A few thoughts

I think I've said this before but I love Fridays! I only have to work until noon and then I get the rest of the day to goof off! So that's my plan for today. I went in a little early to get my work done so I could get off early to hang out with Zach before he has to go to work. I feel bad for him today because he has to go in at 1 and close the store. That usually means getting home around 9:30 but tonight they've changed the hours so that he'll get home around 11:30 PM! No one needs to shop that late at a Christian book store! Oh well, needless to say he's not very excited about tonight.

While he's busy working, I plan on hanging out with Lissa this afternoon and Lindsey suggested doing something together tonight since Kuhrt has to close too! I'm excited because I love getting to spend time with my good friends!!

The whole reason I sat down to write this blog is because of what God's laid on my heart the last few days. I read Colossians 4:5-6 this week and it really stuck out to me. This is the New Living Translation:

Live wisely among those who are not Christians, and make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be gracious and effective so that you will have the right answer for everyone.

I get the opportunity to hang out with lots of people every day and a good number of the people I hang out with don't know Jesus. My heart has been broken for them for a long time and I'm continually praying for their salvation. So I wrote these verses down as my VOTD (verse of the day) for the last fews days so that I can have them on the top of my mind all day. The thing that I can't get out of my head is that is says to do all of that so that 'you will have the right answer for everyone'. Well then that must mean that people are asking questions. I'm obviously called to live my life different and set apart for the Lord but it made me stop and think, How many people are actually asking me questions? Jesus gave His life to save me. How could ever think that my life should be about anything different? But I'm not sure how much the people around me see that.

Kind of a long blog for me but that's what I've been thinking about this week.

Coupons!

Today as we were catching up at church, Lissa told that she would show me how she likes to coupon since I've been asking for a lesson! So I was very excited!

We headed to my apartment with our husbands (in the FREEZING weather) for some tortilla soup by the fire, which was awesome! (Both the fire and the soup.) After we cleaned up a little bit, we headed to her house and the fun began! It was a lot of looking through ads, checking online and clipping but the end was so worth it!

I had a lot of fun and even saved some money at the same time! We found lots of good deals but my favorite was the Olay body wash for $2.99 that came with a FREE 20.2 oz bottle of Olay quench lotion that usually costs $7.99!!

Also something to blog about, my Thanksgiving was AWESOME! It was so good to hang out with family that we rarely get to spend much time with! We are so blessed and I'm very thankful for such a wonderful weekend.

I'm back!

Or I'll try to be back to blogging! After some encouragement and a little blog refresher course from my wonderful mother-in-law, I think I might be able to get into the swing of things!

I think sometimes I get a little intimidated by blogging because all of the blogs that I love are always fun and deep and meaningful! Or at least full of pictures! So maybe I should change the title to my blog to Shanna's Not Always Very Exciting and Quite Average Blog! We'll see!

For now I'll keep this one simple. Tonight Zach has to close at work so my evening will consist of cereal for dinner, possibly a little work out and then hopefully The Office!

Plugs EVERYWHERE!!

Last night Zach went to the sleep study place and stayed the night so they could watch him and try to figure out why it's been so hard for him to get any sleep.  I want to blog more on this subject and others but here's a quick picture just for your enjoyment! He looks so cute with all his cords!! :)

Car #2

Here's the second car:  2006 Kia Spectra 17500 miles. We are asking $9500.

Car for Sale

Recently Zach and I decided to try to sell one of our cars. We've been reading Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey and we want to be debt free! So to speed up that process we are going to put our cars up for sale and see which one we could sell first! So here is the first--if you are interested or know anyone who might be interested please let me know! Here's the info:  2003 Honda Accord 96,000 miles. This car has been amazing! I love it! We are asking $8500 for it.

I'm not sure how well you can tell by the pictures, but it is a charcoal gray!

I love Thursdays.

I am so thankful that today is Thursday! My weekend kind of begins with Thursday night because work on Friday starts an hour later and I get off at noon which is a beautiful thing! Tomorrow is a very special day, though! I will not be going into work because I get to welcome home some great friends!! I am so excited to hear about everything that they got to do in East Asia and the new relationships that were built! It should be a very fun day! 

 This is still a part of my "Baby Steps" program! So this is a random post, but I figured that's kind of how our life is here in Lubbock so why not share it? More to come later!!

Baby Steps

I have decided that I am pretty much terrible at blogging.  So just now I got the bright idea to try baby steps.  Maybe if I can try to start off small and get better, then I won't be so overwhelmed with the thought of blogging! So, for now this is it.  

I am relaxing with my husband for a little while tonight watching The Biggest Loser. I love this show and we are about to enjoy some cinnamon rolls!! (A little bit ironic the snack choice for the show, I guess!) I have high hopes for my blog....I think! Ha!! Maybe this will help!

Ahoy!

Wow! We had an amazing trip! Here is just one pic for now. We LOVED the unlimited icecream!!!  I want to post more pictures, but it will have to be this evening--I just have a few minutes on my lunch break but I'm so excited to blog about our cruise! 

I'm Back!

Wow, I had this great idea to start blogging right before our trip to Dallas and we haven't had internet since!! So it's been kinda tricky to keep this up.  

Our trip to Dallas went pretty well and I definitely want to post a few pictures later when I have a little bit more time.  I can't wait to fill everyone in on what we've been doing, but for now I'm off to work out with my beautiful sister, Amanda. We've also been tanning to get ready for our upcoming cruise! I'm so excited!!!

Details coming soon!

Ok Becky, you win!

Becky, you finally convinced me to try it out!  This makes it pretty obvious how desperate I am to know what your prize is! I'll see what I can do with the blog thing.  Zach and I spent today discussing what it should be called and this is what we came up with! 

We are fixing to leave for Dallas so hopefully I will get to blog something a little bit more fun soon!