gone crabbin'!

supplies:
raw meat
string
nets
ice chest

tie your meat to the string and throw it out. then when ya feel a crab a nibblin, ya pull it in and sneak up on the crab with your net. then ya cook em!!

ok, now peeling them is a whole 'nother story. You'll have to get mawmaw ivy to teach ya that one.

today we also went down a nature trail and saw some gators. that was pretty exciting. they swam right underneath the bridge we were standing on and we poked them with sticks.

lovely little vaca down here in south louisiana :D

a few recent adventures..

Headed to the Arkansas/Oklahoma border last weekend for a road trip to my favorite place on the planet. Pig Camp. Creek baths, runs off of a generator, worship on the mountain...love it.

Kelli's birfday!!

camping, cooking over the fire, collecting our own wood, smores

setting up camp/tents...we did it all! it was awesome!

Even with sweet prego Ashley :)

and last but never leaste, Nashville! oh, nashville.

beans!

i would like to take this moment to write a little update... at this moment it is 2am. my roommates are up studying for their community nutrition test. we have 2 pretty big pots of beans cooking on the stove for internationals tomorrow. i am listening to miranda lambert, my fave. and looking at senior pictures. oh yea, i'm a senior. graduating in, well i don't know how many days, but soon!! then colorado bound.....

i am up to 5 followers. whoo!! 1 of them is myself, so i guess that makes 4. i LOVE to click on "next blog" and read the random thoughts of people all around the world that i do know. i love it! things that consume wayyyy too much of my time is class, work at the lambright, and interning at Life Choices. which is so great! i love that place. You would never know the great ways God is working by looking in from the outside of that little building. but it's incredible. learning to be alone and not be lonely...

dross

I learned a new word tonight... dross: scum. worthless matter. Malachi 3:3 He will sit like a refiner of silver, burning away the dross. He will purify the Levites, refining them like gold and silver, so that they may once again offer acceptable sacrifices to the Lord. So this is where I am at in my life...I am at this place of refinement. Getting rid of the dross. The worthless matters in my life. The scum that is contaminating my soul. And this has been such a hard time for me. Getting rid of things in my life that are hindering my walk with Christ is changing my whole entire life...so crazy. so unfamiliar. and so painful. But I am tired of settling. I do NOT want to be a "nice Christian girl". I don't. barf. I desire to be like Elisabeth Elliot, who brought the gospel to the very people who martyrd her husband. Corrie TenBoom, my hero, who listened so intently to the voice of the Holy Spirit as she traveled the world sharing the Good News. Amy Carmichael, Betty Stamm, Catherine Booth... So I'm trying to yield to refinement and get rid of the dross in my life. That I "may once again offer acceptable sacrifices to the Lord." "The fire only leaves behind whatever is of worth." -jj heller