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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.

lelove

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. 

Holding it together...

Lelove

the day will come when he comes to you and tells you that he has met someone. at the moment your stomach will climb up to your throat. and it will take everything within you to not breakdown right in front of him. you will do whatever it takes to hold it together as long as possible. you will stand there numb listening to the loveliness of his words...how he wants you to be just as happy. you begin to remember... you so deeply want to cry...so deeply want to scream....so deeply want to crawl up into a ball and pretend this wasn't real. you begin to remember... what it was like to be together...how happy you were, how it was the type of love that consumes you. where your hands fit into one anothers perfectly. the beauty of it, the sweetness of it. you so desperately want to be happy for him...but pain overcomes you instead. it hurts to think this is really it. the end. you never really ever said goodbye.you never thought you would have to.  to think...this is the last time you shall hear his voice...look into his eyes... touch his face. the last time...tears fill your eyes and you straighten up and form the best smile you possibly can in that moment...you touch his cheek and turn... and at the moment you know that it's over. the only thing left are memories...the one's you once made...the laughs you once had...the tears that were caused, beautiful moments you shared,  ones that made you, you. your feet can barely move...and it takes everything in you to keep walking forward and not turning back. it takes everything in you. 

5 things i only learn in night class...

1. My professor looks like "Gus Gus" from Cinderella! #notkidding the resemblance is remarkable
2. When only 6 out 30 students show up to class the monday after spring break that should be a sign to let us go home early not keep us 10 minutes after we are suppose to be let out! Get with the program!!
3. Dear girl who wears only black, always has an attitude and is obsessed only with Dickinson and nothing else... How dare you!! Hunger Games is good literature don't make me cut you.
4. Dr. Cook " Man, that lil wayne i can't stand him....all he raps about is that booty" HAHAHA uncontrollable laughter...couldn't stop...highlight of my night!  
5.  campus in the dark...hate it. #scuuury

I so so exciteeeeeeed!!!

tonight is the night!! 

woot woot!! 

HUNGER GAMES MIDNIGHT PREMIERE!!! 

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!!

T-Minus 7 hours!!! Yeeeeee!!

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a benefit concert

my sister and her best friend put on a benefit concert for the organization invisible children. i couldn't of been more proud of them. they worked so hard and created an incredible show. they seriously were such rockstars. i truly have never seen her work so hard for something she was so passionate about. they raised close to $3000 dollars in just a few hours and every penny was donated to the organization. i helped run the ticket area and it was a lot of fun i was so surprised at how giving people were and how awesome it was to see people come who i haven't seen in years to not only donate money but their time as well to watch a show put on by high school students it was incredible. I'm so thankful to have such good friends and people who love to support great causes in my life. the night was a success and i loved being apart of it and watching it all fall into place. i'm such a proud sister.

a lot of study study study and not a lot of bloggy bloggy bloggy

 OKay, lets be real not blogging sucks it sucks bad.
Midterms and Finals are the worst and when they take over there is really nothing i  can do.
But I'm back and that's all that matters time to catch you all up on the life of me. Not that it's been super exciting as of late. So you know that night class? I've actually been enjoying it a lot. We are reading Fitzgerald and Hemingway and I love those guys we have this connection that super deep and awesome. I feel like we are just great friends now. SOO, I've been ubber obsessed with this coffee shop near school. I've been going there before class three times a week and the atmosphere is lovely, the coffee is delish and don't get me started on the pastries!! It's a darling place and i enjoy it. Dia (cousin) and Freddy are dear friend and I headed there last week sometime and sat and talked for hours and people watched it was a relaxing and wonderful night of just hanging out with good friends and drinking some of the best coffee.

We have a voice...lets use it!

This video has gone viral. Millions of people have seen it, shared it and are passionate about it.   For more than 20 years children in Uganda have been forced to become soldiers in the LRA little girls have been forced into sex trafficking. Children have been forced to kill their own parents. No child should fear their life and it's time to do something about it. A man name Kony is responsible for these acts, the saddest part is the majority of the world have no idea who he is or that any of this is even happening. One of the best things about blogging and social networking is each and everyone one of us has a voice. we are lucky enough to have one that can be heard and we have the ability to speak and share things. Today I am asking that you watch this video all 27 minutes and that you would share this video through twitter, facebook and even on blogger. On April 20th lets join together and make the rest of the world aware. 

