Glow

Just a glimmer of Your glory...

Wow what a beautiful statement! How incredibly different would this world be if just once a day each person experienced a GLIMMER of God's glory? I cannot even imagine. It would be so beautiful. That's all it takes to drastically change this world, a glimmer, and the world will fall to its knees. There is so much darkness in the world, but it is our job, our duty, our responsibility to glow. Healing is going to blanket the Earth, I can feel it. Love is coming and it is going to be a wondrous sight.

I got this guys next record...

A Beautiful Girl Can Make You Dizzy

Promise, promise of a better day, promise of a greater hope, promise of a new tomorrow. This particular aura can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl. In her smile and in her soul and the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like it's gonna be okay...

Own Me, You Own

You're so delicious, you're so soft, sweet on the tip of my toungue. You taste like sunlight and strawberry bubble gum.

I Agree..

So I realized I need to read my Bible more...as in, every day. There is still so much that I need to learn from it. I can't be one of those Christians that treats the Bible like a software license and checks the little box that says "I agree with the terms and conditions" without actually reading it. What would be the point of it all?

Ahh Weddings....

SO....the wedding slideshow sneak preview is HERE!!! Literally just click 'here'....I hope you enjoy it!

And if you fell in love with the song like I did...here's that too.

My Princess

So this past weekend I was at a leadership retreat and I have to say it was a really beautiful experience. All in all, this weekend exceeded my expectations. But here was one of my favorite parts from this weekend...

Saturday night, one of my leaders asked for the men to go around and say a blessing over each of us girls. So all the women stayed in the circle while the guys prayed for us. And I'll tell you what, that means the world to us.

Every girl needs to feel worthy and beautiful and important and loved and to receive all that so genuinely from multiple men of God is just an incredible feeling. I know it meant a lot to many of the girls there, including myself. A lot of us have been so badly burned in the past and sometimes we just need a quick reminder that we are still princesses. ESPECIALLY, in the eyes of the Lord. Gosh I am so blessed!

Ran 5 miles today....

The Adventure Continues...

So yesterday was QUITE the experience. I found myself back at Chaparral High School, but this time I wasn't a student...I was a visitor. And I wasn't part of the audience, I was part of the rally. They held a ceremonish rally for my brother so that they could recognize all his accomplishments and retire his number 3 jersey. It was crazy to hear the crowd cheer for our family as they introduced all of us and to see the stands give a standing O when my brother walked through the tunnel of cheerleaders. Slightly awkward to see 2,000 faces staring us down, but it was an incredible feeling that's for sure.

After that we headed to the city council meeting so that they could announce that January 10th is officially Allen Craig Day and that the street between Outback and the CHS baseball fields is now Allen Craig Drive. Before this though Gary Sinise (Lieutenant Dan from Forrest Gump) talked about the house that he is building for a wounded war vet in Temecula. When it was Allen's turn to speak in front of the city council members the first thing he said was "well I'm feeling pretty small after hearing about what really matters in life"

Seriously guys, there aren't many people like my brother out there. There is all this hype, all this press, all this recognition, but he STILL clings to his roots and his foundations. He is such a humble man and I am so blessed to have a brother like him to look up to. I am overwhelmingly proud and honored to be a part of this adventure.

I am usually not a fan of cats....but depending on your level of comfortability with the person sitting/laying next to you....this is the appropriate action to take if they are cold or in need of a solid embrace.

I Wanna Build YOU A Bicycle...

I wanna build you a bicycle faster than life

So you can keep up with your dreams

Bring you a basket of beautiful laughter

All of the love that you need

Humbly, honestly I only wanna be

One of your favorite things

But I want you to believe in me

Cause I never wanted

To give it all 'til now

Cause I always waited

For you to come around

At last, my love is found

Say, I like cursive sound of the words

And all the letters you leave

You're like a classic, restless romantic

Straight from the cinema screen

Back when our father's grandfather's

Grandfathers had daughters

Far before the machine

Way back when lovers believed

Just Keep Swimming...

This has how my days have been. I don't think I have slowed down for AT LEAST 14 days. That's two weeks. I feel like I'm jumping and running from activity to event to work to hang-out to adventure. It is super exhausting, but so worth it. I would never regret staying on my feet. Sometimes it's quite the obstacle course to get to where I want to end up, but I know all this scrambling is going to be worth it some day.

I'll be wishin' and visualizing on your description about every night and calling attention to those I admire and while now I'm kickin' with you.

San Diego Adventures

So I think I have driven to San Diego more in the past couple weeks than I have in my entire driving career...(which I guess isn't really that long either).

But I have made my way to the waters edge three times while I have been home on break...once to Seaport Village and twice to Ocean Beach.

In each of these three trips, San Diego had something different to offer me

There's something about the Ocean Beach area that tugged at my creative heartstrings a little bit. And with apologies for how ambiguous I'm being right now...

i KNOW that something BIG is about to happen.

I won't give up on us. God knows I'm tough enough. We got a lot to learn. God knows we're worth it. I won't give up on us.

This is kind of how I feel when I think about the new year to come. I am just going to wake up every morning KNOWING something wonderful is about to happen. This year I want to live more, love more, learn more and just be bold.

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything & make your optimism come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best and expect only the best. ~Christian D. Larson

GOSH...

So true....

Happy New Years

These are hardest times, love’s so hard to find
Blessed is the man who has a woman at his side

2012.....that's what year it is....

WHAAAAT?!?!

I order time to slow down NOW, it is moving much too fast!

So the past three New Years Eves have been complete fails, ending up with me hanging out with Jessica and Madeline. Of course we ALWAYS have a blast when we are together, it is just funny how our plans always end up falling through.

BUT this year = success! We had New Years Eve at my house and I had the privilege of welcoming in the new year with both old friends and new friends. They are all such a blessing and I had an absolutely wonderful time. Thank you everyone for being a part of my new adventure. I love you all.