En Route

Thats Life For Ya…

emily — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:10:31 +0000

o my! o my! where to start. i feel like i’ve been away for years. i guess thats what high school does to ya. takes you away from the real world. But now that i’m back in it, and myself again, i have more time to write and update you all on whatever (for lack of a better word) i don’t really like updating about my life because then i start to feel kinda selfish but i’ve got some exciting stuff(also lack of a better word)

My freshman year has been full of all sorts of activities. lets see Volleyball, and after that i try to squeeze in some Volleyball o ya and if i have enough time before i need some sleep, i usually play some Volleyball. I know seems like a lot but I LOVE IT!!!! i love volleyball. people constantly tell me its too much, i need to focus on other things. And i am, just not in the same way. its my passion i love it!!! the team i played year around with did awesome this year. We went to dallas, texas in april and placed 5th in gold out of 176 teams. WE were one place away from qualifying for NATIONALS… thats kind of a big deal. well the season is winding down but a new one starts right up again.

My family is great… TEAR TEAR TEAR TEAR .. my sister’s graduation was on saturday. just a reminder she’ll be leaving us in less than 2 months. aaaahhhhh… we’ll just see what happens then!

I think thats enough for now.. thanks for stickin with me…

emily — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:08:39 +0000

emily — Sat, 12 May 2007 14:31:43 +0000

im gonna find time…to write more… just haven’t found it yet…

….of shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings…?

emily — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:33:28 +0000

I’m trying to find a new theme..i’m pretty old school and i just find some premade ones

So my site my change three of four times in the next couple of days…

The before and after pics (cough… jen…cough) are coming soon.

Must of you probably know i’m an athlete. Well, in my ”career” i’ve been good at 2 sports.. i know sounds lame but these were swimming and volleyball. A couple years ago after pursueing swimming all my life(literally) i decided i was done and wanted to move on with volleyball. Swimming was becoming boring and very very draining. Well 2 years later guess what.. I am POOL sick.. i miss it. i really really reallly do. This school year i tried to balance swimming and volleyball but it didn’t work and had to leave swimming.

To those of you who have swam before, swimming is really really hard. Practices at 5:30 in the morning and 6 at night, and extra ”dry land” practices on the side.

VOlleyball is very grueling also..but just not in the same way. I really love volleyball any minute i get play anywhere brings my day joy. So i can’t imagine my life without volleyball.I just wish i could also swim. So question to all you previous athletes who might’ve of struggled with this same issue. Do you just have to choose? Is it just hard work? what do you recommend?

This is me in 2004 at Indiana State Championships

Vball Game

Painting… and all that good stuff.

emily — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:18:48 +0000

Painting my room.. before and after pics coming up soon….

Our Brother…

emily — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:55:38 +0000

Remeber him…. Elpida…

March 29th ,2006 at 1:05pm

This what Palmer read at Jennifer’s Memorial Service and i thought it would be appropriate to read at his….. well if i tried to read it i probably wouldn’t be able to get it all out without being in flowing tears..
So just making sure if i didn’t read it there u would be able to still read it.. he said ‘’he wanted people to be moved by the truth contained in it’ — if u want to see a priceless pic of Micah and Palmer go here
little bean(please read amy palmer this makes me hurt so much…keep praying for her)

Prudentius: Hymn For Burial Of The Dead
“We are incompatible elements joined,
mortal and immmortal. They fuse
in the heat of the Lords forge. Mankind
is fashioned thus. For a time it stays

but the weld, which cannot hold, gives way,
for spirit yearns to rise to the sky
while flesh, which is earth, is drawn to obey
gravity’s stern decree. We die,

and our contrary portions come undone,
but God is good and even yet
will not abandon anyone
who is His servant. Bodies rot

in congeniual mire, and in the grave
the spirit is trapped that, lighter, fights
to rise, assert itself, and live.
For a time, the universe hesitates

but flesh feels a sudden warming. Then
those cold bones twitch and corpses sigh,
reanimated, and rise again,
borne by the heavenly breezes, to fly.

This life is all decline and loss,
fading beauty, waning strength,
and wasting diseases, leaving us
piteous ruins, and yet at length

heaven shall make us whole, repair
our derelict frames, restore, improve,
and make us perfect everywhere.
Why do we mourn, then, those we love

with foolish lamentations? No,
no tears! What we bury here in the earth
is only the seed from which will grow
a fresh green plant. In this rebirth

we cannot doubt, for we believe
in heaven. We gaze down into a hole
in the gentle earth that we see receive
our dead, who issued, body and soul,

from the mouth of God. In faith and trust
we commit to Him who does not forget
His creatures these remains, that dust
the winds may scatter but God shall yet

revive and reassemble. We
will live again and breath His breathe…”

A Long Time Coming….

emily — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:58:56 +0000

Happy Birthday to my lovely sister. You have been my everything. When you leave there will be a half of me gone. I can’t beleive your 18 and i hope you do all you are capable of. I know i sound like a mother but you truly are my everything. I love you no matter what happens. and will support you all the way. wherever and whenever. Enjoy life. Make love… not war… and be at peace…!!!

All good things must come to an end???

emily — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:44:24 +0000

This weekend has been everything and more. On saturday i got the chance to sit in on some really interesting conversations and stories. Bob told “his story” or what hes been up to and i think i could listen to him talk for hours and hours. (and maybe a few more) I greatly enjoyed my birthday thanks to all the amazing people i spent it with. I was sung to numerous times throughout the day and it was beautiful..i wish i could talk about this out loud and then post it on here because i can never seem to get the good stuff out on paper(or online papel).

Goodbyes suck.. basically.. they just do. nothing more to it. I feel like though i have more to bring back home with me. I’ve expierienced alot and learned a whole heck of alot. and im hoping i can bring it back to indy .. theres more to be said but not enough time or space to say it.. lb

(o ya… do all good things really come to an end???) (what is “an end?”) (how can they??)

Thinspace

emily — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:19:32 +0000

That was it… im not sure what it is but thats it. We were sitting around the fire… allan sitting on my side. I told him “this is a surreal moment, Todd Hunter with Marshall and Rains on one side, Keck, Mike some other amazing guys and beth and amy,” Thats surreal.. i was listening on one side to mike and keck, and i was blown away. I here these awesome things, i just can’t explain. It was awesome to listen in on another conversation all of equal amazement. I can feel it. This what God loves. I feel like a sense of joy a sense of peace. PEACE… in a world where that doesn’t seem possible.

I’m more than blessed to be next to these men and women of God.. truly blessed. I go to a school and look at people today that just don’t quite get it yet. I feel like they are more than capable of it. I’m not sure why i keep referring to “it” but it obviously means something.” Not sure what yet.” I had to come in the house and write this down as soon as could. don’t want to forget to.

Im finishing this post on Sunday morning.. and im gonna need some time to think about this weekend. it was definetly all that i thought and more….

Make love not War!

i just can’t wait….

emily — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:06:31 +0000

Right now all i can think about is this awesome weekend we are about to have. All these people its going to be an awesome reunion with us all.

I dread the whole school thing though. I just don’t know what to do with myself at school. I just feel different. Not like i’m a different person but theres noone there that i can really relate to. I feel like i put this mask on most of the time, just because people like it. Thats why its such a blessing to be able to meet with Elpida again because i feel connections there. its gonna be really hard for me to get through this week but we’ll see how it goes.

Like i posted before.

“Life is hard, but i already knew that. But theres more to be done. Elpida…”

The bigbean and the littlebean….!!