Spring Break!

Hey friends,
well, as of 9:50a.m. this Friday or March 21st, I will officially be on Spring Break! It is turning out to be a better Spring Break than I thought it was going to be a week ago! I found out a few nights ago that as per my request, we will be going to Boone next weekend so I can meet a very special guy that came into my life close to a month ago, Kevin. He and I met and have talked online ever since and on the phone but have yet to meet in person. Some of you may have heard about him already but you will hear about him more. I am very excited about next week and am happy to see what God is doing in my life these days! How great is our God, amen? He is so amazing and I just lift up all my praise to him for all He has done and is doing in my life. Well friends, got to go to the sketching pad to brainstorm some ideas for tomorrow's class. We are making postcards and since I got some great pics last time I was in the mountains I want to use one of them. More to come soon.

Wuz up friends?

Well, things are so hectic around here lately with ALL I have going on in my life. Will and Meghan are still going great and the wedding is in June. For those of you who haven't heard yet, they ARE official and so you can say his fiance now! School is been hard for me in some classes the last few weeks but has picked up and I am so happy for that. My priorities are in line and God is really blessing me these days beyond what I could ever imagine. A little update from the Haynes family: Josh and his girlfriend Kim and still going strong and Kim is a real God send for Josh. They are very happy and we all love her. Will and Meghan are planning their wedding which will take place on June 29th and we are ALL very very excited. Mom and Dad are still doing their Sunday night house church and are loving it! Tori now goes to church with me and on the last Sunday of Feburary, she got baptized and is now a member of Neuse Baptist Church. She and I like to stay active in the church as we sing in the choir and have a Cantata this Sunday, Palm Sunday, and PLEASE come, it is at 11:00 and again at 7:00 at Neuse Baptist Church, you will be blessed! That's all for now folks, got to go take a shower and get ready for church! God bless each and every one of you!

Finally

well, I finally think I have my computer straightened out, so for those of you who have been waiting with baited breath for new pics from my new baby, my Canon 30D, then you are in for a treat. All is going good with the new device for the computer, so I will have new pics for you Friday at the latest. I have a lot of homework it seems these days with college treking right along which is awesome. Things are going great here, I am looking forward to trying to get into doing a photo a day on this neat website that one of my dads friends got me into. Now, I have the want to talk to you all, my ipod is working, and thats what is important for the computer, and I will have new software for school soon, which includes Photoshop CS3, since my CS2 is BAD. Anyways, gtg friends and get to school. BTW, Scott got home from Iraq a couple of weeks ago, I think it was 3 weeks from this Friday, thank God!!! ttyal! Luv ya all, and a shout out to my big sissy who is turning 14! tomorrow, WOW! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TORI! I love you.

Take a look at my NEW Canon EOS 30D Digital Camera!

Well, here it is as I told you it would be. I got it yesterday, or Friday, January 11, 2008 at Best Buy. It was a great buy and I am so excited about learning to use it.

This is amazing!

He is only 4, but already has the gift of God in his soul! This little boys's daddy is the music leader for the praise band in a church in MO and he is 4 and already can drum like there is no tomorrow. You check him out and see what you think, this was at their Christmas Eve service.

"Days go By"

I love that song! Well, School started today, and we had a good first day of class. We only had Ensligh today and it went well I might add. It all goes downhill from here, I got all the books, and now all my classes start. But the good news is that if I work hard, then I will be done by May, then can do some summer classes possibly to catch up. The good news is I have a really good English teacher for this semester, a good change over Mr. Butts, hehe. Well friends, I'm going to go now and finish the movie. ttyl all later. Btw, I am getting the camera this coming Friday if all works out so please be in prayer with me about it. I'm in the proccess of transferring money over and into my account. Thanks, I'll have pics up soon! Bye for now.

Hillary

WOW! What a GREAT new year!

