The Blessing of Family

I have been so blessed to grow up in a family where family bonds are considered extremely important. Every year my great aunt has a big Family Bash at her house up in the mountains. It's always held the weekend before the 4th of July. We honor all those in our family and also friends and acquaintances of ours who have served or who are currently serving our country in the armed forces. We have all sorts of extended family at our Bash. It is so great to get to see everyone and catch up on each other's lives. I am so thankful that I have a family that is so close!
My cousins from Florida are up here visiting for the week and are spending the night with me tonight. We have so much fun together. Right now we are watching Father of the Bride. I'm not sure how much longer I'll make it before I have to go to bed!! :-)

My Beautiful New Car

This past Tuesday my parents bought a brand new Toyota Corolla. It was absolutely beautiful, black with beige interior. I'll get to drive the car to school this fall after I drop my dad off at his work car. I will also be making payments to my parents to buy the car and when I graduate from school, the car will be mine. :-)



Well tonight, my beautiful car is no more....





Tonight, while we were driving to my granparents' house and getting ready to turn into their driveway we were rear-ended by a pick-up truck. I am so very thankful though that no one was hurt. God really worked out the details of the accident. I had been begging to drive all afternoon, but my Dad wanted to drive since he hadn't gotten to drive the car yet, so I wasn't driving when the accident happened. It also happened right outside my grandparents' driveway, so we had family there to help. Most importantly, no one was hurt. We were all a bit shaken, my sister and I had glass all in our hair and clothes, and my sis had some glass slivers in her foot. But, otherwise we are all fine.
I had just started this blog yesterday and I had no idea what I was going to post, but God chose to show me several blessings in the midst of a trial today. Please pray that everything will go well with the insurance company and the car will taken care of efficiently and quickly.
As a closing note I just want to say that being in a car will glass flying in all around you really gives you some serious perspective on life. I'm really going to try to stop letting unimportant things bother me and really focus on the important things in life.