Merry Christmas everybody!!! I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas full of blessings!!! I'm in New York right now, so that my brother doesn't have to spend Christmas by himself!! :) Christmas in a hotel room is a lot better than it sounds. We're all cozy with no worries, no dishes, no cooking, just spending time together! :)
And just for extra measure here is my favorite version of Carol of the Bells recorded and arranged by my favorite musician brother ever!! :D
I can not believe myself. It is exactly one week until Christmas (!!!) and I JUST decorated my room!!! I'm terrible, but I started listening to Christmas music in August, so I guess that makes up for it! I have 9 snowflakes hanging from the ceiling that I made myself! Let me remind the world, and myself that I do not get along well with hot glue guns. It's just a fact. Your fingers get burned, and glued together at the same time! That's just cruelty! However, I am still alive and I have beautiful snowflakes so the burnt fingers were worth it... I hope! So here is a picture of a corner of my room... (the rest looks pretty much the same.... I just couldn't get it all into one picture! :))
So some days you are just not having a good day. You know what I mean. There are those days where nothing is going right and everything seems awful. Yeah I was having one of those days until I did these 5 brilliant things and they made my day 100% better!
So, I don't go shopping on Black Friday. I just don't, but I accidently went to the store on Black Friday and we actually had a blast! Now let me explain some things, when I say I accidently went to the store on Black Friday, I'm quite serious. I went to a friends house and we wanted to walk to the store because we could and it just happened to be Black Friday. We actually forgot it was Black Friday until we got into the store and we were like 'man, why is it so busy here?!' =) we figured it out pretty quickly. We had a blast!
I am currently sitting in the car on my way to my sister's house to spend Thanksgiving with some extended family. Thanksgiving is such a great holiday. There is nothing about it that isn't just plain selflessness, right? You would think so. This is a day we have for giving thanks. For being thankful for what we have, enjoying fellowship with family and some friends. It's a time of rejoicing, fellowship, selflessness, and to top it all off it's tons of fun! Being thankful is fun! It's enjoyable! So now let me ask the question, why do we Americans find it necessary to have Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving Day? Even when I try really hard this doesn't make sense at all. On the day we're supposed to be giving thanks for all the blessings that we do have, we are going to be busy trampling people at Wal-Mart for the cheapest deal on something that we probably don't need and won't want in three years. I can safely say, I will not be shopping on Thanksgivng. I hardly ever shop on Black Friday. (to be honest, shopping is just not something I enjoy.) I like spending time with people, cultivating relationships. Why can't we keep doing that on Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is (in my opinion) the only holiday that hasn't been turned into this big shindig about buying this and buying that and getting everything for yourself or your kids or that 'special someone'. It's just eating food and spending time with family! What could be better? I can't think of much, except playing my violin, but I even do that on Thanksgiving anyway because my family loves it when my siblings and I play. I guess my point is, let's go back to what we should be doing, instead of spending time in a line to get some material thing at a store that will only last a year or two, let's sit back with a cup of coffee and a board game and cultivate a relationship with people who will be in our lives forever.
I know I've been pretty terrible about blogging lately. Whatever happened to a Christmas song every day? Don't ask me! =P I hope, hope, hope, to get that going again. Maybe after Thanksgiving! By the way, I hope everyone has a very blessed Thanksgiving!
There is a totally awesome person in the world, and her name is Bekah! We've known each other since before I was born, and we are the best of friends! I don't know what I would do without her! (probably die, from being so stupid and blonde!! you have to have someone who has your back!) So since today is a special birthday for her, I need to honor her, and embarrass her right now! :D So here are 18 things I just LOVE about Bekah!
1. She's a Christian! Of course, this is important, but she likes to think about things, and we've had sever 'deep' conversations that helped both of us grow as Christians. For that I am VERY thankful!!!!
