A Weekend in Pictures

There's much life to catch up on, however I want to show you part of my weekend so far.  Today was  a good day. Here's what it looked like:

 Fall has come to our home! Red flirts with the green and bursts towards the sun! I really love Fall and the colors all around! Fall sure looks different here than in Arkansas. Its like I'm searching for it, while there it was right in front of my face.

 Thursday I felt like I was back at Grace College in Santiago, but it was just Legacy Christian Academy. Chris Hurt spoke and so Alexis, who was back in town from Ouachita, and I went to support!

 Friday Night Lights with these friends to see some students!
Alexis is on the far left, Jacklyn and Chris (our middle school pastor and his wife) and myself. 

 We were creeping on Alexis before she saw us, and this is Chris and Jack's face of annoyance at her ignoring us. haha

 Aww! Frisco Band, my heritage.  Don't miss it, but thankful for those days. And proud to see some of our students doing so well in the FHS band.

The craiziness of Friday night! I come home after having to call the cops on some "suspicious youths," or "mala juntas" in Uruguyan, in the football stadium parking lot and find cop cars outside my house!  They had pulled some kid over and just happened to be in front of our house, but it was startling. Plus, they were there longer than a usual speeding ticket is so I think something shady went down.  This sums up the neighborhood that I live in. Cue Elvis Song!

 My life. I thought I had escaped the band world, but I'm being sucked back in. (:
Brady is a freshman at Wakeland High and in band. So we found ourselves at several marching band events this fall. Wakeland advanced to Area last week, so these pictures are from their area performance. Awesome!

 

 He's one of those mellaphone players, who seem headless with their horns up.

Being at band stuff is also an awesome opportunity to see several of my students

Some of my students are probably in these pictures. 

 Brady's the one in the center! Can you tell I'm sort of a proud sister?  Brady's band, after today's results, is headed to State! They're the only band from Frisco that made it to go on. Exciting times.

 Another one of my students! (:

 Then the rest of the day looked like this. Relaxation in my cozy little home.

So maybe not enough schoolwork done, but overall it's been pretty fantastic.  Life in the city is certainly an adventure.  Not the type of adventure I thought I'd be on right now, but the Lord is good and faithful and I'm very thankful to be where I am.
Church and Fall Festival tomorrow! Maybe I'll keep this little blog a bit more regularly. (:

"Middle School Girls Movie Night"

From bluegirlsministry.wordpress.com

Tonight was one of our first events with just girls. So what did we do? Watch She's The Man, naturally! It was a blast to have so many girls at church on a Friday night laughing together. I'm sure it is the first of many nights like these to come. (:

Fifteen For Friday

 I was going to make this Five for Friday, but I have too much to say (Or rather, too many photos to display), so Fifteen it is.

1. I returned to Arkadelphia this week and school began. It was a wonderful mix of emotions leaving and returning. I didn't really want to leave, but am glad to be here now.

2. I've been sick all week. This makes for starting class rather dreary.

3. It's great to be back with my roommates and dorm-family and other friends. Apparently I missed them. (:

4. God is Great. His greatness has overwhelmed me this week. And for that I'm thankful. More thankful than I could say.

5. I saw the loveliest rosebuds with dew drops on them today. Splendid!

6. We are using Pinterest in one of my Psychology classes for assignments. That's brilliant and a huge temptation all at the same time!

7. All of my classes are wonderful this semester! All of them. Usually there is that one that is not the best, but this semester (or at least so far) I am enjoying all of them.  It will be a lot of work, but I'll learn lots and have fun doing it. Excitement!

8. The newest David Crowder*Band album, "Give Us Rest or (A Requiem Mass in C [The Happiest of All Keys]) has been on repeat all week long. If you haven't gotten it yet, please do so as of ten minutes ago, that's how urgent and wonderful it is.

9. Highlight of the week was probably being back at Refuge. It is so wonderful to worship as a campus and to study God's Word together with peers leading us.  We began a series on the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-8) with the Beatitudes.  I was challenged to began to pray that my life matches up with these blessings.

10. It took me until today to fully unload every one of my suitcases... (I got here Monday night, and had four so that's not too bad, right?)

11. This week began my first semester of not being in a Spanish class. Oh, how I missed it!

12. My brother proudly plays epic-conquer-the-world computer games in his free time. Actually, both of them do. They are who I aspire to be. (Not really in the computer game attribute...so only part of that was sarcastic.) :)

13. Highlights of my Christmas break included: Speaking Spanish with both brothers in Oklahoma, Raw, barely-planned worship on Christmas morning, Seeing God's presence and movement at Passion2012, driving my grandparents to Downtown Dallas to look at a library, and bountiful family-time including baking and movies and laughs.

14. None of the pictures taken below were taken in a moving vehicle. They were taken in a vehicle, but I promise (Mom) that the car was not moving. (:

15. I decided to take a drive and I couldn't help but take my camera. I woke up to tremendous amounts of fog this morning but the sky cleared and left the earth moist and saturated in color. I simply had to attempt to capture it with my camera.  I found a lovely dirt road and blared some ABBA (which was a little strange to be listening to in the country, Blake Shelton or Tim McGraw should have been blaring...oops) and snapped a few shots on the side of the road. These were my 15 favorites. (:

Happy weekend! May it be relaxing and productive.

InJoy,
Brittany