to Him Who is able

Actually I have no idea what number it is on my incredibly long "Bucket List", but it's somewhere in that range.   What is?   Witness a proposal.    How sweet and precious it is to watch a man ask a young lady to marry him. Take that sweetness and multiply it times a lot when the man and sweet young lady are some of your really good friends.   That's how my week started.   ~Owen and Bekah...the proposal~     Owen had told us last week about his plans to pop the question, and we {a small group of friends and family from church} helped to make sure it came off without a hitch. Well, I didn't really help in any way other than not telling Bekah. {For almost a week I knew about it, and I had ample opportunities to let my tongue slip up, but I didn't utter a word. I deserve a gold medal or something. Just sayin'. } I was in charge of videoing the moment, while staying hidden. {Because Owen didn't want Bekah to see ...

Last weekend will go down in the books as one of the best weekends.  Friday morning 10 amazing people set out on a road trip to sunny Florida. We stopped 3 minutes after we started to get gas and chocolate milk. We spent about 5 minutes trying to figure out how to work the DVD player in our rental car, and mama eventually just called about it. Who knew mini vans could be so complicated?? {just as an FYI: reclining back seats are life changing. Unfortunately. I found that out 5 hours down the road.} It was an amazing "road trip". Lots of laughing and movie watching and movie stopping because the movie was boring  and eating Kristen's delicious cookies and....I could really go on and on. We arrived in Pensacola around 3:45pm. We checked into our creepy motel and started looking forward to a night including "partyers on the top floor". We headed to the beach. Just to walk for a bit.... Us girls were wearing skirts and our skirts were getti...