Aloha!

Hooray! I'm in Hawaii and living the dream! It's been such a treat to have a change of scenery and time to relax in the sunshine. I even have a tan...kinda :) Well, lets be real I just have more freckles. Anyways, I am loving the time I have gotten to spend with my family and girlfriends and am happy that we have gotten to make some lasting memories before they graduate and that I have gotten to build into their lives even more. It's amazing how much there is to uncover about people, even the ones you think you know so well. My parents even got Kristi out here at the last minute! YAY for sisterbear! I haven't seen her since christmas so I was all for her coming on a whim. Anyways, I'm not quite ready to return to reality on the mainland (my new favorite word): school, work and endless other activities and commitments. Thankfully I have a few more days to bask in the sunshine. Mahalo!

New Beginnings.

I decided it was time to start blogging because it would challenge me to do something new and interesting. I realized recently how, when I am running around at a million miles an hour, it is so difficult to shut out all of the noise and just simply be, but I need to. I don't want to miss the blessings and the people that come my way because I am too busy to see them. So I suppose that's what this space is. I am not a writer, and definatley not a poet, but I have things to say and a voice to be heard. So I am taking this small and simple challenge to do that which is often so scary for me, trying new things. Jesus is taking me on a wonderful, beautiful, tough, but real, journey and I want, more like NEED to write it all down so I forget all of the lessons that this beautiful God is teaching me.