happy new year!

Well... 2008 was better than 2007, that's for dang sure. Let's hope that 2009 is even better than 2008!

I have a very short list of "resolutions" this year.

My Resolutions:

• stop biting my nails (this is on my list every single year...)
• work out 5 times a week instead of 4
• grow my hair out long
• read my bible EVERY day
• read more... and when I start the book, finish it!!
• find where to serve in my church

... and these are mostly very superficial, I know. Let's see how I do!

P.S. I got a new car! :) Hehe. I'm a real grown-up now!!!

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Rachel wanted an update, so here it goes...

"The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger." - Elisabeth Elliot



I have finished my first semester of teaching!!! I survived... I can't believe it! My job hasn't always been exactly what I thought it would be, but it's still been good. I really like teaching in Salado... more than I thought I would! I 'coached' a UIL Storytelling team, and two of my kids placed! Haha! I also put on a music program for my second graders at the end of the semester... and they were so cute! It was something I really stressed about because I had never been a director of anything like that before. I love performing and am comfortable being on a stage, but only when it's just me. I had a completely different feeling when there were 80 kids on stage at one time, with like 300 parents staring!! It stressed me out at the time, but I'm not sure why I was so worried. It went fine. God took care of it all.

I'm finishing up the book Passion and Purity. Elisabeth Elliot is such a good writer. It's given me a fresh perspective on many topics. God is sooo good.

"The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman. For I have accepted God's idea of me, and my whole life is an offering back to Him of all that I am and all that He wants me to be." - Elisabeth Elliot

I am thinking about buying a car!!! Crazy, huh??? When did I grow up?!?!! I just thought buying a washer and dryer made me feel like a grown-up! And this is a HUGE purchase... something I have been thinking long and hard about. I mean, it's a big committment! I'll be signing my life away... so we'll see if I go through with it! I'm kinda scared of this kind of committment!!

This Christmas break has been soooo good. I love my family... we're crazy, but it's so fun spending time off with them. It will be hard going back to work next week, but that's life, I guess! There must be a balance!!!!!!!!! :)

“If it’s time to work, get on with your job. If it’s time to go to bed, go to sleep in peace. Let the Lord of the Universe do the worrying.” - Elisabeth Elliot

GAP Merry Mixed Carols 2008

"Baby it's cold outside with Selma Blair and Rainn Wilson" This is one of my favorite Christmas songs. I think the funniest thing to me is that they switched the guy and girl singing part. :)


"Winter Wonderland with Jon Heder and Janelle Monae" He's just hilarious.


"Jingle Bells with Trey Songz and Flo Rida"... I'm embarassed to admit that I actually kinda liked this version!!! HAAA.

where is the hope?

"Where is the hope? I meet millions of people who feel demoralized by the decay around us. The hope that each of us has is not in who governs us, or what laws are passed, or what great things we do as a nation. Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people. That's where our hope is in this country, and that's where our hope is in life."
-Chuck Colson

(As Colson was facing arrest in the Watergate scandal, his close friend gave him a copy of Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis, which led Colson to become an evangelical Christian.)


I heard this quote over and over and over growing up... it was heard in the beginning of the song "Heaven in the Real World" by Steven Curtis Chapman. It's funny that as I read this quote, even today (nearly 15 years later) and it brings me so much comfort in new yet still familiar ways.

You do not deserve to vote! Please stay home on election day.

Now... this isn't a pro-Obama post. Not at all!! I just think this video is funny.