tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19938043608461028142024-03-19T05:04:17.222-04:00-The Histrionic Hammond turned Bubbly Blue-Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-57526111019281098612011-01-05T03:05:00.004-05:002011-01-05T03:11:30.631-05:00Forever Fiftieth<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Husband</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;font-size:130%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 23px;font-size:14px;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Perfect in my eyes is the one that you are</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Pure in love and spirit, I adore.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Amor, amor, jadore, you are love.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">He is in you in everything and everyday</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">From heaven to earth you came and touched my life </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I feel you in every part of me, every day...I surrender to love...</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">You have stolen my heart, although I gave it quite freely</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">My mind cannot comprehend the blessing I have, the dream and prayer that is answered in you.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I am changed in every way, every time I hear you speak</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I succumb to your adoration.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">All I want is to be more, to be all, to be my best for you.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I can not be perfect, but I can try as always</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Thank you for your constant patience and grace, for the forgiveness that flows without question.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I do not deserve the gift that you are but I receive it nonetheless. </span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Forever I will love, forever I will cherish, for you are the one my heart adores.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Dedicated to my love. Completed: January 4, 2011</span></span></span></p></span></span></div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-49969162116682256982010-10-18T14:01:00.003-04:002011-01-05T03:04:58.994-05:00For real? Fourty-NineLast night Desmond came back from Tres Dias, and he had an AMAZING experience! I am so grateful to our beautiful Lord for teaching him new things and softening his heart in new ways...I know that this experience will serve to help him grow in the Lord, as a husband and eventually as a father :)<br /><br />So, after he got back we decided to do a late night Waffle house dinner since we were both hungry and we ended up getting locked out of our house and having to sleep in our car!! It was a shock to the system and immediately brought us off the high we had been on. In this we both realized that life will always slap you in the face with something but that it is our choice whether or not we lose our joy....<br /><div><br /></div><div>Food for today's thought: </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 23px; font-family:Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. Even if I am to be poured out like a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.” – Philippians 2.14-18</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 23px; font-family:Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-1177566481274553502010-10-04T00:19:00.004-04:002010-10-04T00:25:36.856-04:00For Forty-Eight...<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Coffee</span><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">The sun like gold shines through trees of wisdom.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Cool wind whips and twists along the edge of day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Sitting still, enjoying the embrace,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Facing the truth and shadow,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">What a wonder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: right;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Squinting to see the reality of abstraction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: right;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Warmth that cools and cool that warms, <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: right;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Light that darkens and darkness that lights.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: right;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">O the mystery.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: right;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: right;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; ">Sensing a shift and solidarity of the day to day.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Stare out at the shapes that pass,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">The outer shells of integrity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">The knowledge learned fades at end,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">The next day learned all over.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">-JHB-</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">3.25.2008</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style=" ;font-family:'American Typewriter';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-83715740878549305332010-09-13T22:43:00.005-04:002010-09-13T22:56:05.198-04:00Frightened Fourty-SeventhSaturday night, Des is in Cleveland, Josiah is at a friends, Mom and Derryck are out of town. Boots and I are alone in the house and so I'm a little freaked so mom tells me to turn on the alarm. I do and feel a bit better. 12:30ish I am searching for a gift card in the basement when I hear the alarm go off blazing through the house! I hear footsteps above me...I run, grab my phone, dash in my room, turn off the light and hide in the closet. I call 911...the woman starts asking 20 billion questions, and I try to answer them as best I can while trying not to breath! <div>I hear the footsteps moving around, the alarm goes off, I think maybe they cut the wire to it?? </div><div><br /></div><div>I hear the footsteps come down the basement steps, I hear the door to my room, the light comes on...I know I am about to die... then the light goes off and the door shuts, the person has left...</div><div><br /></div><div>All of the sudden, I realize that it must be DESMOND! He would be the only one that would come straight to our room, look for me and then leave...I peak out and look and he's gone, I whisper "Hello...hello??" And suddenly there he is! The 911 operator is still on the phone waiting for me and I tell her, "It's just my husband, he drove into town and surprised me!!" I hang up and burst into tears as I was SO incredibly frightened I couldn't contain it... He hugs me and tells me HI! Haha! We go up to await the arrival of the sheriff who still had to come and check things out. We tell him what happened and he laughs and bids us good night! </div><div><br /></div><div>Craziest night of my life, and I thought I was just gonna have a quiet girls night with masks and a foot spa...</div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkn-vd6FIDPF0kD01sbVPytJJKPHua-We3-pHL8MMDorIJHsPccUsW5P5TyFw0KFn-64M2PJ4DkZ9Hsj_7O1J9SYh9M76uuUT8hrOnt71r_fDP5zhGTlx3jqB1w9AfmbGF_xIHL3RQ2UJZ/s1600/Photo+26.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkn-vd6FIDPF0kD01sbVPytJJKPHua-We3-pHL8MMDorIJHsPccUsW5P5TyFw0KFn-64M2PJ4DkZ9Hsj_7O1J9SYh9M76uuUT8hrOnt71r_fDP5zhGTlx3jqB1w9AfmbGF_xIHL3RQ2UJZ/s400/Photo+26.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516596391172771010" /></a><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Me with my face mask on, prior to the surprise from hell haha!<br /><br />Food for today's thought:<br />"Life is a series of surprises, and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not." -Ralph Waldo Emerson</div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-82504205491624663102010-09-10T12:57:00.006-04:002010-09-10T13:31:59.017-04:00Favorite Fourty-SIxth :)I am married.<br />WOW!!<br />I can't believe it and it has already been 20 days!<br /><br />Our wedding was priceless from start to finish.<br />My Desmond is so amazing, he started writing me letters from Thursday night before the Bachelorette Party until Saturday 30 minutes before our wedding. He drove all over to the places I would be like the bridal luncheon local, the nail salon etc... and I had a PS I love you letter experience at every location, it was incredible and I have never felt so loved and special in my life.<br /><br />We had such an amazing experience at every step of the way. Our rehearsal dinner was priceless; after everyone ate, we gave friends the opportunity to say a few words and our family and friends poured blessings and funny stories over us.<br /><br />We had such a blessed ceremony also, with a conclusion of our grandparents and parents coming on stage to pray over us as we start our lives together.<br /><br />The reception was crazy and fun, dancing with all our friends and family was a treasure.<br /><br />It all went by too quickly but even so, I don't mind because at the end of the night I laid next to my new husband and felt such peace.<br /><br />I have been so blessed by God to be chosen to marry this man I have and I cannot wait to see where we will go and the things we will do.<br /><br />Food for today's thought:<br />"Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate." -Barnett R. Brickner<br /><br />Check out some of the pictures from our special day!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq0SkwdqPRWxfTNjydr4RskdeMzVrSiUhw5tpc8JcpSggXPqi5v0eryZe-fFwu-XZC3Oc3_M9xHx4DTlu8egMU0kF65ZE_RkKiU7ZjLV0tpXAIUeOzFndwLndOnSN9UFsoJcfgR4tr79mR/s1600/DSC_0327.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq0SkwdqPRWxfTNjydr4RskdeMzVrSiUhw5tpc8JcpSggXPqi5v0eryZe-fFwu-XZC3Oc3_M9xHx4DTlu8egMU0kF65ZE_RkKiU7ZjLV0tpXAIUeOzFndwLndOnSN9UFsoJcfgR4tr79mR/s400/DSC_0327.