Wisdom Teeth

Well yesterday was the day, the day that we as an entire family have been waiting for about a week. Getting my wisdom teeth out! I had to get them out while being home because well who wants to recover from something like that while being in a tiny dorm room (Bronte I love you but no offense). I'll be stuck at home, currently watching the Proposal, which is what it looks like my Christmas is going to look like this year. Thank you Dr.Glen. I will say that I don't remember anything from the times of 4:30-7 o'clock yesterday evening. Thank God for drugs, you got to love it!

:)
God bless,
a.

home sweet home.

Well ladies and gentlemen, I did it. I completed my third semester of college and I couldn't be more proud of myself. I came home and was talking to both my mom and dad and I said that if I failed my classes I did the best I could at failing; turns out I didn't and all my studying this semester paid off:). PRAISE GOD. So for the next month I'm just hanging out in Lincoln, which come to find out, when you don't have a car...it isn't very fun! I'll read a lot...I'm sure I'll find some interesting websites that I will share. But until then HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

One love,
a.

love.

There are a lot of things that I say I love in this world. And if you were to ask me to put them in order from one to ten I would without a doubt tell you that Cheerleading would be in the top five list.



I'm still Cheerleading here at school, and I am loving it. This is the most talented group of girls that I've ever seen. We are a team full of spunk, spirit, and adversity. We are a flexible team that cares for each other on and off the mat! This year we received a new coach, she was a former Houston Texans Cheerleader, and ladies and gentleman she is kicking our butts and I love it. We have grown so much as a team so far and so much as individuals as well.



The love and support that these girls bring to my life is something that someone could only dream of. These girls are my family!


What is something that you love?

God bless,
a.

:)

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving; of course this post is a bit late but how does that saying going? Something like it's better late than never. Being away from home it's hard for me to get back to Nebraska so as usual I went to Virginia (no speeding tickets this time) and spend the day with the people I love the most. There was a big turkey and ham, and a Williams' favorite of meatballs...I never understood it, I'm pretty sure the Pilgrims didn't eat those, but who I am to say...I wasn't there. My cousins are growing up so fast and it's always good to see them. The littlest, Kyla, is really in the mood for talking. If she wants to speak you know it because she tells everyone else to be quiet, "Stop it, Stop it, Stop talking!" With her little hand reached out as far as it can go in a stopping motion. Those are her new favorite words:). She's obviously related to me somehow. HA!

The other little one, well he isn't so little anymore. The more independent he gets the more I just can't believe Donovan is actually growing up. He was playing football with his older cousins and uncles, as they do every year, and he was so cute trying to catch the ball and keep up with 'the big boys'...next year I'm sure he'll be showing them all up.

It's always good to just really enjoy your family and sit down after being away for a year and just really talk about what is going on in life. This year I guess was my first grown up Thanksgiving. I didn't sit at the 'kid's table' and that my friends is an upgrade. My brother (now 21 years old) and I have been sitting at that table for year...it was finally good to have some elbow room at the table.

This week I finished up classes, and next week I take my finals. This year is lucky and I only have three of them to take, so this weekend will be filled with studying and devoted library time! I'll be returning home next Friday

In Christ,
a.

so funny!

So I kind of hinted at this in a previous post; but there is a website that my roommate Bronte introduced me to: wwww.stuffchristianslike.net
PLEASE visit it if you are looking for a good laugh, go to the archives and pick a link and read; you'll get caught up and laughing because it is so true! One of my person favorites "Youth Sunday #60"! Sometime today, when you're bored...check it out!

a.

Happy Holidays!

If asked what my favorite time of year is, the answer would probably be 'sometime in the middle of November and January'...basically I love the Holiday season. (Good thing my roommate feels the same way, we have a decorated tree in our room right now and I'm sure when we return to school we'll be listening to some traditional Christmas music!) I just love how everyone acts around the holiday season. We are extremely happy for no reason and not only that, but we LOVE to share. Never once have I seen people in more of a giving spirit than I do around the Holiday seasons. You have the traditional Angel Tree presents that you can buy or you have people willingly taking requests on what to buy for each other for that one special day! (Please sensor if you still believe in Santa!) The Holiday Season is the best time of year. I know what some people are thinking, "But you haven't mentioned that 'Jesus is the reason for the season'". I know I know, but isn't that just something that is given? Isn't Jesus the reason for the day?!
So I challenge you, make this your New Years Resolution...don't leave Jesus on Christmas; and don't leave the joy there either! Carry it with you throughout the entire year; there's no reason that cold weather, and presents should make us more happy than any other day of the year!


