Everyone has a dream, we learned this in Tangled. :) But of course everyone's dreams are different. My dream is very special, it has some of these things in it:
Playing/teaching violin
Living in Colorado
Maybe getting married???
Well, that's all for today!!! :) Have a great week! (despite all this rain!!)
No, I'm not leaving. It's the name of the song I'm going to share with you today!!! :) The first time I heard it was from when Paul Potts sang it on Britains Got Talent. Someone recommended the video to us and we watched it. I remember being so amazed with his voice and thinking that the song was just beautiful! My brother downloaded the sheet music and learned it on piano and sang it. It's such a wonderful song!!! I also like listening to Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman singing it!!! I can't decide which version I like better, they're both so good! So I'm going to share them both with you today, and you can pick which one you like better!!! :)
So, you should know who Jane Austen is, and if you don't, you need to Google her right now. Just for times sake, I'll tell you, because I know that you won't look her up. I'm just that smart!! :) Ok, so she's the wonderful lady, who wrote all these amazing books! Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and many others! I have read them many, many times and will read them many, many more times!!!! However, I've noticed through the years, that males tend to avoid these wonderful books! I can't help but wonder why? I have an amazing brother who loves them just as much as I do, but I can't see why so many boys act like it would ruin their manliness to read Austen? Well, someone named Peter J. Leithart wrote a book. It's called Miniatures and Morals, and it is a study guide book. (I'm not really sure how to describe it.) Anyway, it's an exceptional book, you should read it, after your read Jane Austen's books!
However, today, I'm going to tell you that you need to go and read it! Just the first chapter! It's such a well written book! It explains things in a very precise, black and white, manner. I find it very interesting and educational!!! :) I was going to share a few quotes from the chapter, but I found myself just quoting the whole chapter!!!! :)
Today I'm going to share with you the book that I'm reading currently. I bet you can't guess what it is. ;)
You guessed it!!! I'm reading The Return of the King!!!! It is a very good book!!! I love the whole series!!! I probably read this book the fastest of all three, because of how the end of The Two Towers is. I finish The Two Towers and then I race to get The Return of the King and start reading it, only to remember that it doesn't start with Frodo and Sam!!! Oh well, I read the first half very quickly!!! Anyway, I hope you all have a great rest of your weekend!!!!
This week I've been a little remiss with my blog posts!!! I'm so sorry! I've been busy!
Anyway, today I'm going to share with you a song called "Go the Distance" from the Disney movie Hercules. While I've never seen the movie, I love this song from the soundtrack, especially when it's sung by this acapella group!!! It's so cool!!!! Anyway I hope you give it a listen and I hope you love it!!! (oh and I have no idea what is up with the picture on this video, but it's the only one that I can find... :) )
Today I was going to tell you what book I'm reading, but it's the same book as last week so, you'll just have to read that post again. However, I have something to share with you. It's the main title from Princess Diaries (not a movie I recommend, but the soundtrack it good...). It's kind of like the Ever After main titles in that it starts off quiet and then drifts into a very passionate, epic part and then fades out again! I love both of those main titles, and I just don't know which one is my favorite. :) I hope you enjoy them both just as much (if not more) than I do!!!!! It's so beautiful and the only problem with it is that it's only 57 seconds long!!! I listened to it many, many times last night!!!! :) Have a great weekend!!!
While we were in Arizona visiting my grandparents last summer, we read Psalm 128. Which reads as follows:
Psalm 128
A song of ascents.
1 Blessed are all who fear the LORD,
who walk in his way.
2 You will eat the fruit of your labor;
blessings and prosperity will be yours.
3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house;
your sons will be like olive shoots
around your table.
4 Thus is man blessed
who fears the LORD.
5 May the LORD bless you from Zion
all the days of your life;
may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem,
6 and may you live to see your children's children.
Peace be upon Israel.
After we finished reading it and we were discussing it, my grandma talked about the olive trees that grow in Arizona. She was talking about the olive shoots mentioned in verse three. The shoots kind of grow up around the trunk of the tree and are like a little bush growing there. Here is a picture of what she and the verse were talking about:
You can see that there is a nice little bush growing under that tree, (that's what I thought until Grandma told me I was wrong. :P) Actually that little bush is all of the olive shoots coming off the tree! They have trimmed them and kept them looking nice but you get the idea. When it says your sons will be like olive shoots, it means a LOT of sons!! I just thought that was a really interesting thing I never knew, until last summer! I hope you find it thought provoking too!
I'm going to leave you tonight with a wonderful song sung by Selah, O The Deep Deep Love of Jesus!!!
A while ago I posted two compilations of good quotes. (Here and here) Today I'm going to give you another 'small' selection. :) "Better paranoid than dead!" - Unknown "What I said about you was true too! Only I shouldn't have said it!" Anne Shirley "Dishonor! Dishonor on you! Dishonor on your cow!" "Somebody's throwin' stuff!" "I could have danced all night!" "'Till I hear you sing once more!!!" "No, that's the sweater." "I knew it! I knowed I made the right choice!" "On what?" "My best friend." "All your hopes and dreams can be shattered by one sentence..." "Catherine, I do not want to live the rest of my life without you!" "Uhh Boss where is his appendix exactly?" "Well, I think it is either on his right or his left side... we'll just cut open both sides..." Well, that's all for now!!! I could come up with some more good ones, but not right now!! Now I must get to my violin practicing!! In fact, I can't even think of a good song for today! It's pick your own!!! :D
It's kind of a no brainer to figure out what book I'm reading, since I finished The Fellowship of the Ring. Of course I'm reading The Two Towers!!!! :)
I love this book so much!!! The 4th book in the series (the second half of The Two Towers) is one of the most intense books I've ever read! The ending is so tense and you want to go straight to the next book but when you pick up The Return of the King it starts with Pippin and Gandalf and not Frodo and Sam like the last one left off with! I love this book so much, I love the whole trilogy!!! The Two Towers is the shortest book in the trilogy. I picked it up, and it felt so thin!!! Of course, I haven't been reading slim books lately!!! (The Hobbit, A Tale of Two Cities, The Fellowship of the Ring, etc.) Anyway, everyone should read this book, I highly recommend it! :) Have a great weekend!!!
Today I'm going to share with you a song from a beautiful soundtrack:
It's the Main Titles from Ever After! This song is so beautiful!!!!! It starts off so slow and one wonders where it's going to go, and then the violins come in and it goes into that epic melody line!! I love the whole song, it's so beautiful!!!!! Michael reminded me of it's existence last night when we were playing Lord of the Rings Risk, because we've listened to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack so much in the past few weeks, we decided to find something else. (Oh, and of course I won the game! :)) It's a very wonderful thing to, when you haven't listened to something in over a year, listen to it again and find it as good, if not better than you remember it! That is what happened to me with this song! I remember it being pretty, but I didn't remember it being so epic! I really hope you listen to it, and you enjoy it!! I hope you have a great weekend!!!!
