I also had a few questions about graduate school. All went well and I am exciting about the upcoming school year! Here is a picture of the Pre-OT club officers for the 2013-2014 school year. 

Also, Hillary posted a blog with a lot more details but I just want to say how proud I am of her! She graduates at the end of July with an accounting degree and already has a job! Tyler also has a job in Andalusia as a coach and special ed teacher and I am excited for both of them and happy that they will be living back home!! :) Love you both!

And a big GO OPP!!!!!

I will be sitting on my balcony most of the day trying to play "catch up" on my school work! Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!! 

"The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still."

Exodus 14:14

Birthdays, Wedding, Father's Day, etc.

Life is good...

Two weekends ago when I went home, we all went to Rancho to celebrate Britt and Holt's birthdays. Britt turned 21 on the 5th and Holt turned 17 on the 10th. 

On Saturday I went to Ellie and Josh's wedding. It was absolutely beautiful and probably the sweetest wedding I have ever been to. Christ-centered relationships/marriages are so much more special than a secular wedding (as much as I hate to say it is what we see more of today) and that is exactly what theirs is. I pray that their marriage will continue to be one that honors our Lord. Wish them both nothing but happiness!! 

I had to leave the reception early because I knew I was getting another UTI. I had one back in the spring semester, so I was scheduled to have an ultrasound on my kidneys this past Friday to make sure nothing was going on and I have one kidney stone and I am supposed to go back for a follow up the next time I am home. Needless to say, the drive back last Sunday was not fun at all. I ended up getting sick from the medicine and I didn't start feeling better until about Wednesday of last week. 

As soon as I started feeling better I had a pool day with this pretty girl! It also happens to be her birthday today so HAPPY BIRTHDAY! :)

I went home this past weekend for Father's Day. When I got into town on Friday, I went and had lunch with Ander before my ultrasound and then went on to the AT&T store to get my new Iphone 5! I had planned on stopping by the new dealership on my way home and when I got there my daddy was leaving to go get his phone so I rode back to Andalusia with him. I did get a grand tour of the new dealership from Keith. It is so nice!! Definitely a huge step up from where they were working. 

Jess spent the night with us Friday night and she and Hillary had told me that if I would wake them up Saturday morning, we would go eat breakfast at Doc's. So I get up and get ready and when I try to wake them up, they had "changed their mind". So here I am... up at 8:00 on a Saturday morning craving Doc's! Tyler Dent came through though and went with me! 

We went out to eat at the country club after church for Father's Day. We all got up to leave and Hillary was prancing around being a diva and asked Holt to hold open the door for her. I thought it was pretty hilarious so I imitated her "walk" and said "Holt, hold that door open for me" (in the same voice as Hill)... Well I got up beside her and we were trying to go through the door at the same time. Before I knew it she had face planted and sweet tea went EVERYWHERE! It was the funniest thing!! Her story is much different than mine. She claims that I "pushed" her but that is far from the truth! I wish I would have had my phone to take a picture but I didn't :(

I started working out at 5:00 AM last week and I feel so much better when I work out in the morning. Jess started this morning with me so I am hoping that we will both stay motivated! I am hoping to also be able to go in the afternoons just to get in some more cardio! I don't know if I have mentioned it on the blog yet but Jess is my new roommate. I moved in with her at the end of the spring semester. We cook a lot and try to eat healthy! I'm sure you will hear a lot about her from here on out. She and Hillary are best friends and lived together in Troy. I'm pretty sure I am a better roommate than Hillary. She's kind of hard to live with :) Just kidding!

This week shouldn't be too busy. I have a few assignments to complete and a final to start studying for. We start a new bible study group tonight so I am very excited about that! And I have a meeting tomorrow so prayers would be appreciated! I am also running low on Vitamin D so I am hoping for some sunny days this week!! :)

Hope everyone has a great week! 

"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God."

1 Corinthians 10:31