What is your favorite Holiday memory?

Happy Holidays!
a.

The Search//journeypa.tv

All Christians out there who have been through this whole 'finding a church' thing you know...it's not easy.
Being a pastor's daughter I never had to do 'the search'; except for one time when my Dad wasn't pastoring, we found the most amazing church to attend and we loved it; but that's besides the point! Anyway, so searching for a church...yes! it is one of the most essential things in your Christian faith. You need to find a church that will accommodate your needs, worship the way you like, teach the things you believe, and provide an opportunity to grow! All of these things in one place is a hard thing to find.
This Summer being home I found an amazing church to attend with all of those things and more! You could only imagine how scared I was to have to 'start the search' all over again. A family friend introduced me to this church, here at school, that a few of my friends and I decided to try out, Journey Church. Sounds like some type of clothing store (please see stuffchristianslike.net; churches that sound like clothing stores is one of them...hilarious website), but clothing store or not this church is amazing! The people are real and the services are authentic!

Journey Church is filled with people who love the Lord and just want to share the love of Christ with those who are lost. They know that they are broken and they know that the only way to be fixed is through Christ and that price is already paid for them. This is what I believe is truth, and I thank God for providing me this church to worship in and grow into a deeper relationship with Him.

a.

UPDATE//school, church, friends, life etc.

Recently a lot has been going on in my life, and when I say a lot, you truely have no idea. Since the last time I wrote I've moved into the dorms and I've completed almost a full semester of my Sophomore year in college! I couldn't ask for anything to have gone any differently this far in the school year.

If I had to summarize this year so far up to this point in one word, it would definately be BLESSINGS. God has filled my life with people and events that lead me to believe that God is doing, and will do, amazing things in my life.
Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord; plans not to harm you but to prosper your, plans to give you a hope and a future."
This verse is one that has really stood true for me this year and I can see the Lord's hands working in my life.


alleigh.

last day in lincoln.

Well as I look around my room and see the disfunctional organization, I get nervous and excited! Today is the last day in Lincoln and tomorrow I will be East Coast bound. It's be a GREAT summer and that just means that I know it'll be a GREAT school year! Saying goodbye to my parents will be the hardest tomorrow morning, but I have to look forward to the hellos i'll be saying on Tuesday when I move back into my dorms!

One Love,
a.

here am i, send me

thanks bronte.

shutting yet another chapter.

Well everyone, summer is officially coming to a close. It has been a good one and I've grown up even more-who knew- I had the opportunity of a lifetime to be a role model to a ten year old girl this summer, and when two little eyes are looking up at you, you tend to live your life a little differently. Everyone says that when you return home from school the adjustment from living independently and living under your parents roof is a tough one, and it was but being home has been an experience that I would not take back. My parents and have I a new found relationship and with my brother home for a few weeks during this summer we all, as a family have grown up as well.
Next Saturday I will return to school and I know that I will cry and want to be back at home with my parents but in this moment I know how excited I am to be reunited with friends and teachers and textbooks and even study habits. God has laid out some amazing opportunities for me this year (I'll have to write about those as they come) and I know that He will be using me tremendously!
So yes, ending this Summer is the shutting of yet another chapter but it is also turning the page to another GREAT chapter that has all white pages and waiting for a new published story.

Stay tuned

One love,
a.

Reunited.

So far this summer I've been on go, go, go mode. I can offically say that I have seen all the people that needed to be seen since my return and I have done all of the things that I could have possibly wanted to do or had to do upon my return to Lincoln Nebraska. I've seen amazing friends, eaten Nebraska's infamous food, worked at good ol' Champions Fun Center, and hung out with my family.

