Focus on the Family Institute

I will be studying this Spring semester at the Focus on the Family Institute in Colorado Springs, Colorado. More details to come!

A time to give thanks and be THANKFUL

I am Thankful for :
+ Salvation. Like the title of my blog. Who Am I? I am so thankful to be a child of Christ and to have a personal relationship with him. I'm so thankful for the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made on the cross for me.
+ Family. I often times take my loving family for granted. I don't stop and really realize how thankful I am to have two loving parents.
+ Friends. The people I'm surrounded by that daily bring joy, love, encouragement, happiness, fun, and support into my life. I'm so extremely thankful for my buds.
+ Education. I'm so thankful to have the means to attend college and work towards a college education.
+ Health. I'm blessed to be in good health.
+ Lakeview. I'm thankful for a loving supportive church that has discipled me and equipped me to be a warrior for Christ. That is a bible teaching and believing church.
+ Steven. I'm thankful that I met him and have gotten to spend time getting to know him and how incredible he truly is.

I give ultimate thanks to my Lord and Savior for all that He is and all He has done. I am nothing without Him and because He reigns supreme I live a life of victory through His shed blood. Lord you are my ALL and I THANK YOU!

I think I'm in need of a break...

These past two weeks have been busy and tiresome. So I think it's official I NEED A BREAK. Last week I stayed at the Kickliter's. Ms. Nancy was out of the country on a mission trip so I stayed with Ashley all week. I don't do well sleeping at other peoples houses so needless to say I didn't get much sleep last week. This weekend my family came down to Auburn for the Georgia game. Dad is the only one that ended up going to the game. Mom, Blake, and I didn't go. We slept late, we had lunch together, and got things together for everyone to come over after the game. After the game was over the Deerman's and Willams' families came over and we ate and hung out. It was fun. Sunday was super rushed as well.

Monday my feet hit the ground running. I have two test and two papers this week. This morning I took my two test so now all I have left is my two papers and packing for the break. Friday I leave to go up for Allie & Alex wedding. I am so excited it is finally here. I picked my dress up from the alteration shop yesterday and I'm pleased. This weekend will be another busy one. Wedding stuff and then off to Mobile for a couple of days. Then back to Rainsville for the remaining of the week. I'm looking forward to no school and spending time with the special people in my life. Yay for Thanksgiving break!

I dislike......

CATS
CATTTTTTS
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I dislike cats very very very MUCH!!!!!

I do not like to see them....feel them...hear them...they give me the heebeegeebees.

Pap----You are greatly missed!!

A year today was when I got the heart sinking phone call. I knew when I got of the shower and had a missed called from my mom that something was wrong. The night before I couldn't get a hold of my parents and I didn't sleep well. So when I saw the missed called I immediately called back to see what was wrong. All my mom could say was Destinee I think you need to come home. I busted into tears and was just like what is wrong...she didn't want to tell me but I wouldn't get off the phone with her till she did. She told me the awful news that my Pap had passed away. This was totally unexpected because I didn't even know he was sick in the hospital. So I was pretty much uncontrollable. I called my friend Leo and he came over and consoled me and helped me get my stuff together. So I hit the road and I just cried and cried. There is not much I really remember about that whole week but the fact that I was a basket case because I just lost someone extremely close to me and didn't get the chance to tell him goodbye or that I loved him.

To this day I can not bring myself to go visit his grave site. I'm not sure why. I guess I just keep trying to forget that he really is gone. My Pap held and still does hold a special place in my heart. I knew that he loved and cared about me so much. He always called me his favorite granddaughter(I was his only granddaughter). He came to all my basketball games my senior and junior year. He was so proud that I was going to Auburn. We loved playing spades together. He always made me hot links when he cooked. He was the best cook ever!!!
Ok...I can't type anymore I'm getting really sad! I loved him and I miss him sooooo MUCH!!!

I serve an AMAZING-SOVEREIGN-POWERFUL-MIGHTY-CREATOR OF ALL-FAITHFUL-MERCIFUL GOD!!!! Really WHO AM I????

Steven's Birthday Weekend!

This weekend was so much fun. Friday was Steven's birthday. I went to Gardendale for the weekend. Steven came up from Mobile and we spent the weekend at his sweet mothers. We went to a great restaurant Friday night called All Steak in Cullman. Sunday I went to church with them at Christway Church of God. It was GREAT! I came down with a cold while I was there so I'm a little under the weather:(

I went for a walk this weekend!

It's Sunday night and I'm in bed at 9:38. If feels so good to just lay here. This weekend has been crammed pack. I've been running since my feet hit the floor Friday morning. Friday after I got out of school, Steven came up. We ran some errands, had dinner, and went and saw the movie Fireproof( it was excellent! I recommend it). Have I told y'all he's great? Saturday I arose at a very early hour and headed off to Springville. Once there we ran around and got stuff together for that night. At 4 it was time for Allie's Lingerie shower. It was very fun and she got a lot of beautiful things. After that we had the Bachelorette party....it was a blast. We had a belly dancer come and teach us how to belly dance. It was very entertaining. Today we had the Bridesmaid Luncheon at Limestone Springs. It's a golf course which was magnificent. It was so pretty there. We went back to the McCowns packed our stuff up and headed straight back to Auburn. We went straight to Lakeview. Monica dropped me off for focus group. After church I came home and now I'm finally getting to rest.