Tori and I had a great new year eves at my church playing games with my Pastor and many others as a few select of us gathered for the watchnight service of games, food, and fun. Let me say, the food was awesome, the games were fun, and the company was inspiring! It was amazing starting the new year on my knees thanking God for the past year and all he Has done for me. I mean, I have joined my first church, gradutated from high school, started college and succesfully completed my first semested of it, and I had my first relationship with a great man. I think all in all it was a pretty great year, it had it's trials and errors like always, God still has chosen not to take my headaches away, but I feel the end is coming with that someday soon, and I urge you to be in prayer with me about that.

MY New Years Resolution? For the Year 2008 to be an even BETTER year than 2007, and for my focus on Christ to grow stronger as I continue on with my education, and possibly move on with my dating life as well. Who knows, only God does, and with God, nothings impossible. *I want to thank all those who have been in prayer for Scott Whitley who has been in Iraq for the last year, but PLEASE, do NOT stop praying yet, because he still has alittle over a month and still needs our prayers until he walks off the steps of that plane and is in the loving arms of his family once again. Thanks friends, for all your love, and support to me.

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!

I hope everyone has a great New Years for 2007 as we look forward to the year 2008 at 12:00a.m. on Tuesday morning. I am going to my church tomorrow night to play games and to fellowship with my church family, and when mid-night comes around, we are going to be in the sancuary down on our knees thanking God for an amazing year and asking Him what He'd do in us for the next one. I ask you to do the same, be on your knees as that ball drops and be asking God what he'd have you to do. I know in about a month we are going to be rejoicing because Scott Whitley who has been gone for over a year now will be HOME! Praise God for bringing him home safly, AMEN? Well folks, it's 1:45 a.m and I need sleep so, I'll ttyl all later, see ya in the NEW YEAR! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Hillary

Exams

Hey everyone,
sorry I have seem like I have been dropped off the planet but no I haven't, just been REAL busy. Exams are officially over and so is school until January 4th, Thank Goodness. It's so nice to have a break and I have passed all my classes thanks be to God for helping me through my first semester with Mr. Butts. We have been working on our Christmas Cantata at Church that the choir sings that we are doing this Sunday at 11a.m. then again at 7p.m. so please come out. We went to Britthaven Sunday to do it there for them and then I went out to my classmate Peneolpe's house to download software. I ended up having to leave my computer out there so her son could battle it out with the software guy whom he got mad at over the phone the previous day while I was there. So, we have one more to do and then we are done and hopfully that will be it. here's a pic of my first nice invention on my first download of software which is photoshop.















I intend to enjoy my break and this weekend I am going to enjoy Cable at my aunt's house when I go up there to babysit for my cousins while they do stuff for work this weekend and earn so good money in the process. The Camera fund is coming along nicely and I am looking forward to AK especially after Mrs. Debbie told me last weekend the sites we are or might be going to see and I am already falling in love with them. Tonight is the business meeting at church and my ministry is getting approved into the church, and by the way, we will be. It's a great ministry and one I am proud to be a part of. You don't have to guess what I am doing in it and am loving it. I am also in the choir at church as you know and am still loving it and as I said we are getting ready to do our first big production, "I Love to Tell The Story." I love you friends, look at this video too, it says it all about Chirstmas, and let your Christmas be about CHRIST!!! After all, HE is the Risen for the season!!!!

Finally!!!!!!!

Well, I finally found the perfect deal for me with an SLR camera, and it couldn't be more perfect. It's a great price, exactly what I want, and what more could I want???? I already have 2 tripods, and they are perfect, have a good camera, and it's perfect, and am now fulfilling my dream, to get an Canon SLR camera. SOOOOOOO......for those of you out there who probably are getting me a Christmas gift, wellll, give me money, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!! I need money to contribute to my camera fund so I can have it before I go to Alaska in May of next year to watch my best friend Catherine graduate from High School! THANKS soooo much friends, you're allll the bestt!!!!!!

~Hillary~