Living La Vida Loca

So many emotions are running through me now. They come and go and I sometimes even feel numb to them. Life has been a little crazy recently but isn't that life? Yep!

I have been making decisions like no body's business. I'm proud of my indecisive self! I have made my pro con lists and been very deep in prayer. It's great when you don't have to worry about school or work too much because it gives you a lot of time to sit, pray and be with God. When thinking about this I sort of am ashamed that it takes God taking my life, mixing it up then taking out big parts of it giving me more time to be with him. This season of my life(meaning the last 2 months) has been very good. God has shown me things that I didn't know about my self and he showed me other things I'm passionate about and he has placed people in my life to speak into those areas. What can I say I'm Blessed! God is Good!!

Now I'm preparing for some big things in my life! It's been good.

What a Day!

Yesterday was such a great day. I got to color! Yea, I know sounds dumb but it was really fun. I hung out with my friend Tess and Mallory at Biola and we colored by the coffee shop. It was a whole bunch of fun!

Me.Mallory.Tess.

While we were hanging out we got to see this huge guy. His name is Maestro. He was like a small horse almost. I wanted to take him home and cuddle. He just hangs around Biola sometimes with his owner. No Big Deal.NBD.

After a great day of coloring and hanging with good friends we made the traditional trip to MOLCA SALSA! YEE. It's my fav late night treat! Me and Tess performed our rap for the group. Treats on us!

I mean who wouldn't want to be friends with us?

Happy Mommy's Day!

Today is the day that we choose to honor our mothers. Not that we don't do this every other day of the year but today we especially want to thank and honor our mothers. So today I would love to share with you a very special person in my life. My Mother. AKA by me as Mommy. Yep I still call her mommy. Judge me.

This is the women who raised me. The women who has given so much of herself to help my happiness. With out this women I would not be the person I am today. Words can not describe what she means to me.

She is a women who fears the Lord and even though I am so different than her I have always wanted to be just like her. It's funny when you are younger you don't really think that you want to be like your parents. I think it has taken me be out on "my own" to realize how much she means to me and how much I truly do want to be like her.

Today I am honoring my MOMMY! I love her bunches. As part of this entry I am going to share some of my favorite Mommy quotes. Trust me these ones are pretty funny.

Here.We.Go.

"Would it be bad if we drove through that puddle and got those people wet?"-Mom

"Yes."-Me

"Oh, You are no fun."-Mom

CONTEXT: This little conversation had taken place the sunday after I had my big surgery. Mom had come to stay with me during my recovery. We were leaving the parking lot of the church I work at when this conversation went down.

"Wouldn't it be ironic if you survived brain surgery and then died in a car accident with me?"

CONTEXT: Again this was the sunday after my surgery and we were turning onto the street that Chipotle was one because my mommy let me choose where we went for lunch! Anyway the light by that street doesn't have a protected arrow and so my mom just turned with out waiting. Then the infamous quote was said.

One of my favorite books my mommy would read me when I was younger was called, Mama do you love me?. The whole book was the dialogue of a daughter and her mom. The daughter would always ask Mama Do you love me even if I...(whatever she did wrong). Then she tells the girl what her emotions would be and adds "but I still love you"! I remember I loved the book because I knew my Mama was the same way. She always loved,loves and is going to love me!

My mom has a funny way of having random humor and it is one of my favorite things about her! I love her so much! So mom this is to you! I love you bunches! Thanks for being the wonderful women you are!

I LOVE YOU MOMMY!

Cinco de Mayo

This is one of my favorite holidays. I know. It's a pretty americanized holiday but I still love it! For most it's an excuse to get wasted and have a party. For me it's not like that.

My favorite part of Cinco de Mayo is the TACO'S!! YEE.

They are so tasty!! Nom Nom Nom.

I also like the culture that we often see on the day. My favorite that I also see in food places is the mariachi band

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These are my favorite things about Cinco De Mayo. I hope you have had the best day!

The Royal Wedding.

I just wanted to share a little of the royal wedding with you all if you haven't already seen it. I know pictures are everywhere on the internet but I just wanted to show you one. The one part of the wedding that I think took my breath away a little bit.

Have you guessed what it is yet?

Yep. It was the wedding dress. For those of you who don't know, I LOVE weddings! They are beautiful and I think they express so much about a couple.

We know that this wedding was one special one for sure. Just a little fun fact for you thanks to People Magazine, Do you know how much the wedding cost?

Everything including the security costs?

Maybe a guess?

$65,000,000 Approximately.

WOW. I know.

Here are more numbers if you fancy.

2,000,000,000 people watched on T.V. around the world.

5,000 police officers deployed.

1,900 invites to the wedding.

35 sniffer dogs on duty.

7 Planes in the ceremonial flyby.

5 horse drawn procession carriages.

4 of William's former girlfriends invited.

2 of Kate's former boyfriends invited.

What does that get us?

One happy couple.

The End.

Remember Dreams Do Come True!

San.Diego.Serve.2011.

Well this is a little over due but we all know that it wouldn't really be my blog if it wasn't right? Yea Buddy. Anyway I'm here to share with you my great trip to the beautiful city of San Diego. Actually again I am going to show you in pictures. First off I will give you some background.

The trip was for the Herd. It was the students opportunity to give up a few days of there spring break to go help others in need. Our group has been working with a man, Pete who started a church down there for years so we continued to go and help him out. The trip was three days long. Monday-Wednesday. I, unfortunately enough, could only stay for monday. But let me tell you that what I saw on Monday was more then enough to wake me up and watch my students really be followers of Christ in there service. It was truly amazing to see God work in and through them.

This was the church we worked at.

Naturally we are students. Mini vans are a MUST!

We had to take a shoe pick.

Can you tell which one is mine?

Think about it.

I tend to stand out.

Gotta Love the Red Heads. Gingers. Whatever you want to call us.

Waiting with the girls for our mini orientation. Beautiful church.

Me and LaceFace in front of the fence BEFORE we painted it.

IN the midest of painting but you get what it's going to look like.

(L to R.Angelica, Me and Katie) Me and my girls putting packs together to give out to the homeless the next night! Loved working with them!

All in all the trip went great. Students live were changed. What got me so excited was they they were able to see the community and realize that where we were in San Diego was not much different then Long Beach. It was a good chance for them to see that they can be doing the same things in there own community!

Loved to see God work in amazing ways!