New Chapter...

Well, Steps and I are no longer courting. I want to first start off saying that I harbor no ill feelings towards him, or anyone in his family. I love them all with the love of Christ. They are my brothers and sisters in the Lord and I will always treat them as such! Steps and I had some different views on certain topics, and you know what, that is O.K.! Of course it hurts. How can it not when you've been so involved in another's life for such a long period of time? However, over this course of time I feel that I've grown as a person. I've come to a better understanding of myself and most importantly, where I stand in my relationship with my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

As hard as it is to say, because it does still hurt, Steps and I were not meant to be. At least not right now. I don't know what God has planned for either of our futures. All I know is that right now, I need to keep my focus on Jesus (as it always should be), my family and friends, church, and school. For me, the relationships I have with Jesus, my parents, siblings, and friends deserve my utmost attention. When God is ready to send me "Mr. Right," He will! I don't have to worry about it, He's already got me covered. Until the time He has appointed arrives, I will be keeping my focus on what He has me doing here and now.

So, here's the thing, What's done is done. I'm going to remember all the good times, and learn from the bad. I'm not going to look back because it's impossible for me to move forward when I do! I'm going to trust fully in the grace, mercy, kindness, love, and peace that only my Heavenly Father can provide. He is forever faithful and to Him will I cling...

Until next time,
-Daughter of The King

Already??

Wow, it's hard to believe my break is almost over! I could have sworn that it just began.... Oh well. I'll get back to that in a minute, first I need to catch you up on what I've done over my precious 3 and a 1/2 weeks of break.........

Well, I haven't really been up to very much! I went to "the Happy Place" with my family, my sweet-heart (a.k.a Steps!), and another family. We were outside all day and it was FREEZING!!! However it's safe to say we all had a lot of fun! You can read more about our day and see pictures from my mom's blog.....

Moving along.....

We had an absolutely great Christmas! We ate our traditional Cuban dinner of Pork, rice, black beans, yucca, and Cuban bread, on Christmas Eve (like we always do). Steps came over as well as JC and his family. (JC is Soaring Amongst the Clouds' friend) After dinner Steps and I went to our church for the Christmas Eve Candle Light service. It really was absolutely beautiful! After the service I went with Steps and his family to look at Christmas lights. Everyone had a great time!

Christmas morning arrived and we got dressed, started breakfast (most of it had to bake in the oven for a while), while breakfast was in the oven, we opened our Christmas presents. JC also came over and he and Soaring Amongst the Clouds exchanged gifts. Once we were all done we went back to work in the kitchen preparing our breakfast. We had Monkey Bread, and Eggs Fantastic.....yum!!!

Fast-forwarding a bit.....

Christmas afternoon I went with Steps and his family to see Bedtime Stories. (It's a yearly tradition in their family to go see a movie in theaters on Christmas!) It was a very funny movie!! Christmas was a bit different this year, but I think everyone adjusted o.k. :o)

Since then we've been keeping busy with little projects around the house, playing tennis, going to Zumba, other activities, and of course...... New Years!

New Years Eve we went to Steps' house from 6 until 9:30 p.m. then we came home, ate brownies, watched a movie then t.v. and waited to see the Ball drop. We all were able to stay up! :o)

Well, I've caught ya up! I'll save my school news for another entry.

Until next time,
-Daughter of The King ♥

Christmas Break!!!

Finals are over! WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Christmas Break has officially started......
Can you tell I'm excited?

I'm too excited to blog anymore...........

I'll write more when I've settled down............

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOO HOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow.....

I cannot believe it is already October! This year has just flown by! So much has happened! I don't know where to begin, so I'll start with school.....(just to get it over with.)

I found it very hard to adjust to the "college life." Which kind of surprised me. I'm still living at home, so it isn't like I have to deal with a "bad" room-mate (one of the girls I met at my orientation did, but it's all fixed now), and I'm only at the *Alumni University two days a week, (I was able to schedule all my classes on those days...yay!) But the work load, all the people (3 out of my 4 classes are held in auditoriums!), and additional things that would normally already have me stressed, just did me in! But God is good and with the help of my family, my sweet-heart: Steps, friends, and going to my professors with questions, I'm beginning to adjust a bit better.

-There were many Bible verses that I have come across during these first weeks in school. But the one that really stood out and encouraged me the most was: Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." So often I found myself asking God why He even wants me to go to college. To be honest, I don't know, I may not know for several years down the road, but I do know that it's what He wants.

Sorry, I just had to chase that rabbit that escaped from the cage. It's back now, safe and sound. :o)

On a different note, The Warrior just turned 12! I feel so old ! He is growing up way too fast. He is so funny! He always keeps us laughing....when he's around you just have to smile. It's a natural instinct. :o) His birthday was this past Monday. He is playing fall ball this year, and dad is coaching!

G.I. Joe is playing soccer for the first time! He's doing great. Unfortunately, I have yet to make it to one of his games... :o( Hopefully I'll be able to go to one soon though.

Next week my sisters and heading off to Panama with The Boss lady (our Aunt on our mom's side) for our cousin's wedding. Well, I'm actually not quite sure how we're related, but somehow we are related to the groom. I'll just call him our cousin 'till I find out for sure. :o)

Aside from all that, there really isn't too much going on. Well, I do have some (understatement of the century!) homework to do, so for now I will bid you all adieu!

Until next time.

-Daughter of The King

Bored.

Well, I'm kinda bored at the moment, so I think I'll tell you what's been going on today.....

