My Best Friends Wedding...

This weekend one of my bestest friends got married!!! I must say that it was the most beautiful wedding i have ever gone too! And most fun! We broke it down like no ones business and had some pretty darn awesome dance moves! (right mom she was in the middle of the circle the whole time!)My overall favorite move was the can opener! We played the napkin game...danced to thriller (good job girls we worked hard on our dance!) My other best friend fell for one of the groomsmen yay!!! thanks to my matchmaking skills! Took lots and lots of pictures...cried...and just had a great time! Overall it was AMAZING! As many emotions ran through my head that day i can say that it was a happy day because we all knew it was God sent let me share Nana and Luke's story....In all the years i've known nana (7 yrs to be exact) she has never had a boyfriend....and never seemed interested in boys...she had a bad break up and decided as hard as it would be that she would wait on God...i never heard her complain about being single or wanting someone in fact when we would complain she would just comfort us...so patient she was...and she waited and waited not even concerned by singleness she decided to follow her God dreams to go on many mission trips during college but when she was in college she decided that she loved muslims...and so when she came home she decided God wanted her to live among the muslims and share Jesus! Her family was not in agreement and niether were some of her friends (i was supportive!) knowing how dangerous it was...she told us that it was what God had called her to do and if she stayed here she would be misserable....so God opened the doors and in Sept. of last year she left to Jordan for a year :( i was sad i missed her like crazy but i knew this was the path God had for her...Well he did He had her future husband waiting for her! It was not a week later she crossed paths with Luke Frederick (her husband) and little by little their "friendship" as she so commonly refered to turned into "i like a boy..." i rem. opening the email! I was so happy for her but could not believe that it had happened! When she came home in June we were so excited to meet him! and we did and he was her perfect match...we knew he was the one...and it wasn't long until he proposed in December! 6 months later i am standing at her left side watching her say her vows! This was a love story written by God! So girls if ur reading this...its worth it to hold out on Gods best be patient he's out there! (i know!) :)

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What's Happening?

okay so i'm beginning to get very paranoid because there has seemed to be a plague of nasty cockroach half scropion bugs unleashed on regal cinemas! Let me explain...about 3 nights ago i was so excited because i was going to see get smart at midnight! so me and evan drove up to sawgrass parking lot just like any other night and got out of the car we were talking blah blah and than Evan is like OMG AWESOME! look at that bug over there...i quickly responded eww it's so big what is it...and than we moved on but what we soon realized was wherever we seemed to walk there was one!!!! Either dead or just haning out ready to attack! These bugs are the craziest things i've ever seen the picture does them no justice! The are about the size of my iphone! Black and brown and very disgusting! they have pinchers in front of there head the size of a forklift! and they make buzzing noises that will drive u crazy! They also can fly too which freakin scared the heck outta of us! Let me explain after we finished watching get smart we decided to hang out with the nasty giant bugs...and than the boys got bored and decided it would be a wonderful idea to patronize these killer bugs...and so all the sudden it sprouted wings and flew around us buzzing loudly making it's statement to leave them alone or they will attack! There were millions of them outside the movie theatre...and even in the parking lot i felt i was going to fall victim to a horror movie like birds...they were surrounding me! When i got in my car i was excited to never see one again i thought it was just because sawgrass was near the everglades that they may have migrated over! But i seem to be wrong there is an epidemic happening because the following night me and evan went to go see Get Smart again with another set of friends (i know what can i say we love the movie!) but this time Regal Westfork....As we were leaving the threatre i began to walk and almost stepped on this huge black moving spot i jumped up and when i looked at the corner of my eye i realized it was THE BUG the same freakin bug we saw at sawgrass!!!!!!! It's Happening they are taking over! Oh no! You guys better watch out! Because i'm not getting run over by a lawn mower haha (that would only make sense if you saw the happening!)

Go See Get Smart!

okay so i'm soooooooo excited! Why? Get Smart comes out Saturday!!!! i've been waiting months for this...i think Steve Carrell is the funniest thing ever! Just watching the trailer makes me laugh so hard i cry...can't wait! Watch the trailer and see for yourself!

