8.19

ok ok so I know I haven't been keeping up. I guess I am just not cut out to do this. I love taking pictures, it's so time consuming to make sure i take a picture a day and carry my camera around. I've just been in a weird place lately. One minute I'm good, the next I'm freaking out, the next I'm melting down. I need my comfort zone back, my outlet....my safe place. I haven't had it, and it's been killing me. Because of a few instances, and or events, I have been venturing towards a different place and it's not necessarily been a bad thing. I know I am so blessed by the place I have have been hibernating in, I mean I have been taken under the wings of a couple of people that truly love me for me. How awesome is that? I just wish I was better, that I showed more of the way I feel and didn't have such an issue with my feelings and emotions. I know that God is pulling me through this road and this place in my life for growth and strength, and I am trying with all my might to hold on and God grants me the strength, comfort and grace to get through it. Tonight I heard a song for the first time and I think it's my new song officially.
It's called Come Lord like You promised by Ascend The Hill and it's amazing. so go take a listen and the lyrics are...

Come Lord like You promised
Just like You said You would
Do not delay

Come with healing in Your touch
Come with fire in Your eyes
Just like You said You would
Come with grace and mercy
Come with judgment and might
Just like You said You would

Come riding on the wind
Through clouds of glory pierce the sky
Just like You said You would
Come and bring us back again
Lord come restore Your bride
Just like You said You would

UnCommon 8-12

So today was just the craziest day ever. A lot of stuff happened this morning, and I allowed myself somehow to get in this stage of thinking that everyone is out to get me. I had to keep telling myself to drip grace. The day ended so good when I experienced UnCommon for the first time. My students from Abiding Village played at UnCommon tonight too (which they did great even with the circumstances) but I got to worship. I was so so blessed by them tonight and just blessed by the whole experience of the ministry. Watching these guys sing to the Lord and worship Him, and just let everything else go was so inspiring to me. It just literally pumped me up for worship on Sunday. The coolest thing was during the last song of worship, seeing everyone just take a step back to form this huge circle, and just grab hands, and raise them to the one who gave it all to us.

Proverbs 8-11

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
Proverbs 31:30

I was driving home from worship rehearsal tonight and I turned on the radio and it was on KLove. I didn't catch who was preaching but they were preaching about God's Love and the definition of what God's Love really is. Here's a few things I caught....God's love is unconditional, God's love is unfailing, and God's love is never-ending. He never changes. He will always be there for us, love us, and be the same forever. Sometime we may think that God only loves at times because of our sin with the things we get ourselves into. We are wrong. God's love is unconditional. He will love us the same today, the same tomorrow, and the same always even when we get to heaven.

Love 8-10

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8

Love someone for who they are and not what you want them to be.

Rainbow 8-9

Don't let your past be an excuse for your future

convos 8-8

My Chuck Taylors...today has been an interesting day. On and off. Church was good but hard for me at the same time. I haven't been ok and I can't put my finger on it. I am working on being ok with everything going on right now. I want to be ok with it, I want to be excited, but I haven't been. I need to just isolate myself with people that are where I want to be and pray. Prayer can move mountains and apparently I have come to a big one.

One word 8-7

How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!
Psalm 133:1


Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.
Psalm 36:5

Testimony & Story of Adeye

Check out Adeye's story and testimony about her wonderful calling from God. It is amazing and so inspiring to read about all the great opportunities God has given her and her family. Click on Testimony and Story of Adeye.

hands 8-6

Hands....one of the most important things in life, yet we forget and take for granted how important our hands are but there is something about a baby's hands that put things into perspective for us of how big our God is and how amazing He is with His creations and children.


Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
1 Peter 2:2-3

Inspire 8-5

in·spire   [in-spahyuhr] Show IPA verb, -spired, -spir·ing.
–verb (used with object)
1. to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
2. to produce or arouse (a feeling, thought, etc.): to inspire confidence in others.
3. to fill or affect with a specified feeling, thought, etc.: to inspire a person with distrust.
4. to influence or impel: Competition inspired her to greater efforts.
5. to animate, as an influence, feeling, thought, or the like, does: They were inspired by a belief in a better future.
6. to communicate or suggest by a divine or supernatural influence: writings inspired by god.
7. to guide or control by divine influence.
8. to prompt or instigate (utterances, acts, etc.) by influence, without avowal of responsibility.
9. to give rise to, bring about, cause, etc.: a philosophy that inspired a revolution.
10. to take (air, gases, etc.) into the lungs in breathing; inhale.
11. Archaic .
a. to infuse (breath, life, etc.) by breathing (usually fol. by into ).
b. to breathe into or upon.
–verb (used without object)
12. to give inspiration.
13. to inhale.