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515338715702193634" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB8HUBR2SbBjtf96kYG36OM1_ZJ6RZacw8pftmik-DPrLtiv_TS8BzXdckYNx34AR49Yv03OlqDQWItiZk_5swG_ydChrcntr_5ZwB0iUNQLumLH1e4mBQrNgFEZu7euNswqb9ip0fmNgA/s1600/40036_572216272506_66500073_32989859_7216780_n.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB8HUBR2SbBjtf96kYG36OM1_ZJ6RZacw8pftmik-DPrLtiv_TS8BzXdckYNx34AR49Yv03OlqDQWItiZk_5swG_ydChrcntr_5ZwB0iUNQLumLH1e4mBQrNgFEZu7euNswqb9ip0fmNgA/s400/40036_572216272506_66500073_32989859_7216780_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515337619483094210" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtTdTyWii8v73oNUWRbhnfUq8D-wVmTazG4N-w7BsXEdUJduIyuDZVSVQ3k3qe_P0yklt0JuYHJCBGB5OCrQ_LKRTImtjg4uH7Ip02VZromeZLnpMnG7boQFBrM9hXYVa_d7MJhBOS3pgI/s1600/DSC_0389.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 252px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtTdTyWii8v73oNUWRbhnfUq8D-wVmTazG4N-w7BsXEdUJduIyuDZVSVQ3k3qe_P0yklt0JuYHJCBGB5OCrQ_LKRTImtjg4uH7Ip02VZromeZLnpMnG7boQFBrM9hXYVa_d7MJhBOS3pgI/s400/DSC_0389.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515337614709856962" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCu89JF3S1qEIMDlUdNeOPJI6vRpt33GwNoifl3_R4WkO5Rxm-ke0943SpWsZhfEgUQCXer1icrTj_VyjlLzfvDLkyLvDlSbdfFiBZr16I4aR4n55jZi9teNnAZNN5htRVF8_9yzceFDRA/s1600/P1030757.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCu89JF3S1qEIMDlUdNeOPJI6vRpt33GwNoifl3_R4WkO5Rxm-ke0943SpWsZhfEgUQCXer1icrTj_VyjlLzfvDLkyLvDlSbdfFiBZr16I4aR4n55jZi9teNnAZNN5htRVF8_9yzceFDRA/s400/P1030757.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515337602879059682" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivAOK-6IjyRLgCF8oZS0GplJjxvORkiWOygZDWuKI6WDLRS2ww0xCGXyyiiW6TvQVMs3pBWlJUslo9qbA55RRMSSOeVIXPNpsP-eEG6f7FDHKY1f0d1KY5J9qS_bMrMHhnMLixzFC1mLdE/s1600/P1030801.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivAOK-6IjyRLgCF8oZS0GplJjxvORkiWOygZDWuKI6WDLRS2ww0xCGXyyiiW6TvQVMs3pBWlJUslo9qbA55RRMSSOeVIXPNpsP-eEG6f7FDHKY1f0d1KY5J9qS_bMrMHhnMLixzFC1mLdE/s400/P1030801.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515337597030565682" border="0" /></a>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-59814286879513513022010-02-18T15:33:00.012-05:002010-05-02T03:50:44.237-04:00Flipping Fantastic Fourty-Fifth!!!!!!!!!!!!!<div style="text-align: left;">I am the WORST blogger in the world. I know it, you know it haha!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So, here's the latest in my life...On November 7th, 2009</div><div style="text-align: left;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Desmond asked me to be his wife!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4GV2k_7zwplK5p2785QEH80Qwngd_xh2tyq4DBBlKmnQKOKRii_yxKiTZOatfyz7_-pncTD6QsF9PlOZRoA_lJrlMq0HhK7hqK9tNfxJpNSL0rq16qIMW1tYSQbaZq2fEB162pKpFFdDc/s200/15446_1276440232568_1276855758_806540_6892584_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439684950763511858" border="0" /><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">Desmond proposing to me!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJY-2VX3XTxk3vYORwkEAB0EzWPXKYxPd90s1n1WrJxfYTcM7j_4U5kd-Qhn1XXkDHSPN49zhvkt8KnEAKw9h6Tqin5rWxJV2wPt-YEwAyBeD9QVO7DNfglnIljwJxcxS59vuU6ZV8NK2g/s200/DSC_0134.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439685353602160962" border="0" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">With THIS!!! My GORGEOUS engagement ring! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So, needless to say, the past few months have been extremely busy and filled with lots of fun! My brother got married in December and he is now in MD finishing up his training for the army and should be back home withing the next month before being stationed somewhere. </div><div style="text-align: left;">I am still working on my MA in Counseling and I am working really hard. I have considered transferring and I am still considering that route as the program I am currently a part of is just too much Theology and not enough Counseling which will make me have to go an extra year. SO, I am planning a wedding, going to school, working part-time and also really jump starting my career as a Wedding and Lifestyles Photographer. My website www.flashesbyjill.com is currently in the works and should be up and fully functional by March or early April! I am soo blessed and excited about all the AWESOME things God has been doing in my life and I can't wait to see how the rest of 2010 will go!</div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTKRHQvaWmZDOVIIFsF-gtz75xqKotMh_JemB6FKDl05EiJ02QHPdZjEySlRnwDdjUXvEVt-rX4DECwgy7Mc9FDyz0o02NSL-A_vHL7ERO8fAlxyzWxq1EE1Lp-jFMK2Rn9VWqPHOuXK-j/s1600/Jill-signiture.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 102px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTKRHQvaWmZDOVIIFsF-gtz75xqKotMh_JemB6FKDl05EiJ02QHPdZjEySlRnwDdjUXvEVt-rX4DECwgy7Mc9FDyz0o02NSL-A_vHL7ERO8fAlxyzWxq1EE1Lp-jFMK2Rn9VWqPHOuXK-j/s200/Jill-signiture.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466576927562190514" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Food for today's thought: </div> </div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;font-size:14px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife." -Barbara De Angelis</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:130%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;font-size:14px;" ><br /></span></span></div></div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-49882301015378944482009-08-08T11:51:00.003-04:002009-08-08T12:17:44.120-04:00Fantastic Forty-Fourth!<div style="text-align: center;">Hi everyone!!! Just wanted to give a brief update of my summer thus far in pictures!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This past month Des and I took a week long vacation to Wyoming to see his family, it was a REALLY long drive but so much fun! We stopped at the St. Lois Arch, went to a rodeo</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxmckkMMEcWfko5Gz1QRvelUa07NV8xyEk2xRTmXVhcudvSP_tSerA1hFjF2y8FczqXAv32TipBR9YNJPT75Y3KWj2eEzB85ucuOQry91OOTnmSWicFl_gbjYbm6i4Ff4EuSY0OeRsBrbI/s1600-h/IMG_7614.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxmckkMMEcWfko5Gz1QRvelUa07NV8xyEk2xRTmXVhcudvSP_tSerA1hFjF2y8FczqXAv32TipBR9YNJPT75Y3KWj2eEzB85ucuOQry91OOTnmSWicFl_gbjYbm6i4Ff4EuSY0OeRsBrbI/s200/IMG_7614.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367622798212537362" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Went to the Frontier Days in Cheyenne, where his family lives</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJeobRYmbElzT9rnFJy75WNDoEDoI6SlqJ5OYJi2E_bTC7yGWwbfbtrM658e_psGngMmkwTDRS_6UTyQGdlsLfWQby7btCCy0eLouMhpBtxpwWcG5R70khlbAptMXDK-9x7olCKjbcLIzH/s1600-h/IMG_7659.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJeobRYmbElzT9rnFJy75WNDoEDoI6SlqJ5OYJi2E_bTC7yGWwbfbtrM658e_psGngMmkwTDRS_6UTyQGdlsLfWQby7btCCy0eLouMhpBtxpwWcG5R70khlbAptMXDK-9x7olCKjbcLIzH/s200/IMG_7659.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367622793880599106" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Went to see Rodney Atkins, Kelli Pickler and Taylor Swift, and did and went so many things and places! It was a great time getting to know his family better and seeing who he is and where he comes from :) I was so blessed to be with all of them and look forward to many more times!</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglr5ZP8OPPCm-ycm7cP1F8S72XwRf_Gt2CqXfoe_Hwo2EY1KHjWCM8g1fc5k8SoDRVdaqTnkqcXOIB1Sk6lhlWqi7BlACC2SCAnmEpFohClL_b_krngVQ-cVfqepvgaPZnwy8VmfdKvuze/s1600-h/IMG_7599.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglr5ZP8OPPCm-ycm7cP1F8S72XwRf_Gt2CqXfoe_Hwo2EY1KHjWCM8g1fc5k8SoDRVdaqTnkqcXOIB1Sk6lhlWqi7BlACC2SCAnmEpFohClL_b_krngVQ-cVfqepvgaPZnwy8VmfdKvuze/s200/IMG_7599.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367622787658984706" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">In June (28th) I turned 24! My sweet love took me on a shopping trip for my birthday and bought me clothes! It was so much fun and I felt like a princess! He is so amazing, it just amazes me more and more every single day, he is truly the love of my life...</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ZOfSqb7dkqZ0YRgsQrw7Zpi2f6b6bcCJAWhHeVnuYwMSxcBirkr_2hzf2W73SKe5Z105G7p0JqtutV4ObCIrOz8TuzrjkCC04CIr2WxNo9-DSPZ1Fi1yHHq7_mf00hCfvLNzQ661XiAY/s1600-h/DSC_0298.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ZOfSqb7dkqZ0YRgsQrw7Zpi2f6b6bcCJAWhHeVnuYwMSxcBirkr_2hzf2W73SKe5Z105G7p0JqtutV4ObCIrOz8TuzrjkCC04CIr2WxNo9-DSPZ1Fi1yHHq7_mf00hCfvLNzQ661XiAY/s200/DSC_0298.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367622782681525330" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">My family threw a little cookout at my parents house to celebrate and we had such a great time! Here I am with Mom, Zo and mammy :)</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv8QFFxhMbJN6OpCRbKc_X9SbsxykS-dwfNDysysThlEbvkvHtTROD_dR66gf2hqaLtLNMM_Fj43iQrZqsY0s4_SA9BFn48ZUOzG81SaWbb2WY1xFxhZU2OZN-_SkxLw8eiYpbpVu3NKcG/s1600-h/DSC_0278.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv8QFFxhMbJN6OpCRbKc_X9SbsxykS-dwfNDysysThlEbvkvHtTROD_dR66gf2hqaLtLNMM_Fj43iQrZqsY0s4_SA9BFn48ZUOzG81SaWbb2WY1xFxhZU2OZN-_SkxLw8eiYpbpVu3NKcG/s200/DSC_0278.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367622778236324610" /></a><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">So, that's about all that's been happening other than working at boring ol' Whirlpool every day m-f 8-5 :( BUT I am grateful for the money! </div><div style="text-align: center;">I hope everyone out there is blessed and enjoying every moment of summer they can get!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Food for today's thought:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', fantasy; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; ">Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. -Ada Louise Huxtable</span></div><br /></div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-44133911779011699092009-06-09T04:43:00.010-04:002009-06-10T23:31:58.562-04:00Failed Fourty-Third.