These are some pictures that we took when we went to Branson over Christmas break at our Cabin... the terrain there is just beautiful!! Other then school (which is going really wonderfully!) life has been so much fun... totally challenging... but what doesn't kill ya makes you stronger... right?!? haha... naw, it hasn't been bad at all just busy and I am doing my best to choose life when it is tempting to choose defeat! So cool though... God is just so incredibly faithful!! I am writing you from my brand new laptop that was free and a blessing from God... okay, not many people read this anyways so I will just share... sooo, as you know I'm getting married thus implying that I am trying to get my house in order to look the way I want it to look! Well, see my wonderful fiance has a fettish with reallly awesome, but really LARGE speakers that I did not want in my future tiny house... it was literally two pillars of speakers on either side of the TV standing about 7 feet tall from the ground... anyways, so I have been strongly encouraging Cody to look at some new significantly smaller speakers... well as I have been worried about all of this superficial stuff Cody has been spending A LOT of time just being alone with God trying to learn how it is that one can truly delight in the Lord... soooo.... he had counted his monies in what he was going to buy the new sound system with and what happens?? But my computer poops out... :-\.... which is really not good because all my classes are online!! ... so Cody decided that he was going to take that money and buy me a new computer instead... well, that very day he got an e-mail from "my coke rewards" and it said "grand prize winner" ... he was going to delete it because those things are always a spoof right... well... he opened it for some odd reason and it took him to the coke site... low and behold he won a drawing... and it was for 5,000.00 to best buy!! LOL... it was so awesome, we were still a little leary about it after we sent in the paper work but a week later we got the gift card in the mail!!! haha!!! And if you look back in some of my posts I talked about how Cody was playing the McDonalds Monopoly game hoping to win the 100,000.00 grand prize, and I was making fun of him... but, that is where he signed up for this drawing!! Haha... therefore Cody was able to choose whatever sound system he wanted and I was able to get a new laptop all from Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!! See, delighting yourself in the Lord is so wonderful because He says that when we do that He will give us the desires of our hearts!!! And the best part was that after we did all the things we did with that money... having stuff wasn't the fun of it... it was being able to give.... and just know that God is always here... monotary things will never satisfy, this computer will one day poop out too... but that doesn't change the fact that God is still faithful and wants to open the floodgates of heaven and pour out blessings on His children!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhh.... I can't imagine living life any other way!!!
