I love Colorado!!

Well, 27 long hours after leaving Starkville, we made it to the Sky Corral! Colorado is just so stinkin beautiful. I can't get over it. There are mountains, and snow (so much snow!) and nature and wildlife and stars and it is just fantastic.

We were awfully amused by the way snow explodes when you kick a bug chunk of it in the air... Why yes, we're from the South, how did you know?

Time for a break

I managed to survive the semester, finals are over, and it's time for a break! I'm leaving at 3:00 pm this afternoon with a group of 9 friends from First Baptist Church here in Starkville. We are driving 23 hours to Colorado, where we will be doing some work at the Sky Corral Ranch, which is being turned into a Christian retreat center in the mountains. We're really excited to get going! I know I'll take a ton of pictures, and I might be able to put some on here while we are gone, so keep an eye out!

Note to everyone...

If you come here to this site at any point between May 20, 2009 and August something, 2009, then you are out of luck and should redirect yourself to my West Virginia blog.  That is all!

Where thy victory, O grave?

My poor blogsites. I just can't make up my mind between this one and that one. And they don't even get used all that much anyway. That means they are both neglected and I play favorites. It's a good thing I don't have any kids, the poor things would be so messed up they wouldn't know what to do with themselves. Anyway, loyalty+more traditional features (i.e., comments)+easily customizable layout has brought me back here for the time being. Maybe I'll just use the other one for kicks and giggles type things, because it definitely lends itself to that. And then this once can be for posts with lots of words. Tumblr can be the children's book, Blogger can be the "young adult nonfiction" section. See?

Anyway. It's Easter! One of my very favorite holidays. I like it because it is a great reminder of the way that we could potentially be living. Sometimes I catch myself thinking something along the lines of "Awesome, it's Easter! Christ died for me, and now that it's Easter, He has risen again and sin has absolutely no power of me!" And then I have to kick myself and remember that this all transpired hundreds and hundreds of years ago, and sin has never had any power over me, except that which I allow it! It doesn't have to be that way. My Savior loves, My Savior lives, My Savior's always there for me! This is such exciting stuff. New life, guaranteed in a God who's not going to let me down. I love it! How could you not be joyful when you have a guarantee like that?

The end is near...

It's not lookin' good for you, bud.  

Well, Blogger...

Dear Blogger,
I want to be upfront and honest with you right from the start. The truth is, while you are truly a great blogging site (I do love Google!), I just haven't been able to really give you the commitment you deserve. I don't want to say that it's your fault, but, well, the truth is, it's your fault. You just don't have what I have been looking for in a blog site. Before now, I didn't know that I could do better for the same price (free!), so I was content to settle half-heartedly here with you. Again, you're a great blog. But tonight I was introduced to someone else. Someone better. Someone with everything I never even knew I was looking for. The blogging world lit up for me tonight, and I am, at the very least, infatuated. Now, I don't want you to think this is the end. It's not. Yet. Right now I'd like to sort of test the waters, without burning the bridge. I hope you don't mind. You're a great blog, and I think you understand. So I won't be coming around as much in the next few weeks (I've always been kind of absent anyway, so this shouldn't be too big of a change, right?), and I'll be spending more time with this new part of my life. I'll decide later if things are going to work longterm between you and I. In the meantime, I hope you will keep an open mind to this whole situation. Thanks for being such a great site. If you need me, I'll be at http://abbyeggers.tumblr.com.
Best Regards,
Abby

My new skill

Do those two skies look the same? They should, because they are. The sky in the top picture used to be completely washed out and boring looking, and it was very sad because it was actually a beautiful day. But today I learned how to cheat a little when you end up with tragedies like that! I'm sure this is a very basic skill in the Photoshop world, but I just learned it and I think it's pretty cool. I guess I should go take some pictures of the sky so I can start stocking up for when I get more pictures with misleadingly boring, washed out skies.