<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hello out there????</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />I am a TOTAL blog failure!<br />Things have just gotten busier and busier and now things are slowwww so here I am.<br /><br />First things first...hmm...<br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Well one of my best friends, Andrea was married May 16th in Virginia and I was blessed to be a bridesmaid! Desmond drove up with me and it was just an awesome time with people I love!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8l4te_RMLK19fE9ceMPFs270daA2HoybAI-i45q5Vx2jI_hnl3s9Bl1aIifzSNWypS0VvPNEwAWaF9fEtIcnFXTfuCqiINprCB_5Sg60LTOkfB10bY3tm-h_kB-6-nQO9hMiQptAGdgsm/s200/IMG_7308.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345901517674815698" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The three of us were college roommates and it was SUCH a blessing being able to share the experience together.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSz-7u_PIMOYlX0dIHExeLAwisExZNKJF7-vnifm6cQa3j7rnFEgB7OLEYAmKCMDH7UnUOI2LYDVfqUPD3opvWFv6wyyAzYw2ENoKyeYN74lcqdv8KP3T7tb3V9W7a7e9DlMeWPvQXHwRh/s200/IMG_7348.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345901788120517010" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My sweet boyfriend was a wonderful date and help during the week of the wedding.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The bad news was that on my way home I was let go from my job. The family I was nannying for the past 8 months felt that they needed to find someone else because I was LOOKING for a job that would pay for my masters, even though I DON'T HAVE ANOTHER JOB!!! It has been a serious letdown and financially difficult time. Des has been such a life saver during this time and he is just such a rock for me. I am so blessed to have him! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I was hired at Whirlpool where I will be doing tech support etc... but I don't start until June 22nd which means I wont get paid til a week after that so I am currently at my grandparent's house where I have been re-doing their guest bathroom. SO I have been stripping wallpaper, sanding, putting up putty, re-sanding, priming and painting so it has been a long few days but they are going to pay me so that I can pay my rent this month.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">That's what's been going on with me the past few weeks. I will be updating soon I promise haha!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Food for today's thought: </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"As we drive along this road called life, occasionally a gal will find herself a little lost. And when that happens, I guess she has to let go of the coulda, shoulda, woulda, buckle up and just keep going."</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">~ Carrie Bradshaw</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><br /></span></span></div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-12316034148769823312009-03-17T12:52:00.006-04:002009-03-17T15:01:23.567-04:00Fulfilled Forty-SecondHellllooo everyone!<div>I am trying to once again get in the habit of updating more frequently so here I am!<br /></div><div>So a few weeks ago the basketball team played at Shorter College in our Conference championship and We WON!!! Des' dad came from Wyoming to support Des and the team and it was really nice to spend some more time getting to know him, he is such a precious man.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 159px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg8jIYVgQU8f8TDAifJDLRipiSzaNKRUCEc9vgbmbLUZNnBS0CI2GdaHjJM1WHLMVp1jPCHtkiMe1t_OEIozrjomnVGYpBry3Q7MS6wPURBk7nQDRDda5Pyq5UV2Cg_dG6LZyGB4OOYK3J/s200/IMG_6998.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314218194472307362" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">WE WHOOPED THEM!!!</div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqj8OJr2cL2ajjiMivK2QXNWVj00C2SKFBjWtqDxTmss8JP7xUdTR3BY7zsVVPD9eBbJ1ldvFT7tuVsdnmSgdJf40DaXLj1Y1x01y70NEyNK7OCL71sZec1mMnBU5LMckwQmO5jwS8Pedi/s200/IMG_7006.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314218192263337650" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Des cutting down his part of the net!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 168px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlgoyGx_miD2r8mZU1cEZDV9BtpGauLz4tEwzHSQ9H_F1TA7tu99cJLo69ddr-EqxM5mxRl4sfRS-_XuPBtX7N37Y2VLIyflHmPwqcUhFvM3v1EghBzZzkeAjsH4QW8fQkXXlsdeCT2_0g/s200/IMG_7008.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314218811542281298" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Des and his dad! He looks more like his brother though haha!</div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 171px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3PJdtTq7fXvHI0PIrofKXjhwc3Xv6CYyyu0ISFR5W1QkUhUlJoqKtTiha76MbY-AImUKXdyXPbh7KIYwxCCzrHekORPpMsMLnN0L335fTayqpLJ8feiyni2iYmMjxhRqu6ahQhxdR8i0Y/s200/IMG_7007.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314218808722840258" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Me and me handsome man!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This past week Des cooked dinner for me during the week of our Six month anniversary! He made homemade mashed potatoes, green beans, and meatloaf. It was delicious!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMu5js-zpFVvY3saDCUxg3uVuFtnst4sN0sptjKaOpwWIppJcCT1Ec2rTiuhbdQcAc43YLcFCCTYLw_KgAOtelUaGa-JKrwXbFlxlw8WQhlFTtvQDSU4qCP8a196T0SaB3fycD3PkVBrz5/s200/IMG_7030.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314218189648231394" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">SO yum!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEuV_1NrEGSl5PEkY-i3Uin_EB_lbLB_u5EJ7-rbIlF2Isl6TCV6pisNatjwgbSzKbYZ1J3PoJM44WFBDBXr0pLVdUjyszlWxZ68_iIBk_9UuJvPbbBf56YwVbHBIb_Vsl7yKIQXD8UTzh/s200/IMG_7029.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314218176209752850" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">He is SOOO amazing!!!</div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj68UF_aO_M9didERwaYqJzq52bXdMj2AkMyBxTmsp3BpoI4drs5oRCXuJI5YQHmXIwyGYtfwhKJTQvq-aI2iYTAXfjX_ieHJQD2ahxH5vggP66m9sIFLVAE9W_cKj6ctEJRvsSFTZYOfMB/s200/IMG_7043.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314218183863579538" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Us on our six month anniversary!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This Thursday I am leaving to go to Kansas City MO to go to the National Tournament! The guys left today and I can't wait to see Des already! </div><div style="text-align: left;">Hope you all are having a great St. Patrick's day!!! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Food for today's thought: </div><div style="text-align: left;">Oh, the music in the air! An' the joy that's ivrywhere - Shure, the whole blue vault of heaven is wan grand triumphal arch, An' the earth below is gay wid its tender green th'-day, fur the whole world is Irish on the Seventeenth o' March!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">~Thomas Augustin Daly<br /></div></div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-36341943058268775522009-02-25T08:27:00.005-05:002009-02-25T18:28:23.211-05:00Frenzied Forty-FirstI have been a total and utter slacker when it comes to this blog.<div><br /></div><div>Ok, so there.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm back.</div><div><br /></div><div>The past month and a half have been crazy busy...I was the Youth Director for Vida Nueva (Young women's retreat) last weekend, which was the culmination of about 5 months of planning and creating etc...So, the past 5 weekends in a row I have had to drive down to GA for meetings and to the weekend itself which has kept me busy in itself.</div><div><br /></div><div>Also, weekend before last, Desmond and I celebrated our first Valentine's day and our 5 month anniversary! It was AMAZING! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 178px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Ll0fRLwqUEk24LieMWA8h8XWV7Q2chsaig9Q0vUhyXCo7M89Iv_iPrQdAF3iKRW9PSEM_aqnNG9br6qYxJWy3PkI4-XyjW0YAeXrhIfTubAV4eE0fridI4oxn__D2VHhYVsv2k0Run29/s200/IMG_6818.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306727883099411794" /><div style="text-align: center;">My gifts to him: NBA socks, earrings, a scrapbook I made him and a strawberry cake I made him with homemade icing! </div><div style="text-align: center;">His gift to me....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZwuEjxA5KUGUmlQexuS2isGjEU4uT_mcGGX3FO5sGbin5-cw19vE4OvquuFfkmtHKkt6ztXAYu-hQiFQ_9Tv7xcLVOBvvO4QnHhL-2Uue6zpEQT6yibZcAnIeP9svwnsEiku75crapZ_V/s200/IMG_6830.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306727885023756306" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This beautiful bag from COACH! I was completely surprised!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLrfpaRu-_ewXl0CBx0sVZSnhGmy_RM6BiKekxvXygYrtN9kwPMzpY6Bu7p5fH7ASAaQsgRkXy_BFzQn5cKS1XMlVmT16sS9kp2ZSEQGEWD0gLtiwHOHUSBTxsNaEKgFeeKjcIHTaJZ0qN/s200/IMG_6842.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306727888229214386" />We went to the Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga and then to coffee, and dinner, a movie-He's Just Not That Into You- and walking around the city...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL7t2T9eAw67i36i1Mqg2glCgMQkT9P05SmpimMY85n-dUwuIAUKHLOqP3uXd4msHu354dt61zyfb-iqoOoXYuYCAUHMTZHoq76lRrYL_y-1bU91bgRA8xtZIZc9heEETawdiyw1Z9Jszj/s200/IMG_6890.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306727888971801826" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It was cold while we were walking but it was soo worth it! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It was the most precious day ever! He truly knows me, and he does because he really took the time to learn about me, to find out what I love and what makes me tick. It was so awesome!