First Week of September!

It has been go go go since the Hawaii trip which I will hopefully update yall with this week :)

But in my one week return its been oodles of noodles of good things.

Giving Thanks:
-Jose kindly picked me up from LAX :) We had friends over at my house the next day for dinner to share life, encourage one another, and play games :) Twas fun and we hope to have more intentional times like those to be in the Word, listen, and speak truth to each other! The dinner was YUMMY. Garlic spread is like all I need for food my food ha.

-Wednesday Pamela and I drove ourselves over to Ruby's for dinner. BTW the first picture is the dinner we had two weeks prior! She is a legit chef and only learning! It gives me hope! haha. We discussed thoroughly the second chapter of a book we are reading and was given wisdom and prayer! I am really blessed by these meetings!

-Thursday I was exhausted but again Jose blew me away with his act of service in cleaning my house. I am kind of prideful and feel lazy when I plan to do something then someone else does it for me. I was humbled of this and was so grateful for him. We went out to dinner at Olive Garden where we shared good convos and ate endless pasta, soup, and salad! It's one of our favorites!

-Friday I took the day off for my birthday holiday (Yes, God is kind to me!!!!) so I slept in 2 hours then headed to Sammie's for tv, smoothie, sweet bread, and awesome catch up time! I got to see me some engagement pictures which my two wonderful friends look lovely in!!!
I then proceeded to Irvine with my sister to see what weve been waiting for so long- THE BACKSTREET BOYS!!!!!!!! It was a bit uncomfortable and honestly I was a bit angry with all the waiting beforehand in the hot hot sun and being separated from Kelli for 4 hours. However, I prayed, blew off the steam, thanked God for time with her and seeing my favorite band. They were absolutely fantastic. I was so pumped, was like OMG OMG #1 FAN. haha. & Jesse McCartney was their leading act and was a great performer! So good! Loved singing along to every song with Kel and reliving my childhood!

-Saturday, we helped move in my sister to her new apt. I praise God this was my exercise for the day HA. Her apt was on the second floor and BOY was I tired. Jose kindly helped and got to spend more time with my family. We ate in and out afterwards and were filled up!
-Then after a couple years of being apart I was able to finally have coffee with Kimberly :) Was blessed for the catch up and that she was interested in coming to Crossview to visit and encourage one another in the good fight.
-I headed to USC for the game against Washington. Let's just say.... loved the people, NOT THE GAME. It was an awful display of football out there. EEK. haha We went to Noodleworld afterwards for our starving stomachs and enjoyed each other!

Sunday was a great day at Crossview learning how to bless and listen better to our church and others this week in order to display the gospel. I loved seeing my brothers and sisters again. COWBOYS BEAT THE GIANTS THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

After the game, Jose and I headed to SBUX to read a book called Church by Mark Dever with Danny and Fiona :) We were encouraged in how a church should look like and the best part is Danny owed me a drink cause of the game. BAHA.

Prayer Requests:
-Please pray for my identity to be rooted, growing, endured in the gospel. I am having low confidence issues- not thinking I am good enough, wise enough, pretty enough, kind enough, for anything lately. I can't shake it even though I know the truth and gospel in my head.
-That God saves my family and that I witness to them and am not idle around them
-That I will BLESS AND LISTEN to others better and more intentionally this week.