Babies and Weddings

Two days ago Anna had her baby, a boy, Ethan Morgan(no middle name, Morgan is their last name). Tomorrow my friend's Erica and Justin are getting married. And no meg, there is still no ring...I promise I will tell you when it happens! In the midst of all this I am trying to get ready for Okoboji, Teach for America and help out my parents. Its this time of year that my life gets crazy and I wonder why it happens...this year however I am trying to counteract that. I have developed an excellent pattern of taking time to myself to read and write and have become skilled at doing nothing at work...:) thats for you again meg! So the question becomes how do I keep this up once school starts? I am not exactly sure, but here are two of my game plans...so far the class schedule looks good MWF done by 12:20...which will be AMAZING, 2nd no SMART...I am really hoping Shelley is not assuming I will do it, 3rd no choir, this is going to free up a ton of time(excited) anyways woohoo its looking better already!

Running

I decided I am going to do a triathelon this fall with either Amelia or Simon, well kind of...its running canoeing and biking. Either way I would have to do the running part which is 12 miles. I like to run though, it is relaxing for me and clears my mind. I don't know ho wI am going to run 12 miles but I have 3 months to get ready for it.
In other news, Simon's second show opens tomorrow night Bustop, if you didn't go see the first, Resident Alien then I would highly reccomend it we saw it last week when it opened last week and the sound design was just amazing, breathtaking in fact....ok seriously its good, mainly because the boy I'm in love with did it and if you haven't seen a show that Simon has designed you are missing out..here is your opportunity.
Well I tthink I am going to go to sleep soon so I can run more tomorrow, need to get some miles on these legs:)
-Lissa

Lonely

so tonight, I'm feeling a little out of touch and in despair, I miss Theresa, and I feel like I have no friends and my boyfriend has ditched me. ok so maybe I am overexagerrating a little, I sound a little too pathetic...but that is how I feel. I have called every single one of my friends in my phone book in the lincoln area, all I assume are working or now suddenly hate me. Except for theresa she called me five times tonight just to cheer me up...but I wish she was here with me.
I have also decided that maybe I have become too open with this whole blog thing, it sounds like my journal today, but I figure I think I know all five of you who regularly read it and hopefully you all know I am not a self-pitying mess...or at least I hope I am not.
-lissa

Fourth of July, Amee, and a little faith

Between convincing my Mom that she and my Dad were not going to live in a cardboard box and meeting Amee, the girl Micah is going to be married to next summer, I had a pretty interesting fourth of July. Let me explain..
All the job leads my Dad had basically fell through and their house isn't selling. My Mom is really depressed and is crying all the time and saying that she won't have a house for her grandkids to come visit and I am trying to convince her that grandkids don't remember houses they remember spending time with their grandparents. It was all depressing and I felt like I couldn't do anything.
I'm also having a hard time with this whole Micah being engaged thing. Maybe its because he is like my brother and I feel like I am losing him, or maybe its because she is 18 and does not talk, or maybe I am just a little jealous. But still I know I need to be supportive and give Amee all the pointers of dealing with the Yost boys I can...its just so hard.
I think God puts little things in our lives that mean a ton so amidst the crap we can see them more. While watching the fireworks on Sunday night a little girl named faith was sitting in front of me. Her parents kept telling her to sit down and watch the fireworks, she kept saying "They're not over here, Whats the big deal?" Then after a little bit she said tapped me on the shoulder and said "Hi, my name is faith, look the water is turning blue." The was a huge fountain that was changing colors but no one was watching cause of the fireworks, but she was superglued to it...it was beautiful. I think maybe all we need is a little faith to help us get through..or at least some glimpses of it. And more than ever now I am needing faith in my life, faith my parents will make it, faith that Micah and Amee being engaged will bring us closer to them. just faith..somehow.