NEWS! NEWS! NEWS! Live with Chelsea Bean-how the world is a crazy place!

Well, there's good news and then there's bad news;

BAD NEWS FIRST:

This was just about to be my post on the good ol' facebook!:

"WOW! I can't believe that people are asking other people for money to support their own personal life style claiming that God said they should because they're Christians! Umm, how about being a grown person, and through living out God's word daily and tithing God will take care of you with out you having to ask for a hand out! Yes, you are someone that is serving his will, and yes, one person is a church in themselves, but you are not responsible for a building that is serving God that requires electricity or air or for other people that are serving God that have a legitimate occupation in that field and that need to keep a roof over their families' heads, therefore you do not need to receive people's tithes for God. "

PEOPLE ARE RIDICULOUS! AND WHAT'S EVEN CRAZIER IS THAT PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY GIVING THEM MONEY!!

NOW THE GOOD NEWS:

I'm pregnant! I'm pregnant! I'M PREGNANT!! :)

I'm pretty sure no one out there actually reads my blog, but if anyone does you'll be one of the first to know! I won't be announcing it on face book for a little while, but I just had to get it out! Jarad and I are both extremely excited, and can't wait for the upcoming year! Wish us luck!

PS: Don't worry, I won't be asking for money just because I'm pregnant. I know God will take care of my family.

"In everything give thanks, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus"

1 Thessalonians 5:18

God showed me that verse the day that I thought I was pregnant and was scared out of my mind. He always knows what you need!

Later gaters:)

lmb.

Eat Pray Love

I know I've basically given up on the whole blogging thing, but tonight I found myself wanting to write, preferably in something that no one will ever see, but since I have yet to bring everything from my grandmother's to my apartment I am without my beautiful leather journal. So I shall resort to the blog that I created many moons ago..

I've been reading Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and it's a book that she wrote to document her travels and experiences while on the path to self discovery. I am only in the first one hundred pages of the book and Elizabeth has traveled to Italy learning their beautiful language, and I am just so ENVIOUS of this woman! UGH! She went through a terrible divorce(of which I am not envious of) and lost all of her money(also not envious of) only to be able to quit her job, travel to Italy, India, and Indonesia, AND get all of her money back..but aside from that, so far her experience in Italy makes me want to just drop everything and do exactly what she did. Which is why I am envious, because I know I can't. I dream that one day I can though, Earth is a beautiful place full of so many different experiences waiting to be had and to not experience them all would almost be insulting to the Earth..

I'll leave it at that for tonight..

Birthday Wish

Another year has come and gone. I must say that out of all of my nineteen years this last one has been quite ridiculous for the most part. I forgot who I was, and found who I was all in the same year. I got married, lost all my friends, had security, lost it, regained it, got humbled, made up with my friends, and made some new ones too. At the very end of it all, before another year of my life has passed by I finally feel like I've found myself, who I am, and the core of who I will be forever. I know that as more years pass I will continue to change; like new things, forget old things, make new friends, lose some old ones, but I don't ever want to lose who I am now, I only want to  better myself more. Today marks the beginning of a new year for me, and in this year my life will change:)

I'm going to start my diet next monday so Sunday night I'll take two before pictures; a haggard one(don't know if I'll post it on here;too embarrassing!),and a semi-good one(I'll post that). After that my journey will begin, and I will update at least once a week!

See Ya!

lmb.

 

A little bit too late update!

So I'm going to go ahead and say that I'm not too great at blogging. I enjoy the idea of entertaining people with my thoughts, but now I've realized that that is not why I want to blog. I want to do it for me, and that's it. 

As an update; Jarad and I are great, we have a nice apartment, great dog, wonderful family, et cetera. 

 As of late I've realized that I have all these dreams in the back of my mind that I have just pushed aside, and told myself "They're impossible, and you would fail", but now I'm telling myself that the impossible is possible, and as long as I don't give up then I will never fail. (P.S. My dog just tooted.EWW! It made its way from the kitchen to the living room, and it smells awful!) 

Dream 1: Career, nursing. No matter what happens I will accomplish this. I genuinely love caring for people, especially children and babies. I want to work in many fields with nursing, but the one that is at the top of my list is to work with the moms and babies in labor and delivery. Dream 1, part 2: Travel nurse! (this is why it is part 2) I want to travel and see what it is like to live in different places, and being a travel nurse means I can do that and still have a job! Plus, awesome thing about being a nurse is that you work a few days on and a few days off, which means there is time for exploring and really learning about where you live:)

Dream 2: Music, singing. I have loved to sing for as long as I can remember. When I was little I always wanted to sing on a stage for tons of people as a country singer. I sang all day, ever day in front of everyone and anyone. I didn't care, I used to sing as loud as I could with head phones on and the music blaring in my ears. I never realized how silly you sound when your singing to yourself but everyone else can hear you.haha As I got older I gave up on that, and I stopped singing in front of everyone. I got scared; scared that if someone rejected me because of my singing I wouldn't love to do it as much. It has always meant so much to me, and I never want to lose it. With a fairly emotional childhood I relied on singing to make me feel better. When I was upset or hurt I would turn on a favorite song, and just sing and eventually get lost in the song and forget about everything else.  ---- However I never learned how to play any musical instrument, so I could sing all day, but could never have music. So this year I'm going to learn how to play guitar, I figure that's a start.:)

Dream 3: Photography. This is really just a hobby, but it's something that I have been playing with over the past few months and have come to really love it. I love photography and how if you can capture a moment just right it can be truly inspiring. It's incredible; it completely blows my mind. So I would like to start doing something with that. I'm saving up for a new and GREAT camera. I'm pretty excited.

