welllll......what had happened was....awkward and awesome

have you ever notice that the best stories always start with "what had happen was"?






no? well..........ok.







i am not going to go on and on about why i haven't posted in like three months. it would take up a great amount of posting time and i'm sure no one would really care one way or another. :)




seriously though, lots has been happening. good stuff. bad stuff. and everything in between.



and in particular: GRADUATION has come and gone! graduation week: the most stressful week i have faced yet, holy shamoley. but i'm done with HIGHSCHOOL.







oh-stinkin-yeah.







i feel quite accomplished, with having survived highschool, only making two C's this entire school year and what-not. now i'm getting read for a week long youth trip and a missions trip to CHINA. super excitement flowing over here! oh yeah-uh.








ANYHOOZAL.....



summer time is basically here! i live in Beaufort, South Carolina, you may have assumed that it already started. but that is the strange part. summer starts earlier HERE then other place.




summer in Beaufort can usually consist of:




1. beach days and/or pool days (something i have only had the privilege to do once)

2. large quantities of sweet tea, water, capri sun, and sometimes even iced coffee being consumed on a daily basis. (i may have been known to be a large consumer of the iced coffee........)

3. and then there are those days when you have been downtown, to bluffton or the beach more then anyone should. you are so bored that you say "let's hang out at wal-mart" and actually mean it. (that's what happens when you live in a town where the closest mall is an hour away.)




AND for those of us with curly/wavy/ get's-frizzy-as-soon-as-you-walk-outside- because-it's-so-damp-out- humidity is something you have to plan your day around.



it reminds me of what Jane Austen said about hot weather: "What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance." (emphasis added)




amen sister. couldn't have said it better myself.











and while i'm posting, today , as other blogs have named it, it AWKWARD and AWESOME thursday:

i'll follow that lil trend today and share some awkward/awesome moments.

awkward.

1. going in to a swanky salon and med spa for a haircut (i used a coupon cuz i wouldn't have been there otherwise.) and having a MAN cut you're hair. that was an awkwardly intimate experience, having a strange man run his fingers through my hair. *shudders* i felt violated. (keep in mind though, HE DID AN AMAZING JOB ON MY HAIR. i was impressed)

2. changing probably a million diapers the weekend before a i got my hair did. in nursery at my church, watching lil chillins for a homeschool conference, and i am the only adult (as in old enough to change diapers) in the room, allowing me to be on diaper duty.

3. having some strange kid from one of the conference vendors continuously coming by the nursery.

awesome.

1. that haircut from the MAN. it is great, i'm not gonna lie.

2. the fact that i have finally completed highschool. i can't stress enough what an amazing feeling that is to be done with this part of my schooling. i could scream. but i'm not going to, because neighbors might hear me and then may call the police because they will have thought i have been murdered.

3. kid from conference mention earlier. while he was awkward, he was awesome in the sense that he would provide us with a constant source of laughter, because he was in fact, HYSTERICAL.

alrighty friends. that's all i got to say about that. have a sha weeet day, and maybe you'll here from me tomorrow. :)

aiken you're awesome

hi friends! hope your weekend was fun. mine definatley was. myself, along with the youth choir i participate in, went to aiken, south carolina to sing at our church plant there. when we got there:

we went ice skating.

well, some of us did.

i don't ice skate normally.

but that is another story.

this here is me and my friend brit.

here is michayla and myself.

niether of us skating of course.

and here is abby and myself.

also not skating. :)

every one skated then after a couple of hours they

let us come on the ice with shoes on.

broomball time!

i find this very fun to watch,

though someone decided that it would be fun to hit me with the ball.

here we are, brit, zach and myself getting ready to go bowling.

friends!

best friends (abby, wes, and myself)

( CBC Choir. Smell it. what this means, i have no stinkin idea)

it became known to lots of people that

some one kept writing this on our rental vans.

oh ariana. :)

when we finished bowling and got to the church for a picnick event, some of us were assigned to face painting. while waiting for "customers" (no one was charged money for face painting, i promise) wes decided to have pac-man across his forehead.

ariana and myself.

fellow face-painters!

feet!

i had the opportunity to make a couple of new friends while on this trip.

two very sweet girls that go to community bible church of aiken.

this is take one: my camera is retarted.

the new friends, paige and rebekah

(rebekah and i will be serving in china together this summer along with many members of five different churches! how cool is that?)

looking back at these pictures and the events of the weekend, it makes me sad that this was my last official choir trip, and my last year participating in the crossroads choir.

but life goes on and we grow up, while striving to be the people God wants us to be.

and that in itself sounds pretty awesome.

a new perspective

hi friends!

