Dog Vomit and God

I'm about to make an analogy about God using a dog throwing up. You probably think I can't do it, and maybe I can't, but I'm going to try and we'll see how it goes.

A week or so ago, Haley and I went to lunch at Jason's Deli, and we left Bella and Boss (Whitney's dog) outside in the backyard.

On a completely unrelated side note, if there was a support group for Jason's Deli, I would probably need to go, because Haley and I go several times a week, and probably keep the San Marcos one in business.

Anyways, I digress. When we returned from yet another delightful trip to Jason's, we discovered that Boss had figured out how to open the backdoor, and had gotten inside and eaten an entire candy bowl full of Hersey's chocolate kisses.

Mind you, this candy bowl held two whole bags of kisses.

Luckily, Haley's dad is a vet so we called him, and he recommended making the dogs drink hydrogen peroxide so that they would throw up.

I know that sounds cruel, but it's the dog's version of getting your stomach pumped apparently.

Anyways, after giving each dog a ridiculous amount of hydrogen peroxide (apparently we own dogs with super stomachs), they threw up. Bella only once because Boss only let her get about three pieces of chocolate. Boss, however, threw up more vomit than I have ever seen in my life put together. Literally, the first two piles were the size of a human infant. I took a picture, scroll down fast if you don't want to see it:

If you look really close, you can see that there are whole Hersey's kisses, and a good sized stick in the vomit as well.

He threw up four or five times, and afterward, when we tried to hose it off of the sidewalk, it stuck. It took quite a while to get it off.

Needless to say, it was disgusting.

So anyways, I'm sure you're all thinking, "Jenna, how in your infinite wisdom are you going to tie this into God?"

Well, here is goes blog readers.

I think that sometimes there are things in our life that God wants us to get rid of. At first, He tells us in the form of a simple nudge, then a gentle warning, then probably a hit over the head with a two by four.

I don't really know the exact process, but I think that if we ignore the warnings, God takes the things away, rather violently, not because He wants to hurt us, but because He knows what's best for us, and He wants us to learn our lesson and remember to listen to Him the next time

Similar to the way that we wanted to remove the chocolate from Boss's stomach. We didn't make him drink hydrogen peroxide because we thought it would be fun to watch. We did it because we knew it was for the best.

Maybe that's a stretch, but surprisingly enough, Boss throwing up infant sized piles of throw up taught me this.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, that no matter what it is that God is trying to take away, a relationship, a bad habit, a habitual sin, pride, a refusal for help, whatever, God will find a way to remove it from your life. He doesn't want to do it in a painful way, but He will if necessary, because He is God, and He knows what is best.

So listen to Him.

I was now going to try to relate dogs preferring to eat their vomit to God sometimes bringing things we let go back into our lives when the timing is right, but that was too hard, so just know that I think that happens sometimes too.

Deep thoughts from dog vomit,
Jenna

More Things I'm Thankful for After Black Friday

First of all, I apologize for any typos or improper grammar. Normally, I'm pretty good about not making mistakes, and I always go back and check, but its four in the morning, and I don't have the energy. I apologize for my laziness.

Anyways, tonight's experience made me realize a few more things I am thankful for and I wanted to get them down before I forgot them, because I hate when that happens.

So, here it goes:
1. I'm thankful for good sales
2. I'm thankful that the outlet mall parking lot, the movie theater parking lot, and the first strip center a mile away from the outlet mall was full, thus forcing us to park 3 miles away. Why? Because it was good exercise.
3. I'm thankful ya'll don't judge me on the fact that I am a total overexaggerator. Because 3 miles is not true, but it was very far.
4. I'm thankful that I have a body that is healthy enough to handle the walk.
5. I am thankful that I resisted temptation and didn't buy anything impulsively.
6. I'm thankful that I only used my dad's credit card to buy a pair of jeans, and the rest of the time I was responsible and used my own money.
7. I'm thankful that I have an awesome job that gives me the money to buy those things and play with cute kids like these:





