GMA week

So I feel as if I may have lived out a couple of people's dreams last week. I know I fulfilled a few of mine.
GMA week is something I never really knew about till I moved to Nashville. It is a week filled with interviews, concerts and all your favorite musicians in one city.
I got to attend this year along side of Brock(who knows absolutely everyone). It was the most amazing experience of my life. I attended a worship hosted by Michael W. Smith with Hillsong United as the musical guest. It was absolutely incredible. They are so talented in everything they do especially in praising the Lord.
Throughout the week we had interviews for upcoming television and radio appearances. I got to help Brock on one the television interviews where he escaped from a straight jacket in the middle of an intersection in downtown Nashville. That was a rush to be in the middle of the street with cars whizzing by one after another.
I got to see some great friends and I got to meet some amazing new people. I did get a little star struck when I met Shane & Shane but I tried to play it off by acting professional. Hope it worked!!!
It was a week that I will never forget. If you want more details just ask, I love to talk about it:)

Fondue is back

So last night was the beginning of our chocolate summer! Yes fondue is back at the Cocoa Tree!

Anyone who knows me and knows me well, knows that I love chocolate covered strawberries! It excites me to think that I will get to enjoy them every Wednesday(that we're home) for the rest of the summer:)
Last night we all gathered at the Cocoa Tree for some fellowship! It is so great to have a time during the week to just hangout and see smiling faces. It almost feels like you're on the set of FRIENDS with more than one Fibi...haha

That's enough to make anyone smile!

YaY for Easter Fun

So here in Nashville, people are miles and miles away from home! So we decided to celebrate Easter as a Nashville family...and it was a blast. We started this amazing day off with Church to give praise to our Heavenly Father, the One who died and rose again. He conquered death to save us from our sins! Our church is so amazing. You can feel the presence of God when you walk in the door. We have such an amazing community who loves the Lord.

After church about 16 of us piled in our cars and headed over to our favorite hangout, Brock and Auny's! Brock cooked an amazing turkey, while the rest of us brought sides and desserts! We seriously had a buffet like a Southern Baptist Church pot luck dinner. What a site. Oh and me being the fat kid I am, I had seconds...and thirds:)

After lunch we had, are you ready this....An Easter Egg Hunt! I hadn't been to one of those since church when I was 9. I know, I know, SAD! This hunt was a little different. Each egg had a number. Each number represented something fun that we had to do. I won a date with Simon...I told him to play hard to get to make it interesting, haha! Emily has to wash Mallori's car, Mallori gets to pick lunch after church on Sunday and Stephanie won a ride on the Harley! So much fun.

The day continued on with watching Talledaga Nights and an episode of BS followed by a bonfire and smores! It was the ultimate way to spend Easter... I am so thankful for the friends I have made here!
How did you spend your Easter?

free soul

My eyes are tired, my body is weary! But for the first time in a while, my heart is happy! God has taken a huge burden off of me. One that I have been struggling with for a good while. One that I would not lay down because of hope and pride. But today, while my roommate, Emily and I were playing guitar I realized that I didn't need it in my life anymore! It was something that wasn't worth the worries. Wasn't with dealing with or caring for. Music always clears my head and touches my soul. God speaks to me so clearly when words are in a harmonizing rhythm.

What a freeing feeling! God is so amazing. He has been teaching my so many things about myself and about how beautiful he made me. Maybe not beautiful physically or perfect in wisdom. But God made me perfect in His eyes! Who else really matters... Glory be to Lord who loves me for me! Loves me for me...wow isn't that awesome!

Tell me something that can top that...absolutely nothing!

For God is sheer beauty, all-generous in love, loyal always and ever.
~Psalm 100:5(the message)

For all the girls who deserve better...

Here's to all those girls who used to be his number one

The ones who waited all night for him to call, only to check the caller ID the next morning and be disappointed.

The ones who made it through that bitter break up, dried
your own tears, and moved on with your life, only to have him walk back in it months later like nothing ever happened.

Those of you who cried on the first day you talked again because you knew exactly where this phone call was going.

The ones who listened to him say, I only want to be your friend,
one day, and the next, listened to him say how much he loves and misses you.


We deserve something, and this is our tribute.
Here's to the ones that took him back, hoping that maybe this time, he was different, hoping that maybe people really do change.

We listened to our friends tell us that we were stupid for even thinking about giving him another chance, caught crap from our parents, and even snuck around to see him for a while.

We went through the great stage with no fights all over again. We started this out thinking it would be just friends, and ended up falling in love with him again.

We wanted nothing more in the world than to hear him tell us he loved us too, that even though things were bad in the past, they would be different this time. And when we finally heard it, it was like we were dreaming. This is for us.

Here's to the ones who believed what he said, sat around all over again waiting for a phone call that might come in a few hours, or a few days.


Here's for the tears cried and dried all over again. We wanted so
desperately to believe that he was really busy, he couldn't possibly call us at that moment, or even that he fell asleep early.

We trained ourselves to believe the lies because we wanted to believe we had found the one for us.


We learned to SETTLE for someone who didn't treat us the way we should be treated.

Here's for the ones who did their hair and make up and put on their prettiest earrings, only to hear him say that he couldn't see us today.

The ones who never believed it when people told us there might be someone else. We just couldn't believe that he could do this to us again.

This is for those great girls, who loved him more than words can say, and took him back no matter what happened last time because they couldn't bear to look back on their lives one day and wonder "what if".

Here's to the girls who couldn't cry to their friends because of how stupid they felt. The ones who held it all in when things came crumbling to pieces again.

This is for the ones who couldn't bear to even tell their mom what was going on, for fear of an "I told you so."

The ones that could just TELL that they had made a mistake ever allowing him into their hearts, their beds, and their dreams again.

We knew that we deserved better the entire time, that we deserved a guy who would call when he said he was going to, one that would come see us whenever he got the chance, one that would really care about us. We just wanted the one that we loved like that.

Here's for the ones that FINALLY realized that he never gave a crap about them.

Here's for the time that he broke your heart again. This is for those days spent trying to hold back the tears, and the tears that turned into anger, then disappointment.

Here's for us girls who finally realized that we
deserve better. This is for those confusing days, when you miss him, and want nothing more than to hear his voice, or feel his arms around your waist. Stay strong, and remember that relationships are like broken glass, sometimes it's better to leave it alone rather than try to put the pieces back together and get hurt. Remember the times you cried, and how long it
took you to even be able to look at another guy like that.

*When "your song" comes on the radio, turn the station. When the day comes that he realizes what a mistake he made and tries calling, turn your phone off. When he tries coming to your house, don't answer the door. Think of the broken promises, and the lies, the manipulation and the tears, the wasted moments and staying up all night wondering where the crap he was. Think of how your heart used to jump when your phone would vibrate in the middle of the night, and how it fell to your stomach when you saw it wasn't him, and realized that once again, he hadn't called when he said he was going to.*

One day, you'll find a guy who's worth all the tears, but he won't make you cry. You may think that you'll never care about someone like you did that guy that you always ran back to, but you will. It's gonna hurt like crap, and it's going to need time to heal, but the point is, it will heal.

For all the girls who deserve better...it will come one day...I still have faith...

That about sums everything up...doesn't it!