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This morning a dear friend of ours passed away. Debbie Moltz was a friend, mentor, wedding director, huddle leader, youth staff member, and a blessing to all who new her. For updates on her please click here.

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Coach OLiving so close to Ole Miss, this video definitely made me laugh!! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did! New updates to come soon!

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Wow! Donnie and I could not believe that the year flew by so fast! I just wanted to let you all know that we celebrated our first year of marriage on Sunday. One of our close families gave us these pictures they took of us when they brought us home from the airport after the honeymoon. I love you Donnie and am so glad I married you!

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So, Donnie and I thought it would be funny to take First Day of School pics of me when I started teaching at Hutchison. We did and boy do I look tired and nervous...but I even did the sideways pose with the backpack. Shout out to my mom who took pictures of me and my brothers every year on our first day of school!

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Most people hated PE growing up, but I loved it. THat is what I guess...that I am teaching it. Anyway, I have been given like 6 different equipment magazines to look through and order from. So here is the question: If you could order any type of equipment you wanted...what would it be and why? I have one week to make a final decision.

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Walking around in Belize Some Belizean kids Caitlin Bagley (one of our teens) and I on a boat rideVacation Bible School

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The mission team (minus 10 people that worked in the dental clinic because they left the next day)Donnie and I before I left him for 11 days...sadOk, so to all my readers...I'm so sorry for not having updated you all since Belize. The trip was amazing. One of the reasons that I have not blogged about the trip...other than a busy schedule...is that I really needed a couple of weeks to process the

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On Thursday I am heading for Independence, Belize with our youth ministry. We will be gone 11 days and will be conducting a VBS for 500 kids, soccer and basketball camps, and a dental clinic. I am really excited to see what God is going to do through us and I ask that you all keep us in your prayers. While I am in Belize, Donnie will be traveling to Houston with more kids from the youth group to

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For those of you who don't know where I am working this summer, I am still helping out at the U of M with some research that we collected this year. Another grad student and I are writing up the data for publication and submission to conferences. All that has very little bearing on the daily choice we make when we enter the office. Yesterday was supposedly the hottest day so far in Memphis...

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Your Five Factor Personality ProfileExtroversion:You have medium extroversion.You're not the life of the party, but you do show up for the party.Sometimes you are full of energy and open to new social experiences.But you also need to hibernate and enjoy your "down time."Conscientiousness:You have medium conscientiousness.You're generally good at balancing work and play.When you need to buckle

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Since Donnie, Buster, and Brooke are in St. Louis for the Jr. High Retreat, the minister's spouses decided we would start a dinner club...or really just decided to get together and hang out since Donnie, Buster, and Brooke go eat together all the time. Just for fun we invited our friend Brett along. A good time was had by all. We went to El Mez Cal (local mexican restaurant and the ministers'

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Although a little late, here are a few graduation pictures.

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God has been extremely good to me lately. I am still in shock as to how awesome he was this week. He really is showing me how awesome he is. On Tuesday, I was offered my dream job! Teaching 1st-4th grade physical education and coaching varsity cross country and track at Hutchison school. I turned in the contract today and am now an official employee of the school. Thank you to everyone who has

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As a Christmas present, my dad sent me a subscription of Reader's Digest. The magazines were great, they even sent me free books in the mail...or so I thought. I have received two free books in the mail and thinking I would read them one day, put them on the book shelf. Yesterday, we received a bill from Reader's Digest for $27.28. I was so mad!! Not only did they deceive me by giving me a "free"

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Graduation marked the last event where I have to wait to get my film developed to see if my pictures came out good. For receiving my masters degree...Donnie got me a spiffy new digital camera. We have had a blast taking pictures over the past week and I am so excited that I can upload pictures quickly. This is a us at a wedding in Nashville at the Hermitage (Andrew Jackson's home) this Saturday.