8. I'm thankful that God showed me my spiritual gifts early so I wouldn't be one of those people sitting around wondering what their spiritual gifts are.
9. I'm thankful that I had the experience of Black Friday
10. I'm thankful that I will never go through that again.
11. I'm thankful that Bella has learned that when I take her out in the middle of the night, she should go to the bathroom quickly.
12. I'm thankful that I am not one of those crazy pet owners who refers to themselves as "Mommmy" when talking to their pet. For example, "Mommy is mad at you."
13. I'm thankful that I have friends who will slap me if I ever do this.
14. I'm thankful my parents taught me respect and good grammar so that I don't act like the countless "ghetto" individuals I encountered at the outlet mall tonight.
15. Frequently throughout my life, and quite a few times tonight, when I see a decent looking boy with an unfortunate looking girl I think to myself, "At least there's still hope for me." This is mean and judgmental. I am thankful that I have a God that forgives me for that.
16. I'm thankful for nice store clerks. It is probably hard to be nice at 3 in the morning. I was impressed by your friendliness. Good job outlet mall employees.
17. I'm thankful that I am about to get into a wonderful warm bed with a nice little heating blanket.
18. I'm thankful that I am sleeping in tomorrow...or actually this morning.

Still counting my blessings,
Jenna

39 Things I'm Thankful For

I know everyone does this, but I'm ok with being like everyone else every once in a while. At least I picked an odd number.

39 Things I'm thankful for:

1. God for forgiving us no matter what, loving us unconditionally, supporting us in all circumstances, healing us even when we don't think we need it and reminding us that we must do the same for others.
2. Thanksgiving for reminding me to be thankful.
3. My Great Aunt Ann who lets us come to her house and makes the best homemade Thanksgiving meal ever.
4. My dad who works his butt off, even when the housing market is way down, to provide a comfortable life for us.
5. My mom who holds down the fort, supports my sister and I unconditionally, and embarrassingly felt the need to share with my whole family at the dinner table that I got hit on by both the CVS pharmacy tech and H-E-B check out guy.
6. My sister, who is a constant reminder that she looks up to me and I need to be the best example of a Godly woman that I can for her.
7. Martina, our foreign exchange student, because she is funny and intelligent and entertaining and our family won't feel the same when she leaves in June. Although, it will be nice to get my room back. Just kidding Martie!
8. Martina and the outlet malls, because for the first time we are shopping at midnight tonight so that Martina can have the American Black Friday experience to go with her first Thanksgiving. I'm especially thankful that dad just went to bed and left his credit card for us to take :).
9. My dog Bella because she is adorable and funny and can make me laugh when I've had a bad day.


