fall!

The sun sleeps behind gray clouds today
As rain falls on dying trees
Forcing brightly colored leaves to slip off their branches
And twirl gracefully by my window onto the soggy earth
As I cuddle under blankets feet socked
Sipping hot tea and resting in this blessed time of year

i wrote this today. as i sat watching a tv show in my parents house.

i am so happy to be home and be able to love fall again!

this weekend my family and i are going to clarion to celebrate autumn (and our family) at the autumn leaf festival!

i will post pictures, and take more walks and more pictures of this most beautiful time of year!

it's fall already!

good golly!

God has been doing amazing things in my life lately!

right before august started rachel and i got an apartment together.

BEST PLACE EVER!

then i got THREE yes, three, jobs. it's been crazy.

the months have slid by!

then, rachel and i decided together to start attending steamtown church, and it's really been amazing!

the people there are so awesome. also we started having dinner parties on monday nights.

i love it so much!

i make most of the meal and then people bring whatever, or nothing. either way i am just way blessed to be surrounded by such rad people.

rachel and i have also visited pittsburgh together and it was really such a wonderful weekend. i love those kids ssooo much!

so in all. i am a pretty happy gal right now.

and pretty excited to see the things that are going to happen in the future!

God's timing and plan is amazing, and crazy and makes me laugh.

and makes me rest and be at peace.

lots to think about, nothing to worry about

i've had a really hard time for the past couple months. moving from hawaii back to pennsylvania has been difficult. it's weird thinking that i won't EVER live there again.
and it's ridiculous how happy i am to be back in pennsylvania. i really really love it here and wouldn't trade it for the whole world.
in the past week i've had a hard time figuring out what to do. not with my life, just with little things.
i've been getting so worried about it that i've hardly eaten and have been having a hard time falling asleep.
this morning my grandma and i have been watching extreme makeover home edition. one of the families' father died of cancer within four months of being diagnosed and his wife said this quote "lots to think about, nothing to worry about" which i guess was something he always said.
what a great thing to say and think and believe. i am going to try to keep this in my mind and live by this. worrying gets you no where.

a tribute to times past

my very favorite pizza shop is location in a small north eastern pennsylvania town named tunkhannock. which, by the way, is where i grew up. so i've been frequenting this establishment since i was a kid. the other day i was there and decided to document it.

on another day while driving with my grandma and mom up to visit some relatives i made my mom drive by our old house. i just wanted to make sure it was taken care of and looked beautiful. i was surprised at how cute it looked.

my heart is at rest knowing that it is being taken care of.

it's july now

so, i haven't written anything since april?

i think i was pretty sick of life and friends and school

and hawaii then.. haha

so, home. wonderful.

i have a job at american eagle that i got because my good julie is the assistant manager.

i think i have a job at a cafe in downtown scranton because of my pysudo sister working there.

it's nice to have people you know working at jobs you can stand!

i've gone to pittsburgh twice since i've been home,

it's pretty amazing there. and i'm going back this weekend <3

almost every day i am blown away by how beautiful pennsylvania is.

i am so happy to be back here.

best birthday present!

today i stopped in at work on a break from school and got a late birthday present from a coworker! but the best thing about this piece of art is that my friend who made it told me that it was one of his favorite pieces he's ever done and he's held onto it because that.

so he told me he gave it to me because he thought i would appreciate it as much as he!

i really love it so much!

hear the bells ringing they're singing Christ is risen from the dead, hear the bells ringing they're singing Christ is risen as He said!

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty.

who was and is and is to come.

with all creation i sing praise to the King of kings.

you are my everything and i will adore You!

pretty much i am obsessed with this song right now.

i think it is so amazing. i love the idea of praising the Lord with all of creation,

and the word adore, it's just one of those words that you don't use,

unless you really adore that person.

gosh and to adore the Lord, it's just beyond what i can imagine.

so it's easter and i woke up at 5amish to go to church at 6, it was awesome.

i stayed for two services, sang a lot of songs, and then went out for breakfast with my friends.

there are a couple things i am really grateful for,

well first the fact the God loves me just for who i am.

that my ankle hurts. i've grumbled some but i feel God has been blessing me in ways i don't even know during this time of recovery.

i feel grateful that i always have money, it might not be a lot of money, but it is enough to get by.

i am grateful that i can go out to eat with my friends every sunday after church and spend time fellowship with those crazy kids.

this weekend has been pretty wonderful for the last thing i want to tell you that i am grateful for.

i reflected a lot on all that Jesus went through to be the atonement of sin and him raising for the grave so we can all have communion with the Father.

absolutely breathtakingly amazing!