It's Been Too Long

As you were expecting when you looked at the title, I have been thinking about how it has been too long since I last posted something. My summer got crazy in Europe and with school there. I then came home and didn't have anything to say or write or update you on. I think this moment may be the same too, so I am going to write away and we will see where it takes me. 

I spent the last 2 and a half weeks of summer with my friends. I had two papers to write and I could not get the energy to write them, so instead I was with friends all the time and caught up on each other's lives. I am thankful for the place that God has brought me and the friends He has given me. 

"Summer" at Home was filled with:

Caitlin and Josh sitting at this table until 2am reminiscing and talking about our lives in the future 

"summer at home" was filled with watching the olympics with the Fuehrings and Danka. Also watching Mary-Kate and Ashley movies. 

Sitting drinking iced coffee in downtown Geneva with Caitlin and Michelle

Late nights with this girl is our specialty. Love her 

Photoshoots with Fuehrings and Danka

Writing papers with Maxx as a faithful friend

Pre-wedding photoshoots

Carly and Kari! 

Getting ready with Kari. She will hate me forever for putting this up 

I am now back at Moody. I love Moody. I spent this weekend just realizing how much I love it and how happy I am that I am here. I love school work and the people I get to interact with here. I have been given a gift by being able to attend Moody and I am sad when people don't realize that. 

I am thankful for faithful friends who will be dumb along side of me and actually encourage it. 

I LOVE TENWEST! These girls are the bomb (also the ones not in this picture). I love to talk to them and live with them each and every day. 

I love roommate first day of school pics. 

Mercy. 

I am thankful for friends who understand my love for Daschunds and embrace it fully. 

I am thankful for friends who steal my phone and take rude pictures for me to find later. 

I am thankful for Allie and for her open door for my get away zone to keep me sane. I am thankful for her healing couch and trail mix.

I am thankful for the lightology roof. As long as i can i will visit this place. It is a secret magical get away from Chicago while right in the middle of it all. 

I am thankful for Europe Trip friendships that have continued. 

I am thankful for a roommate who knows me well and buys me tiny animals that she allows to grow in our sink, even if that means she has to brush her teeth elsewhere. 

I am thankful for friends who support each other in the good side and the bad side of Moody, and lift each other up with ice cream and grape juice. 

I am thankful for a high school/middle school dear friend to be at Moody. Its a little taste of home right down the hall. 

I am thankful for 10west understanding my need to get out some ghetto inside, wherever it comes from inside of me. I am thankful that they support my decision to wear high-tops and bring a boombox blaring to events on campus. 

I am thankful for syllabus parties and for support and candy during syllabus shock. 

I am thankful for God putting me in Chicago again this year with two fantastic women, I am excited to share life again with them this year and to learn more about them both as we go along and to learn more about Jesus through their experiences with Him as I share mine with them.

The last year at Moody Bible Institute brought many tears, laughs, lessons, friends, experiences, pain, illness, frequent visits to the hospital, and it was all a journey. I am ready for the second part to this journey and am excited to keep you all updated as it goes on. Here is to another wonderful school year filled with the grace of Jesus as we learn to walk in His footprints.