Hello friends and family!

It has been a wild and crazy two weeks since my last update. Wedding plans are coming right along with lots of planning now behind us. It’s nice to get to spend time with Greg and not have to discuss details of August 30th the entire time.

My parents came up for a short visit this weekend and they experienced Texas de Brazil for the first time.  My dad was in beef heaven and my mom enjoyed all of it. It was a quick but fun visit. Thanks for making the trip ya’ll. My dad informed me that he will be wearing a “will work for food” sign around his neck as we walk down the aisle! HE thought it was funny!!!!

Last weekend we went with our high school youth group on the Spring retreat. It was an incredible weekend being with the teens and being reminded that we have just a blink of the eye to live our life.  I love being with our teens and watching them fall more in love with Jesus every week!!  We had an amazing weekend and our praise and worship time was incredible. It is powerful to watch these teens worship the Lord….not only on the retreat but every week at church.  They are an amazing group of teens. Greg and I will be going on the Ruidoso mission trip with the sophomore class this summer. We will be hosting a VBS for kids in the town. I had the priveledge of going on the Colorado mission trip last summer with this same class and they are FUN!!! I can hardly wait for Greg to experience an entire week with this group. 

This past week Greg got to meet two of my dear friends…..Janis and Adam Smith. Outside of friends from college Janis and Adam are my oldest friends in the metroplex. Janis and I started within months of each other at Scottish Rite in Dallas many many years ago. Way back then this newly married couple (Janis and Adam) let this single chic hang out with them….A LOT!! Janis left Scottish Rite after she had her daughter and moved over to Cook Children’s. If you are putting two and two together the answer is yes….I work at Cook Children’s because of Janis. She fed  them some line about how good I was and how I would be a wonderful addition to the child life department. Of course none of that was or is true but they bought it and four and a half years later here we are! It was so fun to introduce Janis and Adam to Greg. Eventhough I don’t get to see the two of them very often the night was a perfect reminder of what true friends look like. In today’s world it is tough to find friends who truly care about you. Janis and Adam have been those friends for eleven years now.

(Just on a side note if you are ever in a medical crisis don’t call Janis……..she will take an hour and a half to get to you b/c she wants to make sure she has the right kind of medicine for you. If anyone wants to hear the full version of that story just let me know….it’s quite humorous and it involves my appendix!!!!!!)

Right now Greg is sitting in volunteer orientation for Cook Children’s! He also sat in training this time last week. A HUGE thank you to him for doing that. Every month I get to run a support group for teens with cancer and blood disorders. Over the last few months Greg has started helping me with this group. Since he wasn’t an official hospital volunteer we both thought it was time for him to start getting some credit for all the work he does each month. After tonight he will be an official hospital volunteer!! Woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

124 days from now will be our wedding day! When I wake up in the mornings I continually thank God for giving us the gift of this relationship!! It is truly a blessing only from the Lord and we give Him all the glory! So many mornings I rolled out of bed onto my knees and thank God for another day, and asked Him to bless the work I would do that day. So many mornings I simply asked for this to be the day I would meet “the man” He had waiting for me. So many days it wasn’t. Everyday continued to be blessed by the Lord. I would get up and ask for His blessing and everyday there it was. Finally, it was time! God chose for the moment to happen at a sad time in my life…..as I spoke at Kelley’s funeral. That morning as I got up and rolled onto my knees I had no idea what God had planned for that day. I can ony imagine that He had a little smile and He was probably thinking…..you better get ready! You’ve been asking me for this one for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time!!!!!!!!

We serve a God that knows our needs…..and wants to give us the desires of our hearts.  I don’t know if Greg and I will ever understand why it happened on that one day in March. The great thing is we don’t need to. We both love that it happened and love that we waited for God to provide!!!!

When you wake up in the morning continue to ask God for that one thing you think He might of forgotten about……I promise you He hasn’t!