A difficult decision...

It seems this always happens to me. When I have the opportunity to do something really cool, some other door opens as well. It is so aggravating and me being the challanged decision maker that I am does not help things.:) Last night I asked my father if I could go to a church camp and he said I probably could. Well...a little while ago my mother called and said that my old art teacher, who is now doing wedding photography, invited me to come with them to a wedding and help out. AHHHH!!!! It is my last chance to go to this camp since I am a senior but I don't know when else they will have a big wedding that they need help with. The camp is just a last chance deal and the wedding thing is a really big opportunity. I will not really be doing much more than pushing a button and protecting some gear but still it would be so great!

Wow, that stinks, you can barely see those pics. Oh, well!

Artwork

I decided to start posting some of my drawings, so here you go. These are all horse drawings. Sorry about the lighting on the top three. Well, enjoy!(or try to at least!)

Belgian

Spooked Horse

Old Horse

Bucking Horse

Casey and Janessa being "normal" but really they were the "weird" ones in this case.

So if they were actually the weird ones then this is Janae and Sam being normal:)

I have plenty more pictures to come but I have to go to volleyball practice. As to the ones I already posted, ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!

I actually have Red River pictures!!!!! We had a lot of fun. It was very cold at night but we managed not to freeze. It was also very muddy. All the same it was still fun!

Left to right: Janae, Samantha, Evan, Janessa and me:)

ME!

Mr Tom. held a meeting to discuss future plans for Red River Meeting House.

I lost my job due to the pool not needing as many lifeguards for the fall and winter...:(

Here is another decent one of Lee and me...

I did not have my camera at Mansker's Station "Fall Encampment" but a friend sent me a few. They were not the best pictures of me but here is one of them. I was "attempting" to make candles. Ha ha! It was NOT pretty!

Yay!!!! It worked! Praise the Lord! Ha!

Re-enacting opps.

Tomorrow we are going to Mansker's! I will try and get pictures and I will try and put them up! I actually have several re-enacting opportunity's coming up. YAY! Besides tomorrow there will be fall encampment (hooray!), red-river, my school will be taking a group so I would like to try and be there for that and of cour Yule fest in December. I am really looking forward to all these opps.

Yum!

Check out seasons of a heart. There is an amazing looking recipe for homemade mint chocolate chip ice cream. YUM! I can't wait to try it!

Recent happenings

The post about Lee's birthday is a little late, sorry! Nothing has really been going on with me lately. Tristan(my eldest brother) turned 21 last month also. School has started along with volleyball, both of them are going good. At uca I am doing spanish II, volleyball, choir, I am on the yearbook staff and maybe drama(?). Oh yea! and I am doing music theory II. At home I am writing a novel and I am supposed to be doing gov. and economics but I don't have my books yet (MOM!)(JK!). We are leaving for florida a week from wednesday and my dear Janae Jana will be traveling with us. YAY! That is all for now. I have to go get ready to dove hunt.

A rather large task.

I am writing a novel!!! I am pretty excited!

Lee's Birhtday

Our little "bubba wee" (aka: Lee) is now 11 years of age. *SNIFF* *SNIFF*...He is growing up.

Lee and Mom with the"Hamburger" cake (and yes, fries with that)

Joanna and I deep in descussion (just thought I would throw that in there:)

Luke and Lee

What a cute picture of Lee and Levi! (Too bad I didn't take it!!!)

This is...interesting! Kinda weird, kinda funny. Oh and a little dumb!


