The Wedding

The Wedding!! Joel ( Titus's brother) and Courtney( a friend of mine from school) got married in May!! Here are some pictures from their wedding. Enjoy




This is at Courtney's bridal lunch the day of the wedding.

She was crying during the ceremony. Joel is so sweet to wipe her tears!

This is a picture of the Fern boys. They are goofy!

The groosmen.

This is courtney with her new family! She is now a Fern
Rosalie, the flower girl was very entertaining! A group of us were dancing with her at the reception. We were penguins!


The beautiful wedding cake! It was so delicious.

Courtney was pointing at me and threw the bouquet directly to me... and then I was knocked on to the floor! haha Oh well, someone else got the bouquet. There is always next time! It was pretty funny though!

Adventures in Dino World

Sorry these are out of order- I always forget to put the pictures in backwards. Here are pictures from my trip to Nashville to visit my roomate Alex who is interning at the state capital. My other pictures are with friends to a road trip to Indiana for an education department conference. We decided to stop at dinosaur world on the way back!!

Spring Break

Barefoots Joe

This is our new and improved student lounge! It is amazing. It is a coffee shop on our campus which we call Barefoots Joe! This is where I sit every morning sipping tea and studying. We have concerts in here aswell! The alums and administration at Union wanted to give us all a place to hangout since the commons were destroyed along with our dorm rooms and so they gave us this amazing new coffee shop!

New Dorms

First of al thank you for your prayers and support! It has been such a blessing to see how people from around the United States have been praying, donating clothes, supporting through finances, and mailing us cards and letting us know that they care! THANK YOU ALL!

Here is an update on whats new at Union:

Union broke ground on NEW DORMS on Friday, February 22. Here is a news clip from http://www.uu.edu/ which tells about Unions rebuilding process.

A 10-year plan for new student housing at Union University has become a 10-month plan, as the university broke ground today on a new residence life complex that will be finished no later than the spring 2009 semester.The facility will consist of 14 buildings that will house more than 700 students when it is fully completed. Initial plans call for half of the facility to be complete by Sept. 1, providing plenty of campus housing for new students enrolling at Union in the fall.“Today in what seems almost beyond comprehension, two weeks and three days after a tornado destroyed large portions of this campus, we gather together to give thanks to God for a new beginning and the opportunity to build again,” Union President David S. Dockery said in a chapel service preceding the groundbreaking ceremony.

The plans for the new dorms is incredible!!! There will be a washer in dryer inside the norm dorms, with the bathroom in each bottom floor dorm reinforced to be a safe room, and the dorms are being built to withstand extreme winds.

The Wedding

Rehearsal Dinner

Me in my bridemaid's dress

Rach and me

I was in a wedding last weekend. My friend Rachel Hunt got from high school became Mrs.Weinke on February 9th. Here are some pictures from her wedding. It was so fun. This was the first nonfamily wedding I have been in! It is so weird that my friends and I are old enough to get married!

The Aftermath

This is the back of my dorm complex.

This is the back of my dorm! There is my kitchen! You can see my two roomates rooms on the left and right. One of my roomies bed is gone!

Here is the debris on the side of my dorm!

This is the back of my dorm!

Here is the front of good 'ole Dodd! My room is the one on the second floor, by the right stairs. I have lived here for almost three years.

This is my living room- It is destroyed!

Here is a random door blown from its building wedged into the sidewalk



This is the all girls complex-hurt. This complex is across from mine(seperated by a parking lot)

This is another view of Hurt, it was destroyed, to say the least


Creepy!!!

Here is Wingo, it is a dorm in Hurt Complex! The girls who lived here were trapped in the building for a little while after the tornado. Thankfully they were able to get out of the building, but they had to climb over and through the debri.

This is a small glimpse of what my campus looks like now after the tornado hit! Please keep us in your prayers! It was a devestating and traumatic event, but we are all glad to be alive!
I am soo blessed! I thought that I had lost everything in the tornado, but I had an amazing surprise when I came home. I had forgotten to pack some clothes and so I have things! God blessed me with what I needed! He is definitely a provider!! I am just amazed by how much He has been faithful over the last few days. It is very comforting how much the little things can make a person's day!

Please be praying for...

1. Students who live overseas and don't have a place to stay or a passport to get home.

2. Students who lost everything(majority of them)

3. That we will be able to return to campus by the 18th and have school

4. That God will provide housing for the students

5. For peace and comfort among the Jackson Community, students, faculty/staff, and families

Thanks I appreciate your prayers!!