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The annual family feud football weekend happened last weekend as OSU stomped on WSU...sorry dad! We were given tickets, and got to enjoy the game from really great seats. What a blessing! We also had a sweet tailgater before the game, as you can see in the picture. Complete with a cardboard box table! So innovative! :) Maybe next year we will have to take our feud on the road and travel to the game in Pulman.

This weekend another friend is getting married, Mikaela. Ashley and I were asked to do the flowers for the wedding, which is kinda fun. I see a new career "budding" on the horizon! :) Actually, doing your own flowers is pretty easy...except for the wrist corsages. That took a little figuring out, but I think they turned out ok. So this is my last wedding for the season, and boy am I glad. At the end of every wedding season, I get really tired of going to them. So that's a clue if you are getting married in the future. Plan your wedding early in the season and people won't be wedding-ed out yet. :) Its funny to think that before college I could count on probably one hand the number of weddings I had been to. Now I think I would need about five hands and five feet! I guess it's a life stage thing.

Not much else new is happening...just schooling away. I am really loving my classes...it is such a blessing to be able to take this year and kind of set it apart for the Lord. It is amazing though how much work their is. It is definitely an ego check for me, because I thought since I got through my Master's program, I could do anything academic-wise. But this is really challenging, for two reasons. One, I am having to think about my beliefs, and the Bible I have read my whole life in a really different way. Sometimes it is all I can do to wrap my head around the concepts we are learning. Second, I am always trying to make sure I am not only learning with my head (which comes really naturally for me) but also with my heart. This is proving to be much more challenging than I ever would have thought! But it is a challenge that I am loving to embrace. And I know spiritual growth will result.