"Please Don't Stop the Music-music-music" - - -no! please PLEASE STOP IT!!

If I hear the songs "please don't stop the music", "pocket full of sunshine" or that popular one by gwen stefani, I might shoot myself. AH. It seems that not ONLY are these (and many more) obnoxious main-stream songs constantly playing at the gym, but EVERYwhere I seem to go. Except Starbucks... I walked into Starbucks to hear the Decemberists playing the other day. Oh how very happy I was.

Anyway... 

So last week and the beginning of this week screamed to my face how busy this semester is. But thankfully, after few back to back over-nighters and countless hours of monotonous deatails on my projects, with the obvious grace of God, I got through my first faze of deadlines. I am done with my Fall A class - Thank the Lord! It was a lot of work... pretty much the took a 16-week course, knocked 2 projects off and squeezed it in to 6 weeks. Yeah. Funnn. No, it was actually good, just a little trying at times. BUt my other classes are awweesome. We finished building our chairs, our cube projects, and I did well on my first paper and test in art history. SO that's all good. 

I would ask for prayer - this next week I am going to be talking to various knowledgeable people about my major. Over the last month I've been feeling the door close, and my heart change towards the idea of graphic design. In place of that, I have been more interested in the classic visual arts and photography. Also, I have been starting to have faith to (if I make it that far) go for my Masters Degree so that I can become a college professor. For now, I am trying to discern where the Lord is leading me, and which field to major and apply in (there are a couple I am contemplating). So, if you think about me... be praying that I will feel the Lord leading me in this decision.

In Driven (our college group) we've started going over the book "Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life" by Donald Whitney. Last night we discussed the chapter and topic of worship... SO GOOD! I encourage everyone to read this book, thus

 far, I am being so blessed and challenged by it. And on a similar note - I am in LOVE with our Driven meetings. They are pretty much my highlight of the week when we have them. 

Some bullets of other stuff going on...

- this week I helped install my first gallery (not MY, but the first one I helped with)... opening show on tuesday should be cool

- tomorrow is my and alli's birthday partay! should be awesome... special thanks to rayna for helping me decide who to be! =)

- our Kohls just opened and I just got a cute outfit there!

- celebration is FIVE days away!!!!!

- tall tree ep arrived! shirts should come at the top of the week (which I'm actually more excited about... ha)

- ELLA is 6 months old...whattt??? half a year? whattttttt???

Some little faces I miss terribly..

(This picture cracks me up because I kept asking caleb to smile, alec did, but not caleb... and so I said "caleb, you didn't smile, come on!" and alec turns to him and was like "Caaalllllleebbbb!" and then punched him... hahahaha. don't worry, it wasn't that violent, just funny)

Sweet baby girl and her favorite auntie =) =)

And here is my chair! I spent more time on this piece than any art piece in my life... (it's taller than Celeste, who it 5'3")

And now to bed....