Pics/Update/blah blah blah

These are the pics of our Destiny Center that I promised months ago =) Once again, sorry for being the WORST blogger in history! If I promise to try harder will you all forgive me? Probably not since I promise that everytime I blog! Oh well! Hope you enjoy the pics!!

Bro. Mansfield speaking at our grand opening! Isn't he precious!?!

DC-Destined College

Lounge in D.C.

Main worship area set up for Dinner

Gamine area...We have an Xbox 360, a Wii, and a playstation 3

This is the iMac cafe in the upstairs loft

This is our cafe area and stairs leading to the loft

Another view of the cafe

This is the main worship area

another view

Main worship area view from loft

In other news we are leaving for Indiana Sunday! I'm so excited! It will be super busy though since Cliff is in a wedding. We are driving and Elvis is coming with us...everyone will love him (more than usual) because he is shaved!! Here is a preview of his perfection =)

THe Destiny Center

So I haven't written in a long time and last time I wrote I had great intentions to keep it up but that hasn't worked out so well! Sorry, I really will try to do better! Lots to catch up on but the main thing is that we are rennovating our old family life center into a new youth center!! It's a 9,000sqft building so we will have lots of room to do whatever we need to! The Destiny Center will be opening may the 15th with a sponsor preview night then the ribbon cuting will be May 16th! We are so excited!! It has been lots of hard work and many almost all nighters but we are getting there! All the painting and electrical should be done this week, then The flooring will be all we have to finish! I cannot believe we just announced this project to the church 2 months ago! All of our youth kids are so excited and have been up here working almost every night after school and on weekends...they want to be in it so badly! There will be a high school/JR High sanctuary that seats 80-100, an internet cafe with iMacs and wireless internet for laptops, a video game area with Wii, X-Box 360, and Playstation 3, a college sactuary that seats 35-45 and a cafe area where we will serve snacks, candy and drinks. We are going to have a youth service every wednesday with a full band and everything, it will also be open some days throughout the week during the school year for tutoring, and every other friday night for kids to just hang out! It is going to be a lot of work but soooo worth it! I feel like I'll be up there hanging out for fun LOL
Other than that school is consuming my life! This is my last week of school work then finals next week, and a full term of summer school! YAY! (NOT) lol the sad news is becuase of summer school, camps, vacation bible school, and Impact conference we won't be coming to Indiana until the beginning of august for Jordan Parnell and Dacia Elkins wedding! I hate that I am not going to be able to see everyone until August, but that news is made better by the fact that my wonderful In-laws will be here May 14th and then we are doing a little VACA with my family may 20th in Gulf Shores!
I'll add pictures of the Destiny Center as soon as I can! Back to school work for now! Love you all!

I have returned!

So I haven't posted a blog in about a million years! I have been meaning to but then I would forget or stuff would come up! I am gonna try to do it more often because it was a pretty good way to keep in touch when I was doing it regularly!
SOOO much has gone on since last December which was my last post! We went to California for a vaca/preaching trip in march, in Feb I went to New York for the wedding of one of my best friends Holly Mendenhall, now Holly Powell!! Cliff's parents, Mick & Jeanetta came down in April and we went to New Orleans, then summer came and we had 2 weeks of youth camp, 1 week of campmeeting, 10 days in Indiana, 1 week of Impact conference, A week of youth congress then a week of rest before I started school! Also around March I got laid off from my job but it really has turned out to be a blessing because I was able to do all that stuff with Cliff this summer and I am now taking 16 credit hours and I can focus solely on that and be done with school FINALLY in may of 2012!!
I have been making headbands and Flower/Feather pins to sell kind of on the side so that has helped with me not having a job a little bit! I am going to have a booth to sell my stuff at our MS District Ladies Conference this coming friday and saturday! So everyone say a prayer that I make lots of money!! lol!
Also My best friend in the whole world Nicci is going to have a baby boy!!!!! She is due the very end of oct/ Nov 1st so of course I can't wait to meet my little nephew Cullen! I will be making an Indiana trip in November for about 3 days to see the baby and Mommy!!!
My Aunt Frieda and Uncle Bobby are flying into New orleans on the 17th of September and we are meeting them at the airport then staying in New Orleans until Sunday the 20th! We are so excited to see them and spend a few days in one of our favorite cities! If you have never been to New Orleans you must go at least once! Then at the beginning of October Cliff's parents are coming to Meridian to spend a few days with us! It is going to be soooo great to see our parents so soon! I can't wait!!
In between that though is September 21st which is our 2 year wedding anniversary! I cannot believe it has been 2 years already! I love being married, it has been such a fun, eventful 2 years!
Well I guess that is about everything! I'll write again soon hopefully!!

So excited!!!

We will be in Indiana Friday!!! 4 more days! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

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Lots has gone on since I last had a chance to write! We had a great Thanksgiving with the Mansfields, we didn't end up going to Biloxi at the last minute but we still had a really fun Thanksgiving! I talked Cliff into getting up at 4am with me on Black friday to go shopping! We were at the mall by 5am and we had a lot of fun although we were so tired! Cliff got a new outfit to wear in the pictures Brandy took of us! We went to Columbia this past weekend to have our pictures taken and they all turned out soooooo good! She got really cute pics with Elvis too! We love them! Friday we took pics and went out to dinner with Mitch and Brandy! Also, Andrea had her baby on Friday! A little boy named Ross Hayden! We are so excited to get to meet him when we come home, and Cliff is so happy to have a nephew! On Sat, Brandy and I slept in while Cliff got up at 4am to go hunting with Nate Rios! I can't believe he actually went hunting because he hates to hunt but he did! They didn't even see a dear though haha! We had lunch with mitch and brandy and shopped with them for a while then we went to Nate and Shera's house to hang out and have dinner! It was a really busy weekend but we had a lot of fun! I have finals this week then I am out until after the new year! I am so ready for the break! This Friday is our youth christmas party and we are going to Christmas Caroling then come back to the church to eat and play games and do whatever! It will be a good time! I am so excited to come home for Chrsitmas I cannot wait!!! We are so excited to see everyone! We will be flying into Louisville on the 19th and flying out on the 27th! We still aren't sure Exactly when we are staying where but this is what it looks like as of right now...

Fri 19th: Staying in Indy
Sat 20th: Lunch with family, staying in Indy
Sun 21st: Staying in Columbus
Mon 22nd: Staying in Columbus
Tues 23rd: Christmas with mom and grandparents, staying in Indy
Wed 24th: family christmas, staying in Columbus
Thur 25th: Family Christmas, staying in Indy
Fri 26th: day in Indy, Staying in Columbus
Sat 27th: Leave for MS

This is most likely the schedule so as everyone knows the days in indy are for people in indy and the days in columbus are for the people in Columbus! We won't be making any special arrangements b/c it's just too hard yada yada you've heard this everytime we come home =)Aslo, Elvis won't be coming home with us! It's so sad, I know, but we just did not want to have to deal with him at an airport! He would go crazy haha so we are leaving him at the kennel! I guess that is everyhting! We leave in 11 days! Woo Hoo!!