2. She's hilarious! Like seriously, there is a reason we're always laughing when we're together!!!
3. She's a good listener! Sometimes you just need someone who will hear you out completely! And then at the end she can say that I'm just stupid! But At least she hears me out first! =D =D
4. She's gorgeous! Like seriously, she looks like a dork most of the time, (which is awesome) but then there are those days when you're just like "Whoa! Bekah!!! You look AMAZING!" and she's just like "yeah, don't I though?" ;)
5. She loves Christmas music!!! And starts listening to it in September too!
6. She likes Maltese puppies!!! We discovered this recently, but we both share a great love for Maltese puppies!
7. She's not ashamed to skip around the mall in August singing "Jingle Bells"! We're going to make it better by wearing santa hats and reindeer headbands too!!! With a light up reindeer noses!!!!!!!!!
8. She got me into dying my hair pink for a day at a time. If it wasn't for her I wouldn't know how much fun it would be to dye my hair pink! What would I be missing?!?! I owe her so much!!!! =D =D
9. She has a good sense of style!
10. She's sensible!
11. She's super cool!!
12. She has a great sense of humor!
13. She likes coffee!!
14. She is just totally awesome!
15. She is really creative!
16. She writes how to books so that I can get through life right! =P
17. She's brimful of wisdom!
18. SHE'S MY BEST FRIEND!!!
I love her so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thank God every day for her!!!!!!!!
So today it is officially 40 days until Christmas! (even if it is almost the end of the day) I've got a new blog look!! So now, I am going to do a count down to Christmas, with a Christmas song every day! I'm very excited about this!!!!
First I'm going to do It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year! It's one of the best!!! and isn't it just the most wonderful time of the year?! I mean seriously, you don't get Peppermint Mocha's all year round... there is a reason you just get them this time of year! =D They are so amazing!!! Just like the season!!!!!!!!!!
I can't think of a song to do today for Musical Monday's so it's just going to be a blog post with my thoughts today! =) (and I really should come up with more creative titles... maybe something like "the thoughts of a bored homeschooler who is procrastinating on school" or something more vague "thoughts" that's not very vague though... anyway....)
My sister and I ran a half marathon yesterday! It was great! We beat my personal best time by almost five minutes! (I know, that's not a lot, but still, we beat it!) I have grown to love running so much! It's awesome! I really want to run a full marathon, but that is such a long way!! Like I can't even imagine running 26.2 miles... That's a scary thought! I still hope to do it maybe in June! Running marathons can be addicting! I've seen it happen to so many of my friends and now it's happening to me too!! I find that hilarious. I have come to believe, that if you are physically capable you should run at least a half marathon at some point in your life. It's totally worth it! I mean seriously, you get a medal and a shirt!! What could be better than that?!?!? At the half marathon yesterday they had pizza that they were giving to the runners!! That made me so happy!! Who doesn't like pizza?!
Anyway, lately I've had this great desire to go ice skating again... I've only every gone once, but I just love it!!! (I'm really terrible at it, but who cares? ;)) I wish I could be really good and do things like this, because that's just beautiful! However, some things will just have to remain a dream.... :)
I started teaching!! It was really scary at first, but as soon as we started playing violin the whole atmosphere lightened up and it is so much fun to help people discover the beauty of playing an instrument! I hope to teach a lot more students in the future because it is so much fun!!!
Anyway, Mother just caught up with me... time to get back to those lovely school books! =D Maybe I'll get two posts in this week! I hope to soon do a Christmas song every day! We'll see if that happens! Have a wonderfulicious day!
This post was requested by my brother... in part....
So the other day my family was watching Sense and Sensibility and the duel scene at the beginning of the third episode started. The first time we watched it and saw it cut from Colonel Brandon about to kill Willoughby to this:
we both thought it was blood. My sister thinks we're just unobservant but we want to ask the world (aka the like five people who read my blog) ;) The question is this: When you saw Sense and Sensibility for the first time, did you at first think it was blood? Or sealing wax?
Well, now! I've made it to 100 posts!!! Yay!!!! I'm sorry I've been so horrid at posting lately! But today I've got a post coming your way!!! I hope you still read this blog... :( that would make me sad if nobody reads my blog anymore...
