spring is upon us.

Spring break has come, and is going. :(

It has been a wonderful, relaxing and chill break. I have thoroughly enjoyed it!! Breaks from school usually mean all of my housemates leave and I am one of the few left here. Kind of sad and depressing The house that I live in is HUGE....especially when there are only 3 people here. To be honest, I wasn't very excited for break. I was prepared to be super bored. The only thing I had planned was to work. And work in some homework here and there. I probably didn't do enough, and I will pay for it these next couple of weeks. It was totally worth it though! I needed a break.

I did a lot of reading. I read a book that I have been trying to read for months and months and it just hadn't happened. But I finally did it.....I read a book! And I have started another...the Hunger Games! :) I'm not very far into it at all, but so far so good....I have heard such great things about it! I am trying to limit myself though....I know that I could easily sit down and read all three books in a few days, but I can't allow myself to do that as much as I want to. To many other things to do!

Besides reading, I have had lots of good quality time with a very dear friend of mine. She is such a blessing to me. We have had several heart to heart conversations over break. Literally, I feel like we spent the whole week just talking, talking, and some more talking. We tried watching a movie one night, Midnight in Paris, but we both fell asleep! Whoops. We never did see the end of the movie.

St. Patty's Day!

Some of my favorite things right now (in no specific order):

• Words with Friends.
• Draw Something.
• Coffee.
• My Bible, at the moment specifically the book of John. This is always changing though. God is always showing me awesome things in the Word. 
• Passion: White Flag CD
• My new phone! :) 
• Surprising my family!
• The beautiful weather...both the rainy weather we had this past week, and the sunny weather we are having now!
• Having my friends back in town! :)

 Here are some pictures from my surprise trip home....nobody knew I was coming! I'm so sneaky.

I first went home where I knew my dad and dusty would be at home. Mom was still working.
I rang the doorbell and this is what they did.....they just looked at each other. With very confused looks on their faces, I heard one of them say, "is it Saturday??" haha
When I do come home it's almost always on Saturdays because of my work schedule! Funny guys.

It's hard to tell, but he took my dad's jacket and hung it up over the window. I stood
outside the door for a while before they finally unlocked the door. Welcome home to me! haha.

I made Dusty go with me to my mom's office so she wouldn't see my car. I hid behind Dusty and
when she opened the door he moved over to the side and there I was. Dusty makes a great wall! She was VERY surprised!

I love surprising people!!!! It's so fun! Later in the evening I went over to Dev and Kel's (they still didn't know I was in town). Dev was sitting on the couch watching tv and Kel was napping. When I rang the doorbell Devo looked over and saw me. Instead of getting up to unlock the door and let me in like most people would do, he just sat there completely ignoring me....must run in the family! Jordan on the other hand, I thought she was going to jump through the window. She was SO excited. Eventually, after having to stand outside again, Devin let me in.

Matthew happened to be in town which means....basketball time for the boys! They always play when he comes to town. So my mom, Kel, and I went along and walked while they played!

Somebody did not want their picture taken.

The best of friends.

Foul??

So fun to watch them. 

Recently, God has been wowing me with sunsets and beautiful skies! I. Love. It. His creation is simply beautiful. Here are some photos I have taken recently....

When I was leaving Chanute Thursday, the sun was shining. But I quickly ran into this....it 

down poured on me, but didn't last long. The sun found its way out again, but still a little cloudy.

And then....I drove through this! It was so beautiful though! I didn't think it would be a good idea
to take pictures while I was driving and while it was raining! :) But I wish you could of seen it. It was dark and
cloudy, but you could see the sun trying to make its way through. It was so pretty!! I loved it!

God always seems to make my drives to and from Topeka, what could be very boring drives as far as scenery is concerned, into something beautiful. He makes me smile! :)