Rudy Wednesday

Don't you wish you were young again?

This picture makes me smile

Good Friday

Thank you Jesus for dying on the cross for my sins.


Thank you for dying for me, when I did not deserve it.  Thank you for LOVING me.

Book Club

I am so pumped to be in a book club!  I will be reading along fellow friends: Jen, EB, and Laurie.  I cannot wait to finish the book, hangout with friends, and to see the movie!  If you want to join along, borrow, buy, or check out Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen from the library and tag along.  We are still deciding on when to meet and what questions we will discuss, but anyone is welcome!  I am already a third through the book.

Book review by: Book Browse


An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons.

When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her.

Beautifully written, Water for Elephants is illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. It tells a story of a love between two people that overcomes incredible odds in a world in which even love is a luxury that few can afford.

Haiti

Sean and I are going to Haiti!  We are so pumped!  It has been a long process of prayer and seeing if my new job would let me take the time off of work.  Sean also had to see if he could leave during ‘crunch’ time of his thesis.  We are so blessed to have this opportunity to go to Haiti.  We are going with Brookview Community Church, my church back home and partnering with an organization called: World Wide Village.  If you want to know more about Brookview's history in Haiti you can go here.

All pictures are from the World Wide Village website

Sean and I want to adopt one day, and by going to a third world country and seeing the need for adoption, we cannot wait to start this process.  We will not adopt for awhile, but going there and loving on the children we are so excited.  We know it will break our hearts, but we are ready.

God totally wants to use us because some of the projects we are going to help with are education and water sustainability.  I will be aiding the teachers in Haiti (there are 8 of them with over 60 children) in a tiny one room classroom trying to teach 8 groups of students at once.  I cannot wait to use my degree and little experience with student teaching to help them!  Sean will also be helping with water purification, which is something he has worked on at WSU in his degree field!  We will also be playing soccer with the kiddos J and just loving on them!!!!!

 

Thank you to all that have supported us so far with prayers and financially.  We have to raise  a total of $4400 for both of us together to go on this journey.  We will be leaving on June 21^st and coming back on June 30^th.  I cannot wait!!!!  I will keep you updated as we get closer to the trip and of course, an update of our trip!

“ whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me”

-Matthew 25:40

Rudy Wednesday

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Faith

Proverbs 3:5-6: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; but in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight" (NIV).  This verse I am trying to not only read it but apply it.  I struggle with letting go and allowing God to be in charge of all of my life.  But once I fully trust in him with everything, it will be according to his perfect will and why would I want to go against that?  It will take time and FAITH, but I am trying to let go and allow God's peace to guide my life.  Once God makes my path straight, I still have to walk the path, and that takes faith.  What are you holding on to and not allowing God work in your life?

Must Reads

I love to read!  I can never put down a Nicholas Sparks book.  I cannot wait to finish my current book to start one of his!

Here is his list and the ones I have read are in BLUE: 

Books by Nicholas Sparks

• The Best of Me

• Safe Haven

• The Last Song (movie)

• The Lucky One

• Dear John (movie)

• The Choice

• At First Sight

• True Believer

• Three Weeks With My Brother

• The Guardian

• The Wedding

• Nights In Rodanthe (movie)

• A Bend In The Road

• The Rescue

• A Walk To Remember (movie)

• Message In a Bottle (movie)

• The Notebook (movie)

• Wokini

  6 of his books are already movies.  They must be good!  Oh, how I love a good book!

  
  
 

I Love my Husband

Sean went to Seattle from Thursday- Monday for a job interview with Darigold in Seattle.  I will explain later how it went J.  He stayed with my family and I really missed him.  It was great to see my cousins visit me in Idaho because Mitch is going to be a Vandal next year so they were here for Vandal Friday.  I will have to post pictures and fun stories later.  Anyway, I really missed my husband!  It was so good to see him last night and I cannot wait to spend some quality time with him.  He is really my best friend and I do not know where I would be without him.  Yesterday, before I was done with work he came and said there was a surprise and he had flowers!  He ceases to amaze me.  He is the sweetest person I know.  I am so blessed to have him in my life.  All the women were jealous in my office because one stated that she only gets flowers when her husband does something wrong.  How great is it that I get them just because!  I felt so special.  Thanks Sean!

pictures are not the best quality, because taken on my phone but they are still pretty

The flowers are really starting to open up now

Rudy Wednesday

How awesome is this?  It is a pug quilt!

Pug Dog Art Quilt 

The title of the quilt is named 'Ruby' so close to RUDY!!  My friend, Elizabeth has two adorable kiddos and they sometimes call Rudy, Ruby so this is perfect! 

Colbie Caillat and Lee DeWyze

I had the pleasure of attending Colbie Caillat and Lee DeWyze concert for Mom's Weekend in Pullman, WA with my cousin Angie.  So much fun!  We even sat in the third row :).  It was incredible!!!

Love this pic

Angie and I in front of the stage

"Lucky I'm in Love with my Best Friend"

Justin Young, sang along side Colbie

We sat on the right side in the third row.

It was an amazing night and I will never forget it!

Where's Rudy?

Love my little man :)

missing this......

Today, I really just wanted to lounge in a coffee shop reading a book all day.  Even in a library would have been complete bliss.  I love to read and have not been doing a good job lately.  I need a coffee shop date with a good book.

House

I would love to have a big house where I could have people over all the time.  Where my kiddos could run around and invite other kids over.  I would also love to host every baby shower, wedding shower, bday party you name it!  I love having people over and opening up my home.  One day I would love to host Christmas and have extra bedrooms for people to stay if they needed too.

Isn’t that staircase beautiful?  I would love to have staircase like that in my house or one that accents the front entryway. 

IDAHO Alumni Game



The team all together again.  I am the pale one front row, second from the right :)



What is up with my hair?  Straight up lol?

I am so privileged to have been part of such an amazing organization and group of girls!  I went to the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho from August 2005-May 2009 and played on the Women's Soccer team.  Even though not all of the girls I played with could come, it was so great to see and catch up with old friends.  I hated the running, but miss the game and the girls so much! We as Alumni were not victorious, but we had a lot fun anyway :).  I cannot wait for when I get to come back and visit Moscow every year for the Alumni game.



Home

Hey guys sorry I have not blogged in a week!!!!  I have missed it dearly.  I went to Seattle for a work trip and got to see my lovely family and some friends from home.  Boy, I cannot wait to move home in August!  I will explain more about my travels this week!  Below is a pic from my childhood with my older sister Ashley.

I am the one holding donald duck, my love as a child.