Malachi 8-4

My picture of the day...Malachi. His heart is so big and I love him so much for that. He shares like I've never seen someone share before. Anything he has, he would share with the world. The amount of love he has for the people in his life, is incredible. Although he's 5, his heart is so big for everyone around him. Ohhh to be 5 years old and have a heart like he does....he is a child of God.

Together 8-3

My picture of the day is a cross with the word "together". I love all these news things God just keeps showing me every day.









Laugh,
Listen,
Care,
Show that you care...
Make each day count,
Count on each other...
Enjoy the little things,
Spend time together...
Create memories,
Create moments...
Celebrate life's moments.....
Celebrate ....your family; (Together.)

forever can never be long enough for me...

instead of asking why
ask why not
the sky is the limit and
your future is bright
always believe...
believe,
believe in yourself.

Trials. Trials are for growth. I really truly believe that.
I have realized over the last couple weeks that I have grown in many ways. I have been in such a weird, lonely place but it's been ok. New faces, new places, new opportunities, new experiences turns into new love, new joy, new passions, new friends, new family, and new thanks all going to Him.
The other day was sort of eye opening. It made me wonder and think about all of the people that are in my life and how many of them truly love me. I was having a conversation with someone and we were talking about adopting children. They were talking about if they had adopted a child and how to love that child the same as if it were their own. It just slammed me in the face. In a way, it made me feel awful but in return I have realized that I do have many people around, that love me for who I am. I have realized that God has given me many things; all my gifts and talents. I hard a hard time receiving complements sometimes because I don't believe I am as good as people tell me. I do believe how ever thanks goes to God because He has given me all of my gifts and He has given me the heart I have for everything I do. If someone were to ask me to describe myself in one word, I would probably have to say that I am a giver. I love helping people, I love giving, I love entertaining, I love most of all to make others happy. Above all things I love God and will praise and worship Him for allowing His spirit to soar in me. This was just a trial to trust God that He would show me how many amazing people He put in my life. Just tonight, a friend complemented me and told me that they loved how big I play when I perform. They said "you approach instruments like you're 6 feet tall, like you're bigger than the world. There are some great players that can't do that." I am humbled by that. Another friend found some of my recordings on ReverbNation and posted them on their facebook page and told me that I have found my true calling, that they could clearly see it. Some many things can come together if you just trust in Him. 1 Peter 5:10 says...

"And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you."

SO instead of asking why......ask why not. God has great plans for each and every one of us and all we have to do is obey and trust in Him. Always believe, and believe in yourself because you CAN do it and you CAN become everything you want to be, and all your dreams can become a reality.

the start of something new....

and I'm back to my photo-a-day! Starting August 1st, I will begin my Project 365 again. I only made it 3 months when I started back in January but I REALLY want to get through a whole year. My first picture is part of a table at Bubba's Love Shak in Murrells Inlet, where my band plays every Sunday night.

My second picture of Trystin. Today, August 2nd is Trystin 1st birthday. Happy birthday buddy, I love you!

Home.

My title is "Home." because today I felt as if I came home after a year long trip. Today was the first time in two weeks that I served on the worship team and it felt good to be back. In rehearsal before service, I got all teared up looking around and hearing from Him "You are back home, right where you should be, because this is where I called you, stop running". I was wrecked today at church, in a good way. At that moment, hearing those words, I just happened to look to the right on stage while we were in the middle of playing through Friend of God, and I saw Mike and we made eye contact and just smiled at eachother, then I saw Tishala and we made eye contact and smiled, then Ricardo....and I just remember still looking around and thinking "God I have truly missed this, this is where my heart is". The sermon today was incredible. It was about the trials that we go through day to day and how we approach and handle them. One of the points that was talked about was how our past does not count as an excuse for the present. The past "us" do not come in excuse for the present "us". Don't allow what has happened in the past, destroy you today because with God, we are his children and we are brand new, we are changed with His love for us. Another point had to do with a story that was told about a dog that was ugly with no hair, with ticks and fleas. They related it to God's children, us, and how we are just dogs with ticks. God comes and heals us, and pulls everything off of us, EVERYTHING! and reassures us that we WILL be ok. Such a great message. I am so blessed by everything. I am soooo LOVED by everyone. Today I have realized that. I am "home", back with my WHOLE family and HAPPY. Thank you God. I had a wonderful morning at church and then I got to spend the rest of the day with church family at the beach. I was with the Martinal family and Trey and Tonya Hannah. I love them all. The Martinal family has taken me under their wing and I am so blessed, heartened, encouraged, loved, thankful, inspired, grateful, and strengthened, for them and by them all the time, every day.

