Sisterhood

So Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 comes out in theaters Wednesday and I am about to pee my pants.

Laney, Juliana, and I decided to get together and watch the first one.

After fighting over which ice cream place to go to we went to Coldstone, it was good but it wasn't no goodberries but thats okay. I enjoyed my chocolate cookie dough :). We stayed and chatted about marriage which has been the topic of all of our conversations lately haha.

After icecream we came back and watched the movie. I forgot how good that movie was and it just made me more excited about the second one! We are all going on Thursday night to see it YAYYY!



So I was watching Oprah the other day and the topic was "Sex in America" and she had this married couple on who have an open marriage, meaning they can have sex with other people outside their marriage. The wife has a boyfriend who is actually friends with the husband. It made me really disgusted watching this. People in the world have taken God's image of Marriage and completely twisted it up. Marriage is a very holy thing and it shouldn't just be a game. It made me mad so I wanted to share.

Weekend with the goober :)

So Michael Stemler came to visit this weekend, which we really didn't plan but it happened and it was awesome :).
We did all sorts of fun things such as go to Crabtree mall, learn to drive stick shift (which he let me take it on Raleigh roads after learning for only 30 minutes :-\), get new nose rings, introduced him to my awesome high school friends, went to see the dark knight, took him to goodberry's for the first time, watched Beauty and the Beast (we decided to assume that we were Beauty and the Beast haha), had awesome Jesus time, went to the pool, watched 10 things I hate about you (and quoted every line), went to church with the parental units, went to Cracker Barrel and got meatloaf, went to visit Ashley, Whit, Bryan, and Kevin in Durham and took him to Brueggers Bagels for the first time.

It was an awesome weekend. I love spending time with my goober :) :)

Reunited

Today has been a day of reuniting. I got to see a lot of great friends that I have not seen in awhile!

Mike and Bryan arrived in Raleigh at 11! We decided to head down to the pool [according to Baird that is all I do..haha!].
Daddy Bryan laid in the shade while us kids [Mike and I] frolicked in the water. It was stupendous!
After pool time we proceeded to my house to take showers/get ready for lunch with Quinny and Laura!! We arrived at the Crabtree food court around 1:30. It was so great to see both of them! It has been soo long.. which is silly because we live in the same city. All I know is we are not going another month without hanging out! Mike and I got moes and the rest of the gang got chick-fil-a. I haven't had Moes in like 20 years so it was delicious. We chatted about things going on in our lives =). After lunch we decided to shop/walk around. Sandy joined us later. We went to all kinds of fun stores like the Disney Store [my favorite place ever], sharper image...I got to go sit on those vibrating chairs that is always fun [I just lost].
After the mall I had to take the boys home cause they needed to leave for Statesville :(. They departed and it was a very sad time for me..boohoo.
Well I heard this cool girl named Baird Blackley was coming into Raleigh and she was making a stop at the Urkos so I just had to go over there and say hello! Sandy, Quinn, Lacey, Baird, and I all hung out and chatted for a little bit. Yaron and Laura joined us later. We even took a BFF circle picture.. I wish I had it to put on here but it is on Sandy's camera..
We then had to part ways with Bairdy boo which was sad times. The rest of us though grabbed some dinner at Carolina Ale House. That place is really cool because it has a bunch of sports team stuff hanging up. I walked in and to my amazement there was a little section with two ECU flags and peedee the pirate on the wall.. I was really excited GO PIRATES!! [You really never see ECU stuff hanging up at places like that which is a shame!]
After dinner we all decided to go see the opening night showing of WALL-E. So cute! Laura about peed in her pants cause she loved it so much haha!
I then arrived home a little bit ago and spent sometime with Jesus just thanking him for all the amazing people that He has brought into my life.
I have been really stressed out this week for various reasons: school, the rooming situation, and other things going on at home...My time with Jesus today was great though. It was all about not being afraid and coming to Jesus to let Him rescue you..I really needed to hear that!!

"'Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you' declares the Lord." Jeremiah 39:18

Jesus just reminded me to be completely devoted to Him and everything will work out according to His purpose..

"It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick" Luke 5:31

So I slept in today and did not go to church :(
no one woke me up but my mom says she did...who knows?!

I ended up waking up at 12:15pm haha. I ate some breakfast and watched some tv with my mom. We had plans to go see Get Smart today in the theaters but the car would not start so we changed our plans.

I was looking through movies to watch and i came across "The Lion King" gah I could not pass that up. We watched it..so good! It still makes me cry when the dad dies.. I don't think I've ever not cried at that part. Overall it made me really happy because it brought back the days when I was young!
After the movie I got ready and went to a work party/meeting. They fed us dinner and then we talked about improvements we need to make as DSW employes..blah blah blah haha!

I got to talk to my future roomie today on facebook! I actually know her through some people I knew back in high school.. crazyy!

I then got a call from Jen (my sister). It was good talking to her I miss her a lot :(. She told me how Bartley (my bro-in-law) preached 3 services today!! She told me that his sermon was on itunes so I decided to listen to it..
SO GOOD..it was all about relational evangelism which is basically the whole idea of Young Life. He was saying that many of us only talk to people who know Jesus because we are scared of becoming friends with people who don't..but those are the people Jesus calls us to love
"It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" Luke 5:31-32. Throughout the sermon I kept thinking about how I always want to be "comfortable" and God does not call us to that. We should be seeking people who don't know Jesus, forming relationships with them and loving them! It got me really excited for Young Life also..God is going to do amazing things through my team at AGHS and I can not wait for it to happen!