My Brother's High School Graduation

{class of 2015]

9 May 2015 was an exciting day for the graduates of Faith Academy. That was the day that thirteen years of hard work would pay off and the day that they would graduate from high school. So many emotions were at the graduation. Some were anxious to graduate. Others were worried or scared because they didn't know the outcome of what they would be doing in the future. Others were excited to graduate. Whatever the feelings were, it was normal. 

  Here are a few pictures from graduation. Sadly our mother couldn't make it because she was sick.

  Right behind, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, there was a field full of wild daisies so we decided to take pictures in the field because we thought it would be pretty. 

Rose and I got a picture with the graduates (Jared and CJ) outside of the church before they walked across the stage.

 For some reason, we got this feeling that church really didn't want us in the building. Because the church is two hours away, we had to use the bathroom,, and when we walked up to the door, a security person was threatening to  call the police o people for trying to use go in the building and and another person was locking the doors preventing people from entering. After telling the security that we would leave the building right after we went to use the bathroom, they reluctantly let us use the bathroom. 
At the front of the building there was a line of people waiting to be let in to the church and as people were queuing up, the church was selling food and water, balloons and other things to people waiting to see their friends and family graduate. It was actually kind of shocking to say the least. 
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CJ ended up doing a "mini" photoshoot with Rose and myself so here are a few photos from that as well.

CJ's graduation was much, much better in my opinion as it didn't seem to last as long (no cowbells, horns, etc). The preacher was much better than last years as he was able to connect with the audience and  he brought in Forest Gump quotes into his message, which made it like ten times better. 

Best of Luck to the graduates of Faith Academy/s class of 2015. God has some amazing plans for you and  you will do great in these next few years of college or working, 

"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." -Jeremiah 29:11

H12 Got Talent

Tuesday, 28 April 2015 was H12 Got Talent. H12 is the high school ministry at 12Stone Church and H12 Got Talent is a talent show that the ministry puts on to have fun and to allow students to invite their friends to church. This year, the talent show consisted of ten acts that danced, did a magic tricks or sang.

Because CJ, my brother, gets there early to help set up, we got there early to help prepare for the night. Did you know that every single chair in the main worship center was prayed for that night? What about every Tuesday someone prays over the chair that you sit in Cafe Theater? Well it happens because prayer works.

because i am no longer a student apart of H12, I was able to volunteer (even if I were still a student I would be volunteering for this event). I got to meet each of the acts and get a chance to talk to them before they went on stage and preformed for the audience. I had to make sure that every single person had a wrist band that was still in high school so that way we could keep track of everyone. Because not everyone showed up on time, it allowed me to talk with the students and get to know them. Once I did that, I came out and put wrist bands on the students who were arriving for the night. There were quite a few students as it filled up the entire lower section of the main auditorium.

Once i was done, I got to enjoy the show with the rest of the students and leaders. It was such a fun night and a great way to start my summer. :)

 Here I was reunited with the best friend who I haven't seen since her birthday in March

Joy, Rose and I enjoying H12 Got Talent during the intermission. 

The person who won that night was a boy named Andy and I think he did a great job. He was dancing to spoken word that he had recorded earlier, Because he won, he received 500 dollars in cash. 

CCF Banquet

{Christian Campus Fellowship} 

Love God, Love Others 

The freshmen of CCF

Last night was the CCF Banquet. It hit me really hard because well I realized that it was one of  the last big things I would do with these people.

They have taught me so much over the past year at West Georgia and I could never thank them enough. These people helped me create some amazing friendships and helped make me feel welcome when I first came to West Georgia. 