hope your spring is nice and has put a spring in your step.

pun intended. :)



Saturday night, i had the opportunity to go to a fundraising dinner for the beaufort women's center. this is a place that gives hope to women you are considering abortion, or are suffering from the effects of an abortion.

if i have not stated this on here yet, i will now. i believe that abortion is wrong. i believe that it is killing a human life. the "fetus" that is supposedly not a living being, IS a living being. that "fetus" was a living being from the time of conception. the word
"fetus" means "baby" in the latin.

anyways, i went to this fundraising dinner and the speaker for the evening gave me WHOLE new perspective on the horrificness (is that a word?) on abortion.
Bruce Wilkinson, author of The Prayer of Jabez, is pretty darn amazing.

people say that you can kill the "fetus" inside you because it is a part of YOUR body and is of the same DNA as you are. what they fail to see is that they are wrong. when the sperm, carrying part of the father's DNA, and the egg, carrying part of the mother's DNA, meet, they bring those two parts of DNA together. this creates a whole new DNA.

when you inject salt solution into the womb, burning the "fetus", you are killing that completely new DNA.

when you breech the child and pull it out as far as it's neck, then evacuate the brain, you are killing that brand new DNA.

i'm sorry if this is graphic, but this is the truth. these are methods of abortion. horrifying, isn't it?

so consider that fact that baby is created from part of it's mother's DNA and part of it's father's DNA. this creates a whole new DNA, as mentioned earlier. killing that brand new DNA, is murder. a women is just the housing for the Baby, the new DNA that was formed.

so were is there any justification for this?

oh hey. guess what. there isn't any.

when you give a girl a lighter and a bag of marshmellows

when you give a girl a lighter

and a bag of marshmallows,

things tend to happen.

she gets excited, kinda like she's into pyro......

she lights the marshmallow on fire to see what happens

she gets scared. no, just kidding.

she is really enjoying this.

and after having played with the lighted marshmallow......

she then decides she is going to play campfire. with a candle.

she enjoys this greatly.

so she brings her friends in on the fun.

she has had a good day.

*****hope you enjoyed this! for the record, i am not, by an means, endorsing the act of playing with fire. this was actually a marine biology project that may have gone a bit haywire.

dissapointed.....and yet it works perfectly

have you ever been bummed out?
dissappointed?
gotten your hopes up?

i did that these past couple months; gotten my hopes up.

there was this college that i really wanted to go to.
wanted to go there since i was in 8th or 9th grade.


well when the time came for me to apply, i did. except for one piece of paper work (which i have learned: this was as everybit as important as actually applying). i got this piece of paper work in the day it was due. ( i know i know....procrastination is BAD.) i was kinda hopefull about my admittence.


got a letter in the mail today from this school. when i saw where it was from, my heart started beating really fast and i became excited and nervous and knew what it said all at the same time.

i read the letter.
i was not accepted.

atleast not for this coming semester.

i was really bummed. i really wanted to cry.

but then i got to thinking, this works out. i had been very seriously considering staying here a year before i actually went off to school. then either the next semester or the next school year, i could transfer to "the school of my dreams" as they say. (yeah...don't ask me who "they" is. i don't know)


Romans 8:28 says "all things work together for good to those who love God.." i believe thats how it goes. either way, God knew that this would happen, and in the end, it will work out for HIS glory. thats what you and i were put on this earth for. to GLORIFY HIM.

that makes this situation ALOT better, no?

happy wednesday night friends!

spring break part one

hi friends!

spring break has started for me this week. spring break part one. see, i'm taking some classes at the local technical college and its spring break for that school. then in a couple more weeks i will be getting spring break off of some other classes. not to brag or anything. ;)

sooooooooo......this means i get to catch up on some work, work on support letters for china, actually spend time with a friend that i haven't hung out with in ages, and call about vaccinations for china.....yuck.....

(i don't like shots or needles of any kind, unless i'm sewing. never have liked them and never will. but i also don't want to catch something overseas, bring it to America and possibly die. no, that would not be good)

yep lots to do with school.

so exciting i know.

woman quote of the day:

"every choice you make, brings you a step closer OR a step farther away from God" -claudia gay

happy monday ya'll.

you should feel special

what is this?

2 posts in one day?

that's right friends. 2 posts in one day. you should feel special.

i have made a tumblr. don't worry.
i'm not totally leaving blogspot. just only when it comes to my photography.

if you want to enjoy some of it, here's the link: http://mycameraismyweapon.tumblr.com/

and todays quote from a women:

“There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.” -Anne Bradstreet

if you want to learn more about this amazing woman, read, "Beyond Stateliest Marble"

i highley recommend it.