snap shots of Griffin Daniel and the one and only Kenny Butler<3

March 2: one life begins & another one ends…

yesterday my Pop, Kenny Butler, passed away. He was an incredible man who lived life to the fullest. Before going into the hospital, he was in Daytona down at the DAYTONA 500, fishing with my dad, and having TOO  much of good of a time :) He came home sick with phenomena. Sadly, he lost the battle. However, Kenny was not one to sit around and be sad. Even when he was in the hospital, sick, he was making me smile :) I will miss him dearly! I am so lucky to have had him in my life!

My favorite memory of Kenny and I:

I was 12 years old and the family and I had just ate at Tokyo Japanese Steakhouse. We were all walking out of the restaurant and I looked up at the moon. I said “wow look at the full moon!!!”… kenny responded with “here, I’ll show you a full moon… (and he proceeded to moon me his nice white fanny ) hahaha! Kenny was always doing or saying something funny… I will miss his silly jokes and contagious spirit. I love my Kenny Butler… <3

My sister Jamie Lynn gave birth to Griffin Daniel Euratte the same day:) I am an aunt to a beautiful baby boy! He is all the way up in Indianapolis, but I am going to meet him next week during my spring break. CAN’T WAIT! he is so handsome! I am so happy for my sis and Gabe! What an incredible blessing… this is when you can’t deny there is a God. God’s perfect gift and miracle to us:) I know this was the best day of their lives… <3

March 2, 2010 is definitely a day I will never forget. It was a day full of happy and sad emotions. I was celebrating the life of a man who I loved dearly and lost and celebrating the new life gained of my precious nephew. I was reminded of how we are brought into this world and how quick we can be taken out.

So quickly we can become a memory, but what kind of memory are we going to leave? How do you want to be remembered???

lollipop, lollipop ooo lolli lolli lolli, LOLLIPOP!

The past two days have been great! Yesterday, Ed and I were down in ATL getting tickets for Alvin Ailey! and then decided to take a stroll around the city…we were imagining our lives as we ATTEMPTED to look at apartment on Ponce de Leon. Today was a fantastic day! SNOW DAY! Shared it with Alyssa and we had a blast! I have a thankful heart for all the people the Lord has placed in my life :)

stuck.audition.change.journey.independent.

Okay! Feeling a little overwhelmed! Senior project is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. Dance is what I do and I knew this process would be tough… but nothing could prepare me for it. Choreographing a 7 mintue dance is such a great opportunity, I just need to trust myself and allow the process to happen. I feel STUCK! what was my piece about again…??? OH YEAH! Temptation! I need to go look at art and use my resources for visual images! GET WITH IT HAL! I know it will all work out! THANK YOU to my great dancers! Y’all have been fierce… it’s a learning process for all and we are going to make it to the STAGE :)

May 2010… graduating college!?!? holy smokin cow! i received 100% guarantee that I will be graduating in May! I’ve got a couple auditions planned and just trusting the Lord with all of it. I know I was put on this earth to dance and share it with others. So as long as I am performing or teaching I will be stoked! however… being a professional dancer would be totes a dream come true!

Life as I know it is going to change… sooner than later and here are some quotes from my pastor sermon that I found enlightning! “God wants to take you somewhere you haven’t been yet.” “Set yourself apart for Gods will and purposes for our lives”. “be strong and very courageous, do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go”… praying on this <3

I bought “True Believer” and “At First Sight” today! This starts my 3rd book of 2010! Excited that Jess and I are embarking on this journey together! I’m sure we will be hott messes at the end of each book:) ha!

OH AND I KILLED A HUGE BUG TONIGHT! I’m so proud of myself! Miss Independent… because I am not exaggerating when I say this bug was HUGE! it took me like 20 minutes to finally get it cornered, before I went crocodile hunter on it! ha

well goodnight tumblr fans! Ed and I are going to the FOX tomorrow to get tickets for Alvin AIley! yay! super stoked!

<3 hal

ichat with jess! we miss her so much!

dear john…

Dear John the movie came out today! It was a  story that I know America will fall in love with! But everyone should read the book. You will get lost in the pages and meet two people whose love is so true and so rare<3

Here are some of my favorite quotes from the book…

“We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.”~John

“Wherever you are and no matter what’s going on in your life, when it’s the first night of the full moon I want you to find it in the nighttime sky…I want you to think about ,me and the week we shared, because whereever I am no matter what’s going on in my life that’s exactly what I’ll be doing..if we can’t be together, at least we can share that, and maybe between the two of us, we can make this last forever.”~Savannah

“”When I think of you and me and what we shared, I know it would be easy for others to dismiss our time together…They wouldn’t understand, and I don’t feel the need to explain, simply becasue I know in my heart how real it was… how real this is.  When I think of you I cant help smiling, knowing that you’ve completed me somehow.  I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again”~ Savannah

“And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.” ~ John

“I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.” ~John

“And then I feel as if I’m witnessing a miracle, as ever so slowly she raises her face towards the mon, I watch her drink in the sight, sensing the flood of memories she’s unleashed and wanting nothing more than to let her know I”m here, But instead I stay where I am and stare up at the moon as well.”~John

… the road out of my neighborhood is closed! have to drive all the way around to the other neighborhood that is connected to mine… annoying!