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Hey friends I've moved go check out my new blog at Coffee Notes... NEW post up, come follow my city adventures!! :)

The Move

Just a few short weeks ago I ventured back to the city, the one that has a piece of me. The one that has always had my heart. I've just returned to a place that is full of creatives, people who are striving to make a difference, people who are changing the world a little each day. A city that strives on passions, ambitions, non profits and independent businesses. A city that is full of culture and being unique. A city that supports and welcomes creative and innovative minds. I've journeyed to a place that is full of people who want many of the same things I want. I'm embarking on a new adventure, one that I have no idea where it will take me, and I'm okay with that. A new chapter of my life has begun and I can't event express how happy and excited I am at this moment.
My next statement is going to be extremely hard for me to say. It's taken me a few months to decide this and I've been going back and forth but have finally decided that serendipitous moments is coming to an end.....and Coffee Notes is beginning. With a new move, a new adventure, I decided it was time for a new look and a new name for this little blog of mine. Saying goodbye to Serendipitous Moments has been one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. But as I embark on this new season of my life I feel it's only fit that I move forward into a different direction for my blog as well. I have learned so much from blogging about myself and it has changed me in so many ways, it's opened me up to so many new things and I have made so many wonderful friends. I am not done with blogging one bit, I still have so much to say and do. I am just shutting the door to one season of my life and opening another to a new and exciting adventure that awaits me, Will you walk through with me??  I do hope so.
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father/daughter dates

Mondays Dad and I have coffee dates. Well I grab coffee and he sips hot cocoa. he's not much of a coffee drinker...i know crazy right? I still love him though. Are spot is this darling little shop downtown and we spend the morning there before I have to head to class. sometimes we talk about life and sometimes we just sit and read in silence. i cherish this time with him so much. i'm thankful for a dad that i can not only go to for wisdom but a dad who i can call a friend too. he is the best man i know.

the first.

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do you remember your first love?

gosh, i remember mine. 

his name was Richie and i knew that one day  i was going to marry that boy.

he had these beautiful brown eyes that whenever i stared into them i would get weak at the knees.
he was the keeper of this gorgeous smile. 

there was this one time that he sang to me "our song" he called it. 

All or Nothing by Otown. 
our song...i listened to it four hours and hours and even then i wasn't sick of it. 

Yeah it was epic, special and all mine. 

i remember blushing and thinking man o man i found it. 

this is love and no one or anything will ever come between it. 

that love is something i will always remember. something i will cherish
because it was as real, as real as it was going to get at the age of 14. 

i thought i had it all figured out, didn't you at that age? 

i've always worn my heart on my sleeve. always been the hopeless romantic. 

i remember in 9th grade i had my entire wedding planned out 

flowers, cake, bridesmaid even the songs we would dance to. 

i think back at those days and i can't help but tear up, laugh, think i'm a complete nerd. 

those sacred memories. as sacred as any memory could ever be. 

there are times i wish i could be in that girls shoes again.
when lipgloss and colored eyeliner were the few things i worried about. 

that boy, he was somethin special.
he changed me.
he introduced me to my first kiss, my first relationship quarrel, he was  the first to sing to me, the first to write me love poems, the first to give me goosebumps...he was the first to show me what love was...the type of love that makes your heart go pitter patter.
that boy, that sweet sweet boy. 

Dear night professor,

okay showing us a movie in complete darkness at 7pm is just pure torture. especially if we have had a long day of classes, walking in the sun and carrying loads of literature books and education books back and forth. if we fall asleep during this can you really blame us? i think not. please do me a favor bring popcorn to the next showing of a film...i mean it's the least you can do since you are holding us hostage until the very last second. if you have no popcorn,  gummy worms will do just fine. soooo, i have a bone to pick with you. whatever happen to you letting us out early? remember those two Monday when you did? we called them flu days...yeah what's up with that, what happened to the flu days???? i loved them and want them back this instant. last but not least this final paper we are writing that's due on the 15th....lets talk about this. 15 pages...really. i mean can you give a girl a break...you are not the only English class i have can we negotiate please??!
sincerely,
me your awesome student that sits in the back left corner. <3 xoxo

beating the odds.

i have been trying really hard to get approved to student teach back home. the odds were all against me. my advisor might as well have laughed at my face, my intern placement advisor told me point blank it's not going to happen so don't even apply. i was discouraged and felt hopeless. i applied anyway crossing my fingers that maybe...just maybe i would be the exception that they would have sympathy for me and let me return home to where my heart is. i prayed and prayed and waited and waited. i would get so nervous checking my email that some days i wouldn't even go near it. last thursday...i pushed myself to mosey on over to my student email and i took a deep breath and opened it. there is was the email i had been waiting for only one click away. of course...i exited out of my email went back to interning and didn't think twice about it again. okay okay i didn't do that. i did exit out but within 20 seconds i was back in my inbox staring at the email. i closed my eyes, clicked and opened them to read 8 beautiful words APPROVED for out of state internship. APPROVED!!! I was APPROVED to student teach back home. APPROVED. it was so surreal. i cried of course...i sat and cried like a baby. yes people were watching, and asking if i was okay. yes i felt a little embarrassed but i didn't care. nope i was APPROVED and that's all that mattered at that moment. it was one of the best feeling i had ever felt in my entire life. i couldn't hold it together. i immediately called my dad and we cried together. he was so happy and that made me cry even more. just goes to say even when the odds are against you never give up because you might be surprised at the outcome.  for those that don't know where home is.....home is

SAN FRANCISCO!! 

sunday nights

"Arrive in April Event" (three groups combined)

MVP's of "Arrive into April" Fusion had two!! SO proud!

Fusion: n.v. a community that fuses their lives towards Jesus' will for them. Jeremiah 29:11
these kids are my life. on sundays we hang out for two hours; we laugh, sometimes we cry, we do team builders, sometimes we eat loads of food, we build relationships. i'm lucky to have each and every one of them apart of my life, i'm blessed to lead such an incredibly community group. i'm thankful that God is developing new leaders for the next generation. i'm lucky to have a group that fuse's themselves towards Jesus' plan for their lives. a group that loves people, accepts all, kids that aren't afraid to open up and be vulnerable and honest with one another. a group of high schoolers who just come as they are. 
sunday nights are my favorite, i love doing what i do. i love shaping lives and inspiring people to believe in themselves and to build relationships with others and Jesus.