I've been thinking about getting a job lately.Mainly because I've been "bored" at home. But today I went to a spouses thing on base and a friend picked up little Isaac at 7:30am. Hurray a whole day with adults! In a class, learning things from an adult, not sesame street! I swear at 9am I was looking at my cell phone for the time, wondering when it would all end. It's now 3:20pm and I am sitting alone in the office/guest room watching Dr. Phil. And I really really miss the sound of little feet running around the house and saying "mama! Mama!". So I changed my mind. I don't want a job. I can always go back to the workforce. I can't get back giggles and hugs.

Pink rocks? and Stupid October!!

I think I actually remember us picking up rocks one day and using fingernail polish to make them pink... lol I think it was for a project or something. And then we for some reason were having a bad day and got to talking about the pink rocks and how we should be like them... funny!

So today i'm mad at October for being so hot, but tomorrow I will probably regret being angry! (Cuz I hear it's suppose to get really cold) Can't it just take it's time and get cold slowly, but at least not be 70 degrees!!!!! You know, I feel that weather anger is the best kind!!!

But God I wanted curly hair!

Shelby and I always joke how God mixed up not only our hair but our lives. She wanted to be the wife and mother and I wanted to be the adventurous one in the jungles and traveling the world. Guess who's sitting at home looking at pictures via facebook of awesome adventures in Ireland, Europe, Africa, and Honduras!? I'll give you a hint. It's not the curly haired friend. I'm not going to lie. Sometimes I feel myself being really jealous. For example when I just get done cleaning the house for what seems like the millionth time and then jumping on the net while the hubby is at work and the little guy is sleeping. As I flip through the pictures I find myself thinking, " Dang it! I wish I had curly blond hair and had a picture swinging from a jungle vine or looking off of an awesome cliff." And I start to think of all the 'what ifs'. Then do you know what happens? The cutest little boy usually wakes up from his nap and walks into the living room dragging his green blanket and crawls into my lap and says "HI!". And just like that I know that I'm living the life God wants me to live. The important thing is that I live it FOR Him! He'll take care of the adventure parts. After all he did know I would look pretty ridiculous with curly hair (I've tried the frizzy perm) and blond hair ( looks funny with black eye brows and Asian eyes ha ha )
This verse reminds me that God plans our lives, not us... "A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps." (Proverbs 16:9)
And this one reminds me that he wants the best for us..."For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope." (Jeremiah 29:11)
What an AWESOME God we serve!

The funny thing is, when Jan and I met, we secretly wanted to be like the other. I was Mrs Bubbly and Jan was the beautiful, mature, and mysterious woman. We both felt that we needed to be more like someone else. That I needed to be more beautiful, and I needed to be more quite and then maybe guys would see what I really was; that I was in fact, special. lol The funny thing about this is how can a guy see it if you can't even see it. This is a trick for girls; Ladies he is just as confused as you are. Anyhow Jan and I soon realized that we were still the apple of God's eye, and even if we felt we were in peices, God can take those peices and make you into something even better than you could have ever dreamed. And he has!
I remember Jan and I being really in love with the character of GOd. I remember us sitting at coffee shop and just being content and the more we shared about who God was making us the more giddy we would be. That's an awesome thing. We decided to start this blog because we used to have this book, which honestly was called "The confessions of two beautiful college students who traveled the world to watch their friends get married, and yet are still single" It actually was pretty long and I think had alot of good points in it. However as life happens we moved apart and had to abandon our little book. So this is us starting over. We have grown alot, lol the finding a guy thing isn't even a concern now (For Jan especially since she is married :) But for me life is alot more than that... when your 20 it seems to take up your whole world! At 25, you start to see what it is your mom was right about. At 25 you realize that somethings aren't going to satisfy, and you start to realize what does. But that's for another day... Love you Jan and i'm so excited to do this with you!!

Pink Rocks & Apple Pie

What is pink rocks & apple pie? I think in todays society girls are told they have to look and act a certain way. However, since we are girls and not perfect robots we are tough yet pretty...like pink rocks! Someone, once came to our school and told us that we are the "apple of Gods eye" and whenever you mess up with a guy there's a bite out of that apple. I am sure the speaker came up with a good conclusion. But all we heard was that we are not "perfect" anymore. We were apples with many bites and bruises. What good is that type of apple? So, we decided we are Apple pie! And everyone one knows that apple pie is wayyy better than apples right?!

I truely believe that in life a girl only needs a three things to get us through the good and rough times. God. Chocolate. And good friends to share those times with. Shelby is that friend for me! She is my pink rock when I need someone. And she always reminds me that I am apple pie!