A talk in my coffee cup

Goodmorning Friday! I am currently on my second cup of joe this a.m, and am planning on keeping up with the Kardashians as my 2ft tall bundle of sweetness ramsacks through the house. It's finally time for those Holiday festivities again, and I am so ready! Not prepared, but ready. October is always like the commercial for the season festivities for me. I don't really celebrate Halloween (although, I do celebrate the candy) so fall is always looked forward to in my house as the relaxed season. I am currently reading this book

and it is so good. I would certainly reccommend it to anyone needing a prayer life ignition. Lately, I have been so blown away at the craziness going around in the air that I get caught wondering if this is just Brunswick for me or if  there are actually other places in the world that have very odd minded people in it. I've struck a prayer life friends. Haha, I am a prayer warrior but these days I am REALLY a prayer warrior. I've always been a girl that smiles alot and laughs in inapproiate times, here lately I have wondered why others are'nt the same, and why I let that get me down. Life is too short my friends to be anything but giving, honest, joyful, and loving. So have a laugh! Make a friend and share a smile:)

A thought for action-

Hello Readers! So as you've heard, it's August and this month is already coming to a close! I heard someone once say that August is like the Sunday of summer.... How true right? I'm not too sure how many of you are excited about that but this girl is thankful. It's been a great summer but being a beach bum and not getting to spend much time in the sand this year was a dread. So I am for one, warm welcoming with a big hug and hello to fall, scarves, and football.
Now that we are all a couple weeks into the new semester, and it being a Tuesday, almost mid-week, between work, class, family, and the beautiful moments of life, I'm sure everyone as well as myself would appreciate a nice encouraging word... In my anatomy class, I was recently given a quote about man. I'm sure most of you have recently been watching the olympics and have seen for yourself how true this quote really is. It's by Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act 11, Scene 2.
"What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!" This really hit home with me, we are masterpieces created by God. Miracles. Beautifully and wonderfully made with limitless capabilities. It irritates me to think that I take that for granted. I want to encourage all of you friends today that there are no boundaries or impossible dreams. No matter what the situation, no matter how high the cost. YOU can attain it if and only if YOU want it bad enough that you go after it. Whatever you might be facing this semester, this month, this week, today, it's up to YOU to make it worth being apart of. So with a closing smile, and in the words of another respected teacher... Get off the bus ready to play the game! This is your life, you are limitless in capability and admirable in action! Have a great and successful rest of the week friends and remember to make every moment beautiful, you want it to be worth remembering! This is your LIFE:)
Love, Brittany-

In action!

Okay loves, so it's been a while since I've last wrote and I'm quite excited to have this moment to update ya'll on all the latest moments. Summer has been a success! Wahoo! Greyson is about to turn one! Bittersweet! I'm officially back in the classroom and will be graduating in March with my two year science degree.... getting there! Slowly but surely this little family is catching dreams. I've learned to never settle and always take every breath for what it's worth.... a lot.

I'm super anxious about this coming semester with school. It's been about a year since I have actually been in the classroom, I took my last year all online and swore to myself I would never overload myself like that again! I literally taught myself. Now it's really getting down to the "nitty-gritty" on what exactly to accomplish with school and where to transfer to. My goal has been Pharmacy and Clinical Research but I am so torn with other medical related fields that I might just make a professional student of myself haha.

All of Greyson's birthday party gear is coming together nicely, and I am in amazement of how fast this year has went by. I'm blessed beyond measure. Looking back at about this time last year, this world is a better place! Haha, my journey has came a long ways!

I love summer so much, but I am soooo ready for fall! Jeans, football games, and hot coffee! I love the feeling of waking up on a saturday morning knowing that it's chilly and crisp outside with changing leaves. I'm itching to curl up on the couch with peppermints and Christmas movies already! But anyways, my little one is having way too much fun in the other room without me so I think that's my cue to sign a close.... Have a blessed rest of the week friends and remember to shine your light!

Ecclesiastes 3:11 "He has made everything beautiful in it's time."

Sunshine and Summertime :)

Wahoo! Sunshine and summertime are finally here! And yes, I'm sure that ol' ball park man is back in gear! That man's name is most likely Alex haha. SO, I have quite a list of things-to-do this summer and I plan for them to be quite fabulous. Mostly consisting of catering to my slobber box, aka, Greyson. Anyone know of some good summer reads? I've got the shopping planned out and the beach location picked! All I need is a good book and a new beach towel! Sunset Slush will be appreciating my business once again I might add, and Greyson's umbrella sure better not decide to blow its way down the beach for me to chase after! I have a feeling I will have some "blonde moment" stories to come. Let's all pray for lots of boat days and sunny weather!