Just a few familiar faces.


But who is missing? That is correct, Mallory! She left for Texas a few days after I got back from school. She'll be there all summer counseling at a camp there and I could not be more excited for her. She will be back around fourth of July and I can not wait to hear what God did in her life this summer.
Nannying starts in two weeks and I'm more than positive that I will have pictures and stories to tell!

Happy Holiday Weekend.
a.

freshman to sophmore

So, I wasn't going to tell anyone this up front but I must say that this past semester I was a little nervous about the finals that I took which in the ends made me a little nervous about the final grades that I would receive in my classes. This of course has nothing to do with the fact that I took my finals with a concussion as which went along with some short term memory loss, but that is besides the point. Today, as I pulled of the page online to check my grades my stomach began to do some flips and turns of it's own as I slowly but surely entered the password that would show me my grades. Low and behold, I didn't wonderfully! I did even better than I did last semester and I will not lie when I say that I am proud of myself!
I would first like to thank all of you who have prayed for me with this new school year, and basically my new life. It was much needed and from the looks of it I made my way through, I am no longer a freshman in college! Thank you so much for the time and effort that you put into praying for me and my school work as well as the little phone calls that some of you have made to me as well!
So what's up for the summer?! WORKING!! and honestly I can say I'm very excited about that, poor college student needs to make some money!

I'll keep you all posted I am sure!
One love,
a.

JORDAN CHRISTIAN RIGGS

As I sit here, at 12:53 am the night before a HUGE final, I thought I'd check in on my brother's blog before getting a little shut eye & this is what I found.
I love you and I am SO proud, happy, excited, i'm a lot of things!
God is good!

family.

family. there is so much that i could say about my family, but the first thing i would say is that i am very blessed to have been born into the family i have. not only are we a good looking group of people but every single member of is motivated beyond what you could ever think or imagine and God has blessed each one of us with gifts that i see being used more and more frequently as i have grown up.
my brother is 20 years old and lives in california where he attends brookes institute of photography and is majoring in film. my brother has always been the creative one out of the two of us! the most memorable moments i have in my life involve my brother and some crazy stunt he tried to pull when we were little. my brother is intelligent in life and in choices and for that i admire him. his heart is buried in the Lord and you can tell that by the way that he lives his life. he reaches for the stars and it's been amazing to see him actually catch them.
my daddy is another amazing man, literally he is the best, i feel sorry for my future husband who has to live up to my father. you want to meet a man who lives every single day to honor God, meet my daddy. as long as i've been alive, and even longer, my dad has been a pastor. people have always looked up to my father, and so have i. he has a stern hand and it has not been until recently that i can say thank you to my father for raising me the way that he did. i've only become a better woman for it. i've come to terms with the fact that my dad and i are a lot alike, and the more i think about it, the more i am proud to hold that title. not only is my daddy stern and responsible he is the craziest man you will ever meet. all my friends in high school would just come over my house to hang out with my dad. my dad used to take me to school everyday in high school and pick me up when the day was through, and as annoyed as i would get with him everyday at 6:45 am i would look forward to those times that i would spend bonding with my father. my favorite memories with my father still include, the beatles, a car, bad singing, and horrible lyrics!
my mommy is someone who i can call my best friend. i've been saying that for awhile but i dont think that it has really come true until this past year. the best advice i have ever gotten has come from my mom and the best laughs i have enjoyed have been with my mother as well. my mom has always been the type of person to tell it to you like it is. she's never been one to beat around the bush or hold her tongue, i think i get that from her, and for that i thank her! there have been many times when that characteristic has made me angry in some way but the more i look back at i thank my mom for making me go back upstairs to change my clothes. she is an amazing writer and has a beautiful voice. remembering back to the times she would read me goodnight moon still makes me tired.
thank you jordan christian riggs for being my brother. thank you for calling me stupid when i ask you for ridiculous advice but loving me enough to let me make those mistakes i can learn from.
daddy, thank you for raising me the way you did. thank you for the times that we would clash heads and you would just let me win an argument just because you knew there was no point in arguing. thank you for letting me make those mistakes and not saying i told you so when i came back to you crying.
mommy, thank you for being my mother when i was growing up, but being my friend now that we can be. thank you for listening to all my crazy stories and saying "that sucks" when it is needed.
i love you all!
alexandra leigh riggs

RIP Mojo.