 BreAnna. This girl is truly amazing as she was the first person to introduce me to CCF. I met her at NTS Camp about three years ago and the summer before my freshman year, she mentioned CCF to me and I was like "yeah, okay..." but I totally forgot about it until August came around. God strategically placed this lovely girl in my life at the right moment because I was quite apprehensive coming here as I didn't really know anyone except her. Thank you for introducing me to so many people1 :) 

Abbie. Leah. Jordan. Amber. These were the next people I met coming to West Georgia. Brian had gotten me a ride to Midway through Abbie and I didn't even know who she was but she helped me meet so many people such as Leah and Jordan. Abbie also mentioned CCF as well and helped me adjust to being in Carrollton. This picture is the Girls Bible Study this semester. We had this Bible Study and it was great getting to know these lovely girls this year.  We experienced so much together from laughter and goofing off. 

Katrina. Olivia. Emma. Lindsay. Kelsey. Abbie. Elizabeth. (Missing Emily). These are a great group of girls. Over the semester and the year, I was able to create a friendship with them and I couldn't be more thankful. It was nice havung Lindsay in like 3 classes last semester as it was nice to see a familiar face in my classes.

Zina. Amy. These girls are hilarious. Thanks for being awesome and laughing with me. :) 

Thanks for a great year! I know that I will have to come and visit you guys! Thanks for giving me a wonderful freshman year! Love you guys! I will definitely have to come and visit! :) 

Outfit of the Day 16 April 2015

Because everyone says that the outfit I was wearing reminds them of an outfit that people would wear at a Festival such as Coachella,  I asked a friend to get some pictures of me with her camera. We spent about ten minutes taking pictures and here are a few of my favorites. :) 

I asolutely love this outfit as it reminds me of Springtime. This is one of the last days I will be on University of West Georgia's campus as I am transferring schools next semester so I wanted to get a few pictures as it's so pretty right now. Everything is blooming. 

What I am Wearing: 

Skirt: Rue21

Shirt: Rue21 

Flower Crown: Forever21 

Earrings: Charming Charlie 

Sandals: DSW

Passion City Church- The Grove

{ t h e   g r o v e} 

The Grove is an all woman's event at Passion City Church and it was amazing! There were so many women there. My first time going was on Monday, 13 April 2015. It was amazing because it was a great night to spend time with women who love Christ. 

Kristian Stanfill led worship that night and it was amazing as Shelly Giglio and a few leaders at Passion City Church talked about Proverbs as the church just got out of reading the entire book of Proverbs for a month. 

{The way we  l i v e  builds our character} 

the fear of the Lord is a desire to live in his standards and live in Harmony with him. 

{The way we  s p e a k  effects our words} 

we need to pay attention to the words that we speak as there is always learning as we don't know everything 

we can either take the words of what someone else says and let that unravel in our lives or we can look to our Heavanly Father to see what he says.

{The way that we  l o v e  effects our relationships} 

love doesn't keep a record of wrongs.

for me, of the most encouraging things was when someone told me that they love the way that I worship. Since coming to college, I kind of became self-concious of how I worship and I know that  I shouldn't be. But something came over me as I was worshipping at the Grove on Monday, that led me to nor care at what people think about when I worship. 

I started to dance and raise my hands as I did before entering college, but I held back as I noticed that not many people were doing so,. Something happened that night where I just could not stand still... let me just tell you worshipping is not what others around you are doing but what you are doing for God.  This encouaged me not to care about what other are doing, and just {worship our Lord and Savior}. 

if you are the one who told me that told me that they love the way that I worship, thank you. Thank you for reminding me thast I don't need to be self-concious about worshipping God and do what feels natural, even if nobody is doing it. Thannk you for everything. 

After the Grove wwas over, we were heading back to the car with Victoria as we were going to get food as it has been awhile since we last saw her was over a month ago.  It was pouring.  I had left my raincoat in Mary's car and all Mary had a small umbrelal that could fit two people. Well, this nice gentleman comes and runs up to me as I was not under the umbrella and walks with us all the way to her car. We later found out that he's from Douglasville and drove an hour to get to Passion City Churc h to serve us. The men serve the ladies who attend the Gorve and they aren't allowed in the main room but they clearly love God to do this just for us...

