Christmas is Coming, the Goose is getting Fat....

IF you were my mom, you would finish the song!! :) This is the most wonderful time of the year!! I LOVE christmas music and I love to decorate for Christmas!

As most of you all know already, I made a PR group at Penn View! I have heard some rumors of where we are going to be traveling this summer, but I don't know anything definite yet! I am so excited about this opportunity the LORD has given to me!! I absolutely LOVE Penn View! I am so happy there!! God has really been working on me this semester. I look back now and see how much I have grown spiritually. It is amazing! In some ways, I am a completely different person. Such as getting up at 5 to have devotions before I start my day. This was something I never did. (I had my devotions but not first thing in the morning) I have begun to look forward to this early morning start with God! He truly has blessed me in so many ways.

Speaking of blessings, Thanksgiving here at the Loper House was true to its form!! :) Everyone was here except for Heather, Katie, Megan, Konnor and Kade! (WE MISSED YOU GUYS!!!!) The house was abuzz with all of the kids running around excitedly as they got reaquainted with their cousins. The women were all busily preparing food, and the men.... Well they just took naps! That is except for black friday when Rodney and Solomon went shopping, could have gotten 3 shop vacs for 60 bucks, and decided to only get 2 because they couldn't figure out how in the world they would get the third one in the car! Typical males there for ya!! ;) Just kiddin. Overall, it was a very nice visit, but we will never be able to fill the hole that Randy left in our family. The hole was ever so much more gaping because his family went to Florida for Thanksgiving!! (a terrible place to SUFFER out Thanksgiving! ;) )

I am leaving to go back to school in about an hour! :( I will be home in 3 weeks though! The next couple of weeks at school are going to be crazy, with choir practices and services every night for the next 14 days except for 1 night!! AHHH!! It better be worth it for the musical Penn View is putting on not this weekend but the next!!

Well, enough rambling on... And the pictures won't upload... I will try some other way!!

Happy, Wonderful, Beautiful Fall!! :)

I am so blessed!! I have so many blessings! Great parents, a wonderful loving family, a great bible school, friends, a nice car, clothes (I'm sure you are thankful for that one), food (especially this past weekend) and the opportunity to be alive! Last but not least, I have a wonderful, heavenly father that takes care of me, and loves me even when I mess up!
This past month has been a good one! God has poured his blessings upon my life, again, and again! I got to come home for four days! I have enjoyed each moment with my nieces and nephews! I enjoyed sitting in a service in my home church, and enjoyed just relaxin and having NO homework to complete!!
I got to go to Philadelphia!! It was so awesome!! It was a class trip and I only had to pay $20 to go! It was so fun! A big group of us got to go! It was a blast. PR tryouts are coming up this week, when I get back to school tomorrow, I will find out whether or not I can try out! Pray for me!! :)
Well I will be going!! I hope you all have a blessed Thanksgiving season! Love you all!!

Home at Last! :)

I am so happy to be home for a few days! I am loving all of the food! I feel like I am in Heaven. It was so nice to be in my home church today! Thank you all for your hugs and warm words! I was told this morning that I was supposed to sing tonight! Nice warning huh?? lol. I love to sing, so I don't mind! This afternoon, we have listened to Randy's christmas solo, his last church special and have watched the sunday mornin service of the day he died. It is so comforting to have the reassurance that my brother loved God, and that he is in Heaven praising God today! I still miss him!! It is so hard sometimes! I just want to make a CD/ DVD of my memories of Randy! I has been 2 months... 10 weeks today. It is so incredibly strange!!

WOW

As life progresses, I realize that sometimes we don't see God's hand moving. He moves through things that I never thought he could move through. Even when I get my feelings hurt, I can run to Jesus. When I am having a bad day and nothing seems to go right, I can go to Jesus. When I am really missing my brother, I can turn to Jesus. He is always there!! I am so amazed at how his presence is with me. Something happened at school today that really hurt me. I called my mom and the first thing she said was, "Do you wish you weren't there?!" I answered with an emphatic, "NO!!!!" I love it here!! It is proof that you love being in a place, when even when things don't go exactly your way, you still LOVE living there!! I know Jesus wants me at Penn View. WHY? I have no idea. But as the Freshman Class President. I plan to emphasize spirituality. Does anyone have any ideas of how to raise money for the freshman class by doing something spiritual? I would love imput of any kind!! THANKS!!
I love and miss you all!! :)

I feel so disconnected!!

ugh!! I hate being so far from home and away from family!! I love it up here, but i feel like I am missing out on everything! I want to have a cookout! :( I don't even get homemade ice cream! DEFINITELY SAD!! haha! i don't need it! I have actually lost 6 pounds since coming to school! :) Hopefully that trend keeps with me!! lol

I am so thankful for friends that keep me getting through life without falling apart. Katrina, Sarah, Aaron and Sherman have been my saving grace since getting here. They let me talk about my awful summer and tell me to talk to them anytime i need to! My friends are incredible!! :) :) I am so blessed!!

God has been very close to me! I appreciate the chapel services and the the WONDERFUL churches up here!!(I do miss my church). I miss singing! :( but, everything else works out great!! :)

BTW Paul and Sarah, I have not found a guy.... YET. LOL!! Just kidding. I am letting God lead the right one into my life. I'm in NO hurry!! :)

Well I have to do some research before going back to school!

PRAY FOR ME!!
LOVE U ALL!

Penn View is....

AMAZING!! I love it here!! :) I am so excited for what God has for me! I have met a girl who is just like me! I can tell we are going to be good friends! Her name is Katrina. We have so much in common and are pretty much inseperable at the moment!! We are not going to talk about guys! lol. They are OUT of the question! They are very confusing and hard to read! There is a verse in the bible that says that it is not good for man to be alone! It says NOTHING about women being alone!! lol

moving on to more serious subjects, I miss my family. My nieces and nephews, my sister and her hubby and my sister in law. I miss being there for special occassions and birthday parties!! I have had a few bad days up here, where all i think about is Randy and what he left behind. I went to Beavertown church last night! It is SO good!! Bro. Plank preached so amazing!! I know Randy would have LOVED a sermon like that!! I feel so close to him here!!

well, i don't know how long it will be before i get online and update again. hopefully soon!
Please pray for me! I start classes tomorrow mornin!! :)
love you all!!

Another week... GONE

Have I mentioned, EVER, that I have one incredible church family? They gave me a going away bash tonight! They had cake, and everyone brought in a snack and drinks. It was a great time of fellowship and I got some really encouraging cards and gifts. Thank you to each and every one of you!!! You are AMAZING!

My sister-in-laws note tore at my heart. She said that her and the kids would miss me, and that they loved me. Two things in the note stuck out to me. She said Randy would be proud of me for doing God's will! And the other was that she signed it, "your sister." Those two things meant the world to me!
I know that going to Penn View is God's will for my life right now. But, with Randy's death, it made it so hard to want to go. Heather saying Randy would be proud of me, made me feel so much better about going! The grief was so strong, I just wanted to stay at home and hide under my bed and cry for a couple of months. Randy wouldn't have wanted that. He wanted God's will for my life. I know if he were alive, he would say, "Amy, you need to do what God has planned for you! Even if it is hard!" So, when I leave for Penn View on Friday, I am going to smile and say, "This one is for you Randy!!"
Heather signing the note, "your sister," made me cry. Since Randy's death, I have been so afraid that Heather wouldn't feel like she was apart of our family. I wanted so much for her to feel like she was apart of the family, and come over and eat Sunday dinner with us and just come over "just because." You see, Heather has been apart of our family for almost 20 years. It wasn't official until nearly 15 years ago, but she had been the apple of Randy's eye since he was 15. Randy and Heather got married when I was 3. I never knew Randy without Heather. Heather is not like any ordinary sister in law. She actually feels like my older sister. I love her!! She is an amazing mommy, and she was an AWESOME wife to Randy!! I always wanted my marriage to be patterned after theirs!! I didn't want to lost a brother, then, lose his wife too because she didn't feel like she fit anymore. Heather, you truly are like my sister and I love you!!! I may have lost a brother, but I still have his wife and kids!!

As you can tell, I am pretty melancholy tonight. I keep thinking of Randy's voice, his favorite songs, and his favorite words to use! I won't ever hear him sing on this earth again, but that is all the more reason to make sure I am ready for heaven!! I want to see my big brother again, to give him a bear hug and tell him how much I missed him!! To see his eyes light up when he sees his kids, to see him kiss Heather again, and to see him hug mom and dad. This is the reason I can go on, I have hope in HEAVEN! I am going to live my life like Randy, READY! Randy didn't know he was going to die that day! But, he was ready none the less. His contract was signed... I just have one Question for you........


Are you Ready??