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We made a last minute decision to drive home on Friday night to see our Mom's and then turn around and drive home on Sunday morning. (we are mostly on the road right now) I got to sneak in a little Amy time which was amazing. Sorry you had to try something new at Chinese. lol.
We spent Saturday at the baseball fields and then Saturday night with family. We laugh more than any family on earth I'd bet. Do you find your family to be funny?? Seriously I think we have a problem. All we do is crack up the entire time we are together. About everything. Anyways...
Sunday morning we enjoyed a good ole Ihop breakfast and now we are loading up the last of our stuff and headed back to Mobile. Here we are this morning.... I promise I'll post pictures of the apartment soon. I left my usb cord and home... so my mom mailed it not knowing I'd be here... Oh well.

Update! Pictures!!

Ok, there not the pictures of the apartment. But they are of a few creations I have made over the last month. I'll start with my kitchen benches that Amy and I made. They were plain wooden benches that we recovered with a great black fabric!! :) I'm so proud and Oh was it a great day for hand blisters!!!

Sorry this is a little dark.. no photoshop done.. too tired tonight lol





And the finished project. This is only one of the two that we did!!! :)



Homemade Strawberry Tarts that I've started to perfect!! :) Hooray!!




Ok and the final one.. is a last minute picture from last Saturday's moving group after a hard day of unpacking. I forgot to snap one of Friday's moving group :( but we'll have lots of people vacationing to see us, so I'll make sure to get those!!!



I'll be posting soon! I promise.

No INtranet!

OK so we had our hopes WAY up that we'd be getting internet on Tuesday. Because lets be honest. I'm dying without it! But thanks the LORD for Moka's! Its a great coffee shop right by our house that makes the WORLDS best Chai Latte! (Amy I had another one and I think its making a run for the Memphis One!!)

Work is awesome. God is so great and I'm loving every day thus far and I have no complaints! Jeff went on an interview today and it went well and he has another one tomorrow. Just be praying for God's perfect place to be revealed to us.

I'm missing my family and friends big time. But God's given me a great joy about being in Mobile. Its like the whole world is at our finger tips. Lets just say we are on the UP of our life's roller coaster. So I am choosing to enjoy it with my arms raised high and shouting praises the whole time! Having our own place is great. (Mom, I love your place too. But its nice to be QUEEN!! haha) We've cooked every night and I'm getting really good at these strawberry tarts. HOME MADE!!!! HOLLA!! So with that being said I'm sitting here at Moka's ordering pictures to put in our Picture Frames and I'm having a hard time choosing. Don't be offended if you come to visit and there isn't a picture of you in our house. I promise.. I'm trying to include everyone!! :) GOTTA RUN... catch up soon!!!

New Home.. Sweet.... Apartment

We've made it. Its official we have our own, old, two bedroom apartment in Saraland, AL. I start work on Monday so we are full speed trying to get everything put away! I've made my first trip to Walmart collecting small items to eat. Boy, howdy, its pricey!!! But we'll make it work. Mac & Cheese, Frozen Pizza's... etc. Sorry this is so short but I'm going to try and post pictures later tonight. Funny story quick before I go..

My Mom, Dad, Jeffrey and I are in Walmart...

Mom has been complaining about the breakfast we had at Waffelhouse, upsetting her stomach. We walk down the cleaner isle and my dad grabs his stomach and says...

"Oh, that Wafflehouse gave me gonorrhea!"

He looks at me and grins. "Gonorrhea?" I ask. My dad replies, "Yeah, Gonorrhea." Me- "How did you get gonorrhea from breakfast?" Dad- "The waitress touched my food I think"



Out of control, Dad.

Let the good times...

I would say roll but I'm not too sure if I want them to roll forward or roll backwards. Don't get me wrong I am way beyond excited about the new steps Jeffrey and I are taking but after the last few days of "unsaid" goodbyes, its all starting to catch up with me. Hear I am at 1 a.m. in the morning thinking about all the times I should have told someone how much they meant to me. But when does that really matter? When you or they are gone. Why do we wait until the last minute? Whats the point of my crazy random breakdowns lately? I'm here, surrounded by the best people thus far in my life and I'm leaving. God has a unique plan prepared for us but its hard to sometimes not think... What is going on?! For those of you who are reading thinking... wow I love me some Jessica.. just know if we are friends... I love you too. Really I do. People laugh and joke about how many "best" friends I have. But one thing I know for sure is that each person has a unique place in my life that I would never want anyone else to replace.