We ended up going to Chilli's for food after the Grove and we saw some lovely ladies who were t the Grove and we ended up inviting them to sit wih us and it was aamzing even though I just met them, we were talking about everything and anything with them. 

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” - Matthew 18:20 (ESV) 

Passion City Church: Community Groups

On 7 February 2015,  I had the opportunity to go to Atlanta for Passion City Church's College Community groups for the first time. It was my first time ever entering the church and instantly, I fell in love. When I first came to the building, there was really no sign to the building. The building is a pure white building with the address on the it. Passion has really no sign except a very small one saying that you are in the right place. Mary explained to me that Passion created the building that way because without a group of believers, the building is just a building. It has no significance until a group of believers of Christ are there. 

For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them. - Matthew 18:20 (NIV)

Once I entered the building, I was completely in awe as the inside of the building was not exactly what I thought of. It was completely beautiful and nowhere near what I thought it would be. It was completely open and there were large shipping crates in the hallway promoting things that were going on in the church. One thing left me speechless would be a large "Jesus is Life' sign on the wall made out of light bulbs, but the decoration wasn't quite finished as there were blank spaces in the in the wall. I learned that each light bulb in the wall of this sign equals one life that was saved. 12Stone has coined the term that "One Matters"; One life matters to God and by showing this on the wall, it's a visual representation of each life that gave their life to God. 

For my first time of community groups, they played "Uptown Funk" by Bruno Mars and we had a dance party. Then we broke up into community groups. How they broke up into community groups would be you go and find someone and then you two find two more people and then you go and find four more people making us a group of eight. We introduced each other and said where we went to school and something random about ourselves. We then went into saying what God has been doing in our lives and if you know anything about me, I can never listen to enough God stories. Once we shared our God stories with our group, we came together to share some God stories that is happening in the lives of others. 

Each time I come to the community Groups, there's always something new. For example, the most recent one that they had (on 24 March 2015), they separated us by school or young professionals. Because I currently attend the University of West Georgia, I would be under the group known as Other. Because Other sounded really bad, we wanted to be known as Team Miscellaneous. Then they split us up in to sub categories, within our large group. Once we were in groups of eight, someone in each group downloaded an app known as RapChat, so that we could create a rap to be played over for everyone to hear. Once we finished working in our sub-group, we picked the best one in our main group to be pitted against the other groups. Our group won. We got Ginny's Ice Cream that we shared with GSU because they were the runners up in the rap battle.

"We've got 99 problems but fitting in ain't one"

Once the rap battle was over, we all read John 12:1-20 by ourselves silently. When I said that it was silent, it was s i l e n t. Literally, it was so quiet that you could hear a pen drop and it would echo. If you know a thing or two about college kids, we are not quiet. There were about 300 people in the room and it was dead quiet. But God was speaking to us. If you have never read John 13:1-20, it is about when Jesus knows that he is going to die and instead of making it about him, he decided to serve the ones who have been with him for three years. He washed their feet and if you know anything about the time period that Jesus washed the disciples' feet, their feet were dirty. They wore sandals (not like the ones we wear but more like Old Navy's Flip flops) and the men walked everywhere so their feet were dusty and gross. To wash their feet was a job of a slave...not a job of a K I N G. Once we finished reading the passage, we went around the group and shared what we saw in the passage. The cool thing about this is that each person who read the passage, saw something different and it was really cool to see how just by reading the Bible, we each can get something different out of the same passage. 

Mary and Kelsie

Being able to attend Passion City Church's College Community Groups taught me more than what I had ever imagined. He has given me a group of people that I can lean on and trust. Being a Christian, you cannot do life on your own.You simply cannot.You will stumble and fall. You do life together.  You hold each other accountable and you share life together. Whether these people are at Passion or not, you must find yourself a group of believers that will hold you accountable. 

I cannot see where God is leading me in the future. He has already called me to be at GSU in the fall and I could not be more excited to be in Atlanta for school; I don't know if I will be at Passion in the Fall, but God has put some wonderful GSU students in my life and that I can't wait to be going to school with. :) 

Just a few pwople from a community group: Mary, Victoria and Stephen

Spring Break 2015

We can never take a good picture; for this reason, I love Daisie, Madison and Andrew.

