Well... I thought I was going to be more excited to write this blog, but tonight on our way home from J1Ten we were rear-ended. Two cars in front of us ran over an orange cone and with one rear-ending the other, we slowed down to avoid hitting them, and ran over the orange cone ourselves, and then someone rear-ended us :/ We sat on the side of I95 till 11:30ish and we are finally getting back home. Feel kind of sorry for the boy that hit us, but still we want are car fixed.

So... on to some brighter news. I got an interview for one of the sea turtle research jobs I applied for. It will either be tomorrow or Thursday. She will be confirming tomorrow morning!!! So I was pretty excited about that!

This week has been a pretty good week. Saturday I help with "yard sale for freedom". People in our church across palm beach and martin counties had a yard sale to raise awareness of Human Trafficking. All the profits made in all the yard sales are going toward organizations that help in this area. I saw on one post that $37,000 was raised so far from the yard sales!! Praise God! I enjoyed helping the youth at our campus! For those of you that may not know, our church is made up of 5 different campuses, the main campus meeting in palm beach gardens. We attend their newest campus, Stuart! We are loving it! I've never been apart of a church like this. God has truly blessed us with this church!

Sunday was our first beach day in a looooonnnnngggg time!!! It was amazing!!! Beautiful weather! And you could definitely tell it was the first beach day in a while. We are about 5 miles from the beach and it took us about 30 minutes to get to the beach!! Everyone was going to take in such a beautiful day! So for those that live north of Florida, I don't want to brag about the weather, but I did hear ya'll had pretty good weather as well! So I don't feel too bad!

Monday we also got to spend time in the great weather. We hiked in a near by park and looked around at potential neighborhoods that we might start looking in for renting in May. Altogether a great weekend!

Riding The Waves of Life

This week was a typical week in some ways and not in others. I mostly kept the fort down at the apartment, looking into new jobs, house cleaning, and getting a well needed hair cut and highlights!! As many of you know my hair was getting really long, she took two inches off and its still long, but I like it that way!! James had a busy week at work. He actually had to work on Monday (normally his weekend). I felt bad for him, but at least he didn't have to go to work on Valentine's Day! They were preparing for the investors that actually came today. He said that things seem to went good. Which is good news for us, it means he still has a job!!

We spent Sunday afternoon at a local state park. We hiked a little on one of the trails and got to go up on this tower that overlooks the park (which was huge). It was such a beautiful sight. You could see down to West Palm, up north of us, out west to I95, and East was the Atlantic Ocean. All from one view. It was truly breath taking! It reminded me of our life groups talk two weeks ago about admiring the work of our Creator. We just stood in awe of the view (and took pictures!!) I should try to upload some tomorrow! It was a great first Valentine's Day for us. We enjoyed having a day to do what we truly love to do; spending time with each other, hiking, exploring a park, and having a picnic! Plus James got me my favorite flower, daisies! (There the ones I can keep too!! He knows me well!!)

I have been challenged this week through J1Ten and our life group. God is really starting to work and move in my life and our lives like never before. I'm just learning day by day to truly surrender my life to God and rely on him fully. I'm starting to realize what it means to have God break my heart for the things that break His.

So this week has been good. We started off the week by attending J1Ten. This is a new ministry for young adults that our church is hosting. We really enjoyed the first week. We met a really nice couple that lives only a couple miles down the road from us! I was able to hang out with Lindsey and their 2 year old daughter Emma Friday just to get to know each other better! We have decided to start carpooling to J1Ten which will make things much easier for us since it is 30 miles down the road!!
One Saturday we welcomed a good friend from Tampa, Kim! She got to come over Saturday and spend a little time with us! It was great to catch up with her and see a fimilar face! We enjoyed a night of games in which Kim won Clue and James won Phase Ten and I won nothing (which is usually how it goes). It was a great weekend.
The rest of the weekend was good. I had to work on the only day I look forward too, Sunday. I had to miss chuch. This just makes my week/weekend feel different. Monday was a typical grocery/target/banking day ending with a night watching some of our favorite tv shows (Chuck, Two and Half Men, and Big Bang Theory).
Things are starting off alright this week. I sent out 4 emails to environmental consulting firms to inquire about jobs, 1 email to the zoo for a zookeeper position, and 1 email to the place I volunteer at for a temporary position with Leatherback Research! I really like the last one, the only downside is its a night job. The people that know me best know that I'm not a night owl! I'm usually pretty out of it by 10pm or maybe before!! We are putting our trust and hope in God that He has something down the road for me.

A week of mix emotions

So the beginning of the week was a little rough. Most of you know, but I did not get the job I had been interviewing for. James and I were praying God's will would be done, and I guess this job was just not the job for me at this time. So I had my day of crying and mopping around and now I ready to press forward, because I know God has a plan to prosper us and not to harm us that will give us a hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11). Thank you mom for reminding me once again of this verse! After I though all was going wrong, I got an email from a company I had sent my resume to back in September. They were informing me of a summer tech position available starting in April through August. The job would consist of me getting up really early in the morning, going to the beach, and searching and marking sea turtle nest!! Sounds like the perfect job for me! So I emailed them back with everything and waiting to see if this one works out!!

James is busy with his work. They are having the investor come in this coming Monday, so they are all preparing for that. Hopefully everything will go as planned and things will be smooth this week for them!

We had a very nice relaxing weekend. Friday night we got to attend a volunteer appreciation thing that the church held. It was a good night. We learned about things that are on the heart of our Church leaders including human trafficking. I personally did not know much about this topic, but God is starting to break my heart for this. I'm looking forward what God has in store for our church to get involved in. The rest of the weekend consisted of work and a little relaxing on Sunday and Monday for James!

We are looking forward to the opportunities that God is giving us this week. We are planning to check out a young adult ministry that is starting tonight at the church. We are always looking forward to our small group on Wednesday nights. God has blessed us with some great new friends!

Hope everyone is having a great week! We miss all of you that we don't get to see often!!