1. Your name: Allison
2. Your gangsta name ( the first three letters of your first name plus izzle) Allizzle
3. Your detective name ( your favorite color plus your favorite animal) Green Dog
4. Your soap opera name ( your middle name plus the street you live on/or neighborhood if it’s a number) Aster Hog (LOL WOW! Nice huh?:)
5. Your star wars name ( the first three letters of your last name plus the first two letters of your first name) Millal (That's kinda dumb...)
6. Your super hero name ( Your second favorite color plus your favorite drink) Well once again mine is dumb so I am gonna go with Blue Water (Mine would really be like...Blue appke juice or Blue Dr. Pepper LOL!)
7. Your IR name ( second letter of your first name, third letter of your last name, first letter of your last name, second letter of your Mom’s maiden name, third letter of your dad’s name, first letter of a sibling’s name, and last letter of your Mom’s name) LLMASEY (EH?)
8. Your witness protection name ( your parents middle names) Beth Lee (That is actually not so bad!)
9. Your goth name ( black, and one of your pets names) Let's see...Black patch, Black Jo/Black Jo Jo, Black Kit-Kat, Black Strech Or Black Phillipe (I am going with Black Jo or Black Phillipe)
10. Name of your own TV show ( Your favorite color and your favorite food) Green Pizza (?)

UGH! My blog is soooo boring because my dumb computer (which I am very thankful that we have) will NOT upload pictures! Nobody wants to read a post with no pictures! It is really aggravating!

I'm back! I really don't have a ton to post though...I enjoyed it. It was a new experience for me. I am very grateful that my parents let me go. I was a little surprised they did. I might post little things as I think of them but I am really tired and I don't really feel like staying on here long. It was pretty fun though. It had it's good and bad moments. When we got free time we played volleyball or four square. Volleyball was fun! The classes were fun but I am not gonna lie I got a little bored in class sometimes. I learned some stuff that will be pretty valuable I think. Well I am so tired and this post is kinda blah because of it so I am going to stop now.

I am leaving tomorrow and I won't be back until Saturday so I won't be posting for a while. I just wanted to let everyone know. Although I have not been posting much lately anyway. I will be at music camp though. I will try and post on how that goes when I get back.

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Dancing

I am going to an english country dance tonight. I was trying to find my camera so I could post some pictures of my new dress on here. I obviously did not find it. My dress is of a regency style similar to the ones Janae has posted about on her blog. Mine is closer to the first design. My mom made me this one and I am hoping to make another one myself soon. If I ever find my camera I will try and post it.

I am back in Tennessee. It is always a bit of a let down to get home from a trip...

I took over 1000 pictures!!! Well let me rephrase that, mainly Tyler and I along with a couple of other people took 1136 pictures! WOW! That was just my Rebel..Pictures were also taken with my Uncle's camera and my little camera and some other people had camera's too. It was mostly the big camera's though. All of us teens had a fun time with the cameras obviously. Amy is getting to borrow my uncle's professional grade camera and I got a new telephoto lens so we went a little crazy! My uncle Mike also let me borrow his macro lens. I am having fun with it too! Thanks Uncle Mike! I know Amy K is having a BLAST also! I will try and post some but it does not always let me so I may have to go to Janae's house to do it. It may be a little while though.

To get a good bit of history about it go to Amy K's blog but here is a little bit about where we were staying. We stayed in the hubble house. It was a bed and breakfast. The main house was the "Hogg House". Texas governer Jim Hogg's daughter was Ima Hogg. No, there was not really a daughter named "Youra Hogg". Though less known there were also two brothers. Ima stayed at her grandparents home in Winnsburough Texas, the "Hogg house", a lot through her childhood. Much later when George Bush was Governer of Texas, he stayed in this home.

Saturday night We went to see a firework show. I got some decent pictures of that. I will try and put them up later.

Sunday night we went to the "Shakespeare Festival. I REALLY enjoyed that. We saw a musical that my Uncle Steve was directing. It's called "She Loves Me". It is not a very well known musical because there are a lot of costum and set changes and because it is a musical it means more time and money. The movie "You've Got Mail" is based on this musical. It was not written by Shakespere even though it was at the "Shakespere Festival". It was good and the actors were GREAT! My uncle did a great job and should get a lot of credit in my oppinion.

