I am obsessed with clouds.

Hello, dears! I miss y'all so much. This summer has been quite wonderful, but I can't wait to hug each of you and hear about your lovely summers. Right now I am in North Carolina visiting family and friends. It is delightful and absolutely beautiful. I also have limited access to the internet and barely any cell phone service, so that is refreshing.

As to the title of this post, I have recently become obsessed with clouds. Aren't they amazing? I love how simply beautiful they are. Isn't God a wonderful decorator? Without clouds, the sky would be a boring blue. haha. Since I am obsessed with clouds, I find myself taking pictures of clouds quite often. Maybe I'll print them out for our room!

Anyways, God has been teaching me a lot this summer. I am definitely more content with being single than I was in the Spring! I need y'all to encourage me in my walk with God, though. I want God to me my first love, but I am constantly sidetracked with worldly things. hmmph.

Here are a few other random pieces from my summer:

- I have been working on t-shirt and poster designs for CAB!

- I have read several books! (Currently finishing a book of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

My friends keep telling me I need to read Harry Potter. :) I guess I should start soon.

- I have found a few little trinkets from thrift stores for our room

- this list is quite boring.

I guess this is all I have to say for now. Sorry this post is scattered!

Harry Potter, Savannah, and Contentment...

Hello lovely ladies! The past few weeks of my summer have been thoroughly interesting. I had jury duty, went on vacation to Savannah, found a new comforter for my bed in our awesome dorm, made a skirt, visited Chattanooga, registered for the GRE (I am scheduled to take it on August 16th), and read almost all of the Harry Potter books! Jury duty was an eye-opening experience. I have a new appreciation for the judicial system. It is amazing to me that 12 people of different backgrounds, worldviews, and ages can come to a unanimous decision on anything! I was in desperate need of a vacation after the case that I was put on, so naturally Savannah was a great place to go! I had lots of fun in Savannah as well. I tried to dress as hipster possible, but alas, I was not mistaken for a Savannah College of Art and Design student. The beach, historic downtown, and all of the really cool shops in the city were so much fun! I am excited to show you girls the sewing projects that I have been working on this summer as well as the crafts and things that I have bought/made for the dorm!
My reading list is going well, but I am not as far into it as I had hoped. I am almost done with the Harry Potter series and will hopefully have all of the books and movies finished by the time Deathly Hallows Part 2 comes out. After I finish this series, I want to start on the Hunger Games series which I hear is very good! After that series I want to tackle Water for Elephants, Into the Wild, and several other books before school starts.
I drove up to Chattanooga a few days ago to visit with a few people who are in the city for the summer…That was so much fun and driving into downtown felt like driving home! Needless to say, I am enjoying the freedom of summer from homework, Organic Chemistry, and other stresses of college, but am missing Covenant fiercely as well. Visiting Chattanooga the other day was great, but I can’t wait to get back to Covenant and start my senior year!
I have been feeling rather distant from God lately because I'm not a huge fan of my home church anymore, the lack of a routine as well as fellowship with a godly group of people like yourselves, and mostly my own laziness when it comes to getting in the Word and prayer. BUT, I have been thinking about my life and where God is taking me lately and I have realized that after all these months of praying for contentment, I can finally see some "fruit" if you will. I can see now that he DOES have plan even though it may be fuzzy and random to me, it is perfect. There are some specific things and some general trends that I have been thinking about that have given me an appreciation for where my life is going and where I am currently, but some of them are hard to explain and I will give specifics when school starts! :)
I have some interesting stories for you girls that won’t suffice to tell in text, but I promise to dish as soon as we are all in the same city...Wow that was a long post! I hope it all made sense because it was kind of a whirlwind explanation of the last month and a half...I miss you girls so much and am terribly excited about seeing all of you in less than 7 weeks! I hope you all have a wonderful rest of the summer and I will see you girls soon!

Hi everyone!
Man, I really really am starting to miss everybody! I really want to hug everyone of you!
I have been enjoying my time at home so much, but I putz around on facebook and get all sentimental and want to see everybody again :) And I bet OTeam is going to be great!
Well, since my last post, I've gotten really plugged into my job! The office is made of only ladies, and they are all super sweet. I have perfected my telephone voice and am an expert at the trifold. My classes are...semi-interesting. Oh well, I wasn't expecting too much.
I have gotten involved with this awesome Bible study group, and I go to it with the other Covenant kids from my town, Kat Sullivan and Chase Foster. I'm so glad I've gotten to know them finally! I don't know why we waited so long.
Last weekend my sister and I made 101 cupcakes! We made a flag cupcake collage for the fourth of July. I have realized I love icing way to much haha, it is the best!
We had some family friends come visit us from Washington last week, and that was so fun. It is so strange that people can just move away like that. How can you be best friends with someone and then not see them for two years? I tell you what, I am so thankful for telephones.
I'm in a wedding phase... I went to the wedding of a high school friend on Saturday, and then it seems like every week someone else from Covenant gets married, and I get to oogle at their pictures. I want to get married wayyy to badly. I think that means it probably won't happen for a long time. But man, it is going to be awesome! (Esther, I watched that video you posted of Casey and Brandon's wedding probably 3 times... it is just beautiful!!)
On a semi-serious note, I think God has been teaching me more and more how awesome Heaven is going to be. I get kind of weird sometimes where I get sad when I think about Heaven because there are parts about Earth that I like so much. But I have been finding out that even those parts of Earth I like so much have things wrong with them. That might seem kind of depressing at first, but then I remember that in Heaven, all the things that I like on Earth will finally be perfected! It gets me super excited! Like, I will be able to run 100 miles without my kneees hurting, or I can swim in the middle of the ocean without ever feeling sacred or tired, and all of my relationships with people with be filled to the brim with love and understanding.
Well, I just felt it was time I posted something or other :) I love you guys soooo much! Can't wait to see you!
Oh! And that birdie is a little buddy we rescued from the grocery store parking lot! He was the teeny tiniest thing, and we took him to the animal shelter, and they said he had a very good chance. I think he is called a tern or a turn. Anyway, I thought he was too cute :)