an abundance of blessings!

I am so, so, stinking, incredibly blessed. I wanted to just highlight some things from this past week that I've either learned something from or that has just been a huge blessing!

1. Reapplying sunscreen is a good idea, especially when it's 86 degrees at the beach and completely sunny and cloudless. I might have learned the hard way this time.

2. Couponing is my favorite thing. Actually, just saving money in any way is my favorite thing. This week was triple coupon week at Harris Teeter, and I got $50 of groceries all for under $10 thanks to some sweet coupon deals! And now I have more to eat than pb&j and fake-chicken flavored rice.

3. I have amazing friends. On Tuesday (the day given to us called Reading Day for "studying" in between the last day of classes and the start of exams), lots of friends came over to help do some yard work. The "before" yard was closely related to the overgrown Amazon jungle. The "after" yard looks like a yard. And now I can finally enjoy the hammock and the patio without being attacked by human-eating weeds and bugs.

4. Coffee. Coffee. Coffee. Enough said with that one.

5. Finding a job is hard! I've applied to 5 places, all of which seemed half-way promising, and haven't heard back from any of them. Hopefully, something will come up, or else I may really be eating pb&j and rice for the summer. Only kidding!

6. Free parking at the beach is amazing. My friend Tara lives at the beach, so I have the luxury of being able to park for free. She's moving in August so soon I'll have to suck it up and pay $2.00 per hour to park. Until then, the beach is my second home!


My "old" Young Life team. Brittany and Scott have both graduated, and B is getting married in July, and S is doing YL staff somewhere. They will both be missed so much, but I've been able to see the Lord through them and am so blessed to have been able to see the way they wholeheartedly love and serve high school kids.


Here's my new team! Katelyn and Matt are so great, and I'm so excited to continue my ministry alongside them. They have huge hearts, and are so enthusiastic to do what God has planned for them.



My dearest, best friend Maegan and I don't have very many pictures together. This is what happens when we try to capture the moment, though.


My bible study made up of mainly Young Life leaders and committee members, had Poker Night on Monday. We dressed up in costumes of our choice, and made virgin daquiris and ate way too much food!