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lots of miles.

Jeremy and I made a little vacation for ourselves and headed back to our homes for the weekend. the first stop was Fort Wayne, where I had been planning on going for the past 3 months because of a half marathon that I trained for since July... i'm excited to say it went very well and I crushed my goal by running 13.1 miles in one hour and 49 minutes (the goal was just to break 2 hours). After spending a few days with my family (including my sis and her boyfriend, seriously- our family grew up in the blink of an eye. one of us is getting married and the other has her first serious boyfriend), we headed to Hartford City to spend a day with my future in-laws... it was a really fun weekend and definitely an accomplishing one as well!! I'm back to the daily grind of school and work but wanted to share some pictures first...

Jeremy and I at the Fort Wayne Library picking up my race-day packet

Is he not the cutest guy in the entire world? It's 6am and my fiance is in downtown Fort Wayne waiting to cheer me on... i love you :)

I think this is around mile 10.. I'm in the red shirt...

and this is what it looks like to not only finish a half marathon, but shatter your goal!! yeah!! 1:49:51.my beautiful friend Alicia came out to cheer me on :)

me & my momma

after my race it was time to go cheer on my lil sister as she beat her goal at her high school cross country meet! so proud of her!!

there she goes..

starbucks overload.. and he's been up for 7 hours and it's only noon- that is very uncharacteristic of jeremy lee

ok, one final picture.. these are two of jeremy's kittens at his home in Hartford City. They are supposed to be outdoor kittens but we were the only ones home and I wanted to play with them so I let them in.... about 15 minutes later I told Jeremy I thought it smelled like sewage (they had their windows open) and he immediately was like "the cats pooped! get them out!" and I was just laughing because you could totally see our differences- jeremy being the country boy knew it was cat poop but me being the city girl thought it was sewage, even though they don't have sewage drains on country roads lol...needless to say, it was an ordeal to find the poop, scoop it up, and make the apartment smell clean. It turns out the cat had ate a chipmunk the night before and we saw the remains of it....

ok, well off to Bible Study! have a wonderful evening!!! less than 6 months until the big day :)

Love,
Amber

Senior Pictures are not just for high schoolers...

I'm excited about my senior year of college for many reasons but one in particular was the chance to have Senior Pictures. I know this is typically done for high school seniors but I thought since we have the most beautiful campus in the world, and I happen to have the most beautiful friends in the world :) that it'd be an awesome memory to have... well, with 8 girls, it is definitely not easy to coordinate schedules (and the weather did not help at all) but we finally were able to meet at 8am on a Sunday morning to take our "Senior Pictures"...special thanks to TJ Wallace who actually got up early to be our photographer, you did an amazing job TJ!!!

My favorite:

Thanks TJ!! You are AWESOME!!! :)

Jeremy and I are on our way back home to Fort Wayne... wish me luck, I'm running a half marathon on Saturday morning!! AND, Saturday starts the 6 month countdown to the WEDDING!!!!! :)

the beginning of an end.

tomorrow is my last first day of school... i have a feeling my mom will be sad when she reads that.. i admit, I kind of am too.

in honor, I thought I would post a picture from my first year of college. I would do earlier than that but I don't have any of those pictures on jeremy's computer:


haha I think that is the funniest thing :) And I'm blessed because three years later, I am still rooming with the cute one on the right :)

Happy 1st day of September! (5 months until I'm 22!)

welcome back!

it's been awhile, mainly due to my lack of a personal computation machine [brian regan].
it would appear that it decided to crash so I am now sharing with my beloved fiance :)

anyways. so after all the countdowns, I am finally back in bloomington for good. it has been a really fun two weeks, full of adjustments and laughter. I started back into Starbucks full-swing and am enjoying working right next door to Jeremy (wohooo, manager of Buccetos!). I love living with my roommates and thank God every day for them & the encouragement, love, and support they bring. We are a packed house- 6 girls into one apartment but I wouldn't have it any other way. It is bittersweet because I am so incredibly excited to be married but I do not want to be done with college so a part of me wants this semester to go slow :)

The internship finished successfully and I am preparing to start my job search. Jeremy and I have talked a lot and our hearts are 100% headed towards Tennessee and unless the Lord has other plans- that is where we will be! I'm a little nervous about job searching two states away but I guess that is the good thing about following after the Lord- He does all the directing for you :)

Since my computer crashed, I did not put up a Facebook album of these pictures but here a few from my 15 weeks with the Hilton...

I worked the first two weeks of the internship as a Housekeeper... no joke. So, this is me hiding in the laundry bin. It was no fun.

Things gradually got better after the Housekeeping stint. I worked in the restaurant, the front desk, with the head chef, stewarding, banquets, and finally sales & catering (which is what I was waiting for the whole time!) This is me with the board I created for our restaurant...

Hanging out with Russell, the bell captain

And I finally got to spend the end of the summer with Sales and Catering..and thankfully there was a girl close to my age who is a Catering Manager.. Since we were the youngest by far, we always got stuck on the floor during staff meetings :)

Goodbye Hilton! It was fun but I am sure glad to be gone :)

Oh crap, she's awake!

Live your life in a way that when you step out of bed in the morning, Satan says "oh crap, she's awake!"

I am ashamed to say that lately, Satan would not be scared of me at all. In fact, I am guessing that he is probably laughing as I attempt to write a confession sitting here in an empty office.

This is my last day as an intern with the Hilton and I have realized that over the course of 15 weeks, I have lost my focus as to who I was created to be. It is pretty easy to become focused on an exciting new career, possible job offers, professional appearance, and saying the right things to impress people. But I am pretty sure that when God created me 21+ years ago, He did not exactly have those things in mind. I don't know for sure what He had in mind but I know it was to Glorify Him.

It is easy to get caught up in the world. To live a life outside of a life you live in is rather confusing to write, let alone do. But living a life outside of this life is what is pleasing

and holy

and true

and what we, as God's creation, are called to do.

I was not created to be an intern, to wear a nice suit, to drive a nice car. I was created to love on the people I intern with and see as I'm driving back to Bloomington because those are the people that God created to do the same things I am supposed to be doing. Living a life that is pleasing

and holy

and true

because that is the greatest job, salary, love, and fulfillment we could ever have.

Soli Deo Gloria.

saying goodbye.

tonight I'm saying goodbye to these beauties...my roommates for the summer.

I am so incredibly blessed to have met them.. Many of you probably have heard this story but finding housing for the summer was so stressful. I thought that I had my housing all figured out and then was turned down by two women I had looked up to... it was disappointing; however, God's plan always prevails and is always better because I loved living with these girls all summer :)

One of our favorite things to do the past two weeks has been to eat dinner, get our computers, and watch the Olympics. As a result, I have decided that I want to be Shawn Johnson:

seriously. she's so cute and so good... AND very down-to-earth, which is something that not many olympic athletes have..
enough of the obsessing :)
time to say goodbye!