Lately

I haven't had much to blog about recently, hence my brief hiatus.  I'm staying busy, as always, but looking forward to a day out of school tomorrow to catch up on cleaning, laundry, and most of all...SLEEP! 

I just got back from a youth conference this past weekend.  Some friends and I were asked to help lead worship at Winterfest in Gatlinburg.  I was super nervous prior to the trip because I knew we were going to be singing in front of 6500 people.  Ummm, that's a LOT of teenagers.  I told myself to focus on my worship and not where I happened to be standing, who would be watching, etc.  Many prayers went up on our behalf, and we felt God's presence and His hand over the entire weekend.  I was completely calm, actually not even nervous.  Only God himself could have done that.  And I'm thankful He did.

Cort and Sarah Taylor came up last week to visit.  It was so awesome to be able to come home after school and see them everyday.  I've never loved anyone like I love this precious baby.  She's my little sunshine and I've never felt more blessed.

I've been painting....and painting...and painting lately.  A friend of mine is opening up a gift shop in town and several vendors from the area are coming together to create a store full of cute and fun gift ideas.  Here's some of what I've been working on so far.

We've booked our reservations for the beach this summer!  I'm p-u-m-p-e-d!  We weren't able to go last year because of the oil spill and Cort being pregnant.  We just didn't want to risk being there with possible fumes that could have been dangerous.  It's been two years since we've been so needless to say, we're ready.  All 22 of us are going, so it will for sure be a great time!

That's it for now.  I must go back to painting.  I hope all my blog buddies are doing well!  Happy almost spring!!