Anyway, happier thoughts! I read Mr. Knightly's Diary this week and I LOVED it!!! I highly recommend it for anyone who likes Emma. While I don't think it was as good as Mr. Darcy's Diary, I still think it was a very good book and totally worth reading! I'm about to dive into Death Comes to Pemberly I'll have to let you know what I think of it! =) I love new books to read!!! And I have a dear friend who recommends them and owns them and lets me borrow them and read them!! =D *happy dance*
My iPod quit working a few weeks ago... =( I was very sad, but I've discovered that my productivity level has soared since then... these things might be related? Oh, of course not... :P I'm taking the ACT test again on Saturday! I hope I do much better on it this time! (Not that I didn't do well the first time, I just wish I could have done better, so I'm doing it again!)
Oh, and other than the fact that fall is the best season of the year, I've had a great fall!! My quartet has already played at two events and we have another one on Saturday! It's a wonderful thing to be able to get together with your friends and play music together and get paid for it at the same time! Yes, indeed, this girl is very happy!
So the big thing that has kept me busy the past couple of weeks was something very monumental for me! I ran a half marathon on Saturday, October 19, 2013! =D I still can't believe it! It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life! (it goes right up there with watching the sunrise with my dad!) Marathon weekend started on Friday when my sister and I drove to Indianapolis. We got there in time for some pasta and bananagrams before we went to bed. It was fun! =) We were all up early Saturday morning and headed out the door! We picked up a friend who braved the cold to give us all some encouragement and hold all our stuff! =) The race was awesome! There were definitely moments when I was ready for it to be OVER. But I made it through and I gave Him the glory and that's all that matters! After the race Bub's Burgers for lunch and I was actually quite surprised at the quality of the food! =) After lunch my sister and I went to visit my other sister and her family and that was tiring but fun! By this time we were really exhausted so we went back to our friends house and watched Despicable Me (I managed to stay awake for the whole thing) and then I stayed up (sleeping) while everyone else talked until the wee hours of the morning!! We left Sunday, and stopped for Frosty's on the way! =) It was a great weekend!!! It totally exhausted me, but it was totally worth it! Well, this was a longer post than usual! I hope you enjoy it, and I'll work really hard at getting better at blogging! (I hope!) Have a great weekend!!!! (and enjoy this lovely fall weather!)
I had a crazy weekend that included a college visit, a cast party, and other random school junk and life stuff! I am totally blank today! This post might end up being really random... typical me! =) So, I keep hoping that life will get less busy soon, I have a half marathon I'm running this weekend, so I won't be spending so much time training for that and I'll potentially have more time for writing blog posts? We can always hope! =D I've missed writing my blog so much!! I hope you've missed me too! ;) Anyway, I don't have all day to write this post so I'll get to the music now!
Today I'm sharing with you something very, very special. Over the summer when he didn't have school my brother decided to record a piece of music. He spent hours working in his room, all summer long, to get the perfect result. He had so many setbacks and just plain frustrating moments, but he pulled through in the end, and before school started again in the fall he was able to release something very special, and this is it. A recording of one of the most epic pieces known to man. Barber's Adagio for Strings. I hope you enjoy it and have a great week!
Someday, I won't be very busy and I'll be able to post three posts every week! That might be in 50 years, but I'll be ready for it! =)
Anyway, this lovely Monday morning I'm going to share a very sweet song with you from one of my favorite movies! Up! Such a cute movie! If you haven't seen it yet, you must! It's so good! I just love the soundtrack for it, so the other day when I was doing some writing work on my computer I decided to listen to the soundtrack. I (unfortunately) don't own it, so I had to get on YouTube and find it. I was listening to the playlist and then all the sudden at the end there was a song with a person singing!!! I was just floored! I'd never heard it before!!! I LOVED it!!! It is such a cute song!!!! I hope you enjoy it!!!
"My spirit of adventure is youuuuuu!!: <3
Well, that's all for today!! I hope you all have a wonderful Monday!!!!!