10. My friend Amber for being a wonderful person, outrageously hilarious, and for buying Bella that sweater.
11. Haley, my somewhat life partner according to Bella's adoption papers, for helping me take care of Bella, for being the funniest person I know, for supporting me unconditionally, for planning on moving to Dallas with me when we grow up, for getting a job with Kyle Park band so I can meet Wade Bowen and go to free shows, for living with me even though I'm a total weirdo, and for co starring in our upcoming hit T.V. show with me.
12. Whitney for letting me live in her house, for living with me for more than one year even after she realized what living with me was like, for laughing at my jokes, for being a cheap drunk and letting us laugh at her, for reminding Haley and I to not be too mean to people, for listening to me complain, and for supporting me in all my bad and good decisions.
13. Macy for being funny and letting us make fun her, for still being able to make friends even though we didn't talk when we went to the same high school, for letting us charge her 10 cents for all her lame jokes, and for her stories which have a lot of build up, but no ending, and although annoying, do make me smile.
14. David for listening to me complain and giving me advice and making me laugh and ruthlessly hitting on me when I'm in tears.
15. Nic and Jo for listening to me complain and laughing at my jokes so that I think I'm kind of funny.
16. For Baby Boy Burleson, who is going to be my godson, who I am going to spoil rotten and turn into a super baby. Let's not lie, I'll probably be his favorite.
17. For the Wards and Levys, who are my surrogate Christian parents and who gave me my first example of a Godly marriages and real Christian leadership.
18. For Shelby and Kelsey, the girls that I know will always be here for me, and the people I most wish I got to see more often. Hooray for next year when we'll all be in Georgetown!
19. For all my other friends, who have loved me, listened to me, counseled me, made me laugh, and given me memories that will last forever.
20. For music, because without it, I wouldn't be able to sleep, stay awake in the car on the way to school, get ready in the morning, or have good background sounds for the upcoming TV show.
21. Technology, because it keeps me entertained.
22. The fact that we had over 40 people at Thanksgiving lunch today, and even though I didn't know half their names, they all knew where I was going to school, and asked me how it was going.
23. The fact that we have the type of family that invites the entire Lake Travis volunteer fire department that was working today over to our lunch in shifts, so that they could still enjoy Thanksgiving even though they were working.
24. The fact that one of the cute younger firemen asked for my number...what a boost of confidence.
25. Thanksgiving food, because it is so so so good.
26. The fact that we get to eat it again at Christmas.
27. My houses in San Marcos and Georgetown because I love them both and wouldn't change a thing about them.
28. My 11 day Thanksgiving break.
29. The fact that I am a little over a semester away from being done with notes and tests FOREVER!
30. The fact that I am a little over a semester away and a year's worth of clinicals away from being done with school forever.
31. The fact that its ok to be scared of being a grown up.
32. The fact that my boyfriend (although he doesn't know it) Colt McCoy and the rest of the Horns are currently winning 35 to 3.
33. The fact that the Cowboys won today too.
34. Boyfriend's also going to win the Heisman.
35. My fantasy football team is also winning.
36. Boyfriend's team just scored again, 42 to 3. Awesome.
37. The fact that I've lost 10 pounds and a jean size in the last month. Hope Thanksgiving doesn't ruin it!
38. The fact that I don't have any idea what the next couple of years or even months of my life holds for me. Its scary. But wonderful. And I wouldn't want it any other way.
39. Knowing that my life is in exactly the place God wants it to be.

Busy being thankful,
Jenna

Fearless

When one day, when someone is finally smart enough to figure out that a movie should be made about my life, and someone approaches me about the movie deal (which is sure to become a blockbuster hit), and I sign a contract for millions of dollars, and then the producers of the movie come to me and say, "Jenna, in all of your infinite wisdom, who would you like to write the soundtrack of your life?"

I shall respond with, "Taylor Swift". The woman to play me is up for discussion in a completely different post, but feel free to share your opinions now.

Have you ever gone through a moment in your life and then later, upon looking back at that moment and reliving it in your mind, you can pick out the perfect song that should be playing in the background? I do this often, either because I love music, or because I'm crazy, or maybe a combination of both, I'm really not sure which.

Anyways, a large majority of Taylor Swift's songs match up wonderfully with moments in my life. Which, in turn, is why she would write the soundtrack of my life.

On a completely somewhat related side note, if you are a boy, and you ever want to impress me, take me to a Taylor Swift concert. I'll probably give you a kiss, but if you're not my boyfriend, it will have to be on the cheek, because I've promised Jo that I will not participate in any noncommittal lip locking.

Anyways, the point of this post is to say that the new Taylor Swift CD is wonderful. I have had it on on my computer, on my iPod, and in my car. I've already listened to it probably 30 times. If you havn't already bought it or downloaded it, then you should, right now. After that, you should listen to each tract and then tell me which ones you like the most.

For even more fun (mostly for me), listen to the CD and tell me which ones you think are my favorites. I like all of them, but there are five that are my favorites. 5 out of 13 gives you pretty good odds for guessing. Also, if you can get all 5 right, I will post a special blog just for you, talking about how perfect and wonderful you are, and I will buy you coffee the next time I see you. Is it conceded that I am making up this game about myself? Maybe. But humor me and play along.