A dear friend to a lot of Eastern students passed away this last Thursday night in a car accident. He was 21 years old and a great friend, with a contagious smile which never left his face. There is a sadness that hoovers our campus but a happiness as well. As I sat with a few friends last night we just talked about all the good times we had with him. All the parties we went to and how he's mad that we are crying down here because we know that in heaven he is "having a blast" as one friend stated. We may have lost a friend, but we gained an angel. Watch out of us Mojo!


I must say that this accident did cause a change in my life. Life is full of surprises, and you never know what is going to happen tomorrow. That is why it is important to live for today. Don't focus on what might change tomorrow, but don't go to bed a night being angry with someone or even having one regret. God has given us the chance to live our lives, not be afraid of it! Thank you Mojo for teaching us the smaller but more important lessons of life! We love you

One love,
a

Community

Recently I have really been trying to figure out what the heck is missing in my life. Why do I feel so empty inside when all I am living to do in this moment is live for God everyday. Is it so hard to think that maybe I'm actually doing something right? A few of my friends and I have really been searching for a church home. We had been attending the church right down the street from our school but to be honest it just was not filling the need, the emptiness that I am/was feeling before. I suggested that we should try going to what I've always called my church home, CCV (Christ Church of the Valley). Before we moved to Lincoln, Nebraska this is the church that my family and I attended and we all fell in love with. I was saved at this church as well as baptized by an amazing youth pastor who is partially the reason why I'm studying what I am today.
Christ Church of the Valley is filled with people who love you. You can walk into the building and not know a single person and you will walk out with at least one friend if you try. I've always felt this way about the community at this church. Yes, CCV is huge and there are three services, each packed to the brim of the building we are currently in, but if and when you find "your people": the one who will be there for you when you are crying or make fun of you just to make you laugh, they stick around for a lifetime. Every time I walk through the doors of that church I feel as though I've never left. The same people are there (not all of them, but a lot of them) the same jokes are being laughed at and it's like nothing has even changed.
This community is one that I never have to worry about. I don't have to question if they are going to be there for me when I need a shoulder to cry on, and I hope they feel the same way about me. This community is an unchanging one, that loves me unconditionally no matter what the circumstance and for that I thank you! To all the members of my CCV community I would like to thank you for the 8 years that we have grown together & for the many things that you've seen in me that you've liked and disliked but still stuck by my side. I thank you for letting nothing change and accepting me for who God has made me to be. When I am with you all I get excited and I feel overjoyed to know that I have people who care about me as much as you all do, so don't stop! Push me to my limit, keep asking me those tough questions and make sure I tell you the tough answers because you are the ones I trust. You are MY people, and I thank you tremendous amounts for that!

One love,
a.

almost summertime.

So this weekend my best friend from Nebraska came to visit me here in Pennsylvania, I'm not too sure if that was a good idea or not because now I am just really wanting to go home : ). I've been spending a lot of time lately in the Word and God is really teaching me how much I truely invest in earthly relationships, and not spiritual ones. I'm not talking about spiritual as in just God relationship but even relationships with other Christians especially when it comes to romantic relationships. My good friends here at school are beginning to get in relationships and that's what I've been seeing around me. I'm not saying that these relationships are the strongest that I've ever seen, but we've been praying about them and they seem to be getting stronger in Christ which in the end are going t make the relationships stronger as a whole. I've been really trying to not care about those relationships and have the one relationship I'm worried about be the one that I am in with Jesus Christ (trust me it's harder than it looks). So the result of this is what I like to call lonely and sad. Now for those of you who know me, you know that when I'm sad I don't really like to let myself feel that so sadness either turns into anger, or annoyance, or if I try hard enough happiness. Yesterday I found myself in conversation, pouring out my little heart, with one of the most interesting people on my campus who really helped me see how beautiful the feeling of sadness can be. He explained it as a feeling that is seen as weak but it is only because of the low points that we get the motion to propel into our high points. We wouldn't be able to get high without our lows.
I'm also beginning to worry about Summertime and what exactly that is going to look like. As Mallory was here this weekend I began to think about how she is not going to be here this summer and then I'm going to be alone, but in Nebraska. By alone I dont mean not friends; I mean alone in the physical sense, not having my soul fed by other Christians searching and seeking God together. I've come to the conclusion that God is trying to show me how much I do invest in other people to find Him instead of investing in Him to find God! Again, hardly than it looks, but this is what I'm working on.