As it is Musical Monday, I'm going to talk about music! =) "... happy thought indeed." One of the main reasons that I haven't *ahem* been posting as often as I should is because my sister and I volunteered with a theatre company in our area on a musical! I had hoped to sing in it, but when they had the auditions I had the most horrid head cold you ever heard of and I could not sing to save my life! 'Twas a pity though, I could have sung in it... Oh well! I played my violin in the pit and it was an enjoyable experience overall (though, I won't lie, it definitely had it's stressful moments!) However, everyone pulled it together in the end and we had some very successful performances!!! Today though, I'm just going to mention a few of my favorite songs from the musical! (They won't be in chronological order they will mostly be in order, with the songs I love the most at the end! You know, save the best for last? =)) Hold On I really like this song because it's basically Martha telling Mary that God is gonna help her get through this tough time. It's also a really neat song musically with interesting rhythms and f flats.... yeah... it was fun to play! =) I really love how encouraging this song is!! A Girl in the Valley This song is just so sweet!! I love how they have Lily be a big part of the musical even though she's dead! This scene was so much fun to play in the musical because they had people waltzing on stage while we played it!!! It was fun to see the girls in their big dresses out of the corner of my eye! Plus it's just a really sweet song!!! =) Where in the World This song is intense!!! It's so passionate!!! I love how heartbreaking it is!!! I just melt every time I hear it!!!! =) At the end of this song in the musical he falls on his knees almost with a bang (but I don't think it was on purpose) but I never realized how close he really was and then I'd look up and I'd start! He was like right there!!!! It was so weird!!! but I love this song! Lily's Eyes *sigh* I don't think anything really needs to be said about this song. It really speaks for itself doesn't it? It was wonderful playing this, I cried almost every time, it was beautiful! Well, I finished this post! Finally!!! And it's still Monday!!! =D Have a great night!
I have not posted in forever!!! I'm so terrible!!! Life has been so busy lately!!! I have a post I've been working on off and on for a while now that will explain why I haven't posted in forever!!! By the way I will be posting three posts a week starting Monday!!! Please forgive me for being so remiss in blogging for the past month!!! I feel so terrible!!!!
So once school starts I'm going to be busy and probably not feel like blogging much, but I don't want to stop! So I'm going to do a weekly post! Thing is, I don't know what I want to do... So you are going to help me! There is a poll on the side of the blog! =) However I'll explain what each thing will mean.
Musical Mondays:
I'll post something about music. (duh) Haha! It will probably be a piece that I've been listening to in the past week, and I'll probably say a lot about it, such as why it's special to me (like personal experiences with the piece) interesting things about the piece itself and the composer, or something random! =D
Teapot Tuesdays:
I'll post something about a teapot movie, book, character, costume, hairstyle... something about a teapot movie! =D =D
Wordless Wednesday:
This I might do anyway since it will probably be really easy, we'll see. But it will be a picture (probably of a sunset or clouds or trees or a beautiful view) but it will basically be a picture with a Bible verse that the picture reminds me of! =)
What I'm reading on Saturday:
Since I'll be doing school I probably won't be reading for pleasure much during the week, so I'll try to save Saturdays for reading, and I'd post about the book or books that I'm reading.
Now you all get to vote! =D The poll lasts until September 1st at midnight!!!
I just want to start out by saying thank you to everyone for the wonderful birthday wishes!!! =) I had a wonderful day!!!! Everything was perfect! I woke up and one of the first things I saw was a happy birthday wish from my brother and another special someone! =) Perfect beginning! It only got better! My bestest friend ever in the whole wide world sent me 17 delightful emails, that made me laugh, smile, and cry! =) She's the best thing since sliced bread!!! Then later I found another email waiting for me from Bek (you've seen most of the contents from that!) Which also made me smile, laugh, and cry, but for different reasons! Throughout the day I had so many people call, email, text, or message me and made me feel so loved and special!! My older sister and I prepared beans for freezing while listening to Michael Buble's Christmas album! (which if you haven't listened to you should because it's amazing! =) Needless to say, we were dancing all over the kitchen! As if my day wasn't perfect enough, we went to the airport to pick up my brother who had been in England for the past week and a half!!! What a beautiful birthday present! We did a joint celebration the next day and that was so much fun!!! Our two and a half year old niece 'helped' us open our presents! (say rather, she gave all mine away to everyone else in the family!) Michael got me something special from England, here is a picture!
