Babies at Christmas

This is my niece Kynleigh on the left, and my cousin Reese on the right! :)

A Little Walk With David

I just got back from a Clear Brook Company B concert. It was so great! My friend Mariana was singing in it, and it was just wonderful. It definitely made me even more into the Christmas spirit!

After the concert, David and I went to my house, watched some GLEE, then decided to go to Starbucks. There we saw some friends from school which was fun, but we wanted to go around Bay Oaks, a really nice neighborhood by our house, and walk around looking at Christmas lights, so we did. Just walking and talking was so great. One of the topics we talked about was crying. Its pretty amazing when you can talk to a guy about that! David always surprises me like that, though. We got back into the car and went to his house to see his new Christmas tree, and let me tell you.. It smelled wonderful. It was just a good night to see how God created great things and great people. He's still got me, even though I cannot see Him. Thank you, God, for the smell of Christmas. :)

Shopping day with the boys!

David, Logan, Alen and I went shopping yesterday for Christmas presents for our families. We went from store to store, finding odd gifts as well as legit ones. We ended up at Guitar Center, when David got a call from Michael saying he locked himself out of the house. David left to take care of that, and Logan, Alen and I kept jamming with guitars and bongos. We started to get tired of that, so we left and walked around the shopping center, and ended up at a high-class furniture store. Logan thought it would be a good idea to lie to the lady at the front desk and tell her we were looking for couches for a movie room. Ha. Logan and I were pretending to be married, linking arms and such. We obviously thought we had better taste than Alen. Logan kept teasing him.

"Oh my goodness, Marissa, this would look so good in the dining room!"

"That color would go great with the rug we just put in there."

"OOH. Guys what about this color?"

"Uh...no, Alen, not really...."

"Alen, you're the guy we brought along just because he has a truck."

Shortly after, we went to Target to get some clothes for my niece, Kynleigh. Logan helped me pick things out from a selection that Alen and I found. I was secretly wondering if people thought I was expecting or something, because I was having so much fun picking out cute little outfits.

At the end of the day we met up with Alyssa at Starbucks. We were talking about books and movies and how our day has been. I've missed seeing her a lot, and finally having some estrogen in the group was really nice!

Its every girls dream to be really good at something, like the guitar, and be praised for it's beauty. Its every girl's dream to go shopping for new things for a house with her husband. Its even a bonus if her husband cares and has ideas about the house, too. It's every girl's dream to have kids and be a mother and be able to take care of a household for her husband. Its every girl's dream to have great girlfriends that you can talk to whenever. Yesterday was just a huge game of make-believe for me, pretending to be grown up. And it was the most fun I've had in a long time! Which ended in a text from David saying, "I just wanted you to know that I had an awesome day hanging out with you today. It was very possibly the funnest day of my life :)"

I love this contagious community I'm a part of. Thank you, Jesus for my great friends.

Happy Snow, Everyone!

Today was a wonderful day. :) Snowing in Houston... Forget global warming. The CCISD school system is amazing. David, Michael and I left school around lunchtime to go play in the snow and eat at a Sports Grill. Thank You, Jesus!

Theres just something about today- a complete blessing even though I completely don't deserve it. In english class, We're studying Dante's Inferno and discussing different views on hell and on human salvation, something that I definitely enjoy, though the thoughts and fears of what Dante sees Hell as have kind of skewed my thoughts on God's love for me, and it shouldn't have. So, Today, the blessing of snow has just reminded me that the LORD is good, and His love endures forever. Great friends, intimate conversations, Starbucks coffee, and Christmas. Happy Snow.