The Girls who study the Bible at the hizzy

Just wanted to talk a little bit about BIBLE STUDY because well... it's my fav!! it's my heart!

 Here are the FEARLESS LEADERS:

HaLeIgH             AnNa 

the newest addition - eLiZeBeTh

(I thought these were very flattering photos - especially mine)

Here's a previous team member:

KaTeLyN 

She left us to go be an adult and stuff... BOO! :)

It's amazing the women that God bring to Troy to lead these girls.  Katelyn came and invested lots of time, energy, prayer, teaching, etc. into these girls. She was amazing.  I knew she was leaving and I didn't know what would happen - I knew I would STRESS OUT if I was solely responsible for 30 girls' Bible study! AHH!! So... God brought Haleigh. SHE IS AWESOME!! So excited about what God is doing in a through and around and all up in her!!! Then... Elizabeth moved here!!!! Hallelujah!! So excited that these girls have women who are trying our hardest to follow Christ to love on them. :) It's good.

This semester and year we will be DIVING into the book of... JAMES!!! Kind of scary and exciting and terrifying and jolly all at the same time.  James says some pretty radical stuff!!! We don't just teach to the girls... we learn from the Word too!! It changes us to... from the inside out!! Are we ready?? I hope so!!! 

I love the girls. I love their excitement for the Lord - they want it, they want to know Him more, they want to know each other more, they long to be RADICAL - sometimes they (and WE) just don't know how!! 

The boys will also be going through James this semester!!! Here are their awesome leaders:

JaCoB                     EvAn

I'm excited about the year!!! 

Here's some of the ladies showing their hearts in a photograph!!! 

It's one of my favorite things each week.  It's wonderful.  

One of the girls posted this as her facebook status after Bible Study:

I might make bad decisions sometimes but one thing I know is right is every monday night.(: I love my bible study friends.

 * That makes my heart happy!! *

FRIDAY (& Saturday & Sunday) NIGHT LIGHTS!!

This weekend I GOT TO BE LAZZZZZZY!!! I loved it!

Friday night we went to see some FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS at Pike Liberal Arts School!!! It was lots of fun!! A lot of the youth are cheerleaders or football players so it was good to cheer them on! They won.  That was good!
We had another 5th Quarter afterwards. Here's a picture to prove it:

We had fun - DUH!!! 

Saturday... the real excitement started!!! 

One of our friends told us about this TV show "Friday Night Lights." He told us we would BOTH enjoy it.  We tried it. I didn't think it could possibly be worse than Swamp People or Pawn Stars!!!! Those are not my cup of tea!

So... we tried it.  We have now watched 15 episodes!!! haha!!! We had a serious marathon!! It is such a great show... really! It sucks you in!! I don't agree with the pre-marital sex AT ALL, but I love the main family, the strong fight against racism involved, the faith based convos/decisions, and all the drama!!!! WE ARE ADDICTED!!!!! 

I don't want to start to tell you all about it because I would tell you everything! Jacob and I watched the first episode and we couldn't stop.  It makes you LAUGH. CRY. GET MAD. HAVE PANIC ATTACKS. CHEER.  It's just good! So good. It's just one of those shows that you think about when you aren't watching it. you think you know the characters. you give your opinion about what you think they should do. you get upset when they don't do that thing. you try to guess what happens next (Jacob and I are pretty good at that!).  

JUST WATCH IT!!!! IT'S THAT GOOD!!! This show and "So You Think You Can Dance" are probably the ONLY TV shows I will ever recommend... so just take it! :)

It was so good just to be with Jacob. No worries. No emails. Just us :) I liked it! I think it will happen more often. We love each other.

We've liked each other for a while... I think it just gets better all the time!!! Especially now that we have  A SHOW!! :)

Have a good Monday! 

Friday Fav

Today's Friday Fav is COLOR... which is

GOLD (aka YELLOW)

It is the color of the sun

sunFLOWERS

FRENCH FRIES - and I love them

Smiley faces

and GOLDFISH

I LOVE IT!! 

LiFe

So... maybe you are wondering what's been going on lately.  Well... I will tell you.

We had our first Bible study of the year.  It was a Bible Study Baby Shower for Sav-A-Life (NOT FOR ME!).  It was great.  We had 22 girls and some mommies come. It was lovely.  I'm dumb and forgot to take pictures.  I did take a picture of the loot we gave to Sav-A-Life after it was in my car!! I just can't remember to be a photographer and a Bible study teacher at the same time. It's REALLY tough for me. So... this is all you get! 

haha! you creepers wanted my tag number, but I'm smart and made sure it wasn't in the picture! 

We also had our first 5th quarter of the semester - you know where the children come to the church after the 4th QUARTER of the football games!!! We had a blast! Evan, Jacob's bestie, led us in worship, we ate a lot, played a lot, played ginpgnop, and laughed a lot! 

I thought this was funny!! These boys are great. Tripp, on the right, is a new disciple of Jesus!!!!! So awesome.  But... this picture is funny, right?

There were a lot of children there. I thought this pic showed that well! 

I promise - I get to hang out and see Jesus in the PRETTIEST girls ever!! love them! 

Let me preface this - the video clip you are about to see is not intended to make fun of anyone.  I just think the action that I captured on video is so UNIQUE I had to show the world because no one believes me. It's just interesting... check it out :)

We have the best youth group EVER!!!

Our youth group is the ABSOLUTE BEST!!! The week after we bought our house they threw us a SURPRISE housewarming PARTAY!! Here are some of them: 

 We were SUPER surprised and pumped!!! The youth had been scheming for a while.  I knew something was up, but didn't know it was this!!! 

 This little lady was the brains behind it all!!! She's so sneaky! We love her!! :)

Thanks Haleigh!!! You made our night so special and made us feel SOOOO loved and thankful... we were overwhelmed.

Here's the cake!!! It was so cool!!! It even LOOKED like our house!! It was crazy cool! 

Then some more of our FAVORITE people in the entire world - our youth - gave us TONS of presents!!! We took pictures with each one. Some of them had already left when we started snapping photos, so we just pretended they were there!!!! Get ready for PICTURE OVERLOAD!!!! Rejoice with us for good friends, love, and thankfulness!!! 

We are blessed!!! We got a TON of crosses and things with "As for me and my house we will serve the Lord" - I guess that's what happens when you are in ministry.  We love it all... I just think it's funny!! :) Our house is EXTRA crossy and versey!!! :) 

I am absolutely overwhelmed with how loved we are.  I pray that each youth pictured above enjoys our home with us - that they find rest, love, acceptance, laughter, and JESUS in our home!!! 

I love it. One of my favorite nights. :)