I guess it is about time...

First I am going to start this off with I severely dislike grammar, ask Craig B. about 9th grade English. So to cut to the chase, if I have a run-on, bad grammar, etc., my bad. If you don't like it, don't keep reading it =). Ok, love you too, thanks!

I also would like to thank Katherine Faith for helping me be accountable with this, and giving me the idea to start a blog.

One good thing to know about me is that I do not like to talk on the phone. Which makes life very difficult when you move 5 hours away from home and about 9 hours from the place you called home the past 4 years. So, to help keep people up to date on life and to not just totally stink at communication, I am trying my hand at this. If trying to come up with a blog name and url are any prediction, I just started on a long long journey.

Also, today is Ash Wednesday. I am not Catholic but I appreciate and understand Lent, when it is associated with its true purpose that you give up something that is coming in between you and the Lord, and not hey maybe I can go without candy for 40 days(which yes I have done). But as it dawns on me as I type, I am going to try and post on my blog (and make it more visually appealing) during Lent. I am already giving myself grace on the weekends because A. I am not Catholic and B. I am not really using the real application of Lent in the correct way, so there, I don't have to follow the rules.

Right now I am just impressed that I have typed this much with capitalization and correct punctuation. Usually about 2 sentences in, I stop capitalizing things and just use... to end any sentence. That must mean I need to thank the UA grad school and IMRS staff for making me more of a professional, thanks guys.

Maybe a little more to catch you up on my life. I am in my last semester of grad school at the University of Arkansas. I have comps (our big test over every class) on March 17th, so that is dominating my life right now, along with school and community (my last grad school class). I am also a graduate assistant for Intramural/Recreational Sports at the U of A.

I have made some great friends here to add to my great group of college and high school friends. In addition, I have been blessed with a great godly man who I get to call my boyfriend. He truly is my best friend, and I can't believe that God had this worked out in His book soo long ago (James is an Air Force brat, he has lived all over the world and the fact that he ended up in Arkansas is just too perfect to not be planned by the Lord, just how I feel my placement in Arkansas is nothing other than God's hand at work). James also convinced me to teach Sunday School with him at our church, it is challenging, but SO much fun, I promise many stories to come about that later.

Now these past (almost two years) have been the most challenging, difficult, fun, lonely, rewarding, (I could go on) years of my life. But getting out of the bubble of LH and then the bubble of YL at UT, this has been the perfect spot for me. Every time it has been hard leaving each bubble (esp Austin) but I know the Lord has put me on this path for a reason and has challenged me every step. I really do believe He gave me the tools and community in Austin, to bring them here and learn/grow and apply here.

Northwest Arkansas is a beautiful place and there really is nothing like a whole state who support one university. While it has its similarities to Austin, Austin still has its own place in my heart, that I know I will always miss. But God has been so faithful to me here with friends, a job, education, a community, people who have become my family here, a wonderful church, and much much more.

I hope this post finds everyone well. Please leave a post if you have any questions or if you want to email me at work I would love that to.

I have come up with my sign off, so here it goes... (you knew one had to slip in)

love love LOVE you ( I guess it should be y'all, its more appropiate) Here we go again...

love love LOVE y'all
K

(verse for the day John 14:27)