autumn thoughts

it's fall and i love it! i forgot how much i love this season. all the pretty colors and the crisp morning air...it's love!

this past weekend my sister, brother in law and niece came to visit...she is growing up so fast i can't believe it...she is crawling, gives kisses, and is staring to talk. if you ask her what a puppy says she goes "ruff" pretty smart for being 10 months! she loved peter parker...every time he came around she laughed and flirted with him...he wasn't to sure about her though...i think she scared him.

monday night our community group went to the new mars hill campus in wedgewood to serve. (it isn't open quite yet, but soon) we put books on the book shelf, cleaned the rooms for the fire marshall, washed windows, and my favorite thing...we got to spray paint! kristen came, and finally go to meet some of the people i talk about so much...i am glad i have another sheltonion in seattle!

i really love my community group, we are all so close, like a family and i love it! one of the guys that goes colin, we actually went to elementary school together! what a small world! he is hilarious i really get along with him. a couple of the girls i have gotten to know are kelsey and rachel, both are just awesome girls and it is such a blessing to have good friends.

i start the gospel classes to become a mars hill member next week. i am very excited...this will make it so i am not limited to what i can do to serve in the church. also i believe next friday will be my first time serving with wyld life at whitman middle school...i am not completely sure what it will look like. but i know i will be witnessing to kids, telling them about jesus, how cool mars hill is, and how they need to come to crux, (the junior high youth group). i am really excited for this..it has been a couple months in the making...but it feels like finally after all the paper work, counseling, meeting...it is going to pay off!

tonight i get to go see the sketch for my tattoo at super genius, then hopefully set up my appointment for early october...it was a bit more expensive then i thought, so i have been saving. which also gave me more time to make sure i really wanted it...i am getting the words "refine me" (also the name of my blog) which means refining myself to the lord, and purifying my heart. david gave me a whole new way to look at the words and it's meaning, now i am even more excited...i liked his explanation better then mine actually. but i am sure my tattoo experience will be a whole blog in itself.