a small rant

Dear Nissan XTerra,

Why must you hate me so?  We have been through so much together.  Many years of adventures and bonding all to come to this?  I have played only great music in you...ok and the occasional NSYNC, but come on...you know you love it to.  You have been the host of dozens of high school girls and our great dance parties and sing alongs.  You and I have been on hundreds of joyrides and the occasional high speed chase.  We're pal's, me and you, or we were until these recent temper tantrums.  Yes, I realize its been on a while since we have been on a traveling adventure.  Yes, I no longer shove more than the accepted occupancy into you, but this whole temperature rising bit is getting a bit old.  I do not enjoy having to cool you down by blowing my heater at full blast in 105 degree Louisiana summers.  I suppose we're hitting the crazy moody teenage years...but me and you, we gotta work this out.  I promise no more threats of selling you and getting something younger and a bit more practical.  Lets be real....when am I ever practical?  Well I hope this opens your eyes to how much we could have together....I'm not giving up on you.

Sincerely,

your frustrated driver

Everything comes alive in my life as we lift You higher! Sing it out--Freedom!

What a day!  

First of all, can I just say,

the new Hillsong United cd is SO good!!  

The first song almost made me skip church this morning and park somewhere in my car and just spend some Jenn & Jesus time! :)  

This afternoon has been quite pleasant!  I've been hanging out in Starbucks, trying to prepare myself for the week ahead....WAY too much time will be spent at Starbucks working...boooo.

But alas...lets not borrow tomorrows worries for today!  Today was spent enjoying my Venti Iced Soy Chai and a cheery cherry pie! :)

adorable, no?

If only my life looked like this everday...church, coffeeshops, and cheery cherry pie?!  

amazing!

Well I'm working on a new song, so hopefully later this week I'll have something to show you all!!

Hope you have a restful Sunday!

how about a little diddy for the day??

So a little fact about Jennifer....

i LOVE music.

insanely so.

matter of fact, i declared today singsong saturday at Starbucks!  but no one would play my game.  it was quite sad really...

but from time to time i like to record a little song for your (and my) enjoyment!  hope you like it! :)

Happy Saturday to you all!!

a one, a two, a one---weeehooo!

Today has been quite a glorious day!   

I had to wake up waaaaay too early to work at the good ole coffeeshop...

Then home to spend the afternoon relaxing in the pool!

great book...

sweet lifeguard...

and my favorite flowers in bloom!

the only flaw......

i might should have put on a little sunscreen.....

oh well...all in a summers day! :)

now back to work for shift number two of the day....gotta love making coffee for a living...at least it feeds my caffeine addiction!

throw 'em together and what have you got?

Only 90 degrees in Louisiana?!  at 3:30 in the afternoon?!!  unheard of!!!

And what to do on a lovely summer day??

Sonic Happy Hour of course!

pure happiness!

toss in a few crafts here and there...

Throw in some precious friends...

and a beautiful sunset...

and you've got one very content jennifer.  :)

hope y'all had a great day too!  

on a complete side note, it seems that all of my friends are leaving me this week...they're headed all over the place--Chicago, New York, Nashville, Lubbock, San Diego....and here I stay--working the days away...

But pray for all of them!  Safety in travel!  God's rest and peace!  Provision in His mission!

Have great travel's you guys! :)

Africa memories...

So at the beginning of the summer I spent a little over a month in Rwanda, Africa.  And today I can't help but miss it...the group I went with, the purpose we had, the beautiful faces, God's glorious creation.  Oh, Rwanda had its share of struggles, but it was easy to see God's fingerprints in it all...  I thought that I'd just share some pictures with you guys...then maybe you'll understand just how beautiful that place is! :)

Just look at those sweet faces...someday i'll be back there.

Well I'll try to actually start posting blogs on a regular basis, but for now I'll get back to looking through my pictures and dreaming I was still there! :)  

God bless!

jenn