Life is good... what more could I possibly say as I sit here at my desk with the sun shining in and my massive party hits CD playing in the background. I have 2 more weeks of classes left and then the beginning of summer.

I love spring... because it is fun to see everything green up.. to enjoy the first days of warm weather when you still remember how cold it used to be. I love that I can run outside again at 6 o'clock and it is light outside.

A wonderful thing spring brings is spring sports, although I do miss basketball.. I now have a plethora of sporting events to go to... baseball, softball, soccer, and track. A definite bonus of youth ministry is attending sporting events and other events for the kids. It is sooo much fun to sit on the side lines cheering as they score a base hit or catch a fly ball. (I haven't made it to a track event yet) I love being apart of a community as I am in New Castle. The picture to the right is Eden just before she hit a double in the softball game against Eminence last Thursday.

Well my heart feels so full as I continue to serve my savior and love my kids. I'm not really sure right now what new adventures life is going to take me on. I have a few ideas of my own.. but one thing I have learned that it is better to live each day as if it were my last but plan as if I will live for a thousand years. :)

"In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps." Proverbs 16:9

Have you ever had to outrun a tornado?

Yesterday, I invited Nicole, a friend of mine from Versailles, to come with me to Henry County for youth group. We had a blast... especially after most everyone left and it was just Aaron, Nicole, Matt, and I. I had this massive party hits CD with me so we kind of had a dance party in the sanctuary just goofing around. Anyway so the four of us goofed off for probably two and half hours ignoring the storms coming in and out.

Well eventually Aaron got called home because of Tornados and so we all packed up and left too. Said our goodbyes and headed back to Lexington. It was really eerie because there was lightening all around but no rain and everything was just still. When we got to Shelbyville, the sirens went off. I thought it was like an ambulance or something... but Nicole being the good Kentuckian knew what they were. So we called my parents and found out that the Tornado/storm was in Simpsonville heading down I-64 at 60mph. Simpsonville was probably 10 miles behind us and we were on 64 just ahead of the storm. So I went 70 all the way home, and my parents updated me as the storm hit all the towns we had just passed. We made it home just as the winds picked up in Versailles.

Kind of crazy eh? I was expecting a cow to fly across my path at any second. I felt like I was in some weather channel movie. I was so grateful when we made it home safe and especially when the storm passed over us.