Jackie's House (Day 4 - DR Trip)

Today was full of emotions. We had the privilege of working with children all day today. It was amazing. I didn't quite know what to expect, I just made sure that I kept my heart open to anything and everything that came my way. Going to Jackie's house was eye opening. To see these beautiful kids in the orphanage was reality. One little boy named Isaac, really touched my heart. He clung to me and I held him in my arms as Ricardo and I sang to the kids. Another little boy, Carlos, he was so cute. He is the leader of the pack so to speak. He led all the other kids in prayer, in singing, everything. Every child had a story, and a unique personality. After we went to the orphanage, we went to visit a Haitian village at a garbage dumb. Driving through the village and being in that moment of seeing the way people live, I was stunned and wrecked. The children had nothing, but JOY was just overflowing. These people literally lived within a garbage dumb. I can't even imagine. I don't have a lot of words currently because I am still taking it all in. Tonight after we went back to SCORE for dinner, we had devotion time. It was unexpected and nice. Ricardo secretly got one person who truly loved us and had them write a letter to us about our mission trip. My letter was from Jess. It was probably the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me. Jess was the person who helped save me and her letter was so not what I was expecting. I love Jess so much and this letter truly touched my heart. Along with the letters, we each had to write something about each person on the team. We had to fill each other up. It was a sincere moment. Aside from that, we struggled as a team with many insecurities. I pray that God will fill our hearts with his love and spirit and word. God will show us truth and love for everyone.

"Your love is pure, your love is precious,
Your love is all I need...
your love surrounds me, your love astounds me,
your love is everything..."
-Kari Jobe

update...

I PROMISE I will put up the rest of my journal entries...I have been so swamped with school and rehearsals and concerts and whatnot. I am so behind and I know, so I apologize...but they are coming :)

Sunday Church Service (Day3 - DR Trip)

Our first thing scheduled for this morning was to attend a church service in La Colina, which was the village we visited yesterday morning. Same village, different church. We all got dressed up a bit, looking nice, by the way - I HATE being in a dress, but for Him I will do it.

The church service was so great. In the beginning, I was a little unsure about it because the pastor was preaching in spanish and it was very hard to understand because of how fast he was talking. After about 15 minutes, in English, he welcomed us to the church. From that point on, the pastor had his 16 year old son, Joel, come up there with him so he could translate in English what he was preaching. It was very cool so see them work together. At times, his son Joel would get a few words mixed up and it was funny to see his Dad correct him. At other times, the gestures the pastor was doing, Joel would do right behind him. Great to see Father and son work together. The service was about 2 hours or so and there were about 150 people in the church that attended. There were Dominicans, Haitians and Americans that attended. The sermon was about God Almighty, and how He can handle absolutely ANYTHING. We need to really understand how much we can trust Him with all things.

It was such a powerful time. One of the books he read to us, was Matthew.

"Jesus looked at them and said "...with human beings this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

Matthew 19:26

That really spoke to me. The service was incredible and I knew He was there with us, as our hearts were fully open to Him and His word. One of the mission teams that was there with us at the church, brought gloves, baseball bats, baseballs, and cleats for all the kids of the church. After the service, the kids were given all the the baseball gear. Just to experience the joy of all those kids as they each received the baseball gear, is something I cannot even put into words. It's amazing how happy the kids are without much at all. We take a lot of things for granted in the United States, people don't realize how little others have it, until they experience it themselves. After church we headed back to SCORE for lunch. It was chili hotdogs, it was really good seeing how we were all starving! It was after lunch that we had some down time.