Writing the Script for my Life Story on Film,
Jenna

Credit Cards

Today, my very own first card credit card came in the mail. I applied for it earlier in the week, and it sure didn't take long to get approved for a 4,000 dollar credit line and get the card. Its actually kind of scary how easy it was. Its easy for me to see how people get into trouble with cards.

I already almost made my first mistake with my credit card in posting a picture of me with the card on the internet. Which, would have been stupid as everyone would have been able to see the credit card number. I'm glad I avoided that mistake. The fact that I almost made such a big mistake with my card a little less than 2 hours after getting it makes me a little nervous.

I got the card because I have loaned people money, and havn't been paid back, and thus, have no money myself. This problem will be solved once I can sell the Dallas Cowboys tickets I purchased, but that leaves me with a month or so with no money, thus the card.

I tell you all this so that you know that I intend on being as responsible as possible with the card. The credit card guy on the phone tells me I have perfect credit, which I am really not looking to mess up.

I tell you all that so that you can I can make this declaration: I HEREBY SOLEMNLY SWEAR TO BE AS RESPONSIBLE AS POSSIBLE WITH MY NEW CREDIT CARD. I will not make rash, unnecessary purchases. I will pay the balance on time. I will pay more than the minimum balance as often as possible.

I am putting all of this in writing, for everyone to read so that I can be held accountable, and so that I can be more responsible.

One step closer to becoming a grown up,
Jenna

Mentoring and Tattoos

The "A" key on my keyboard has fallen off, making typing rather annoying. I'm telling you this so that you know many of my words might be leaving out the "A", and so you appreciate the effort that I am making in blogging today.

Anyways, I'm sitting in class right now and its outrageously boring, thus the blog. I'm really quite over school. I am currently researching other forms of income, like the lottery, my own TV show, inventing something really cool, or if I get really desperate, stripping. This, however, would require a lot of work at the gym that I am just not ready for. We'll see how it plays out.

I'm really getting off topic from what I wanted to write about today. Today's post was supposed to be about being a mentor. On Tuesday I went and had lunch with the 8th grade girls from First Lockhart Baptist Church. These girls were in my DNow group, and in my room for every trip I went on with FLBC, so I feel an obligation towards them. Even if I didn't feel an obligation towards them, I would probably still spend time with them, because they make me laugh, and because I think they all need an example of a Godly woman in their lives.

That made me sound really conceited, I have tried rewriting it, because it sounds bad, but I can't come up with another way to say it. I'm not saying that I am the ultimate in Godly woman-ness, I'm just saying that they need something, and they have to settle for me. I'm sure there are much better options out there.

Anyways, today I am writing about what it means to be a mentor. I've been thinking about it today. Now that I don't go to Lockhart every Wednesday and Sunday, I don't see the girls very much. I send the occasional email to check in on them, but Tuesday was the first time I've seen them since the summer. So, does being a mentor mean constantly spending time growing the individual you are mentoring, or does it simply mean setting an example and being available if needed for said individual?

I pose that as a theoretical question that I do not know the answer to in hopes that someone wiser than myself will let me in on the answer.

Additionally, I would like to share that lately I have been discouraged in my ability to be a mentor/leader. Like I said, I havn't been paying much attention to the girls, and lately, I've really been feeling like I don't have much to offer as a mentor/leader. However, yesterday, one of the girls sent me an email that went something along the lines of this (grammatical errors/slang corrected and personal information removed):

Jenna,
Thanks for coming to see us yesterday. It was so great to see you! I think its so awesome that you have time to go to college, work 2 jobs, and go through hard times, and still make time to see us. Plus, you looked so pretty yesterday! I hope I have my life as organized as you do when I am your age.

I share that because it made me smile, it gave me confidence in my abilities, and it made me realize something else. When I go about my day to day life, and when I make decisions, am I paying attention to who is watching? Not in an "are people judging me" sort of way, but in a way that has me focusing on setting a Godly example for the people that look up to me.

I feel like my thoughts have been random again, but my challenge to you is this: Watch your actions, thought, and words, because you never know who may be watching you for an example.