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As I said above, I just finished working on a young women's retreat called Vida Nueva which is Spanish for "new life." It is a faaaantastic way to connect with other christian's and to grow with God. To find out more info visit <a href="http://ngvn.org/">www.ngvn.org</a>. I was blessed to be the Youth Director, which is like second in command under the Director. It was a hectic job but so fun and so fulfilling. It is amazing to see how God changes the hearts of the girls and to see him becoming real to them for the first time.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I also just moved, AGAIN. Actually, my AMAZING boyfriend moved me. He surprised me three times, once with all my things put into boxes, next with all the boxes being moved to the new place, and while I was at Vida Nueva, all my furniture being moved! It was Unbelievable! I had no idea he was going to do all of it and it was such a blessing! Since I work all day he knew I would have little to no time and so he just did it when he was not at practice or school...such a keeper :) Hopefully this is my last move until next year, I LOVE my new place, I have stuff in boxes right now but as soon as its all unpacked I will post some pics!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Much love and happy thoughts!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Jill</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Double Food for today's thought:</div><div style="text-align: left;">"Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading."<br />-Oswald Chambers<br /><br />"If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence...? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!" -Keith Green</div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-55023597945977627252009-01-13T18:06:00.005-05:002009-01-14T09:19:21.706-05:00Festive FortiethOK OK OK! I know it has been a LONG time since I last posted...BUT things have been busy! First there was Thanksgiving, then my graduation, then Christmas and New Years!<div><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 142px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcELuLX7cCVhuxJj5iN1UVx9JOdEVQeTPohBCYhl3qeN-mA2cwCLcfk0SLMuYH_sSndPZzlky-q6P99ux4Elad-_D237XoIQ_biUdZB9xP6Yw33aqN44mleJ8w3KCmVUA35bzT-pd6RW84/s200/IMG_4355.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290921360720767554" /><div style="text-align: center;">The Fam on Christmas Day</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 168px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfafBR0IsWz6CxvRw8uWS4VMYO8-f2pq0jFdNN4GUcHkWVxxg_h5Ujq54bkscIBjlrOnbv_VLA2pTKr9aIU14YtCY683S2WzQ_BLq4FVaSYSXwycjEgeX3mdqhwgSnLkksexRsPfxiuLt7/s200/IMG_4442.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290921361221986930" />Hangin out with friends and fam on New Year's Eve</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I spent New Year's day taking engagement pictures for my sister and her fiance. Here are a few from the shoot:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 154px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj_ajK0NqrL5DIjfcax6rb6M1I8_6-q-IhDlnxVcCqckcP2HqfzjmByVgqZwzxVAJW-yi4MkyAXBgi3D5LvsMeuNBFCBf0U7penGDBmPzCwYzi6akAzxRMtwFaP0mej541KFWYMNweY5kB/s200/_MG_3499.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290921373671314706" /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 111px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPKDl4duWZ5xemp_UYBna1Tah3UsYPON0GjkTLKiU3t2pugHH9F2f0YS5LB-1ZZxSD-sj5Nyqos0U2d-WpxVsJ253DT4bsKYdsN2ki-8EH372zkK7NU4qwWOewvksZ833sfjj6cGliuYp_/s200/_MG_3646.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291148832489204498" /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKoYbWSXl_Q_u0tj138wcMxUnnXo41NR8ryjCI2pVOcGdYUULnQGvovxGs3T1Tc1b5qK4vctticOtM7DdjZeC46jVDPsyzt-8JxoBG4G3kTbDSwp3C-ffgKckAyGi9kwCrsZIcwdFbKG06/s200/_MG_3630.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290921383128152578" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoMquIGp5y1hM_U7YDcflDyhdwFElQpqRi52ZrB6OhhVvil4Wz2MDePQksO2f_HmLKhvipD4ShU2JvsP2xCCzh2tE80-XfxuZABQuvpQ8p6_lh_MndlE2uhUCi-gx7ASRSPG78F8AdACoq/s200/_MG_3483.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290921369097469522" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Last week my best friend, Emily who has been living in British Colombia, Canada for the past 2 1/2 years finally came home for a visit! She came up to Cleveland on Monday and we got to hang out all day! It was soo great to see her and catch up!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtsOeHyUzsBL9RJc5nS2opGwrtIebYCF9TfXnw0Sq5h1PPQFR5nUvbeWrzwI168e85W3XWpejzW3NpZslfmwfE90VOk1DdJ-U9f09wSRZkHkL52G9gVTHnEIEJlr8h3PkspMSg5YiI3RT9/s200/IMG_6702.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291148834706437842" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">SO, I don't know what all to expect for 2009 but I am really excited! I know that the Lord has a specific plan for me and I just want to do what he wants for my life and I am seeking him for exactly that.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I hope everyone is doing well in your own corners of the world...much love from mine!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Jill</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Food for today's thought:</div><div style="text-align: left;">"Beginning is easy-continuing is hard." -Japanese Proverb</div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-31459510866632429342008-12-16T17:13:00.005-05:002008-12-17T16:27:21.550-05:00Thrilled Thirty-Ninth<div style="text-align: left;">Sorry for the lack of posting, the past few weeks have been INSANE! I have been trying to get things done to graduate and that included 2 exams, a 10 page research paper and 6 pages of service papers, not including work and my regular life! <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, all the hard work has paid off and I am now</div><div> a COLLEGE GRADUATE!!!!!!!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7H71HgitdgP3w3ITbbS_2hWZDeY4LGBORzMpidBBuAdTpJ_L11WimLMmD4MunFn83ZR1xxAC0wfMeocaY_nZHaAkx58GaAPH0OpScW_X8d4DSINlAkkN3bhvDt7Y4a_ZMH-i3NUktlT6/s200/n5812329783_1008945_1233.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280515968896891954" /><div style="text-align: center;">Shaking our president, Dr. Conn's hand and getting that diploma!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 114px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjErXpOYlpcmtg4-bugH5AgeXRCPuqFjivUoLme4U74ys3Xe4wQmqzRfG7pTO_RWmQev5lNsaQukmXUCNfQN0qEWzAGauv3z4eLRtRf38EVAYv5YHIF499eAxjPdlqAqb3G-zgNRCz4J9-6/s200/IMG_4125.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280515969522321058" /><div style="text-align: center;">Des and I, isn't he handsome??!!??</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjco11NclSNEB0mxlUb8-lgUs4WmgslaGZVMgfyQ2gqZeTJuilVVmBbeIQf0HzLqRsqPb3Nw8gldBlw2RqB8lWb7P3V9m6fS5Mv7MKk1-cptUgW4oEp88YeID67IorceoB8gIkj4A1BIDj0/s200/IMG_4123.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280872795334836866" /><div style="text-align: center;">The Siblings minus one :(</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRLkpF5LZgBxEYFpOw3GI-ETTaAvt-MbAVcZ1P_V5i1z5Zq02L267tijWKawX8hj3_jQzrmjbR4uNIwCJIxb-rguu9Ic-HGbBHCsdwo6JXdxzh3dpkzDlyyxY5gsIdFNL5oi1A6EDxuOrw/s200/IMG_4115.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280515954701837906" /><div style="text-align: center;">My mom, me and my aunt-she also graduated from Lee with a BA in Psych like me!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 159px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6DBWmy0KZmCY3_UNe6aLKFgo5xAr8ZwG-QrBx5vFnFj6b1Y9RqFclNfdgko9KHr98aKMWB9p-2C4LqLpIWQGKiIet4pzJyRS5cIZ8sTN1KzHwU_mIZOVFJszW0XHF3W5gE06WJfU1Jzu_/s200/IMG_4121.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280515961986484562" /><div style="text-align: center;">My wonderful amazing grandparents!</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 199px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwPeijgk9gDC8WLYCUcRnWx86HjHH_ppapSkzSrweXrL_JChxbp6TkJK3wq9AtbEOLwEIeErwXVzStSjLFSUaZs9Xg6xlhXA1LXhsQsX5XHq68fsOyMTo2y-n9tMNTF5FhwRofzGghqtXM/s200/IMG_4142.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280515968709400802" />My beautiful graduation ring!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Needless to say, I was shocked when I walked across that stage...I really never imagined myself graduating! I think its because I have been there for so long! </div><div style="text-align: left;">It is such a strange feeling to be done with school...after 18 years of school I barely know anything else...it is what I have been comfortable knowing...So now I am thrust out into the wide world of endless options feeling very untrained and lacking in guidance. However, there is always grad school in the fall...back into the comfort zone I go!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Food for today's thought:</div><div style="text-align: left;">“I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.”</div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-74540545270342369922008-12-02T09:35:00.005-05:002008-12-02T09:52:33.597-05:00Thanksgiving Thirty-EighthSo it's been quite awhile since I updated...things have just been a little crazy here on my end...<div>Last week was Thanksgiving, Desmond and I drove home to Atlanta last Tuesday and had Thanksgiving with my dad's side of the family. We went to my g-parents house Wednesday and I helped her cook, and that night we went out with Murray and Stacey-Des' best friend and his girlfriend-we went to see Four Christmases, which is really funny, definitely recommend it! Thursday was Thanksgiving with my mom's family, Friday was Black Friday shopping at 6 am and Desmond's b-ball game in south Atlanta, Saturday was my brothers 15th birthday party, Sunday was church and our return to Cleveland!!! Whew!!! Sorry to bore you with all the details but that just explains my lack of writing!</div><div><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ9Aw2yb2iOpqKBeywY-6nIpV82WkxR2PJNuJpmcpA-MH5Z32N2DLCZt8wcTuLH7qsDeYmmyTc3hbmLdXfOs0htizexVi7D3WPBw2r6ysMg4f3KKX3grHvTqnHwQmTm4Ka_7hXE5DRBJXa/s200/IMG_6537.