everyone should do this walk for the little girl in the picture above. Her name is Alivia Haughery and she passed away from a short but hard and determined battle with leukemia. I got this picture from the blog that her mom kept when she was going through all this and to share what was happening with Livi as she fought this cancer. This precious little girl touched so many lives in her 2 years on earth and I pray that you will take some time out of your schedule to walk and raise money for other little kids with cancer so that you can help them beat it. check out the website www.lightthenight.org and find the walk closes to you. thanks and God bless : )

~rach

Steelers Game!!!! : )

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Me and Jimmy got to go to the steelers game today!! It was sooo much fun!! It was alittle more low key then a regular game just cause it was pre-season but hey it was a blast : ) : ). We got there alittle late cause jimmy had a soccer picnic (which was as boring as all get out lol ). But when we got there and went to go find our seats we discovered that they were unbelievable!! they were so close to the field. They were one level up from the field and right on the side of the end zone. it was a great night. we got down there safe on the T and made it back safe too on T (my dad almost drove all the way downtown to pick us up cause my mom was worried about us being down there..thanks for worrying mum but we were fine :) ).

Another really great thing about today was that i got to spend time with Betsy before she left for Messiah tomorrow (3 more days baby!!) which was a blessing cause i feel like God has allowed us to become alot closer which is great cause we get to continue that friendship at school. And also with other people from church like John, Dan, Steve, and of course Mr. Behrens and others. I got the privilege of meeting two guys who go to Pitt and go to our church now who are from Alaska! how cool is that? lol. i thought it was pretty sweet anyways lol. So yeah we got to go the food court and then me, Betsy, John, Steve, Anderew, and Thomas all went to play Frisbee at the practice field at the high school. Funny part about that was that we went from the old quinlisks park to the real field then to the practice field and were finally able to play. But God gave us that field to play on so that we could all get our exercise and fellowship and stuff. It was a really great game cause it was 3 on 3 which gave us all a sweet amount of playing time lol. Then after that all went to Rita's and me and Betsy got to listen to some MAE on the way from the CD that john burned for betsy (u forgot the booklet john haha). Rita's was really fun and we had a great time just hanging : ) (thanks bets for paying for mine since i was the cool kid that only had a debit card with me lol)

so basically it was just another God filled day. I really love being able to be so close to the people at church and thank God for people like Betsy who are going to make my transition into my new college that much better. Thanks God for this great day and good night all : )

~rach

Just Another Day in Paradise

Love that song lol. So today was just an ordinary day. I had to work at the aunts restaurant today and yesterday so that was kindof tiring. But i have to say that its always so amazing the strength that God gives me to get through a day of work there cause it can get long sometimes. I always am so tired before i go but when i get there i seem to be able to go about doing things like i was never tired. thats until i finally sit down haha. but yeah it really is amazing to see God's hand in the smallest things. i also was able to order a good majority of my books for my classes. I'm kinda nervous about all this new stuff-new school, new major. But i really really truly believe that God has sent me and put me at Messiah for a reason. Its gonna be amazing; i can feel it : ) i leave thursday which leaves me about 4 days till i go to school so its getting to crunch time with packing and all that. alrighty well church in the morn so i think its time for bed. night

p.s. this is just a fun random picture of me and my friend from UD. haha we were quite the pair lol

First Post

So this is the first post of my blog lol. I kinda just wanted to do this so that I could daily reflect on the blessings that God has given me cause I have always wanted to be able to do that but I have never been much of a journal keeper so i figured since I like being on the comp it would motivate me more to journal or whatever. Alrighty well work is gonna come bright and early so its off to bed.