Hey y'all

So I know it has been forever since I have written a blog and I'm so sorry! My computer crashed so I have been having to use my parent's whenever I get a free moment.

So what has been going on in my life you ask? Well.....

1. I'm working about 30+ hrs a week at Old Navy and LOVING it! I have been doing some different things and a lot of behind the sceens things.

2. Matt and I are still dating and things are going wonderful! I see God working in his life every single day and that to me is amazing. Our relationship with each other is already stronger and so is our relationship with God.

3. I have been taking cake decorating class at Hobby Lobby and loving that! There are 3 classes and I will be starting the 2nd one tonight.

4. Since I don't plan on going back to school right now I have decided to take a leap of faith and follow a dream of mine. I have started my own business. Its called Sweet Treatz.

Right now I'm taking orders online through my facebook page I created for it. I have the opprotunity to have an order from my high school band which I'm so excited about!!

But right now that's all that is really going on with me. Life is wonderful and I couldn't ask for more.

my new love

I have a new love in my life. Well it's not really new but something that I have found more joy out of now than ever before. What's this new love you ask? Well it is baking. Mainly making cupcakes right now.

Making cupcakes has always been a favorite of mine and everyone tells me that I am very good at it but never acted on it. Thanks to one of my coworkers Sara, she helped me realize that this really is my dream. Sara and I have signed up for a cake decorating class at Hobby Lobby for every Wednesday in September. I'm so excited about it! Ever since we both signed up for it we have been brainstorming some idea's for different things. My brainstorming right now is making different types of cupcakes.

Today I decided to make some white cupcakes with a strawberry jam center and a vanilla cream icing. Here are some pictures of how it turned out......







Please give me any idea's you might have for cupcakes. I will make them for you :)

Change and growing up

Its my last few days working at WKU and it just feels weird! I have been here for 4 years now and it feels like home. Yes I'm going to miss it but I think I'm going to miss the people more than the work. I have met some AMAZING people while working here who have impacted my life in many different ways. On my last day here I know I will be crying and very sad. Its so weird to leave a job that I have been at for 4 years.

For the first time since my junior year of HIGH SCHOOl I am only going to have one job. For me this is going to take a lot of time getting used to. I'm the type of person who stays busy all the time and not going to school and only having one job, its going to be kind of relaxing maybe. I'm sure I will fill my time with other things or get a second job. I just don't know yet what I'm going to do.

The idea of working in an adoption agency has been stuck in my mind ever since I decided that I was taking the semester off. I just have to keep on figuring out what I want to do and what's going to be best for me.

There are things in my life that I wish would just hurry up and happen but I know that I don't need to wish my life away and that God has a plan for when they will happen. I need to learn to sit back and just enjoy the ride. He is going to take care of me and won't throw anything my way that I can't handle.

Quarterlife Crisis

It's 12:42 in the morning when I'm starting this blog entry......

I have had so so so much on my mind these last few days and I don't even really know where to start. There is so much going on in my life that I just broke down tonight. I just started crying for no reason. Well, I do have many reasons.

But first let me update you on some amazing news. Dad got a job!!! In my last blog I mentioned that a company was contacting him like crazy while we were on vacation. Well, after 2 interviews and a couple of days of figuring out the details he accepted the job and will start on Monday! Its a HUGE answer to prayers for our family. Since he is going to be starting this new job he will be gone more for a little while while he is getting things worked out and calling on all of his customers, but in the long run its going to be a really good thing. I'm so thankful that we had our week of vacation as a family and had such a wonderful time.

Now for what's going on with me......

After doing some research and some figuring I'm thinking about taking the fall semester off. For the last 2 years I have been having to pay for part to all of my tuition and its so hard. I made it 2 years without taking out student loans but this past year I had to take one out. In my opinion I don't think that's bad at all. I'm very proud of myself for that but it has still been very hard trying to pay the remaining balance of it all.

But I'm scared that I might be making the wrong choice in all of this. In the fall I will be starting my 4th year at WKU and I just feel that I'm not getting anywhere. I'm no where near where I should be right now. I should be getting ready for block 1 and then doing my student teaching in the spring and graduating in May, but that's no where near where I really am. I feel like these past 3 years have been a waste. I know they really haven't but to me it feels like it sometimes.

Now since I have been thinking about all of this I have been questioning myself about my decision on teaching. I went through all of this last fall going into the spring semester and I thought that going part time would help me in all of this but it really didn't. I think that it might have made things more confusing.

If I do take the semester off then I just plan to work a lot and save for an apartment and tuition money. One thing that will break my heart if I do leave for a semester is leaving my WKU job. I have grown so close to some of my coworkers there. Our campus photographer told me the other day "Sarah, do what you love and the money will follow." This statement is so true! I need to find what I'm passionate about and I know that God will help me find this.

Thoughtful Thursday

"Do what is going to please you the most and the money will follow"

-Clinton Lewis, WKU photographer

life

This summer I am starting to realize how precious and wonderful life really is! I can't really place my finger on the one thing that has really gotten me thinking this but its like it really has hit me this summer.

Yes Dad lost his job basically at the beginning of summer and hasn't gotten a job yet but has had 2 interviews and this second one he didn't even apply for. This company (CPC) has done all of the contacting and pursuing Dad. Its making Dad feel so great to have someone see the hard work that he puts into his work and recognizes it.

Last week my family and I went on vacation to Myrtle Beach, SC. Man was this a trip! I'm starting to see now that this is where I really started to realize how precious life is and the importance of family. Yeah we had a little to much togetherness at time but for the most part it was a WONDERFUL trip! We have memories now that I don't think we can ever forget.

As I'm getting older and starting to really think about moving out I'm seeing this that family is extremely important. Yeah I have always known this but I guess I'm just being more 'in tune' with my family right now. We have been having some of the best times lately just goofing off and being us. Its such a wonderful feeling to have and feel the love from your family.

Things with Matt and I couldn't be more wonderful! In the last few weeks I have gotten to meet his family and hang out with them. They are wonderful people and I can't wait to spend more time with them.

Perfect To Me- Chris Young

You put on your suit every morning
Put your long hair back in a bun.
Its almost a crime how you hide it
What I see when it all comes undone.
No words can describe it
But for you I'll give it a try.

(Chorus)
Its a love stronger than time.
Big and wide open like a Montana sky.
It's the highest of highs,
the greater than life.
How can I make you see
That your perfect to me.

I love how you look in the mirror
and say that skirt don't fit you no more.
As your stealing the air that I'm breathing.
Everyday your more beautiful than the day before.
I know I'm not good enough for you.
But I know what you get when you're mine.

(Chorus twice)
Its a love stronger than time.
Big and wide open like a Montana sky.
Its the highest of highs,
and greater than life.
How can I make you see
That you're perfect to me

That you're perfect to me