{s p r i n g    b r e a k    2  0 1 5}

Thursday, March 12, 2015, was the start of Spring Break. Mom picked me up from Public Speaking class at 12:30 and then we went to Arbor Place Mall. I have been wanting Johnny Rockets for a few weeks and eventually I was able to get it. We also went shopping in the mall for me to get some new clothes for a trip that I am taking in the summer. After we left the mall, we went to the mall of Georgia to pick up Ariel and Alayna to get them for C12. Now, I was really excited to be able to go to C12  as it was a Night of Worship. A much needed night of worship; there I was able to see many C12 people that I hadn't seen since July of 2014 because of college. It reminded me how much I missed this group of people that I love.

It's been over six months since l last saw Alayna and Ariel at C12

On Friday the 13th, I went to Atlanta by myself and let me tell you this, I was totally afraid of going down there alone. I went to GSU's campus and as soon as I was called in for instant decision day, I was accepted into the school immediately. I am so excited to be going down there in the Fall and I know that God has some big plans for me and even though it scares the crap out of me, I know that I am following his wishes and that he got me on this. 

That Saturday, Mom and I took a trip down to Athens. Since Athens is roughly 30-45 minutes from the house, Mom allowed me to drive down there so that I can get driving experience. We spent the day down there shopping and spending time with my mother. It was quite fun as we went to Willy's for lunch and it reminded me of going to Chipotle or Moe's although it was not too bad. I quite enjoyed it. One thing  I love down in Athens would be that they have a Trader Joe's there. Trader Joes is fantastic and its so fun to be in the store even though it's a grocery store. We also went to Lifeway and I got a new Bible and I absolutely love it. It's a journaling Bible so it has places in the margins to take notes and such, It's a beautiful creation and I love it.

On Sunday, I was able to volunteer with M12 and it was amazing! Being able to see the girls grow in their walk with Christ and spend the time to get to know each and every single one of them, was an awesome sight. I also got to see the leaders and hang out with them after the first service . We went to Taco Bell and just hung out and get to hang out with them as not only are they my friends, but also some of the best people I could be with. After the second service, since it was a nice day out, I was able to Eno and I loved it! It was one of the post peaceful and relaxing thing I've done since I started spring break. I wasn't hot but wasn't cold out either. The wind was blowing making it the perfect day to be outdoors and experience God's creation.

On Tuesday, I went to H12 and helped them set up. We arrived at the Church at 2:00PM and let me tell you this, there is a lot of preparation that happens behind the scenes that many people don't know about and take for granted as it takes hours to make sure that everything is ready for H12. There's bulletins to be printed and put out, there's making sure that there is enough seating in Cafe Theater, there's setting up the check in area and making sure that the games are set up and that the signs are out for the night. Not to mention that we pray over the room and the night before students even arrive. Now there is student-led prayer that happens at 5:30, but there's also a prayer that happens before students even arrive. Let me just tell you this: prayer works. If you don't get anything out of this, know that prayer works. {you might not get an answer that you like, but he answers it: yes, no, wait}

Daisie and Myself

On Wednesday, Rosemarie was sick, so we went and visited her and took her a birthday present as her birthday was the 22 of March. It was such a great time as I got to catch up with her and I missed the laughter and she pointed out a mistake that I made on her birthday present. I gave her a shadow box with a hole  at the top so that she could put her travel memories (plane tickets, tickets to events,etc) in it and in the box I spelled out "Adventure is out there" in stickers as a reference to the Disney move, UP. Only I misspelled adventure by not including the 'n' in adventure....  oops.