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How many times have we [women] had to stand in long lines, sometimes 20 minutes...just to go to the bathroom. I just don't get why they can't make enough stalls for the women who need to use them. Until I went to Salt Lake City, I never thought they could make one large enough, until... When we heard the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City, they sang in a 21,000 seat auditorium. After we

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So this is a long overdue blog, but my trip to Salt Lake City (SLC) went great! For those of you who don't know, SLC is the mormon capital of the world. The mormon tabernacle is unbelievable, and we got to hear the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing on Thursday night. The conference (American Alliance for Health Physical Education Recreation and Dance) Was so unbelievable. I went to about 5 different

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Hello my avid readers. I am on my way to Salt Lake City for the AAHPERD Convention where I will be presenting some research to professionals, skiing, and just taking a break from life. I am traveling with Molly and we had a lay-over in Vegas because we got these really cheap $99 Southwest Airline flights. It is interesting that from the moment you get off the plane, there are slot machines

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So, I naively thought that my stress would end when I finally finished my thesis and gave it to the graduate school...But as evidence in the lack of recent bloggings, my stress is about the same. I am learning daily how important it is to trust in God through everything. Amidst teaching a class five days a week, attending or completing work for three classes, coaching track at Harding Academy,

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To all my faithful fans, I defended my thesis on Monday and they accepted it. I just have a few revisions and then will turn it in to the graduate school for review. So, only a few more weeks and I will have a Master's Degree...WOOHOO! Thanks for all of your prayers they really have meant a lot and helped me throughout this process.

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Sorry for the long hiatus, but I have been on Spring Break. Not that I got much of a break because I am currently writing my thesis so that I can defend it in less than two weeks and turn it in to the grad school in less than a month! AHHHH! So any prayers on my behalf would be greatly appreciated. Donnie could also use prayers as I am probably not the nicest person to live with right now.

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Since I didn't blog last semester I just wanted to share pictures of our "trunk or Treat at church. I dressed up as a clown (even though they are really, really scarey) and let tons of kids throw pies at Donnie. Which went great! Nick Bates is the bunny to the right. The best part of the night was driving around in the jeep with the top off...we got some really funny looks.

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So Megan emailed me yesterday that she had found this website (myheritage.com) that will match your face to a celebrity. She informed me that me and my brother Nathan (her husband looked like David Beckham. So I thought I would upload another picture to test it out. I uploaded the following picture of Donnie and I. And it told me that Donnie looks like Andre Agassi and I looke like Holly Marie

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In case you didn't know, today is National Pancake Day at IHOP. Donnie and I just went there for lunch...mainly because they were offering a free short stack of their delicious pancakes to anyone who came through the door! Happy Pancake Day!FREE PANCAKES! NO STRINGS ATTACHED!On February 28, 2006 from 7 AM to 2 PM IHOPs across the country will celebrate National Pancake Day (also known as Shrove

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Most of you know this about me already, but when I eat, I generally end up spilling it on me some how. So in high school I began to live the motto that "it's not good unless you get it on you." I haven't really thought much about it lately, but honestly if I have really good food, it almost a given that it will end up on me somewhere. Megan sent me these cute pics of veda eating. She obviously

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So today my friend Christina stopped by to meet Keely and she was telling me about how there was a 33 pound cat on the news today in Asia somewhere. So I thought I would google it, it turns out there have been several really fat cats around the world...one in California. Here's the story on the cat from Asia: http://feeds.philadelphianews.net/?rid=489fd4a82961f6bf&cat=ace588cfe31e6c8d&f=1I mean

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I just wanted to share with the world that I might possible have the cutest niece ever. Her mom (Megan) forwarded me this picture of her last night. This is especially funny, because Nathan (Veda's dad, my brother) was chosen to sing "it's not easy being green" when he was in like 2nd grade or something. He had to wear a Kermit costume and sing in front of like 200 people...all parents and

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Today represents over half a year of blissful marriage for the Stover clan. It is kinda cool to know that Donnie and I have been married for 6 months...and a day. I totally meant to write this blog yesterday, but forgot. Continue to pray for our successful marriage. Our marriage has outlasted 90 percent of the marriages in Hollywood today (guestimation...but probably true).

