| SOOO i havnt done this in almost a year but i figure that my life right now needs an update!
I just graduated from the 4 best years of my life, college. I never would have imagined meeting as many amazing people as i did, or learning and growing as much, finding my faith and my Jesus in a way that is indescribable, meeting the LOVE OF MY LIFE, and the best friends of my life.
I remember leaving highschool and thinking that i would never survive because highschool was so great and my friends were so great...little did i know that the true GREAT was just around the corner. i lived with beautiful precious girls for my last two years and they are in my heart forever; shannon stuckey who could ask for a better person to laugh, cry, eat, go run, go be quiet and peaceful, or share in finding love with? martha highfill the other part of my soul, she is always there...to travel europe with, to go on beautiful peaceful walks with, to run errands or to just simply be who i was made to be; and then there is anna jeffers ohhh man met her the first day of school and she was there to be loyal from that day to this day, she is passionate and honest and truly a good friend.
one of my best friends (clay little) changed my life forever; from the very beginning he was there and to the very end he was there, challenging me and encouraging me, going through hard times with me and just teaching me to breathe and see the beauty of it all. we have far too many memories to try and post on this thing from thinking he was IT freshman year to fighting and struggling to become "friends" and both of us changing into people that we were scared to become sophomore year (ie- 1st 818 party) do you remember that convo in your car?, to biology and starting to find loves our junior year, and then finally our senior year...where we both fell in love and realized that we wouldnt be the same any more... hard but in the end exactly as it should be (lacy is beautiful and it seems that that is not just on the outside, i am proud of you clay)...simply i love you as a friend should, and i always will
and finally the love of my life. ahhh who ever would have thought. i am blessed and undeserving of his love and his life. knowing that he was there all along and i just truly found him junior year makes me think that i missed out on so much love with him, but i know that there is so much more to come, a life time of love and growing, challenging each other, having beautiful adventures, and traveling around the world to serve God and to love people. i could not think of someone i would rather do all of this with; my LOVE and my best friend. he faught for me when i said no and he was patient always there but never embracive, just there. and i love him for none of the reasons and all of the reasons that i thought that i would one day love my husband. it is truly un explainable; i feel that love is not at all what you have always dreamed of, its something that you cant possibly understand until you are there; and then once you are there you have to work and you have to give yourself, but what you get in return is beauty at it purest form.
and now here i am planning my wedding and preparing to be a first great teacher in about 2 weeks. life is unexpected and beautiful, hard and giving, unexpected yet somehow exactly as it should be... |
