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My first pot of coffee in my brand new coffee maker!

Michelle Adele Bransford?

Yes. That is what it looks like. I'm engaged with a ring and a fiance! Which happens to be the two most important things for a wedding engagement. Pictures and details later.

You might as well jr have a baby.

This is too far for a baby doll.

FWD:

And my love

My girlies

My bff's.

This blog is dedicated to Josh Huggins.

Today is Josh's birthday, so this blog is in dedication to Josh. He is the tallest one in the middle.He is 21 years old. I have known him for close to thousands of years. What I like about Josh is that even after all these years of knowing him, I still can't think back a few years and say, "Oh, those were the good ol days" because to me, they still are the good ol days. With him, Kellie, and David, and I (We're all pictured to the left) we form a bond that apparently cannot be broken. This is so very exciting, and I know that God has truly blessed me and them as well in knowing each other.

Anyway, happy birthday Joshua. Hope this is better than a stupid card.

Peace out. -Michelle

It's like a(n)...

Jack and Jill rolling down the hill... No, tornado. Nooooo, avanlanche. Yes, it's like an avalanche. That's how I explain my life right now. Nothing makes sense.

i am just so happy that i have Jesus in my life. Otherwise, i would be hopeless.

Show me your ways, O Lord;
Teach me Your paths.
Lead me in Your truth and teach me,
For You are the God of my salvation;
On you I wait all the day.

Remember, O Lord, Your
tender mercies and Your
lovingkindness,
For they are from of old.
Do not remember the sins of
my youth, nor my
transgressions;
According to Your mercy
remember me;
For Your goodness; sake,
O Lord.

Psalm 25:4-7

I am left pictureless for as long as it takes me to get the data plan on my phone. I got a new phone, because my last one was rudely bitten and broken.

I don't know what to blog about. I'm in a foul mood, drinking green ginger tea and listening to Copeland. Not the new one, for all of you Copeland freaks who were instantly thinking that I was listening to the new one. Just kidding. You're not freaks.

I didn't go to church today cause I was convinced that I needed to be alone. I'm still convinced that I need to be alone, but I've done nothing but waste my alone time by sitting at home and putting more music on my iPod. Now I'm just sad.

Hey, it's ok! God has His perfect plan. I'm so excited, in fact, I am straight up giddy to see what happens now.

This will be fun!


Rejoice in the Lord always!

See that guy in the white? That is definitely chris patterson when he gets old.

The word is productivity. A few nights ago i was hanging out with josh bowers and kelly and you know when there is a word on the tip of your tongue and you just don't remember it until like 3am. That's what happened to me, and the word is productivity.

I'm supposed to sit in this room quietly for the next few hours watching

This guy record. I wish i could talk but since i can't i've resorted to blogging.

This is me one day after my experience of the 24 hour flu. It was rough but i got through it.

A lot has happened lately. This is me today, updating you with pictures from before today. All I have to say about this picture is that my hair is getting long. Anyway, in order: Aneya has finally been born! October 20th, 2008 happened to be this glorious day. She's way cuter than any other baby, and also has the most hair that I have ever seen. Yay Jillian and Christian!

On this same day Perry convinced me that a packet of Strawberry Kool-Aid is good! This was a lie. It was hard not to gag, and the things that produce saliva in my mouth totally freaked out on me. I was spitting red for the next 15 minutes. The ONLY good part about putting a packet of Kool-Aid in your mouth is that for the next 90 minutes everything you drink tastes like Kool-Aid. But the red dye really did make me sick, so I'll never do that again. Last night at Renovate Gina, Bekah, and I found proof that Obama is not the real change. It is, in fact, Jesus. (CHANGE 2008)

And here is Perry. At work. With a brown piece of construction paper on his tongue. He convinced me to take a picture and blog about it. So I did.

And I just watched the last 5 minutes of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and I STILL cried. Sometimes I don't understand why I'm such a baby.

Eric, katee, isaac, riley, kelly and i went to mccalls pumpkin patch.

Cold + turkey legs + kettle corn + long lines = pure fun.