Guest Post!! What What!!

I'm guest posting over at Jenni-Austria-Germany right now! You should def stop what you are doing right now and go check it out like right this second!! =) 

I'm Alive!

Okay so I have been MIA, i know. I am alive though, I'm breathing...i think?... school is taking over life and well finding time do anything but studying is not working.
a few things i should let you in on before i get back to my hiatus...i promise i'll be back soon.

1. my iPhone fell in soda....yes soda. it wasn't even my soda...best part i  wasn't up for an upgrade yet. :( but after throwing a fit, the nice gentleman at At&t had mercy on me and upgraded me early and guess who has the new iPhone4s?! this girl woot woot!! 
2. i have one of the meanest professors in the world. like think of the worst person you know...and he's worse than that. he is devoted to make my life miserable for the remaining of the semester.
3. okay is anyone else concerned for Ben on the Bachelor? why in the freak is Courtney still there?! 
4. San Fran vacation was AMAZING and i seriously would move back tomorrow if i could. i haven't unpacked its going on two weeks this Friday. either i'm in denial OR i'm just to lazy. right now it works living out of my suitcase... 
5. two midterm papers due on the same night should be illegal. especially if they are 10+ pages long. ugh. ugh.ugh.

I miss all of you. I promise later this week I will be back! I haven't even had time to catch up on all of your lives so I will probably do that once midterm week is over and done with. <3 xoxo

Chipotoooo and leg warmers...

lately i have been craving chipotle or what me and my friends refer to it as chipoto every single day. i can't help it. Mmmm.... i may have a problem. i may need a support group.  i don't care. their burrito bowls are a-maz-ing. i need some in my life like asap.

also, it's starting to get warm over here in my neck of the woods so it's important that i get as much wear out of these little warmers as possible before it's too late. $4 dollars at urban best purchase of my life! #justsayin'

love day!

in honor of valentines day i rocked my red toms. i was pretty excited! i ate a lot of chocolate too, did you?! it was fabulous. okay so i love valentines day. i can't help it. i know half of the world hates it because they think it's commercial and everyday should be love day yada yada yada. did you check out fb on the 14th? Ohh my, one extreme status update after another. thank heavens for the few post i read that were embracing the loveee.  okay, i get that it stinks sometimes for some people but there is something special about february 14th watching the sweet gestures, seeing the excessive amounts of red and pinks. it makes my heart all warm inside. my dad sends flowers to my grams every single valentines day, he never misses a year. and every year when she calls to thank him she gets choked up at how thankful she is because she never expects them. it's the sweetest thing in the world to me. my dad is a gem, he really is. but see that's what love day is about just showing love. this year i didn't have a specific significant other. but i had lots of loved ones to kiss and hug and make sweet cards for. i just love lovin' on people and yes, i agree every day of the year should be like love day. but there is something sweet and special about february 14th and you know it. <3 

get ready post overload happens NOW!

sneak peak of my new do!! =)

this weeeeeek. eeeeek. it's been hmmm, one word, what is that word, ooooh what is that word. BUSY! 

midterms all week, excessive amounts of literature thrown my way, commentaries, article analyzing and discussion board posting. bleh, it's been awful. i can't seem to catch a break. i am lacking sleep, my body aches, and i can't remember the last time i ate a real meal. i just want this week to be dunzo. i'm complaining and i apologize for that. sometimes complaining needs to happen and well today it def needs to happen! i also, have interning tomorrow at 7am....kill me now. i love interning i really do. just tomorrow is going to be one of those long daaaays and well i'm not looking forward to it. after a full day of interning i head straight to a student teaching conference. a three hour conference! i don't understand why it's three hours but i'm hoping that it's somewhat beneficial. i'm really hoping. 

on the bright side i leave for SAN FRANCISCO tomorrow night yeeeeeee!! 

SO excited! SO SO SO exciteeeeeed!!

Love is...

Sigh, this makes me happy. This sums it all up. I think Hollywood says it best...

channing and rachel

i'll be seeing this tonight!!

will you??

channing makes my heart flutter. 

tears are gonna happen, it's inevitable. 

just watching this trailer gets me all choked up.

i'm such a sucker for love.