SO EXCITING!!!

I have been following Lyndsie and Daniel's blog for a few weeks, and imagine my joy and surprise when I checked out their blog and saw THIS!!!

Lyndsie was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer when she was nineteen, and though now she is cancer-free (GOD IS GOOD!), she is unable to have children. This is Aubrey. She is the beautiful baby that the Brookers are adopting.

I am SO happy for them and they are in my prayers!!!

Little Fairy

Little Fairy

Fly Around

Dance Among the Stars

Do not think of who you'll be

Just love who you are

The world in which you live

Is as beautiful as could be

At least for now

While you are naive.

Stay happy to be alive,

You won't always feel that way.

Heartbreak and tears

Will soon become common.

The age of innocence will fade

Just like melting snow

The things you are sure about

Turns out you don't know.

The beauty of your soul

Will not always be seen

Enjoy this time of life

When everything is right.

Go fly to Never Never Land

And stay the way you are.

The world will never change you

And you'll never become

Me.

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Just a quick note. This is probably my favorite poem I've ever written. Like, ever. I was thinking one day, "I want to write an autobiography. All poetry." So this is the poem I wrote for when I was about four years old. I played a fairy in a Midsummer's Night Dream and everything in life was just SO right. Perfect. Nothing was wrong. That obviously changed. This is almost a letter to me, I guess. But this poem is my favorite, and I hpe you'll like it half as much as me.

Best way to spend a 17th birthday?

With Jesus Freaks :)

Me, Caroline, Leah Darrow and Alyssa

Caroline, Alyssa, Me, Sarah and Kristen

Me, Brittany, Krissy, Sarah, Christy, Claire, DeAnna, Steph, Caroline, Sarah and Alyssa

The lovely group.

Life in the slow lane

In two weeks from now, I will officially be a junior at the public highschool in my town. AAH! I entered in April, but this is my first first day and Its my first whole year. Absolutely terrifying if you think about it. Anywho, prayers would most definitely be appreciated. I'll be joining the swimteam at school and auditioning for the Fall play and Spring Musical. I'm also hoping to audition for Footelights' production of "Our Town", which I just read for summer reading. Speaking of Our Town, if you haven't read it, I recommend you do so immediately.

I just did tech work over the weekend for Footelight Theater Company's production of 'The Wizard of Oz". There are pictures in the previous post =)

I'm super excited to go school supply shopping. I know, I know, I'm a dork =).

My birthday is coming up! August 21! Five days. I'll legally be able to do... well, nothing really.

Anywho. That's what's happening in the slow lane. Peace out!

The Wizard of Oz

Glinda, the Almighty Director and Melinda

This weekend, I was a lovely techie for the lovely performances of "The Wizard of Oz" done with the lovely Footelights Theater Company.

Here are some pictures that I took with my not so lovely phone camera... And a few I stole from various cast and crew. PS. My sister played the Wizard. She was hysterical.

The Scarecrow and Belinda (The Wicked Witch)

The Three Wizards of Oz: The Shadow, Body and Voice

My sister as the Wizard and her adoring fans!

The Truth

You're beautiful
Inside and Out.
You don't need makeup.
You don't need a man to love you.
You already have three in one.
Your body is beautiful.
You're not an object.
Love is not sex,
And sex is not love.
You ARE worth it,
Someone would give His life for you.
Your worth dying on a cross for.
Your life is worth living.
You are unforgettable
Irreplaceable.
You are forgivable
Lovable.
You are perfect the way you are:
The Divine Artist makes no mistakes.
You ARE loved.
The perfect man doesn't want you to change.
In His eyes, you are worth everything.
The Truth is so beautiful.
Why are we lied to?

Yours

I'm Yours,
My Lord,
I'm all Yours.
Take my impurities,
My fears and my hurts.
Transform my heart
To look like Yours
Make it my deepest desire
To dwell with You.
Make my dream
Only to praise You.
Take it all,
Lord,
It's all Yours.
I am nothing without You.
With You,
I need nothing more.
Clean my soul,
It's Yours.
Take me,
My Lord,
Do as You wish with me.
I'm Yours.
Here I am,
Lord.
I come to do Your will.
I'm Yours.

Are you BORED?!

Hosted by Miss Jo March @ Scraps from my Workbasket

Ten things I do in my spare time

~1~

Read

~2~

Write stories

~3~

Brush my Hair

~4~

Play piano... badly.

~5~

Doodle

~6~ 

Sing Taylor Swift Songs.