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275204011283773586" /><div style="text-align: center;">Des and I at about 5:30 on our way to the mall!!! It was sooo early and cold!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div>So this week is filled with reading and writing as I finish up my last college course and my service learning hours before graduation NEX</div><div>T SATURDAY- December 13th!!!!!!! </div><div><br /></div><div>WOW. </div><div><br /></div><div>I can't think about that right now...I'll think about it tomorrow and write about it later...</div><div><br /></div><div>Sorry I don't have very many pictures I just was on picture taking hiatus this Thanksgiving...</div><div><br /></div><div>Love you all!</div><div><br /></div><div>Food for today's thought: </div>"Forever on Thanksgiving day the heart will find the pathway home." -Wilbur D. NesbitJillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-82623132133202350162008-11-10T19:34:00.013-05:002008-11-10T23:48:57.828-05:00Total Thirty-Seventh<div style="text-align: left;">I have had a 5 day weekend like NO other! It all started last Thursday night at the Basketball game, Lee vs. Temple- one of our largest and longest rivals- I went to that game with some friends to cheer Des on, and we won 58-67!!! <br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 153px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5I0VAdhHnb0dm8psf_wXTjRsXAf26Bl0SrMxN8Tfqw3zfTmAgrJkwn9VhRgWZ9ETJz9Zyiw1Acx8Se6En-CgvvHOhwylgd4nhrX4a9VtvqqM7Csfc_NUrYw4v-LmJ0vVWE203DrWYizrT/s200/n1573800063_30038160_8494.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267193902723404290" />Me, Ashley and Paris cheerin </div><div style="text-align: center;">on the Flames!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9iruoDB7yY8W0vnLa0kHdGo_nf2S6zyU4_q-MB7893vsGWHs0qBgiCVWAeVsi2zCy_apIjUXAhCr5fh1RCUs8O0btS872i0x_9Mz24Ni19LHmPyQyaQbg0CFoFQgPTYN4e3bRd9fNRIWE/s200/n66500073_31546657_9224.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267195986572001522" /><div style="text-align: center;">My handsome </div><div style="text-align: center;">boy after the game :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Friday night I went to the EVS (my old choir, the Evangelistic Singers) alumni get-together as it was our 40th reunion. I saw some of my lovely friends, it was soo great to catch up with everyone after such a long time!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh23g0fJAwS4TJPQwhmJJmX-f1k7h1XXamfDs7i8VTS1fEdKQ6dq2w2p4tM1FCxj0SmiwnTFPjZ6RpYx7FFxI0J6KoiTeH4dtQ2YTHDL8CXotW8bFjH3OF7Mu9Z_33fifoGti39-crha2GV/s200/n507999518_911285_491.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267215272778146162" />Some of the EVS Alumni</div><div style="text-align: center;"> plus a few new faces...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">After the Alumni get together my parents took Des and I out to eat at Carrabba's. It was a really nice time just catching up and letting my parents and Des get to know each other better. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Saturday morning I had EVS practice then I had roommate pictures to take, then back to the house for a luncheon one of the roomies (Liz) mom and grandma made for us. After that I met up with my parents for the basketball game against Montreat College, who we killed at 92-66!! Then I sang with EVS Saturday night at the homecoming music festival after which my friends and I went to Applebee's...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 153px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWmkrVcaDUPTV_wIJ_XufOLuU6NtFGse81ZKjwc4sTlKCbKtoNJR42U_QftISSz_BodgFhlHbJqa6hndomfLTZsfTTYn5fmqpxt_3pTia6gGzL0QMWu788-92Pa4y5GygBgnQEv8HfqQBC/s200/n66502070_31543445_9169.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267242947665170930" />The lovely ladies of 2250, me Liz, Courtney, Laura, Hannah and Jenny</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 106px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsUZJBfULUk9pUDY3m8bR6mbMO5DAKwkFfdzfsgiYUJMDcqueg9Kzj5NqqBdNoW5ou15f-dKoNlr63jcf3vs9HtG40QDWc6U9jJX61__yPQScgzH6TXuLQYkLhdugmY5a-mUKLJBYC4Pbc/s200/n66502070_31543439_4560.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267242952249991634" />Leaping!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghJKXvuXp4K2wtpPkZgwoy6-Oxxy0Of-GCgNre86i9or8JpcDjFkEwkPPev7m6JLb60QlWmL2PbHuxHqsS7xnE7zWQan2z7-7Y-PhU_KFbdh2IyWWlx1B3CGWtymo70Jdh_aUVod6gzoyM/s200/n66502070_31543431_6969.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267242945479952786" />Sepia.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 144px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEUIsxE6xbV8QIA2Q6bvXLidQgbyH0uBSgGeD_xkRZZoGnPOEQIgM5l2_D1_FL4msV9m1Agq3I3iNmoGzmSFsAoazhWO8NQOHQc5qy85rsP6JDu9NsJBaFCKpv36RFvpUYNcQWXf0dLqk/s200/n66502070_31543416_357.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267242940684949554" />"Walk beside me and be my friend..."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 126px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmFqmkhOvb-uiakgGKGuTiyoFCHufor-9IuA-lQphYFcp_U8v58qRhwmo7c9D3t7LXk3Z9OYUhXppKkymAM2BH3V9KeSBejDCHoHSRZPCq2mqJqaHEeSpOy5QwiD9v2AinXT4XMu7BdJD/s200/n66502070_31543428_1972.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267242940947241426" />Bonding on the bridge :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZsqG2MGkqjVqOnSD92_V_JqjAVNsvyNrebyBHfts7I3DDmBnyd_bZA1WWjX5LWucXK3_4TOpwe-1ojkmkFjIvLxV06w4DYZeqF4pSBuP37QTLjpWL0iAGe-R5QbGItlSqh7u365GdYMx7/s200/get-attachment.aspx.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267256631223319602" />Mom and I at Desmond's game :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 196px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr6XWM_-2ju8CLc5t2ufKIUlLGDW_iWQREQv4K_4s-0MNzIM7nwuOLl2nwb4ppoaY2WnmtArfldnqAaWZ4Odq8y7Vpat9g7DsKcphP6d5JTgMQHiRJ9wEwBDQqlos2OnZiUUNqgaDCv9br/s200/get-attachment-4.aspx.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267251621510041234" /><div style="text-align: center;">Des and I at Applebee's after singing with EVS.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Sunday morning my parents took Des and I out to breakfast at Cracker Barrell, and then we all hung out for a few hours until I had to go meet up with EVS. Desmond and I went to the EVS concert together which was just like old times...we sang for a good hour and a half, all the old songs that still touch my heart when I sing them. I am soo grateful for the time I had with EVS, many of the things I learned there are still evident in my life today and I am a better person because of the people I met and the experiences I had during my time in EVS...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">All in all it was a BLAST of a weekend...a little tiring but very fun and fulfilling!!!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Hope you all are doing well and loving November as I am!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Food for today's thought: </div><div style="text-align: left;">"Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile." -William Cullen Bryant</div></div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-8791578147636410892008-11-04T15:15:00.007-05:002008-11-04T15:31:04.527-05:00Tired of T's (and dreading the F's) Thirty-Sixth<div>Hello blogger world! Just thought I would share a little of my Halloween with you...We had quite a party at our house this past weekend with friends and dancing all around! 2 of my friends from Atlanta even came up to hangout! Here are some pics, enjoy!!!</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht_T2JlTKdtjYmYgzTCJmivHOqsyQPex8ZgofnwhYWu6EORl14BNNWsaxDnRXFmscsY-kuwcur9PW1Kyn4SHBD4YufF2pfNMtxs6i0KW6O1jIrsRdH4ysfps955VuJwlgzym0OUPVq1ltI/s1600-h/n688967438_911280_7486.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 190px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht_T2JlTKdtjYmYgzTCJmivHOqsyQPex8ZgofnwhYWu6EORl14BNNWsaxDnRXFmscsY-kuwcur9PW1Kyn4SHBD4YufF2pfNMtxs6i0KW6O1jIrsRdH4ysfps955VuJwlgzym0OUPVq1ltI/s200/n688967438_911280_7486.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264900775891926434" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">My roomates Courtney (as a man), me (as Dorothy) and Jenny as a sexy ladybug lol!</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguKEQJS48RW2oFSKBEgzPzqR8-0xaqqfRbc2BaTKbZ-4MOsUJYWtaTl9qIdR70ErgHyO7shY8jBBQgLofA5f0RsMHvyBPnoHRetwKNZPsvmwTZqVbVaKytdCyFh6kOGFkzOOUVnEWcPgKq/s1600-h/n688967438_911257_775.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 198px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguKEQJS48RW2oFSKBEgzPzqR8-0xaqqfRbc2BaTKbZ-4MOsUJYWtaTl9qIdR70ErgHyO7shY8jBBQgLofA5f0RsMHvyBPnoHRetwKNZPsvmwTZqVbVaKytdCyFh6kOGFkzOOUVnEWcPgKq/s200/n688967438_911257_775.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264900342745668738" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Another roomie Hannah as a footballer</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxPURvTzHXFOBIKWv2zHZyeBMhZvKHx2NiaHBxObGrtVrmKrhmj2kvVPDiN60DCuxxWbW0EKuJQUxewEqKPn-PrEFOhWZGbsOzBo7rTRMpFgWcU51w9GTWszJcEWrBQlBVkNNWrVcfsgR/s1600-h/n688967438_911256_488.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxPURvTzHXFOBIKWv2zHZyeBMhZvKHx2NiaHBxObGrtVrmKrhmj2kvVPDiN60DCuxxWbW0EKuJQUxewEqKPn-PrEFOhWZGbsOzBo7rTRMpFgWcU51w9GTWszJcEWrBQlBVkNNWrVcfsgR/s200/n688967438_911256_488.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264900339752430994" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">All the roomies minus Courtney- Me, Hannah, Laura (as her boyfriend), Liz (as a gogo dancer) and Jenny</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgowNTvymeYJjAISF-Re7wl4KnqbUeljxjiLCJKvnaMhyk32TS8YDGuvsfPBh5zzb9OkV_fPbs-ZPNr7cX09DwAm1Ja-Yz8rp8Bhpgx3gxc08a7_NsS8iRV3fSqOa6TEzw0jBWx9KDLjh-d/s1600-h/n688967438_911255_234.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 198px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgowNTvymeYJjAISF-Re7wl4KnqbUeljxjiLCJKvnaMhyk32TS8YDGuvsfPBh5zzb9OkV_fPbs-ZPNr7cX09DwAm1Ja-Yz8rp8Bhpgx3gxc08a7_NsS8iRV3fSqOa6TEzw0jBWx9KDLjh-d/s200/n688967438_911255_234.