Converge

I think it goes without saying that Converge was absolutely amazing. When you get Beth, Travis and CeCe in a room, you just might want to be careful because there is some major anointing going on.

Thursday night started out fabulous, anyway. Before Converge I finally got to meet my blog friend, Missy! We’ve been trying to meet up for some time now, and I am so glad it finally worked out. She hosted a little party before the event and served some of her famous Oreo Balls which were absolutely to die for! Her house is also just precious. It was so kind of her to let a complete stranger (me) barge in on her and her friends and not only that, I brought my mom and another lady! 3 complete strangers, but, it was so fun and I can’t wait till we get to meet up again.

We finally made it to Converge, met up with some of the other ladies that were joining us, found our seats and then not 2 seconds later, to my joyful surprise, I look down to see Jen, Jaclyn and Cheryl sitting 6 seats away from us. I knew they were coming the whole time, but Jen didn’t know where they were sitting! THAT was a blast. All through the night we kept giggling back and forth like we hadn’t seen each other in years. Those girls are some of my favorite people in the USA. You can never get enough of the Martin family!

CeCe started us out with some fist pumping worship, and then Travis followed. Be still my heart. As if I haven’t heard that man countless times, I was just in Heaven. I mean, he’s probably one of those people that I would rather listen to live than recorded because he’s just that stinkin’ good. It was amazing and I was excited for my peeps to hear his praise team. Because we all know the level of goodness they bring along with Travis!

Then of course, Beth gave us a word, and y’all, it was a word to not be missed. I feel like the Lord gave her that word just for my own little heart to hear. I know countless other ladies were touched, also, but I love when I know it is for me, indeed. She mainly spoke about disappointment, and what is our disappointment? When we have a disappointment, we have to remember to bring it to His throne and then “Believe to the bone that God has heard you!” Because, y’all, He indeed hears us. The minute we pray, the answer is given. We will never bring a new request to the Lord, where He doesn’t remember the old one. Amen! Of course, we may not hear that answer right at that moment, but He knows it. More often than not, those big, heavy prayers we pray are one’s where we are called to wait, and that’s what hit home HUGE for me.

You see, if He makes us wait, something bigger is at stake. A bigger package, and it’s more than what we want, or what we even know/pray to want.

Her last point was “Blessed are you when what comes naturally to others comes supernaturally to you!” Um, this hit home major. Y’all, sometimes when I am praying for a husband and that the Lord would bring him sooner than later, and why in the stinkin’ world have I never even been on a date, or even why in world it is so easy for everyone else to get a date and get married, but just not me, I feel like that’s just a complaining prayer. Like poor pitiful me, He has just forgotten about me. Like really, y’all, I’m not asking him to do something HUGE that hasn’t happened for 10 million other people. However, when I start believing those lies, like He’s forgotten about me, I have to replace those with truth. Because, the truth is, HE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT ME. I can’t believe that I am being picked on, but that I am being picked out! I have to believe that there is something way bigger for me, way bigger than I could ever ask, imagine or want. Because, it is a blessing when what come naturally to others, comes supernaturally to you. The fact that it’s going to take God to give me what I need is a blessing in itself. It may be a disguised blessing, and a hard on to wait out on, but, oh, it is so worth the wait.

I have been pondering this in my heart since Thursday night. I know I’m only 23 and that there are plenty of people out there that have grander needs than I have, but this message spoke straight to my heart. And, boy, am I ever so grateful for it.

I can’t wait for the day when I get to say what Elizabeth said in Luke 1:25, “The Lord has done this for me," she said. "In these days he has shown his favor and taken away my disgrace among the people."

I know one day I’ll be saying that only the Lord could do this for me, and oh, what a day it will be. A day to give our sweet Lord and Savior all the Glory He alone deserves!

And The Winner's Are...

Y'all, this is by far my favorite part! I have 5 plates sitting in my living room ready to be sent off!

They'll be sent off too...

Drum roll Please...

1) Janelle

2) Heather

3) Erin

4) Cathy Davis

5) Patty

Ladies, if you would be so kind as to email me your address at lindsee.eddy@gmail.com I will get these sent to you pronto!

Y'all had just the sweetest comments! I so wish I could send one to everyone that entered, but unfortunately, I can't. However, I had such a blast with the giveaway that you never know when I might do one again! I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!

Oh, and just for the record, I totally used the random number generator. I felt to official and technical...it was fun! I would copy and paste my timestamp here like everyone else does, but I forgot to copy it!

Giveaway Reminder!

Hey, folks! I have p-l-e-n-t-y to update you on, and boy do I mean plenty, however, I didn't want you to forget about the spectacular (and I am totally kidding about it being spectacular, I just really wanted to use that word!) giveaway I am doing that will end tomorrow at 11 p.m.!

