Thankful for His Faithfulness

Tonight, I had dinner with my friend Melissa and we were talking about God's faithfulness and how we don't always recognize it as God's faithfulness. Like with my wonderful friends. I have such good friends and I don't often think of it as God's faithfulness but he was protecting me from so many other things and it is because of him that I have such wonderful friends. This has been a busy week for me already but I have spent two nights of this week with amazing women with whom I can share my life and feel encouraged by and talk to Jesus about.

Whitney and I have been friends since our junior or senior year of college. We probably really got to be good friends our senior year. Since I've lived in Knoxville, I have gotten to be friends with her friends. I was in her wedding and we see each other fairly frequently. We've been each other accountability partners this year. It has been good to encourage each other and share in similar struggles with each other about our lives. She is a good friend and God has blessed me with her in my life. I had dinner with her Monday night and we sat and talked for two hours. It was so good. We can talk about everything too! And we did :)

Melissa and I have been friends since freshman orientation, the summer before we started college. I met her because her roommate was friends from high school with my suitemate - or something like that. We have been friends ever since. We see each other pretty frequently too and we always have such a good time. And we never run out of things to talk about. We sat in a restaurant for 2 hours tonight and just talked.  I think we could have sat there for two more hours, if it hadn't been a school night! I have loved getting to know her heart more and more, the older we get and the different things that we go through in our lives.

I know that I will always be friends with these ladies. These are the kind of women that I want to surround myself with. The kind of women who encourage me, love me, and challenge me to be better. And give me the opportunity to pour my life into someone else.

I love these ladies and can't imagine my life without them. I am so thankful for God's faithfulness in providing me with good friends. These two are the beginning of a HUGE long list of praying, loving, amazing women that are apart of my life. And I am so thankful to Him for reminding me of His Faithfulness through my relationships with these ladies.

Deliriously Tired

After a crazy week last week and a great weekend, I am deliriously tired!

Here's a few pictures of my weekend - more details to come. All photos from the Harvest Moon Party!

Katie Preuss and me at the Harvest Moon Party!

Nellie (Hostess), Lydia, me

Lovely Lydia

Jonathan and me

Nellie and me! Loved seeing her! What a wonderful friend she is!

Great News

Well, today, I get to announce the GREAT news...now that it's officially official.

I was HIRED today, by that big hotel chain!! My official start date is Monday, September 19. I am just so, so relieved and excited. Well I'm exhausted. But I think that I'll be excited. This is close week and I have worked 11 each the past two days...It makes for some long days but I really am enjoying it!

Relieved is the best word that I can say. I'm just SO relieved. So excited to be permanent and feel secure in my job! Well, it'll be a long, long time before I feel secure but I really do like my work and I feel like I'm doing a good job at it. I'll be in this position for at least another year, which I think is a good thing so I'm looking forward to getting settled in and being a "real girl"!

That's all the big news that I've got to share tonight, but I wanted to share it because it's so very important to me and so very exciting!!!

Update:

Well, It's been about two weeks since I've written on here! I feel like I've been ridiculously busy with a lot and nothing at the same time!

I've been trying to balance my time between work, him, friends and a few other things that have my attention! The past few weeks/weekends have been spectacularly awesome. We didn't even do anything really exciting, but it's just been so much fun to hang out together.

Work is going really good and I am finally in the process of being a permanent employee! I should be official by next Monday.

Next things on my plate:
1. Jess is stopping by for a visit Sunday!! CANNOT wait to see her!
2. Quarter Close at work. I'm counting on about a 50 hour week this week. YIKES!
3. Home. I'm going home next weekend and taking him for a wedding and the HMP!
4. Nashville. Sometime soon!
5. More weddings later this fall.
6. FALL!! It feels soooooo good here in TN. I even had a dream about the leaves changing last night!