Old

I feel old.
I mean i know that I am not, I'm only 19, but for some reason, today, I feel it. It all started out with a conversation with Hannah(Andy's younger sister). She went to her first high school dance over the weekend and she got all dressed up and looked super pretty and She has a boyfriend now. Which is super exciting I am really happy for her and I am about 97% sure they are going to get married some day anyways. We were taking about  how excited she is and all that stuff and it just made me feel really old. I mean I know I haven't been there all her life but she is just like a little sister to me and she has grown up so much the past 4 years it makes me feel super old! And not to mention now I have my own place, all I do is clean, cook, and work. I feel like an old lady haha.
I have sorta felt this way my whole life. Every time I meet someone new they think I am at least in my early to mid twenties, which is odd considering I am shorter than most every person I know.
But other than feeling a little "beyond my years", life is over all good. I have a great husband, a adorable little apartment, a good job, andy has a job, and I have the best God ever!

It is amazing what God does for us when we give everything to Him.

Thankfulness

I again am having one of those crazy I can't sleep nights. i have no idea why this keeps happening. I am way to sick and nauseous feeling to ever be able to sleep. So once again here I am ranting to whoever in the world happens to be as wide awake as I am. Today in church my pastor gave an amazing sermon on thankfulness and I can not help to think that I am never thankful enough for what God has blessed me with Maybe this is just something I do, but I have a feeling it is just human nature to complain about everything and be thankful for nothing. Seriously I am amazingly blessed by God everyday, just being able to wake up and take a hot shower and eat breakfast is something I should praise God for. I don't think about how many people there are in the world who don't have those luxuries, let alone a comfy bed to sleep in the night before. This is not a "I want to make myself and who ever happens to be reading this feel like terrible people" and I don't think that is God's plan for laying this on my heart either. I just feel as though it is something worth thinking about. Have you ever met one of those people that seriously is so thankful it makes you a little annoyed, they are seriously thankful to be thankful for things. I want that kind of thankfulness, yes I am openly admitting I want to be one of those crazy,  annoying people. I want the world to know that God doesn't just bless me the day he gives me enough to get married, or move to Colorado, or big adventurous things. He also blesses me every single day whether I want to notice it or not. 
I am not one hundred percent sure why all these crazy big topics are rolling around in my brain when all I really want to do is sleep, but at least I have a computer to type and share them and a nice warm place to lay while my mind mindlessly wanders.

I won't be offended if you stop reading this halfway through.

Politically unmotivated people bother me. Now, before I go into this, I do not think that everyone should run around arguing about their political views, that is just obnoxious. However, it is more obnoxious when people have none at all. Seriously, how could you just not care. I was browsing around on Facebook today and was looking at a old friends page and under her political views she wrote "I don't follow any of that". How can you not follow politics! Everyone has a political view, whether they would like to think so or not, not having a political view, is a political view in and of its self. I seriously do not understand how someone could just not have an interest in the world around them. I am not saying you have to belong to a certain political party. I just think people should think critically and care about what is shaping the country we live in. No matter if we like it or not politics seriously effects our everyday lives, who the president is, what party is in control of congress, and what laws are and are not passed will not only change our lives but our children's lives as well. How can you possibly just not follow that?!?
A girl at work the other day told me she doesn't vote because she believes God has a plan and voting is not going to change what that plan is. I do know and believe that God can accomplish things with out us, He is God, He can do anything and everything He wants to on His own. And in the end it voting or not voting is not going to keep you from Heaven, it is your belief in Jesus and what He did for us on the cross. However, I personally believe that it brings way more glory to God when He can accomplish things through His willing people. I know this whole blog is covering a few heavy topics and normally I am more of a la-dee-da kind of writer but this seriously bugs the crap out of me. Why do people always assume that they don't have to do anything and God is just going to work it out. Yes I know He is God and He can work it out all by Himself, but seriously how boring is that persons life. "Oh I don't do anything I just wait around for God to it." That person could have a much more full and exciting life if they just acted on the direction God lays before them. Let's look at the Old Testament Israelites for one moment. Sure God very well could have made the Pharaoh let them go all on His own, but He used Moses. And yes he probably could have just mysteriously transported them into the promise land, but He made them do the venturing and wandering. But they would have missed all the spiritual growing along the way. God would have taught them absolutely nothing if He just did it all for them, could He have, YES, but putting them through all that eventually led them to a stronger closer relationship with the Lord. Personally it is not my place to judge anyone for voting or not voting, and I suppose this blog probably sounded a bit angry and judgmental, I know full-heartedly that God is the ultimate judge of everyone. But seriously, those politically unmotivated people drive me up a wall.
I feel as though this is enough crazy rambling for one night.