Isn't that so perfectly adorable!!! In England, not only do they call cupcakes fairy, cakes, but they don't have wrappers, they have cases! =) I will forevermore call cupcakes, fairy cakes! It sounds so much more magical! =D
This has been a much longer post than I've been doing lately! I'm so sorry! =( I'll get better at blogging now I hope! Life is getting back into a groove that I hope will allow me some evening time to do some projects, like blogging! I am working on knitting a shawl, but I think I need to undo it all and start over. =( I'll survive I guess... haha!
Oh, I got one other awesome birthday present that I'm going to share with you!
Yep!!! This makes me excited!!! Guess what I'm going to read next?!?!?!? =D =D
I have a friend who wanted me to post this as a guest post! So I am! =) I'll post something 'real' (as in from me!) later! =)
17 Things I Love about Julia
By Bek
1. Julia loves to talk. She can talk your ear off with tons of interesting and funny stories!
2. Julia is gorgeous. Seriously.
3. Julia knows how to do hair! She is patient enough to help me with mine. Who knew it took that long to curl your hair?
4. Julia plays the violin really well. Okay I'll admit it, she's better than me. :) Even on Kabablevsky. :)
5. Julia's fingers are as fast as lightning even all the way up to the nosebleed section. Now that's impressive!
6. Julia loves her family. Especially that crazy brother of hers Michael. Happy birthday to him too!
7. Julia eats frosty's the normal way. You would be surprised all the crazy ways you can eat frosty's!!
8. Julia is honest. She's realistic about problems. This might just be a nice way to say she complains a lot.... :) Just kidding!!
9. Julia likes "teapot" movies. I didn't realize this was a good thing until I watched one with her. I'm hooked!
10. Julia remembers things for a long time. Like that she still owes me cupcakes!
11. Julia can always make me smile. Either by doing something so ridiculous you can't help laughing or just by being nice.
12. Julia has endurance. She can run for 40 minutes straight!! Personally, I struggle with 10 minutes. Julia blows my mind.
13. Julia has a good laugh. Some people sound like donkeys, other people are afraid to actually laugh. Julia has a good laugh that she's not afraid to use for all my funny stories!
14. Julia is prepared. Anytime you need a kazoo or a plastic knife or a few decks of cards ask her. Her purse is the epitome of preparedness.
15. Julia is a gardener. She devotes a large portion of her time to weeding. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didnt the virtuous woman have a big garden too?
16. Julia is a good memorizer. She has 1/4 of all the parts of the Mendelssohn octet memorized.
17. Julia is my friend. I'm so glad you were born!! Happy birthday!!!
So, I'm out here at 'the seaside' (:)) and this morning my dad and I got up really early and went to the shore to watch the sun rise! It was so amazing!!! The sun just crept over the shoreline and grew every second! I was snapping pictures like crazy!!! (most of them weren't any good since I was paying more attention to watching the sun rise than get good pictures! ;)) However, I did get a few good ones that I am going to share with you today! I must say that watching the sunrise has been the highlight of my vacation so far!!! It was magical!!! Praise the Lord!!!! =D
It's starting to come up!
I love the way the clouds were in front of it!!! So beautiful!!
*sigh*
It's about to come out!!!!
There it is!!! It was so amazing to see it slowly creep over the shoreline!!!!! =D
It's getting bigger!
And it's out! And gorgeous! It was so amazing!!! =) I hope you enjoyed looking at the pictures as much as I enjoyed watching the sunrise and taking them!! (even though the pictures don't even come close to doing it justice!)
I hope you have a great rest of your week!! God Bless!!!
I know I told you I was going to take a break from blogging, well I only kind of lied, I was going to take a break but I have time today and I took some cool pictures yesterday when we were on the road driving home. I just have to share them with you!
I really enjoyed taking them and I hope you enjoyed looking at them!!! :) I hope your next couple of weeks are wonderful!!! :) God Bless!
Earlier this week my sister was reading a book and she happened to leave it on the table that I ate breakfast on. I of course was intrigued by the title and so I picked it up and started reading it. I had the whole book read before lunch. It was very good! I loved it! I liked how she (the author) used parts from Pride and Prejudice in it!
