A Quick Look At July

July was a good month! I enjoyed spending time with my family and relaxing in the cool (compared to August) summer weather.
1 & 2- 4th of July! We spent the day working at the booth for our church at the town festival and enjoyed a spectacular fireworks show that night. Pictured: my Dad aka - Uncle Sam Ice Cream Man.
3. Dad took us out to see some of the churches where his Dad preached when my Dad was a kid. He's always told us stories about these churches, finally we see where the stories happened.
4. I tasted huckleberries for the first time...yum!
5. VBS! What a crazy week. We talked about discovering your dreams. It was a good turn out, and though tiring, a good week.
6. My friend Jessica visited. We had lots of fun hanging out and driving around. We went up to Highlands and had some yummy fudge!
7. We celebrated my friend Michelle's birthday in Atlanta. What a fun day!
8 & 9 - My Mom went to Texas for my cousin Megan's wedding. While she was gone my Dad set up our pool. Fun, fun!

New Blog

I'm starting a new blog! It's a place for me to share creative things, things that inspire me. I figure: I'm always looking for those anyway and there's very few blogs out there devoted to just that...so why not?

I hope you'll check it out :)

Creative Flint
http://creativeflint.blogspot.com

Just For Fun

"Everybody is doing it"

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you know me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.

A Neat Day

Yesterday I spent much of the day babysitting a couple kids from church. I arrived at their house about 8 in the morning (early for me!) and left about 5:30. It was actually quite fun. The kids are so sweet! They play well together and they are pretty good about listening. Most of all, they are adorably sweet. While they were playing on the porch early in the day the little girl said "Thank you for coming to take care of me today" and came up and kissed my arm! Oh how that made my heart melt!



As the kids were eating lunch I was thinking about how much fun it will be to be a mommy. I know it will be hard work, but I so look forward to having kids of my own and taking care of them and teaching them about God...Which, by the way, these kid's parents are doing a good job of! When a kid initiates a "game" of naming things God created, that's a sure sign!

What a day it was, tiring, but very fulfilling! When you get to take care of kids as sweet as these two, you feel blessed.

What 3 Minutes Can Do

Last semester (my first semester away at college) I discovered the best friend of the sleep deprived - power naps. It's amazing how much just 15 minutes can take me from feeling like a zombie to feeling recharged and ready to go! Well, I guess when you stay up until 2am and then get up at 6 you need something to get you going. hehe. That's a college student for you!

My friends and I have a joke that the only time you nap is when you are a baby/toddler, college student, and retired. From the little I've observed of life, it's quite true however!

So when I'm at school, in the midst of my crazy schedule, I take naps that are as long as I can get (usually 15 minutes, sometimes 30). But today, I discovered that just a 3 minute nap can do you (or at least me) wonders! I was sitting here at my computer reading through my Google Reader updates, about to fall asleep. I decided a 10 minute power nap would be great and set my alarm. However, I was awakened after 3 minutes by a package delivery. When I came back and set down at my computer I was actually able to keep my eyes open - what an improvement!

I just think it is amazing how God made our bodies so adaptable. Yes, it is best to get adequate sleep. But even when we can't, we don't completely shut down! By God's grace we can keep moving and going until we can get that extra bit of sleep we need. To me, it's so cool that God can use 3 minutes to change the whole trajectory of my day! He is amazing!!!