You might be confused as to why I am blogging on here. Basically I realized that as fun and exciting as my old blog was, it was way to complicated to update each month. I built that blog from scratch and needless to say, in order to keep it fun and exciting, it required a lot of work.
Now this may come to a surprise to some of you (not really) but I'm generally somewhat of a lazy person, and even though I have ALL of the time in the world, just the thought of rebuilding a new page for each month of the year was very unappealing to me, which led me to basically never blog!
SOOOO the other day, I was reminded that I used to blog for a specific class of mine and had used blogspot. I therefore decided to look it up and to my surprise, my blog still exists!!
I just spent a few hours transferring all of my blog entries from the old blog and now I am writing to announce that this is the blog I will be using from now and and I really hope that it makes a difference on how much I blog from now on in comparison to how much I've blogged within the past 10 months (3 times haha).
Hopefully it makes a big difference.
I have 15 minutes to share a bit of what's new in my life, which is quite convenient because since my last entry, not a whole lot is new!
Ever since I've found out about my being "allowed" to leave the U.S. I've felt so much peace. It was literally as if a HUGE load had been taken off of my shoulders. It was such a beautiful day :)
I spent it with my wonderful boyfriend and my parents. I was able to be with my parents the following week and after their departure, I just went back through my normal routine. Basically volunteering at Fredrick's, babysitting, taking pictures, and spending time with loved ones!
My birthday has gone by and I was able to celebrate with good friends part of my community!
The Cleanse was successful other than the fact that I had gotten sick prior to starting it and I think that the mixture of my body getting rid of my toxins (lots of mucus. gross I know!) and the lack of food, and lack of medicine, probably didn't help. I got sick again but decided to push through. I only did it for 8 days because it generally takes about two days to ease back in into a regular diet, and I wanted to be able to eat on my birthday, which so happened to be on the 10th day of the Cleanse.
I'm glad I tried it although I hope to try it another time when I know I can do the full 10 days and when I'm not sick!
Hmmm what else...Oh I've been able to take an engagement photoshoot of one of the most amazing people I personally know. Marissa Scheiber. She is a very dear friend of mine who means a lot to me, and it was such a privilege for me to capture her and Luke's love for each other! It was great finally meeting Luke, the wonderful man I had heard so much about! They were so fun to work with and I was pleased with the results :) Here are a few of my favorites.
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Also that following weekend, one of my all time best friends Megan Crawford got engaged to a solid guy named Daniel Schroeder and I was super pumped to be the creeper in the bushes who got to capture the moment!! Can't you just see me doing that? It's what I was born to do baby! Just kidding! Anywho here's a little bit of what I was able to get...
Aren't they so adorable!?!? :) I may also be taking some of their engagement pictures as well, which I am totally stoked about!!!
My heart does break at the thought of not being at their wedding. :( In fact Megan had asked me to be a bridesmaid but I had to decline since I will most likely be in France :(
No worries though, she is setting up a computer with skype so that I can witness every minute of it! :)
It'll be just as if I were there!
So on monday mornings, I've been able to do a daycare at College Park Church, which is a Church basically right on Huntington University campus, and so happens to be situated right in front of one of my friend's apartment.
So most sunday nights I get dropped off at my friends' apt on campus and wake up the following morning and do the day care for a couple of hours. I then end up just staying at her apt until I finally decide to go home, which usually ends up being on a wednesday.
After spending a day or two at home with my roommates, I end up spending the weekend with Jeremy, whether it be in Huntington or in Goshen.
I am very excited about the weeks to come because I will be doing some traveling!! And not many enjoy the thrill and excitement of traveling as much as I do!!
This weekend there is a possibility that I will be going to Michigan to watch a Michigan State football game. Jeremy's best friend since age 1 is the leading receiver for their team, and we might be able to get tickets to watch him play on his senior night! I am then going to be able to spend Thanksgiving in Ohio with Jeremy's family. The sweet part about this is that my parents fly out back to Senegal the week after thanksgiving, and God willing they will find a vehicle to meet up with us in Ohio. Parents meeting each other. Exciting!
A couple of days after Thanksgiving, I am flying to Colorodo to visit my best friend, Lysiane, on her birthday! This is Jeremy's Christmas gift to me :)
From Colorado I will hopefully be able to fly to Philadelphia to watch over a 2 month old baby named Samuel, while his mother does a bone marrow transplant that could possibly save someone's life!!! I am most excited about this! What a privilege! When Libby (Samuel's mother) asked me, I was so grateful! I mean what a blessing to be a part of this experience! I do not know for sure whether this is really happening, but it most likely will and I am very excited (as you can probably already tell)!
After these travels I will more than likely be going back to Huntington and start attacking my belongings (sorting them out basically) to prepare myself for the big move!
So there ya have it! leave comments if you please.
Blessings to all of you!!
D.J.O.
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