-Little by Little-

So it's currently 10:30p.m and I am setting in our upstairs at my little study desk eating a moon-pie and drinking a pepsi. Gosh, it's these little moments I get so much accomplished and so much "mind-free time". I have made flash cards for my biology final and finished up a very productive devotional. I cannot believe I only have one more semester to go until I am an official college junior! Lordy, the prerequisites prerequisites prerequisites! For what I have in mind to be at the moment, I will probably be working on prerequisites for 4 years! Please pray for me friends! I am very uncertain on what I want to be and do in life career wise, and my number one desire is to please God in whatever it is. Having a baby and a husband do not make school too easy, I have had quite a learning experience way beyond the classroom.
Thinking about the future excites me so much but it also frightens the day light out of me! I was going through some old study notes this past week and I came across something so true that a professor I had in high school once said, it was "Don't follow your dreams if your dreams are stupid". Haha, how true?! I'm very thrilled to say that none of my dreams have ever been stupid, my dreams have always just been really hard to reach! Little by little, I am determined to get to them though. And with the Lord's help, I'm sure I will accomplish so much more, because my God is so able and so rewarding when we put Him first.
On a different note, after a resource paper and a final.... IT'S SUMMERTIME! Hurray hurray! Greyson will certainly learn what a beach and waterway is and he will also learn how to love it if it doesn't automatically click haha. Although I will never make him do something he doesn't want to! (unless its necessary haha) There's been quite a few things I have learned to love lately that didn't automatically click thats for sure! Like cookinggg and cleanninggg. Gosh, I have become a recipe fanatic and a organized freak!
The other night I literally layed in bed and watched country music videos all night long, I know this is random but I just thought about it, haha my moon-pie is gone and my pepsi has left that pretty little ring on my wooden desk so I guess it made me think of what I should do next. The normal thing would probably be to go get in bed haha! Have you ever made this crazy list of things you want to do that are just out of the norm? Or things you want to do that would seem weird to anyone but you? I have a bunch of those lists. Haha, my husband Alex thinks I am the number one dork in America, actually I think he stated the whole world. And when I say it's weird things, I really mean weird. Like, color a whole wall with a crayon and outline a picture of something on it with sharpies, I just think it would be creative. Like in a kids treehouse or something maybe would be more reasonable haha. Or build a church and put a telephone booth beside it. Goodness, everytime I see a church with a elevator next to it I always think it's a telephone booth, never fails. That's probably more of an inside and a "had to be there" moment to most of you, but I just recently had that famous moment and it made me think. Now that I am officially blabbling and carrying on, I think I will close with a well deserved good-night and sweet dreams friends! Remember to love and smile tomorrow, it's a silly kind of world out there:)

In this crazy life, and these crazy times, it's you, it's you...

     So, I have finally decided to start this blog thing! As a college-girl, wife and mother, I can honestly admit the fact that my life is anything but ordinary! This leads to not much time to "blog". Many call me crazy, and don't see how I do it, but the Lord is so faithful and so rewarding when you pursue Him even in your weaknesses or failures. I've had quite a challenge to face this past year and some obstacles that the enemy must have for sure thought would take this little southern, God chasing girl out.
    Can I first off just say how thankful I am that our identities are not in our failures or our "mess-ups" and sins? Our identities are found in our pursuit for Jesus Christ and the lives we honor Him with, I will never allow the enemy to convince me that my failures have identified me. Everyone sins. It's inevitable. We have choices though, and we are called to make those choices wisely. Sometimes we aren't always going to make the best choices and sometimes we're gonna make such smart ones we wonder if it was really even us that made them. I've experienced both. 
     I have slowly* realized that devotion time, worship time, and true prayer time are  huge factors in making any choice. I say "true" prayer time, because it takes more than a 5 minute prayer before bed as we yawn half way through it to create a strong force against the enemy as he tempts us. Trust me, I know. I've walked the radical devotion life and also the complacent, stand-still, 5 minute prayer life. I have also experienced the differences and the different consequences of those choices we make during those periods. But by the glory of the Lord and His grace, hallelujah, let me say, God can take His plan b and make it better than your plan a ever would have been!
     Through these crazy times of my life and crazy adjustments to my "teenage" girly self that I have had to make, I have become so much more care-free for the world and the expectations and desires of it. I could care less to be "most popular" or the "funnest" to be around. I have quickly realized that the world tends to attract itself to the "fun and popular" things and people. Those fun and popular things will get you into trouble real quick, and you better be on guard with your praying battle ax in hand when you are faced with the choice to go for them. It's so easy. I mean hey, its fun, and A LOT of people are doing it and getting away just fine by it. Deuteronomy 30:14 says "But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it." I pray that you will have the radical devotion life and the desire to stand against the enemy that WAITS for you, get the word in you, that you can make the choice to do it! The bible also says that tomorrow is promised to no man, so don't be one of those who sin today and say they'll ask forgiveness tomorrow....

   Eph 6:10-11 "Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes."