May...WOW!

It's crazy that I haven't blogged since Imagine:Nation! Well, I guess it's time for a tiny update. After I:N I went to Brazil for two weeks and it was totally and completely amazing! I met so many new people that I really miss and I really just want to go back! Anyways, after I got back from Brazil we had an all Master's meeting that wasn't a very good one, but then again it was. Every year MCA takes a trip called the Midwest Tour which is where all of the MC's go on a tour and do church services in a bunch of different states. It's a huge recruiting trip to tell people more about Masters and what it's about and stuff. Well, because of some things that have gone on and because of the attitudes of different people, the entire trip was cancelled. If we had gone on that trip, we would have lied to so many people about who we are as individuals and that's not was MCA is about. It was a very good thing, but very hard to deal with.
That weekend a few of the MC's, including me, went to Corpus Christi for a travel trip for at a college ministry. The service was really great and all that, but God really spoke to me that night about my calling if you will. A bunch of the leaders and the MC's were praying before the service started and the Holy Spirit was really moving and as I prayed I could see, like literally see, myself standing on a stage and speaking to a crowd full of women and teenagers. It was incredible and peaceful all at once. I loved it.
I got to go home for my dad's birthday and surprise a bunch of my family which was awesome! I loved seeing my family and the looks on their faces when they saw me and didn't expect to see me. LOVED IT!
On May 3 we did Earthbeat which is when a bunch of us went to clean up different parts of Austin and that was pretty fun. We had UNCUT two weeks ago which was our Campus Days for perspective students. Last Monday was the beginning of the last "Two Weeks" of the year and so there's a bunch of people who are trying to get all of their tuition money in. Next Monday we will all leave for Florida to work Event Force which a huge conference for Microsoft. After 3 weeks of that we come back for a day and then leave for Royal Family Kids Camp which is a camp for abused children. Then we will come back from that and have grad week, which is the last week of Masters. So sad!

Anyways, that's it for now and I'll blog with more updates later!
PEACE!
Kellie

Imagine:Nation

So we left for I:N on Sunday night and that's pretty much where our adventure started. Since then we have interviewed Lloyd Ziegler, Kelly James, Elijah Kelley and the creator of a radio show for the LA Dreamcenter. We have also been donated lots of food, had hotel suite donated to us for a night and now we are staying at a Disney animator's house for a couple days. Plus, we might be able to get an interview with Switchfoot. It's all very exciting, but very frustrating. Everyone is really starting to get annoyed by everyone else and several feelings have been hurt. I can truly say that I cannot wait to get away from these people or at least away from them in such a closed space, such as a car. However, God has really blessed every aspect of this trip so I know that I'm supposed to be here, I just don't know why. Possibly to teach me patience, which this is a very good way to learn it. I just want to sleep in my own bed and stuff. I think that's why I'm a little cranky. But that's that little update from this little trip. I'm very excited and I know that God will continue to work in His own way because His way is really the best way.

Girls' Trip

So, on Friday, everyone was finally back from break and we could start getting ready for our girls' trip. We all met at noon in the living room, ate lunch and then fjound out where we were going...sorta. We rented a house in New Braunsfels at Lake Placid Estates. This house is BALLER! It looks over this HUGE lake and the people we are renting the house from has this boat that they are letting us ride! It's amazing! Tonight Amanda and Carrie are taking us somewhere really nice tonight....we're just not sure where. They really wanted to surprise us to I'm trying hard not to ask to many questions, lol. Anyway, this place is amazing and I'm so glad that God has called me to this place. I feel blessed beyond measure. Anyway, that's all I have for now and I'll have to write a sequal to this blog later on tonight and say how the night went. But until then I need to get ready and stuff. Laterz.