Now, for a completely unrelated topic. I am considering getting a tattoo. Probably something cute and classy like a heart or "sexy" in Old English on my butt or my hip. Or maybe this alien tattoo:


on my back right above my crack, in true tramp stamp fashion.


I hope by now you have figured out that I am kidding, not about the tattoo, but about the form of tattoo. I'm actually not telling the tattoo I am considering yet, because I have not completely nailed down the design, and because I like to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Plus, I thought this would provide for a good opportunity for an interactive blog. Thus readers, I present you with this question: If you could pick any tattoo for me to get, what would it be? Please also specify location. Jokes and serious responses are both welcomed. Bonus points if you submit an image.

Considering getting inked,
Jenna

Crumbs

As promised ladies and gentlemen, my second blog of the day.

Yesterday, I was in a very unusual position. We had a long break during school, so I popped some popcorn, went and sat in my car, and listened to a Perry Noble podcast. It was so good I listened to it again. This time I did my nails. Both times I cried. Imagine being that person walking by my car seeing a girl in sweat pants doing her nails, eating popcorn, and crying. It must have been a very unusual site. So unusual that I'm laughing about it now. Sometimes I am very overemotional and over dramatic.

Anyways, I digress. Like I said, I was listening to a Perry Noble podcast, and this podcast is what I am writing about, because it was excellent, and God showed me some things through it.

Perry Noble has started a new series at his church for women called "Beautiful". Given recent circumstances, Nic and JMob have both recommended that I listen to this particular one about "crumbs". Yesterday I finally had the time. I liked it so much that I listened to it again and typed up notes about it. I thought about just copying and pasting the notes, but this seemed like a bad idea for two reasons:

1. If I gave you all the notes, you wouldn't have any motivation to go and listen it to yourself, and you should, regardless of whether you are a man or a woman or married or single. Go listen to it. Seriously. I'd give you the link but I can't get it to work, so just search Beautiful series by Perry Noble on Google or iTunes.

2. I wrote personal notes and examples in with my notes, and I did not think it would be right to post my true feelings and thoughts about certain people and situations.

Anyways, down to the nitty gritty:

Perry started by explaining that women tend to wrap their identities up in certain things. When their attempts to do this fail, women tend to feel unworthy and unbeautiful. Perry said that most women wrap their identity into these 6 things (a different combination of each for each girl):

1. Appearance
2. Their house
3. Their kids
4. Relationships

Some women define themselves by whether or not they are dating someone because dating someone makes them feel worth something. If you feel this way, then you no longer feel like you are worthy as a woman if he stops pursuing you because your identity is in "him". It should be noted that this is 100% me.

5. Career
6. Religion
Many Christian women identify themselves with what they do and don’t do rather than who Jesus is
I loved this quote: “Many women will lean against the cross and look down their spiritual noses at what others are doing and say, 'hey you need to be more like me', rather then kneeling at the cross and saying, 'hey, there’s room here'.”

Women tend to feel that one day all 6 of these things will be in complete order, and they live for that day, because they think it will be the day that they finally feel good enough. It should be noted that this is also 100% me.

One thing I learned: That day is NEVER coming. If you wait for that day, you will never feel good enough and you will never be the women God intended you to be.

Perry posed 3 Questions that women should ask:

1. Who do I listen to?

Culture is constantly screaming at women that they aren’t good enough, that if they had this body or that house that they will finally be happy and it sends women to a place that God never intended them to go.

What does God say?
Psalm 45:10-Listen oh daughter, consider and give ear, forget your people and your Father’s house.

What's the first word of that verse? Listen! Why? Because God wants you to hear what he thinks of you, not what others think of you.

What if you had a bad dad? What if the father you have as an example of a Heavenly Father wasn't really that great?

God is everything you wish your father would have been and so much more. A father loves his daughter because of who she is and not what she does. How absolutely completely 100% wonderful.