It was soooo good to be with family! I love my family very much. I am blessed with a big and loving family. I thank the Lord! Not as much as a should though. It was a really nice break, although fairly short, from work. I am back it though and in full swing!
*Sigh*

Hey Everybody!


I am posting from Texas At the home of Texas' Ima Hog's Grandparents. More on that when I get back to Tennessee! Just wanted to let everyone know where I am and what I am doing. Later!!!

I have another prayer request that I can not go into detail on but it is far worse than I thought the other one was. Continue to pray for the other one PLEASE but add this one too. One specific thing you can pray for is my anger. It is just really hard on me. It is kinda two situations in one. One is affecting me and the other is affecting the one that is affecting me. Anyway please keep me and another family in your prayers. Thank you!

English country dancing

I have done some english country dancing through re-enactments and I LOVE it! Recently I came across a group that does it through a new friend and we went a few weeks ago. It was a blast. Elijah, mom and I went with some dear new friends of ours. Anyhow my friends are starting a group in our area (we were driving an our and one family was driving two) and tomorrow is our first day. I am really excited! I will try, try, try to get pictures and post them. Although I have been having trouble with uploading pics to blogger lately. We shall see...I am also doing that for my birthday. My birthday was last wednesday but it did not work to do it any time last week so we are doing it this weekend. I hope it goes well. I will surely have pictures of that. So check in!

I don't have anything interesting to write about...

I would like to ask for prayer...I can not say what but it is for a friend. It is a very serious situation and it calls for serious measures of prayer so PLEASE HELP! Thanks! It would be greatly appreciated...

Oh ya I mentioned my job so I should probably explain...I am now lifegaurd certified and am currently working at an 18 inch deep wading pool. LOL! I am also teaching swim lessons. I am enjoying that fine but not so much the wading pool. So there you have it! Later!

As Janae mentioned on her blog that it would be filled with summer pics mine probably will not. Considering my new job which I have failed to mention on here I will not be doing much. When I do get a chance to do something I will post pics...If I remember my camera.

Guess who's turning 17?...ME! Can you tell I'm excited? It is just that 16 seems very over-rated to me so I am ready to be 17. It is honestly hard to believe though. In a week from tomorrow I will have lived for 17 years...WOW! Ha ha ok that's enough.

Nobody is blogging...what's up with that?!?! Nobody is commenting either..............waaa!

I got my ears peirced! I can't believe I actually did it!

English Country Dancing

Last night we were out at all hours dancing. Ha ha! We went english country dancing with our new friends the Biggs and my friend Joanna. It was so fun! The people there were sooooo sweet and helpful. I really enjoyed it. I have to admit I was a bit nervous at first. I have done some english country dancing before but I still messed up some. I think we maybe starting a group here with the Biggs, Joanna and some of our other friends! I am so excited we finally got to go! Yay!!!

Guitar is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please pray for Janae as God is hopfully opening up a new and exciting chapter of her life. I can not really say how just yet but I am sure she will post about it soon!

I am learning guitar and LOVING it! Just thought I would share that.........

Sorry!

I apologise for not blogging much. I have a lot I could write about so I will try and catch up asaifli...(that stands for "As Soon As I Feel Like It" lol!)

Ok, ok...sorry. So really it is no big deal. I got my first car! I was trying to wait till I could get a pic up. Sorry for getting you excited and then kinda letting you down. I tried to post the other day and something happened. So sorry again but there you go. Hopfully I can get some pictures soon!

So I kinda have a surprise well if you could call it that...ok not exactly a surprize but something that happened to me that I can't wait to tell but I am keeping it a secret for now! Hee hee!

I am such a dork! I meant to post this last night before I really got into. Last night I had the brilliant idea to start knitting a felted Easter basket. HA ha yeah I said last night. Do you think I will finish it? When I was working on it yesterday mom asked me what I was working on and I said "a felted Easter basket but it probablly won't finish it by Easter" (I don't think those where my exact words but you get the picture). Well the truth is I am actually already finishing it up. I am such a DORK! but yeah so I guess I can knit kinda fast. It has been fun thouhg because I have not finished a whole project in a while so I am enjoying seeing it all come together!