The Truth

Often, God reminds me what it means to be a faithful servant, but never has he shown me someone actually acting like it. Of course this is done as an act of symbolism, but meaningful and convicting at the same time. Katie reminded us of the story where Jesus washes His disciples feet and He says that if they will not let Him wash their feet, then he doesn't want anything to do with them. It just shows how much He loves us, and if we have the truth and His love in us, then we should let it spill out not only to our brothers and sisters, but to the rest of the world. We are called to be servants of the Lord, going out and making disciples of all the nations... etc... Anyway, we need to be a light to the world. Not only to our brothers and sisters, but to those who are in desperate need of the One thing we have. So, here is this picture of Katie washing a fellow sisters (Kirsi) feet. She has such a servants heart, and I feel that I could use a little more of what she has (God) in her heart to serve. God is so good and He has shown me so many things in the past 2 months... I don't have any clue where to even begin, but just know that He is.

Rejoice in the Lord always!

Forever, and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever. Amen.

I just want everyone to know that i have the most amazing boyfriend ever.

Dear blogger.com,

Why aren't you allowing me to posts blogs via text message anymore? I do not understand your ways, and I am less than happy with you. What do you mean my carrier is not supported by Blogger Mobile? I'm not ok with this.


I am not o-k with this.

It's 11:22am and all of the babies are asleep. I'm not feeling well today. Maybe i'll fall asleep too!

It is a gorgeous day today. Fall is full on here in new mexico, and i am so ready for it!

Breakfast of champions

This is a phone. It doesn't have top half because it got ripped off. The most amazing thing is that the phone still works if you dial and then put it on speaker phone.

Aaron has been kissing Kelly. I know this because he said his throat hurts, and Kellys throat also hurts. Jacobs throat doesn't hurt because every time he tries to kelly doesn't let him. This raises suspicions of what my boyfriend has been up to lately.

Later in the evening (earlier than the time of when I'm writing this) Heidi and I were running through the very wet, concreted areas of Calvary when Heidi started screaming bloody murder. Finally, the girl calmed herself and said she had almost killed the biggest toad she's ever seen... Well the biggest toad outside of the zoo, anyway. We went back and found it, and I was way to intrigued to take a picture of the thing, and Heidi's phone was dead so we were unable to snap a photo of this beast of a toad. In the end we saved its life about 4 times and made it hop off to the side of the concreted area, where it belonged. Then I went and washed my hands so I wouldn't get warts. I'm sure I would have looked like this guy if I hadn't went straight to the bathroom and lathered my hands in soap.

I feel like I'm just done with life today. Kelly is at home sick, I'm not on the best of terms with people, and I realized that outside of Kelly, I don't have a life. Last night was Girls Bible Study, but I wasn't there. I was sick. At home. Not fun. I still feel gross. Tonight is church. I don't even want to go. Oh, did I mention that I have 10 dollars for the rest of the week and I'm out of gas? Cool.

My literal "The end" dream.

Ok, so we're all sitting in this apartment. I don't know ANY of these people but we were told Jesus was going to be there. I don't know why I was there. I didn't trust it and these other people were there who didn't trust it either. Any way, this guy showed up who definitely was not Jesus. So we all got out of there..


Ok, switch of dreams. I'm on top of this hill with hundreds of thousands of people. We're all given fighting equipment. We were told to go down the hill and into this seating area. I had my big man purse still, so while I was running I stopped and got my bible, put it in my pocket (I had abnormally large pockets) dropped my purse, and I continued running. We got to the seating area, which was actually a HUGE stadium. And in the distance was the actual Jesus. I never got to see his face. All I could see was a huge fiery flame. I remember calling someone and screaming at them "Get ready because we're going to fight!" and then it ended there. I'm not sure why I dreamed that, but it all seemed so real. I wasn't scared at all, and even now I'm not scared. I'm sure the end won't be like that, but it will include it. Maybe not a cell phone though. I don't think I'll be worrying about my cell phone.

: (

Blessed be the name of the Lord!

It's a little late, but better late than never... Right? A guy from Team Faith interrupted us in the middle of our bible study (Romans 8) and said "This is free cake on behalf of Calvary." I've never seen so many excited girls. Unfortunately, Heidi has the best picture phone, so here she is... Or isn't, absent from the picture again. We were all very excited.

Life is good.

Love is good.

