Two posts in one day.... I have a lot of time on my hands

I am in the process of finalizing my plans for me and Shawn's around the world missions trip/ honeymoon. We will be gone for at least 5 months and then we will see from there. Our itinerary is:
LA
New Zealand
Australia
Thailand
Cairo
Europe

We were so flipping blessed to find a great fare for the whole deal. So if anyone has some extra cash and a week off work then you should come meet up with us somewhere! I have been kind of apathetic about it this past week or so because everything has been changed like a million times and it's big deal to spend all that money on tickets. I believe this is the right thing though. After looking up places to visit and ministries to work with, I realized that we have so many options and everything is fairly inexpensive. We will need to raise a little support or just wedding money to do this deal. I believe the planning of this has just been a God thing. I'm just excited to meet people and get connected with this awesome world. I see this as a preparation for our future. Planning missions trips on a budget for church groups is what I would love to do with my life and travel gives such great life experience. Really, come, everyone!

The Art of Improving Myself

I am a work in progress. As I get right with God and become honest with myself, I realize that I have an overwhelming amount of issues that I would like to work on as I prepare myself for marriage. Skeptical people have told us that these are the years that people grow, change, and find themselves. But I think how lucky I am that I'm with someone who is committed to helping me grow and find myself and we'll do it together. I can see the parallel between a marriage relationship and my relationship with God so much better than I ever have. Shawn loves me the way I am, with all my yucky faults and attitude problems, and not for who I might be once I work all my crap out..... and so does God. I was overwhelmed a few minutes ago about everything. I want to be better so that I will be a better servant, wife, mom, christ follower but I know that all these things will happen in time. I am loved by people who accept me as imperfect so I think I can be patient as the only Person who can bring about ANY change is working with me.

Brittany is... Not hiding from security in the airport.

I am in the Chicago airport and it is 1:45am. Shawn is asleep on the bench next to me. I am so jealous of his ability to sleep literally anywhere. We tried to hide in Concourse B all night but we kept hearing over the intercom that that was not ok. I could not sleep for the irrational fear that the entirity of the Chicago Police Dep was going to arrest us. This, of course, did not happen. A very friendly security guard informed us that we could not sleep here and told us where we could stay the night. This saved us from shamelessly lying. (We had a whole lie story made up together just in case we were separated for questioning)

So currently we are sitting in the baggage claim area. I have a pinched nerve in my back that hurts every time I breath and we still have like 4 hours till we could head out. I have been reading this book called The Center of Everything. I hate it. It made me cry. Check out this picture-- Me, the crazy-haired girl, is sitting alone on a bench in baggage claim at almost two in the morning with tears stream down my face because I read about two fourteen year olds that have sex. Yes, that makes no sense how that could bring me to tears but i guess its just been a long day and maybe i'm emotional. So I want to toss it in the trash but my sister bought it and I'm sure her bookshelf would look awfully sad minus a book.

Oh, Shawn is moving. Maybe i'll get him to talk for awhile.