Dancing in the street in a place that feels like home PART II....

So its been a while since I have posted but this one will be worthwhile! This past weekend I went back to Gardner-Webb for homecoming. It was wonderful lots of fun things went on...I got to see friends I hadn't seen in a while, and my girls of course. This pic is of me, Mason, and Katie Grace...but I also hung out with Micah, Elisa, Jessica, Lauren Shirkey, and others....

I love these girls a ton! I had a great time with them this weekend as I always do. The longer I am friends with them the more I know how blessed I am to have them as my friends. They make me laugh and smile, and some time cry happy tears. After talking to them and finding out what was going on in there lives it makes me happy to see my friends happy and enjoying the college life. They are always a encouragement to me.

I also got to see friends that I started out with when I was a freshman. I always love seeing them it reminds me of all the great memories we had while we were students there. When we all get together it seems like nothing ever changed. He we are on Saturday at the game...can we say GWU Billboard much...

These girls are great! It was great to get to see them this weekend and enjoy each others company and talk about how  our jobs or what's going on in our lives. It's just awesome but also a little weird to be acting like grown ups.

So homecoming....what does it mean?? For me it means returning to see old friends and current friends as well as remenicing about the things we used to do when we were at GWU as well as telling my girls about it so they can experience those things. I love the fact of returning back to some where that feels like home. Some where that is comfortable but just fits. The problem that I always find I have at these things is I want to spend time with my friends I haven't seen in a while but also give most of my time to my girls. Its hard even now to figure out to mesh both together. I had that problem before I graduated on how to mesh the things I took from college with my new graduated life. I guess maybe I am just at a crossroads who knows.

So all thought this title is similar to another post it is also different with things that happened this weekend:

-Danced in the Street

-Ate yummy food

-Watched a moive

-Went to the homecoming dance

- Went to Cook Out

-Went to the football game

Like I said a fun filled weekend...

Anyways I can barely hold my eyes open...so it is oft to work.

Excited and Nervous...but I didn't get here alone...

        So tomorrow I start my new job at Truliant this is my first big girl job since I graduated college. I am truly excited to be doing something besides staying home all day. But I am also nervous...I know they picked me beacause they think I am the best for the job, but I am nervous b/c I don't want to do anything or forget anything that might screw it up. It's not that I don't believe in myself I do, but I still have those nervous butterflies.
      I will say lately my friends and family have been encouraging me not to be nervous that I was going to be great at this job. When expressing the nervousness to my friend Katie Grace last night she was as always encouraging to me not be nervous and  gave me some words of wisdom straight from God out of her devotional :
" You need not fear the future, for I am already there."
These were such wise words from my friend who I love dearly and they did calm my nervousness and all along with some other things she sent me I cried tears of comfort.I preceeded to tell her about some verses in my bible that I had read over to hopefully to calm my nervousness knowing that Jesus was looking out for me and that's how I had come to be in this job otherwise I wouldn't have been if not for his plan. I told her that I had read over Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 that talks about a time and place for everything to happen and then I read over my favorite verse Psalm 119:76  that talks about God comforting us with his love just like he said he would.  Later on as I went back I found a passage in my bible that said something similar that I had from a previous sermon to what Katie Grace had sent me. So in turn I shouldn't be nervous b/c God is with me and is looking out for everything tomorrow that will go on. So I will not worry any longer...

Also I wounldn't have gotten here with out some awesome people in my life...my family,my friend, my Church family, and certain others...yall all know who you are...
THANKS FOR BEING SO ENCOURAGING....with out you none of this could have ever happened...from my college graduation to me now having a job...
Thanks!!!
Until next time...

In the South College Football is a religion...

So first I got a call from my sweet Gardner-Webb girls this week. It made my day to hear from them and surprised me when my phone rang. I miss them dearly, but get to see them soon they are always an encouragement to me!! :)
Here is a picture of  KG and Elly while they were talking to me, Mason and Lauren were there too but are not pictured...

In my house and all my life football has been a big part of it...particularly college football. I would dare to say that I went to several games when I was in my mother's womb. My mom also has pictures of me at Clemson games as a toddler and even after my brother was born my Mom has pictures of us at Clemson as kids my brother in his little Clemson onesie and me in my Little Clemson cheerleading outfit. As we got older we would go to the games and even when we weren't there Saturday's in our house were and are generally during college football season...our Saturdays have been consumed with football.Even now for the last couple of Christmas' we got bowl game tickets to see Clemson play in different bowl games.

