2D TTF Text Rendering with SDL & OpenGL Issues - opengl

Question

So I have looked around and I haven't found the best way to actually implement this in SDL & OpenGL. At this moment I can display text to the screen with a TTF but its not really displaying the text the way it should be. Attached is a screen shot of how the engine looks like when displaying text. Basically from what I can see in my code, I think what is happening is that I am not blitting my text texture with the my main SDL_Surface that I am using as my window. I say that because in the picture my character who has a red collision box around him is being covered up my the text texture I'm rendering my text with. Any ideas of what I can do?
In my game loop I call beginDraw() and endDraw() before and after I draw everything to the screen.
Picture: http://public.gamedev.net/uploads/monthly_07_2012/post-200874-0-25909300-1342404845_thumb.png
All the engine code can be found here: https://github.com/Jevi/SDL_GL_ENGINE
P.S: I'm going to make another post for this but I might as well ask this also if you guys are already looking at my code. I have been noticing some memory issues with the engine. In task manager the memory allocated to my program is constantly climbing since its starts at around 11000 K.
void graphics::SDL_GL_RenderText(float x1, float y1, int width, int height, const char* text, int ptsize, const char* ttfLoc, int r, int g, int b){
SDL_Surface* temp;
SDL_Surface* temp2;
SDL_Rect rect;
TTF_Font* font;
SDL_Color textColor;
unsigned int texture;
font = TTF_OpenFont( ttfLoc , ptsize );
textColor.r = r;
textColor.g = g;
textColor.b = b;
temp = TTF_RenderText_Blended( font, text, textColor );
// width = nextpoweroftwo(width);
// height = nextpoweroftwo(height);
temp2 = SDL_CreateRGBSurface(0, width, height, 32, r, g, b, 0);
SDL_BlitSurface(temp, 0, temp2, 0);
glGenTextures(1, &texture);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA, temp2->w, temp2->h, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, temp2->pixels);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
/* prepare to render our texture */
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);
glColor3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
/* Draw a quad at location */
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glTexCoord2d(0,0);
glVertex2f(x1, y1);
glTexCoord2d(1,0);
glVertex2f(x1 + temp2->w, y1);
glTexCoord2d(1,1);
glVertex2f(x1 + temp2->w, y1 + temp2->h);
glTexCoord2d(0,1);
glVertex2f(x1, y1 + temp2->h);
glEnd();
glFinish();
glDisable(GL_BLEND);
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
SDL_FreeSurface(temp);
SDL_FreeSurface(temp2);
TTF_CloseFont(font);
glDeleteTextures(1, &texture);
}
void graphics::GL_BeginDraw(){
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
glPushMatrix(); //Start rendering phase
glOrtho(0,width,height,0,-1,1); //Set the matrix
}
void graphics::GL_EndDraw(){
glPopMatrix(); //End rendering phase
SDL_GL_SwapBuffers();
glFinish();
}