Summer wind-down

Man yesterday was the mark of only one more month till school starts back up for me. I am really excited for this year. Many new exciting things are in store; for example: I am moving into my very first apartment (no more dorm life) with an amazing person who I loved since the moment I met her! I am ready to decorate and just make it mine and actually have room instead of a little bedroom that I share... I am excited for school, which is a change because I am now down with my gen. ed's so I am starting on my core classes which is the reason I chose this major because I find it so fascinating. Also in store for this year is Younglife, in my area we are breaking out two new teams and I am on one of them; the Millenium and Verrado team! Seeing the leader list for my team was amazing, I love and am excited for each and everyone of them. I will be a cool and new thing to experience which makes me super stoked for it. It is crazy to realize that life is moving forward I am getting older and becoming a grownup (slowly but surely).
I know that this is the place where I am suppose to be for now and that God has amazing plans and ideas in store for me. I just have to focus and prepare for them!

On a side- note my goal is to update my blog as much as possible and to take pictures and really make it mine! But in the mean time I have been looking at some decorating ideas and I have found some cute ideas that I would like to use....







Flowers and anything colorful, to me it brightens up the room. I feel it also describes my personality, so many things colorful and I have a few ideas using flowers just like these also!





I wish to be more organized... in which that is one of my main tasks this year and to keep my room and such clean and pretty!



I want to come up with a theme or color scheme, in which makes my room look amazing!

Prayers for Mamma

Hey guys, I just wanted to fill you in on a little bit about my life. My mom lost her job back last January (all because she did a lesson on banned music and showed some clips and lyrics of music that is controversial). It has a been a tough and interesting ride to say the least. I have not really talked about this with many people, and even those people do not know the full extent as to what we are going through. This summer has been a great one because I have gotten so much closer to my family and I have gained so much more respect for them, but it is still one of the hardest summers also. We have had to make some/many sacrifices with things. She is trying and has filled out countless amounts of applications for everything. She is trying and trying but nothing seems to be working. She is undeceive on where to go. she really wants to move to Colorado to be closer to family and be back where she grew up, and also to have male role-models in my brothers life.
Meanwhile, my brother is about to start high school this fall, and he does not want to leave high school once he starts. (Which I do not blame him). But with my brother starting high school, my mom is trying to move to Colorado where we are from. But even up there she is not finding much, and I can see the stress on her and it kills me. So I am just asking for you all to just keep her in your prayers and to ask God for peace within our family and help her find a job so she does not feel stressed and can take a breather (because she truly deserves it). I am truly blessed by this whole experience because through this we have gotten much closer as a family.

I really appreciate my mom, she does so much for me and my brother; and watching her go through this time in life is hard and uncontrollable but I know that we will eventually get out of it. Because of this whole ordeal I am more aware of my money and where I am putting it and trying to be more wise with it. And I am looking forward to this upcoming year to see how I will do with that. But I am asking for your prayers and thoughts with my mom, that something will open up and work out very soon!

Never say NEVER

So this summer is coming to a close, and I can say that it was a great one! I have done and experienced so many different things; and to think that it is not quite yet over. For me. my summer began just being at home relaxing and working everyday. Which was not bad because I still feel I had a summer (well kind of). But it allowed me to get to know and hang out with some pretty cool girls at work. They made going to work so fun and enjoyable. So a couple weeks passed and I got the opportunity to take some high schoolers to Lost Canyon for the best week of their lives and share Jesus with them. That week, our cabin full of girls just bonded and got super close. I love each and every one of them, and I am so excited to lead them these next few years and really reach and poor into them. After I came back from having a ball with the high schoolers.





I went back to work for a few weeks.... During these few weeks I was spending some much needed time with my family, getting ready for what is to come, and just hanging out with some pretty awesome friends. Then June 8th came around, and I got to get away for a little vacation back to Lost Canyon and work for the lord and just meet and serve some pretty awesome campers. These three weeks, blew me away I was astonished about how close I felt with God and how he placed some AMAZING people into my life. Who knew in three weeks I could bond and grow in a community with people that opened me up. This was most definitely the highlight of my summer. It was well worth the three weeks I lost in work/ pay. And most definitely worth leaving the Phoenix heat for a little while.






I came back and had to deal with the 'real life' of working again. But yet when I was getting sad at the fact I had to go back to work, God put those wonderful ladies at work back into my life and they helped me out so much. We even got the opportunity to have a little bonding with a sleep over! Who knew that work friends could actually be more than just at work? So now here it is the last week of July, and I am preparing for the upcoming school year, buying furniture and things for my very first apartment, and still enjoying every bit of the summer. I wanted to share a few pictures of what I got to experience this summer. Yes, I know that my summer was not filled with all these trips to different countries or anything spectacular but it was filled with love and friends and that is what made this summer so great and extraordinary.