Here comes my favorite part:
Perry told a story about his daughter eating crumbs off the floor after he had finished feeding her. He didn't understand why would she settle for crumbs on the floor when he could bless her with so much more. Perry says God feels the same way about women when it comes to the men we date, or even sometimes marry.

Perry said that God is asking us: "Why are you dating a crumb?"

I wrote this paragraph down word for word from what Perry said. I wish someone had told me this a long long long while. Birth would probably be too early, but maybe around the time when I first understood that there was a difference between boys and girls. I digress again, but here's the paragraph:

"He’s a crumb. The only men that get nervous about that statement are the crumbs. He fell from the table a long time ago and you can do better than that. He is not dedicated to you, he gets what he wants from you, is not willing to commit, step up, or be a man for you. The reason he is dating you is to inflate his incredibly weak male ego. He doesn’t love, respect, value, or treasure you. Women deserve to be treated with respect and admiration, not something to be conquered. Don’t settle for crumbs, God says he has something so much better to bless us with. Don’t wrap your identity up in him."

Wow. Talk about preaching to the choir. Is that the right saying? I'm not sure. What I'm trying to say is, I feel like God wrote that, or I guess had Perry say that a few Sundays ago, specifically for me.

2. What does God think about me?

Sometimes we don’t understand what God thinks about us. We think God hates us because of what we have done. We don’t want to hear that God thinks we are beautiful because of the guilt we feel.

Verse 11-the King is enthralled with your beauty

He is held captive by you, He can’t stop looking at you. God custom designed you and threw away the mold. God is enthralled with your beauty regardless of whether or not your divorced, have kids, have a sexually active past-no matter who finds you beautiful on earth-God finds you beautiful. God is enthralled with Jesus coming out of you, or with the potential you have of Christ in you. You ought to see how God looks at you.

3. Who will I live for?

Who do you admire the most? What quality do you admire most in that person? None of us probably thought about the 6 things that women find their identity in from earlier. Most of us think, their attitude, their patience, their kindness, their ability to forgive.

Why do we work so hard for the things we don’t admire and neglect the things we do admire? Why don’t we work harder to be the woman God wants us to be? Do you work towards being the woman God wants you to be so others can see Christ in you? LIVE FOR HIM! Live for the one that already sees your value, stop wearing yourself out on things that will never make you feel valued and respected. God already views you as beautiful. You do things because God loves you, not to get God to love you.

The last thing Perry talked about went back to the crumb reference. The crumbs are not all that you deserve. A princess is worthy of a prince. A princess does not need to leave her castle and go down to the slumbs to find someone. A princess can stay where she is, and the worthy man will pursue her. Princess needs to wait for a prince.

Perry said that many women are settling for toads, and this part really hit me: "it doesn’t matter how many times you kiss him, he will always be a toad." I have a hard time accepting the fact that there are some things in people that you just can't change and fix. Things only they themselves can change. That's something very difficult for me to accept.

Don’t live for him, you are better than that. Because the King is enthralled with your beauty.

Wow. That's really all I can say. What an incredible message. I don't really care if you read all of it. I mostly put it all down to go over it again. I don't even know if all of it made sense. But I needed to put it down to wrap my mind around it. Maybe I'll read it tomorrow and think its stupid and take it down, but for now it seems like a good idea.

I'm still processing of all it, but thanks Nic and JMob for recommending something that I really needed to hear. I don't know if I have gotten everything out of this message that I am supposed to yet. What I do know is that I will be actively working towards finding my identity solely in God, and not in my appearance or my relationships. I also know that I will no longer be settling for the crumbs of world that don't deserve my time, devotion, or love.

Waiting for my Prince and hoping some of that made sense,
Jenna

Election Day!

Today is election day, so go vote! But, don't vote for someone just because its cool to vote for them. Vote for someone who agrees with you on the issues. Vote for someone who would make a good leader. And no matter who wins, pray for their leadership everyday.

Today is also my sister's birthday. She is 17 today. If you know her, call her and wish her happy birthday. Or, if you don't know her, and you want to date her, like Mark or JMob, call her and wish her a happy birthday.

