The First Snow

I got to go home this past weekend. It was a great weekend and I was really glad I got to spend quality time with my family! I missed my plane on Sunday and ended up getting back to Asbury on Tuesday. It was a crazy couple of days but I enjoyed it. :)
This picture is what I was blessed with when I landed in Columbus. I left Florida, sunny and 70 and landed to huge, beautiful snowflakes :)
It was a great weekend and I am so happy that I will be back in sunny Florida in one week!

Sorry for the Neglect

I have been neglecting my blog, and for that I am sorry.
The past weekend I got to go "home" to Ohio and spend some amazing time with family and my roommate Katie.
Friday Cassidy came down and picked Katie and I up and took us to Ohio. Friday night was filled with the sweet melody of David Crowder. It was an awesome concert and I can't even begin to thank my Uncle Mark for taking me! After the concert we went to Young's Dairy for some ice cream :)
Saturday Katie and I did homework. Bleh. Then Uncle Mark took us flying. It might have been the highlight of my month, maybe year. It was so cool to see where I used to live from a new angle. He flew me over the quary that I have wanted to see for my entire life and he flew us up to Columbus and over the Shoe. It was so awesome :)
Saturday night we had a cookout and just hung out with friends. Tristan and Matt came over and it was so good to see my best friend!
Sunday we went to church, then headed out so that we could get back to Asbury at a decent time. We made a pit stop in Lexington and Justin and Cassidy took us to a great pizza place called LA Gourmet. It was excellent and I can't wait to take my friends there :)
The weekend was soo good and I am so thankful to have an amazing family.
When we got back all Katie could say was "I love your family. I did not expect everyone to hug me." It just made me so happy to have such a loving an inviting family! :)
I can't wait till Thanksgving.
Oh only SEVEN DAYS until I am on a flight HOME to Florida :)

Fall Break and all its Goodness

This just makes me really happy.
This past weekend was Fall Break around Asbury. I don't even really see how they can call it Fall Break when we only got out on Friday. But I will take any day off that I can get!
I had the awesome opportunity to go home with a girl that lives on my hall.
She is such a sweetheart and we had such a great time. We took off Thursday afternoon and got to Cleveland around 8:00. I told her I did not care what time we got in, just as long as it was before 9:00 so that we would not miss the office. :) Friday we went to her old school and I met a massive amount of people. I am so glad that there was not a test after, because I would have failed it. Then we went to the mall. Somewhere that I had not been in a long time. It was a lot of fun and we found some great deals! Friday night we drove over to Stow and stayed with her best friend Katie. Katie is my twin. It was really weird how much we were a like and it totally freaked Jen out! :) Katie and I thought it was very amusing. Saturday was a lazy day, followed by some more shopping with Jens mom. Saturday night we headed of to Jen's friend, Mark's house to watch the OSU game. Which ended up being a very boring game to watch. But we had fun. I got to meet a lot more of her friends and hang out with some that I had met Friday night. Sunday we went to church then headed out around 3:00. Asbury was calling our name lol.
It was an awesome weekend and I am so thankful for friends and Jen for taking me home to meet her amazing family and friends! :)

I just want to leave you with this "Look, I can make Michigan bounce!" :)

Good News!

Today was a good day.
I was stressing majorly about this research paper that I have due on Monday. See I am going to Ohio this weekend and I am so very excited, and I did not want have to worry about it all weekend. So I have been running around all week trying to get the research done for it and start to write it. Well I was just walking through the Student Center and was stopped by some girls in my class where the research paper is due. They made me sit down because they said they had really good new. The good news was that our research papers are now not due until WEDNESDAY!!!! I know it's exciting right? I almost cried. Now I can relax this weekend and just enjoy being around family and friends and enjoying time away from the Asbury "bubble." :)
Anyways this was just something that made me smile.
Hope you are having a wonderful day!!!!

Zealous Class Hymn

I would just like to formally announce the Freshman class hymn.
A lot of people are angry about it. So what if it was the class of 2008's?
It is a GREAT hymn. My favorite by far. I am excited to be able to sing it for the next four years! :)

In Christ alone my hope is found,
He is my light, my strength, my song;
this Cornerstone, this solid Ground,
firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace,
when fears are stilled, when strivings cease!
My Comforter, my All in All,
here in the love of Christ I stand.

In Christ alone! who took on flesh
Fulness of God in helpless babe!
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones he came to save:
Till on that cross as Jesus died,
The wrath of God was satisfied -
For every sin on Him was laid;
Here in the death of Christ I live.

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain:
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave he rose again!
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost its grip on me,
For I am His and He is mine -
Bought with the precious blood of Christ.

No guilt in life, no fear in death,
This is the power of Christ in me;
From life's first cry to final breath.
Jesus commands my destiny.
No power of hell, no scheme of man,
Can ever pluck me from His hand;
Till He returns or calls me home,
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

This is just one of the things that happened this weekend.
I had my first "I feel old moment."
Dad came to visit on Sunday and we went driving around Wilmore to kill time before church started. It took a whole ten minutes to see the whole town, lol.
We did drive past the site where the old Ichthus was located. Not only are all the buildings it bad shape, but the place where the concerts were is now a housing development. I was like, are you kidding me? There is an entire neighborhood right on top of the concert area.
It was just something that I could not believe. I still recognized where they would have the kid tent, which was ran by Teen Missions one year. I could also recognize where we camped and everything. It just goes to show that all over the world were are paving paradise and putting in parking lots.

The rest of the Sunday was great. We went to church, did laundry, ate lunch in the Caf, took a nap in the grass in the semi circle, climbed out on high bridge (which is illegal), went to Sonneys, and went to 608. It was a great day and I was so glad to get to spend it with my daddy!

Now im looking forward to this weekened coming up. Fall is my favorite season, and I love the Fall Festival. I was a little worried that it would not be cool for the festival but never fear it is supposed to be 65 on Friday! WOOHOO! :)
This week holds a lot of events and some stress but it will all be alright! :)

Robbie Seay Band :D

I would just like to point out that this is in fact THE Robbie Seay Band tour bus. And it is parked pretty much right in the middle of campus. This just made me laugh today when I was walking to class.
Today has been a glorious day!
It started out with Robbie Seay and 3/5 of the band leading worship in chapel, it was so good. Then Robbie's brother, Chris, spoke. He is the pastor of a church in Houston, which I really want to visit now. He was so funny. It was my far the best chapel so far of the semester!
So Katie and I signed up to be volunteers at the concert (we love being involved ;) and I am so glad we did. Not only did we get in free but we were in the front row. One major highlight of the night was that Robbie opened up with a Beatles cover, it was so good :)
The whole night was just so good. To just be praising God with so many others in one spot is always an awesome thing.
It was a great way to spend a friday night, I will leave you with this picture. Sorry for the quality, it was taken on my phone.