study nights..

tomorrow is test day which means tonight - I sit on the brand-spankin new couch and watch my recorded Vamp Diaries and Selling New York while Blake studies into the wee hours over there in his office. Tonight, to make the evening just a tad sweeter I blended up a delicious treat... MILKSHAKES! gosh I love wedding presents..

mine, vanilla with chocolate chip cookies and m&ms and Blake's, chocolate with orange.. bleh.. his taste in all foods is just a little off.. but he's just so dang cute!

Last night, and most nights, Blake get's a study partner..

DAKOTA!

I like that she keeps him company... we're thinking about getting her a bed in the corner for the long nights..

today was god..

today for first time in a really long time I'd say, I felt god near. I was heading back to the new office from lunch listening to something on the radio, cannot even remember now, and I had an overwhelming feeling of joy and contentment. It was like Christ was just cruisin' in my passenger seat, window down, arm out the window, just glancing over at me with his wayfarers, saying with a subtle nod, "hey, this is the life."

so, this is where I am and I feel content and grateful. Praise God that He decided to bless me with a full-time job, praise God that I get to be married to Blake, praise God that he hears the cries of his people. I want to be, in a new-year's-resolution kind of way, more aware of Christ's blessings and Christ's nearness. Lord, teach me to sing psalms and praises, Lord, teach me listen when you are near.

one reason I love married life..

Saturdays.

Sleeping in until 12:30, breakfast (homemade bacon, egg, cheese biscuits) at 1:30, aggie win, staying on the new pull-out king temperpedic couch/bed til dinner time.

love life.

a bride-to-be at 3 days out..

Thoughts that run through a bride's mind the Wednesday night before her wedding..

where can i find double stick tape?

am i really getting married this weekend, THIS weekend? it was just April..

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am i going to remember anything from this day that we've spent months preparing for?

everything is about to be new.. brand new.. every thought, every experience, every conversation..

should i have eaten fried mushrooms, chicken fingers and "intense chocolate" ice cream for dinner?

am i going to cry? is blake going to cry?

i wish dakota could come..

i hope Blake starts to feel better..

i cannot WAIT to go to sleep with and wake up next to my favorite person in the whole world!

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called Children of God! Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:1

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New Layout, New Pictures!

These are a few of Blake's White Coat Ceremony. Is it terrible that all I could see walking across stage were multiple Meredith Greys, Derek Shepherds, Karevs and Yangs?

Now, if you glance real fast past this next one, we kinda look like the front cover to the Grey's DVDs..

aww! isn't he just the cutest medical student you've ever seen?? lovely.. Now, only 7 and a half more years to go, but at least they all look legit now..

and it's POURING outside now, so, I think I'll try to pick up where I left off in grey's, season 5? season 6? These last 8 wedding invitations will have to wait until tomorrow, sorry guys.. you don't even know who you are..

A thought on James..

I just missed an October post by one day! dannnnngit!

Now, back to what I got on here to write in the first place.

I'm in a woman's bible study at the village and we're right smack dab in the middle of it, and for some reason (god and the holy spirit would probably be a good guess) this week's made my mind do some serious thinking.

"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God, " Colossians 4:16.

Note. The study is on James 3:1-12. So, I'm a gossip, I'm a slanderer, I'm a liar, I'm an arguer, I'm sarcastic, I'm boastful and I flatter. Turns out all previously stated things are leading to my complete destruction and death. Which I knew, but praise God that he knows this about me and still decided to save me from myself. This week and for the rest of life here, I pray that god guards my heart against my own desires that I may develop a genuine faith where singing psalms, and hymns and spiritual songs and letting the word dwell in me richly becomes life.

I'm a piece of work, and have a long way to go.

Apartment Therapy

Here it is.. the first room in the future Johnson's humble abode complete..

the grill, gift compliments of The Bakers for Blake's birthday.. note - do not tell anyone here at the complex that this exists, per our Lessor there is no grilling here.. so it is merely there as storage, that's the story..

Our garden..

The chairs my dad refinished for me, pillows from home depot clearance section..

Our first room, I cannot wait until fall is here so we can enjoy a glass of wine or two out here and watch the air planes take off..

next project, Blake's study..