UPDATE*

For those of you who might be wondering about my fire hazard i created....

I've checked the wallflower covered in fabric each time i walk through the bathroom to see if she's too hot. She's FINE! You can't feel any warmth coming through the fabric, so we're good to go!

No more worries!

:)

I did go to Hobby Lobby last night and bought some sticks, flowers, feathers and such to put in my vase for my counter. 50% off on just what I needed!!! I could spend hours in that store! We got there 20 minutes before closing last night and had to rush through the aisles! Sad day...

Mom helped me place them in the vase JUST right! I love it! Can't wait to show pictures!

I'm so ready for this bathroom to be done. Not because it's a pain, i'm just ready to see the end product! I'm having so much fun decorating it - it makes me even more excited to have my own home one day! O and to do my children's rooms.... :) excitement!!!

K. I'm going down for a nap until MP3 (Children's Choir).

Thank you for worship this morning Lord. You were there and i felt it! I love You! Guide choir tonight as we teach the children more about You. May they see you in us!

Sneak Peek

I've been trying to do some work in my bathroom all week. If you need a reminder of what this room use to look like : click here! I've never decorated before so i'm not too sure how i feel about myself. I'm trying to be creative and cute and..... uhmm yeah. I'm not done so you won't see many photos. But i had to atleast show you how retarted i am.
Ok... so i'm really weird about everything matching. I mean really weird. This little quality about myself is showing itself more and more as i try to coordinate and decorate this room. For instance, my new bathroom colors are brown and some bluey yummy color. (although the lighting isn't too great in this picture)

OOoooh, but i really love my sweet pea wall flower from Bath n Body works! The smell is delicious! I just can't part with it. But it's very sad because it's not blue or brown, or even some color that your eye would look over and not even notice - it's PINK! So what does this freak do?

Yes. I did. I covered her up with fabric (matching fabric, of course) and a pony tail holder. I tried the flower pony tail holder and just a plain brown one...

i think from far away i'm feeling the flower one....

How far is too far? I mean, is this just really crazy and stupid and freakish? Or do you feel me? I just aint feelin' that bright pink hanging out in my corner over there. This might actually be dangerous - it's probably a fire hazard or something! But hey, it matches!!

I need to think some more about that brown flower... it might need to go.

Happy Birthday Sis

Today is my beautiful sisters birthday! She will be turning 19 years old! This year her birthday and Homecoming happen to fall on the same night. She gets to see family and her old high school friends! She just graduated a few months ago so this is still a very exciting thing for her! Me? Not so much! I have zero desire to see all those folks i went to school with. I need to get my heart right...

We aren't truly celebrating until tomorrow with it being homecoming weekend and all, but i'm still excited! Shoguns here we come!

Not too sure what was going on with this picture. We are random!

I LOVE YOU CASIE!

question

I don't usually receive comments on my blog (which might i add is completely okay). But i did go in when i first set this profile up and clicked the little box on my settings that would send me an email anytime i did indeed get a comment. That way i'm aware and see if i need to reply to someone.

I got bored the other day so i was scanning back over some of my old posts. I saw comments on random entries that i'd never read before. It wasn't just a one time occurance - i have now found 4 comments and zero emails notifying me that they exist.

I went in and checked my settings. They are still the way i left them.

Are you having the same problem? Is this a blogger issue?

Gradu-what?

Just checked my email to see if i had anything interesting or exciting. I usually have tons of junk or school emails that i scan (never fully read) and then deposit into the TRASH.

Today i opened my inbox to find an email adressed to Graduates.

O, wait. That's me! You get these emails all 4 years that you are in college - they just click that little folder that sends them to ALL students and the undergraduates get to sit there and realize, 'hmm thanks, i still have SO far to go'. You get so use to ignoring them... This is for me - AHH, i actually have to read this.

Deadline for applying for graduation is coming up in about 2 weeks.

Rehearsal will be May 1, 2009 and the crazy crazy crazy Graduation ceremony will be held May 2, 2009 in the Ornelas Spiritual Life Center.

My heart is sinking... lol. This is so incredibly scary.

From Our Home

Just felt like sharing what's going on around our household. This has been one busy busy week, and i have a feeling the rest of the semester is going to be very similar.

Brandon and his girlfriend left last night to go to her home town for a dentist appointment. The dreaded wisdom teeth removal surgery appointment! That's a mouthful right there. Try to say that fast! They are spending the weekend with her family and coming back on Sunday evening.

Casie has gone to West Texas to visit her boyfriend at Texas Tech. It's family weekend and Mrs. Becky (his mother) invited her to go along... unannounced to Jordan. It's a TOTAL surprise! She called me about an hour ago to let me know they had made it safely. Jordan came to the hotel to meet his mom and when he knocked on the door, Casie answered! SURPRISE!!! He had no idea! Good Job, girls!

Mom, Dad, and I are going up to the Civic Center to help serve dinner to the Evacuees tonight. What an exciting thing! I've never done anything like this before, and honestly i've never seen my parents be apart of this type deal either. I was shocked when they called to ask me to come along. I have so much stuff that i need to do, but i didn't want to pass up this opportunity.

