Sunday, August 8, 2004

okay okay...by popular demand i will post.


so your probably wondering what's going on in my life so let's find out...see i moved and so we don't have internet yet so if i want to use the internet i pack up my laptop and head to daybreak. so here i sit updating my blog at daybreak just for you guys. hopefully sometime this week i will get internet though and it will all be okay. i now live with this girl alissa and my friend, britt. I didn't know alissa before i moved in, but she's way cool and we get along great so thats good. britt moves in either tonight or tomorrow night and i can't wait. i have a feeling we'll stay up late and talk the first night shes moved in.

this weekend lauren got married. i flew to austin thursday and she picked me up at the airport. i spent the entire day with her and stayed the night with her. we had her bachelor party thursday night too. we rented a limo and drove around downtown austin in the limo. had dr. pepper in wine glasses and opened up gifts. then we went to bev's house to go swimming but the entire neighborhoods electricity was out. i thought her parents just had the house all romanticized for us, but they lit candles so we could see not to set the mood. we played a couple of games and hung out, i had a really good time. friday morning we woke up early to go to the bridal breakfast at colleen's house. we hung out there for awhile, but we couldn't stay there too long because we had to get to the church to set up the reception area. we spent most of the day there putting up decorations and making that room look wonderful. it's amazing how transformed it was after we finished. we had the dress rehersal at 6 and things went smoothley. then off to dinner in hutto...i rode with zach since i couldn't find lindsey. it was good to see him since i hadn't seen him all summer. it was an amazing time of fellowship, i sat with katie, becky, jeff, marissa and marissa's daddy. after we finished eating everyone went around and told lauren & jeff what they loved about them and everyone sat there crying. it was a really great thing, i personally couldn't say anything because i knew i probably would make it past "lauren you..." josh's mom also had these papers for everyone to write letters to josh & lauren and she was gonna make them a book. they will have many memories to go with there wedding b/c pretty much everything we did was on camera and a lot of things were made with stuff. they'll really enjoy that too. afterwards beverly had to take me, becky & colleen all over round rock but she was a real sport about it. went to bed fairly early because we were all exhausted and had to wake up fairly early to get to the church. needless to say laurens married now. lauren looked so beautiful, after she got dressed she walked up to me and i just started crying because she looked so gorgeous. the wedding was amazing. i always start crying right when the doors open and the wedding march starts. to see the bride and her father standing there, it gets me everytime even during the rehersal. so thats one of my all time favorite part of any wedding but two other moments stuck out to me during laurens wedding. right after scott gave lauren away we sang a praise song and standing there watching josh & lauren hold hands, close there eyes and worship their father was amazing. one i couldn't do it because i'd be too nervous and teary eyed. but to see them stop and to turn their eyes to the father was just amazing. i could barely sing as occasionally i would get a little choked up. my other favorite part was when they went and lit the unity candle, lauren & josh started praying together and it was so cute. you can tell that they are a couple running after God and pursuing Him always. i love to see a couple like that together and to know that because God is at the center of their relationship it's meant to be and it will last. i love lauren so much and it was just great to be apart of her day. after the wedding we went to dinner with some of bev's friends then got in the hot tub. it was a good time and bev is like my new fav. person. we left at 5:45 am so we got back to lubbock pretty early.

anyway. i hope this update is good and to your liking girls. sorry it didn't come sooner. yay carrie comes back tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!!