slutty brownies

so tonight Hunter and I went to Mrs. Irene's for dinner

she requested I bring dessert

I have a recipes bookmark on my computer and I knew I would be able to find a dessert recipe that I had not tried yet... so what do I find...

the recipe to slutty brownies

they're called slutty because they're easy yet dirty (hehe)

which are divine, delightful, amazing... you get the point

what you do:

buy a thing of cookie dough and spread it on bottom of pan

(I used a 13x9 glass casserole type dish)

then place the oreos on top of that

then mix the brownie mix according to instructions on box and pour on top

bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees!

this is what you get...

1/3

Found this on a blog I follow!

Instructions:
Copy the list, bold the ones you've done (with explanations if needed), share with friends.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii 
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity (I wish I could make this bold and in a bigger print... one day)
7. Been to Disneyland 
8. Climbed a mountain 
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo (does being The Vision at Grail count? then yes)
11. Bungee jumped 
12. Visited Paris 
13. Watched a thunder and lightning storm 
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child (OH HOW I WISH TO DO THIS ONE DAY)
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon (I wish!)
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice 
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise 
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied (at some points, but not always. we are such a materialistic society)
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke 
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt 
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa (I WISH!!!!)
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted 
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling (snorkeled in Hawaii)
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business 
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching 
63. Got flowers for no reason (thank you Hunter)
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma (just the other day
)65. Gone sky diving 
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp (I really want too!)
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy 
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square 
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone 
78. Been a passenger on a motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican 
82. Bought a brand new car 
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper 
85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year’s Eve
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox89. Saved someone’s life (if giving blood counts, or being a lifeguard)
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous 
92. Joined a book club 
93. Got a tattoo 
94. Had a baby (not yet, but one day!)
95. Seen the Alamo in person 
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee 

I've only done 1/3 of these things!

Looks like I have a lot to do!

Or count my blessings that I've been able to do the things I have!

peace. and. blessings.

God's perfect timing.

First, if you have never read Katie's Blog then I highly suggest you stop doing whatever you are doing right now and go read it.  Katie is an AMAZING woman of Christ.  She is truly working for Him and glorifying Him in all she does.

Second, if you have read it well then you already know what she said last week, but I found it very powerful and wanted to share.

So, Katie says,

"But I remember when I wasn’t ready to move to Uganda. I remember when I wasn’t ready to kiss the people I loved the most goodbye. I remember when I didn’t have enough money to start a ministry, and I remember when I wasn’t old enough to be a mother, and I remember when I didn’t know how to parent. I remember when I couldn’t cook for fifteen people and when I didn’t want to share my house and my things and my life with sick people and addicts. I remember when I was afraid of the slum community that now holds hundreds of friends and when I was terrified that my daughter would never walk and when I was scared that we would never heal after tragic loss. And I remember that never, not once, was I really as ready as I wanted to be. And I remember that God kept all His promises, every last one, in His perfect time.

This new season looms and I don’t know what is next. But He doesn’t need me to be ready for this season because He is ready. He just needs me to be clinging to His feet.

Now, God’s perfect time."

What are you not ready for? Or, what are ready for?

I am not ready to leave my family after a long break.  I am not ready for classes to start back after a weekend.  I am ready to graduate from college.  I am ready to have a career.  I am ready to get married and have a family.

Or am I? I think I am ready.  Or I think I'm not ready.  But as God shows me time and time again, it is up to Him.  This is His plan, not mine.  God places things in our lives for perfect timing and perfect reasoning.  Yes, I said perfect.  He is perfect in all ways.  He is all knowing.

Last night, at church we talked about wisdom and how everything is meaningless.  God is not required to give us meaning or explanation.  The more wisdom you have the more ignorant you are.  Nothing has meaning, everything is meaningless.  God gives us things that we enjoy to spread His word and His love.  God does not give us things we enjoy for satisfaction.  All things are for His glory.

"What is crooked cannot be straightened;

what is lacking cannot be counted."

-Ecclesiastes 1:15

"For with much wisdom, comes much sorrow;

the more knowledge, the more grief."

-Ecclesiastes 1:18

"I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;

I refused my heart no pleasure.

My heart took delight in all labor,

and this was the reward for all my toil.

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done

and what I had toiled to achieve,

everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;

nothing was gained under the sun."

-Ecclesiastes 2:10-11

everyone have a great week!

peace. and. blessings.

Caitlin Gone Teacher

Hey y'all!

I now have a new blog... 

However, it will be containing only educational things for one of my classes.

One day when I become a teacher I hope to continue to use it!

But here it is:

http://caitlingoneteacher.blogspot.com

go check it out

leave me a comment!

I haven't blogged yet, but will be this weekend!

peace. and. blessings.

long weekend

above is my weekend in adjectives.

it was a wonderful weekend in the mountains with Hunter and his family.

I am so thankful for the influence they have in my life.

it was just what I needed to get a jumpstart into this semester.

I hope to have many more weekends like this to come :)

i hope everyone had a great weekend

peace. and. blessings.

name in love

so I started reading Crazy Love by Francis Chan a couple of years ago but put it down... well I brought it home with me this break in the hopes of reading it and tonight saw it sitting on my bedside table... and decided why not? 

so if you know me then you know 1 Corinthians 13:13 is my favorite Bible verse... obviously because that is what inspired my tattoo... but the whole chapter definitely has to be my favorite in the whole Bible.

 ⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 ⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

 ¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

So Francis Chan says to substitute your name in place of "love" throughout the whole passage. "Caitlin is patient, Caitlin is kind...." By the end don't you feel like you are a liar? If I am representing Christ's love and I am love then I fail a whole lot. 

so here's to my New Year's Resolution:

loving more than I do

and to hoping that those around me will too, but if they don't I will still love

and share God's love!

peace. and. blessings.

and good luck on your New Year's Resolution!