I see some of my friends still going through a fight trying to figure everything out. It breaks my heart. I cant imagine being in their shoes. I am all for having a good time, but to the extent of not knowing whats going on, forgetting everything the next morning, hurting people by saying things you dont mean....why would anyone want that on themselves?????? God is so amazing. I would rather get drunk in his spirit then drunk by any alcohol. Its so hard to see my friends still battling, trying to figure out their place in this world. You have to be either so far perfect or so far wrong to them. If they are going to be bad, they have to go all in. Its not supposed to be like that. You can have a drink and still love God, you can have a drink and still go to church, God is still going to love you. Its all about putting him first, not going overboard. Oh i just wish they could understand!!!!! 

Boo Boo

Aiden got a new haircut!! Cute huh?? Its a faux hawk. Kinda hard to tell...but its super cute. Im thinking he looks more his age, not so baby-ish. I hated it at first, but I love it. He is so cute :)

Then...he did this little number.

Its breaking my heart :( He fell on the cement, Im thinking he was trying to run and just tripped head first on the ground. He does it all the time but typically catches his head but not this time. I freaked out, called a lot of people about what to do. He seems to be fine, i checked his eyes, it swelled up and then went down. Not in because in is bad. He played, he ate, he went to bed and woke up. So we are good. I gave him tylenol because I would assume a headache would come shortly after. This picture was when we woke him up...notice the anger. lol. He wasnt very happy with us because he was so sleepy. 

Just pray for his little head that it heals well. No big scars or weirdness. 

Love you guys.

addict???

8 cups of coffee.

Its not good to make an entire pot of coffee when you are home by yourself.

Im feeling very...fast....

jittery....

I really should stop doing the coffee thing....

no i shouldnt.

lol.

but really...this is a lot.

random.

Tonight I was on the phone with Katie doing our typical 2 hour phone call of randomness and I realized I dont cry anymore. We were talking about my mom and just random things about home and my eyes got watery and I was like wow, this is probably only the second time I have shed a tear about being away from home. I miss it though. I think it would be good for me to just cry and let it all out. I just cant. Is that weird? 

Tj got a ticket. A 415 dollar ticket for turning right on red without coming to a complete stop. I wanted to get a couch. But instead we will be paying his ticket. I know God has it under control. Im oddly not really stressed out about it at all...which if you know me, thats odd because I stress out about our finances more than anything else. 

I talked to Trey Wednesday , he was in the chicago airport making his way to Japan. I gave him a quick lecture on God and told him I loved him and now I plan on hearing from him from emails for the next 2 years. :( 

Im kind of at a loss of what to say, I really want to vent about a situation I am having right now, but it doesnt need to get spread around in blog world. I will say that Tj and I need prayer over the situation with this person. Its becoming harder and harder and I dont know how much longer I can be nice about it. So please just pray for us, this person is an important person in our lives.

This was all random, but its things that have been on my mind all day. 

jonah

Church was so awesome this morning. We wrapped up the Jonah series, those messages helped me so much. Just a few months ago I was Jonah. God had a calling on our lives and I wanted nothing to do with it because it meant living in Redding away from everything I was comfortable with. Its amazing what God will do though when you do finally give it all to him. Just like Jonah my family has become so blessed since we started giving God control.

I am a crazy control freak, I have serious trust issues, so giving up everything to God was always so hard for me. Trusting him with my finances, a place to live, friends, moving, a new church, everything took some time. Now that I have given it all to him, life is blissful. We stepped out of our shell to start doing the jr. high and because of that, I have the most amazing friend that I had been searching for since we moved here. :) She has been so great to my family and it feels so nice to have a friend that I made all by myself. 

We will still have our struggles, but I know can say that I can completely trust that God will take care of us. I know that no matter what life brings he will be there to catch us. I know our calling is to be part of Jr. High, and from there we may find even more things, but this is where we need to be and it finally feels right. 

Friends I encourage you to find your calling, no matter what it may be, God has plans for each and every one of you. We need to be his disciple and make disciples. Put your complete trust in him, because when you do you will have such JOY!

We went to Chico to see Michael perform :) 

My pics suck, but here are a few!

There were so many great performances there. Some were very unique. Overall the night was very entertaining and the pizza was amazing! YUM :)

Michael you did a great job friend! It was so fun!! Amazing!