Wedding Pictures!!!!!

I just took a walk tonight with a good friends and it was sooooo nice to be outside. I really havent had much time to enjoy the "fresh outdoors" this summer cuz of work and school and all. Tonight made me really miss being at camp all summer long. Those were such great times playing at the lake and being outside. Its funny how while youre in it you can see things so differently. It was so easy to get frustrated and tired at camp because we were constantly in 90-100 degree weather and sweating like crazy with snakes in the lake and rain that lasted for weeks at a time. And now, looking back on it, I just remember the good times. Really then, what is the point of being discontent while you are in your trial--whatever that trail may be? There are always things that you can be thankful for. I need to remember that more and make sure that I thank God for all of the amazing things around me. So... I thank God for you - really I do, whoever you are, and I hope you are having a wonderful day!

Wow Im cheesy

I once was fatherless,
a stranger with no hope;
Your kindness wakened me,
Awakened me, from my sleep

Your love it beckons deeply,
a call to come and die.
By grace now I will come
And take this life, take your life.

Sin has lost it's power,
death has lost it's sting.
From the grave you've risen
VICTORIOUSLY!

Into marvelous light I'm running,
Out of darkness, out of shame.
By the cross you are the truth,
You are the life, you are the way

My dead heart now is beating,
My deepest stains now clean.
Your breath fills up my lungs.
Now I'm free. now I'm free!

Lift my hands and spin around,
See the light that i have found.
Oh the marvelous light

Marvelous light
Lift my hands and spin
See the light within...

I can't figure out how to make the first verse black! Oh well!

Please pray for me, God had really openned up a lot of opportunities recently for me to share with how He has brought me through my eating disorder. I am so excited that what I went through can help others but right now I am at a fork in the road in the sense that I know He wants me to share but I am not sure about the means to getting there (ex. public speaking, writing a book etc.)

2 Tim 1:7

Dan and I at the zoo for my birthday

An  elephant at the zoo

Dan and I at an Easter picnic

The front of Dan and I at the picnic -- I have a problem keeping my eyes open!

Love y'all

Here is the email I sent about Dan and I getting engaged. Sorry if you didnt get it that means that I dont have your email so send it to me!

This is the short version:

Hey Everyone!
  Well as of Saturday evening Dan and I are getting married!!!!! For those of you who I havent spoken to in a while we've been dating since last January--right after I got back from Romanian and we met through my parents at our church here in NC. We havent set a date yet everything is still so new but it will probably be sometime this fall.

For all the girls out there let me tell you how he proposed:
  Friday night I had a dream that he proposed to me in a big auditorium filled with people. He handed me two red roses with a card on it asking if I would marry him. However he didnt give me a ring and he didnt even ask me verbally if I would marry him. Later in the dream I questioned him about whether we were really engaged and why he didnt ask me or give me a ring.
  Saturday morning when he came to pick me up to go to a meeting I told him this dream. However I didnt know that he was planning on proposing to me that day. Isn't that God for you! So we went to our meeting and then he wanted to take me to the park and swing because I love to go to this one specific park by my old house. It was supposed to be a really nice day but it turned out being cold and windy so I didnt understand why he was so insistent on going to the park and spending some time together. When we got there I was cold and miserable and asked him if we could leave. On our way back to the car he said "Man! Nothing is working out today" and my thought was "What do you have planned??" So we went back to my house and my parents invited us to go to dinner with them. We didnt have any plans so we decided to go and as I was changing for dinner I heard my mom tell my dad that they had to leave right away to run an errand and that Dan and I would drive ourselves incase we wanted to do something later. THis was odd for two reasons 1. We didnt have plans for later that night and there was nothing
going on in town to go to. 2. We were supposed to be at the restraunt at 6:15 and it was getting close to the time we needed to leave--why was her errand so important I wondered. So I could tell she was acting a little weird. After they left and as Dan and I were walking out the door he hugged me and got real serious. He said "I dont have two roses but I do have a ring" and my eyes got so big! Then he got on his knee pulled out the ring and said "I am serious! Will you marry me?" (well I think thats what he said, I dont really remember). Apparently I hesitated and then said "Of
course!" I just remember thinking "OOOOOH MY GOSH he's really proposing!!!!!!! YES YES YES YES YES." After that we got in the car to go to the restraunt and it all hit me and I started to cry tears of joy. We are so excited and cant wait. Please pray for us as we begin planning, that everything would fall into place concerning my classes ... and of course that God would be glorified through us and that we would never take our eyes off of Him.
Praise God for the gift of marriage!
Love,
Ashley