On Thursday, I had C12 which I was stoked about as it was Alayna's birthday as well! :) I have known Alayna for almost seven years or so because we met in 6th grade and now we are freshmen and college. Where has the time gone? But It was the first time that I heard the new college pastor, Matt, speak because I've been in Carrollton and it was a little hard for me to come home to hear hm speak. The first time I was able to come to C12, we got free Starbucks and we were "speed dating" because they were coming out of a dating series. It was really fun because I got to meet so many new people that I will be hanging out with this summer and in the fall hopefully. The next time I came to C12, was a night of worship. I quite enjoyed his message because Matt talked about: "what right is right even if nobody is doing it and what is wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it."

On the final day of Spring Break, I was able to volunteer with M12 one last time before summer and even though all the leaders were tired because of prom before, it was still enjoyable and I got to spend time with the students who wanted to learn more about having a relationship with Christ.

Being home this week made me realize how blessed that I truly am and that I cannot wait to be home for the summer. Just four more weeks till summer :)

The End It Movement

{s l a v e r y}

Would you ever think that slavery still happens today? At this very moment?  Of course not, you would think. Slavery happened two hundred years ago, and the United States need slavery with Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War. 

But here's where you are wrong. 

Slavery Still exists. To This very day. Here in the United States and all over the world. What kind of slavery do ask? Well sex trafficking and forced labor are two types of slavery that happen all over the world. Even in the United States. Many People are smuggled in and out of the United States and forced into slavery. It's not just people from outside the United States, but also people inside the United States. Currently, over 27 Million People are held into hostage and bounded into slavery. Men. Women. Children. It makes no difference. 

Now Where does the End It Movement Come in? 

Today, 27 of February 2015,  is a day where many people have taken the stance to get a red marker and draw a RED X on their hand. Well, What does that signify? Putting a Red X your hand won't do anything some may argue. But by drawing a red x on your hand, it will raise awareness to this cause. People will ask why you have an X on your hand and it will signify that you are against slavery of this world and that we, as a generation, want to change that. 

Another way that you can help, would be to donate to the cause to help free people. Slaves. Get the people out of hostage and give them the live that they deserve to see. The Life that they Once saw. 

To donate to the End It Movement, you can do so here. 

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life,and have it to the full." - John 10:10 (NIV)

Are you willing to be apart of a generation that wants to end slavery for good? 

Winter Jam 2015

On 7 February 2015, Winter Jam Came to the Georgia Dome.

Winter Jam is a Christian Concert and basically you pay ten dollars last the door to see ten bands play. the bands that we saw were for King & Country, Building 429, Jeremy Camp, Skillet, Family Force 5, Francesca Battistelli, Newsong, About a Mile, Blanca and Veridia.

This was my first ever Winter Jam concert and I was really excited to be able to attend in 2015. 

 I've seen most of these artists in concert before but It was nice to see them again live. I know I have seen Building 429, Family Force 5, Francesca Battistelli, Jeremy Camp, &

  for King & Country. 

Because it was at the Georgia Dome, the food there was expensive. Just to get a bag of cotton candy was five dollars and a bottle of water was four dollars. It was ridiculous but it was a great way for the Georgia Dome to make some money and boy did they sure did. I felt like we were at a sports game because concessions people were walking around trying to sell food to the consumers. Although I understand that these people need to make money, screaming popcorn while someone is praying on stage is quite rude and when Francesca was singing "Holy Spirit", when we took a moment to breathe, all we could hear was concessions people trying to sell things. It was quite an experience. 

The only complaint that I had was that meeting the artists turned into a mob because the only allowed for us to meet them at the end of the entire show; not the end of when they played. It was really poor planning on their part but security was only allowing Luke from for King  & Country (pictured above) to either sign  an autograph or take a picture with us. 

Well I was holding a Winter Jam shirt and the security lady took it out of my hands for him to sign, I was like no I just want  picture. Luke was really sweet and kind to us and it was really neat to talk to him even though, security was pushing us away. 