Here is a recent picture of us at the last one we went to It's the Music City Bowl in Nashville,TN we won.... 

It's just always been apart of my life...even when I was looking at colleges I chose not to go to the first school I looked at because they didn't have a football team my thought was "What do they do on Saturday's if they don't have a football team?" The answer I got was that they went to soccer games...somehow my brain couldn't fathom that. When I did finally choose where I was going to go college I chose Gardner-Webb University...for other reason but one being they had a football team. Most of my college Saturday's in the Fall were spent going to football games to support my team. I made sure I was in the student section there early for the games and try to be on the first or second row with my friends. Now that I have graduated I spend most of my Saturday's watching football with my family or attending Clemson/ Gardner-Webb games. I have always enjoyed the game of football and I get very emotional but I love the game of football...and will continue to do so until I die...as the saying goes:

"In the East, college football is a cultural exercise.

On the West Coast, it is a tourist attraction.

In the Midwest, it is cannibalism.

BUT IN THE SOUTH, COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS A RELIGION."

 – Marino Casem, Alcorn State University

Until next time here's hoping you are cheering on your team this Saturday and enjoying college football!!!

I am restless...till I rest in you God....

So it's 12:15 am on a Wednesday morning...and here I sit in my bed not able to sleep. I sit here listening to "Restless" by Audrey Assad...somehow it seems that God is soothing my soul tonight with this song.
It seems that I have been restless lately in my walk and in my heart. Somehow that is being soothed tonight by God's love and this song

Restless by Audrey Assad:
You dwell in the songs that we are singing
Rising to the Heavens, rising to Your heart, Your heart
Our praises filling up the spaces
In between and frailty and everything You are
You are the keeper of my heart

And I'm restless, I'm restless
'Til I rest in You, 'til I rest in You
I'm restless, I'm restless
'Til I rest in You, 'til I rest in You
Oh God, I wanna rest in You

Oh, speak now for my soul is listening
Say that You have saved me, whisper in the dark
'Cause I know You're more than my salvation
Without You I am hopeless, tell me who You are
You are the keeper of my heart
You are the keeper of my heart

And I'm restless, I'm restless
'Til I rest in You, 'til I rest in You
I'm restless, I'm restless
'Til I rest in You, 'til I rest in You
I wanna rest in You

Still my heart hold me close
Let me hear a still small voice
Let it grow, let it rise
Into a shout, into a cry

Still my heart hold me close
Let me hear a still small voice
Let it grow, let it rise
Into a shout, into a cry

And I'm restless, I'm restless
'Til I rest in You, let me rest in You
I'm restless, so restless
'Til I rest in You, 'til I rest in You
Oh God, I will rest in You

With a ocean breeze blowing and sand between my toes I find the path leads me to my family...

So the title this time leads to my weekend once again....
I went to a family reunion at the beach for the Lowe Family...the tree would look like this
                  Thomas Lawerence Lowe - Ida Hutchison Lowe:
                            My Great Great Grandparents
                         Gano Harold Hall - Ida Lowe Hall:
                                My Great Grandparents
                      Russell Cole(R.C) Lee Jr. - Betty Hall Lee:
                                      My Grandparents
                    Russell Cole(Rusty) Lee III - Beverly Cato Lee:
                                          My Parents
Anyways I got to help my Mommaw finnish putting together the scrapbook I got to see pictures I had never seen in my entire life of my Great Great Grandparents and even my Great Grandparents that I had never seen. Over all it was a great weekend.


