i should probably be sleeping.
highlights from this thanksgiving break include (but of course are not limited to):
-road trip home with ellie & porter
-mall at millenia & cheesecake factory with my dearest mother
-purchasing a new red vehicle:
-reuniting with my girls:
these photos taken at t-bones bar & grill where we were, in fact, (as previously stated by ellie), the only customers under the age of 45 at 10:30pm:
this photo taken while being a spider with al in the wee hours of the morn:
-an entire day of food & laziness with the fam
-three movie rentals for under $10, because the lake county blockbuster loves me
and this is just funny (slash scary):
um, to put it mildly, this week was really fun. but, driving back into town today reminded me how very much i do love downtown auburn decorated with Christmas lights. seeing my sister for the first time all week made me realize how ridiculously much i am going to miss not having her so close next year. piling into tapley's bed with four of my favorite girls on the planet as margaret attempted to use the timer on her new digital camera made me really miss living on the hall... but then coming home to elizabeth and david made me realize how good i really have it. having my cousin still call me to come eat dinner and hang out with him at midnight after spending all day in the car with me made me, well, just really grateful for him & his being here. i love auburn, i really do. and every day here just reminds me how much i am just exactly where i want to be.
my thoughts this week couldn't help but be consumed by memories of last thanksgiving and how unexpectedly tragic it was for so many people that are so so so special to me. going out roadside 441 that morning and leaving pink flowers by a "drive safely in memory of Abby Rose Lee" marker just doesn't seem to do it justice, and it never will. we miss her, every single day, and it's still so hard to understand why things like that have to happen. but at the same time... to look back on this year and see the way that the Lord has absolutely carried that family through a circumstance that i cannot even begin to imagine having to face, has reminded me of His sovereignty and faithfulness and STRENGTH that we will never be able to find anywhere else.
a man that graduated from seminary at Baylor with my cousin was killed not too long ago, and i came across these quotes that are apparently from the last sermon he ever gave...
"live. and live well. BREATHE. breathe in and breathe deeply. be PRESENT. do not be past. do not be future. be now. on a crystal clear, breezy 70-degree day, roll down the windows and FEEL the wind against your skin. feel the warmth of the sun. if you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool autumn day to FREEZE your lungs, and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE. get knee-deep in a novel and LOSE track of time. if you bike, pedal HARD, and if you crash, then crash well. feel the SATISFACTION of a job well done... a paper well-written, a project thoroughly completed, a play well-performed. if you've recently experienced loss, then GRIEVE. and grieve well. at the table with friends and family, LAUGH. if you're eating and laughing at the same time, then you might as well laugh until you puke. and if you eat, then SMELL. the aromas are not impediments to your day. steak on the grill, coffee beans freshly ground, cookies in the oven. and TASTE. taste every ounce of flavor. taste every ounce of friendship. taste every ounce of life. because it is most definitely a GIFT." -kyle lake
i love you guys. very much. i don't think i'll ever be able to say that enough...
“therefore we do not lose heart. though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. for our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. so we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. for what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” -2 corinthians 4:16-18
-road trip home with ellie & porter
-mall at millenia & cheesecake factory with my dearest mother
-purchasing a new red vehicle:
-reuniting with my girls:
these photos taken at t-bones bar & grill where we were, in fact, (as previously stated by ellie), the only customers under the age of 45 at 10:30pm:
this photo taken while being a spider with al in the wee hours of the morn:
-an entire day of food & laziness with the fam
-three movie rentals for under $10, because the lake county blockbuster loves me
and this is just funny (slash scary):
um, to put it mildly, this week was really fun. but, driving back into town today reminded me how very much i do love downtown auburn decorated with Christmas lights. seeing my sister for the first time all week made me realize how ridiculously much i am going to miss not having her so close next year. piling into tapley's bed with four of my favorite girls on the planet as margaret attempted to use the timer on her new digital camera made me really miss living on the hall... but then coming home to elizabeth and david made me realize how good i really have it. having my cousin still call me to come eat dinner and hang out with him at midnight after spending all day in the car with me made me, well, just really grateful for him & his being here. i love auburn, i really do. and every day here just reminds me how much i am just exactly where i want to be.
my thoughts this week couldn't help but be consumed by memories of last thanksgiving and how unexpectedly tragic it was for so many people that are so so so special to me. going out roadside 441 that morning and leaving pink flowers by a "drive safely in memory of Abby Rose Lee" marker just doesn't seem to do it justice, and it never will. we miss her, every single day, and it's still so hard to understand why things like that have to happen. but at the same time... to look back on this year and see the way that the Lord has absolutely carried that family through a circumstance that i cannot even begin to imagine having to face, has reminded me of His sovereignty and faithfulness and STRENGTH that we will never be able to find anywhere else.
a man that graduated from seminary at Baylor with my cousin was killed not too long ago, and i came across these quotes that are apparently from the last sermon he ever gave...
"live. and live well. BREATHE. breathe in and breathe deeply. be PRESENT. do not be past. do not be future. be now. on a crystal clear, breezy 70-degree day, roll down the windows and FEEL the wind against your skin. feel the warmth of the sun. if you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool autumn day to FREEZE your lungs, and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE. get knee-deep in a novel and LOSE track of time. if you bike, pedal HARD, and if you crash, then crash well. feel the SATISFACTION of a job well done... a paper well-written, a project thoroughly completed, a play well-performed. if you've recently experienced loss, then GRIEVE. and grieve well. at the table with friends and family, LAUGH. if you're eating and laughing at the same time, then you might as well laugh until you puke. and if you eat, then SMELL. the aromas are not impediments to your day. steak on the grill, coffee beans freshly ground, cookies in the oven. and TASTE. taste every ounce of flavor. taste every ounce of friendship. taste every ounce of life. because it is most definitely a GIFT." -kyle lake
i love you guys. very much. i don't think i'll ever be able to say that enough...
“therefore we do not lose heart. though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. for our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. so we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. for what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” -2 corinthians 4:16-18