Overall I had a wonderful time and even though I'm not a huge fan of Skillet (partly because I'm not a huge fan of the genre that they play), every band did a wonderful job and I can't wait to go back again.... Hopefully 2016! :) 

Meeting Kris Allen

       Yesterday, Kris Allen came to the University of West Georgia's bookstore. He had a concert at the Mill Town Music Hall which is in Bremen, Georgia at 8 PM last night. 

   

 For those of you that don't know who Kris Allen is, he won season 8 off American Idol.  Truthfully, many artists from American Idol aren't really recognized as much anymore and the most successful people that people still remember from the show are Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson from previous seasons of American Idol. Because Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul had left the show, things have started to go downhill at that point. But Kris Allen is famous for the song "Live Like We're Dying" and Kayne West's "Heartless".  (He did a cover of Heartless while on American Idol) 

Yesterday,  I randomly went to the bookstore to look at the new merchandise that I had gotten an email about. while I was there, I saw a poster on the door saying that Kris Allen was going to be there at 3 PM. I looked at my phone and the time said 2:50PM. I had nothing else to do that day because I didn't have any Friday classes. so I stuck around and waited to meet him. 

While I was waiting to meet him (He didn't arrive until about 3:20), I meet some really nice people. Brenna, Erica and Evan. We struck a conversation and all came to the conclusion that we had no idea that he was coming to campus but we all knew American Idol (it is going downhill in my opinion). It was really fun and we bonded over the weirdest things. 

Finally, Kris Allen shows up and we were one of the few people that actually got to meet him. He was such a sweetheart and took the time to take pictures with everyone and even signed autographs for us. Granted that there was only like twenty of us that met him, but it was so kind of him to do so. 

We all waited for him to be done taking pictures of everyone and so that could get a group picture with him. 

One girl even asked if Kris remembered her because she has met him on several occasions and been to many of his concerts. Unfortunately,  he didn't which was pretty awkward because she's met him many times. It was pretty ironic because when we went to his concert that night he said that he would remember many of our faces and stuff like that when he was singing a song he created for the end of his shows) 

I let Kris take a selfie of us

Before Kris left, we asked him if he still watches American Idol, to which he replies "he doesn't have cable." You don't need cable to watch American Idol because it is a local channel; it was funny because once we told him that he, goes "I don;'t have time and I don't really have a television". Once he left, we knew that he didn't want to bad mouth American Idol because that's what gave him his career, but in reality American Idol is going downhill.  

     

From left to Right: Evan, Brenna, Kris Allen, Me (Jenna), and Erica

Later that night, Brenna and I went to see Kris Allen at his concert. It was only a 20 minute drive from campus and they sold us tickets for $15 dollars at UWG (Tickets are normally 0-45 dollars). It wasn't so bad. The venue is smaller than a Walmart and about the size of a Walgreens which is quite small for a venue, 

The opening act, Ivey Redding wasn't too bad. She only preformed for about 10 minutes before there was an intermission. When Kris came on, he did a lot of covers of songs (such as "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift). I'm not a fan "Shake It Off", but I have to say that he did a really good job! He also did a some of his music, which was pretty neat because the only song of his that I know is "Live Like We're Dying".

It was so fun because he was involving the audience (even though there was a lot of older people and not many young people)  and was creating improv songs and stuff. But He definitely was showing off and being himself.  Overall I had a really good time for $15. The show lasted for maybe two hours (it started late because their was an accident on I 20) 

The pictures were taken on an iPhone 5S andI took the ones of Kris Allen. 

Thanks for reading!

Jenna 

A New Haircut

I can't remember the proper time, I have actually gotten a haircut without donating it. When I was younger (maybe six or seven years of age), I had a haircut that was just shorter than my ears... .It was frightening.

 I have been donating my hair to Locks of Love since I was in 4th or 5th grade. At first the minimum to cut your hair with them was a twelve inches. Since then, they lowered the standards to ten inches.  For those of you that don't know what Locks of Love is,  it is an organization that people donate their hair to so that they can create wigs for people with cancer. I've donated my hair four or five times with them. But instead of giving their wigs away for free, they sell the wigs to people. Unfortunately, I just learned this today or I would've never started to donate my hair to them. I know its going to a good cause but I don't exactly agree with that and it saddens me that not many people know that they sell their wigs for a profit.

