Things I am looking forward to:

-watching the Aggie basketball team BTHO tu tonight :)
-seeing my parents (and dog) at the lake
-Wicked in San Antonio
-Houston Rodeo
-skiing in Colorado
-Mamma Mia with my mom
-watching four seasons of Friday Night Lights
-the possibilities of this summer

Today is a good day. This is going to be a great month. This is also going to be a wonderful semester.

My roommate told me her New Year's resolution was to 'live in the moment' and I am trying to be better every day about this as well. That doesn't mean I'm not excited about what is to come though :) 

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

It's time to trust my instincts, close my eyes, and leap.

It's all in God's hands now. 

Happy Birthday Dad!! I went home for my dad's birthday yesterday and had a great time with my family. As I got in my car to drive back this morning this song came on.


And he said, "Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,
A secret that my daddy said was just between us."
He said, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then.
It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen."
-Randy Travis

Where I would really love to be right now.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January.  Start with a fresh page.  Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. 

~Henry Ward Beecher