Thanksgiving Break!

Time to celebrate!!! Why? Because we've passed 1000 views on my blog. Can I get a whoop whoop?

There are many, MANY reasons to celebrate right now (but here's just five more)

1. Thanksgiving break was AWESOME

2. I made some new friends, which is always FANTASTIC

3. Only a few more weeks until I'm back in OREGON

4. A month until CHRISTMAS!!! (my favorite holiday)

5. Two and 1/2 more weeks until I'm FINISHED with my first semester in college 

So, this last weekend was Thanksgiving break for us mavericks at CMU. And while everyone went home and celebrated this holiday of eating food until your stomach aches, I was titled the "orphan child" for the holiday. However, I didn't mind:) I was passed among friends (like divorced parents pass their child among each other) and met a bunch of people. People that I am convinced are definitely the prime of Colorado. 

While I met new people from all over CO, I also grew closer those that I feel completely myself with. 

Rae was nice enough to open up her home to me over the holidays and share not only her wonderful family and friends with me as well. (yeah, she's pretty awesomatic) Needless to say we had a blast, cruisin around Denver...

Red Rocks...

And Boulder,

And everything else :)

 Denver was so much fun, and now that I'm back in Grand Junction.. Finals have begun.
And with finals comes stress...
                                              and with stress...
                                                                        sickness :(

So I'm gonna drink my tea and pray this pain in my throat goes away so I can focus on studying. 

I'll probably see you all again for Christmas<3

Have safe travels this holiday season and I will update you again soon!

VOD: If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

 -Corinthians 13:1-3
Happy Holidays! And don't forget the holidays are about love, loving one another, and the love Christ has given us. How blessed we are:)

Here Comes Winter!

And with winter comes the Holidays!!
I cannot express to you how excited I am to be coming home for Christmas, it's all I can think about these days. However, since plane tickets are expensive and I am a poor college student I will be staying to the Midwest for Thanksgiving.
Since college is kicking my butt these days I haven't really had a lot of time to get out. But I can keep you updated on what is new in the 'ol GJ.

Well... this past week the temperature decided to take a turn for COLD! While it is in the freezing temperatures here, it's definitely different from an Oregon kind of cold. Everything in high desert is much dryer, dry heat and dry winters. So even though it's quite cold it's not that "chill to the bone" kind of wet cold. The first snow of the season STUCK! I couldn't believe it. Since it seems to snow like ten times in Oregon before it actually sticks to the ground. And it was pretty neat to see all the Hawaiians outside the night it snowed making haggard snowmen since it was the first time they had seen snow.

I've been indoors pretty much all week studying for test that continually seem to get harder, so Sunday I decided I need to get OUT! So I went on a hike on the Corkscrew, pretty close to the Liberty Cap hike I went on a few weeks back. And in the middle of our hike it started snowing haha. Good thing I just got a nice puffy snow coat from my parents and sista for my Birthday! THANKS GUYS!

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2 Corinthians 4:16-18  So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,  as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. :)