Life again... :)

Mother to 8 now... :)

Did you think I meant mother to 8 CHILDREN??? .....

No, just fish. :) Probably shouldnt have this many in a 10 gal tank, but I couldnt help it. I will probably donate about 4 to my job where they have a small aquarium. I really wanna just keep the bigger ones. They are the cutest, and I dont want them to die. Lol.

Church in the Park

Between weddings and Ice cream!

Yesterday I stayed home sick from work, slept most of the day and thought that I would be better enough to go out with Rachel to Davids Bridal for her gown fitting and to fit my dress. It was a lot of fun, and I felt pretty good for the most part until the end. But, what a night! A lot of good laughs and good friends to share the memories with. I am so happy for her and so blessed and thankful to be her "made of honor". I can not wait to go to haiti in December!

Woke up this morning...sick again. Go figure. So, since I cant have solid foods, ice cream has become my best and worst friend! haha. Chocolate ice cream and I love Lucy in bed = wonderful! However, missing work means missing money...which is not good. It also means I am only that much further behind on my accounts that I am in charge of.

I call him Mr. Fluey...and I dont really like it when he visits me! Haha.

Even when sick, I still feel blessed today. I have enjoyed skypeing with my best friend off and on and relaxing. I am about to start some laundry that should have been done eariler, but my sleep has been off and on.

So much is happening in my life! Yet at the same time, I feel dull at some points. Ha. I have to keep telling myself that God has a plan...and I know he does. Cause if he didnt...i would be in some big time trouble! Wouldn't we all!

Here are some old school pics....Gotta love um! 

Guess what is new!!!

So, I have not been on here in ages! My life has changed so much, been turned sideways, upside down, flipped...what ever else you would want to call it.

First off let me start by, John and I are no longer together. It was kind of a mutual decision, but I feel I hurt him more than he hurt me. I really hate that things had to end, but I know that deep down it was the right decision. Before getting married, we had to make sure and I need a confirmation, and I never got it. I still cherish him and wish and pray for the best for him and his life. Just another chapter turned and ended.

I have started a new job as an administrative assistant/accounts payable at an retirement community here in Mobile. The residents here are amazing. I love talking to them and they treat me so well. Although I am not always as happy as I should be, I am truly thankful to be employed and have an income coming in again.

I left the church that I had attended for so long, in search for something new. In search for a place that was different and expected different than the "usual". I went looking for a place that catered more towards the "young adults" and also let God move and do what ever he wanted instead of sticking to a schedule!

Ended up, Rachel and I visited several churches and came across New Life Community. The first time that I walked in those doors I was over whelmed with love and expectation! I have been attending there several weeks, and last week joined the church. In just a few short weeks, my soul has been fed and I have learned and been forgiven and have even forgiven myself! This church does not have a young adults group...but, God has given me a vision...and I am thinking that it won't be like that for long :) Enough on that...Lol. However, the unity within this church amazes me! They are fairly small, but my goodness, talk about family! I honestly have never seen anything like it, you have to see it and feel it before you know what I am talking about. I have had a life change, I am happier, more joyful, more graceful. I do face my everyday trials...just like today I wanted to chunk the computer out the window at work because I was so frustrated at the administrator and then my computer messed up, BUT I was able to make it through the day by the grace of God.

I am back on the "dating" scene. Just having a good time! I do believe that God will open the doors and he will lead the right man to me in his timing. I have to remind myself that everyday! Its not about what I want, it is about what God has planned for me! And if I do not strive to have what he has for me already, I will never be truly happy.

This year I am: having a major surgery done, hopefully, that will change my life completely, going to HAITI for my best friends wedding!, going to start up a ministry, spend time with the homeless, serve God in any way possible, and I am going to live! What more could you ask for! Just live!

I am so excited about what is in store for me!! I plan to keep up with this blog a lot more now! It is not always easy to find time to sit and write, but I know how therapeutic it can be!

God Bless you!!!

My not so picture perfect life...

