Easter Weekend!

So Easter was yesterday and it was AWESOME. My little sister, Sarah, came into town last Tuesday night/ Friday morning (like 1am) and spent the weekend with me. None of my family here knew she was coming so it was a big surprise. Its nice to have it all out in the open now! It was so hard to keep it a secret from them. :)

On Friday Sarah came to work with me and we took the little boy I nanny to the zoo... which was fun until he had a huge fit- screaming at me in the middle of the park! People were staring, he was yelling that I was the worst babysitter ever and that he hated me... I'm surprised somebody didn't call child protective services. Talk about embarrassing- it went on for like 20 minutes and we finally had to leave. But then we got snowcones as he took a nap in the backseat of the car- and they were delicious :)

At the zoo!

We did get to see the snakes before the big meltdown...

After I got off work we left to spend the night at our grandparent's house in Pauls Valley (about an hour and a half south). They were VERY surprised that Sarah was with me! We had fun eating, decorating eggs, shopping, and running around town. 

That night we hung out at Bricktown. We ate at Zios (soooo good!) and went to Pinkitzel, which is this adorable little candy and cupcake shop. It was a lot of fun but would have been better if we had been prepared for the cold weather... we were wearing tank tops and it was SO cold. Stupid bi-polar Oklahoma weather!

Coloring eggs with Grandma!

Yummmmy dinner 

Most delicious cupcake I've ever had! 

So that brings us to Sunday- Easter! Service was wonderful. The kids sang (and did really really great!), the worship was good, the sermon was good, there were a ton of people there, and I got to see a lot of my students, even though we didn't have youth small groups. Right after it ended we drove up to Billings, where our other grandparents live. There, we surprised the rest of the family and ate lunch. It was nice being with aunts and uncles and cousins for Easter :) The little ones had a great time hunting for eggs and we took a ton of pictures! It was just overall a great day!!

Gracie Beth and Sarah- I just love this picture! lol

Little Luke :)

Trevor finding eggs

Most of the grandkids! 

Now Sarah is back in Arizona and I have to go back to work tomorrow. It was sad to see her leave but I will be back in Phoenix in four weeks from today to see her graduate! I'm really looking forward to that :) 

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter weekend! 

He is RISEN!! 

Updates... finally! :)

So its been a reallllly long time since I've posted anything and I keep thinking that I should... and then I get too busy. I'll try to get better about it!
A lot has happened since February. Exciting stuff though :) First of all, I moved into a house with two other girls, named Sara and Becca. They are amazing and I'm having so much fun living with them! Sara works at my church as an administrative assistant and is also a great photographer (I just can't escape them...lol). Becca is still in school and has a hedgehog as a pet- so fun! So now I live in Edmond instead of half an hour away, which is really nice. I'm enjoying being close to my students and not having such a long commute.
Second, I got another job. I am now a nanny for a family with a 5 year old boy and 9 year old girl. They only live 2 miles away from me so thats really perfect. I'm grateful for a second job but I'm definitely looking for a part time teaching job next school year!

Everything at the church is going really really great. I love my students! We just had the girl's retreat last weekend and it was awesome. We had about 150 girls come and it was so cool watching God move in their lives. Kelly- my boss- spoke about submission (John 3:30- "He must become greater; I must become less.") and worship was amazing. And we had some really awesome give aways... and I taught a breakout about singleness and having high standards. It was just overall wonderful! I love my job :)

Last order of business... it was 12 years ago today that I was diagnosed with diabetes! Happy anniversary to myself! I can't believe its been so long. As much as its been annoying and a big pain, I know that there has been a reason for it. I would like to share a story with you :) Last summer, I worked at a youth camp called Centrifuge and almost every week, there was a diabetic camper. Week 5 or 6 (they all start running together...) there were two diabetic girls who came from the same church. One of the girls really blamed God and was angry that she had diabetes. I was able to talk to her about the challenges of having diabetes and worrying about your health. And about the fact that God has a plan and reason for everything. It was so cool! Her youth leader came up to me later and said that she talked about it in front of her youth group for the first time and finally decided to give it to God and not be angry anymore.
Its amazing that God uses our "imperfections" to impact other people. We just have to be willing to be used by Him!

Well I hope you enjoyed the updates about my life over the past couple of months. I'll make it more regular from now on :) And if I forget, I know that Brenton and Julie will hold me to it.