May 28th - got engaged to my high school sweet heart Chris Smith! (yay) at the Biltmore Estate in Ashville, NC. It was the perfect place and the perfect proposal! We are getting married August 6th 2011!! We are just now starting to get all the wedding stuff together. Ginny Corbett is going to photograph our wedding.. so exciting. She does amazing work and she loves Jesus, how could it get any better? So far we have not picked a place to have the wedding or reception.. we want a nice place, without having to pay a fortune for it!
Us on our engagement day, in the Biltmore Gardens!
Chris and I after a long day of Mt. Biking
June 4th and 5th - Hope House orientation! The next weekend I went back to Ashville again, this time for my Hope House orientation and to spend some quality time with Dad. Hope House is a home near Ashville, NC that restores domestic (meaning from America) minor (under 18) girls, who are victims of sex trafficking/prostitution. Through the power of Jesus these girls are brought to full rehabilitation! The girls at the home are from America and are both under 16! I am going in just a few short weeks to serve at the Hope House for a whole month. Sex trafficking is growing problem world wide, it happens right here in our home town of Greenville. Sadly restoration homes for the victims are few and far between, just a couple years ago there was only 50 beds in America for victims! Yikes!
Dad at Cragmont, he said that he always wanted to go, so I took him!
June 18th - Georgina's shower! Mary Beth, Jenny and I threw her a wedding shower! What fun that was! One of my best friends Georgina McGlawhorn is getting married July 17 to Alex Greer and I could not be more happy for her! They truly make a great match! It is just soo hard to believe that one of best friends will be married in less than a month, wow how time flys. It just a reminder that we are all growing up and no one is getting younger.
So that's the latest update of what's been going on in the life of Anna, not too interesting but it's fun! I'll be sure to post some more before I leave for Youth Quest and Ashville!