Happy Birthday Ally!

Last night we started decorating for Christmas. We have so much Christmas stuff that we must finish tonight. I know you think I'm crazy for putting Christmas stuff up so early. But we love Christmas at our house, and I find that Christmas puts people into a great mood, the kind of mood that only comes once a year, and I figure, why not enjoy it a little longer? If you need a little pick me up, you are more than welcome to come over to our house whenever you want. If you're lucky, we might even sing you a few Christmas carols. Pictures will be posted once we're finished.

You can expect a better, deeper, more thought provoking blog later today. God showed me some stuff yesterday that I would like it share. I havn't posted it yet because I still need to pray about everything I'm going to say. Plus, I thought it would be nice to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Celebrating change and the birth of Ally,
Jenna

November Begins!

I realize I havn't blogged in a while. I apologize. To make up for it, I have included a visual plethora of pictures for you to enjoy.

Bella is doing wonderful. She is adorable, and funny, follows me everywhere, and is a ton of fun. She is a bit timid and is a total priss, but I am trying to break her of that. She is also terrified of other dogs. I took her to the dog park with a friend the other day, by the end of it, she was having fun, so hopefully I'll break this habit too.

In the past couple of weeks, I have been spending a lot of time with old friends, and making new ones. I've been spending a lot of time with my friend Brett and some of the guys on the Texas State soccer team. They are a lot of fun, and they are really great people, so I am really looking forward to spending more time with them and getting to know them more. Today, they won the regional final game, which means they get to go to nationals in a few weeks. Here's a picture of Brett celebrating, not really after the win, but it will do for the situation:


Sorry, I don't know how to turn pictures.

Last weekend, I got the opportunity to go to the Texas vs. Oklahoma State game with some really great guys I know from school. Texas won, and the game was a blast. I know Texas lost this week, but given the new rankings, I think things are still looking good for them. Here's a few pictures from the game:





I've also been spending a lot of time with the girls from my roommates' sorority, Sigma Phi Lambda. It's a Christian sorority that I used to be in when I was here at Texas State. All of the girls are fun, funny, nice, Godly women and I am loving getting to spend time with them. It feels good to have people to support me, challenge me, and help to grow me spiritually. Here are some pictures from our Halloween celebration:




The top picture is me being a lego. I know it appears as though there are cups attached to my boobs. This is not the case. There are more cups attached to my shirt. Unfortunately, the picture was taken from a bad spot. Just know, not a picture of cups on my boobs.

This past week, Brett and I went and voted together. We waited in line for an hour and a half. I'm very glad we went together or I would have died of boredom. I won't tell you who I voted for. I also won't tell you who to vote for. I know I promised more posts on how the candidates feel about issues, but I simply didn't have the time. Popularity calls:). I'm kidding, but really, I do encourage you to research the issues and go vote on Tuesday. It's very important!

Friday was our 2nd annual Spooktacular. It was a blast! Haley, Whitney, and I were Luigi, Mario, and Wario. It was no Harry Potter Spooktacular, but it was still a great time! Here are some pictures, one of me, Haley, Whitney, and Sarah, and one of Cory and Sarah and She-rah and Hee-man. They were the costume contest winners.




Again, I don't know how to turn pictures.

Saturday, Clint and Whitney, myself, and Clint's friend Tyler went to watch another friend of Clint's play football. Despite the fact that I got a little sunburned, it was a great time. Clint, Whitney, and Tyler are a blast and I hope we get to spend more time together in the future.

The rest of the weekend was spent watching the boys play in the regional soccer game. The boys played great, and the final game ended after 2 overtimes and penalty kicks. Needless to say it was exciting!

I also got to spend a little time with Nic and Jo today, I wish I could have hung out with them more, so I am definitely excited that I am hanging out with them and Jordan and Kaylen next weekend!

Tonight we were going to decorate for Christmas, but Whitney had to study, so we are decorating tomorrow. I love love love Christmas and I can't wait! Pictures to be posted soon.

Loving life,
Jenna