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For Valentines Day, Donnie went the extra mile, outside of the very unoriginal flowers and did something really creative. For those of you who were witness to our dating days, you know he can come up with some of the coolest gifts. For example, he was out of the country on one of our month anniversaries while we were dating, and he somehow managed to get a package to my house on the very day of

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Just wanted to let you all know that Donnie and I have a new arrival in our family...Keely Stover. She is a 5 week old chocolate labrador. Contrary to popular belief, she can leave her mom before she is six weeks old...who knew? Anyway, she weighs 7 lbs and is a little tubby. I am including a picture so you can fall in love with her too. As soon as we get some more film, we are going to take more

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So today was a Tuesday morning much like every other Tuesday morning. I got up, came to Memphis and began teaching my jogging class. Today I decided we would play ultimate Frisbee to give them a break from the 1.5 miles we had been running for the last 2 weeks. Since it was 32 degrees outside, we were inside, in the holiest of holy places...the Lady Tigers gym. I call it that because the

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Tomorrow, February 3, 2006 is National Wear Red Day! Who knew? Today Dr. Dyson (direct supervisor) passed an email over to me that read the following. Go Red For Women is a nationwide movement celebrating the energy, passion and power we have to band together and wipe out heart disease. Too few people realize that heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women - and of men - but the good news is that

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I have been meaning to write this blog for about 2 weeks now and I just kept getting distracted. People never cease to amaze me. I would love to think that it is just the people in Memphis that act rediculous...as I am and will forever claim Alabama as my home...but I know it isn't true. Recently I attended a Memphis Grizzlies game courtesy of some close family friends. It was Martin Luther King,

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Yesterday was a very sad day. One of my only friends in Memphis lost her father. He died suddenly at the age of 63. They think it might have been a massive heart attack or stroke, he collapsed at work. Mandi was doing amazingly well last night. Her dad, Carl Johnson, should be remembered for his caring, unselfish, giving, servant heart. I only knew him for a short time but he really did lead his

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I guess now would be a good time to describe what has been going on the last few months. Well, I became an aunt on July 30, got married on August 20, started my second year of grad school on August 29 and have been juggling my family, Donnie and school all semester. I think I will mark this down as the toughest semester of grad school. Through it all though, Donnie has definitely been steady and

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It has been quite some time since I have blogged, mostly due to a rough schedule and the lack of internet at home. I walked outside today to find that some youth group kids had attempted to roll our yard. I say attempted because most of the toilet paper they used is in our neighbors' yards to the right and the left. It honestly looked as though the culprets had used on roll of toilet paper. I

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Any of you who have planned a wedding know how stressful it can become. This weekend I had gotten to the point where I wanted to just elope. I think Donnie and I have been in more rediculous fights in the last month than in the last 2 years. This Sunday at church I was asking some friends of mine how they made it through the stressful planning situation. Ed put it this way.There are two types of

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Ok, so I decided today that I have become a bit of slacker as far as my blog is concerned. Ryan Porche is so awesome at remembering to update his blog....I am terrible. So I figure since 90 percent of the world already knows, it would be a great idea for me to tell my blogging friends about recent happenings in my relationship life. On April 10, Donnie Stover asked me to marry him! After a brief

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Although an abbreviated version of John 10:10, it is a reminder to me of who really is in charge of my life!

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the road bike 

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Me and Donnie 

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About a year or so ago I bought a road bike from a friend of mine. The bike in its original state was white and badly in need of a fresh coat of paint. So after much debate, Donnie and I decided we would paint it. In August we disassembled the bike and painted it. We left the bike and the parts in the garage to dry and there they remained....one month...and then another passed until this past

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I know the title is cliche, but getting my master's degree in Physical Education requires that I teach walking and jogging classes in Memphis. I have been here since August, and Memphis is just beginning to feel normal. I am currently teaching two classes at the University of Memphis, working 10 hours of a research assistantship, taking 16 hours of classes, and trying to find my place in Donnie's

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