Coming Along

So i found the pictures from when me, mom and dad visited the facility in colorado... Pretty amazing! I can't imagine what it will be like to wake up every morning to these immaculate mountains! They truly are beautiful! It's so amazing to think about our God and how he made this beautiful world just because he loves us! It makes me think about that song by Kim Walker "How He Loves" and it's so sweet to realize how much he really does just love us! No matter where we are, or what we've done! He is so very good! I've started to collect money and its coming along! I'm getting more and more excited! I think it still seems a little surreal. I was thinking the  other day about when we drive there... they will have some kind of banquet dinner to welcome the new students and my parents will stay the night and then the next morning they'll catch a plane and I'll be there all alone! Well I'm never alone, but I'm sure it will be hard to say goodbye to a pretty big chapter of my life and start a new one. I know that God is even using this time to prepare me for everything. It's gonna be so crazy to 

leave everyone behind! Like every monday me and my two best friends go running and we just talk about everything going on in our lives! I'll miss them so much! And by the time I get back Amanda will be in college and Bethany will have graduated hair school and who knows 

what she'll be doing!? But I'm just trusting God to help me let everyone go, and be ready for things to be completely different when I get home. I'm such a planner that it kills me to not be able to plan out my future and know what will happen and what everything is going to be like, but I guess thats part of my journey God's taking me on too! Just learning how to trust him with everything and knowing that he has it all planned out! Bailey and I went to see a movie last week while my parents were out of town and it was a blast! We had so much fun taking 

pictures in the car and blaring the music! She's growing up so fast! But I guess we all are! Lydia is about to have baby number three and I can't wait to see him! He's going to be so perfect! And even though there are all these exciting things going on I can't help but feel the bitter part of it all, too. Because, while this is going to be awesome, there will be so much that I will miss here at home. My mom and dad, Bailey, Andrew and Cat, Lydia and rocky, Courtlynn and Jett, and all my friends. I can't help but be a little sad. What will I do without my Courtsie dates or my monday morning runs with my best girls? And what about wednesdays when I hang out with Lyds? Or almost every evening when I climb into my parents bed with bailey and the four of us laugh hysterically until we can't keep our eyes open!? The family, I think, is God's greatest gift! And I am so comfortable here. I love my family and friends more than anything. But it's time for me to take the hand of my King and trust that he's going to take me just where he wants me to be! And that He will never leave me! I just have to keep reminding myself that it's only for six months and it's going to be amazing! God is so good and he works all things out for the good of those who love him! Keep praying!