I Love Fall.

Fall is no doubt my favorite time of year. The colors, the weather, the fresh, crisp air, the count down until the Christmas season, running through the leaves, the rain, cross country, and just the smile that can't be taken away from me.

AND, I especially love Fall when it lives in my room.

Fail Blog

My life is a fail blog....

I am currently sitting in my car outside my house.

So I went to leave for work this morning, left my house, locked it behind me and headed to my car. I got into my car and went to start it up to drive to work. Well, when I go for runs, I take my car key of my key chain to hold to and it just so happens that I forgot to put it back on. I have no key to start my car. So, naturally, I go to get my key inside the house. One other thing I forgot to mention and realized as I'm walking to my house, I lost my house key yesterday! I can't get in my house. I called my dad to see if he could give me a ride to work, told him the story and then informs that he found a key outside his house. A little light at the end on the tunnel. Now, I can't go anywhere in my car, I can't get into my house to get the key, but I can sit outside my house in my moveless car and freeze while I wait for my father to get here with the key.

Waun

What's a waun you might ask?

Well, it may be when you plan on going for a point A to point B 90 minute run with absoluetly no energy or strength and you end up running for 46 minutes, lose every ounce of energy you didn't have, stop at a park, borrow a starngers phone to call and get a ride, can't get a hold of anyone so you walk for a little bit to try and regain energy. You may then get some false energy and start running again only to make it another 14 minutes before you can't bare to take another step running... so you stop, walk for 40 minutes until you reach the closest place with someone you know and get a ride the rest of the way home, coming to a grand total of over 2 hours of adventure.

It's fun. I highly recommend a walk and a run, a waun.

I am blessed.

It's Saturday night, I'm standing in a crowded room surrounding by hearts and voices being lift up. Heartache, joy, tears, love, lust, pain - all emotions running through the people in this room. You can feel and hear the emotion as everyone in unison are singing praises, being in the moment. I can't know what's in everyones heart, but I know what's in mine. As I stand there and sing "great is your faithfulness", I can't help but think that I am blessed. I could stand there and have a pity party on myself and recount all the ways I believe my life isn't going the way I want it, but then I think about the day i just had. My life is beyond blessed.

The day:

-Wake up to horses outside our house.

-Run in a 5K road race, been years since that's been able to happen.

-Kelli runs in her first EVER 5K road race.

-Wintson is with us.

-Kelli wins 10 coupons for water fitness classes!

-Drive to Portland listening to Shane & Shane

-Winston's asleep.

-Coach the most fantastic kids I could ever, ever ask for.

-Sheldon high school rules the day and every one of them has an incredible race! Nothing makes me more happy than when I get to see them happy and accomplish what they wanted.

-Pouring rain!!

-So much love poured out at the meet with my high schoolers.

-Find Winston and Kelli and drive to Kelli's dad's Pawn Shop. Get the tour.

-Go to lunch with Ty Williams! It's been years since I got to hang out with him.

-Go to Kelli's parents house, get the blue tour.

-Drive to Camp Tadpole for the CCF retreat.

-Winton's asleep

-Get lost a couple time.

-Hear Winston's life story

-Arrive at Camp Tadmor

-Stand in a circle of three, plus some here and there and laugh til my sides hurt.

-Break yourself!

-Talk to a nervous, God-filled roommate ready to pour her heart out.

-See the influence and inspiration in the peers around me.

And here I am, standing, finally understanding how blessed I am. How many little things in my life make the big picture of beautiful. How everything around me can be temperamental and changing, but when I completely stop, I can completely see. I let the sounds of the song fill me, I let the lyrics consume me, and I sing with the biggest smile on my face because I know that I have been uncountably blessed and there's no greater feeling.

The night continues:

-Julie stands up and bares her soul and her heart and touches my mine and I can only imagine so many others. So proud.

-Eat pie.

-Pit-digs

-Consume myself with people who change me inside and out.

-Drive home

-Winston's asleep, and Kelli joins.

-Recount the day and rejoice always.

It was a good day.

Fire

Fires bring a safe, comforting feeling for me. They represent my favorite time of the year, which is right now, the beginning of fall.

Tonight has surrounded me with fire. After we got home from our day, Kelli and I put on our sweats and walked down to a nice, delicious restaurant, Mazzi's, with our buy one get half off coupon. We get there and they seat us next to the fire place, setting the mood of the perfect date in sweats. The food was incredible, I'm pretty sure I finished mine before Kelli even took her first bite. But the feeling sitting there in the restaurant just brought me such joy. I was comforted by this fire next to me, the crisp air on our walk, and the great company with me that life was going to be okay. That the decision and progress with my life are in the right direction and that things are going to work out and be good. Life isn't going anywhere, it's only just beginning.

After dinner, we got home and joined our other roommate Abbey, got a fire going (picture above) and had a bible study. We decided that through this school year as a whole we're going to read through the New Testament, and this was the first week into it and I know already how much of a blessing it's going to be in my life. Being able to question and discuss and comfort each other through God and through our lives is exactly what I need this year.

Fire, Fall, Friendship, Family ---- Life is good.