So, today started out to be a pretty good day. My cousin Dee Ann wanted me to go shopping with her today so we could just see what sales were on and after being sick for most of the day yesterday, I could use some retail therapy. Well, I needed to do Karli's laundry so that I could take it to her today when I met her to pay for my mom's Christmas gift. I told Dee Ann that I needed to be back by four so that I could get that done and she said that it was fine. So, I got half of the laundry done, got ready and went over to Dee Ann's. We got into Canyon and stopped by Wendy's to get some lunch and then we were on our way to Amarillo. Just a couple miles outside of Canyon, Dee Ann needed to call one of her friends, Chandra, to check up on her. To make that whole story short, Chandra wanted to go to her ex boyfriends funeral in Memphis but she didn't want to go alone so she asked Dee to go with her. Dee talked to her husband about it and decided to go for support. We met Chandra at Wendy's and I drove Dee's car back to Happy. I got home and did another load of laundry and sat down. I wanted to relax a little bit. Then my dad nags on me to wash the dishes before my mom gets home and while he is doing that, this is a couple hours I get home by the way, Dee calls me and asks me to let her dog out for a few minutes. And my sister calls me to make sure that I got the money for the gift so that I could get it to her tonight. So I tell my dad where I'm going and leave. I get to Dee's house and let the dog out and decide to call Jessie to make sure that she was still coming with me to the New Year's Eve party at my church on Monday. We talk for about 10 minutes before I needed to go to let the dog back in his kennel. I get back home, look at the mail and found a letter to me from out insurance company. I open it and call my mom to ask her about it. As soon as she picks up the phone she asks if I got dad's medicine. That was the first that I had heard anything about it so I had no clue what she was talking about. She got a little irritated because she had called while I was at Dee's and my dad was supposed to tell me to get him meds from my grandparents house and he didn't yet. I got irritated because I was getting a "talking to" for no reason. I hadn't done anything wrong today and yet I still get myself into trouble. I get off the phone and my dad tells me to do the dishes for the millionth time. I ask him about the meds, he says he doesn't know what I'm talking about but that he doesn't need anything and I call mom back and tell her and she gets all confused and takes it out on me. Then I washed dishes which some of them had already been washed last night so that irritated me a bit. So as of right now, I need to get Karli's laundry out of the dryer, fold it, dry one more shirt, put it on a hanger with a few of her other clothes, feed my dog, make sure the counter is dry, make sure that my dad doesn't need anything, get ready and go to Amarillo to meet my sister at 6 to give her money. I just feel like I'm getting pulled all over the place and no one will let me rest. I came home wanting to be a harder worker and not a griper, but I really feel like some people are taking advantage of that. I'm not the woman of this house, I don't know where everything is and I can't help it if I don't know everything about a conversation that I didn't even know happened! It's so frustrating to think about so I won't. I'll more than likely vent to my sister about it all tonight and then she'll vent to me about work and we'll both feel tons better.

Christmas Day

In the holiday spirit, I decided to type in holiday colors...or color should I say. I always love Christmas because I get to spend time with my family and I get gifts. In other words, I loved Christmas for the wrong reasons. Gifts don't make Christmas, Christmas is a gift. Christmas is the day that Jesus was born. That was the greatest gift of all. Well, I forgot that and today I think I got what was coming to me. I know that God loves me and I know that He doesn't ever want me to suffer, but today I totally suffered. Not by God's hand, but sort of by my own. No even me, it's the fact that everything was so rushed last weekend and everyone got stressed out. Anyways, Karli and I got really sick today. We both woke up with an awful, throbbing headache that wouldn't go away no matter how many pills we took and then we started getting nauseous. Needless to say, we both had awful migranes. Karli threw up a couple hours after waking up and after that I had to lay down. Walking was almost impossible, my eyes were droopy, my head was worse than before and I just knew that if went to sleep right away I would feel better when I woke up. I was wrong. I woke up an hour later and my headache was almost gone so I thought I was all better. I got up, went to the bathroom and sat down on the couch. As soon as I sat down, my stomach started hurting even worse and I could barely stand but I knew that if I didn't get to the bathroom quick, I would make a huge mess on the floor so I ran to the bathroom, blacked out a couple times, not for very long or anything but still, and waited for it to happen. It never did. I never got sick I just got all kinds of sweatiness stuff on me. The heater in the bathroom was on and it was making me sweat very badly. When I first ran in I was getting cold sweats, but they changed pretty fast. Me sweating caused me to also get very light-headed and dizzy to the point where I almost passed out. I almost screamed for my mom to call 911, but I didn't. My hair was down and my neck was so hot and sticky so I started looking for a hair tie. I couldn't find one in the cabinet, mirror or closet so I prayed that God would help me find one and He did. It's almost like He literally put a ponytail on the edge of the bathtub for me. I was so glad. After that little episode, I went out into the living room and laid down on the couch next to my sleeping sister. I fell asleep for about a minute before I woke up and felt a little better. I didn't think that I should eat anything but I still felt better. I still couldn't stand up though. Anyways, long story short, I felt so much better. My sister did too. By the end of the day we were both eating candy and real food and laughing like we were never sick. It was a great feeling. The whole moral of this story is that God is listening. He answered my prayers by healing me. I told Him that I would give up having a husband so that I could get better, lol. I don't really know if He took me seriously or not. I guess I'll find out in a few years or so, lol. Anyways, I got several great gifts yesterday and today. I won't name all of them, but they were wonderful. I have on more gift from my mom that she needs to pick up tomorrow. She won't tell me what it is, but I'm sure that it's great. Anyway, Merry Christmas!

