My apartment!

I finally have some pictures of my room and bathroom up! I'll have more to come of the living/kitchen area and our balcony view soon. Enjoy! :]

So long, studio.

I taught my last round of classes at the studio tonight. I can't really say I'm going to miss it. It was fun and everyone was super sweet and what not, but its just not what I want to do. It opened my eyes that much more to the fact that I want to be a director. I just love the family-ness of a team, where its not just a group of people you teach once a week, but kids you get to really know and spend pretty much every day with. Plus, I'm a drill team addict. I love the boots and hats and all the silly little traditions. I'm headed back up to Columbus tomorrow (for the 3rd time this summer! I've been quite a hit, if I do say so myself :] ), so hopefully that will just prove this theory even more.

I move to College Station Sunday!!!!! :]

Anyone fluent in the 5 love languages?

I've been reading the singles edition, and its actually pretty interesting. I don't know if I'm totally on board, but it has given me a lot to think about, and at least opened my eyes to different ways of expressing love and appreciation. I've been trying to guess my family member's languages and practice speaking them a little bit more. Nothing has really changed, but at least it makes me aware instead of just not even worrying about it.

One relationship where this theory actually seems to make a lot of sense is between me and John. For whatever reason, we fight a LOT more when we're apart. It doesn't make summer too enjoyable. But, after reading that book I've kind of guessed that John's primary love language is physical touch and mine is quality time. Obviously, these are a little more difficult to act on over long distances, so maybe that has something to do with our crankiness? It's a theory.

Just curious if any of yall have read any of the Love Language books (Gary Chapman) and what yall thought.

There's a hole in my Bible!

Why isn't there a 16th verse in chapter 7 of Mark???

I want one of these in my backyard.

We finally went and spent the night at the beach this past week! That's the one thing I've been dying to do all summer, so we squeezed it in just in time. I love the beach :] I really never get tired of it. It's always different and I love the sound of the waves and the sea breeze and looking for pretty shells and treasures. Ahhhhh :]

One of our many new friends. This little cranky's name was Elmer :]

Lightning was a little more shy.

Me and my sisters with a giant sand castle.

See?

I'm struggling.

Please pray.

Love yall.

Hi! Remember me?

It has been over 3 months since my last blog post. 3 months!!! That means that I have not posted once since I moved away from Brenham. What a disgrace. A lot has been going on! I always think summer will be my time to relax, but it just seems to be even more hectic. I haven't even gotten to go to the beach, which was one of the only things I wanted to do :[ I've got a few weeks left, hopefully something will work out...

I feel like there's too much that's happened to even try and catch up. Fortunately, I think pretty much everyone who reads my blog is my friend on Facebook, so yall can't have fallen out of the loop too terribly much. I will say that my Columbus camps went amazingly well, as did my classes I've been teaching at the Studio, and I'm even more confident that I want to stick with dance. Unfortunately, the easiest way for me to do that is become a middle school language arts/social studies teacher, then take high school certification tests. Middle school... blech :/ That was the last thing I would have considered when it came to education. Please be praying for me to be content with where I've been placed and make the best of it. If I really commit myself to it, I don't think it would be that bad.

I move to College Station the 23rd! Hopefully I'll get back to posting more regularly after I get into my routine...