So 8 of us decided to go to the beach. It was BEAUTIFUL! They had cabanas and beds on the beach, the only down fall is we were only there for about 10 minutes relaxing. Heather stepped on a sea urchin of some sort. It was crazy and she was in some super pain. This awesome couple helped us and helped Heather out to try and get that stuff out of her foot. The stuff in her foot looked like little white hairs that were as soft as cat hair but as sharp as glass. This couple that helped her, they were such a blessing. We got her on the bus and back to SCORE to get some more help, after about 5 people looked at it on the beach. The doctor at SCORE helped her more and tried some different things. We found out that it was just as poisonous at a sting from a jellyfish. She was dealing with quite a lot of pain from it but we prayed and prayed for her to get better. After SCORE, we brought her back to the hotel and we all hung out at the pool. I have gotten some crazy good laughs with Tina, Sarah, and Margot! We just laugh and laugh, but laughing is good!

On and off I have been struggling today. Struggling with hurt, and I just pray that God will take it away and heal us. Back to SCORE for dinner! Yey, I am really enjoying it here! I can't believe it. We stayed for a while after dinner, and Heather saw another doctor again about her foot. Then we headed back to the hotel for devotion time. We did out devotion altogether in a group. We had some good and bad moments. I just know there is negativity lingering. God will change that. We will give all out praises to God for He is worthy. I am unsure of feelings right now, tonight, but I know tomorrow is going to be a long day and I need to prepare my heart for it. We went through some ups and downs as a team tonight but I think in the long run it will make us stronger. God is trying to tell us to be patient and graceful. Trust in the Lord, tomorrow will be a good day.

Away We Go... (Day 2 - DR Trip)

Since we didn't have our whole mission team together, we traveled around this morning with another mission team. They were from North Carolina. We had to be up quite early to meet up with the team and when we got up it was the first visual I truly had of everything. We got up around 6:30am, got ready, and went to grab some breakfast before we left. We walked outside to look around a bit too. (The picture to the left is what we woke up to every morning, which didn't make it seem like a mission trip but we weren't complaining!) So we ate breakfast, and I tried Chinola juice for the first time!! It was awesome! It's sort of like mango, apple and orange juice put together. After that, we met up with the team. Their team was about 35 people. All of them high school students, that were seniors on their senior trip. They were telling us that they have known about their senior trip since Kindergarden. They had been raising funds for this trip for a while. I thought that was really great. So we left with the team along with about 35 luggage bags full of ministry supplies. Each person on their mission team brought 1 bag full of ministry supplies, so awesome. Our first stop of the day was in down town Juan Dolio. We had to go to a convenience store to buy food to feed the village we were traveling to. The store we went in was called JUMBO! :) It was basically the "Dominican version" of Walmart. Walking around looking at the prices of everything was pretty insane too. It said like $82 for a BOX OF CRACKERS! yeaaa right! I'm not paying that. Just kidding! Everything is in pesos which still blows my mind. It was about 37 pesos to the dollar. So really that box of crackers was only a little over 2 dollars. The store was pretty crazy. They told us before we went in, that we were not allowed to take any pictures while we were in the store. Apparently they are super sensitive about it so people can't take pictures and plan break ins. We got enough food to feed 90 families. We loaded all the food into our vans and we left. On our way, we saw all these trucks with plantains, fruit, and sugarcane in the back. Just being in the different culture in action, was awesome. Driving, is pretty scary down here, I'm not going to lie. There are no laws with driving. There are no speed limits.....no one ways.....no laws. NO LAWS=CRAZY DRIVING. Everything is a "suggestion" down here. Anyways, driving through the village we were about to feed was pretty serious for me although it didn't fully hit me at first, of what we were truly seeing.

We were driving beside shacks that had no windows....shacks without safe roofs on some...but watching the children as they were running up to the buses to see us was something I cannot even explain. Once we got to the small church in the village, we got off the bus. I had NO idea what to expect.

Children were so happy and excited to see us and that was one of the most touching experiences of getting to do what we did. I could not even fathom living in the situations I was looking at as I was getting off the bus. The children loved getting their pictures taken and seeing themselves on YOUR camera too, they were all soo happy. So once we got everything into the church, we loaded every bag with a toothbrush, a bar of soap and a bible to go along with the food we got at JUMBO for each family. The mission team we were with were super cool for bringing all of those supplies with them. I was really bummed that the rest of OUR team was not with us experiencing the same thing I was. I was watching the team we were with, as they were bonding, helping other, dedicating their hard work for the benefit of others....it was frustrating a bit, to not be able to do that with our whole team. There was this one little girl named Milena, who kept coming up to Vanessa and I in the church.