Go HERE to enter and feel free to invite your friends to enter, too.

I will announce the winners on Tuesday, so go on...leave a comment, and enjoy a plate. :)

Huge hugs to all of you.

This sister is off to bed. It has been a thrilling, exhausting, fun, busy-filled weekend!

G'night!

Let It SNOW!

Today has been SUCH a fun day. It all started last night when there was a very small (and I mean very small) chance that it could snow last night! Of course I so hoped for it to snow, but my hopes were also very small because frankly, we live in Houston, Texas and let's face it, it just doesn't snow here. I mean y'all, it was 80 degrees yesterday and way humid. That is totally Houston weather for you, completely moody. Today is is freezing and snowing. I still can't believe it.

All day at work I kept saying "What if it snowed today?!" and the response was always "Lindsee, there's no chance. It is not going to snow!" Of course, I stated my hopes over and over again until finally JJ, our youth pastor, ran down the hall saying "It's snowing!" Immediately I told him that if it wasn't, he was in big trouble. But, to my HUGE surprise, IT WAS. Our offices are all in one building and immediately, everyone was out of their office and at the doors watching the snow fall so peacefully. It was so fun! I got my camera too late, but I so wish I would have gotten it earlier because it would have been such a fun picture of everybody at the doors.

Of course, we acted like 8 year olds and we're completely giddy the rest of the afternoon. We even made some hot chocolate to top off the perfect afternoon. It actually snowed for quite a bit! Yes, we just happen to have hot chocolate at the office.

It clearly never got warmer, and then to our surprise again, we came out tonight to see our cars covered in a blanked of snow. I freaked out, yet again! Some of the students (and I'm assuming it was girls) wrote a sweet message on my car which was also very fun!

I know some people think we are freaks in the way we're acting, but, you have to understand that we are in stinkin' Houston, Texas. It just doesn't snow here. Ever. And if it does, it's just flurry's and melts the second it hits anything. Rarely does it actually stay! So, we houstonians are taking it all in. At least this houstonian is. You'd of thought I've never seen snow, and I completely have a gazillion times, but when it happens here, it is surely a time to celebrate!

Hope you enjoyed the "snow" pictures. It may be another 10 years before you see them again!

And, don't forget about the giveaway, y'all have till Monday night to enter!

A Giveaway

Well, they say there's a first for everything. So, here goes my first ever blog giveaway and I am so excited about it.

Y'all have been such a blessing and way more than encouraging about my custom made plates, so I thought I would bless you right back and give a few plates away. And what a better time to do this giveaway than at Christmas!

Here are the rules:

1) I will give away 5 plates and a stand with each. This means there will be FIVE winners. Each winner will take away one plate! Each plate will have Joshua 24:15 on it, as pictured above. (That's the only non-custom thing about this, the plates will already be written on!)

2) To win, all you have to do is leave a comment. I could be really creative and tell you to tell me something about why you should win them, but frankly, my creative juices aren't flowing, and frankly, I want to make this as easy as possible!

3) If you don't have a blog, don't worry, just leave your email address in the comment so I can contact you!

4) I will announce the winners next Tuesday, so the giveaway will go on for a week. Comments will be closed very late Monday night. I would love for you to get the plates before Christmas!

5) If you already have a plate, feel free to enter anyway. It could be a great Christmas gift!

6) Let your friends know about it, too!

Alrighty, I think that's all. I guess I better go get started on some plates.

Have a wonderful Tuesday, folks.

A Recap of my Crazy Weekend

Just a forewarning: This is the unabridged recap of my weekend. It contains a lot of pictures.

This weekend was what I like to call Party Central. I attended 4 parties in less than 48 hours. To say that I am loving sitting on my couch right now enjoying 27 Dresses is an understatement. I am loving the nothingness that is this moment. I should be cleaning my room that is undeniably a hott mess, but I have no energy to tackle such a task. And y'all, it is a task. The amount of clothing strung around my room is quite embarrassing. Not to mention the many bags that need to be unpacked due to my travels as of late. I hate unpacking! Am I the only one that hates unpacking? Please tell me no.

Anyway, back to my weekend, we'll start with Thursday.

Since Thursday was my first day off since Mexico, I used it to run my many errands and enjoy a lunch at the Cheesecake Factory with Jen and Claire at the Galleria. It was so fun! Jen actually works down there and we had to exchange a few things before she went out of town, so we made a lunch date out of it and I am so glad we did! For some reason I felt so grown up that day. But, I thoroughly enjoyed it! I love sweet lunches with sweet friends. After lunch, Jen went back to work and I went and bought some "delicates" for Jen's (another Jen) lingerie shower!

