New.

Well hey there bloggers I hope that you are having a relaxing and fabulous weekend! I am greeting you from the love seat watching She's the Man with one of my roommates Bean while waiting to go play some volleyball with staff.

Let me just say that the Lord is so good and I am learning so much this summer. Today I had the opportunity to go to Austin Stone Community Church in Austin. It is the church that I usually attend when I am home or at camp, and I loved it! I was great to get some worship with one of my favs Aaron Ivey.

So after church while waiting for a table and tasty Kerby Lane, I was texting one of the besties Jessica Adalian. (Yes, this is the Jessica that just got married!) And I realized that this upcoming year is going to be a new beginning. New outlook. New major. New focus. New church. New roommates (so excited!!!!). New apartment. New time commitments. I am changing my perspective and focusing on what the Lord is putting in my way, not what I want to put in my way. Camp is amazing and I love it and everytime I think about the fact that there is only 3.5 weeks left I want to weep. BUT I cannot wait to get back to my bffs in Dallas. Girls (amanda, jessica, ashley, beckett, zeta babies) I miss you all and cannot wait to see you!

Well just got back from volleyball and going down the tube shute (no tube + at night = scary but soooo worth it!) So I am tired and one of my "news" is to wake up for quiet time consistantly!

Live abandoned,

Amanda

Post Script: here is a little diddy by one of my fav artist Ray LaMontagne.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRotMzTuKzo&feature=fvwrel

Life is a changin!

Welp.... two weeks later and I have 4 friends who are now married to one another and probably the most precious people that I know.

Jessica and Aron were married today and I love every second of being in their wedding. Including the Armenian dance that we got to do which was SO fun! (If you know me well you know that I LOVE to dance, and my future husband better be ready to dance a LOT at our wedding!) As I have said before they are probably one of the most solid couples that I know and I am so excited that they are husband and wife. And yes between the ceremony and reception I switched to chacos but that was because they were the only other shoes I had and my heels were definitely not broken in. haha

It has been a lovely weekend in Dallas. I was able to have dinner with Beckett and Ashley at Village Burger bar and move into my new apartment with the lovely Amanda Mills! I am soooo excited for our new venture in the 2207! This weekend has been amazing but I cannot wait to get back to camp and to see my summer roommates! Bean and Ashley I miss yall. And have to catch you up on my cry count!

Live abandoned,

Amanda

And 2 months later....

Okay so I have had so many people ask me how summer is going and I haven't been able to catch up on phone and text conversations so here it is in a blog post. I think a major reason why I haven't blogged in forever is that I write the blog for day camp everyday so I forget about writing about my own life!

Well... Summer is going so well! I am loving leadership and camp and the Lord is truly teaching me a lot. Right now I am learning about depending on God. I think that I am doing well depending on myself but when I truly look at how I feel and how I think that the week went I realize that I am so empty and I could be doing so much more! I really think that this is a valuable lesson that I am learning. I know that I do this all the time, depending on myself and only me is a dangerous road. Within the last year I have been brought back to the life of the Israelites and how they took everything in their own hands and didn't follow the command of God. Instead of wandering in the desert for 40 year I feel like I have been wandering in a desert for over a month and I can't believe wandering through any longer than I already have it would be miserable.

As my marathon of weddings begins I am so thankful for the season that I am in right now in life. Tomorrow one of my close friends Rachel Gotcher will be Mrs. Frank Armstrong and I am ECSTATIC to witness it. I love Rachel so much and if you ask her about our friendship she'll tell you that she thought I didn't like her at first.( something about her glasses i think. ;D) She has an amazing heart and I love spending QT with her!

Second is one of my best friends, Jessica Penney. Jessica is the girl that when she walks in a room she lights it up with her precious smile! Some may even say that she is perfect! She will be marrying Aron and they have been dating for 6 years! I love them both and have loved the memories that we have made in the last 3 years of college! Slurpies, Dane Cook, watching High School Musical 3 three times in a row, going to sushi... I could go on and on. I cannot wait to be in her wedding and Amanda Mills and I will be standing next to each other balling our eyes out. I just cannot wait and wish that it was Thursday already so that I could drive up to Dallas to see them.