YAY!

I am sooo excited!!! I finally get to put on my re-enactment clothes again! I am going to Red River meeting house this weekend with Janae Jana and her family. It is going to be so fun. About five miles before we get there Janae's mom is letting us all out and we are going to bike the rest of the way. Of course we are going to change when we get there:) I am also excited because we looked at a car for me today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes it is old but it is actually quite cute. Besides if I can finally call it mine I don't think I will mind too much what it looks like. Although if it where a really ugly car I would probably wait a bit longer to find something else;) I really hope everything works out and I will be able to buy it or else the Lord brings me a better one.

Singing

I just got back from another school performance. It was definitely not any of our best performances! I messed up in both my trio and my duet and I had a tiny bit of trouble on the small and large ensambles. Oh well I guess. Wow my toes are cold! Sorry. Anywaysssss...I recovered pretty well I think and at least I was in tune on everything. I love singing! I struggle with my voice though. I have been told by a few people that I have a pretty voice and I am just now getting to where I can except that and just say thank you instead of rolling my eyes and then saying thank you or saying "well I don't think so but thanks anyway". However I still have a hard time with it. Maybe I have a fine voice and can carry a tune and even sing a little harmony but I don't think that I have a voice that most people would just listen to. Not a voice that people would buy. I don't know why I even care. I really do have a hard time with it though.

Facebook

Has anyone ever had anything absurdly wrong happen on facebook? Or heard of anything? I want a facebook but I have not gotten answer from my dad yet and so I thought maybe if I got some info to back me up that would be nice. Please post!

Convention

Convention was...let's see...good, tiring, hard, stressful, fun, exciting, boring (at times) and uhh...that's about it I guess. For those of you who don't know what convention is, it is a five day trip to Kentucky that is for schools who use the ACE curriculum. While we are there we compete in a number of things. There are academic competitions, sports, platform, music and the list goes on. There is a huge list of things you can compete in. There were some hard lessons learned this year and over all it was certainly different than last year but I can not say that I wish I didn't go. Here are the things I competed in and what place I got:

Girls 400 meter dash: 2nd place

Girls 400 meter relay: 3rd place

Female duet: 3rd place

Female trio: uhh...5th place?

Archery: 3rd place!!!

Large ensamble: 1st place

Small ensamble 1st place

Black and white still life photography: no place...sniff sniff

Color plants and animals photography: no place

My school as a whole got 1st place over all in music and sports (again!) and we also placed in academics I thin but I am not sure what place we got. My friend David got 1st place in the guys division of the archery, I was so proud of him. I was also proud of everyone else but since the archery was my favorite thing to do I thought it was pretty cool that he got 1st! My friend Jade did very well on her piano solo. I played three on three volleyball while I was there too. That was a lot of fun! I ate pizza every single day! Healthy right? That is not all I ate but I did in fact have pizza every day that I was there. It was good too! I will not go into all the details of the bad stuff that happened but let's just say that it made the week a bit tough. I think the fun balanced it out and it was all ok in the end but the fact that I was tired did not help at all. Well I must end for now as I am about to be kicked of the computer so good-night all and have a blessed week!

Marriage Ideals

There is a post on my cousins website on marriage ideals. I am sure he would appreciate your opinions on that. Check it out at: http://www.adamterrell.com/apps/blog/entries/show/494183-marriage-ideals

