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My hilarious, beautiful, fun niece Victoria (who you should never call Vicki) is one of my biggest fans. i’m not sure why she loves me so much but it blesses me and makes me smile. I am super proud to be her aunt & to call her friend. This blogs for her! Sometimes I feel guilty that I’m not a “super spiritual” person. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Jesus, but I’m not one of those people you just wanna go run to for comforting. Oh well, I guess that’s why God made us all different. I do love the Lord. I can’t help myself really. I grew up in a Christian home. My dad is a retired pastor and my mom has a precious relationship with God. I am definitely blessed. Growing up we were ALWAYS at church. I loved it. It was kinda like my 2 nd home. Its where all my friends were, I felt safe & happy running around those halls. I’m glad I grew up like that. I gave my life to Jesus when I was 8 years old. I was in Mrs. Rosie Threats’ Sunday school class. My heart has been His ever since. ...

happy thursday. for our anniversary i thought i'd do a random blog. these are jays favorites. 44 days til college football. amen. i'm beyond ready for cool, fall morning runs. too bad its only july 21. i love sonic happy hour. we keep our house extremely cool  cold at night. i love it. watching our wedding reception video last night makes me excited for heaven. seeing 300ish of my favorite people eating, dancing & having fun has to be kinda like heaven, right? claire is going to help me stay on track with adoption stuff. i'm super thankful for that. i like paperwork but this is ridiculous. jay likes to eat lean pockets for breakfast and i cannot seem to find them anywhere. what in the world? where'd they go? we are celebrating my dads 71 bday on saturday. yay! he's one cool 71 year old. i have to give blood tomorrow. one time after giving platelets i got lightheaded & they tried to make me drink grape juice. i told them i couldn't becaus...

easter sunday april 2006...i got up, put on my seersucker dress (like a good southerner) and headed to church. i remember having to be a greeter that morning. i'm probably the worlds worst greeter. i tend to get side-tracked...(aka - i see ava, allie & addison and now vasa) after church jay and i headed to the Webbs for their easter lunch & easter egg hunt. if you go to ccc and have never been over there on easter do yourself a favor and GO! the food is AMAZING and its such a fun place! we ate lunch, helped hide eggs (which for me meant chuckin' them out in the grass & trees...) and then watched the kids go hunt for them. i wasnt much for kids (unless their family) back then so i sat on the porch and pretended to think the kids were precious. we stayed for a little while then headed out. gotta get home for a sunday nap before we pig out at my folks for family night! (sunday night is family night for us dunlaps) jay dropped me off at home & told me he was...

so one day i got the ccc newsletter in the mail. it had a picture of our soon-to-arrive youth pastor/worship leader, jay lesley. i thought he had a great smile & looked like fun. (i was right.) his first sunday speaking my mom & claire kept giving me the eye. but then he introduced the girl he was dating...so that ended that. he told his story & seemed genuine. my mom left church that day saying to my dad, "that's the kind of man i could trust my daughters heart with." (right again!) jay lived here for a while before we became friends. we said hello in passing but nothing much. he says that he knew i was funny (from overhearing conversations, etc.) and thought we'd be good friends. the first time we ever spent time together he was basically "working me" so i'd help with a youth lock-in. we went to dinner, got ice cream at mcdonalds and went to the cheap movies. side story - the movie stopped for a few minutes & some guy yelled, "...

This one’s for Bonnie White! Hope you recover quickly & completely. Praying for you. I’m headed to play with vasa this afternoon. I’m so very excited. I cant wait to see what he says/does to make me laugh today. Yesterday I picked the girls up from vbs and went to lunch with them. I’ve had a migraine for a couple days this week so I wasn’t feeling 100% but I did NOT want to let them down. So I traded cars with my dad. Yep, I was kickin’ it in the minivan. It still makes me laugh that he drives a minivan. I was a little worried that I might embarrass the girls. You all know I don’t like to wear makeup so I didn’t have it on & my clothes didn’t match. Haha. Poor kids. Ava did kind of look at me funny…but seemed happy to see me none-the-less. We grabbed their noodle artwork & headed for lunch. Well first we had to pick up Addison. The older girls have been double dippin’ with st luke & ccc vbs this week! Addison only goes at night. On the way to pick her up we talke...

I can’t think of anything specific to blog about. So I’m just going to talk…could get dangerous. I really like sundried tomatoes. Jay is going to wal-mart tonight. So there should be plenty of exciting stories for tomorrow. He tried to say that I exaggerate about him leaving things out & around. This morning I woke up to a big jar of raisins in the living room. It never ends. I might be one of those annoying gym people. I just figured that out today. I am “that girl” who hoots & hollers during class. Yeah, I yell “heyyy, etc.” it’s mainly to keep myself going when I want to lay down. Jay & I went to see his parents last week for his bday. Sooooooo much fun. His parents are hilarious. His whole family is really. My healthy eating used to stress his mom out. Now she just makes fun of it. I love it. Thursday night we had red snapper that the guys caught on their recent deep-sea fishing trip. It was yummy!! I helped in the kitchen. It’s always a blast with Janice. At o...

Life can definitely be tough. I certainly have my struggles. But I laugh A LOT. i grew up in a hilarious house and I have married a funny man. It’s fabulous. Jay can make me laugh like no other. But he can also annoy me like no other. I told him a month or so ago that he is “precious & annoying.” So let’s just talk about jay for a minute… He cannot grocery shop. I (no joke) have to draw MAPS and write specific descriptions of things I need if I DARE send him to publix or wal-mart. My list looks like some sort of hardcore treasure hunt or top-secret army mission. Sometimes I even write…no, no the GREEN one. b/c I know he’s got the wrong one in his hand. he really, really tries though. It’s precious. He will always get at least ONE thing wrong. But it never ceases to crack me up. He tries. I know he hates going. Don’t think I’m mean for sending him. Honestly, I only send him about once a month. And I kinda do it so he realizes that things don’t just appear in the kitchen eac...