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264900334317624258" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">I love these girls!</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxrjWtxYm2aiFFE0t7j7cTlWed1i54kDUfBLmlMfoBK8aa-Eu9yQ8RCp52k5aEugfXSYxaeUw0noa4JmtAR8I_I5zUjouPKa2NW3psV07NNE5Miw5G83uhchKBvx_ExUq_G5d-5HtpQy2P/s1600-h/n688967438_911249_8527.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 128px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxrjWtxYm2aiFFE0t7j7cTlWed1i54kDUfBLmlMfoBK8aa-Eu9yQ8RCp52k5aEugfXSYxaeUw0noa4JmtAR8I_I5zUjouPKa2NW3psV07NNE5Miw5G83uhchKBvx_ExUq_G5d-5HtpQy2P/s200/n688967438_911249_8527.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264900335827115138" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">I love these girls too! My Atl buddies, Kristin and Ashley- they were cobwebs lol!</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLy3GwZyzWy8RVDIXA5kF6-VjJ287ylb7bn4ZmMqFPGMogXWq_6sdldwHZ4wTA-vVRji3-KFpP-hb-y3GMOEKIXhkxHJgZmK2PiGMoAtiygwKG3Qu47C7L7_UNl5_4WbULgutebiLqkYKN/s1600-h/n688967438_911246_7727.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLy3GwZyzWy8RVDIXA5kF6-VjJ287ylb7bn4ZmMqFPGMogXWq_6sdldwHZ4wTA-vVRji3-KFpP-hb-y3GMOEKIXhkxHJgZmK2PiGMoAtiygwKG3Qu47C7L7_UNl5_4WbULgutebiLqkYKN/s200/n688967438_911246_7727.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264900328570625474" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">My handsome man, he wasn't dressed up yet, he was zorro, it was hilarious!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Food for today's thought:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">"Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble." -Shakespeare "Macbeth"</div></div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-59288373994893829932008-10-28T16:48:00.004-04:002008-10-28T19:04:34.644-04:00Truly Thankful Thirty-Fifth<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjApnUCvfPjjQ-z4WVJomH16BedbWibh1pMbRLMZYpTfGKbaJb3upIVMOh6f45EOLV5zmbuFymnfFbrMKCso3Z3pMm1Oxq5ExUwFQ-NIVh8QnJtL5VCR7u50A_VroD1V9mAw50JfjFuh9s0/s1600-h/IMG_6448.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjApnUCvfPjjQ-z4WVJomH16BedbWibh1pMbRLMZYpTfGKbaJb3upIVMOh6f45EOLV5zmbuFymnfFbrMKCso3Z3pMm1Oxq5ExUwFQ-NIVh8QnJtL5VCR7u50A_VroD1V9mAw50JfjFuh9s0/s200/IMG_6448.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262314112996199426" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Sharing a kiss :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>In August when I broke up with Jonathan, my plans for the future crumbled. <div>I felt lost, unloved, used up and totally clueless as to what God wanted for me.</div><div><br /></div><div>I decided to just move on, to let God take control even though I could not understand.</div><div><br /></div><div>God has been working on me ever since...he is healing my heart and my mind. Changing me from the inside out. He also brought Desmond into my life.</div><div><br /></div><div>Desmond and I literally fell into this relationship, with God as the guide...I seriously thought I wouldn't be dating again for the next several years, and he, after getting out of a rough relationship back in May thought the same thing.</div><div><br /></div><div>We both PLANNED to stay single, date casually and let our wounds from the past fester. Little did we know that God would plop us into each others lives to heal those wounds and teach us soo much.</div><div><br /></div><div>The past 2 months have been a whirlwind. Never have I known a guy so willing to put his heart on the line, to go all in, to commit fully and share his life with me completely. I am so honored to be called his girlfriend because of who he is and because of how he is with me...</div><div><br /></div><div>I can't wait to see where God takes us on this road we've started, but in the meantime, I am just loving every minute I have with him.</div><div><br /></div><div>The happiest ever,</div><div>Jill</div><div><br /></div><div>Food for today's thought:</div><div>"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you." -Loretta Young</div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-72070954974063787382008-10-23T09:19:00.005-04:002008-10-23T09:36:00.123-04:00Tenacious Thirty-Fourth<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT8VMZgJi1GxRIk57RDarlFfqp1SHwnCAjPnGIpURck6M12RxrcgOCOolJ-Xr8RALN8nuVZZkRnnULV-nr80baCAIJrnn6r5lX80mDwvVAwNc5H2CoGKjGKCk0ObBoI2gmKCbb6Jcxd85B/s1600-h/wilderness_lodge.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT8VMZgJi1GxRIk57RDarlFfqp1SHwnCAjPnGIpURck6M12RxrcgOCOolJ-Xr8RALN8nuVZZkRnnULV-nr80baCAIJrnn6r5lX80mDwvVAwNc5H2CoGKjGKCk0ObBoI2gmKCbb6Jcxd85B/s200/wilderness_lodge.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260342356462745938" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>OK, so I had a nannying interview 2 Sunday's ago, and then last Friday the mom called back and said that they were having a hard time deciding between me and one other girl, so they asked me to come this week for a trial week...so I have been keeping their precious 4 month old, 5 and 9 year old boys the past 3 days... Last night the dad talked to me and said that they had a great feeling from me from my interview and that the past 3 days with me have run so smoothly, that as long as the rest of the week goes well they will be offering me the full-time position! So I will work Tues-Thur 7:15-6 and either Mon or Fri I'll work a half day. I may work some weekends, but I will be paid overtime for that and it will be planned in advance. So I will be making 300+ a week! PRAISE GOD!!!!!! I have been SO stressed about money and this is just what I need! Also, they are going on a vacation to Disney World, and I will be going with them the 18th-23rd. We are flying down, and staying at the luxury resort villas at The Wilderness Lodge!!! All of that and I'll be getting paid for it! I also get paid holiday's! This is the most amazing job ever! O AND the mom is a Physician's Assistant and so if I get sick she can see me for free!!!<div>YAY!!!!</div><div><br /></div><div><br />"A Nanny's job is priceless, such precious minds to reach...<br />A job done out of compassion and love for the ones they teach." -Unkown<br /><br /></div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-78237330069955069252008-10-15T13:58:00.005-04:002008-10-15T14:22:46.830-04:00Tearful Thirty-Third :)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghw9n4SgdccStjIo0rOgHs8l17G7jguna5u10RG_WoCmN7vcPECWSpddnadVi0J-6mSt_jpG0ckY4bWFK2woCTZ9Ee97qV9vjmNLPOIjHtE0_tBOzYuITO2tDLru-TNaY7Sx4PPJUEmS7w/s200/n66500193_31495403_2146.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257444300664095762" />The Program.</div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCMU6N1tGnrdLgyekDc9sF0TP0tsdlOITITOh_83l6Quol81qon4LaUg2aUcmNeyey2WDWBOB_uaaasQIf_Vb8WdtIMTJSaDgg9Fc6a2jhyphenhyphenNRGlBBiH68ErVvirvbbCwsgVQ8ERxAlOH-j/s200/IMG_6475.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257444281649305346" /><div style="text-align: center;">The first kiss!!!</div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5RDQZ57sV6AAlOG2tZYPqe-mifxwW70KGBJ0PNcQqpA5_UtfnD16kasfaK6n_ytMexnSqyjl3__orIeBTN_8Xli3Yd7gx4yUh6YwtnK2YdLUrDGWw7R9DAmhEBxhXIMMRln14arZLaByr/s200/n66500193_31495417_6694.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257444819490826722" /><div style="text-align: center;">Walking out as husband and wife!!!</div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJSga1F33qaHBsBSoXfN1QYjs09EctuZuprUV4_wIPAnMQyDx_zum4NKZ3dN9iXUKQs9Xl27joi3nwjnr6vVMWV_GUt9FLUXn14Fmt6EJW9gzObSIjdyWvo0fvTVdUwajnMtTZ_JKY7HIb/s200/n66500193_31495455_3141.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257444826784288482" /><div style="text-align: center;">The bridal party!</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtvHFaoP6vUFrNSmNV01vRoEjG53j9XyPWWx38_6IDCwyM1BfbmQ0muoL-wn-I6GOWsFngle9p4MYl3JE2Jz5OwYpBT9TYq1CJ03AgoD4lxxCxZ-CxromtWGwoEg1RvQszh_5mPbaUoY_z/s1600-h/IMG_6484.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtvHFaoP6vUFrNSmNV01vRoEjG53j9XyPWWx38_6IDCwyM1BfbmQ0muoL-wn-I6GOWsFngle9p4MYl3JE2Jz5OwYpBT9TYq1CJ03AgoD4lxxCxZ-CxromtWGwoEg1RvQszh_5mPbaUoY_z/s200/IMG_6484.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257444829218010146" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Me and my super handsome date! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz7YbpcLBOsQ4V3I-aWgIUe4Qz5I9e1naMs4VZHiAbJZz1WhMQvU_-leUEXKeiDzSewPto6AGgzTr6XVo3CSM5Ili2s4oW29YwJX4ctCitSwkruPN48PWCJOxt_cn2n88zRmsvltcevOf7/s200/n66500661_31491752_5667.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257444292672832226" />The Bridesmaids with our friend Jessica</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib7YF_Ujj6b_VryNXi9mnWcG0uRDkho-7JKce7kn3pxFLkv4PP4DBUIUPa2H5s5l4boi_7VzPAXjIMyx2kypX0cPYHmPxicAtG5rLBaRqZXr7Xq3rhbpneRYJJuYRVAt-yktL-UclFPA8C/s200/n66500661_31491895_2092.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257444298327862386" />Chilling with Liz and Jessie at the Reception</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF3lIep2njBCUi5BdKoncBrPS8rj58Lhdy3ojRB8Oit4-BLTYk8lVf4yJUNcL66yLfG0m9oTukLUoCpH8WIHN2i6kTu04wGb-qnUk_Ru9qwEHZjqHMSYz8xao7GXD_4GKroM1wG-e7pZGc/s200/n66500193_31495235_4607.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257444297576392434" />Drinking some sparkling cider </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijqwZwyGI1hpKD8Zo4gX4xI-iU27wcvlqX5o4EJf_WyXXFrjJwhejXnQDWkEJjKdZYXc6fbHpc-tWYw9PYnME_G5kS5taMYyLUHvPT5RjPznVErwaaQCiCSscrC_rqWWYmN7Ao_twR_BjX/s200/n66501636_31492837_458.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257444824152269106" />My contribution to the getaway car-Wes' g-mother's face was priceless when she read this lol!