My family is currently watching the movie, we've been at it for a week or so, and after having just read this book, I'm thinking things that were in the book. It actually changed a few things that I would think when I read the book (Pride and Prejudice) or watched the movie! All in all I would recommend it to basically anyone who has read P&P, and to those who haven't.... read P&P first, then read Mr. Darcy's Diary! :D
Sooooo, where have I been????? (not on my computer obviously!) I finally have that post I was going to post a week ago done!!! :D And I am actually going to finish the Little Dorrit post!!! Today you get two posts, and who knows when the next one will be??? Haha!!! I had no idea my summer could be so busy!! And it's like almost over!!! What happened!??! Oh, just warning everyone, I will be taking an official break from blogging after next week for about three weeks! (You see, the past few weeks have been an unofficial break... :P) But this is going to be a real break because I'm going to a music camp and then to my best friends house for her graduation open house, and then my family is going on vacation! (This is pretty much our first 'real' vacation in about 7 years so I'm really, really excited!!!)
Here is a song that I can't seem to stop listening to! :)
(My computer is doing weird things so you'll just have to be content with a link...)
Wow, I can't believe it! I haven't posted for over a week!!! Gahh!!! I have a good excuse though, we had 8 people coming to stay at our house over the weekend and our house was a big mess the whole week before they arrived! :D We got it all cleaned up and finished our bonus room so we were able to do stuff up there!!! Score! We also had a pretty amazing weekend and that was good!! I wasn't as bad at volleyball as I thought I was going to be! (I hadn't played since August of last year.... yeah... it started off pretty bad!) We also played a lot of Dutch Blitz where Bekah and I dominated! (as usual!!) All in all it was a great weekend!!! I can't wait to see all of them again in July!!!
However, I haven't been blogging, and I promise that all of my posts won't be "oh man! I didn't blog at all last week! Sorry!" Haha!!! I'll just get better with time management!!! I'll have another post out tonight!!!
As promised, I have a special post for you all today! I'm going to talk about one of my favorite 'teapot' movies! (of course, they are all my favorite! =P) However, I like this one has special significance because I'm actually a lot like Emma. When we watched this version the first time my family all laughed at the last scene when Emma overreacts because it is just like something I would do! ;) (I also try (a little more subtly) to match all my friends up! =D)
In the book, you really actually hate Emma, because you see how terrible of a person she is, and how wrongly she's thinking. You really just want to yell at her to get her nose out of everyone's business and just worry about her own life! And not even that, I wish she would just realize that she has a wonderful life, and that she would just live it! In other words, in this case, for personal enjoyment, in my opinion, this movie is better than the book. (I only feel that way about the BBC 2009 version, the other ones aren't very good, but that is my own opinion, I know many people don't agree with me!)
One of my favorite aspects of the movie is Mr. Elton. I think what I like about him is how he is unable to make people who are respectable respect him. "That man is so full of himself it's a wonder he can stay on his horse" He's absolutely ridiculous, and doesn't seem to see it! "He was always a small man... made smaller by his wife!" Always intruding, he makes me disgusted with his arrogance and pride which he (as of yet) hasn't overcome. But he makes me laugh all the same! Mr. Churchill has an amazing haircut, which is probably why he had to go all the way to London to get it! He is a very immature person as is made apparent by his complete lack of propriety when he is at Hartfield. He uses Emma to hide his engagement with Jane and therefore causes some confusion in some circles. He is impulsive. However, in this version of the movie they make him change and become a better person. I like that!
Now, my favorite part about the movie is Mr. Knightley. One of the reasons we (the viewers) like him so much is because he says what everyone is thinking! Like when Emma is talking to him about Mr. Churchill and his riding about the country on his horse Mr. Knightley sarcastically replies, "I thought gentlemen only rode in carriages." He's a gentleman all around. He knows the right thing to do and he does it, without purposefully drawing attention to it. I get goosebumps every time we watch it and he says "Will you dance dear Emma?" =D Ohhhhh yes!!! I love this movie!!!! And I just realized that I haven't even begun to talk about Harriet and her friendship with Emma and how I loved the way they did that in this version! I however fear, that if I write about everything I want to I will have a post that is much too long and that won't work, because I didn't want a long post today! Well, I only half succeeded, as this is a longer post than I meant to write, but it was long in the making so it's worth it, right? I'm going to leave you with "The Last Dance" from the BBC Emma (2009) soundtrack by Samuel Sim!
