Sandbridge

This past week my family ventured to Sandbridge beach for a week of vacation and also to celebrate many many exciting milestones in our family! My mom is turning 50 this year and my grandparents are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. Along with many many birthdays over the summer. So much happened, good and bad, that I am still processing and may need to dedicate individual postings to some bits of news i received and experienced while on the trip. Overall I want to remember the good times! My pop expressed these words of wisdom on the trip that I think apply perfectly! When I look back on this trip I hope and know I will remember it as a relaxing week with loved ones and a time that we all were vulnerable, real, and grew closer in the end.

Little kanyon learned to buggie board and we had so much fun looking for sand fiddlers or as he likes to say "sand figgers" it was just a blessing and joy to watch him at the beach and how innocent he is. Its such a simple concept, but it brings just amazing rejuvenation to my family, the beach' sand and water... It's the little things.

I am so thankful that Jeremy got to come on this trip with me! It is the first time he has been with my family for an extended amount of time and It definitely helped him understand how I grew up and what made me who I am today! I loved seeing him loving my family and exemplifying Christ in everything he did!

My sister and I grew so much closer and it was honestly the first time she and I really bonded and could communicate out of love!

Change in Direction

So I have decided to change the title of my blog because I think that it fits more of the topics that I want to blog about.  I like SIMPLE, even though I myself am extremely complex.  So complex that I don't even understand me sometimes.  (Maybe this blog will help with that?)  I want to see the beauty in the little things.  As I drive to work or even just sit and take a breath and the time to look around I am reminded of the truths God has given me.  I want to discover the simple way to live.  The way God intended for us to.  The type of living that is positive, joyful, and enjoyable.  I want to appreciate the blessing he has oh so specifically and purposefully set before me.  I don't want to be so incredibly busy that I can't stop and say hello to people that I pass on the street or at the grocery store.  Life is too short and beauty FULL.  From recipes to design I want to use the talents, gifts, and materials God has given me to live the way he intended for life to be, simple, while finding the beauty in every thing.   

This is a huge challenge I know, but I am hoping that this blog will keep be accountable and slowing but surely change my perspective. I guess this should be added to by bucket list, although I am unsure as to how this should measured.  Any-who I think I am starting to enjoy where this life is taking me.  :) 

Let's Try This Again

I don't know why I haven't kept blogging.  I feel like I have this expectation of what I "good" blogger is and I don't meet that criteria.  Haha, I know stupid and I shouldn't think that.  Tonight Lorissa helped me to regain this passion for blogging and reminded me that it is for me and no one else that I am blogging and in the end I will be glad that I kept up with it, so here we go :)

Here is a recap of what has happened so far!  I passed my Praxis Test !!! YAY! Yahoooo! I know what I am doing in the Fall:)  I'm super excited about it and know that God will be glorified through my passion for students and teaching, I just know!  I have been nannying and I love love love love love it! I  think it is the best job ever, but I know that teaching will be even better.  I am getting more and more involved in Eighteen22, like attending the girls bible study and trying to get more involved with the youth leaders and that community.  They have been so very welcoming and I am so thankful for new friends and relationships.  Jeremy and I are doing great! I love our relationship and I am very very happy.

I have so much I want to accomplish in the rest of my summer.  It has just flown by.  I go to the beach next week and I am looking so forward to it, and I think it will be a great time to concentrate on this blog and figuring out the ends and outs of it all.  I love the beach and am looking forward to spending time at the beach with my entire family! :)

REST OF THE SUMMER BUCKET LIST (coming soon)