Well first my apologies for being so dang M.I.A. as far as my blogging. Its been a CRAZY couple of months and to be honest a hard couple of months!!
But nonetheless I'm still alive and kickin' with a few stories to catch folks up on where I've been!!
Back in March I had the opportunity to go to Guatemala with our college group! It was an amazing experience but a trying one for me personally. First of all I was horribly sick the first 4 days of being there and I was barely able to participate in the activities.
Also I had some trouble getting my luggage.
If anyone knows me you know that I'm a horrible-last-minute-packer when it comes to overseas trips. Each time I usually deem it a "good idea" to start packing around midnight the night before an early morning international flight!! This trip however I decided to start packing a week in advance. And I was sure to pack just enough outfits, the right amount of hair product, underwear you name it! Well God, in his funny sense of humor, knew that my luggage wouldn't arrive until the day before I left to come back home!! AKA I had no clothes, no hair product, no clean underwear the entire trip.
Also some background on why I was sick was that I HAD to get my wisdom teeth out 5 days before I left b/c the oral surgeon said if I didn't get them out it would have been bad news bears! (well...he didn't say those exact words...but thats a paraphrase of what he said)
So what's the moral of the story???
I should go back to last-minute packing!!
j/k
This is me trying to recover from my chipmunk cheeks!
p.s. Did I mention I was the only one who didn't get their luggage out of 50 people?? (this was God's way of ensuring that I knew it wasn't a demonic attack on our team, but rather his divine hand in teaching ME an appointed lesson)
The trip was awesome despite being sick and my bag situation. God did miraculous things while we there and made the trip well worth the my little circumstantial set backs.
Here are some pics from the trip!!
Public transportation in Guatemala usually looked something like this!
This is me about to throw up on our ferry ride!! yuck!
No matter how dirty you are, you can always look cute eating ice cream! right??
So I come home from Guat and just a few days later my husband leaves for his national tour with a popular rock band from the 90's called Collective Soul.(remember that one song they did-..."Ohhh, Heaven let your light shine down...") Jamey is getting to play different parts California, and also Reno, Vegas, Seattle, Nashville, Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana...just all over! As much as I wanted to be happy for him and his travels I was quite the opposite. Pretty much miserable. As of now we've been married 3 months but we've already been apart 29 total days. It may not seem like a lot to some, but it was really hard for me. However, I knew going into this that it wouldn't be easy at first.
We are and probably will remain at the mercy of Capitol Records for at least another year. It really is an exciting time for us, and will be more of a fruitful time the more I depend on Christ for strength. And if I were honest I was way more prone to "cry fests" and pity parties than I was at using my free time and empty house for more undistracted devotion to Jesus.
But God truly blessed us and we found a cheap plane ticket midway through the tour so I could go see him!!
I was able to go out and visit my hubby in L.A. and see him play at a place called Troubadour and that was a blast. He was amazing of course!!
I'll post some of our pics from LA on my next blog.
Finally, my husband came home from tour and I was so excited to have him back. I made him his favorite dessert that I had never made before. Flourless Chocolate Cake. (and I don't think it was near as good as the one his Grandma Lee makes cause he nonchalantly suggested I call her for help next time!! haha) He also had a sold out show at House of Blues in Dallas the day after he got home and it was so fun to be back in "wife mode" supporting him and the talent God has given him from the front row of the audience. Here are a few pics from that show!!
Isn't he the cutest thing ever???
This is the lead singer Josh.
Me and LB backstage enjoying free food & drink. Praise God for All Access Passes!! haha
Some of my high school girls came out to the show!! I think its safe to say that they are mildly obsessed with my husband!!
: )
Some of the folk from my college ministry were also there to hang out! This is our "Guat picture" of all the people that went on our Guatemala trip!
That's all I got for now! It took forever for me to upload these pics. Drama!
love you all
Mel