I'm also trying a little bit of a new lifestyle, I'm going to transition myself into an organic diet. I wouldn't exactly call it a dream,but more or less a New Year's resolution. I have always had issues with my health; constantly sick with something, cold or stomach bug. So along with eating organic I'm going to start eating healthier for an actual diet. I'm hoping that eating organic will help me stay on top of eating healthier foods. I haven't been happy with the way I feel about my self for some time now, so I decided that I can't wait any longer and I need to do something about it now.

New year, New things, New ME!:)

BTW, I have only candles lit in my house right now, and it looks pretty magical:)

Until next time! 

Seeeee YA!

lmb.

hello old friend!

Hi there bloggers! My oh MY has is been a long time since I have posted anything! 

A few updates:

-I'm married!

-My husband Jarad is being medically discharged from the Navy

-We have no money, and no jobs.(If you know of anything that would be great)

....and I think that it really it! However here are some pictures from the wedding:)

Mandy and Me did a wonderful job with capturing out wedding! We couldn't have asked for a better photographer! 

Anywayssss! I was driving past a bum today, that held a sign that read," HUNGRY, GOD BLESS" and as I am used to seeing bums with these signs on a daily basis this one in particular seemed to grab my attention. He didn't look any different from the rest of them, he just looked homeless. I feel that usually I always read "NEED HELP" instead of "HUNGRY" and the fact that I had some fresh Zaxbys in the passenger seat sent a feeling of sadness for the man that I saw. So as I was driving and thinking about all the ministries that church's have for homeless people, and I was thinking that I want to do something too. I thought it would be nice to make them a bag of essential things, and a nice meal. The bag could contain: A Bible, warm food, a bottle of water, a first aid kit, poncho, socks, toothbrush, and toothpaste and deodorant, and five dollars. I've got a ton of old Bibles, socks, old water jugs, and book bags to carry their stuff. It's really easy to get a hold of this stuff. So I figured I would try to do something. So if anyone would like to donate some old stuff..it doesn't really matter what then let me know. Even canned food would be something to donate. Anything helps. I'm not quite sure when I'm going to start all this but I'd like to gather some things together and really make a plan with it. 

Anyways, that man just touched my heart for some reason and encouraged me to want to help. Even though Jarad and I don't have jobs or much money at the moment we still have enough to help those who truly need it. If you would like to help just let me know:)

I'm so tired right now and it's time to get some shut eye.

goodnight folks.

lmb.

Happy Birthday to Jarad [Part 2]

OH ME OH MY! It has been so long since I have been able to sit in one spot long enough to write a post! My last little bit about Jarad's surprise birthday party is this:

Oh man just look at how red his face is! I've never seen him blush at all! The surprise birthday party was definitely a success! Mission Accomplished! 

I've been waiting to show everyone these cute little umbrellas!

Aren't they just adorable! I've been contemplating renting one or not for the wedding or wedding pictures! I just think that would add the sweetest touch:)

These umbrellas can be rented or bought at bellaumbrella!

 

The next thing on my list was my friendship bread! I made about ten pans of this bread! It was amazing bread and I tried a whole bunch of things to make it taste different! A lot of people at the party had some because of course after ten pans I wanted the bread gone. Basically the bread is made from a starter kit! I got mine from Mrs.Julie (Jarad's mom) and then I didn't have anyone to give it away to except for back to her! It stunk because I had just quit my job and wasn't able to bring it to anyone so when I had made my extra starter kits to give away I ended up having A LOT extras, so I made all of those too! The starter kit comes with directions of what to do and how to make it, and for the first nine days you don't really do anything except for on day six where you add a few more ingredients! But basically all you do it let it sit and ferment for ten days until it's really to be made, and  then all you do it follow the rest of the directions! At first everyone is extremely grossed out by it, but once it's made it's delicious! Especially when you sprinkle cinnamon mixed with sugar on the top!

Well I'm going to get lunch, and order the flowers for the wedding! Hopefully I'll be able to post again soon!

lmb.

Happy Birthday to Jarad! [Part 1]

I think I can honestly say that tonight was a huge success. All the people that matter to Jarad showed up for him, and once he saw that it had him blushing. I've never seen him blush in my life; it was adorable. It was so ironic because as we were on our way "to go to the texas cattle company" he was saying how he wished that he had friends that cared enough to think to throw him a surprise party, and how he had never had that before. Well he got it:) I hope everyone enjoyed themselves and the food that I spent all day making. Well it's late and I'm exhausted, but tomorrow I'll post part two, and catch up!

Goodnight all! Have a blessed Sunday:)

LMB.