i'm finally done

i'm officially done with college. wow. i have my bachelors. wow. i am getting married. wow. i can't believe all of the things that the Lord is doing in my life and has done so far. wow. i am overwhelmed right now. 

i will miss this school and how the Lord has used it in my life.  i will miss all of the people the Lord has brought into my life to help encourage me and instruct me and train me and challenge me and correct me.  however, i know that i have been prepared.  let's keep pressing on...

and the job search begins

my resume is done!  i've called Christian schools in the Sacramento & Fresno area.  now all i have to do is send in my resume.  it is pretty impressive if i do say so myself.  you know you want to hire me!

6 & 103 days

helloooo!

i hope you all had a fabulous weekend.  mine was pretty spectacular!  if you don't know who shannen norman is....take a look at her blog.  She took our engagement pics this weekend.  She doesn't have our shots up yet...but take a look at her amazing pictures.  she is WONDERFUL!

it seems that the joke was on me on sunday.  everyone knew what was going on except me.  rissa and hillary and a bunch of my girlfriends at CBU threw a surprise shower for me.  i was SHOCKED!!!  The night before an old friend called (from long beach) wanting to go to church with us and of course i said yes.  bryce did all that he could to tell me that it probably wasn't a good weekend for him to come but i couldn't understand why...(note to self: listen to the advise of my future husband) so my friend, Jacob, came with us to church and then after church bryce and ethan took jacob to lunch with them.  Bryce and Ethan had originally planned to have a secret man date by themselves so i was annoyed when they let jacob go and not me:) haha

then rissa and i went to lunch where she suddenly got "ill" and so we went to the bathroom and she faked that she had diarrhea because hillary told her to stall...(no pun intended).

after 15 minutes of rissa on the pot we went to hillary's to get some medicine and where we found all my girlfriends there yelling surprise.  i still didn't get it at first...i was wondering, "why are they shouting surprise?" haha

here is the picture of me when they opened the door...haha (look at amy!)

it was so much fun.  i have the best friends ever down here at cbu.  i love you all.  you mean so much to me.  it was fun to look around the room and remember how i met each one of you and how the Lord has worked in us and grown our friendship!

oh and i'm graduating in 6 days! WOO! (you know you want to hire me:))))

oh and i'm getting married in 103 days! WOO WOOOOO!!!

bryce is coming...

to town!!!  he will be here soon and I'm SO excited.:)  we are taking engagement pics tomorrow. we are stoked.  had late night breakfast last night...SO fun!  hung out with some awesome people that i will miss a ton.  oh and we are having the wedding at my house (enter excitement/crying/screaming...etc)!!  hope everyone is having a good day.  oh and my grow a paparzzi is doing splendid.  he is about 4 inches tall.  (pictures to follow)

2 more days of school...

holy cannoli...2 more days of classes and then i have two finals to go and two papers to write and i'm officially done with my bachelors!

praise God for getting me through these 4 years...especially enduring mooney tests.  on to other tough things like finding a job, being poor, eating top ramen and buying cheap toilet paper...oh ya and being MARRIED!

so exciting and so ready for the Lord's discipline and instruction.

we have some exciting news...

hello friends!

bryce took me to san francisco saturday where we spent the day walking around the city and enjoying the wonderful weather.  then we went to coit tower where he made a picnic dinner and chocolate covered strawberries (my fav!).  then we went exploring a bit and then he proposed (enter screams here)!!!!!!  yes, folks, we are engaged!  i was totally shocked.  i didn't see it coming whatsoever.  I am so excited...we are so excited!  the Lord has blessed us so much.  we are already in the midst of planning even though i have to graduate still (9 more school days!) because we are getting married.....drum roll please.......

AUGUST 8TH!  4 months of dating 4 months engagement=perfect:)  we are ready for this new chapter and we know that we have lots to learn!  we are excited to see how the Lord is going to enlarge our faith (i still don't have a job...i'm looking to teach...so if you know of anyone needing a Bible teacher...) and grow us closer to Him as we abide in Him.  

our families are thrilled and it has been wonderful to enjoy this time with them.  

we are so thankful for everyone who has offered to help and most importantly...to pray! :)

we love you all!

i see a theme going on here...

I just saw this on John Piper's Blog...i had to post it! I've been studying through Galatians and Ephesians the past couple of weeks and what God keeps teaching me from His Word is that I am a sinner brought out of darkness, formerly walking in the desires of my flesh, and now have been brought forth into His marvelous light, strengthened with power through His Spirit who works within me! I was a beaten up, dirty, wasted rose that is now redeemed and made beautiful and holy because of the mercy of God sending His Son to die on the cross. amen.

15 days to grow a paparazzi

ok, so the title is a little confusing...so let me explain.  there are 15 school days left until i graduate!  wow...Lord where did the time go?  so tonight i decided to take 15 different sticky notes and stick them to my wall for a "count down"!  (this is what i do when my roommate leaves me to go home...sometimes it's a drag to be an extrovert) while I was putting them up, i started to see just how little time i have left.  most of the time we rush through life to get onto the next thing and then we find ourselves at the end wishing we had more time.  so everytime i look at my count down wall i will see just how fast time flies and to take every opportunity of the day to share the amazing work Christ has done in my life.  wow...15 days...God you can do a lot in that little time.  

the other part of the title...well my friend Hillary got me a present:)  it is a "grow a paparazzi".  if you remember, she got a "grow a boyfriend" from her mom and so she bought me a grow a paparazzi!  so exciting!  i'm going to let him grow soon.  i will update to show you his growth...don't you worry!

Christianity a fad?

the Lord has let me do a lot of fun things in the past week.  i flew out to Seattle to teach with Precept's Transform Youth Ministry.  it was a weekend addressing the issue of evil in the world and asking the tough questions about God and His goodness in the midst of suffering.  my group was awesome. i loved every minute of it and it was so much fun to see friends from tennessee. 

i was also privileged to speak in chapel during our "student chapel".  Cara Marsile and Tim Cahill both spoke as well...these two are awesome!  I got to share my passion for the Word and how the Lord has totally transformed me through the Word.  it is exciting to reflect on all that the Lord has taught me through all of the amazing things He has let me be apart of.  I shared a little about how Christianity has become a fad in the Christian College Community and how it has weakened our faith and what God has called us to.  i talked about a video that my friend Sam made at Focus on the Family during our time at our internship with Axis.  i wasn't able to show it in chapel because of the content (it is a video of short clips from the 2008 MTV VMAs) but i was able to explain it. Take a look at it.  Sam is a mac whiz, the video is excellent!  Is this true Christianity??  Doing one thing and then saying another...