She had this pink necklace with a pacifier on it. Her smile was indescribable. The village where we were, was half Dominican, half Haitian. The coolest thing about visiting this village was watching the interaction and love happening. The way everyone worshiped together, and just knowing we were all praising Him as one big family was such a cool feeling. After we left that village, we headed back to the SCORE complex for lunch! They served us rice with sausage, and it was surprisingly really good! Everyone knows how I am, I am sooo not the one to right off the bat try new things but this was unexpectedly good. After lunch, we got some exciting news!

We were going to be able to go greet the rest of the team at the airport! I was beyond excited! All I talked about was them, all morning. I think by the time we got to SCORE for lunch, Vanessa, Heather, and Tasha were like ok Michelle....we got it...you miss them. haha I truly missed them and to finally see their faces in the airport, it was so relieving!!!!! We were finally a team again!! And so we left the airport and we took them back to SCORE to eat lunch, then to the hotel so they could change, and then back to SCORE for the afternoon activities. We shared the afternoon activities with the same mission group that we went with this morning. They did the entertainment and we did the crafts.

We made tambourines with all the girls.

It was impactful to watch them color, laugh and have fun. It was a challenge for me at first, to learn how to interact with them but after a while you get the hang of it. There was one girl who stuck out to me.

Her name was ESTRELLA which means star. I love that name. After all the kids were "crafted" out, we had a water balloon fight set up. There were definitely some bonding moments within that!

It was when our team finally came together and opened up finally. It's suppose to be this way, God was right there, beside us.

We hung around SCORE for a bit after that and bonded as a team for a little while. The 4 of us that had been in the Dominican for a full day, told the rest of the team what we had done this morning. We read the bible some all together which was a cool moment.

I really am thankful for this opportunity, not only so we can minister to others but also so we can bond and minister others together as one family. We had dinner at SCORE which consisted of mashed plantains and meatballs. Again, it was incredibly good! They have Pina juice here which is awesome too! I want some to take home!! Well after dinner, things died down a bit and we headed to the hotel. We said our goodnights to each other and went to our rooms. For tomorrow is a new day. Sarah and I stayed up for a while reading His word together. It was inspiring. The book we read together was Hebrews. The last verse spoke to me alot...

"These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what they had been promised. God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect."

Hebrews 11:39-40

Sarah and I talked about being faithful and just following Him. Jeremiah 29:11 says that God has a plan for all of us. We did not ask for our flights to be messed up but God used that to make us stronger. I love Him for that. Looking forward to tomorrow! :)

Leaving The Country (Day 1-DR Trip)

Day 1: Leaving The Country...

