Long Time No Post

Hey everyone! It's been a long time since I've posted anything here. A lot has gone on! I have a new nephew, Dan is home from school (for good), and I am about to make some big decisions. Talk about soon too! Next semester I have some school decisions to make. I need lots of prayer and wisdom, but I think that I know what will be the deciding factor, jobs. I need to decide whether or not I stay full fledged into a Bachelors degree or settle into a nice job (I had an orthodontist who had offered me a job a while back) and start making some money before Dan and I get married. Why I really prayed about this was because so many of my options just looked ugly. Each requiring a lot of driving and stretching my time in school out a lot longer. After a lot of thought my Dad told me something I kind of wanted to hear..."Is the Bachelor's program for you? It's something you have to think about."
I don't know if it is...I then started assessing my goals as a woman, and as a Christian. I want to work, marry Daniel, and quit working when I have kids. I always thought I HAD to get my Bachelor's degree, but my Dad (and anyone who knows him as he is will testify that he is hard to change) he is the one who seems to be the most helpful in this decision. Right now I lean toward finishing my degree, and taking my job opportunities as a hint from God. If I get that job at the orthodontist, I will be thrilled and take that as a little hint, but I will also have to continue researching my options.
Another problem with my degree I would face is the school system. The way I am hearing about things changing makes me not want to be part of the school system for long at all. There is no security in one of those jobs.
Please pray for me to stay open minded to God's will, whatever I may favor. I want His will. Right now, things are so unclear. As I come up on the Spring semester (the semester I graduate with my AA) I will need to make a decision. I love you all and thank you for your prayers!!!!!

Have a nice summer!

Well I recently found out that I am no longer taking a summer class. Yes, it's been canceled! I am a little nervous about what this means for my future though. It might mean tacking on an extra semester or so to my bachelor's program...but I will manage.
The only, single, one reason I have an issue with this is...well I want to marry that Daniel! :) I can take this as God's sign that I have been getting ahead of myself with my OWN plans and not been waiting for God's timing. Sometimes it seems like time flies, but other times it's like, "will we ever be able to get married?"
Dan has a lot of special prayer requests regarding school and work as well. We have so much to thank God for though! He seems to be answering our prayers a lot lately! My Dad gave him his old, nasty, beat up truck (Dad has a brand new one and got this one from my grandpa a long time ago) that he's fixing up and he is so excited about not having any payments for a new car when we are able to get married. It also gets good mileage too which it seems we need these days.

So if everyone would pray for our special requests I would so appreciate it! That IS a glory of Christian friends! We can bare each other's burdens! I love you all!
Have a wonderful day!

New Things

Soon I will be starting my summer class. I am taking History II with the same teacher I had for one.
At the daycare we recently had a big move. Whole classes moved up and now I have very young class. They are very cute but very new to everything that we do. I will have pictures soon :)
Dan and I went to breakfast this morning at the Front Porch restaurant and it was great. There were these older people and they just started talking to us like we were their best friends. It was a very fun time.
Soon Amber will be moving to North Carolina. The fact that that is happening hasn't quite kicked in yet. The way I think about big things in life, they happen and I dont show very much emotion. I don't feel it until later for some reason. When my grandma died I didnt cry until 3 months after the funeral when I had a dream she was with me. These things sort of happen to me and I wait to go through them until later. I mostly feel bad for my Mom. I'll be working a lot more soon and Amber is leaving. She'll not have nme around as much to distract her. Prayers are much needed. I love you all thanks for being friends when times like these come up! I gotta go now, but wil try to write again soon!

Unexpected and undeserved Blessings

Wow!
Today has been nice, I cleaned a lot and have had a pretty nice day. Unexpectedly I got a letter from NWFSC (my college) and it said that I have been chosen to be put on the Dean's list because I have been earning a grade point average of 3.5 and 3.79. That's what my title is about. I sometimes feel like things don't pay off, but then not only did I get school recognition, but it was a kiss on the cheek from God. He sort of told me, "Hey, I see it and I reward it!"
Thanks so much for the prayers, God is high and lifted up. He has given me my needs and blessings beyond my needs. Praise Him!
-KEC-

Thank you for your prayers

I want to thank all who prayed for my finals, and all who've prayed for Daniel and whoever is at college now. Dan still has three more finals, back to back, his most difficult subjects all in the same day; needless to say I would like very much for everyone to pray for A's. If you don't like Daniel, but like me, you may consider this something that means a lot to my future as this engineer's wife!
My finals are officially over. And now the waiting game. I wait to see my grades, hopefully, until sometime next week! I am expecting and very hopeful for three A's and a B. That darn B! I have officially and certifiably been labeled an overachiever. Mrs. Sharon was listening to my plans for a full next two years and asked, "how on earth do you do this all? Do you ever sit down and think of what you've got going on here? You never seem to think its enough either!" I really dont like to think of myself that way I guess. I am doing plenty and am aware of that, yet there's a goal. Like everyone I have a goal that I want to achieve and so many fall short and have regrets and I guess the way I look at it is that I have so much in my power to do if I just take it on. It's never too much unless it comes between me and God. Then, if time isnt made for Him, we (God and I) take a step back and realize I am going too fast and theres too much. There are things in my life which are very time consuming that I am obligated to do. Lots of the things I do are because of obligation. I do choose weather or not to go to class in the summer. I do because it brings me closer faster to what I want to achieve as my goal. There's never a semester thats too much. I just use what is becoming my new self motivator, what helps me cope with all this craziness. When things are spinning and my life feels to hard to handle, I say to myself, "it's time to up it." Up it, simply means that my expectations need to be readjusted and I need to find a new schedual of the way to do things so I can fit in all of this. I would say I am almost constantly thinking about a week and a half into the future. I am almost always planning how I will do inserts and then go to piano, come back and do more inserts find time to talk to my boyfriend and try to fit in a little homework. In this process I always try to put obstacles there to know how I'll react and rearange my plans for getting things done if something happens which often will.
When I'm married and have no paper routes and piano and school, I really dont know how I'll spend my time. Clean house, yes. Make food, yes. Work before I have kids, probably. But by now, folding laundry and cleaning the bathroom are almost relaxing chores. It sounds pathetic, but folding the laundry just means a mindless fold, fold, set down on pile, and sitting still for a little while. Cleaning the bathroom, vacume sweep, bleach everything down, done.
I sometimes think how lazy and ungrateful could I be if the Lord didnt give me the desire to fulfill this goal I have. Thinking that He sustains me everyday gives me a special connection with Him. And, in the end, gives me my motivation. I am amazed at how mental everything I am doing is. I just have to be strong and I know the Lord will continue to hold me up when I'm tired and refresh my mind when I cant think anymore
Praise Him

pray for my finals please!!!!

Please pray for my finals tomorrow!!! I need A's to get A's in the class grade. Thanks guys!

update

These are some of my new drawings, we're finally into color! Yaaaaay!