So I have dished about my life and to my followers I would love to hear about yours so send me an email or find me on facebook and give me an update about your life in chacos(or sperrys, converse, flip flops, nikes, keds.....etc.)

It may not be chacos but I wish that these were real boots so badly! And if you look closely you can see that I am wearing my chacos behind the boots.

Live abandoned,

Amanda

End of the weekend

Well this weekend was a great one to spend with my family! I really enjoyed having some time to relax before finals demolishes my zest for life! I also got to spend sometime hanging out with my friend Shawn at camp. Which made me want to skip the next two weeks and fast forward to CAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you all had a great week and are enjoying the little rain that we are getting, and if you are not in Dallas I hope that you get some beautiful rain! Oh and I got to drive through Austin tonight with the windows open listening to Passion Pit. FAV!

This weekend I got a wolf t-shirt and......

Last night I got to spend some time in Landa Park. This is located in the lovely town of New Braunfels, Tx, that I had the great privilege of basically growing up in. Unfortunately because of the flood that we had last summer it is undergoing some remodeling, which has included getting rid of my favorite bridge that was the location of me taking prom pics and senior pics and just having memories there.

Besides that i had sometime to sit and to think and have a quite time. I was brought back to a verse in Numbers that talks about that "At the command of the Lord they camped and at the command of the Lord they went out...." So it made me reflect on my life and how I continually eager to just run and live life, but the Lord needs me to wait sometimes and to stay where I am. And sometimes when we stay and listen

to what he has He will bless our socks off.

Basically, I am changing my major and in continually praying for the Lord to close doors if it is not where I am supposed to be he has just blown some completely open! So, on Monday instead of being a Biology major I am going to switch to...................................Camp and Sport Ministry!

Completely random I know but it is a brand new degree offered by DBU and honestly I have been praying for this for MONTHS! It is insane how I have just been praying that the Lord will show me where I am supposed to be and he fulfilled it!

Post Script: This is Mark and Scheel. Last weekend the got ENGAGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited for them and blessed by their friendship. Cannot wait to see what the Lord has in-store for them!!!

pistachio- mustachio.

So heres the deal. I am sorry that for my 3 followers that I have not updated in like a week but I am working so that it will not happen again! The upcoming end of the spring semester is quickly approaching and I am personally freaking out. But I am so thankful that I have a little more down time this week to do things like clean and to find my mustache tattoos!!!! (Oh! and watching Footloose.... on of my fav. movies!)

Anyways as the semester comes to a close I am completely reminded of the faithfulness that the Lord has. I keep having to remind myself that this week is the passion week and about the miraculous events that happened so many years ago but are still alive today. Jesus willingly sacrificed his life for us and it continually blows my mind. I just cannot understand how he can love us so much.

Well, I hope you have a blessed week and enjoy your easter holiday with your families! I cannot wait to leave and drive home this weekend and see my family! I love you all and hope that you have a great night!

So go pull out an oldie but a goodie movie and clean you apartment!

Counting down the days

So heres the deal. I am so excited for summer that I can hardly contain myself! Like I just want to skip the next month and land myself back at camp running around setting up for theme days. By the way I am sooooo excited. Like I cannot believe that it is almost here again!

But more than anything I am so excited to see what the Lord has in store for me. Little update on my new position this summer. So I was completely content with going back to sports camp this summer and being in a cabin with campers. But the Lord had a completely different plan for me. That plan is Day Camp leadership! The Lord definitely needed to take me out of my comfort zone to show me something better than what I could have planned. So anyways now my days are consumed with thoughts of mission impossible, noah's ark, and throwing a giant Birthday party...... basically I am sooo excited. and more than that I am thankful that the Lord wants to plan something out for our lives. Just so thankful that he loves us.

I have found a trust that teaches how to rest.
I have found a grace that guides me by the hand.
I have found a strength that stands like a mountain.
And I have found, I've found You!
You are all I want, You are all I need,
Everything my heart could hope for.
We are longing for, the Glory of the Lord,
Cause we know there's so much more!

Ephesians 3:20