in the a.m

Yesterday night Jackie and I decided to do some homework. We stopped at 12 because we thought it would be a good idea to get a good night sleep. We ended up coming back to dorms and talking to 3:30 am...

This is what happens when you have such amazing friends.  I am so blessed. And I truly mean that, I feel so thankful that God has put such amazing people in my life. I am constantly reminded how important it is to have friends not only to laugh and joke around with but to also have serious talks about life and about faith. I am so happy that I have friends I can grow in my faith with and who can be there by my side when I am struggling too.

xo

addicted.

Let me take you back to grade 12 for a minute. I had just recently learnt to knit, and i was instantly addicted. I knit though every class, every lunch break and between every class...yes I know sounds slightly anti social, and to be honest it was a little bit that way. But it was only because I had to focus to be sure to make no mistakes..so I was really very dedicated to the task. And by knitting so much I soon was called "Granny" by many of my friends. But this didn't change how I felt about knitting I still loved it and continued to knit. I did have to learn to balance my time between knitting and everything else in my life, but it was still something I did often. Anyway taking you back to today. I couldn't help but smile when my 4 friends wanted me to teach them to knit this pas weekend. And they were serious. I took all 4 to the store and they got their own knitting needles and yarn and we came back and knit for a few hours. They all caught on pretty quickly and they have now developed the love for it. Nothing better that 5 friends knitting on a Saturday night.

xo

"How to train your dragon"

So I haven't blogged in a few days…so bad because I have so much to be happy about but just so little time to actually write about it. Well a few days ago Skimmy and me were in the mood to just chill. We just wanted to get off campus and go to my house and make lunch and relax...so we did. First of all just being with skim makes me happy. We just get along so good and she always knows how to make me smile, I'm thankful for someone like her. Well anyways she made me watch "how to train your dragon".... and I will be honest I was extremely bitter about watching this. I thought it was going to be really dumb and not worth my time watching. But because skim is so persuasive we ended up watching it. Within the first 5 minutes I was smiling at how cute of a movie it was. I absolutely loved it! Thank you skims for making me watch it, because I loved it!

xo

article of encouragement

I friend told me to read this article, and after reading it I thought I had to share it because I loved it. First of all I love the Canucks which gives it an automatic check mark, but it is also just so encouraging to me.  Pleasee please read it! 


xo


http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Game+plan+comes+from+above/5740346/story.html

I was in need of a girl’s night. But sadly my girl friends had all planned to do homework and study. It did not take long to convince them though, after about 5 minutes their minds were changed. I love how they all so quickly dropped everything they had planned for that night so we could go out and just have fun. I had the best night too; we had margarita (virgin of course), appetizers and yummy dessert, and then just talked for a few hours. The night was full of laughter and it was so nice to be able to hang out off campus. I love them all. 

xo 

responding with smiles

The whole idea of me starting this blog was to make people smile. I had no idea if anyone would read it, but if I could just make one person happy or make them laugh during a stressful day because of something I posted then I thought it would be completely worth it. I just got a text from my friend saying, "hey jo, thanks for that post about your favorite songs, I just listened to it, just what I needed to hear." This brought a smile to my face because I had no idea he read the blog. Then he sent a text saying "I read it sometimes when I’m feeling a little sad, keep blogging, it's a blessing" The truth is that I am so blessed. This response brought joy to my life, which was the exact purpose of the blog. I am beyond happy right now. Thank you thank you!

xo

Guess who i saw today....DAN HAMHUIS! I was so so excited. He came to my youth group to speak and it was amazing. There were 500 people show up, so many that we didn't even have enough seating for everyone. And funny thing. So we were in worship and Dan was standing right in front of me (like touching distance) and our leader told everyone to jump, so everyone starting jumping...everyone but Dan. Then the worship leader said "anyone who isn't jumping is missing out", so i tapped Dan on the shoulder and said to him "hey you know you are missing out"...and he smiled but still didn't, jump, haha oh well i tried. I was just super excited that he was there! But if you ever read this Dan... you should have jumped.


xo

Reunited after the long weekend! I have such such amazing friends, thank you for making my night full of laughter


xo

I have found my new favourite song. I have listened to it 14 times yesterday.This song is just one you will never get tired of hearing, and I absolutely love when you find a song like that! It is called Bless the Lord by Matt Redman! What an amazing song it is.

xo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jYLTn4fKYQ

I love my sisters. Being at University I realized that I miss the time I get to spend with them. Yesterday I got to spend time with Karina. We ended up watching these hilarious "how to braid hair" video's for lots of the night.We were both learning how to fish tail braid...clearing i was awful at it! It is simple times like these that I miss. It made me so happy to be able to just be with her! I love you Karina, and look up to you so much and hope that one day I can be an amazing role model to Tana like you are to me. I love you.

xo

pure simple joy

a friend just sent me this. I cannot help but smile when i watch it. I am in love with the way children find joy in the simplest things. I strive to be more like this.
xo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk

youtube brings laughter

Today my friend showed me this hilarious video, and when I say hilarious I mean that I have watched it 3 times and still have laughed just as hard as I did the first time. I got the point where I was actually in tears and my stomach was in pain from laughing so hard. Take a look if you need a good laugh.  It is a slightly long video but I promise you will not be disappointed, so watch the entire thing!

 xo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln_omwmIEu4

The word happy cannot do justice to the way I am feeling right now. My beautiful Spartan team has just won Canada West! It went to a shoot-out and that nearly killed me! But the feeling I have right now is worth every minute of stress. A big thanks to all the amazing fans for cheering so loud. And thank you girls for playing your hearts out, I am beyond proud.

xo

in the a.m

I am sitting beside two amazing girls. And you know those people that you just click with, well these are those two girls. We haven't known each other for that long but we have instantly become amazing friends. Currently we are in the middle of making a bucket list.  But this bucket list has some rules....all things on it must be realistic things that we can do together in our 4 years here together. it will be very interesting to see if these crazy things actually happen. The funny thing is, is that we are attempting to make this list at 1 am...a time where our brains shut down, not very successful. But these are the times where everything is hilarious and so random..like us just making an online dating profile, which didn't even end up working. Random times like these are what makes life full of memories.


xo

a time to thank.

I am completely blessed. I know I don't take enough time to really thank God for all of the blessings in my life. Last night I was with two friends and we had the best conversation. And not only did we have a lot of fun just talking, but we really opened up to each other. A lot of the conversation was wrapped around friendships, and how it is so hard at times to find a friend who you can completely walk though life with. We began to list many things we would want in a friend, and here are some of the things we came up with... someone who can to be there for a million laugh, someone who knows what you are thinking with out you saying anything, someone who challenges you to grow spiritually, and someone to share every struggle and ever accomplishment with.  I thought about this conversation a lot and feel extremely blessed that I have a friend who is all of this and more. I have become so use to having a friend like this that it seems normal, but when I really sit back and think about it I realize that i am extremely lucky. Soph, you bring a smile to my face even when you are across the country. Thank you for being my best friend, I have no idea where I would be in life without your constant love, encouragement, laughter and complete joy. I have realized how important it is to have you as someone who spiritually challenges me, you have no idea how much I value you opinion and thoughts. I want you to know that I am thankful. 

xo