Easter...

Matthew and I spent Easter with his family this year in Tennessee. I was sad to miss Kallista's first Easter but I had so much fun with his family. We died Easter eggs, played cards cooked dinner and just laid around the house. Everyone in his family asked us when we were gonna get married. That was awkward.

School's almost out and then I'll be working full time at the day care. I'm really excited about that because I love having my kids all the time. My director and I have been working for the past week or so to plan things to do with the kids over the summer. It'll be great to go three or so months without having to worry about tests or papers or anything. It'll also save me money not having to drive to Charlotte every day.

Matthew and I have a date tonight. I'm really excited because we dont get those often. We're going to dinner at La Fuente, however I would prefer Olive Garden since it opened last week!!!!!! I can't wait to eat there.

I'm sick today so I'm gonna get back to laying around.

isn't it georgeous!?!? This is the wedding cake i want (whever i have the wedding) MAtt and I are spending Easter in Tenn with his family and I'm sooooo excited. I love his family.

Small group is going very well. Matt started a new study in the book of Daniel. It's very interesting.

Kallista is 11 months old now. I can't belive in less than a month she'll be a year old. It's so crazy!

Short post, but I have to get to work. Have a blessed day!

Where is the warm weather?

This is a cute pic I found of me with Matt's papaw. He's such an amazing man of God. He's almost completely blind but Matt told him once that I had pretty eyes. He didn't tell him what color they were so one day Papaw stood outside in the sunlight for about 30 seconds looking in my eyes trying to see their color. Finally he said "blue." and ever since he's called me "Blue eyes."

Ok so it's almost April and it's still like 50 degrees outside. It's supposed to be warm now!!!! Anywho... I missed a lot of school last week due to sickness and flat tires and such. So I'm spending my days this week being studying to catch up.

The Small Group is going great. We've really grown a lot. We had two new girls last night from Belmont Abbey come and check it out. Afterwards we all went to dinner. There some drama happened but it's all in God's hands. Ray spoke last night about worry. He talked about how God tells us to take all of our worries and give them to Him. But that's not always easy. We has humans will give our worries to God and then take them back. Like "Ok God I'm giving my money situation to you" but then when God doesn't fix things the way we think He should or when we think He should we take it back an try to handle it ourselves again. Then when we mess up again we give it back to God. Then take it back. It seems like an endless cycle of giving and taking back. But the Bible says that we are supposed to give our worries to God once and for all and trust that He will take care of them. My prayer this week is that I can truely do that. That I can really give my worries such as money, relationships, family issues and such to God.

Kallista can walk now!!!! Mom and I were keeping her this weekend and she just started walking all over our living room. She's getting soooooo big! Well I feel a lot better that I have been feeling. I didn't go to school at all today. I spent the day hanging out with my mom. Small Group went to the Sisters House of Mercy tonight in Belmont. It's a home for AIDS patients in Belmont. I couldn't go because of the rain. My mom doesn't want me to get sick again. But I love going there every time we go. It's so cool to see the people who are so sick and know that they haven't lived right but now they're turning their lives around. Some of these people are happier now on their death bed than they've ever been.

Short post, but I have some studying to do

Horrible Weekend

This weekend sucked terribly. Yesterday Matt and I were supposed to go fishing in Denver but when I woke up I had strep throat. Niiiiiiiice. So I couldnt' go fishing. Luckily Tasha had it not to long ago and didn't take all of her medicine. So I'm taking the rest of it. Well to make matters worse Betsy's sister had planned a surprise birthday party for her last night so I couldn't go to that either. I had to miss my bestest friend's 21 birthday party. I couldn't go to church this morning because my throat still hurts. Kallista is staying here but I can't play with her. I haven't seen Matt in two days. But God is good and I know things will get better. Hope everyone has a blessed day! xoxo jen*

Sunshine and Summertime

I've been listening to Doc Sommers Band a lot lately and came across this pic of me and Kelly with them. Anywho...

Matthew and I are going fishing tomorrow somewhere in Denver. I'm so excited because I haven't been fishing in a really long time. I even bought things to make sandwiches while we're there. One of his friends is home from college this weekend so tonight we're going over to her house to meet her. I love meeting all his friends and family. It's so exciting.

It's so nice outside today. Thankfully my kids don't have homework on Fridays so after they eat thir snack we will get to spend over an hour outside. I wish I didn't have to work and could just sit outside all day.

Mom and I sat on the front porch of our house a few days ago while Matt played catch with Dylan in the front yard. It brought back a lot of memories of sitting with my parents on that same porch eating ham sandwiches. Or just them sitting there and me in the yard climbing trees or something. It suddenly made me very sad that we're moving. I mean, that's the only house I've ever lived in. I knew I wouldn't live there forever but I always assumed that when I came home to see my mom it would be to that house. Now I'm packing up my whole life's memories and putting them in a tiny apartment. But my mom's excited about the move so I guess I need to stop being selfish and be happy for her. I think it all boils down to I wish that my daddy was still here so we could still afford that house and not ever have to give it up. I wish life was still the way it was a year and a hlaf ago and would always be that way. But That's selfish. I have a new life now and I need to accept that because that's what God wants for me.

Time to head to work. Hope everyone has a blessed day! xoxo jen*

Great Week so far

It's been a really great week so far. Much better than Spring Break. I had a math test today and I finished in 15 minutes. So I either did really good or really bad. Hopefully really good. Matthew came by to see me today which was a special treat because we don't really get to see each other during the day. I'm going to his house tonight to cook him dinner.

Work was great today. We've had to people quit but ever since then things have been a lot more calm and we've had a lot less drama.

Time to go get started cooking. Hope everyone has a blessed day! xoxo jen*