Opening Day!!!

So i'm sitting at buffalo wild wings watching baseball!!! today is a good day. Tomorrow is my 21st birthday so i'll be doing nothing! lol not really into that stuff so its just another birthday for me. Red sox play tomorrow. Going for win number two behind dice k. i'll post later today!

Dinner for 11?

No i'm not posting about the last super. this was my experience for dinner tonight. Has anyone ever eating with 11 people at one regular sized dinning room table before? Well after tonight i can say that i have. I ate dinner with Nicole and her entire family minus one. It was her mother and father, Christina, Nicole, Michael, Ellen, and Mary Grace. her older sister Angela wasn't there but her boyfriend Ted was. He seems like a cool kid. Then their family friend brother Leo was their from Chicago. He has a sweet name and a sweet calling he does ministry for homeless people in Chicago. Then the neighbor was there also. And then there was me. The whole time i was nervous about eating properly and not talking with food in my mouth and what not. Half way through the meal i realize that the dinner table is for telling stories, cracking Irish jokes, and laughing. Which all can be done with food in your mouth. If you had something to say you had to say whenever you could find a spot to say it whether you had just taken a bit or not. After dinner brother Leo shared a reflection from the easter season and then we prayed together which i thought was very cool. In my family growing up it was just me and my mother so having a prayer time together was not on the list. I think that when i have my family that we will all say prayers together i think its sweet like that. I was very glad that Nicole's family accepted me for who i am and even let me join in on their prayers. She has a wonderful family and she is pretty awesome herself. Tomorrow i have this ridiculous band concert thing i agreed to participate in i know it will be a good experience for me but i guess i'm just not feeling it. The concert is on Sunday at 2 if you wanna show up we are all going to get together and worship America!!!! Nah, it should be fun. Well Sunday equals first day of baseball in America so get excited folks cause i know i am. I'll give updates on my fantasy teams on here too. sorry for the long post have a great day. Also one other thing Nicole's relative recently had twins and they were emergency c sectioned one of the boys died his name was Samuel the other boy is will and he is surviving but needs prayer so if you could join me that would be sweet! thanks have a sweet rest of the day!
(and if any English majors read this please don't hate on the grammar!)

Sleepy....

Hey whats up? Sorry i didn't post yesterday. I ended up spending the whole night with my friend Nicole who is amazing by the way. We went to Panara hung out then walked by the riverfront on the E. Peoria side. We did illegal stuff like there was a sign that said keep off and we walked on it anyway! I'm such a rebel! then i continued to try and impression her with the vast knowledge of Beastie Boys lyrics. I'm sooo0 black! haha then i was so tired by the time i got home i crashed. So yesterday was opening day of baseball and my sox had a sweet game and had the comeback to win it. I'll have to admit i didn't think they had it in them. My pick this year is the sox but i think the tigers will have a good shot too. that lineup is stacked. Then today the sox played again today and didn't fair so well. They lost due to a not so hot performance by Lester. He'll be a good pitcher but he's still young. He had cancer two years ago and has recovered to pitch in the majors again, cool story you should check it out. Well i'm tired so i'm going to bed but i'll be sure to post tomorrow. New favorite song is "I'm Yours" by jason marz. its sweet reminds me of Nicole.

D.C. meets As the deer?

So last night i was messing around with my guitar and played my version of as the deer. The chorus is simple, "you alone are my strength my shield, and to you alone will my spirit yield." Didn't really have a bad day yesterday but there was some stress, but for some reason in the middle of playing this song this peace comes over me. Some times i feel like i forget that God has my back. This usually happens when i start thinking that i got this and i can do it myself. I can not live this life on my own. I need God. I think its awesome how when i think i got it, God helps me out and reminds me that i'm nothing. There is something awesome about being humbled. Anywho i've been listening to Dashboard Confessional lately. There is a song of their dusk and summer album called Reason to Believe. Its a pretty sweet song but there is something about the bridge that gets me.
These are the lyrics, " I have reason to believe That I have victories to taste I can feel them on my teeth Upon my lips And in my chest I can roll them on my tongue
They almost supplement the feat I feel the tension in my lungs And every move is filled with my resolve to Breathe."
I'm moving to Kansas city in the fall to go to school to study ministry with an emphasis in music. The reason these words excite me is that is that knowing God has my back it makes me think that i can do awesome things with my life. Its my dream that i'll be an awesome leader at a great church with a great family. I'm dreaming big so God is gonna supply the demand.