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><br />This past weekend my two precious friends got married!!! Sussy and Wes tied the knot! If you know these two you know that their relationship has been such a long crazy story...it all started in 2003 when they met in a choir called The Evangelistic Singers, or EVS as we former members call it :) Wes and Sussy became great friends through ministering together and traveling all over the US as well as Jamaica and the Bahamas...Sussy started to fall in love with Wes way back then, but Wes just wanted to keep things at a friendship level...fast forward to December 2006...Wes tells me and a few others that literally OUT OF THE BLUE he has developed feelings for Sussy. We all are totally taken aback because he has never really had feelings for her like that. So January rolls around and Wes just tells her, I have feelings for you and they start dating! Roll forward to October 2007, with the help of me, and 3 others, Wes proposes to Sussy on a mountaintop here in TN! And now, as of Saturday they are married! This is such a short, uninvolved description of how God plans things out perfectly. He totally knows what he's doing and he does give us the desires of our hearts!!!<div><br /></div><div>Food for today's thought: </div><div>"Why is it that people get married? Because we need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet. What does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything…The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things, All of it… all the time, every day. You’re saying “Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go unwitnessed - because I will be your witness.” </div><div>-Wife in the movie, "Shall We Dance?"</div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-10996364314513054032008-10-06T17:30:00.010-04:002008-10-08T12:43:59.422-04:00Tremendous Thirty-Second<div style="text-align: left;">WOW! So much to talk about...Last weekend my 20 year old cousin got married! I cannot believe it! I will never forget living together as kids, playing, swimming, laughing, talking and all of the perks of cousinhood... She was a beautiful<br /></div><div> bride and I am soo happy for her and her new hubby! <div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjByNiLqO3XNpflST23a4uvS0BsmeeIYasms7uQOFY6pjLhi6W7hIgfurKagdIrAOwAmx0BJTL6GS64RdtzopiYW2QaMWiRC7-wwHhFanRstnlMUln4sKKXrVtqK3q_o_fXJe_4Q8ODjwt1/s200/n51104919_31525294_2734.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254478597794484818" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2lMM4Gl2v6bBARXK43IFhHgwe3J9cpLedKZxLkWMM6CYp5PkW1OJV5IU5XQhLrtOiX3edBh54UJw-G-u0Hrxy_Jw4cqUWCKJKgWoX9uZIptgJr46ssIBwoxDGF-tGRxu0gIpmWZlI_guH/s200/IMG_6305.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254478591684160642" /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipZIjF882QcYMgrxCfYInq6621ju1CeAjXDfKPQVZh5l9b7wt3pJsvaVjX7FmN7L945Sd_rfZEQ_PF51AYy_QaXHlCx5oG7N9lD0YS7gLUc3GxTIZQ9mlz5g1lNWN2Da4dSBY9WK_xtMKF/s200/IMG_6322.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254478055529726002" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>This past weekend I gave my practice talk for VN and it was a little too short but I got a lot of great responses that really made me feel more confident in the whole thing... I am really excited about the weekend, I know that God is teaching me something already and its such a blessing.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Also this past weekend, my dear friend Sussy had her </div><div style="text-align: left;">bachelorette party! She and I have been friends for about 4 years and we were roommates for 1. She is marrying one of my best friends, Wes, and I am sooo excited for both of them! I can't believe that they are getting married this weekend! I am heading out to North Carolina on Friday for the rehearsal dinner Friday night and the wedding Saturday! I am a bridesmaid so I have to get all ready for these things this week, gotta give myself a mani-pedi and figure out the shoes, jewelry and hair situation, you know, all the girly things :) I can't wait! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />Sussy and her cherry stem "v-card" haha!<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNYao7FEyrRn7mIvWz6gd1DfwcVJ4AmCop3cWZPY973ju69VnbGCtMVdPY_9Z9FQ9KFs71smErFTG7UVMiJucBwB9N38eFWNCFMhaN_cYoB8zfKhxChc9TskbzryTbnyXRy6iPQuyDvpqi/s200/n66500193_31479274_4864.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254481413068139954" />Me and Nikki<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkOQR8O6G98BI6RT0_mE8_lHr7KIByu9Y1tQZ2FZYZ81aAjvG5JIhIw9GsXMmSIFQp4verwNn0hXmeieTU1uZI9_jBytQBaLXJY8WNYWl2E4YTlkIBEczaYbt5QBIsrf4VBSixvldytjFK/s200/n66500193_31479209_8272.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254481418084692690" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sussy lookin gorgeous!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgjZRbh1DlNYprLQDxqdPXkzgf_3XJgNVtDMiZu3GcWTTYt1M7Y-xUF85dlLaBqrggtdyWXDqhk8-7yoMuj-xzv2pl_RY1adQ-GEHpsXmMoO3Py9nuX45OdsyRiufIS8e2ObNjA5ojl58X/s200/n66500193_31479281_9968.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254481414005781106" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Some of the girls chillin at Mellow Mushroom </div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcx54FKOyBr6Phe9XqOpeucrBgIypsrOUgi1K1sEmGGH4BZd4OMNc2vCxNjQPT1hdlA6obr_oQWfZdI_zKbdlZTokgGKLdd-QrG9Vaj8N7-4zHtKs3Bnc6I7IJbzypXhMLV5OtFj6KlM8d/s200/n66500193_31479241_9646.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254481417948495186" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sussy takin one of several shots lol!<br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_b_OLxMmEjh-OHRQ0U_IxphZhFFAvxV63QNDbZzSviLw0vvujascRyfkhlOoj2vpFqCdi4At4NSXhqpfM7QBYl9iiqkq3p1CBgNAzn7X5s1fsrnwkTxBjdnDDTxOza1MeD-fRGKfaoDUb/s200/n66500193_31479258_1791.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254481413393744466" /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Desmond went home with me not this weekend but last and we had a blast! My family really liked him and he really liked them! It was just soo much fun! He and I have been having a wonderful time together and I am so thankful that I have him in my life!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thats about all for now, love to you all!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Jill</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Food for today's thought:</div><div style="text-align: left;">"What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off." -Josh McDowell<br /></div></div></div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-11052100599554617122008-09-22T19:55:00.004-04:002008-09-22T23:54:32.181-04:00Thankful Thirty-First<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRys7v6H_scgb69r91W_81SscuprKgUAA5ffXq5ptnDIvdXqWRGwE2NX1iwMfoqIvAqZEBBOevMPEqV8HhmcfCCTHkT7eT2yENCsCIwN-OCTS-hZOXX5lgIQUFx-1A54fDPBIg6QrDxj0n/s1600-h/IMG_6241.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRys7v6H_scgb69r91W_81SscuprKgUAA5ffXq5ptnDIvdXqWRGwE2NX1iwMfoqIvAqZEBBOevMPEqV8HhmcfCCTHkT7eT2yENCsCIwN-OCTS-hZOXX5lgIQUFx-1A54fDPBIg6QrDxj0n/s200/IMG_6241.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249005287006699890" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /></div>It has been about a month and a half since I broke up with Jonathan and I can tell you that I am truly happy...<div><br /></div><div>For three years I had mentally pictured myself with him... I had tried to mold myself into what I felt he wanted (this is really my fault), I had tried to side-step the things in him that I knew would clash with my heart and desires, I made excuses for our relationship, I tried to assure myself that time would bring about change and that maturity would come and that commitment would be there if I just did this, or this or this...</div><div><br /></div><div>Wow, I was drained. </div><div><br /></div><div>There was so much of myself that I had let go of in many ways because I felt I had to be a certain person every day (this is also really my fault) and I was soo tired, and unable to see my life without him attached. </div><div><br /></div><div>This past month has been a huge mental, emotional, spiritual roller-coaster filled with doubts, hopes, fears and a happiness I have never known. </div><div><br /></div><div>I am so grateful for the time I spent with Jonathan... Being with him taught me so much about life from a different perspective, how to fight fairly, how to be fully committed and how to love... His friendship is something I will forever cherish and there will be a part of him in my heart always but I know that my decision was the right one for me...</div><div><br /></div><div>Over the past month I started talking to a friend of mine- we've been friends for a year now- we rekindled our friendship and out of the clear blue, an attraction formed... it has been such a whirlwind, but it feels soo right. I have peace and joy and I am being treated like a queen, which has actually been hard to accept but I am learning. His words and actions have healed a place in my heart that I don't think I even knew needed healing... He and I are dating "officially" but still taking things one day at a time. I thank God for putting him into my life and I am excited to see where it goes :)</div><div><br /></div><div>I hope that your first day of fall is free and fun and that you all enjoy it!</div><div>All my love,</div><div>Jill</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Food for today's thought:</div><div>"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." <br /></div>-Marcel ProustJillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-25745751005809274982008-09-15T00:31:00.004-04:002008-09-15T00:52:27.204-04:00Thought-filled Thirtieth<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidb9Pr9zKzgiPCLvyCQkYqnrOFE73CotPESDYDqjrwEwswCaYCp9g0kUH2dGBppx7CCkKtg46wyrGA1zzlr-blwg3zrkABS9NqFTA1EboONS4FqSRfZ5xOjhQjL3w7k1_QI5sC9N8y8zbx/s1600-h/high-gas-prices-hurt-consumer-spending.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidb9Pr9zKzgiPCLvyCQkYqnrOFE73CotPESDYDqjrwEwswCaYCp9g0kUH2dGBppx7CCkKtg46wyrGA1zzlr-blwg3zrkABS9NqFTA1EboONS4FqSRfZ5xOjhQjL3w7k1_QI5sC9N8y8zbx/s200/high-gas-prices-hurt-consumer-spending.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246106117525086658" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Much is going on in my mind right now... decisions and hopes and concerns... not really wanting to share right now but would appreciate your prayers.