It's me, Charity

I just had to share the most exciting thing that will happen all week long! MY friends from church Ben and Janet Whipple have been in the process of adopting a baby boy from Ethiopia for well over a year. I think last May I blogged (here or mypace) about going to their Adoption Benefit Concert. Well yesterday they finally got to meet their precious baby boy, Issac. This is the first picture of their new family of three. When I saw it I immediately started crying. Its just beautiful. And what is even more beautiful is God's provision for them this entire time. There have been ups and downs and i'm sure more hard days then they have told us about, but yet their faith in God and his plan has remained rock steady and even grown. They are such an inspiration to me and my faith. Rejoice with us Issac is coming home!!!!!!! P.s. to Ben and Janet. MY apologizes for stealing your picture. I'm not stalking you. Seriously. Well ok, maybe kind of a little!

So the really exciting thing that has happened at work this week. I have been working with our college's recruiter, Teresa, to design a blog for our ambassadors. I finally tweaked it to my liking, and we went live on Weds!!! We have gotten over 140 hits so far! And several in different countries! SUPER EXCITING!! Now, right now you're probably thinking, Really Cherry? You designed a blog? For Purdue? And um, your blog looks like this??!! Yes, well, thats what happens when I get paid to do something and have several weeks to work on it:) Start paying me, or better yet, commenting! and I just might spiff up this place. Anyways, our blog is getting very popular! And we have heard nothing but praise and compliments for it, which has been AMAZING! T, has been showing me all the compliments for it and that has made me feel sooo good! This morning I met the Recruiter for a different college at Purdue and she was asking me questions about how I did it and if it was hard and praising us...

1. My current favorite country song right now is "She's Country" by Jason Aldean. It makes me want to get up and rock out, and drive my truck fast on a country road with the windows down, radio turned up, amist the corn. 2. I also happen to think Jason Aldean is pretty hot. Just sayin. 3. I really need to remember my Mom reads my blog now. Sorry Mom!! 4. MY abs hurt.(wherever they are. I haven't seen my abs in eyars now.) Like seriously. I guess thats what happens when you actually work out? Not fun. 5. I'm rather upset its going to snow this weekend. I put away my sweaters and my toes have been loving the fresh air and flip flops. NO MORE COLD WEATHER!!! 6. I'm getting really excited for Memorial Day weekend. Time off with my family and warm weather!! Well, one can hope!! 7. I found Danny Gokeys churches website tonight. I guess that does make me a cyber stalker.. Maybe I shoudn't admit that?

So tonight was day one of the 30 day shred. Yes, I succumed and bought Jillian Michaels 30 day shred last night after bible study. I figured if I"m working so hard on my inside I might as well ramp it up and get my outside to match too!! (that and I have a bridesmaid dress to wear in august!!.) ) SO I tried it tonight, and I"m not gonna lie. it was rough. I was panting by the 4'th minute. But I strangely enjoyed it. Well, again I didn't like the push ups but I was pretty danged proud I could actually do some! That shocked me!! I have to say I actually liked the squats. And the punching. got out my agression:) So keep checking back in, soon you will be seeing alot LESS of me!!!

So if you know me, shoot, if you've read my blog in 2009 you probably have guessed that I am not the healthiest person in America. Thats putting it lightly. While I don't have any serious life threatening problems I do have alot of health issues that I struggle with. I take a good amount of medicine on a daily basis and even that doesn't keep me well so I got in touch with a woman from my old church who is very healthy and into healthy things and has an extensive knowledge of herbal thingies. :) Friday night before heading to Katie's I ventured into Nature's Pharm and was overwhelmed by all of the choices!! Thankfully I got help, and came out with the above purchases. After my body gets used to taking these supplements I'm going to add some more to the mix and try and get as healthy as I possibly can. GO HEALTHY!!!

I realized I forgot to post pictures of Friday night with my bubbies, so here you are, bask in their cuteness!! Here is Momma Katie with her boys.Bellys are big in their household.. How can you just not MELT at that smile??!! He kills me.. Me and my cuddle buddy watching Wall-E. As you can tell he was slightly fixated on the TV..

Well I see that I've had tons of blog viewers in the past week so I felt guilty and thought I should probably post something! Life has been pretty crazy busy! Last week was Spring Break at Purdue and for us it was Spring WORK! We got nice uninterrupted time to work on projects, and that was really nice!! I was able to crank out a HUGE project and I was so proud of myself!! This week the students are back and our office has been hopping!! I love it though, it just confuses me when they come back more than once in one day. I can remember faces, but not names and it just gets CONFUSING! OK, so I'm easily confused!! :) Last weekend was good. I spent friday night with Katie and the boys. They have grown so much since I last saw them a few weeks ago!! Sammy is hilarious, he is turning into such a little BOY versus a baby. Its amazing to watch him change. He almost fell asleep in my arms again.. *sigh* Joey is of course his cheesy hammy little self. I can't wait to see what he...