The Chandler/Minter/Mosher/Taylor Christmas

So, The Chandler and Mosher family packed up and headed to Dallas to visit family and have a get together for Christmas. It would be the first one in ten years that the entire family got together so it was supposed to be a very special weekend. Plus my grandparents, the Moshers, are very old and my Memaw can't travel much anymore due to her poor health so it was probably the last time she would be able to go such a distance before she was taken home to Jesus. Well, my Papaw and Memaw are very much set in their ways. For example, they don't like any kind of rocky-ish music. There are some worship songs that they feel are too rocky for them so they just shut down and don't listen to the words because the beat is too fast. They also don't like change. My family decided to caravan with my grandparents because we didn't want anyone to get lost or get into a wreck and not have anyone to call and help them. It was a good idea at the time. Thinking back...not so much. Before I go any further, I want it to be clear that first of all, I love my Memaw and Papaw so much. I would do anything for them and I know that they would do anything for me, they have actually now that I think about it. They've done more for me than I ever have for them. They are wonderful people and I love them. The second thing is, I didn't want to even go on this trip. I live in Austin now and the rest of my family live in Happy so it's like a 10-ish hour drive home or a 2 hour flight without any stops. I wanted to be HOME for the holidays, not in someone else's home or a hotel room. I even said that I didn't want to go but since the plans had been made, I couldn't really do anything about it, so I didn't complain and I just went along with whatever. As long as I'm with my family right? Well, this entire weekend, minus Sunday, was a total disaster! My grandparents stop whenever they get a chance and I didn't see my mom at all because she had to drive their car while Dad, sis and me were in the truck. Let me just make a list, in order, of what went wrong then I'll make one of everything that went right because to be honest, it wasn't worth it. I love my family and I miss them so much, but it wasn't worth it. Here's the list:
1. My dad had to drive the whole. No one switched out with him.
2. Part of the way it was just my dad, me and Papaw in the truck and Papaw really likes to talk...my dad doesn't.
3. I was so bored! I tried to read my book, do my scripture study listen to my iPod everthing! There was no escaping the boredom.
4. Saturday, we went and saw the Minters and ate leftovers...they were all very icky. Just not my style.
5. Cousin Trisha wasn't really being very happy for a little while and there seems to be something not right about her. Not about her, but something else. I can't describe it.
6. I got yelled at by my dad that night outside of a pizza joint because he thought I put a dent in the truck...I didn't. He apologized, but I really was hurt. It's fine now though.
7. Memaw and Papaw had to go wherever we went most of the time. Therefore, we didn't ride as a family very much.
8. After being with the whole family at Marc and Cassidy's house on Sunday afternoon for almost three hours, Cousin Maria and I decided to watch a movie, but Cousin Marc decided that it was rude when we needed to be talking to the family that were talking about something that was very boring and difficult to understand.
9. The Browns/Maxwell's weren't there.
10. Chris had a hurt knee.
11. That night, Maria and I hung out...that was so much fun...not.
12. I didn't eat real food all weekend! I probably gained 50 pounds!
13. My family doesn't like me very much...it seems I might be too immature for them but Cousin Maria, who never shuts up, is too mature for me.
14. Ruben called me...again.
15. I had to sleep in the same room with my parents and my dad snores...very loudly.

Now like I said, good things happened too. It's just that they bad things sorta happened more often. Here's the good things that happened:
1. I got to see my Cousin Thomas who just got back from active duty in Iraq a month ago.
2. I got to see Cousin Chris who I haven't seen since Cousin Marc's wedding.
3. Cousin Angie took me and two other Cousins shopping after the gift exchange.
4. I got a $15 Starbucks card during the gift exchange and no one stole it from me.
5. Cousin Angie bought me a sleeping mask that goes over my eyes.
6. My dad laughed a lot and had a good time even though the other parts of the weekend weren't that wonderful.
7. Anneliese wrote down all of the verses on growth that were in her Bible and the first one on the list is the one that I am using.
8. Everyone remembered my name.
9. Thomas and I talked...we never did that before.
10. Trinity seems to be getting better.

Sadly to say, that's it. However, the list could go on and on for the goods things, but to be honest, I really wish that we had just stayed here. But on the other hand, I'm so glad that I got to see my family and my grandparents were glad to see all of the little ones. This will more than likely be the last Christmas that they could travel down there. It's sad, but the time is now so I'm glad that they went. I'm not some spoiled little brat who always gets her way. It's just that, after not seeing my family for a month and then knowing that I won't see them until July 1 when I go back is flipping hard. I know that other people go way longer than that, but I'm new to this and it takes some time to adjust to all of it. I need to do this and I know that this is all part of God's plan. I'm so thankful and glad that He has me in mind. Anyway, that's my story.

It's Just Me

So, this is my first blog and I kinda have a lot to say. First, I just want to express how happy I am that God brought me to Austin. I'm not sure who I would be if I were still working at the Canyon News or at Ceta Canyon, but I know that I wouldn't like myself. I am so blessed to have a Father who loves me so much and to have a family who supports me in everything that I do. I love them so much and I don't know what I would do without them. I also have my best friend Jessica to help me out when I'm really down or to beat me up when I'm being just ridiculous. She's really helped me throughout the past few years and I'm so glad that I was blessed with such a great friend. She's practically my sister and her family consider me a second daughter. I love that family so much and I know that if I can't for some reason go home, I can always go there. I am a very lucky girl. Anyway, that's all I have for now. God Bless and Merry CHRISTmas!