High School Graduates!

As Ethan and I pulled out of his driveway yesterday afternoon to head to the high school for his graduation I looked over at him and said, "This is the last time you will leave you house as a high school student." Let me just tell you that I cannot believe that Ethan and I are now high school graduates! I am so very excited about college in the fall, but as I think about the here and now I can't believe that something I thought would never get here has already come and gone. Time passes so fast. Ethan and I met in Jr.High , became the best of friends, and have been dating for 2 1/2 years! We are truly blessed to have found each other and are very excited about all that God has in store for our life! I am so proud of Ethan for the man of God he has become! He truly desires to bring glory to His name! Ethan has always been one of my biggest cheerleaders and has always pushed me to be all that God designed me to be. He has always encouraged me to never hold back, but run with confidence! I will never be able to thank Ethan enough for all that he has done for me and all that he is to me! I am truly blessed! So now as we are no longer high schoolers, we are looking towards the future and are trusting and praying that God will lead us every step of the way! I know He will!

This is Ethan before we left his house for graduation! Looking very handsome if I may say so myself!

Ethan and I after graduation!

Coming so fast!

Well, it's that time of year...graduation is apon us and it's time to step into a new chaper of life! I am really looking forward to graduation, and all of the excitment that it holds! I will be posting photos over the next week or two from all of the different events!

Here is a photo of Ethan and I from our Senior Dinner at Church!!

This is all that I can say.....

Over the past few months I found that watching someone hurt, someone who is so very close to you and someone you love very much, can be one of the hardest things I or anyone will ever have to do. Knowing and trusting that God works all things together for good to those who love Him, and yet...why isn't anything changing? Why is that person or those people hurting so deeply? Why are they having to fight so hard for something that used to be so easy? Why does everything feel so numb? Why would they ever even have to deal with something like this? Why...Why...Why...?

I can't even begin to tell you how hard is to watch two people, who I love with all my heart, go through one of the darkest things in their life. Feeling so unable to help, to change it, or to remove it. Wanting so badly to fix it, and not being able to do a thing.

I have been more encouraged by the strength of these loved ones and will never be able to express to them what I have learned from them, but at the very same time feeling so discouraged.

Wanting God to give answers, wanting Him to fix everything with the flip of a switch, but also trusting that somehow through all of this, God will be glorified.He will be praised. He will NOT leave things in the dark.

I heard a song on a blog by someone who I truly look up to and this song is also on my playlist. It's called "This is all that I can say." Sometimes we can say nothing at all to God. We feel so empty, like nothing is even worth saying. We are hurt, feeling lonely, lost and without understanding. Wondering why and how. I have learned that sometimes all we can say is Jesus. And when "this is all that I can say" I just remember that He can take it, and that He unserstands. His wants us to bring all of our hurt and pain to Him. He wants us to lay it all down at His feet. He never says, "that's too much to handle", but always says "bring it on, I can take it."

So when Jesus is all that we can say, say it anyway.

Busch Gardens!

Last weekend Ethan and I went down to Busch Gardens with our youth group! It was so much fun! I had never been and it was neat to go a park with big roller costers(not that I rode them, haha)! I did get on a roller coster that I wouldn't normally ride, and I loved it!! It even turned upside down! I was very proud of myself and am really looking forward to riding somemore!! I think I might be getting braver, thanks to Ethan :) The photo above is one from the beginning of the day!

Welcome!

I know that I already have a Photography Blog, but I decided that I would use this blog for more presonal things. I think it will be a neat way for me to allow my family and friends to keep up with me when I leave for college in August. I hope you will keep up with me as I step into this new chapter of my life!