You all must have noticed that I've had a pretty busy June!! I haven't posted in a long time!! I am very sorry. I am trying to work out in my weekly schedule about three days a week when I will write a blog post! I hope that works out!! If it doesn't, you all will just have to wait a week or two (or three) in between each post. Anyway, we are working on our bonus room, since we moved here it has been full of lots of things. (some of them useful and most of them not so useful) So we've been working on getting it cleaned up and cleaned out and now we're painting it! Yep! Fun stuff! =) My official job is to weed the front flower bed! I know! It sounds like so much fun!!! =)
I am working on two exciting posts at the moment!! Here are two sneak peeks!!! :)
Hopefully one of them will be posted in the next day or two!!! =)
So earlier this week I was reading Casey's blog and she said that the 'seasons' soundtrack was the soundtrack for "How to Train Your Dragon". So since I hadn't listened to it yet, I listened to it! And guess what? I loved it!!! It's really good!! In fact, it's so good, I deemed it good enough to share! Haha! My favorite track from the soundtrack is "Test Drive". It has such soaring melody, I just love it! I hope you enjoy it too!
I have actually never seen this movie. Just listened to the soundtrack! :) I do that with a lot of movies...
Anyway, I have an exciting post coming up for in the next week or so! Be on the lookout!
This post is merely to make you all sure that I haven't dropped off the face of the planet! I'm still here! :) I'm doing well, just keeping busy! I applied and was interviewed (phone interview) for my first job ever! We'll see how that turns out! I also have been really digging in on my ACT studying and my violin practicing! So all that along with the garden and weeding work that comes with summer, I haven't had much time to blog... Anyway I was on pinterest and found this picture and so I'm sharing it with you!
I always thought this would be a great idea! I even planned all sorts of vehicles that we would have in the tunnels! I still like the idea... :)
So I haven't posted here in a while... I'm sorry, I've been really busy!! However, today I have something special to tell you because, today is a very special day!!! It's my dear sister Melissa's birthday!!! Yay!!! :) She is such a wonderful person!!! I love her so much!!! She is so patient, sweet and kind! I am so blessed to have her as my sister! So, in her honor, I'm posting a blog post for her! :) Here are my 23 favorite things about her:
1. She is a Christian and strives daily to grow closer to God.
2. She loves gardening and farming! (Because of her hard work and determination (even when we make fun of her) we have lots of delicious things to eat!!)
3. She likes playing music with Michael and I! She often is the one who says "Hey! Let's play this together!" and we always have tons of fun!
4. She buys cute clothes!! (So I can borrow them right? :))
5. She doesn't mind *that* much when I come into her room and just take clothes... :) and never give them back!! :D
6. She likes doing special things for people!
7. She made me a special drink for me when I wasn't feeling very good!
8. She is really sweet! :)
9. She likes playing 'big girl' dress up!
10. She sews really well!! (She always has a HUGE pile of articles (not always clothing) that people have given her to fix!)
11. She and I can look at things on Pinterest until midnight... and still be ready to keep looking!
12. She fixed lasagna on Monday night!!
13. She likes designing things.
14. If she could, she would be an amazing interior designer.
15. She is ambitious!
16. She isn't afraid of hard work.
17. She's sympathetic... when I'm not being pathetic...
18. She has a servants heart.
19. She's beautiful! :)
20. She's really good with kids!
21. She is such a great teacher!!!
22. She likes costuming!
23. She's my sister!!!!!!! :)
As you can see, Melissa is just wonderful!!!! I love her so much! I have no idea how I would survive if she wasn't around!!! Here is a song that when I asked her what her favorite song was, this is what she said... I think she likes other songs better... but I'll share this one for grins and giggles!!!
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