Judgements

Today was wonderful day in practicum i realized how much i truly enjoyed the people on my team and am so glad to be in the program with them they bring such laughter to me in times i need it most in class! So today while i was school i realized something huge...actually its more like a lesson learned about me and judgements. Don't we all do it...You see the person on the street dressed in low hanging pants and some ghetto attire and Tims and you make a judgement whether good or bad you make a judgement in your head about this person and you don't even know them. Wow thats horrible! How can we let ourselves do that as christians?!?! i used to be the one to say pass no judgement on man or women but today i learned that i do pass judgements on people and don't even know it! Let me explain as some of you know i am grad school at nova and like every other college there are people you like and there are people you don't like. Obviously as social as i am i made friends quickly in my program only to associate with people i can tolerate and enjoy there company yeah i know other people in the program but i just rather stay away from them but i mean u see them in all you classes so you learn to be aquitances. Well this happened with the "orange girls" (a term me and my friends made up) for this group of girls from New York (need i say more) They were loud, in your face type of people and i wasn't down for drama. So i stayed clear from them...but i did notice the times they would interupt class with there noisey phone conversations, or the times they would spend 3 hrs. whipsering in class while i was trying to listen to the teacher talk, or the vulgar things i heard them say about people in the program. Than there was an incident one day in class i read a paper about muslims well of course them being contraversial they ate my poor friend alive for making a comment. Now i'm sure some of you are thinking what my judgement of them at this point was...need i say more it was not very good. The only thing i knew was what i saw or heard from others about the mean things they would say and so like many of us do at times i based my judgements and opinions of them on those things and didn't care to get to know them....to me they were just the orange girls. Ha! Well did God know what he was doing to me this semster when he put them in my practicum. See practicum is for 6 hrs. one day a week for 12 weeks...and there are only 6 people in little room talking about clients. I was not happy about it more nervous that i would end up not getting along with them. Even more excited to see how they did therapy because i heard it wasn't that good (see this is horrible these judgements!) So the semster started and the first day to my suprise they were really nice...and as the semster has gone on they have been nothing but nice to me...What the heck? (was i wrong!) and so here we are with only 3 weeks left and today as i was sitting there i realized what a jerk i've been...These girls are the sweetest girls...yes they can be loud, and vulgar and a funny but they are truly really sweet girls who would do anything for you. And so here comes the guilt and shame that me being a christian would pass so much judgement on people like this without ever getting to know them. That i let others opinions and personal biases blind what i thought about them and how i treated them. They have been sweet, caring, loving and brought lots of joy to my tuesdays! In fact they are the some of the greatest therapist i know! They have grown so much and i am proud to be in the program with them. Today i learned a lesson that we sometimes forget...don't pass judgement, assumptions, or opinions on people based on what others say...get to know the person first! This can even extend as far to say don't judge a book by its cover! Another words don't judge someone by there appearance God calls us to love and just really show his love...how can we by not making judgements and getting to know that person for what God created them to be a unique wonderfully made person with some kind of signifance! How can we promote community if cannot put our judgements aside and just get to know people!?! I mean God didn't pass judgement on any man...in fact he embraced them with love...look at the prostitute or the tax collector God looked at them like his beautifully created creation! If we look at it this way than we can't possibly pass judgment (i'm not saying we won't because we will were humans but its helps) I'm so glad that God taught me this lesson today...because it just helps me realize that i need to be conscious of these things because how i react to those things really says alot about who i am...and how i treat people. I want to be God's love pouring out of me! I want to be community to others and so i can't judge a book by its cover i need to read in the book before anything!

Feel like reading here are some verses i found about judgement that helped me:

Matt. 7:1-5 and James 4:11-12

Summer Wish List

As i only hve 3 weeks left of school (woooohoooo) and summer quickly approaches for me. Summer is one of my favorite times of the year! So i'm so excited for July 7th to come and not have to open a school book or see a client! I have been thinking of all these things i would like to do that i just haven't gotten a chance to do and always wanted to do but school gets in the way...haha so i began making a summer wish list in my head and well i thought i would share...so if anyone wants to join me on my endevors be my guest!

