Blue Angels

This is a picture of me and my wonderful Daddy many many years ago at a Blue Angels air show. My dad loves air planes and I can remember going to some of their shows when I was little. Saturday some friends I had the opportunity to meet my family in Meridian for another air show. It was SO much fun. Here is a picture from Saturday:

This is a picture of Hayes and papaw Saturday. It is much like the one of me when I was little. Going to Blue Angels air shows are great memories that I will always have with daddy. I hope that Hayes and Grayson will continue to have those same memories that I did as a child.

Papaw Hammack

Wednesday was the mark of one year since my wonderful papaw pasted away. Papaw Hammack meant SO much to me. He was always loving, caring, kind, and had a wonderful since of humor. He would of done anything for his family and was always so content in life. My papaw had great faith in jesus Christ and was such a good example for his grand-kids. Some teenagers never get to even meet their grandparents, much less live in the same town as them. I was so fortunate to be blessed enough to have all four of my grandparents still living and able up until my senior year. I cherish all of the time I got to spend with him and I thank God for it. My papaw was one of my biggest fans in any sports that I played or other achievements I had. He gave me the best gift that anyone could give another person......he believed in me. He was the best papaw that anyone could ever ask for!

ThInGs ColLeGe HaS tAuGhT mE

Being in college has taught me many things and none of it has come from my teachers! Some of the things that I have learned are:
~Not to wait 30 minutes before an exam to study (this is not high school)
~Learn the channel of your favorite TV show BEFORE the tv show starts.......this is trouble
~Moving into college automatically reverts you to age 4....seriously. since I have been here my diet has consisted of ice cream and chik-fil-la. I regularly color and play with chalk. I have played "the floor is lava" more than once. naps are a regular, daily, thing. and it is perfeectly exceptable to skip to class
~ 1 am is the new 9 pm
~A dorm room is like a clown car. you might think "no way will all this stuff fit in this tiny room" -but it will. you will find ways to store things that you never dreamed of.
~Shirts that you thought were too big for you, actually seem to fit you quite perfectly.
~The more I see uggs with nike shorts the more they annoy me
~Experiences are worth more than material things
~Home cooked meals taste a lot better than I remembered as a child
~It only takes a couple of months for your new friends to feel like best friends
~The best discussions are to be had outside the classroom
~Me + Hilarious friends + Quiet library = bad
~Time management is essential
~Dora The Explorer fruit snacks are the greatest things ever
~Breakfast food is the best late night snack
~Road trips happen
~Avoid early morning classes like the plague
~Papers are best written the night before they are due
~Its the little things that mean the most

So Blessed

Tonight I had the opportunity to spend some quality time with Kessler, Lelah, and Mary Katherine. The more time I spend with them the more I realized just how blessed I am to have such fun, loving, caring, and goofy friends. We can be SO sarcastic with each other and sometimes rude but we also have the best heart-to-heart ever. We all come from different backgrounds and ways of life but the more we talk to more we realize what we have in common. Joshua Harris wrote, "Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person as God has loved us.” That is so true. We may joke around a lot but we care so much about each other and when leave MSU in a few years i know that we will take a part of each other with us where ever we end up in life. God has given me the opportunity to get to know some amazing people over the years and he continues to bless me daily with wonderful relationships that get me through each day. I cherish every friendship that I have or have had in the past. So many memories and lessons learned that I will always carry with me!

Nicholas Sparks = Amazing!

There are some guys who grow up thinking they will "settle down" sometime in the near future, and there are some guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me mainly because they are pathetic; the latter quite frankly are hard to find. But it is the serious ones that I am interested in and it takes time to find a guy like that whom I am equally interested in. I mean if the relationship can not survive long term then why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? ~ The Last Song

I Miss these cute little boys!

Friendship

Friends. A simple word isn't it? its uttered everyday to almost every person imagineable. Who are your friends? I used to think that friends were the people that you could laugh with and talk to. Now I know that friends are just that. They are the people that touch your hearts. You could spend hours with them doing nothing at all and it can be the best time of your life, just because it was with them. They're the people you can share your secrets with, cry with, laugh with, and just have fun with. They do not judge you or make you change. They accept you exactly as you are. They look at you and they see a great person, one they love spending time with. you all share something in common and are tied together by memories, tears, laughs, and smiles. You're tied together by love for the other. Friendship is the strangest but greatest thing in the world. I find my time with my friends, the best time of my life. My friends are my heart, my soul, my fun, my laughter, tears, love, and my life!

Have you Lost your Hearing?

 Once there was a man who dared God to speak.

"Burn the bush like you did for Moses, God.
And I will follow.
Collapse the walls like you did for Joshua, God.
And I will fight
Still the waves like you did on Galilee, God.
And I will listen."

And so the man sat by a bush, near a wall, close to the sea,
and waited for God to speak.

And God heard the man, so God answered.
He sent fire, not for a bush, but for a church.
He brought down a wall, not of brick, but of sin.
He stilled a storm, not of the sea, but of a soul.
And God waited for the man to respond......
And he waited.....
And he waited.....
And waited.

But because the man was looking at bushes, not hearts; bricks and not lives,
seas and not souls, he decided that God had done nothing.

Finally he looked to God and asked,
    have you lost your power?
And God looked at him and said,
    have you lost your hearing?

"The Station"

My oldest sister, Laura, is amazing in every way! There is a poem that she LOVES and I discovered it through her! I thought I would pass it along also!

Tucked away in our subconscious is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the continent.  We are traveling by train.  Out the windows we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing, of cattle grazing on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, of row upon row of corn and wheat, of flatlands and valleys, of mountains and rolling hillsides, of city skylines and village halls.

But uppermost in our minds is the final destination.  On a certain day at a certain hour we will pull into the station.  Bands will be playing and flags waving.  Once we get there, so many wonderful dreams will come true and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a completed jigsaw puzzle.  How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering - waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.

"When we reach the station, that will be it!" we cry.  "When I'm 18."  "When I buy a new 450SL Mercedes Benz!"  "When I put the last kid through college."  "When I have paid off the mortgage!"  "When I get a promotion."  "When I reach the age of retirement, I shall live happily ever after!"

Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all.  The true joy of life is the trip.  The station is only a dream.  It constantly outdistances us.

"Relish the moment" is a good motto, especially when coupled with Palm 118:24: "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it."  It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad.  It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow.  Regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today.  

So, stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles.  Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot more often, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more, cry less.  Life must be lived as we go along.  The station will come soon enough.

Yay!!

Hey guys! well to start with, I have NO idea why I decided to create a blog or why I even think that I have time to keep up with one but I am going to give it a try! Sometimes I have random thoughts or I find quotes that I love to write down and now I can put them on here for ya'll to read also. Are you ever in the middle of a very ordinary day and all of a sudden something makes you stop and think of how awesome God is? it could be anything from a beaufiul sky to avoiding an almost bad accident. A good friend of mine use to call these little reminders "God stops" because they make you stop and think of God's wonder. I want to encourage you as you go through each day to be aware of these things and and aware of God's love for you and never take it for granted. God could have chosen to live ANYWHERE he wanted to but he chose your heart! If that doesnt prove to you that you are special then I dont know what will! Love you guys!