Creation museum--visit with the PT's

I guess it was three weekend's ago my cousins and my aunt and uncle came from Texas. They got here on a Tuesday and we all got up on Wednesday morning and left for Ohio. We arrived at the Creation Museum just before lunch. We ate lunch there and then we began our journey through the museum. As you progressed through the museum it went through the seven C's of creation: Creation, Corruption, Catastrophe, Confusion, Christ, Cross, Consummation. I might elaborate on these in a later post. Everything was really well done. I liked it and I hope to go again because I was a little distracted and did not take away as much as I would have liked. Also I am a slow reader and I was getting left behind. After that we stayed in a hotel and the next day the men went to Indianapolis and the girls and younger boys went on home. The men had a leadership conference to go to. Once we got back I had a performance at my school. That was a BLAST! Everyone performed well and I think the audience really enjoyed it. I also believe my choir teacher was very pleased. Thank goodness! after that we all just hung out at the house. Oh yeah us girls did go shopping one day. The PT's went back to Texas that Sunday. Sniff Sniff... Here are some pis and I am very sorry that, that was not too interesting and that I did not sound very enthusiastic...

Catching up

Ok, I said I would catch you up on everything. I am going to try and just make each thing simple and short since there are so many and because I don't really feel like doing it. Lol!

I need prayer please!

I would like to ask for anyone who will to please pray for me. I really want to use this blog for God's glory, to share my vision (which is kinda shaky right now) and...I don't know. I just feel like there could be a much higher purpose for this so please pray that I will find it. Thanks!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!! I love this day because while a may not be full blooded Irish I am definitely Irish at heart! Also I loooove green! (A little happy with the exclamation marks I know!!!!!) Don't forget to wear green!!!!!!

I'm back...

I am back and I will post what I said I was going to but I don't know when I will get to it. Hopefully soon! I am not fully recovered yet...that just tells you that it was a looong tiring week.

Coming soon...

Coming soon...
Creation Science Museum
Visit with the PT'S
ACE Student Convention
Pictures of Tournement
Goal Setting
and maybe more...

Leaving for a week...

I just wanted everyone to know that I will be leaving tomorrow morning and won't be back till Friday after noon. I will finally have stuff to write about. YAY! Ok so I guess I have had some stuff lately and actually I have a LOT to catch up on. So when I get back be watching for new posts! A few of the people that read my blog are going to be at the same place I am this week so uhh yeah...Ha ha sorry, I hate when I do that.

I am posting pictures from tournement on my other blog. I know that one does not get looked at much so I figured that I would let everyone know in case anyone wants to check them out.

My extemely...uh whoa weekend.

This weekend was v-ball/basketball tourney. Oh yeah I did decide to go. Where to start...Ok, the night before we left to go there Joe one of our important b-ball players, ok well they are all important but anyway, one of our basketball player knocked his shoulder out of place and had to have it popped back in. He was unable to play. One of the girls from another volleyball team had a seizure on the way to the tournament and had to turn around and go to the hospital. In the championship game (which our guys unfortunately did not get to play in but they still came in third, way to go guys!!!) One of the guys got his finger caught in the rim and ripped his skin to the bone and was rushed to the hospital. Then our dear JP Dooley was having really bad stomach pains and was also taken to the hospital. He thankfully is alright! Besides all of that there where some MAJOR, I REPEAT MAJOR relationship issues going on between people from my school. I was included in that. I got close to some people but also got hurt by some. I was hurt and angry and all kinds of things and so where a bunch of other people. I am now having a REALLY hard time with some stuff and I am mad at one of my best friends. So I got jealous of someone, hurt by someone, frustrated with a few people and extremely disliked a few people. On a lighter note our volleyball team one state for the third year in a row, second year to be undefeated and in this league if you win three years in a row you get to keep the trophy. It was pretty cool the basketball team that won, it was also their third year to win. It would have been cooler if our guys had won but that is still pretty cool. Back on a darker note though, I did not get to play in any of the volleyball games so I was upset about that too, even though I did not expect to get to play. I tried to get over it and be a good sport about it but it was quite hard. So I am in a really weird mood right now and having a hard time even praying (and typing, I keep messing up) or anything. So there was my weekend. At least I finally have something to blog about...(I am being negative). We visited a church today that several of my friends go to so I guess that was pretty good. Well that is all I have to say.

In a funk!