1. Go to Loin Country Safari

2. Finish reading the book i started in dec. and begin reading the atonement!

3. Go on a afternoon Pinic

4. Have a Star Wars Marathon from start to finish (thats for u pecan!)

5. Visit a water park

6. Spend a day at flamingo gardens

7. Get a tan

8. Play Laser tag

9. Jump on a trampoline (u know who u are)

10. Go to the beach at least once

11. See the sisterhood of the traveling pants, wanted, hellboy, and batman

12. Visit Katriana in Jacksonville

13. Get something done at the spa (with my mommy)

14. Ten Buck Tuesdays at Boomers!

15. Go the batting cages

16. Play minature golf

17. Hang out at the playground at youngs circle

18. Ice skating

19. See a movie at Muvico West Palm Beach

20. Go kart Racing

21. Have a daddy date breakfast with my dad

Flowers make me :)

So yesterday i recieved the best present suprise ever...beautiful flowers from my awesome boyfriend! AMazing, Incredible,Wonderful and thoughtful he is! :)

ps. thank you so much pecan!

pss. i know i have the best boyfriend ever!

My thoughts about moods...

So sorry i haven't blogged in awhile i was busy and stuck about what to write...however because of this weekend i now have two good blogs to write! So i hope u find them interesting!

This weekend Pastor Troy spoke on something that i hadn't been really thinking about but i guess i do struggle with and that's joy. At first when he started preaching i was like whew i do not need this sermon but as he countinued to talk i realized alot more about myself. See he said a couple things that got me right in the heart....
* P. Troy talked about the glass 1/2 empty and how that causes us to fear which than causes us to be selfish and so on... (haven't you ever done that? i know i have)
* He talked about how sometimes we have little pity parties with ourselves because they feel soooo good (guilty!!! had one yesterday)
* And so we have a choice we can view life in this way sad and bummed out all the time or we can be joyful! No matter what are circumstances are!
*he said something so amazing i got chills all over, we were born for this year in 2008 to bring joy to someone else life and help them find that joy and comfort. (hello thats my job as therapist!)
And so this whole week i've been thinking about this notion of joy that sometimes is so easy to not want... so people will feel sorry for u...i mean i started thinking i do it all the time...One thing goes wrong in my day and i stress out and all the sudden i'm not longer my normal joyful self i'm a mean frustrated person but when i'm mean and frustrated thats not a good thing why a. i work in a job once week where i help people if i'm in a bad mood i'm no help to them am i? b. i m in direct contact with so many non christians...who know i am a christian so what will they think of christianity c. as a small group leader at elevate my mindset is towards community and how can i work on community when i'm a jerk to be with! I do have a choice i can be joyful why because God wants me to be joyful...i am so blessed but most of all look at all the people i encounter on a day to day basis that need me to help bring joy to there lives which means when i'm this way it takes the focus off of that! WOW what a long thought! So i decided that i will no longer complain when i have a difficult client...or have an attitude with people at school for saying dumb comments...or choose to break down at elevate when i'm not in the mood to talk...i decided i'm going to work on spreading joy in the community of Ft. Lauderdale...Because my mood effects there lives and there moods. I know its hard to swallow huh? And hopefully people will follow by example. So next time you want to be in a bad mood why don't you think about the people you will effect!
One more thought i want to share Going back on what Troy said about you were born to bring joy to peoples lives...which so struck my heart...well today was my first by myself session as nervous as i was because i totally was i went in with this joyful mentality ps. my client is depressed and is truly battling this saddness in her life she tried to find other things to make her happy(money) and it didn't work....needless to say by the end of our session she was smiling and there it is my purpose has been fulfilled the thing that God especially designed for me to do...i did it today and i felt good...not only that but my team had 2 other clients i also met with them too....the amount of laughter and happiness in each of the sessions just made my heart jump...after our last session we had a women who had a hard life (she is a christian) and she is always soooo positive my professor had an emergency so i had to take over our wrap up part in the session where we list all the wonderful positive things we noticed about the client while they were talking...this was my first time doing this i was nervous...but at the end the women looked at me and told me how wonderful it was to hear those things...with tears in her eyes she told me she was suprised because she doesn't see herself like this at all and to hear it made her change her perspective of her problem...i was like wow! God knew what he was doing he created me for this moment! He put this in my heart to bring happiness and joy to peoples lives and families...i know there will be times where i want to be in a bad mood but i won't because i will rem. these times and rem. that when i'm in a mood it effects so many others! Today was truly a wonderful experience to know that my whole life 365 days week i will be bringing helping people not be in a mood and it makes me soooo happy!