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Due to the fact that gas is currently 4.99 a gallon, I have literally spent the past 3 days at home just saving my gas that I filled up last week when it was the normal 3.49ish so I have been just about crazy, sitting at home so today I went to a friends house just to hang out and it was really nice :)</div><div><br /></div><div>Not much is going on with me right now, I am just working on finding a job and working on my classwork.</div><div><br /></div><div>So, hope everything is going well with all of you out there around the world :)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Food for today's thought: <br /></div><div>"No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive."<br /></div>-Richard CarlsonJillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-43740250239613947402008-09-08T00:51:00.006-04:002008-09-08T01:26:02.507-04:00The Twenty-Ninth<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkWCDDZ50w0_DaJNw4x_x6Mw2cbxM9YI370lzwZXvSoFVRXKwagWW9sIIKy1a5PK1yWwcUspMh6Um63H0HpgHSPhNE9_HbnYJmKtDaC5ew5pdduE7bMdnUy4WTQYeprxtqA5XXcMO1ksD3/s1600-h/ing_poster.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkWCDDZ50w0_DaJNw4x_x6Mw2cbxM9YI370lzwZXvSoFVRXKwagWW9sIIKy1a5PK1yWwcUspMh6Um63H0HpgHSPhNE9_HbnYJmKtDaC5ew5pdduE7bMdnUy4WTQYeprxtqA5XXcMO1ksD3/s200/ing_poster.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243511373285939938" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">...ing<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Savoring memories like the sand on the shore</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Holding your breath til they slip back into darkness.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Wishing your mind could understand all that you cannot.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Hoping the voice of reason comes not from within</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Trusting the One who cannot be seen, trying desperately so.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Wandering thoughts and tears trace against the canvas of your life, waiting to be portrayed.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Dying to know the secrets that are all around, waiting patiently for the One to reveal them.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Failing and falling again and again</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Getting up and doing it all over.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Knowing He loves you is just not enough, it's so hard to completely trust.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Daring yourself to simply obey, struggling with your own flesh.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Dying to yourself day after day and you're worn down to nothing.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Anything would be better than the nothing you feel, the incompetence of your self.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Trying to be the best you can</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Putting up walls to knock yourself down before you can fall.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aching to feel secure and loved, to trust, to fly, to love completely...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I wrote this poem about a year and a half ago to and about God...it just truly describes so much of who I was at that time and who I am still becoming... I am still learning to trust and to let myself fall, learning to live through failure and learning to be secure and loved in the One who gave it all to me...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Food for today's thought:</div><div style="text-align: left;">“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">- Mahatma Gandhi<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-78391763363607973382008-09-08T00:18:00.003-04:002008-10-08T12:43:34.915-04:00Truthful Twenty-EighthLet it go for 2008<br />By: T. D. Jakes<br /><br /><br /><br />There are people who can walk away from you.<br />And hear me when I tell you this!<br />When people can walk away from you: let them walk.<br /><br />I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you,<br />loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you,<br />staying attached to you.<br />I mean hang up the phone.<br /><br />When people can walk away from you let them walk.<br />Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.<br /><br />People leave you because they are not joined to you.<br />And if they are not joined to you,<br />you can't make them stay.<br />Let them go.<br /><br />And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person,<br />it just means that their part in the story is over.<br />And you've got to know when people's<br />part in your story is over so that you<br />don't keep trying to raise the dead.<br /><br />You've got to know when it's dead.<br />You've got to know when it's over.<br />Let me tell you something.<br />I've got the gift of good-bye.<br />It's the tenth spiritual gift,<br />I believe in good-bye.<br /><br />It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful,<br />and I know whatever God means for me to have<br />He'll give it to me.<br />And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.<br />Stop begging people to stay.<br />Let them go!!<br /><br />If you are holding on to something<br />that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life,<br />then you need to ...LET IT GO!!!<br /><br />If you are holding on to past hurts and pains .<br />LET IT GO!!!<br /><br />If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth...<br />LET IT GO!!!<br /><br />If someone has angered you ...<br />LET IT GO!!!<br /><br />If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge<br />LET IT GO!!!<br /><br />If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction ...<br />LET IT GO!!!<br /><br />If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or<br />talents ..<br />LET IT GO!!!<br /><br />If you have a bad attitude...<br />LET IT GO!!!<br /><br />If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better...<br />LET IT GO!!!<br /><br />If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new<br />level in Him...<br />LET IT GO!!!<br /><br />If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship....<br />LET IT GO!!!<br /><br />If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help<br />themselves..<br />LET IT GO!!!<br /><br />If you're feeling depressed and stressed ....<br />LET IT GO!!!<br /><br />If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling<br />yourself and God is saying "take your hands off of it," then you need to...<br />LET IT GO!!!<br /><br />Let the past be the past.<br />Forget the former things.<br />GOD is doing a new thing for 2008 !!!<br />LET IT GO!!!<br /><br />Get Right or Get Left .. think about it, and then<br />LET IT GO!!!<br /><br />"The Battle is the Lord's!"Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-8456128229009934962008-09-05T18:02:00.009-04:002008-09-08T00:18:07.292-04:00Terrific Twenty-Seventh<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcw8S1tUrhBmGzU3xiOYhdvFbWQToLyTsFm9pF_M5pw9gxNlO5Q940fMMIkVSCN79SBC_LtcxdG9fcGl4cXtznHerst4WQVeqRbTatzUVUoLvbislarzru0vQRjjptPgCxZYVxXfqkklQz/s1600-h/MyPicture_2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcw8S1tUrhBmGzU3xiOYhdvFbWQToLyTsFm9pF_M5pw9gxNlO5Q940fMMIkVSCN79SBC_LtcxdG9fcGl4cXtznHerst4WQVeqRbTatzUVUoLvbislarzru0vQRjjptPgCxZYVxXfqkklQz/s200/MyPicture_2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242666523344051106" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc9Y2_2hLI0DyqEsxY88kCrZTyCr9H-vMWf1As61Ouw9VS6HZYVof398IHUUEYHAQRtsttGLUeEBIfW7FbJH4NY4GXkz5Nbu2wiil7WV9t3ZV_eQQGm_p7jAI5Nn8pMS34nvxshOIFhOyf/s1600-h/MyPicture.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Jesus is soo awesome. </div><div><br /></div><div>I am just truly happy and so excited about the future, I feel complete in God, I feel like my decisions are justified and just right...</div><div><br /></div><div>I can't wait to see what else He has in store for my life.</div><div><br /></div><div>I am enrolled in my independent study class and I am working on it right now...my car is not yet fixed but should be in a few days so I will be able to get another job soon (say a prayer!)</div><div><br /></div><div>I just love all of you out there in bloggerville.</div><div><br /></div><div>Much love~</div><div>Jill</div><div><br /></div><div>Double food for today's thought: </div><div>"There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind, but keep in mind that letting go isn't the end of the work, it's the beginning of a new life."</div><div> -Unknown</div><div><br /></div><div>"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."</div><div>-Martin Luther King Jr.</div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1993804360846102814.post-37612382502218964442008-08-29T17:45:00.005-04:002008-08-30T15:40:06.931-04:00Trip twenty-sixth<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVOEgvUFJecg7rlK0tzmq6MFrRjjGcZzBmLGO_NAu_ax2buMGVYfeejINWjE4KauIxpK-SuAqQo3eVIpXhb_VTMnVf7jEx_sk3g0ZHtRYEnDeJpy7vIQxsjGGKIFUguSM8II-9-_es4KOi/s1600-h/l_a3300ff267dc4f939a8ce141c6a6cc78.jpg"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVOEgvUFJecg7rlK0tzmq6MFrRjjGcZzBmLGO_NAu_ax2buMGVYfeejINWjE4KauIxpK-SuAqQo3eVIpXhb_VTMnVf7jEx_sk3g0ZHtRYEnDeJpy7vIQxsjGGKIFUguSM8II-9-_es4KOi/s200/l_a3300ff267dc4f939a8ce141c6a6cc78.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240064452992404418" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Amanda and I Christmas 2006</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>I am currently in Richmond, Virginia at one of my best friend's Amanda's house! I haven't gotten to see her in soo long and it is so nice to get away and see friends and have fun :) I'm sure I will update later on with more updates! <div>L O V E</div><div>J.</div><div><br /></div><div>Food for today's thought: </div><div>"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." -St. Augustine</div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09011674582507289080noreply@blogger.com1