In Him (the ONE love),
a.

Sunday Morning.

Thank you Lord Jesus! He is really amazing if I can say so myself. Today 7 of my friends and I went to my home church, Christ Church of the Valley! I've been wrestling a lot with the way that they do things at the church lately swhich is why I had not been attending. Today's service WAS AMAZING! They talked about changing they way that they do things in the church, which is EXACTLY what I needed to hear in order to move forward in being a participant in the church on a more regular basis. Being discipled & not entertained is the difference and what I need. Brian Jones did an amazing job in taking the blame for what he had to do in the part of not discipling his church. I also want to take some blame when it comes to this situation, I want to number one apologize to anyone who I have not taken time to disciple. I want to apologize to those who have seen me do things that are not Christ like. Mostly I would like to apologize to Jesus, for taking control in my life. I want to fully and completely give it back to you because no matter how hard I continue to try I can never seem to do things correctly. So Lord Jesus I am giving you back the stearing wheel to my life & I ask you to take complete and utter control.

Today was also a day that Megan got baptized. She got saved a week from today and today she got baptized and I was able to be a part of it. When I dipped h er in the water and brought her back up I could just feel the presence of Jesus. Thank you Lord for everything that you are doing, you are getting us ready for something HUGE and I can not wait to see what the outcome is going to be.

In Christ (the ONE love),
a.

Deny this one.

Please tell me that God, the creator of EVERYTHING didn't do this on purpose...

continued.

So classes are over and I sit in my room listening to Nichole Nordeman's Healed and I'm just just loving being in the presence of my God.
So this past week me and three friends went to Ocala Florida for the week of Spring break. When you think spring break for college students I know what you are thinking, wet t-shirts, body shots and crazy MTV activities with Carson Daley : ). But in reality our spring break was a little different. We stayed with one of the girls grandparents and we just hung out by the pool & on the beach for about 4 days in a row, it was one of the best weeks I've had in awhile. The week began in Richmond Virginia with my family. We went to the church that my aunt and her family attend. It is one of the most intersting churches that I've been to in awhile; very contemporary yet very good. The Lord was moving in that place and my friend and I were moved to tears. The speaker was talking about what it means to be involved in a Christian community and that is something that I have been praying for God to show me, more Christian friends and surround me in a better Christian community.

By the end of the week (yesterday)we were back in Virigina but this time at another girls house. We got up and went to church, we were all very exhausted and tired for the drive the day before but we felt like something was calling up to go to this church. This church was a little baptist church that probably could hold 50-100 people (i'm not really good a judging that kind of thing) but it was a very cute church, with stain glass window and a baptism pool. We sat down together and as soon as the pastor started talking I knew that something exciting was getting ready to happen. By the end of the service the song "I Can Only Imagine" was being played by a single guitar player who had given his testamony earlier in the service. I sang along as everyone was greeting one another at the end of the service. I sat there with tears in my eyes realizing how great my God really is. I look to the left of me and see one of the friends crying as well. Slowly but surely the sanctuary emptied out and it was just me her and God sitting in that little santuary in Manassas Virginia. She was praying about her struggles and I was praying about mine and when we got up to talk about them they were almost identical. The difference she was not yet saved, and I am. We sat and talked and Pastor Brian came out to talk with us. He got to talking to my friend and asking if she had been saved before in her life, which she responded no. From there he asked her if she would like to be, and she answered YES! It was at the moment that I felt God stronger than I have ever felt him before. Not only was he in the room with us but he was about to enter into the heart of my friend. This girl, this beautiful daughter of Christ was saved over spring break and I could not say that there was a better moment on that trip.

