God is good.

I feel so blessed with my life right now. I have a wedding in the near future, a wonderful fiancé' who loves me, amazing friends who always support me and lift me up, and in all this I have to give credit to my maker. God has truly blessed me these past few months, I fail him everyday, but he still continues to help out and give me my heart's desire.

As some of you know, my dream is to become a director. For about a month now, I have been waking up at 4am on the weekends to get ready and be at WCYB by 6am, to watch and practice directing. Let me point out that I am in no way a morning person. I hate waking up early, I'm very grumpy and impatient and so very tired. But God, who knows this about me, has given me enough energy to get up and get ready (a long hot shower and coffee doesn't hurt in this routine either!) It's also a very humbling process, realizing that you know very little and working very hard to reach this goal. I pay attention, ask lots and lots of questions, I'm sure I drive the director (patrick) insane, but he's always very patient. I also work with a couple of my classmates, one of them a very close friend (woody) is always cheering me on. He is great at making me feel better. So, yesterday I directed my first morning show weather, it went very well and this morning I directed the weather again. The only mistake was I pushed the wrong button to roll the tease bump, and a still frame was placed in program. I also direct recorded updates, I sometimes have problems with these but this morning, they were flawless. Thank you God, because he deserves all the credit!!

 I could not ask for a better life right now. The wedding planning is going great. We have a venue, a photographer, a videographer, we're still working on a caterer. I have a florist, a wedding planner, my dress, the perfect man to be my husband, and a God who will never forsake us. Isn't that great?

I constantly have to remind myself that even though I struggle, I am never alone, and I also don't have that bad of a life. I watch the news 24-7 it seems, 5 times a day when I work, and it breaks my heart (yes I have one) to see what some people have to go through.

Okay, now I'm going to take a nap, because even though I wake up early to go in for the morning show, I have to be back at work by 4:45pm to do the night shift, but tomorrow is my weekend.

For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;
    his faithfulness continues through all generations.
-Psalm 100:5

Be blessed today
Much Love,
Callie Marie.

They're going to put me in the movies.

I am truly blessed to know so many people who are extremely talented in broadcasting. I remember going to ETSU not knowing what I wanted to do, got hooked into the broadcasting side, and fell in love. I met so many people and graduated with a slew of them who already had a career set up!! I chose    news, others chose film/videography, and still others chose radio, each one of them very talented!! Graduation day was such a sad, yet very exciting part of my life. On one hand, I hated school in general, passing classes with a C (well except for my broadcasting classes) was good enough for me. I hated waking up early, and for most of my college career, up until the very last year, I mostly wore sweats to class. (Classy I know)  College just wasn't the life for me. But on the other hand, when I woke up at 8 o'clock on a friday morning to go to a Buc tv news cast, I didn't mind getting up early. I loved walking in and seeing all of my friends who I'd grown to love and even give the occasional hug to. (For those of you who know me, I am not a hugging person). Broadcasting classes and extra activities that included such, were the highlight of my college career. And the people I came to know through these classes and activities, well to be honest I miss them very much. It's like when you're in high school (well it was like this for me anyway), you don't really fit in anywhere, you're really dorky, you're wild and crazy, but you know that there's that one group who will except you for who you are, they love you no matter what, and they're crazy too, so it doesn't matter.....that's when you know, they'll be lifetime friends. I am extremely blessed to have these people in my life.

I had been thinking about getting a videographer for my wedding. And only one person came to mind. My friend Ian, or my favorite TD (technical director) as I like to call him.

He was always making hilarious shorts in school. I mean like roll in the floor hilarious. I didn't get to see him a lot though as college started to come to a stop for us, but when I did, he gave the best hugs. I knew that he was going to be one outstanding dude. So now, after graduation he has put together a production company called An IanDrew Project. Him and another guy put together these really amazing montage videos, very creative and artsy. I could watch them all day! So, I decided to ask him if he would video our wedding. He accepted, I think he's still trying to work out a couple of kinks, but I am super excited that he agreed!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/IanDrewProject/231236230250283

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This is a link to their Facebook page, they only have a couple videos up, but their Happy 4th and Smile for Nicaragua are amazing!! I really hope this works out!

Thank you God for talented friends.

"Find rest oh my soul, in God alone. My hope comes from him." Psalms 62:5

All things Fall.

So today I go into target to buy a couple of things I need, mostly a box of tampons. :) I also purchase a beautiful mustard color coffee mug, a box of rice Krispy treats, and a really cute thomas the train hoodie for Kade (I can't resist, he's my best buddy). As I'm leaving though, the Starbucks sign catches my eye. I begin to get really giddy inside because it's that time a year again, the time for the pumpkin spice latte. I order a tall and step outside into the cool fall air and take a sip.

That one sip brings back all the reason I love fall. Mostly because I feel God does his best art work in the fall. The leaves are always so pretty, and the air is always perfect. My body loves the fact that I get to add more layers of clothes, wrap scarfs around my neck, and slip boots onto my feet. It's definitely the best time of the year. I would trade fall for any special holiday.

Fall also reminds me of my grandparents. I try not to reminisce a lot about these memories. I loved walking in the woods with my granny and granddad. The old swing that hung between to large trees, that we spent so much time swinging on. The pile of leaves in the back yard that we used to jump in. I can hear my granny laughing, it was so contagious. It seems like such a long time ago. I miss them so much.

I remember band festivals, those are great memories, fall festivals, period. All the great food from caramel apples, to funnel cakes, to chicken on a stick, yum!! The special smell in the air. The leaves crunching under our feet. Home craft fair days is another favorite for fall memories. Walking by booths of homemade crafts, my best friend, Mandy and I used to buy barbie clothes there.

It's also a great time of the year for all things warm/hot. Coffee, bon fires, hot chocolate (I'm not big on apple cider), cuddling under blankets, and watching the stars cuddled up beside the person you love.

Which brings me to the conclusion. I couldn't think of a better reason to get married in the fall, with all these wonderful memories, to add on that I got married at my favorite time of the year, just makes me even more excited.

Some people always give me the 'Why aren't you getting married in your church?' question when I tell them I'm getting married outside. And this is why, because it's beautiful in the Fall. I believe with all my heart that God loves me anyway, even if I don't get married in a church. I feel it's a little insulting for me to get married inside, when God has created all these beautiful colors as my back drop for my wedding. I think he understands and is perfectly okay with it. He loves me no matter what, anyway! I cannot wait to get married to the man of my dreams and on September the 28th, 2012, it will be one year until I am Mrs. Presley!!! This alone makes me smile, but knowing that I get to walk down the isle when the leaves are just the right shade of yellow, red, and orange, knowing that all of the good memories I have happen in the fall, and believing with all my heart that God has given me someone to love me forever, well that just takes the cake. I couldn't be anymore blessed!!

So thank you God for fall. You're the best!! Thank you for pumpkin spice lattes, and for the cool crisp fall air. Thank you for always blessing me, and most of all thank you for sending Corey my way. I'm one blessed out of my mind lady!!

"Find rest oh my soul, in God alone. My hope comes from him." - Psalms 62:5

Love always,
Callie Marie.