So, blogging from an iPhone is not what I consider easy, but, right now it's all I got.

The past week had been an uproar for me, and although I am not ready to go into detail with anyone, God is reallllly working hard on me. I have gotten closer to him in many ways but at the same time, a lot of work has to be done. So many emotions have just fled right through my body.

All I am for sure about... Is God is good... And HE DOES have a plan for me!!!!

On another note, this weekend, Rachel and u are at a condo on the bay. It's been so nice! We went to the farm market, loved it there, got fruits and veggies and ate chicken salad. Then came back and went bike riding for a good while down by the peir and the yatch club. Then made eggplant for dinner with fried plantains... And our bodies somehow ended up out in the FREEZING cold in a semi-warm hot tub, don't ask how we felt getting BACK to the condo!! Haha some people do some real stupid things, but the memories are great!

I guess that's it for right now, gotta full day ahead!!!

So Much Bad...to little good.

Last night was a weird, bad, emotional, frightening, whatever else you want to call it, night. Around 11:30, I was just settling into bed, watching a movie on the Wii, when a noise that I could not possibly describe, echoed through the walls of our house. A BOOM BOOM BOOM, BOOOOOOOM...outside, sounding like it was coming through our house. The power struck out, and all three (dad was in NO) of us jumped out and into the hallway. We put on clothes, scared and worried, ran outside, and saw an SUV turned over in our yard. Over the years this has become a common site. Every six months or so, we end up having a drunk person and their car flipped in our front yard. No thanks to the massive and sharp curve right in front of our house. While calling 911, Jared helped him out of the upturned side of his Chevy, a dazed, confused, hurt, drunk man came out. I was worried sick. While on the phone with the police station, Jared was checking out the car making sure no one else was in the car...I turned around to check on the man, he pleaded he needed no ambulance...i begged to differ.

By the time I had inspected the vehicle, I heard Bama(our dog) barking bloody murder, and the drunk guy was gone. He had jumped our electrical fence and ran off.

Inspecting the damage...awful. Power pole COMPLETELY snapped, wires shredded, ground dug up, 4 signs dragged down, lots of glass...etc. and the power was out all up and down the street. The damage will explain itself in the pictures.

By the time the State tropper, and some other fellows showed up, nothing had changed, until...

About a hour and a half into the inspection/cleanup process, there was a baracade on either side of the power lines...all I remember is hearing all these people screaming and the sight of a Tacoma truck racing through the baracade and coming around that corner in the wrong lane...not stopping. First thought through my mind..."another wreck, this time straight into the power pole lying on the street...big explosion". However, the state tropper and others were able to stop him about 10 from this "night/day dream explosion" of mine, and immediatley the driver was arrested. He had two girls with him also. He was drunk to. The girls were taken into custody but I didnt get to ask about them after being so cold that I deciede to retrieve to the porch with my family and neighbors.

Four drunks...two trucks...

We do not know what happened to the guy in the wrecked vehicle...Whether he is dead or alive.

This morning we finally got power back. I am very thankful for the men that come out of their comfy, warm homes, to help us.

On top of this...I have seen a lot of bad things lately. Yesterday on along with the wreck...an elderly couples house was burnt down to the ground in our area, a little boy was struck and killed by a vehicle a few miles down the road, and the wrecker that came to our house said there had been four more drunk accidents within the past three hours of when the wreck at our house was.

Today, three houses down, an elderly man was being taken wrapped up by an ambulance, we drove down the road a ways, and saw cop cars and ambulances at an elderly place, then alert cops driving up and down 98. I have known several people to die lately to...

Needless to say, I am kinda scared. I am scared to drive around the curve in front of my house, in fear that I may not make it around due to a drunk driver. I am in fear that one day, the vehicles will miss a block from the road and make it into or in contact to my house or a neighbor and really hurting or killing someone. It alwasy seems the drunks live...the innocent die.

What is happening to the world? Maybe I am just not realizing it...and it has been going on forever.

We can only pray...

This is the second truck...more drunks!