happy birthday, America

Gosh! It's July 4th, already? Not too sure how I feel about this time-flying-by thing!

I hope you have a super-dee-dooper Independence Day and take a minute out of your festivities to remember totally awesome guys like :

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

Patrick Henry:

Happy Birthday to the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave!

Now off to party at the Hern's!!

mother/daughter tea

Our girl's discipleship group had a mother/daughter tea. It was neat cause not only did we partake of some delightful fellowship and goodies, but we also heard from a wonderful speaker regarding modesty and beauty. Also, we did a couple of activities where we discussed beauty and mother and daughter relationships.


My friends Michelle and Marianna came and showcased their E-Boutique, Bellissima! Everyone enjoyed shopping for beautiful new outfits! Marianna gave a wonderfully presented talk on modesty and beauty.

I personally was blessed by the time with all the mothers and daughters. Many, many thanks to Pam, Melissa, and Claire for the way they serve us in the discipleship group and for putting together the tea!

summertime, and the liven' is easy...

OK, maybe the living isn't easy, but I kinda like that song....

:)

So Orientation was a blast, and I'm all registered for the fall. I'm taking 15 hrs and two of my classes are Political Science!!! I've had to play around with my schedule since, my original class planning, but I think I'm pretty happy with what I have.

Brenda and I flashing the "Go Coogs!" sign at lunch.

Right before Check in!

mj: 1958-2009

orientation

UH orientation is tomorrow!

I'm going with my friend Brenda, here we are at her graduation party.

We had a lovely time celebrating her graduation from Cy-Fair . Brenda, Vanessa (check out the picture below!) and I took a biology class together last fall and we've become great friends.

next pictures!

Allyson put this slideshow together for some of the picture she took at Next:





Enjoy!

where does one begin?

Ok, let me apologize: I was sooo going to update for during the conference...but I accidentally deleted the number that I was suppose to send my text too. :/

So I get to give you a full "after-the-fact" update. Over several days maybe?

I was very blessed by my time at Next. God revealed things to me from messages by Josh Harris, CJ Mahaney, D.A. Carson, Kevin DeYoung, and Sinclair Ferguson. But that wasn't all, through the breakout sessions by Dave Harvey, Jared Mellinger, and Carolyn McCulley...the learning and blessing continued. As I interacted with people at the conference: God revealed my need to rest in HIS plans and revealed sins that I will be looking to be held accountable for.

God was also gracious to deepen my desire for heaven and eternity. I long for the day when Christ will call those he has saved home. I pray that this will further a passion in me for the Lost and that my boldness to declare Christ to those around me would be evident.

No words can describe the feeling that you get when you are around so many strong young brothers and sisters-in-Christ for four days. I can't help but see it as a small taste of how heaven will be.

These are just a few thoughts. I will be posting more in upcoming days. I'll leave you with a few pictures:

More coming soon!

Love, Adrienne Renea