~7~

Blog

~8~

Knit

~9~

Text

~10~

Look at wedding dresses

I love Taylor Swift...

"To me, FEARLESS is not the absence of fear.
It’s not being completely unafraid.
To me, FEARLESS is having fears.
FEARLESS is having doubts.
Lots of them.
To me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.
FEARLESS is falling madly in love again, even though you’ve been hurt before.
FEARLESS is walking into your freshmen year of high school at fifteen.
FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again… even though every time you’ve tried before, you’ve lost.
It’s FEARLESS to have faith that someday things will change.
FEARLESS is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even if you can’t breathe without them.
I think it’s FEARLESS to fall for your best friend, even though he’s in love with someone else.
And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they’ll never stop doing, I think it’s FEARLESS to stop believing them.
It’s FEARLESS to say “you’re NOT sorry”, and walk away.
I think loving someone despite what people think is FEARLESS.
I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS.
Letting go is FEARLESS.
Then, moving on and being alright…That’s FEARLESS too.
But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after.
That’s why I write these songs.
Because I think love is FEARLESS.

Book Review: Heist Society

Katerina is a world renouned thief. Okay, she doesn't want to be, but it's the family business, and sometimes you have to work with what you got. Katerina decides to walk away from er lifestyle and enrolls in a private boarding school. When she is kicked out for doing something she did not do, Her friend, and "ex" partner in crime, W.W. Hale the Fifth, tells her that her dad is in heaps of trouble. That's when Kat returns, though reluctantly, to the lifestyle of her youth.

I absolutely LOVED this book! It was a fun, quick read. Kat is such a loveable character, and then of course, so is Hale. Hale is another guy to add to my list of fictional characters that I am deeply in love with. The other characters are alot of fun too. There are the crazy brothers, bratty Gabrielle, Simon, the boy genius, and Nick, who Hale can't seem to trust for some reason.

The end of an era

When I went to see Eclipse, I saw an ahhmazing trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

The last movie.

As I was writing this post, I realized that HP started a chain of events for me and my family.

I was ten when my cousin dragged me to see Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I went, reluctantly, kicking and screaming. After seeing it, I was hooked. Thus beginning an era for myself.

I got the first three books in paperback and zipped through them. I wanted a Harry Potter scarf. They were too expensive, so my mom said she'd learn to make one for me. She learned to knit, and she taught me. Thus began my love of knitting.

My mom read the books. As a average parent of a ten year old, she wanted to know what her kid was reading. I told my dad about the books. He was semi interested, and agreed to read them, probably just to make me happy. I told countless other family members that they HAD to read these books. And they did. My dad never read before reading Harry Potter. Now, he's almost as much of a bookworm as me. ALMOST.

Our librarian told my mom that the fourth book was really dark. So, we read it together. It was a very special time for me, personally.

I waited for what seemed like FOREVER for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to come out. We preordered it, and it was delivered the morning it was released. My mom was still sleeping, and I was SOO mad because she wanted to read it first. To "check" and make sure it was "appropriate". Yeah, sure.

I remember waking up in the middle of the night and going to the bathroom, on my dresser was the book. I got a total of 0 hours of sleep that night and finished it the following night.

When the sixth book was released, we once again preordered it. I expected it to come first thing.

It didn't.

I was pacing the kitchen floor, freaking out. Finally, I went online and looked up spoilers. And cried. Finally, my dad just took me to Walmart to get the book. Later that day, I went to a pool party. I told my friend I knew who died. He told me he didn't believe me, so I told him. He was in shock. I thought he had finished the book, but apparently, he hadn't. Oopsies.

I went to go see Harry Potter 5 at midnight. I WAS SO MAD. It ruined the whole book, and I compained throughout the movie. That was the first midnight showing I'd ever been to.

Harry Potter 7 was released while I was performing in 'Aladdin'. After the opening performance, I went to Borders to get the book as soon as it was released. I was dressed as Fleur Delecour. For the performance the next day, I didn't want to go on stage. Now, this is a very strange thing for me. I'm a ham. But, I was too busy reading HP7!

Between books, I reread the series countless times. They were my go to happy books.

So, as we come to an end of an era, the end of Harry Potter, I believe I am also coming to the end of another era: my childhood.

Stuff

Hi.

I haven't posted in a while. I felt the need to.

I SAW ECLIPSE! AHLEJGDJJ

Just sayin.


Oh, and that was "IT WAS FREAKING AWESOME" btw.