Kia Ora

Last night I drove to Myrtle Beach to drop our dog off at the in-laws.  With Gregg being a fireman, anytime I'm out of town we have to arrange for Gregg's parents to watch Mav because we don't want to keep him in a kennel.  This time it worked out the best because the best way to use my airline miles was to fly out of Myrtle Beach.  Today I'm heading to Los Angeles to spend the night before departing to New Zealand tomorrow night. Kia Ora is a Maori language greeting meaning hi....

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Just another day in Paradise...

I can't believe it's almost December already and I still haven't blogged about one of the most amazing trips of my lifetime. Back in March, I was invited to take part in a familiarization trip to Tahiti with Pleasant Holidays.  This trip was pretty much all expenses paid except I just had to get to Los Angeles to fly out.  Seriously?  Anyone who knows me, knows that Tahiti has been...

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Your life is a vapor...

In church we have been going through the book of James in a series called "Show Me."  Today we were reminded how life is but a vapor.  In our lives, we want to believe that after our time on earth is over, we will always be remembered.  Unfortunately for us, that's not always going to be the case.   There may be a few who will be remembered through the generations, but only by...

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Every memory has a song...

I've always been a huge fan of music.  Ever since I can remember, I would always have music around me.  Tonight, there was a special on BET about Aliyah.  She was an R&B artist that passed away in 2001 in a car accident.  When I was in high school, I listened to her "One in a Million" album on repeat.  The song "The One I Gave My Heart To" was my love anthem as all of those young love relationships fizzled out.  The entire album was one that never left my side. I...

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Time you'll never get back...

My grandma Irene was able to come down to South Carolina for my wedding.  I couldn't have asked for a better gift.  I wish my grandma and grandpa Ballard could have been there as well, but my grandpa started chemo and radiation treatments the Thursday before my wedding.  My grandpa Ballard was diagnosed with lung cancer back in July of this year. I was able to get a picture with...

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Oahu & Maui - Honeymoon

Ohhh the honeymoon.  Not only is the wedding a part of every girl's dream, but so is the honeymoon.  It's the age old question.  "Where are you going on your honeymoon?"  Everyone will ask at least 3 times. When we first got engaged, we weren't really sure where we wanted to go.  We were tossing around all sorts of ideas, staying in the states, going on a cruise, etc....

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I'M ENGAGED!!!

So I know I talked about it in the last post, but here is how this whole thing went down.  Kudos to Gregg because he really had me fooled!  :) Gregg tells me that we have dinner reservations for 7:30 on Saturday night, March 19, 2011.  He asks me if I'm feeling up to going out to dinner and after the week I had had, absolutely!  So he tells me to get dressed up and so I did.  On...

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You never know what life will throw you...

So wow, in about 45 minutes it will have been a month since I have blogged.  And I could not stress enough how much change has happened in this one measly month.  So my last blog ended with me having the MOST amazing night worshiping with Kari Jobe in Evans, GA on the night of March 11, 2011.  Fast forward a few hours from that event, and you'll have the start of the best and worst 2-3 weeks of my life.  I say best, because my life changed incredibly for the good during that...

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I am all that He says that I am

So last night was truly an awe-inspiring night for me.  Not only did I get to go worship live with Kari Jobe, but I got to meet her and get her autograph too.  Anyone that truly knows me, knows that I have been waiting for that moment for the past 5 years.  Now, Kari is everything that I thought she would be, but the real reason I wanted to meet her was because of what her music and...

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Gathering flowers for the Master's bouquet...

I don't remember the first time I met my grandmother.  Of course she has been in my life since I was born, but I can't exactly pinpoint the first memory of actually knowing she was my grandmother.  I do know that I was young.  Here are a few memories that I do have of my grandmother and grandfather not really in specific order. I remember being about 10 years old and always going...

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