Claire and I walked around a bit more, then made our trek home. That did take up most the day, but unfortunately, I had more errands to run. That night I went and bought Emily's baby shower gift that was today and y'all, I am so sad I didn't take a picture of the precious outfits I bought precious "baby J!" I am such a sucker for baby clothes.

Friday night began Jen's wedding festivities, and boy were they festivities. Her wedding isn't actually until next weekend, but we had her lingerie shower, bachelorette party, and bridal luncheon all this past weekend, which was actually nice instead of cramming it all into the actual wedding weekend. It makes for everyone not being so exhausted the day of the wedding! The last thing any of us want is an exhausted bride.

We had tons of fun that night and are now all completely tired. Y'all, we were up until almost 5 a.m.! I am just tickled thinking about that, because even though I'm not that far removed from college, I don't remember the last time I stayed up that late. We started out at her sisters house with some wonderful food and cake and then made our way downtown. The laughing never ceased that night, it was great!

Yummy cake!

Phi Lamb girls!

Jen's sister and Aunt!

Me and the precious Bride-to-Be!

It took us f-o-r-e-v-e-r to get this picture...

Because we couldn't stop doing this!

There's nothing like some good ole' Peanut M&M's!

A few of us at Howl at the Moon...a fun piano bar!

Jen doing "If you're happy and you know it!"

Saturday started with a wonderful Bridal Luncheon! I totally forgot the place we ate at, but it was GOOD. Jen gave us the cutest little purses, slippers and scrapbook pages! And of course they are all red since her colors are gold and red! Very creative!

We love our Jen!

Here starts our photo shoot...

Love these girls!

After the luncheon, the three of us (pictured above) made our way to the Woodlands Mall. It was very convenient since we were already in the Woodlands. Our dresses are gold and we were instructed to wear red shoes, so our goal was to find some cute red shoes. However, we had no such luck. I am holding out for Dillard's at Willowbrook Mall, it is the only store I haven't been to! If Dillard's doesn't come through for me, I guess I'll be spray painting some shoes I already own! Totally kidding. I do think Dillard's will come through, I'm just hoping whatever I get won't be 4 inches tall. I don't need to be falling down the aisle.

After the mall I headed home and got ready for our TSMAC youth worker Christmas party! I did lay down for about 30 minutes, which really helped my sleepy eyes or else I don't think I'd a made it.

Our Christmas party was great! I thoroughly enjoyed the ham, deviled eggs, potato casserole, and meatballs. It felt like the Thanksgiving meal I missed out on. And of course, who can forget the dessert? I had to taste test everything just to make sure it was okay, and I'll have you know it was all delightful. I will now be attending Jazzercise every night this week to work off all the sugar I consumed last night. It was so worth it, though!

While at our party, we enjoyed a nice hay ride around the neighborhood. It was fun but quite chilly! Also, I guess as a child you don't notice the roughness that is hay. I was very acquainted with it last night!

HAYRIDE!

The festive cookie cake I picked up at the mall. Pure goodness.

On the hayride with Dana!

After our party, I went home and slept like a baby. I was so tired!

I'll have you know, though, that they partying didn't end there! Today after church I enjoyed a nice Schlotzsky's meal, came home and enjoyed 2 of my neighbors puppies, then headed to Emily's baby shower. I was only there for about 30 minutes because I had small group at the same time, but y'all, she is probably the cutest pregnant girl I have ever seen. And the only way you would know homegirl is pregnant is if you saw her tummy. I am convinced she hasn't gained one pound. She is glowing! I was there so quick I didn't even get to take a picture, but check out the one I stole from her blog! Is she not the cutest thing on the block?

She and Adam moved to New Mexico after they got married, so I clearly never see her, which makes me very excited about our date this week. The 30 minutes today wasn't near enough time spent with her!

After the shower, I went straight to my small group where we disscussed 3 John and had some fabulous discussions! I missed meeting with them last week since I was gone, so I really enjoyed catching up. These girls are so growing on me! I just love their hearts!
That was my last stop of the weekend and I am so thankful! Not because I didn't have a great weekend, but because my body is so tired. Since Mexico I really haven't stopped and really won't stop till Christmas, so I have truly bonded with the couch since I've been home tonight. I also enjoyed the quiet when I got home! It was very nice!

Speaking of Mexico, I promise the posts are coming soon. I really am working on them, but am just trying to condense lots of information into a not so long post! But, don't think I've for one second forgotten about them. :)

Folks, if you made it to then end of this post, I so applaud you! It was long and I'm pretty sure so very boring to you. So, this would be me clapping for you. You are so patient!

Well, my movie is over, and the blog is written. That means I am going to bed. It is 10:38 (which is actually early for me!) and I am totally ready for bed! I hope you all had a wonderful, fun filled weekend! Goodnight, sweet friends!