Amy Walker, I know you read this and hear it goes. My public shout out to you as a friend. I have NO clue what I'm going to do with out. I really don't. I'm thinking about the next few days to come.. and wondering, why you couldn't move to Mobile with me :). You have been the breath of fresh air in my life who has learned more about who I am in the shortest amount of time. We joke that we are def the same, but we both know its true. Your just as bad with goodbyes as I am. Thats why we haven't had ours. And we won't. But I want you to know that you are loved, by me. Your crazy, little, young (haha) friend. Charlie, your the best. really. u are. I will continue to be the one who calls and calls and calls until you tell me that you'll call me back.. because well quite frankly I don't want anyone else to do it! Tell MY cooper everyday that I love her.. and give Tucker a funny look from me to let him know I wished he loved me more. . . and there you go folks.. thats my goodbye.

To My Parents,

This has to be short or I'll be up all night crying. I can't imagine a better set to raise me. I really can't. And I know I'll be just fine because you guys have been such a great example its not even funny. We may not be rich, but we are rich in the things that matter. Mom, thank you. Dad, thank you. I love you guys both and I am blessed to call you mine.

Brothers,

LOVE YOU!!!!! Don't grow up too fast! I am depressed at how much I'm going to miss in ya'lls life by being farther away but I am so excited to hear all about it!!!! Good thing for the phones and the computers huh? I love you both. Garrett, Hit that ball hard for me! Griffin, focus and do the best you can everyday in Karate make me proud a do a tournament!

To my other friends (don't know if you read this or not)

I love each and everyone of you. I'm excited to see the constant changes God preforms in your life. Embrace the change. Because you never know when your blessing are right around the corners. Follow God, at all costs. Find yourself. But in Christ. I love you.




Ok, Enough. Really?! Yes. I swear. I'm tired.. and sad. and SO EXCITED! I'll be posting before pictures and after pictures of the apartment and the moving process. TTYL.

Here we go!!!

The countdown is T-Minus 1 day and a few hours! This week I've done ALOT and the time is still too short. I'll be posting pictures of the awesome benches Amy and I recovered. And some Braves Game pictures from the game I went to tonight with my Mom,Dad and brother, Garrett. Just wanted to drop in and update on the fact that our address will be changing very soon!


Exciting, Scary, Overwhelming all wrapped into one life burrito. It seems some one accidentally gave me a LARGE burrito when I ordered a Kids size. But then again.. thats life. Always seems to be more than we can chew. God has our backs and fills us up with more than we think we can handle and then He is God and shows us that in fact we can accomplish great things. Satan happens to be the one that questions us... Can we really do this? Are you sure? Then we get the breeze of doubt that pushes us farther away from God. The next thing we know we are drowning in our problems rather than taking the life vest God has for us. Whatever it is your going through just remember.. God is there and HE is all POWERFUL and ALL knowing and HE always, always loves us.. no matter what the Devil would want us to believe.



God, Thank you for always providing. Thank you for being my God that I can know is REAL. You amaze me on a daily basis, but God most importantly I'm praying for the miracles that some are waiting for and for those who don't believe so that they may believe. Or those who have lost faith, like I have in the past God. Give them their "I'm here". I love you.


I'll be posting soon.. I promise.

ahhh!

Ok so I have to get better about blogging because we are getting ready to move and
Amy is going to want to know everything about my days!!! I can't begin to even tell you what our next few weeks are going to look like. We are taking a last minute trip over there this weekend to hopefully secure a place to live. We have one option but my spirit just isn't at Peace. So with that being said this weekend is already packed..

Griffin (my oldest younger brother) turns 11 tomorrow! 11!! It feels like just a year ago he was 3 running around in Buzz Lightyear Undies. I'm so excited to see how God molds and shapes him into a young man. Happy Birthday, Griffin! Sissy is so proud of you and LOVES you very much!!

We are going to go see Hannah Montana tomorrow as his birthday present. What can we say.. we think the show is funny and one day it will be great blackmail! :) hehe. Then we are going to watch Garrett's baseball game.. Then have Cake and Ice Cream! woo ray!

Jeffrey's Uncle Billy's 50th Birthday was this past weekend and I photographed the party.. here's a lil shot of us in the midst of the party!




Please be praying for us, as we seek God's guidance on a place to call home!