Smile

As I sat in study hall yesterday surrounded by friends who care about me I was reminded how much God loves me. About a year ago I started attending the school I now attend, I was scared to death and truly did not understand how this could be best for me. I couldn't imagine my life with any other kind of school in it, but now I can't imagine life without school in it. School is my life, but it is worth it and I love it. So as I was sitting in study hall surrounded by my friends I started thinking about how a year ago I was wondering where God was, why I was all alone in the world, why no one cared about me etc. I have grown so much in the last year, God has used a lot of hard things to draw me to himself. I am so thankful for my friends and for the contentment I feel in my life today. I was really touched by one of my really really good friends who really followed the biblical principles of a friend yesterday and let me cry yesterday, listened to me talk about Haiti for an hour, and actually cried with me. She prayed with me and for me and really reached out and touched my heart. I am so thankful for her influence on my life. God is so good to provide friends who are different enough to enjoy yet similar enough to encourage each other. My good friend and I have a Bible study that we do every week. It is so good for me to have that accountability and be able to share anything with her.

My heart hurts for Haiti

I am sitting here and supposed to be doing school but every site has something about Haiti and the devastation there. My heart hurts for them esp. when I asked skittle what he wanted to do and he replied "Go to Haiti and see what is going on." Me too buddy, Me too. It makes one question and makes on pray. It is so very sad. Please take some time to pray about this today.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_haiti_earthquake

Christmas

I hope you all had a good Christmas. Our Christmas was really special because It was the first one with Laffy taffy and Skittle home(they were finnally able to come home after our adoption was complete this year.) Our christmas started on christmas eve with a beautiful christmas eve service(was excited because it was a candleliht service) and the message was really good. We then drove around and looked at christmas lights. There was one house that had there lights set to the tune of "Joy to the World." The lights blinked on and of to the tune of the song and the song was broadcast on the radio. It was really different. We came home and ate Chinese food and appetizers for dinner. Then we gave Mom and Dad there Christmas present from all 6 of us combined(something we do every year) We got our yearly ornaments, because every year we get and ornament so when we move out we will have a tree full. We then opened the one Christmas present we get on Christmas eve which, this year happened to be a big box. We tore into this box only to find our snowsuits and winter coats and a note saying the gift was somewhere else. We eventually found the gift in the shower! We again tore into this box and found Lego Rock band! We spent the rest of the evening playing this as a family.

I will have to blog about Christmas later!I hope to post pictures soon. Got to run.

God'sgrl <3

Merry Merry Christmas!

Wishing you and your family Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!