Thirty Days of Thanksgiving Vol. 3...

 

 

Day 21: Double Dark chocolate. 

Day 22: Sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, turkey, corn pudding, stuffing, rolls, and pumpkin pie. Ahh, Thanksgiving food. 

Day 23: My lovely friend Tara and our little Friday night outings. 

Day 24: Being bundled up in my new favorite scarf.  

Day 25: Christmas tree lights. 

Day 26: Our little bit of Christmas cheer at the office. 

Day 27: Pale pink lips. 

Day 28: Getting to spend all morning with my sister accompanied by a cute baby boy and some hot chocolate. 

Day 29: Stepping into a Winter Wonderland at Anthropologie. 

Day 30: My favorite hat and the fact that December is now here. 

Peace and Love, 

Em

Thanksgiving 2012...

I hope that everyone enjoyed Thanksgiving with the people that they love and care about most. Most of our day was spent in the kitchen (I was on pie and sweet potato duty!!!). I have to thank my mom because she worked so hard to make sure that we all had a great Thanksgiving with tons of yummy food.  

Everyday I think of something new that I am thankful for. I think it's important to think of everyday as thanksgiving in the sense that we should always be counting our blessings. You can't take anything for granted in life and sometimes the smallest things can mean the most. 

Happy Thanksgiving from me to you. 

Peace and Love, 

Em

30 Days of Thanksgiving Vol. 2...

I am thankful for:

Day 11: Mom's Chocolate Bourbon Pecan pie. 

Day 12: Home. 

Day 13: Raindrops. 

Day 14: Kaleigh bringing in her mom's coconut blueberry muffins during a rough night at work.  

Day 15: Nights spent in front of the tv in sweats. 

Day 16: Days spent with my mom. Coffee followed by a shopping spree at Target. 

Day 17: Getting to talk to one of my favorite ladies who is all the way in Singapore. 

Day 18: Daddy-daughter(s) date to see Skyfall. 

Day 19: Vintage Christmas ornaments. 

Day 20: Hanson and all of their musical goodness. They will always be my favorite. 

Peace and Love, 

Em

Happy Thanksgiving 2011...

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving watching the Macy's day parade and eating pumpkin pie! I am thankful for so many people and things.

Peace and Love,
Em

Happy Turkey Day...

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I woke up and enjoyed and muffin and cup of coffee from Dunkin' Doughnuts while I watched the Macy's Day Parade. I wasn't that impressed this year but Jimmy Fallon rocked it!! I don't know if I've said it before but I love him! He is just the sweetest, funniest, coolest person out there. Ok, enough of my gushing.

It has become a tradition that we spend Thankgiving with my dad's family. Which means there are a lot of people and a lot of food. I stuffed myself with turkey, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, and a delicious pineapple/sugar/bread thing.

While the girls sat around the tables and talked the boys were boys and gathered around the TV to watch football.

This side of my family is huge into sports so this is what our gatherings normally look like :)

I hope everyone had a lovely day and counted all of the things that they are thankful for. I am thankful for:

-God

-Faith

-Family

-Love

-Life

-Hope

Peace and Love,

Em

Good Friday...

Tonight during our Good Friday service I broke down. The very first song that the choir sang was just so moving to me that I couldn't hold back the tears and I cried through half of the service. I have always been very emotional when it comes to Christ's death on the cross but lately my emotions have been stronger. You see, in lit. class we are reading Dante's Inferno which basically takes you on a trip through all of the layers and circles of hell. I have always felt guilt for Christ dying on the cross for all of the sins which I commit daily but tonight it really hit me. I should be in one of the circles of hell. I deserve death and punishment just like all of the occupants of hell in the Inferno. To think that people like me laughed at Christ, they mocked Him and beat Him. People willingly chose to have a murderer in their presence than to have to deal with Christ as their king. He went through ridicule and torture and all of that for a sinner like me. And what do I do for him? I fall asleep during my prayers at night. I slack on reading my Bible every day. Sometimes I would rather stay home than go to church.

But I realized that I don't have to feel guilty for these things. Christ's death was all part of His plan and it was for His glory that it happened. Once you have accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior He has placed grace upon you and you no longer must feel guilty about your sins because He took them upon Himself on that cross.

So yes, I will still get emotional about Christ's death but I know that I don't have to feel guilty about it. Everything is part of God's plan and in the end it is all for His glory. There are not words that can express how thankful I am for my Lord and Savior. I hate it when people deny Him or make fun of Christians because He suffered the most painful death there is for them as well and yet they are not grateful and they refuse His gift.

I hope that everyone has a great Good Friday and I pray that you might carry the wonder of the cross with you everyday and not merely on this holiday weekend. I love Christ with all my heart and although I can never do anything near what he did for me I can at least defend Him and read my Bible everyday.

Love,
Em

HE IS RISEN.

Some Days it Sucks to be a Girl....

....but some days it rules!!

You get to have awesome dance parties:
You get have trips with the girls to the beach:
You get to go to bunko parties and loose 15 times in a row:
You get to have crushes on HOT guys:
You get to have Christian Bale marathons:
You are allowed to go and see Twilight twice in one day without it being super weird:
You get to get dressed up for a night on the town:
You get to have fun with makeup:
Sometimes too much fun:
You can be goofy like this:
You can take naps in women's lounge in the Lord and Taylor bathroom:
You can share hugs like this one:
You can take glamor shots:
You can get all dolled up...
...or you can dress like a dude:
And you will always have loyal friends who will laugh with you until you cry:
So while I may not have enjoyed being a girl today, most days I love it :)

Love,
Em