Graduation and Goodbye

I don't even know where to start.  May has been the busiest month for us...ever.  No time to seriously recap, but basically we've just been finishing up work, taking shorts trips, saying our goodbyes, packing, etc.  The most exciting thing though is that, after 6 years,  David graduated!!!! Praise the Lord!  He now has his doctorate of pharmacy from one of the best schools in the nation.  You can call him Dr. David now ;-)  Here are a few pics from graduation weekend.

Me and my handsome man.

One of my best friends, Tiffany, also graduated from pharmacy school with David.  You can tell it's a good hug when you're faces squish together.

The In-Laws.

With Bevo himself!

Fireworks at commencement.

On the next note, this is my last post from Texas.  We are moving TOMORROW MORNING for Georgia.  It's so surreal.  To all our Texas friends and family, you will be so very missed!  Please don't hesitate to ever come visit us!  We love y'all.  With moving and everything, i'm not sure when the next post will be, but talk to y'all next time from the other side of the country.

To the cross I cling

I'm going to jump right in being blunt, that this past week was a hard one.  There was a very sudden, unexpected death that happened in my family.  It really shook me and had me thinking a lot about suffering and salvation.

About a year and a half ago, our pastor had a seizure and was then diagnosed with stage 3 malignant brain cancer that had a low survival rate.  He made this video right after he found out about all this.   He has such a great, Godly perspective on suffering that has really encouraged me. 

It can be so easy to put your identity in the things around you: your family, your money, your job.  But when suffering happens, all of that can fall apart.  If your hope is in anything apart from God, it can all be taken away with this world.   I can't imagine what it would be like to go through the valleys of life and not have God to carry me through it.  It breaks my heart.

Being Easter weekend, I'm especially thankful that Jesus is alive.  Death and pain still happen, but He is bigger than that.  Jesus died for me, knowing my sinful heart at its worst.  I'm forever grateful for his mercies, and that He has counted me worthy to glorify God in the good AND in the bad.

Recycle Life

I just want to let everyone know that April is donate life month!  My family is all about swappin' organs.

My Mom's life was saved because my Aunt Kathy gave her a kidney.  (This was snapped at my wedding, aren't they cute? Sisters are great)

My Dad gave a kidney to save my Uncle Raleigh's life.  (Sorry, could only find an older picture here)

We are so blessed that our family was able to be living donors for each other.  But there are still hundreds of thousands of people who are still waiting for a transplant.  If you aren't an organ donor on your driver's license, I strongly urge you to change that.  You never know when you could save someone's life!  Someone like my family.

Fresh air

At least in Texas, I think its safe to say that Spring has officially arrived!  It's sunny, 80 degrees, and breezy. 

And all of God's people said "amen." 

David and I went to the arboretum with one of my dearest friends today.  Here are a few pictures I snapped.  It's tulip paradise over here right now.

I like the lonely orange one sticking up in the middle.

 

I hope everyone is enjoying the pretty spring time weather as much as I am :)

927.10

 

927.10....that's how many miles David and I are moving.  Dang, we might be a little/a lot crazy.

Well, the previous post was about my trip to Augusta, Georgia for a graduate school interview.  I'm here now to tell you that I got accepted and will be starting the Masters in Occupational Therapy program this fall at Medical College of Georgia!

Sometimes it's terrifying thinking about leaving Texas and moving half way across the country to a place we know nothing about (What if they don't have unlimited good Mexican food?!?!)  But we know that God is faithful and that He's opened this door for us.  This has been something i've been working towards for that last 4 years, and i'm so very humbled and thrilled for this opportunity.

I also have to take the time to brag about my husband:  He's been so supportive and is just as excited as I am about this whole thing.  He's willing to leave his home state, his family, our friends, and find a new job...and he's never even visited the state of Georgia once in his life.  He's sacrificing all that and move to the "unknown" to allow me to pursue my dreams.  Saying that i'm blessed is the understatement of the year.  Thanks to everyone, family and friends, who have been praying for us.  You have no idea how encouraging and powerful it was.

 "Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders you have done. The things you planned for us no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare."  Psalm 40:5