Mr. Sun, shine down on me!

I looooooove summer. :o)

Cool things about this summer:

1. Esther, my wife: Esther's been and will be living in my very small room for the first half of summer! :o) Although she doesn't listen to me and sleep on my bed, she sleeps on a mattress next to me and I hope it's not too uncomfortable for her. Living with Esther has been cool because we're always together anyway, so it's just convenient being in the same room. The pressure that her presence brings has also kept me accountable for alot of things this summer-- so I'm very thankful. I sorta feel like we're married sometimes. Random facts about living with Esther: a) She has small hands, but I already knew that. b) She has legit face lotion c) When she wakes up in the morning, the first words she says is "I hate my life"..seriously.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Sleeping early: Esther and I are grandmas. We sleep between the hours of 10:30-11:30pm. every night. Except the one night I made her watch transformers til 3am. She told me she hated me like 20 times that night.
   
   
3. DWYS: Every morning at 7am, some of us from the college group come together at Starbucks and read together every morning. Although we dont really say anything to each other, and all of us are a table away from each other-- it's really encouraging just to start the day off with familiar faces who all want to be kept accountable this summer. I've wasted every summer of my life by sleeping more than I needed to, so this has become quite solidified in my daily schedule and has served to encourage me, refresh me, and charge me up for the rest of my day :O) thanks all you dwys-ers, and pastor aaron!
   
   
   
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4. Time to read and journal: I love summer because summer means more time and more time equals more time to read and journal :O) these two things have grown to be one of my top hobbies ever since I came to college, and having alot of extra time this summer has allowed me to indulge myself (sounds bad... but its not) in this leisure that I enjoy so much. I bought some new ones today. Don't judge
   
   
   
5. Summer school: I love summer school. not only is it chill, but my class this session is SUPER intersting. It's my first health-body-anatomy-kind-of-thing type of class and I love it. It's been really easy to study for it all the time because I love just reading about it all day, and my lecturer is very helpful. I really love this class and it makes me all the more excited for next year!
   
   
   that's how fever happens
   
   and this is a python eating an antelope..whole. Metabolism is fun
   
   
6. Preparing and anticipating my Junior year: One of my favorite things about this summer is the fact that its the summer before I start my actual nursing program. In a month or so I have to order my scrubs and white coat, and my dear roommate of next year, Jess Quen, gave me some of her anatomy books before she went home to norcal. So I've been looking through them, and just anticipating for it, being excited and prayerful along the way. As tough and overwhelming as I know it may be, I'm excited to see how much more dependent and steadfast He'll grow me to be .

So those are just some reasons I love this summer :O) it's been a week and a half so far, and I'm so excited to see how wonderful my entire summer will end up being.

Give thanks-- esther as a roommate, tracy as a friend, reading, my new journals, erasers, productive study times, caramel mistos, encouragement, emails, oppurtunities to pray