Today was a long long day. Probably one of my longest. First of all, I pulled an all nighter with Emily. Good idea Michelle? nope. So when we got to the airport at 5am, we found out that our flight had be cancelled due to weather conditions in Atlanta. Ricardo and Tasha tried to work out a couple different options to get us all to the Dominican and it came down to this...the only way we could get the whole team to the DR was to drive down to Charleston airport. Ok cool, right? Not too too far? wait. it's 5am and we have no way to get down there. Everyone got dropped off, no one has their car, and yea it's 5am, who is awake at this hour on spring break? So we called some people. Ricardo called the Neeves and they were willing to drive us, they are so awesome and Emily's parents were willing too. EMILY'S PARENTS ARE AWESOME! So Emily's Mom and Step-Father drove us all the way down to Charleston airport. I rode in Wally's truck with Christina, Sarah and Ricardo, everyone else went with Emily's Mom. We weren't able to head down to Charleston until around 7:30am. We had to make it down there by 10:30am. Well we made it and when we got there we all realized we had to split apart. Because of our original flight cancellation, the airline could only send 4 of us to the DR today. So Tasha, Vanessa, Heather and I, split from the rest of the team to fly to Miami, FL while the other 6 flew to New York for the night. They have to stay over night in NY and fly out to the DR in the morning. So we are already a day behind, since half the team will be getting there late. And so the team split. We all said our goodbyes. Our flight to Miami didn't board until 11:30am so the 4 of us grabbed some breakfast in the airport and just hung out. I was really super bummed to split up from everyone but at the same time I was nervous about getting to be one of the first in Santo Domingo. Well we made it to Miami on this really really small plane. The turbulence was really bad. My ear's hurt from the pressure. When we got off the bite sized plane, we had to take a shuttle to get us off the run way. On the shuttle, we met this lady who was on the plane with us. She had a dog in her arms that rode with her on the plane in her lap. The lady worked at MUSC and the dog was a therapy dog. It was pretty cool. Once we got into the airport, we had dinner of course. We all got chinese food and a lot of it :) I started to get nervous because of the weather conditions in Miami. There were tornado and thunderstorm warnings. It was raining on and off too but it calmed down by the time we got on the plane. I guess we all looked like nice Americans to talk to in the airport because we met another lady! Go Figure. She was heading to the Dominican too. She was really cool to talk to. She is Puerto Rican, from New York, and married to a Jamaican. When she was talking to us, you could hear every little aspect of the Puerto Rican, NY, and Jamaican! It was fun to listen to her talk. I pray that her and her family are blessed with good health and safe travels. Sooo the plane ride to Santo Domingo wasn't as bad as the one to Miami. We were on the plane for about 2 1/2 hours. When we finally got into Santo Domingo, I felt like an outsider. It was this new world that I had never seen before with a new language, new environment, new culture.....and boy was it hot! I don't mean warm....I mean, like standing in the airport, in a sweatshirt with no circulation, in about 95 degrees waiting on our luggage. yep. As we walked out of baggage claim to find our people from SCORE International, there were dominicans lined up just watching everyone get off the planes. It was crazy!! It was like being a celebrity, walking down the red carpet! Well we finally found our Score people and they took us to our hotel. We are staying in a hotel instead of at the score complex because there are so many mission teams here this week, that they couldn't house all of them. Anyways, driving to the hotel, my mouth was hanging open as this whole new culture was opened to me. I am out of my comfort zone, but I LIKE IT!!! Our hotel is really nice which makes it seem like we are on a leisure trip but we need to keep our focus on Him. I am in a room with Vanessa tonight and Heather and Tasha are in the other one. When the rest of the team gets here, rooms will be as follows...

Room 301:

Michelle

Vanessa

Sarah

Room 306:

Emily

Lindsay

Christina

Room 307:

Tasha

Margo

Heather

Room 316:

Ricardo

I cannot wait for the team to come back together tomorrow. I miss them soooo much and we've only been apart from them for like 15 hours! I keep texting Sarah, Ricardo and Emily. ughhh! I love all of them and I cannot WAIT to see them tomorrow! I hope we can go pick them up at the airport. I pray that they all have a wonderful night together in New York, and I pray that this split up will bring better things to our team. I am excited for what's to come. All thanks to Him.

70/365 Jessa's Painting

I love all of Jess's paintings....for real. Sooo good. Love her.

69/365 Jordi and Nay Nay Dancing.....

Thought this was so cool. They are so awesome dancing together and practicing!! Truly dedicated!

68/365 Welcome to the Band.

Ben. No other words than "Yep." Typical, oh yes. Welcome to the Band.

67/365 Crosses

These were at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. I saw them when Coastal Winds performed there. Good concert, pretty emotional.

66/365 Dance!

This is right outside my apartment....how appropriate.

65/365 Myrtle Beach

downtown Myrtle Beach in the morning....

64/365 Past me....

Found this picture of me when I was 3 years old. I'm cheesin' big time!

63/365 Flowers

62/365 Painting Wall

This is the collage of paintings that Emily and I put up at the village. It took us a long time but I kind of really like it :)

61/365 Ary

Ary...gosh I love this girl...I had the privilege of hanging out with the Little family and Ricardo tonight and it was such a great night! Love all of them so much :)

60/365 Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone magazine.....very interesting selections for the decade's best albums and songs

59/365 Shadows of my Music...

This was a music stand.....I liked the shadows more than the stand itself. Sometimes we hide our true passion and expression for our love. We are hidden behind the shadows. I am totally guilty of it, I hold in my expression sometimes and keep to myself. Kind of ironic I guess.

58/365 Trystin

My 7 month old nephew Trystin, focused on how things are moving....

57/365 Haiti Relief

Today, I was part of the Haiti relief on Coastal's campus. We built over 45 shelters to send to Haiti...which was over 165 sides to build the shelters. It was a really cool opportunity and experience to come together to help others.