Thank you Jesus! This amazing thing has opened so many opprotunties and answered so many prayers. YOU ARE AMAZING!

In Him,
a.

God is good.

I must go to class in 5 minutes so I dont have a lot of time to explain why God is so good, but I will do it when my classes are over.

I just wanted to let everyone know that right now, and always, God is working & doing amazing things, GOD IS GOOD!

Amen.

One love,
a.

spring break

T Minus 49 minutes and I will be off to Richmond for the beginning of my spring break! First visiting the grandparents and then off to Florida for a few days of being beach bums!!

Pray for good travels & fuun times with friends

: )

One love,
a.

S-E-X!!

Thats right, sex, I'm talking about it and to be honest it is a topic that I have been struggling with. I'm a virgin, yes, but recently I have been wondering if it is worth it. I believe that your virginity is something special that you give to your husband and that a husband gives to his wife, yet the more I look at today's society the more I realize that the possiblity of me finding a husband who is going to be a virgin when we get married is a very slim chance. I talked it out and prayed over it and have talked to many people about my feeling on the matter, but the more I think about the more I begin to realize that this thought is a problem.
We, and I say we because I am fully included, but we tend to not talk about sex because we are afraid to talk about what society has made sex to be! AND I'M SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS THAT IS A PROBLEM! We need to be open and talk about these thing otherwise we are not going to know what sex was made for and what it is really going to be like.

I had a great talk tonight with a friend who was just recently engaged and was sharing her experiences with her future husband and how she is so excited that they both waited & can't wait to have that moment together to share! And that is exactly what I want my first time to be like, and I can not wait. And that sex, the sex that God intended for a husband and his wife is what I'm waiting for, NOT the thing that society has named sex.

One love,
a.



sorry if that was too graphic & you see me as a little child and the things I just said freaked you out, but they needed to be said!

Valentine's Day

So recently I've been trying to figure out what I think of Valentine's Day, considering this weekend it happens to be coming up. I've grew up in a household where my brother and I would get Valentine's from my mother! Whether it be a card or some chocolates or even just pencils there was always something on the kitchen table for us on Valentine's day! My dad on the other hand was the typical male figure who said that Valentine's day was a day that Halmark got to make more cards so that they could make more money! In my head I would always say WHO CARES?! There is a day out of the year that you get to show EVERYONE that you love exactly that, that you love them! Going into high school I began to hate the holiday because I never had anyone to share it with, but then I began to think, I love my family so why can't i show my parents and my brother & all of my friends that I love them...WHO NEEDS A BOYFRIEND?! So this Valentines my friends and I are going to pig out and watch a movie and just share each other's company, GIRL'S NIGHT!


So remember, if you have someone to share the day with then make sure you make the most of it! Tell them every second of the day that you love them & be creative you love them remember, so share it!


AND DAD I EXPECT TO HEAR ABOUT THE AMAZING THING YOU DID FOR MOM!


One love,
a.

building a wall

So it has been brought to my attention that I have a problem. This problem is one that has been in my life for a long time but yet I do nothing about it because it's not really something that is treatable. It is the fact that I build up a wall and dont let people in to see my real and true feelings?


Any suggestions?
one love,
a.

very old, but so funny...

What will people say when they hear I'm a Jesus Freak?