God is good.

So i'm in the bransfords bathroom right now and this is what i see. I just want to burst into tears. Ephesians 4:32

My alone times have been few and far between lately, so I will document this one.


Thursday, September 25th, 2008.
7:31pm
or
19 hours 31 minutes

My alone time begins now.

I don't know what's going on but i love it! And you. I love you.

Poema

This is the sitting revolution kirsi and i started.

I finally bought Crazy Love. I am SO excited to read it!

I applied at ChaCha. I got invited to become a ChaCha guide, and then they shot me down. I failed their stupid test, so now I have to wait for another chacha position to become available. I seriously do need another job though.

arrgghh!

Fwd:

Bekah bottoms is all grown up!

Jesus action figure?

Nope, just a native american nurse.

Josh, kellie, kelly, and me. We're playing pool. No we're not.

Does this look gross? It does? Good! It's a wart that i'm in the process of freezing off of my hand. Wish it luck.

It's been a while

So it has been a while since I have actually blogged in this thing. Time? I think so.

Five girls and I have been having some of the most amazing times at Flying Star Juan Tabo and Montgomery. Bible study [Romans] and sunset spice tea with milk, raw sugar, and stirring sticks has been a time that I will never forget. We are missing Heidi in this picture,but only because she is the one taking the picture. I cannot even begin to explain how much I've grown from these, and I've only been to like... 4 or 5 of them!


I am dating Kelly. I'm not sure I've actually said it. I'm so happy, and SO done trying to prove myself to the very few others who feel that it's 'wrong' and are 'disappointed' or hurt by it. It's been a wonderful 3 weeks (today!) and we're working hard to keep God the center of our relationship, because without Him we aren't anything. We are going through the book of John and I've realized that it's so important to know and proclaim the Truth and really, to be bold about it. I'm working on getting my foundation set in stone, because up until now it's been in mud... That's metaphorical. Ha. Also, my love is going to bible college next semester in Simi Valley, California to Eternity Bible College and the only reason he is here is because he needs to save up money for living out in California... Which is way to expensive. To live in a bedroom it's something like 675 a month... WHAT? Stupid. Keep us in your prayers because we desperately need them!

I am back in school. Sort of. I am taking an Infant Growth and Development class. The book is something like 100 dollars so I'm probably not going to be buying that. I can't stinking afford it! I also start Intro to CDA October 20th. So I have a Wednesday night and a Saturday morning class. Not bad. I'm going for my CDA [Child Development Associate.] It's not an Associates, it's more like a license that says I am super eligible to take care of kids that are newborn-3 years old. I'm very excited! The best thing is that I can take this license with me anywhere in the US. I also get a nice raise at my work for it and the doors are open for me to become a staff manager or assistant director. Unlikely, but possible. I just need to stop being late to work and muffing around with co-workers... haha... Just muffing around!

The next paragraph will not have a picture.
Why?
Because I don't have one.

I need a car. I don't care what kind. Preferably something that I can take to different states. Something nicer than a Plymouth Neon and more gas efficient than a Jeep Cherokee. I have been so blessed by the Millers, who have let me drive their 1990 Jeep Cherokee in order to get around. They're trying to sell it, and here I am putting miles on it. The most I'm doing for them is advertising it.

Happy Sunday!

It looks like throw up! It's ice. I'm convinced God is punishing me for working at noahs ark.

And this is the x that amber drew on my mirror. She also is punishing me.

We tied the knot.

Queen with quarter. Does anyone see the irony?

This is savannahs mullet. She got a hold of the scissorss at home.

This morning God made a beautiful sky and i was lucky enough to see it and get a picture for everyone to see.

I then came to work and found a pot of coffee brewing for my drinking pleasure. Thus far, my day has been excellent.

So now i am eating breakfast with a bunch of two year olds. Fun stuff!

I am so proud of my nails.

Jesus. A piece of paper asked us to not take pictures of the art.

Kelly and i went to the fair yesterday and saw that it was good. Sort of. It's the fair. It seriously hasn't changed since I was like 2. And since kelly was a few months old. haha!

And now kelly has left his ipod in my possession. Bad plan. I love his music. Well... Not HIS music but it's on his ipod.