• I woke up late this morning! I didn't get out of bed 'till about 8 o'clock!
• After waking up late, I went downstairs and ate breakfast. I had blueberry bagels and chocolate milk.....yum!
• I finished some stuff for my speech class.
• Worked out with my sister, Soaring Amongst the Clouds.
• Wahsed my bed sheets and pajamas.
• I ate lunch with The Warrior.
• Watched Home Improvement.... (very funny show! You should watch it sometime.)
• Washed my comforter and pillow cases.
• Took a shower.
• Painted my toe-nails. (I even put little sticker flowers that are meant just for painted nails! I have to admit, my toes look very cute!)
• Got ready to leave for the University. (Soaring Amongst the Clouds needed some textbooks, and we both wanted to find out where our classes were.)
• Left for the University. 2:30p.m.
• Arrived at the University. 3:20p.m. :o)
• Purchased her text books.
• Waited in the breezeway for the rain to stop coming down so hard so we could go back to the car to get our umbrella.
• I volunteered to go get the umbrella while Soaring Amongst the Clouds waited. (What was I thinking?)
• Went to get the umbrella. (I didn't get very wet at all! YAY!)
• Found Soaring Amongst the Clouds in the breezeway.
• Went to the Student Union to get a map. (I couldn't remember the name of the buildings where my classes were....oops.) :o)
• Found the building on the map.
• Went to the building where my first class is being held.
• Struggled to find the second building.
• Found the third building pretty easily.

By this time, it's already 5p.m., it is really pouring, and we're soaked from trying to share one umbrella while walking across the campus to find my classrooms.

• Waited in the breezeway about twenty minutes before deciding to make a run for it to get to the building where her orientation was being held.
• Got to the orientation room very easily.
• It was still early, (her orientation didn't start 'till 6p.m., remember?) so we went and found all her classrooms.
• We waited outside her orientation room for around fifteen minutes.
• She went into orientation, and I braved the pouring rain to come to the Library.
• I activated my Library card. (Which is just my university I.D. card. It just had to be activated before I could check anything out of the Library.)
• Logged on to my facebook account.
• Poked a few people on facebook.
• Checked my mail.
• Took another quiz for my speech class.
• Read some articles from Fox News online.
• Started this blog entry.

Well, I've got you all caught up! I'm currently still waiting for my sister to get out of orientation. I'm still very wet from the amount of rain water I've collected on the pant-legs of my jeans, and I'm absolutely freezing!!!!! Oh well, I'll just keep on thinking of my sweet-heart: Steps..... :o) a nice warm dinner waiting for me at home; my nice, warm, clean pajamas; and the comfort of being in my own home! Yeah..... I'll just keep holding on to those thoughts.

O.k., that's all I've got for now. Adieu!

Until next time,

-Daughter of The King

Wake up..... wake up.... wake up!!!

Well, I'm not waking up because this isn't a dream. I wish it was, but it isn't. Summer (summer vacation anyways) is coming to an end, and the hum-drum routine of school is going to hit full force in two days.


NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't wanna start college!!!!!!!!!!!!!


O.k....... I've had my little pity party. I'll do my best to stop complaining. :o)


However, as I've thought about classes starting, I've realized that I'm quite fortunate. God has truly blessed my sisters and I. Still Waters has no classes on Fridays, which is great because last semester she had to go to her university every day! Yup, that means Monday-Friday....not fun! Now she won't have to. YAY for her!!! Soaring Amongst the Clouds and I were able to get all of our classes on Tuesday and Thursday. YAY!!! I only have to be there twice a week (minus any extra labs I might need to be there for) but, I'll think about that later. So you see, God can bless us even when we aren't expecting it! :o) That is such a comforting thought!


Well, I don't know what else to say at the moment. So, to keep from endlessly rambling on about silly little nothings, I'll get going. :o) Because I will you know.....ramble on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, yeah. It can get pretty bad. :o) So I will bid you all adieu!

Until next time,
-Daughter of The King.

:o)

Entry one..

Tonight Youth-I-Versity started. YAY!!! This has to be one of my most favorite youth events. Every night we get together in the youth building and go to classes, play games, watch movies, and have snacks. The schedule was something like this:

1-First class
2-Snack
3-Class two
4-Game time
5-Movie

Tonight there were 4 different classes. Now, we only get to go to 2 of them so we have to choose carefully. I went to Mr. Geico's class and Mrs. Redhead's class. Mr. Geico taught about anger management. How we have to be careful and control out tempers. Mrs. Redhead (who happens to be our youth minister's daughter) taught how each member of the church is important.

We had ice cream for our snack. You could choose between an ice cream cone, or a waffle bowl. The ice cream choices were: chocolate, vanilla, or chocolate & vanilla & strawberry.There were all sorts of toppings to add! There were gummie bears, cherries, sprinkles, crushed oreos, and hard shell to put on top if desired. I selected an ice cream cone with chocolate ice cream and hershey's hard shell to go on top. It was amazing...... :o)

After that we went to our second class. It was neat because this year The Warrior is moving up to the youth. For the second both my brothers and I were together. We didn't plan it, it just ended up that way. It was a great class, everyone had a good time.

Next was game time. Tonight they had a jump rope contest. Not only was it a jump rope contest, it was a doubles jump rope contest. You had to be in teams of two and be able to jump into the swinging rope and then jump out after 3 synchronized jumps. As the teams moved up, the more jumps they had to make. We started with 3, then 5, 10, 15, and the last one was 20. Two guys ended up winning. The grand prize...... 20 dollars! It was so much fun to participate and watch. Steps and I were on a team. We got all the way to the third round, but once we hit 8 jumps, we somehow lost it and got eliminated. It's all good though, we had a great time!

After the jump rope competition was over we watched a movie that our youth pastor had picked out. It was a bit corny, but it was funny. We watched half tonight and we'll finish the other half tomorrow.

Well, that wraps it up. A fun time was had by all. Adieu!

Until next time,
-Daughter of The King