So I very seriously want to post on my facebook about how icky my stomach is feeling(I feel the need to have the world feel bad for me in my sickness) however, I know tons of people would then suspect I am pregnant(which I would like to say, I am not). So I cannot, therefore I felt the need to blog about it because then at least a select few people can feel bad I am sick without telling me I am having a baby, because I am not lol.
That has become a very popular joke in the Randes household ever since Andrew and I got married. Every time I want something or don't feel good the automatic response is "oh it's because your pregnant". It is pretty comical. And seriously you would not believe how much more you notice baby's after you are married, the thought always goes "Aww, adorable little baby, OH, I could make one of those now if I wanted to" haha I laugh at myself seriously every time. I think when Andy and I do have kids(which will be awhile, unless God has plans I don't realize) we are going to have fabulous children. Seriously, not to pat myself on the back, but how could our kids not be awesome haha.


Also a girl that I grew up with just had a baby, and her little girl is absolutely adorable.
Odessa Joon Kribbs.

Abigail.

To be One Hundred percent honest, I have not read Abbie's blog in awhile, pretty much when I don't blog, it's because I haven't been reading hers. I always have this crazy, unnecessary,  urge to blog after reading Abbie's. For example, it is currently 10:33pm and I have to work tomorrow, yet, I feel the need to blog because I just read her blog for the last hour. I don't think I tell her enough how talented I think she is. I seriously think about that every time I read her blog. She takes breath taking photos, is the best painter I know, she writes more eloquently than most college students(much better than I), and on top of that she just down right loves the Lord. I think if there is one friend of mine that is an inspiration for my walk with Jesus, it's her. I know she doesn't always feel like it, but that girl shines with love for Jesus, even when she is crazy down in the dumps. Reading her blog reminds me of why we are friends, and why out of the 300 people in our GNED class, God somehow put us together.
Seriously Abbie your awesome and I miss you like crazy.

Wedding+life+Colorado+travel=Beautiful

Yea, I have been a failure at blogging. See I normally blog right before I go to sleep, and since I just got married a month ago "other activities" have been taking up that time.
So much has happened in my life the past month, I am married, I have traveled 3/4 of the way across the country, and I now live the farthest I have ever lived from home. Life is beautiful right now, seriously, I have just been shown the past month what God has been doing in my life for the past year, everything that has happened is making sense, I totally feel like I am living what God has been preparing me for, and that is an amazing feeling.
The Wedding.
 It was seriously the most perfect day of my life, people say that, but I seriously mean it. I could totally feel God's presence, and see His hand working in that whole day, everything went exactly according to plan, even though it stressed me out at times that Amy planned most of the wedding, God knew it was exactly what I needed. I wouldn't have been able to enjoy the day if I was focused on all the little details. Note for future brides...don't worry about anything, and the day will go as smoothly as planned :D
The Road Trip.
 Best Honeymoon idea ever, I loved it. I love to travel and see new places and it was the perfect way for me and Andy to spend our honeymoon. We got to experience so much and see so many things that we will most likely never see again, and wouldn't have it we didn't feel like we were supposed to move to Colorado. I love that even when we don't know, God knows exactly what our hearts need, and that is what mine needed.
Colorado
It is absolutely beautiful here!
 A photographers dream place to live:

 Bohdi the dog....he is seriously the goofiest Dog in the world