Title says it all! Yes I am in a major funk. A bunch of JUNK happened this weekend...ha just had to say that cause it rhymed! I never posted about the prayer day. It was pretty good. Because of my mood I don't much feel like posting about it but I know I need to so I will say that we ended up pretty miraculously praying for over an hour and a half! It was pretty amazing. I did ok with the skirt thing for the most part but was at a tournament all weekend so I was wearing my v-ball uniform. So I just wanted to explain why I am not posting much about those and explain my funk. I am about to explain the weekend too...oh dear!

Clarification on home school video

OK so someone got offended over the video so I want to clear this up. If you take it to mean that they are making fun of homeschoolers I really don't think it is. They are basically showing how we get stereo-typed as homeschoolers. I know that there are some families who are really like that and that does not bother me at all. I actually find that some of those are very very neat families. I am also like 99% sure that they are home schooled so they probably would not make fun of fellow homeschoolers. I hope that clears it up. Sorry to the offended and high five to homeschooled of the world!

Oh if you could only see me now! Jk! I am quite a sight...I am doing the skirt thing with Janae and so I have on a swim suit (from practice) and then a t-shirt, sweat pants and then a skirt over that. I bet you are saying "OH MY!!!" To add to all of that my hair is an absolute WRECK! I have to say that I have been crying too and that does not help my appearance at ALL! Well that is me excerpt for the day since that is really all that I have to say. Well I can add that I am torn over whether to go to v-ball tourney or not go at all and go with my mom to something we had planned a while ago. *sigh* *sigh* My mom does not really care but I still feel kinda bad about doing that to her. I was going to go tomorrow and then go with my mom Saturday but now that won't work so I have to go to one or the other because I will have to stay the night at the tourney. Wow I sound really scatter brained, sorry. With that I shall end.

Home school video

If you have not yet found it, there is a YouTube video at the bottom of my blog. I LOVE it!!! The only thing is that it makes me depressed because I don't understand why I can't come up with stuff like that. It is really quite frustrating to me. *Deep breath* *sigh* *sigh* I can not even describe what I feel. It is simply that frustrating to me. I know you are probably wondering what my problem is. I can not answer that. It would be nice if I could but I can't. I would not be surprised if you are also sitting where ever you are laughing at me. Anywho I would like to say "Way to go!" to the guys who brilliantly contrived and sang it.

New blog

I have a new blog for the purpose of random pictures. You can just click the link on my profile page or go to lissiespics.blogspot.com. Enjoy!

Driving

Yay! I drove myself to school today!!! Whoa amazing I know...It was pretty cool. I treated myself to sonic after school (with a gift card I have been saving since my last birthday for such an occasion as this) Short post I know but I needed to share that with the world!

Tagged

Janae tagged me! Here goes:1.What is your favorite color? Blue or green.What is your favorite place to shop? I don't know if I have a fav place but Aeropostle has some great stuff. I'm a bargain shopper. :)3.What is your junk food? Funyuns and DP.What is your favorite thing to do in the summer? Swim, Ride horses and just be outside and not have to worry about school. 5.What is your favorite dog breed? Uhh...That is hard I love cezky terriers but my puppy is so cute (both of them are) (OK all four of them are) 6.What is your favorite flower? I LOOOOVE flowers! Almost all of them! 7.What is your favorite hairstyle? I don't know (it is obvious I don't make decisions very well) 8.What is your favorite thing to wear around the house? comfy jacket/hoodie and "twirly" skirt 9. favorite thing to do with your family? play games or go do stuff together. 10.Who is your best friend? Janae and Jade 11.What is one of your fav Bible verses? John 14:27. What are your fav shoes? my cowboy boots, comfy tennis shoes. I tag Amy!

Please pray!!!

