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!