I haven't...

Blogged in two months. Exactly. I know, I need a good scolding. First there was spring break, then there was traveling- Lots of that, then moving out followed by more traveling, a wedding ( I'll get to that in a bit) & moving in again.
Sufficient to say, I have been a busy girl & I start back to work tomorrow. In someways, I am ready & in other ways I wish I did not have to go back. Ah well, I will enjoy working while I am.

Anyway to catch you up a bit about life lately.

So we were at the University of Arkansas doing a campus ministry internship.

At the fountain in the middle of campus, doing the Bob pose

Shortly after this, we were packing up our apartment & loaded down our car. Literally. My poor car was practically dragging the ground. I wish I had a picture to demonstrate how loaded down it was.

We drove to my friend Jessica's house & spent the night with her family plus a random trip to the ER because her sister is pregnant and thought she might be going into labor- that was the COLDEST waiting room I have EVER been in. Seriously.

The next day we drove to Williamsburg, KS for our good friend Lori's wedding! Out of our group of twelve girls, Lori was the 5th of us to get hitched. :)

First there was Sydney (& Jonathan)- 

Then Tiffany (&Tim)-

Then Annie (& Tyler)-

Then Me (& Bob)-

& now Lori has joined us (& Daniel)-

(Photo credit: Lacy Howard)

After this is was back down to AR & my hometown. This is where my dad pulls out a bunch of guns & my husband gets scared. Kidding, kidding. Guns did come out but only to shoot at targets and have a good time, which we did. :)

Well that is all I have for now. I will write again soon. I promise.

Revive Me

So has we all know, spring has yet to, well, spring. We seem to get a taste every now and again but for the most part it seems as though it is still winter. I was talking to one of the ConC ministers today and jokingly asking her why she is letting it be winter still. She kind of went on this imaginary spill about how amazing it will feel when it finally feels like spring.
She was talking about how the rain must come before the greatness of spring. She said think about what it will feel like to breath in and those breaths feel like we just went for a run and how good that run felt and how blue the sky is and how good the wind feels and how we could just find a patch of grass that is mostly unkept, how we will just plop back in it and enjoy how soft it is against us, there will be in mud for us to get on us, no dog poop to accidentally lay in (there is a lady who brings her dog to do its' thing in the front lawn). We will feel cleaner after getting up than when we laid down in the grass. There were probably so other things said but those are the ones that stuck out to me especially when this song by a band called Take No Glory called I Run to You came on my playlist.
We keep asking where spring is and whether it has forgotten about us and while we ask that about spring now, we often as that about God and I think this song describes it all perfectly...

Long time, I know!

So I promised my good friend Lynn that I would post last week and it just did not happen. Not because I was too busy but I did not have internet and I simply did not feel like going somewhere where the was internet. So no good excuse just wanting to hibernate I guess, well and then the ickies hit. Mostly just the congested kind but I will spare you the details of anything else that came about.

I will tell you though that I read 5 books in about three and a half days and would have read more if I would have had the books. I read insanely fast sometimes, especially when I am bored it seems. Oh well that seems to be a lot as of late.

Now since I have told you what I did last week instead of blogging, well my husband went on a spring break missions trip and I stayed in Fayetteville for the week. I did go to my best friend, Wendi's, house for the first weekend he was gone and we had a blast! I was going to go to visit friends where I went to college but gas went up like crazy and we just could not afford for me to do that.

Going to my best friend's house was so much fun! We have not seen each other since I got married except for a couple of hours when I first got back to my beloved Arkansas. The weekend started a little early as I went up Thursday afternoon (St. Patrick's Day). Me & my Route 44 Vanilla Cranberry Coke made the two hour drive and were there by 1ish. She always cooks something fun while I am there and this time was no exception! She had beer bread going into the oven when I got there so when it came out we were waiting with mouth's a-watering for a piece! Dinner was delicious roast beef, carrots and potatoes! She is such a good cook! Friday morning she made cinnamon scones for me! They were so delicious! I am going to be visiting the blog she got it from and jotting down the recipe for myself. :) We are both really getting into couponing and she needed to grocery shop so we went together to do this. That was um, interesting. Society has changed in such a way that now when 2 people of the same gender are together, people are wondering if you are a couple or are just friends. Seriously, we got so looks and we were even talking about our husbands! That was entertaining when we realized it.

Wendi and her husband are looking to buy land and build or buy a house with some acreage to it. Friday night, Wendi and her husband drive me to land that they are looking at buying and Saturday, Wendi and I went and looked at a house that online looked like a possibility. What a joke that was. Oh well, it was fun!

I think that is all I will include in this post, but more to come soon! I think the writing bug is coming back. :)

Just a quick note....

I have been absent from blogging for a while. Just a crazy life... of a campus minister's wife. I will be writing a few updates next week though so be looking out for those! :)

Home!

This past weekend, Bob & I went home. Home as in Mountain Home. Home as in my parents. Home as in my very warm water bed which I still love a lot. Home as in home church. Home as in hometown. HOME! We took off from Fayetteville late Friday morning and arrived home around 1pm and ate lunch with my mama. She had made something new with homemade yogurt. It was yummy! :) After that is was just hanging out with my parents and enjoying the day.
Saturday was a full day. We went to shop for my brother's birthday & get him presents so we could send it to him (he is overseas right now). After that, it was a quick trip to a place where I used to work in MH to see people and then dinner with a wonderful friend at a super yummy Thai restaurant! Plus she brought us homemade treats! After lunch we went to my church, watched a little Upward basketball & met with my home pastor. :) Homeward bound was a little worrisome as my car decided to act up a little bit. We made it home safe and sound and then my best friend, whom I have not seen in 7+ months came out before she went back home and she, my mama & I sent concocted a new dish. (I will post it when I get it from my mama, lol.)
Sunday ended up being more interesting than I was expecting. We got there in time to help in the nursery during preschool and instead of it being easy breezy, the baptistery somehow turned back on and overflowed all the way down the hallway so Bob & I keep the kids until it was cleaned up and in church service my pastor introduced us and had us stand up and the service ended up going long with 10-15 people ending up and joining the church which was super cool.

It was a good weekend up and I can't wait to go back in a couple of weeks for the CCW class.

Have you heard??

So being a campus minister's wife means a few things- 1. I meet college students, 2. We work under and with a a campus ministry organization, 3. This campus ministry organization has other campus ministries in other places.

Number 3 is significant because one of those other college campus ministries is in South Bend, IN. They work with a few different college campuses, but the exciting thing about that is that they are experiencing REVIVAL! They have been praying for it and seeking God for it & God is answering and bringing revival to that area of the college world. The revival has been coming but showed up in a BIG way at Bethel College. Last Wednesday, Bethel, which is a Christian college, went to its' chapel service, a chapel service that is normally 50 minutes. Well 50 minutes turned into 7 & 1/2 hours and the students, faculty & staff were greatly moved & things are still moving and changing and God is still moving greatly. I believe that God is moving everywhere not just in South Bend at Bethel. Let's pray and seek God for see-able evidence of revival.

V Day

So as all of you know, Valentine's Day was on a Monday this year. The only problem with that was that Mondays on campus are busy days for us as we both have CORD meetings until 10ish that night plus we are on campus all day on Mondays.
Well Tuesday, my hubby took me to a frozen yogurt place for lunch which was totally yummy!

Our yummy yogurt! They have all kinds of toppings- from fruit to candy to fruit bo-bo balls

The Arkansas shirt in the picture is my V Day present to my hubby from me. 

He also went out that morning and got stuff to make chocolate chip pancakes & ice cream and out fudge topping! I was a little groggy so I did not take a picture of it.