Please pray for my friend Janae Janna and me. This weekend we will be spending a whole day in prayer together. Please pray that God will use it in an awesome way and that we will somehow be blessed by it. Also the next week we will be challenging ourselves to wear skirts for a whole week. Not a big deal but it will just take a tiny bit of perseverance and remembering to just do it. I encourage you to join us on Saturday from where ever you are to join in our time of prayer. Let me kow if you do! I will try to post pictures as soon as I have them!

I need ideas...

Since I have nothing interesting to write about I will ask a question. I am really wanting to make a movie but I don't know what to write about! Any suggestions?

Gentlemen (Inspired by Amy K)

This is not an issue to be taken lightly. In a way I am talking to guys but GIRLS you can help! It is terribly sad to me that I look all around me and RARELY do I find a real man. A true gentleman. What is up with that guys? Seriously is it so hard to hold a door open for a girl? Is it so hard to offer your seat? Huuuuhhhh!!!! Did she just say give up my seat?!?!? To a girl!!!! Yep that is right fellows. That is what I said. Now I know this can be difficult because guys and girls alike have their pride. Girls, this is where you come in. If a guy opens a door for you, what should you do? Say THANK YOU! If a guy offers to carry something for you don't get offended because you feel like they are trying to point out that you are the weaker sex. Guess what girls...you probably are weaker in some ways. God made girls and guys different for a reason. Yes girls were created to be helpers to guys but I honestly think that guys NEED girls. Need is a pretty strong word too. Come on girls don't you like the idea of a guy showing you honor and helping you with things that yeah maybe you can do on your own but because they know what it means to be a real gentleman they do it anyway. Wow if a guy showed me that much honor I would be amazed. I am not saying to be unreasonable guys, I am not saying to wait on us girls hand and foot as if you are our servants. A little more respect would be nice though. I have seen very few (if any) real men. Sad huh? Then there are the guys who will hold a door open for a girl. Then there are the guys who will walk right through the door in front of you and not even notice you. The really sad thing is, is that when there is a gentleman around we girls don't allow them to help because we are to prideful to say you know what this is kinda heavy it would be nice of you to carry it. I know I am going on and on but honestly I feel this is a big issue. One last thing lady's, it is hard for a guy to be a gentleman when you are not acting like a young lady! Just think about it. Doesn't that make sense? Are you going to do something about it?

My blog

Ok, so I had planned on my blog being focused on one particular thing and so far it is not working out that way. Oh well! I pray that God will give me some things to write about though. Preferably something happy or exciting though.

Spiritual struggles

I am having some spiritual struggles. I have to say that they have gotten better but they are still here. I get really down sometimes, I don't know what that is about. That has gotten better too. In the last few days I have had a few episodes though. I feel closer to God one minute and then so far away the next. I really don't know what to do. I am confused. I can not explain exactly what I am going through. I am also confused about what I want to do with the rest of my life. I know that I don't have to decide this very moment but the day coming. Another problem I have been having is that I have gotten really lazy. I don't get my school or my chores done. I need prayer. Please pray for me!

Singing

My friends Jade, Julia and Joy and I sang on Sunday. I enjoyed it and was surprised because I really did not get that nervous. Don't get me wrong, I was nervous but I was able to sing loud enough (shocker!) and my parents said I did not sound very nervous. The girls did great too! We sang "In Christ Alone", inspired by the Dooley family. Jade and I both realized how much we loved that song so we said hey why not sing it tomorrow. I am glad for the chance to sing. We plan to do it again soon. Yay!

Welch family.

Yesterday was the memorial service of the death of our dear friends the Welch's. Some of my readers probably don't know what I am talking about so I will explain. Last year about this time right after the tornadoes came through the Welch family was helping with disaster relief. On their way home they were hit by a wal-mart truck killing Mr. and Mrs. Welch and their son Jesse and daughter...I can't remember her name. Jesse was a member of our choir and was a student at the tutorial school that I attend. We miss them so much and it has been very hard. I never got to know him very well which made it all the worse seeing that I missed a great opportunity. From the stories I have heard the Welch family was quite a blessing and touched so many peoples lives. I know that I will see them again one day. It is making my stomach hurt just talking about it but I know I have to trust God for comfort. I guess I also have to remember that there are people who were closer and are hurting more than I am. For anyone who might be reading this that does know the sweet Welch family I will be praying for God's comfort on you. The memorial service was good. Our choir sang and there were many other performances including the Dooley family(I thought did quite well.) who's children also attend the school that I go to. It was a time of good fellowship and our choir got together and sang songs from last year. It was fun to pull out the "Hallelujah Chorus". I am so glad to know that the Welch family is happily in heaven. God bless!

