sick girl in her faded blue jeans... woah aye oh

so i'm super glad that we don't have to look what we feel inside... cuz isn't that just a nice picture of myself? and i definitley have the fever or flu or something and my throats on fire and i feel like crap. he he! deceiving picture huh? and it's for sure... i took it today! :)

so if you're wondering why i haven't blogged a lot about myself lately, and isn't that the point of these things? it's cuz nothing exciting's really happened to me. :) just all those around me. but i thought i'd clear things up if you were wondering. someday there will be more goofy stories. but for this week, i'm just sick. :) i hope you don't get it from visiting my blog. that'd be rough. have an awesome weekend!! i love ya! :)

pig day!

awe!!! 'dus look at da baby piggy!!!

yup... sure is cute. so today our urban and rural sociology class went on a field trip to a hog farm. it was pretty kewl. they also had cows and they grow wheat, soybeans and corn. oh, and they had an adorable little puppy. it waas great fun. i love the farm! and i love 'ittle piggies!!! :)

my weekend... part one

so this weekend was really kewl. nikki coon got married to ryan vanbuskirk... now she's nicole vanbuskirk... crazy ace! and i got to sing at her wedding, i was so honored. i also got to go to the delphos - allen east football homecoming game... and we SO schooled them! i got to take pictures of jonathan and micah for homecoming, and i went to a choir concert at church and saw tricia bailey! oh i miss those baileys! oh yeah... AND i got to go bowling and eat at china wok on sunday... lol and remember the first time i ate there oh so many years ago with tommy and thad and nate and tara and stefanie and jonathan. wowzers! i hope y'all had a great weekend too!

jack (nikki's dad) ... nicole ... ryan ... deb (nikki's stepmom)

ps... sorry this is in parts, i couldn't insert all the pictures at once! :) enjoy!!!

my weekend... part two

i was so excited that i got to see jonathan and micah all dressed up and ready for homecoming. nicole and i left the wedding reception and took pictures of them at rhonda's house. aren't they gorgeous?

micah and rhonda ashley and jonathan

flexin' the muscles

my weekend... part three

so i got to go bowling saturday night with my girlies... nicole, alisha and tara and the guys of course. it was a blast to see them and get to hang out for a while. missed nate shoe tho. :) here's bri and nate looking good in the neighboorhood. :)

blah blah blah blah blah

so i'm like wasting time. i need to stop. i have to figure out a research question for my english paper tomorrow, but i'm at the point where i just don't want to. blek. so get this... today i had a dream during my nice little naptime that went a little too late and made me late to class... but neways i dreamed that i walked around campus in a white towel. i don't even own a white towel! and i got fined double for nudity. isn't that insane!?! i would NEVER walk around campus in a towel. at least i didn't get expelled in my dream. lol. so i'm headed home this weekend to sing in nikki coon's wedding. it's so weird to me that my friends are getting married.... doug and katie this summer, all my cousins within the past like 2 years, kelsey lynn, nikki... it's insane. and the really weird part is that that makes me old enough to get married too! that's just insane!!! i remember when i was four! oh to be little again. but you'll have that. anyways... i should go do my homework. see ya around, and try not to have any creepy dreams like me... or even actually do the crazy things i dream about... that's insane. what if i was caught walking around olivet in a white towel...

whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable... think about such things!

SLIMED!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just wanted to throw this picture out there for all the world to see... oh, YES, that is DEFINITLEY michael remoley!!! (and sheri welker)

saturday night

jeremy camp is amazing!!! last night i went to the jeremy camp, bethany dillon, and the afters concert with dan, keith and sarah... it was soo much fun!!! the afters were awesome! i love Jesus! :)

dan and keith... so crazy are they!

sarah... what are you looking at? and kara, calm it down a bit.

awesome story!

so today i was thinking about discouragement. i've been struggling with disappointment alot lately, and this is the story i found in my bible today... enjoy!!!!

ps... this is how i wrote it in my journal. enter the thoughts of kara burkey. don't you feel special??? lol.



disappointment. i experience this a LOT in life. i think it's because i get so excited about things and so pumped that when plans fall through i feel like i'm on a ship that's just sunk. i feel so defeated - like there's nothing i could have done to make it work out. so disappointed.
so there's this guy elijah. (1 kings 19) and elijah's worked so hard for the king - so hard, prayed that God would just break through and ahab and jezebel would just repent! but they don't. even more... jezebel decides that she wants elijah's head! so he runs. and when he gets deep into the desert he finds this tree, (not sure how that worked... are there trees in the desert?), sits under it and says "I HAVE HAD ENOUGH ALREADY, LORD! WILL YOU JUST TAKE MY LIFE!"
i feel like that sometimes. there's no use going on, what more can i do? so back to the story...
elijah goes to sleep and he wakes up and twice God has an angel give him food. then elijah keeps running and he comes to this cave. God says to elijah "What are you doing here?" twice, and twice elijah states his complaint. (as if God didn't get it the first time, didn't he KNOW why elijah was here?) and then- God comes to elijah! not in the whirling wind, not in the massive earthquake, not in the scorching fire, but in a still, quiet, gentle whisper. but God doesn't answer elijah's complaint. he doesn't strike jezebel down dead. rather, he sends elijah back! but only after God fills elijah up with himself.
like elijah, God knows what i'm doing here. he knows i'm so disappointed. but he doesn't want me to give up. he wants me to seek him out so he can sustain me and give me the power to keep on going!!


"He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, even young men stumble and fall. But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not be faint."

-Isaiah 40:29-31

how sanitary is eating icecream out of a gutter?

so i am SOOO excited!! this year i have the opprotunity to be a big sister to two freshman and i got to meet my little sisters tonight at a pajama party. (i borrowed alli's tiger pants and they're totally rad!) so we played a game to find each other... and then.....


we ate ice cream out of a gutter!!! (this is after it was gone, i forgot to take in-the-process pics.)

and these are my sisters. the one on the left is danielle and the one on the right is maggie. i love them already!!! i'm so excited!!! :)

school's going great... i love olivet!!! i miss lima still, but i love the people here at the sametime. and my roomies are awesome!! we made spaghetti for dinner last night... mmm!! so good!!! and i just love it here in our little apartment!!! have an incredible day in your place! :)

some verses from a friend...
joshua 21:45
not one of all the Lord's good promises to the house of Israel failed; every one was faithful.
2 corinthians 3:17
now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom!

so today was my day of being scared! first i burnt some french toast but the smoke alarm didn't go off and the toast was still really yummy... but then i took a shower and when i came out of the bathroom the smoke alarm went off and freaked me out. i put my shirt on backwards!! so i run out of the apartment, and then it goes off. and i'm like hmm... that's weird. the water from the shower set the alarm off. isn't that crazy??? what is it with me and fire detectors!?! i think it's cuz we don't have one at home so they like sense that i'm anti-close to smoke detectors.

then i'm walking to class and wonderful bret sayre like pummelled me... and it was hilarious... but i so didn't see him coming and i was so scared and then i couldn't figure out who he was for a while!! isn't that crazy?

then i was sitting on the couch doing my homework (which is where i need to be now) and i looked up and rach is standing right in front off me... WHOAH!!! :)

so tomorrow i am going to be way more aware of my surroundings and not scared!!!

the picture is of me and alli... isn't it great!?! it's from ollies follies this weekend. i love alli!!!

i love my family!

this is almost all of my mom's side at my cousin steven's wedding. i was born on his birthday, isn't that neat? i just love my family! :)