Praying, thinking, holding onto faith, and listening are things that I am trying my best to work on. I think that I have realized that lately my Spiritual Growth has taken a back seat in the way that I look at the world and the way that I take action in my life. I've been saying out loud that I'm a Christian but the way that I live out my life are sending out two different messages. No, I'm not going crazy and I'm not talking about some alter ego that I have that I'm two different people around different people BUT I am saying that what I believe in my heart is not always shown on a daily basis. I was talking to a friend the other day and the topic of basically a "Jesus Freak" came up, and what that actually means. A lot of times today in the Christian community we look down on those who are "overly Christian" and I put that in quotes because after thinking about it I'm not too sure there is a such thing. I believe that a lot of the time I sit down and pray before a meal because I want people who are watching me to look at me and say "oh my goodness she is praying over her meal, what a great "Christian girl""instead of being authentic in the way that I talk and feel towards God. People who we would call Jesus Freaks are spreading the word of the Gospel to everyone they meet and I feel that it shows that they are not ashamed to say what they believe out loud and to me, sometimes that is a scary thing to do. I find myself in my head telling myself one thing, but then when I open my mouth another thing comes out.Temptation is one thing that we, as a Christian community need to look out for. I'm coming to realize that the idea of an accountability person in your life is something that will and is very helpful when it comes to your walk with Christ, and right now, I feel as though that is something that is missing. Another thing that I'm realizing is that you can't just continue to live on the things that you know, you have to begin to live on things that are proven to the be true. This means that you must begin to read the Word (the bible) and discover new things that the scripture is telling you and then MAKE THE CHANGE to follow that in your life. I think the second part of that, making the change, is the part that a lot of Christians get stuck on. So to be frank, my point is, I need to begin to worry about my Spiritual Life and I can NO LONGER let it take a backseat because with that in that backseat that means that something else is riding shotgun and that thing is not a good navigator.

So pray for me for two things:
1. That my eyes are open to a GREAT accountability person
2. That my ears are open to the things that God is trying to tell me!


One love,
a.

new years resolution

So I head back to school, officially tomorrow because it being 12 oclock it is now Saturday! I'm pretty excited about it actually, I'm a dork and I've always loved new things especially when it came to school. Getting new folders and new notebooks with pens and just planning out a new routine with new classes, and this semester is no different. I'm pretty excitd to start my new classes and I'm pretty sure that I am going to kick butt with the upcoming semester. I'm excited to push myself to new limits so that I can reach the goal I have set for myself. This semester I'm hoping will be a lot different. I wont have to worry about making new friends or even getting my feet on solid ground because all of that is already done and now all I have to worry about is keeping my feet planted and that struggle is one that to be honest I am looking forward to. It'll be a long semester with one spring break (where I will hopefully be in New York City with some friends!) and then back here for the summer. It was hard for me to decide what I was actually going to do this summer for a job, or possibly and internship and that is what I had been praying about a lot this break is what God wanted me to do for this summer, and the the opprotunity to nanny for a family that I babysat for a lot this break had come up and it was like a God thing so I think thats what I'm planning on doing, with a bit of traveling here and there I hope. Next summer I expect to be my big summer of traveling and seeing new and exciting places. This summer I'll be at home, with friends and missing some friends but feeling confident in doing what God wants for me : )

One love,
a.

&a happy new year.

This visit home has surely been something to remember. Not only have I spent a lot of time with friends but I have been spending some time with my family as well. Yesterday I woke up and went out with my mom and my brother. My mom for Christmas this year didn't get us a lot of things and decided that she would take us out to get clothes instead of her buying for us, today was my brothers day, I just decided I was going to tag along. One this particular day it was FREEZING cold outside and me, being the "fashion diva" I am did not wear a jacket. Yes, I know mother I should have listened to you. We went to Old Navy and picked out a pair of jeans for my brother to wear. My mother insisted that he try them on and after nagging he finally did only to find out that he didn't really like the jeans at all. We returned some things and bought some socks costing us 1 cent, that doesn't matter but I believe it was an interesting thing that people should know. We walked out of the store and my mother stated "Well we have to go pick up Sano and Papa E from the airport" (my grandparents). What a surprise, Jordan nor I knew they were coming and it's only like another tradition that we are all together for some time during the holiday season. So they are here for a week and I dont think that we could be any happier.
Last night happened to be New years and I was exhausted yet I ventured out into the world of parties and friends and brought in the new year with a number of surprises, laughs, and A LOT of drunk friends. But ya got to love them right?! Because I sure do.

I'm not too sure if I'm going to make any new years resolutions, they never seem to work out well for me, but the year always ends okay so I'm not too worried. Just to keep God first and everything will turn out okay. That's what I've been doing and it seemed to be working out just fine.

One love,
a.