Nothing Interesting

I am kinda bummed, I do not have anything interesting to write about. Sorry to any readers that I might happen to have. Honestly I don't even know if anyone is still cheking up on it. Oh well. I will try to write as soon as I have something of worth to write about. God bless!

Swim meet

I got up at 5:30ish this morning to go SWIMMING!!! I was trying to be enthusiastic because I definately was NOT this morning. We had a swim meet about an hour and a half from my house. Plus we had to be there at 7:30. My little(est) bro is in the younger group so we had to be there ALL day. I did not even swim until after lunch. Anywho I was a bit scared, I had to do a 500 hundered meter race, which I had never done before. I prayed about it, but I still lacked confidence in myself about it (not unusual). I expected to finish (hopefully) in between ten and fifteen minutes. Amazingly, I finished at 8 minutes and thirty...fourty something seconds! I can't believe I was so quick!!!!! JK JK JK!!!! I still got last place, but, with the help of God, I did above and beyond what I expected of myself. With God anything is possible. Honestly I was more worried about a 50 meter breast stroke than I was about the 500 meter freestyle. Lame I know. I did in fact complete ALL of my (three) events. I am exhausted!!!!!!! Well at least my muscles are (what muscles that I have anyway). It has been a long day and now I am having major issues with the key board. Ha Ha!!!

Struggle

I have a friend who is having some of the same struggles that I was having does anyone have suggestions? I tried to give advice but I am afraid I don't really have any. Any advice on growing closer to God and allowing Him to change your life? I will be looking for your comments!

Changing

God has been doing some great things in my life lately. It is so amazing. I am growing closer to Him. I struggle with my faith sometimes but despite that I am trying so hard to have faith and to trust in my Lord. He is changing me. It is getting not so hard. I think it will always be a little difficult at times but He is becoming more real to me. He is also becoming more and more in my decisions and in my thoughts. I hope to continue to grow in the Lord and hopfully He will bring me a prince charming who will be able to help me too!

The Ring

Today I was sitting in my Spanish class, we had not started yet and everyone was talking while waiting to start. My teacher began to pass out tests or something but I was sick last week so it did not pertain to me. I asked if I could go get something and my teacher said yes. I went and got my jacket for some reason, I was not really cold but I guess a little chilled. I put it on and went back into class. As I sat down I reached for the right chest pocket. Again I really had no reason for doing it I just did. I felt the pocket and it felt strange, the pocket was bunched up but I did not know what it was. I really did not think much about it, it was one of those things that you just do kind of subconsciously. Anyway I unzipped the pocket and there in the top of the pocket was my ring! For those of you who don't know...This ring has been missing for weeks! I have cried over it and searched and searched for it. I looked in all my coats and jackets EXCEPT for the one I was wearing today. I prayed that God would help me find. He certainly did! He is so good. I really can only point this to Him. I can not say that it was a coincidence. I had accepted the loss and left it up to God. I almost started crying in Spanish class. I was so excited! This ring is very special to me. My mother gave it to me for my birthday. It says "Love Waits". I have a very special plan for it once I become engaged, that is why it is so very important to me. It was such a nice and unexpected surprise. I praise and thank the Lord!

New Blog

This is my very first post for my brand new blog. I wish to use this blog to bring God glory. I will be posting things that are happening to me. Mainly I will be posting questions or thoughts that I have. I will enjoy your comments!