Best day of my life! (ik ik it sounds corny)

**i apologize in advance, very long and detailed post. i left out a few thigns just to save space but here it is. the best day of my life**

After a night like last night i had no idea what god was trying to tell me. But after today i know he was showing me how strong i truely can be with his help. Afte the first time of truly opening up and and just talking to god, he showed me the reason for all the trials he has put me through. If i didnt have those horrible times it wouldnt make great nights like tonight special.
Waking up this morning i was hopefull that tonight would brighten my spirits. It did so much more. I was content when i woke up to an empty house and a message from liz letting me know she was getting done early. (this was the first sign today was going to be amazing) After showering and waiting for liz to get home, my parents showed up with a package for me. SKILLETS NEW ALBUM HAD ARRIVED!!(sign 2) Thats when the smile i havent had in ages became glued to my face. Pumped, i headed over to liz's with skillet merch in hand.
The drive to liz's was beautiful, i had awake blairing. No worrys in my head(which is rare, especially after last night.) When i got to liz's i hid my shirt from her and calmly st down on her bed (when in actuallity i was screaming and jumping up and down in my head) She turned around and i was holding up her skillet cd shirt and pass. Thankfully as she turned around she had cloed the door because she kind f hunched over screamed and fell back into the door =] It could have killed her but it was the best reaction i could have ever exspected. So naturally we put in th cd and rocked out while we wrapped our heads in ace bandages to imitate te awake album. (the photos were epic that we took.) While we were rocking out to skillet we were waiting to leave to see isaiah 42:10 perform. we were worried about being late but then again we had skillet and knew we would get there for the show no matter what. so we kept rocking.
Once we decided to leave we followed her parents out to the house were they were playing. They took some really strange roads and i began having a mini- panic attack because i wasnt in control and had to trust that they knew were they were going while horrible thoughts of becoming lost and never gettig to see isaiah play. Well after awhile i started to calm down thanks to liz being random and her takign random pics. It tookmy mind off of things. Then we arrived!
We set our stuff by her parents and set out to say hi to everyone and take pics. The beach was beyod beautiful and the people their were all having a great time. On the beach liz and i went to a lil hidden part f the beach past the dock and fund a stick and wrote in the sand. i suggested "skillet" and she wrote "skillet Awake" and then to my suprise she began writing something else. "~jen &liz~ ~friends~" (sign 3) Usually i would be the one who would have to think of something special like that and in that moment i cant compare this friendship with any other friendship ive ever had. this was a friendship sent from god. So after taking pics of the beach we headed back to talk to the band and such.
Shortly after that, the band before isaiah was finishing up and chris decided to play some music. What did he choose? Skillet's comatose. Of course me and liz let out ascream and started headbangng and singing along like any true panhead would. then liz being the craziest panhead began some hardcore heabanging and i captred it with my camera. She was rocking out s hard she even fell over backwords from eing dizzy....did that stop her....i think not! Then it was isaiahs turn to rawk!
They had somesound difficulties and my camera died hortly after tey began playing but it was all good! There wasnt a real stage so we got super close and rawked out like true isaiah 42:10 fans =] There were these two kids who jumped "onstage" and started dancing around. Band members almost tripping over them while dancing *cough* ben*cough* It was adorable. Abbie got some vids which i hope worked out better then CM ones, And we even go ben to wear abbies hat onstage! itwas hillarious. Then ben decided to come out to visit us while he was rapping and singing and such. He even did a dance with us! =P it was sO much fun to be able to be there worshiping god with such a great grop of people.
Once they finished playing we hung around to hear a sneak peak of there new album (flamethrower) and chris gave me a HUGE discount on cd's and a poster. which was amazing. There were spiders everywhere, andof course i was freaking out, but ben and everyone must have been feeling rather adveturous because first ben picked up a twig bug thingy that apparently had pinchers but tickled. then he picked up a HUGE daddy long legs which i ran the opposite way afraid someone was gunna throw one at me. but anyway. After we forgot about the bugs the band began taking down all the stuff and we made our way around talkign to chris, jeff, harley and of course ben. Everyone was in a very silly mood and i learned the oragins of the "pretty abbie" hahahaha. Then everoen gathered in teh darkness to take a group photo. i stood by liz and ben. it was kind of chaotic but i think they turne out decent. or at least i hope they did. They are totally going on my wll either way. Because DUh best night f my life. At this point we were all prtty tired but so hyped up and high on jesus tht we didnt want it to end. So someone suggested we all go to ihop....This is were the night turned from awsome to epically the best night of my life.
Me, liz, brian and kristy arrived at about the same time and i was worried no one else would show up =[ but thankfully shortly after we arrived ben abbie chris and jeff showed up. we all decided o what we wanted and while we waited for the waitress the goofyness continued and liz whipped out a notebok to capture all the quotes and funny lines from the table. Once we allgot our food we said grace...which felt really good. it felt nice to be able to openly thank god fo what i have in my life at that time. it felt like a bigfamily sitting around for a dinner. (the big smile is still pastered on my face) Then we all start eating and tons of laughter and stupid funny quotes followed. Abbie and kristy were beet red by the end of the late night outing and my sides were hurtig from all the laughter.
After we all got our bills payed e all headed outside. i wanted togo over and wish everyone a afe drive so we headed over to abbies car which was next to bens bike( yes he wascrazyand road a bike 40 min home in 50 degree weather) Jeff came over and gave me a hug and said he was glad to see me again and is glad they have anther great fan. Then Ben came over to me gave mea big hug and said "welcome to the group" that was it. that was the Stamp that said " BEST NIGHT EVER!" written all over it. To feel liked and welcomed by such a close knit "family" is such an amazing feeling. God is great in the way he just places people in your life tht help you realize he is here and he loves you. Why else would i be so blessed to have these people in my life. Even though i doubt any of them will read this i just want to say a HUGE thanks to Ben, Liz, abbie, chris, jeff, christy, harley, and sarah even though she wasnt there tonight to be with us. And that you have truely opened my eyes to god and a happiness i have never experianced before. I will do everything in my power to keep this feeling with me at all times. Because now i know if god puts hurdles in my path i can turn to him and these lovely people to help me through.


*do you know what it feels like to want to surrender*