this is a public apology

             ......I'm sorry that I have neglected to update my xanga .....

 as below noted on the 27th comment out of my 32 comments below my last entry....it was suggested that maybe I was looking to beat the record of the most comments under one xanga post.....I have to say on the record, that although the idea was tempting I am not infact going for a record I am just neglegent and I choose to read everyone elses pages without updating my own.....

So, as this apology is on the record, I am going to consciously try to keep this updated in effort to keep in touch with everyone that I love better...so...ready or not my next update is coming soon.....p.s. I hope everyone had a blessed Christmas talk to you all soon

So I realize that I havent posted in like ten years and this is a really lousy first time back post but Aubrey had the link on her site and I thought it was really funny....so here it is.....

So, the last couple weeks have been a total blur to me.  Although within that blur I feel like God allowed time to stop so that I could learn so much in such a short amount of time. Things accomplished:

Greece

*Senior Sem*

Summary of things learned:

~ Our lives our not our own.....I thought I had the basic jist of that concept but I didnt even understand a fraction of what that actually means....

~ When we stop and seek wisdom whole heartedly, God reveals things we could have never understood on our own!

~ I need to get off my butt! pretty much sums the rest up!

With all that in mind its hard to believe that there is only two more weeks of school left! I'm so excited to see what kind of adventures God has for all of us this summer, and for alot of the people that I'm closest to here for longer than that! Its so weird how four years can go be so long and so short all at the same time! Anywho so Im going to spend the weekend in Middletown, NY with Kara, Court, Andrea, and Christina Jones, which is very exciting to me!  I love you all....

I'll be praying for all of you in the next couple days for all the work thats coming do....by the grace of God we'll all maintain sanity without killing eachother!

So this past weekend I went home so that I could go to our first college group meeting and to catch up with people/ my family.  When I left I had really low expectations for the trip because it was really last minute and I have lots of school work to get done before march.  Anyway, it turned out to be such an awesome weekend.  I feel like starting from the ride home and ending when I got back to school I felt like I was learning something every second.  God taught me so much about myself and about Him also.  Before I left I think I was getting kind of anxious about this summer and the future and in the mean time losing sight of God.  This weekend the Lord used my family my friends and Temple to remind me of our/ my purpose so Im really thankful! Actually the college meeting ended up being cancelled so it seems that God had a completely different plan for this weekend!

On a side note I have an amazing family....including my Temple fam....Im so thankful for you guys!