Tomorrow evening Cari and I will be going over to Louisiana to lead worship for a Women's Ministry. If you think about it say a little prayer for us. I have never done this before. I've sang in concerts all my life, but never have i stood up infront of a group of people and lead worship. I want it to be genuine, nothing rehearsed, nothing for show. I am pretty nervous about it.

I have 4 tests, a group presentation, and a book report all due next week. And that's just school! I think the Lord is teaching me how to balance and manage things.

When you pray for something, you better get ready for all that is about to come your way.

I thank you Lord for who You are. Help me to grasp even the tiniest bit of who You are, all You've done for me, and how much Your love me. Take me deeper with You Lord. I pray for my family. You know each of our schedules, but beyond that You know what's going on inside our hearts, Lord. Bring clarity, be our light and guide us through this time. I pray over the service tomorrow. That You will help me to forget about everything else that is going on in my life... that i will get up on that stage and truly be in Your presence and worship You. Thank you for Cari, and her patience. I lift her up to you also. Prepare our hearts for You. I need Your forgiveness, I need You so desperately in my Life. I love You Lord.

I'm a Pharisee

Mom and I have finished painting the bathroom as of about 20 minutes ago. It turned out to be a little darker than we were expecting, but we don't feel like redoing anything.... so it will stay the way it is! If it were up to me (and if it were MY house) i would like to paint the cabinets white and get new knobs, towel racks, etc. I'm a matchy matchy freak. The brown-ish color all the walls just doesn't look good to me with the brown cabinets. It's not my house though, i will be leaving soon enough, so i need to learn to deal with it. Now that we have finished with the paint, i can REALLY start looking at decorations and even buying things. YAY YAY YAY... say it with me - YAY!

I added a new blinky button thing on the side bar to the right :

It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful. -The Nesting Place

I've had The Nester on my list of blogs that i like to visit for a few weeks now. She's so creative and i love it. Also, she updates her page almost every single day so it gives me something to do... when i should be doing other things. She loves to decorate, but calls herself a lazy perfectionist. She doesn't sew things, she doesn't hem her curtains, she hangs things higher than they are supposed to for many different reasons... some for the eye sake, some for technical sake, you get the idea. She even has this thing that she calls Window Mistreatments. Instead of Window Treatments - following all the rules, fixing them perfectly and how they SHOULD go, according to the professional decorators and what not, she takes short cuts and blah blah blah - hints the Mistreatment of the windows. Actually she mistreats a lot of things in her home (decorating wise). Basically she breaks the rules.

A friend and I went on a walk yesterday. I had been thinking through some questions that i wanted to ask him. Since i have spent majority of my time with him, i figured he knew me more than any other person in the world. I wanted to know something i needed to work on as a person specifically.

"What are some things that i need to work on, deal with, whatever?"

As friends we are suppose to sharpen each other, spur one another on in love and so on.... I guess that's what i wanted. I wanted to (as Cari would say) stick my pride in my pocket, hear what he had to say and learn how to fix it. I guess i just want to love more, be a better friend.

It didn't take him long to think of something... actually a matter of seconds and words came spitting out of his mouth. :) haha! (thank goodness i was prepared!)

Too Legalistic.

After i got him to define the word and give an example, we were good to go.

Definetly right on track with that statement. That's me.

"Like the Pharisees" he said, "you're worried about all the rules."

I asked him to give me an example of where i've done this in my own life. Not because i don't believe him, i'm right on track and totally believing it. But because i'm a detailed person. I learn better with examples and plenty of details... more than enough details. You can't overload me with details - i need them dudes! Okay i said details 4 times!

Anyways, he quickly thought of an example - i must really really be legalistic because he didn't have to think long. :( He shared it with me, and i was like... "oooohh, mmm, uhh yeah!"

I won't share the story because there are people involved, but i can share the part after - he asked me why i felt the way i did, or why i was worried about this issue. My answer was because i guess i think of everything as a motive. I so didn't word that right. What i'm trying to say is this, when i do something i try to figure out what my reasoning or motives are behind it... if they aren't good then i shouldn't be doing it. Hopefully that makes sense.

So i guess in turn i'm very judgemental on people. I expect a lot from them. Not on purpose, but maybe because that's how i am with myself.

This isn't going anywhere. I guess i just really liked the conversation. I loved communicating and being completely okay with someone pointing out my flaws. I want to be able to face them head on, to admit them to myself, and then find a way to deal with them. I think we need friends like that - friends who can be honest with us and we in return not get our feelings hurt. I think like scripture says we should learn to sharpen each other, instead of getting hurt when someone points something out. We should spur one another on in love and good deeds.

Sometimes it's hard for us (as individuals) to see what it is that we are doing wrong. We need people to help us realize and become aware of some things in our lives. Majority of the time they see it before we do. I just want a friend that will be kind enough to share it with me so i can learn to fix it - and hopefully i can be that kind of friend to them also. Not in a judgemental way, but us being on the same page and both wanting to work on things!

I'm going to shut up now.... i'm not making sense. I'm totally stressed out and have way to many things planned on my schedule right now. I've never been this busy. Good night!

And remember - It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful. Don't worry about all the rules and following things to a T... just love people, exactly where they are!