Things I Love Tuesday....

Here are some things that I am loving this week...

1. Christmas candles!!! I love walking around the house and smelling cinnamon everywhere.

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2. Cold weather!! Jackson has had it for a couple of days, until yesterday when all the storms decided to come and i LOVE IT.

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3. Rain... it stormed terribly last night. i was not so excited about the tornado sirens that went off literally 10 times, but after the scary part, the rain was amazing. So relaxing

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I know that's only three things, but my brain is absolutely fried from school work today.... too too much. i woke up too late, too. 11:30 to be exact. I was just exhausted. Definitely setting an alarm tomorrow.

Hope your tuesday has been fabulous! "Rudolph" comes on CBS tonight! 7:00 central time. i am SO excited. it's the original. A new episode of Glee comes on tonight, too. Hmmm decisions, decisions.

:)

Wellll Thanksgiving was such a beautiful day. I ate entirely too much. But i just relaxed all day and then we had the big meal for dinner. It was delicious. Like I said, I ate too much. I was full all day the next day.

You all need to buy to John Mark McMillan's album "The Medicine" . It's just amazing worship music. So honest. So raw. He wrote "How He Loves" and the story behind it is so unbelievable. Unlike anything I've ever heard before. I'm very very picky about my worship music, and his music is absolutely AMAZING. It's not in any way cookie cutter Christian radio music. You just have to listen to it.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and I hope your weekend is great so far. Watched the Egg Bowl tonight with some girls. So much fun. All of us were going to State, except 3. Hysterical. A bunch of girls yelling at the screen. I love nights like that.

"The love of God is stronger than the power of death." Whoa. This hit me. big time.
Thank You, Lord, for whispering truth into my ear when the world is screaming lies at me. You prove Yourself faithful over and over and over and over and over again.

so thankful for grace

So thankful :)

Tomorrow is TURKEY DAY. (AKA Thanksgiving) I am so excited to eat lots of food. It's the one day where you can't feel guilty about eating ridiculous amounts of yummy goodness. I'm getting up early to try to see my sweet friends dancing on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade... it may be a failed attempt, but I want to try anyway! I'm pretty much just lounging all day until about 6. My grandparents, my aunt, cousin, and I are sitting in the dining room and eating a nice, quiet meal. I'm excited. But I dearly miss my parents and siblings! I've spent so much time with them recently that I actually miss the chaos... sometimes ;)

Remember to be thankful tomorrow. Regardless of your circumstances, you're blessed in one way or another.

I love being in Jackson. I missed the people, the food, the actual town. but, I don't want to stay here forever, that's for sure.

i hope you all are having a great week. :)
hugs,
jo

Just some Sunday goodness. :)

Wow, I am loving being home and seeing all of my sweet friends. I have missed all of them so very much.

I watched Gateway Church live webcast and got to watch Kari Jobe lead worship. Robert Morris, their senior pastor, brought the Word this morning. and WOAH. Jesus really rocked my heart. It was an awakening for me this morning. So beautiful.

I just figured out how to turn words into links. I feel so much cooler as a blogger now. hahaha i'm a dork. :)

I'm so very much in love with bird tattoos right now... I just don't know where or what kind I want. Here are some that I love. They're from Tattoologist

i really really love the black ones, but i also think a bird would look cool in brown... but then again, i really like the one with the red in it. i'm scared i'm too big of a baby to do color. i love birds so much.

"if His eye is on the sparrow, then His heart is on me"

:)

Christmas FEVER

Soooo there's this ADORABLE blog that i religiously read. her name is elsie and her blog is www.abeautifulmess.typepad.com and she just launched her wedding blog today www.leweddingparty.com ... you really need to read this! she is SO cute, and so creative. :) ENJOY!

I'm listening to Christmas pandora, and my nails are holiday red. And i'm looking quite pale these days, even though I live in the sunshine state. But i like it...

It's clowdy today, and it's sprinkling on and off. I love this kind of weather. The water is absolutely crazy today-- RED FLAG. i may go out there later and take some pics, and i'll be sure to share them with you!

hope you all are having a fabulous monday. I miss you, Jacksonians! but no worries, i'll be home in a little less than a week :)

I feel bad for not being so "YAY thanksgiving!", but i'm very very thankful for my family and my sweet friends... if you know me well, you know that I count down until Christmas starting in August. It's just my favorite.

much much love, jo.

