Tuesday lunch dates are my new favorite:)

 Sweet Sweet Andrew

Savannah! Precious! That's exactly how i felt about seeing you!! 

 Jen and Nathan's girls are sooo big! 

Ok ok. Soooo... On tuesdays i have a lunch break between my classes and i have been riding out to Jen and Nathan's home and visiting with them and playing with the girls. This day i got to take some pictures of all the babies. I love love love to take pictures if you didn't know yet. I'm not very good... but i always need practice... so if ya need some pictures taken or just for fun i would LOVE to take them! Ha. anyways... these babies are photogenic and don't mind me in their face with a the camera. I can't wait till this tuesday! I'm making a delicious veg dish and to take more pictures!

This week has been so hard and good. My sweet friend Alanna has moved back and i am beyond thankful for that.  We have only known each other since August and our friendship is so dear to me already! I love spending time with her.  She is so real and sometimes blunt. and i like it! ha. We have laughed and cried and its been great! I'm so excited about what the Lord has in store for her to teach me. 

I'm taking a C.S. Lewis class and it is interesting. Lewis is kinda hard to read, so most days i'm sooo lost as to what we are talking about.  Right now we are reading Screwtape Letters, its been so challenging.  In class wednesday we talked about spiritual pride. aaahhh. That was such an eye opener.  So good how the Father knows the conversations you are going to have and the things you will read and even the things you learn in class have to do with what he is revealing to you.  I'm a firm believer in the fact that the Lord is so obvious in where he wants you or what he is teaching you.  I go to a bible study on sunday nights for girls on campus and Melissa teaches it and she is always speaking truth and the word.  Sunday night we talked about how we are worthless apart from Christ.  It was so good. but in the moment listening to her i was sooo prideful in the fact i was thinking..."i've already experienced this, I taught my girls this last week at bible study. Be there, done that." Who am iiii???!!! What?! Why would i even be so prideful into thinking that i don't need to experience that worthlessness and be mindful that i NEED Christ. I need him. For i am evil apart from him. I was so humbled by my eyes being opened to that pride.  I mean... heck. I'm prideful more than i want to be. My sister, Emillie gave me this book about pride... Its on my list. Maybe i'll get to it soon. I'll let ya know how that goes. 

Friday was such a precious day! I had class and then i got to talk with some girls that i see often but never get to REALLY talk to.  Then my best friend and i got to hang out most of the day! She is sooo dear to my heart. It was one of those days that was much needed and sooo fun! ha. We laughed and sang and danced and had lunch, thanks to her mom! and we ran some errands for my mom and then we went to the movies that night with some of our sweet friends to see Justin Biebers movie. Precious:) ha. But. I loooveee our friendship. It is completely from the Lord and even in the times we are sometimes selfish in our friendship, we know it is for the Lord and to furthermore his kingdom.  She has gotten to be apart of my ministry and me in hers.  She is passionate about her softball girls and the Lord has placed them all around my life.  She got to work dnow a few weeks ago at my church and got to spend some time with my girls she has been praying for since august. She didn't even know them and has been praying for them.  Now that she does it is so much sweeter when i get to share my heart with her when i'm burden for them or when we get to rejoice over life change and fruit in the girls lives.  I am so beyond thankful for her.  To say all that when we went to go eat our waitress, tammy, was soo precious.  It just made her day that we left her a lil note and just got to verbally encourage her.  Even something as simply as not paying attention to the random people that the Lord places in your life, such as a waitress that you maybe spend an hour with... In those moments thats when we should be humbled, always be humbled, but to care more about the person and their day than if they get your order right.  I love to love on waiters/waitresses. Sometimes they let you, and others aren't so open to talk about things. ha. i still ask my billion of questions... speaking of waitresses...

Mom and I went to Ruston today to see steph for lunch and a lil shopping.  It is always sweet seeing her, its just sooo weird still. She's married. She lives in Ruston, for real. And she is precious doing it all.  I love being in her presence. She has such a sweet spirit and kind words flow from her mouth.  Ah. I love her!  I love going back and reading my old post from last March/April and reading our adventures of working together last year. I miss those times... A LOT. I go back and read those often. 

These are some of my precious jr and sr girls. Since i LOVE valentines day i made them all dress up in their pinks and reds and we had a valentine-ish party! Ha. Mrs. Lori is so precious and decorated and cooked and let us stay late! ah. (Sorry about that!) It was such a sweet night.  We talked about being a virtuous woman, Proverbs 31. So gooood. Those girls teach me so much.  And being able to teach them challenges me in so many ways.  Love them! Until sometime this week... be praying over school... it's soo busy!

"Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised." Proverbs 31:30