For the past few months, I have had my hair up in a bun, braid or even a ponytail and when I would wear my hair down, many people would comment how long my hair has grown. It's not a bad thing, but at points it would get overwhelming to get that same comment over and over again.  To be honest, I would rarely have it down because it got in the way and was a distraction for me and I began to think of cutting it off again. So on 18 January 2015,  I cut my hair off again. 

Getting a haircut for you might be normal and you may get it every couple weeks or months. But for me, I get a haircut maybe once every year or two. Because it takes so long for hair to grow to be long enough to donate but not coming to my ears. I remember the last two times, I had my hair cut, I cried. Yes, I cried when I got my hair cut but when you loose ten inches of hair that has been attached to your head, you will feel quite emotional. 

Today, I cut my hair for a different organization. An organization that I know that doesn't sell wigs for a profit. They give their wigs to people battling cancer for free. This organization is Pantene's Beautiful Lengths. They have the same requirements as Locks for Love except the amount of hair you can donate would be eight inches. Two Inches shorter than Locks For Love. 

This picture was taken hours before I cut my hair

After eight inches of hair had been cut off & the eight inches of hair in my hand

Even though I will miss doing things with my hair, I know it will grow back and there are many cute short hair styles out there. I just need to explore the options. I know I will have less hair maintenance and that may be a good thing because it won't take my long for me to try and curl my hair these days. Once I get tired of short hair i know it will grow back. 

   

Goodbye 2014, Hello 2015

2014 went by quite quickly. 2015 is here. Wow and even though I am writing this post in the middle of January, I can't believe how quickly time has gone by. 

    

 Why I started blogging: 

         To begin why I am even blogging, I first started to read blogs by others in 2014 and by reading this one bloggler, Ella. {Big thanks to Ella for blogging because her blog is fabulous and she is a great inspiration} I never even thought of starting to blog until I learned that I must blog for one of my core classes in education in college. Between the class that I have to blog for and the inspiration from reading Ella's blogposts have encouraged my decision into start blogging. I know that I will make mistakes along thawed but as time goes on, I hope to start to improve my writing skills and this will give me a way to express and to share my ideas and inspirations and what I am thinking in a form of writing.

          Goals for 2015: 

             Because this is my first blog post, I want to share some of the goals that I have set for myself. Some people would call these New Year Resolutions, but personally, I hate New Year Resolutions. To me you can always be changing so why do you want to wait until the New Year to change? Can't you start in July? What about March or October? Why wait until January of the New Year to create something?
            I want to enjoy the finer things in life. Because I am in college, it can be quite stressful. With homework, studying and juggling everything that life throws at you, it can be challenging. By enjoying the finer things in life such as maybe going for a walk in the park to enjoy nature or even by smiling more, I know it will make me happier and help me become less stressed and help me enjoy being in the moment instead of worrying about the future. Because we are a technological world, it gets tough to step away from social media. To help me enjoy the finer things in life, I want to take a step away from technology for a bit and spend time doing something else.
           Make more time to spend with my family. As my brother, CJ, and I get older, we get busier and busier than ever and we tend to spend more time working or hanging out with friends. That's not a bad thing, but sometimes we forget to spend time together as a family. Especially with me being away in college, it gets tough because I don't see them as much as I would if I were living at home.
            Finally,  I want to blog. I know this sounds quite redundant as I am blogging right now but I want to blog when I come up with an idea or something that i feel like I should blog about instead of blogging because I feel like I have to and need to. I created this blog so that I can express myself in writing as I am thinking about minoring in English. I don't want writing this blog to ever feel like I have to write, but because I enjoy writing this blog. This blog will help me improve my writing skills and even help me find a new hobby. :)

Thanks for Reading! Have a great weekend. :)

Jenna