Happy Thanksgiving

  Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!  Every year I think about what God's blessed me with the past year and this year my list keeps going!  I feel so blessed by all that God has done in my life in 2013.  Below is a list of just a few of many things I'm thankful for this Thanksgiving.

I'm thankful for....
:: the precious time spent with my grandpa before he passed away in January
:: my dear, sweet LIVE girls - I've so enjoyed seeing them grow up
:: all the opportunities I've had this year to travel
:: I'm especially grateful for the opportunity I had to travel to Haiti.
:: my family and all the support and encouragement they've shown me
:: the great Bible study/community group I've become a part of and all the friends, role models, and spiritual growth I've gained from it!
:: the opportunity to do college at home so I can participate in many of the things listed above :)
:: the way the Lord has revealed Himself to me this past year

  May you have a blessed day with your family as you recognize all that the Lord has blessed you with over the past year.  Happy Thanksgiving!

Sierra

playing catch-up

  Hello again!  :)  The last time I've posted about what's going on in my life was the post about Disney World.  Wow!  That was almost two months ago - I can't believe it!  So much has been happening!  I'm going to try to cover most of it in the following photos (which, again, are taken with my phone).

I took a couple girls I'm mentoring and my sister to a conference 

in October.  A couple old friends joined, too.  It was an 

awesome weekend.

Went to a Jared Anderson concert with several others from my 

Bible study I attend.  It was such a wonderful night of worship.

My dad's cousin visited from out-of-state in October, so we spent 

the day down in the Cities with her.  We went to the Science 

Museum and then out to eat.  It was a fun day!

The past couple months have contained several sleepovers with 

Jess, Ashley, and Brooke.  Movies, talking, tests, games, and...

...ice cream out of the carton!  That was a fun night. :)

This is what a lot of my days consist of: studying.  

I now have 69 credits as of yesterday when I passed 

Organizational Behavior.  I now have a goal of earning 

3 or 6 more credits before December 5th.

I've been working on a lot of things for LIVE, including making 

these photo books for the girls.  I enjoyed doing it and I love the 

idea of the memories that will fill those books. :)

Had my Bible study group come out for a fire and 

games at the beginning of this month.  That was a lot 

of fun!  After coming in from the bonfire, we played a few 

rounds of the Family Game and a few rounds of Mafia.  

I've gone to a couple movies with Lindsey, as well as 

gone to Cold Stone, Fridays, her place, my place, etc. :)  

I think we have more movies on the list, right? ;)

 Other things I've been up to:

      :: having LIVE meetings and preparing for them

      :: brainstorming

      :: getting ready for my trip to Texas in less than three weeks!!!  I'm going for a CollegePlus gathering and I'm getting pretty excited!

      :: trying to plan as far ahead into 2014 as I can.  So far, I've gotten as far as May.  :D

      :: getting ready for our family vacation to Mexico in less than a month!!!  Yep, we're pretty excited for that, too. ;)  

      :: going to Bible study in St. Cloud

      :: teaching a couple Wednesday night lessons at church

      :: slowly getting back into reading...and then finding more TV shows to watch instead. :P

      :: making a budget

      :: making lists :P

In Christ,

     Sierra