I was very lucky when I was born I had all 4 of my great grandparents on my Dad's side. The last one passed away when I was a College Freshman so growing up I got to know all of them. The one person I want to talk about though is very special to me and that is my Great Grandmother Ida Lowe Hall or as we called her Nannie Hall. She was a special lady she raised 5 children...4 girls and 1 boy. She loved to cook and she certianly loved her family. My Nannie Hall was a mere 5'1 and a very small lady who married my Papaw Hall who was a towering 6'3" at the age of 19. She loved to bake and cook for her family and she was most happiest with everyone of us around her. The originally lived in High Point,NC and eventually moved to a farm in Level Cross. I loved spending time at there house it always smelled of cookies and homemade goods, fresh grass and flowers and the smell of there house in my memory I remember these. I loved this little short old lady she was my great grandmother who had strength and stamena, and wasn’t afraid to love you. She always gave you a hug whether you were family or anybody that’s just the way she was. I like to think somewhere deep down that she is where I get my giving spirit from to love others. She was a Christian woman going to church every Sunday till she passed away. Sadly when I was in the 4^th grade she was diagnosed with non hodgskin lymphoma and couple months later died from the cancer and she fought it to the very end. I love that I got to know her but I also hate that she didn't live longer. I have found after I went to college that I love to bake and so did she I never really got to bake with her I dream sometimes that I am cooking with her in her kitchen teaching me how to bake those cookies just like she did and make them taste great. I spent a lot of Sunday's as a child with them at there house and have very found memories of those days. The smell of  fresh grass,flowers and freshly baked cookies always takes me back to her kitchen somehow where she gives me a hug and cookie and tells me to go play out in the yard. I love looking at these memories it takes me back to a place and time...back to my Nannie Hall's arms.


I like to think that she would be proud of the woman I have become...somewhat like she:
strong and confident
loving and giving
with a love of her family
and a love to bake...
until next time...

Dancing in the street in a place that feels like home...

So this post is dedicated to my Gardner-Webb Girls...

These girls in this picture are the one's I spent most of my weekend with and what a great weekend it was so much fun.they all put smiles on my faces and are like my little sisters and some of my best friends. We did lots of fun things this weekend one of them having to do with the the title of my blog today.

Just to mention a few: we hung out, chatted for hours, watched the movie "The Holiday", made puppy chow and dinner, we went to cookout twice, jammed out to music in the car and in the dorm, we danced in the street to Lady Gaga at one a.m., we worshiped at church, went to walmart, went shopping at the outlets, and we bought and traded silly bands (I know we are all in our 20's so it's a little funny).

The weekend for me was not only a reminder of why my college years were so awesome, but also what great friends I made and still have here it was very theraputic for my soul. I love these girls with all my heart and soul. If I was having a bad day or needed to talk then they were there to brighten my smile and listen to what I had to say, and vice versa I have tried to do that for them as well. 



It was great being back this weekend as the last post said in a place where my heart feels at home, but also it was a little weird. After living in Greensboro for the last four and half months it's as a friend said you feel as if you have one foot in one place and the other one in another. Being back on campus was a weird feeling because I felt like I had left my heart in Boiling Springs but yet it's here to in Greensboro too. It feels though now that I am back home that once again I have left my heart there. It was just different going back to visit now that I have graduated. I still have that feeling of not knowing where I belong or where I am ment to be. Being there with those girls I don't feel that as much as I do when I am here, but who knows why I feel that way when I am on that campus or around them. Maybe I just feel more at home there, but I also have learned more about myself from my college years at Gardner-Webb. I learned to love my body more to be happy with who I am no matter what people tell me. I also learned through an experience I had at GWU that I shouldn't beat my own self up and that by doing that I was breaking my own heart in the long run. From that experince I learned to love myself more than to worry about the past, and that hopefully that will help me in the future. The lessons I gained from my years there are worth there wait in gold to me everyday. The weekend was a great one over all and I end it with a the dedication I started with at the beginning of the post.

To my Gardner-Webb Girls: may you know how wonderful and beautiful you are inside and out,may you know how much you make me smile and how much you make my heart proud to be your friend, may you know how strong you are and how that show's me I can be strong.may you know that the love you show me allows me to love people more in return. I treasure your friendship and I love you girls!

When your heart longs to be somewhere that feels like home...

So tomorrow I am going to visit the University I graduated from to see some friends. The reason for the title is because for the last five years of my life it has been my home. Boiling Springs felt like home it still does my heart still longs to be there just my heart longed to be here in Greensboro when I lived there almost as if I was home sick. Now that I live in Greensboro I am homesick for Boiling Springs. Maybe it's because my college years are over but some how I don't think it's that.Part of that place helped me become the woman I am today but it also helped me to grow in my faith and develop friends that will last a lifetime. The memories I made there were wonderful and this trip for me really is a chance to return to see the girls who are like my little sisters, and of course my friends. I miss them the most that is what I really am going back for. I am excited to see them and see how they are doing. Until then my heart will still be longing  to be somewhere that feels like home even if I am only there for the weekend...