An hour on the beach

is she not the cutest? it's ellie holcomb.

Here are some pictures i took of the beach yesterday... it's beautiful here.

Just wanted to share these with you...
it's almost the weekend!! be excited.

Things I love Thursday

Today is thursday.... which means that normally I would be going to keifers around 6:30. i miss it already

so. 1. I love Keifers. Best greek food EVER

2. Kashi GO LEAN crunch cereal. i've eaten almost a whole box today

3. Happy people. Sometimes, it's contagious

photo from: weheartit.com

4. My sweet cats. All three of them are just so sweet.



5. Beignets. they are so bad for you, but they are so good.

and i love this picture of them (weheartit.com)

that's all i can think of... i was in a sad mood so i decided to get on here and find things that i love.

focus on the good :)

love.

just a happy reminder! picture from www.weheartit.com

i love looking through their pictures.

Today i went walking/running on the national sea shore. It was amazing. I looked to my left and saw the bay, and then i looked to my right and saw the beach and the ocean. The sea shore has a concrete trail on it that you can walk, run, bike, whatever. It's amazing.


I listened to some worship music and just looked at God's beautiful creation. It was amazing.

this is what i got to look like on the way back. those buildings are my condo towers.that's where i live!!! anyhoo, is that not the most BEAUTIFUL sunset ever?? the picture does not do it justice. My Creator is SO creative! WOW. i love it.

miss all of my jackson friends. i'll be back thanksgiving! :)

love to all

Beautiful Mondays.

Its really such a beautiful day today.

i found this cute website with some AMAZING pictures. they're all so fun. i'm going to post a few.

the website is http://weheartit.com and they have some really beautiful photos.

hope you all are having a happy monday! if you're not, come stay with me in pensacola!

love.

Peace.

I'm going to start blogging alot more now that I'm in Pensacola and I want to update all of my friends on life down here without having to send a bunch of text messages- this just takes care of that.

this morning I woke up feeling kind of sad, and i didn't really know how to deal with it or sort it all out. So I just kind of let myself sit in that for a little bit, and then I got all bundled up and gathered my blanket, journal, and Bible and went to the beach by myself. Oh, and I wore my oversized sunglasses which really do make you feel like no one knows who you are. So, I sort of escaped to the beach today.

I sat down there for about an hour and read through 11 chapters of Job and then journalled. After i finished journalling, I just sat quietly and prayed and thought and prayed some more. It was so therapeutic, and gave me so much peace. I could totally get used to that.

i think that may be one of the reasons I'm here... to become less dependent of my friends and people in general.

I will seek to find my purpose. I will not lose hope.
me.

This too shall pass...

Okaaay, so i'm very sorry for being so negative the other day. it was just one of those days.

So, we (my family and i) are here in Pensacola... it's the first day. The one i expected to be the hardest has been surprisingly pleasant. I woke up, ate some breakfast, put some pictures on my computer, and then I went out on the balcony and journalled and read. it was so peaceful, and so beautiful. Here's my view

It's kinda hard to be in a bad mood when THIS is outside of your window. It's rather cold and windy here, but I wrapped up in a jacket and put on my fuzzy socks and uggs- still in my pajamas, and sat in silence and just wrote down my thoughts. it was great. i am at peace today.

Lazy days are therapeutic. (i promise)

me.

i do not like my blog. i hate talking about myself... it puts me in a really bad mood.

Leaving...

"Looked to the clock on the wall, hands hardly moving at all"
--I am fearful of this. i am so afraid of being lonely... This really is so hard. I am not good with change. Ugh.

I know that change is good, though. I've seen it. I know that God is faithful- "He never failed me yet." Maybe this is God's way of showing me that I'm not really supposed to be comfortable here, maybe He's preparing me for even more change.

A friend wrote me a letter and in it wrote, "you should be so HONORED that God chose YOU to suffer for Him". I've never thought of that... He makes all things good. He does.

I'm applying to IHOP (international house of prayer) Forerunner Music Academy in Kansas City, MO. Taking life one day at a time... Just apply to everywhere you may want to go, and decide when you know where you're accepted. Such great advice from a friend.

Prayer would be appreciated. I know that God is for me.
me.