There Is Hope For Every Man

This is a photo I took last July... I love it a lot :) If you click on the picture, you can see a larger version of it if you want to.

Tonight at work, I started belting out some of the lyrics from Casting Crown's song Every Man, "is there love that never dies..." (I've been singing that song in my head ALL DAY LONG) and just as I started singing it out loud, one of my co-workers starting messing with the radio, and turned on the Christian station, and that song started playing JUST where I left off! It was WEIRD! Lol :)

Highlights From the Month of January

It's the last day of January! I thought I would post a few highlights from the month, in order of their occurance.

1. Spending the first moments of the New Year with my very good friend, Amy :D

2. Making a sock puppet show with one of my best friends, Garrett~ it is about the true meaning of Christmas (JESUS!), and it is REALLY funny!

3. Hanging out with friends in general... Kerra got to come over on the 23rd, which was lovely, because she is also one of my very best friends, but like Amy, I don't often get to spend time with her. Also, getting to see friends at High School Game Night, play practices, and other events like that has been fabulous!

4. One of my co-op teachers moved out of state over Christmas break, so two new teachers took over Economics and Writing (the two classes that she had been teaching). I was a little nervous about our second semester of school, and having new teachers... but I LOVE both of my new teachers very much!

5. The Disciple concert on January 21st! It was my 10th time to see the band live! Garrett came along, too! I finally have a friend who likes Disciple, which makes me very happy indeed. Here is a picture of me with the band:



6. BABYSITTING! I love to babysit, and during the last half of this month, I have suddenly been asked to babysit a lot! I have been able to babysit for some of the familes from the Church where I work for the first time, and I feel very blessed to have had the opportunity!

7. Seeing snow for the first time this winter on January 27th... there is still a little on the ground right now, but it's melting rapidly. This is a photo I took of the ice on one of our trees:


8. The peace that I have found... this month has probably been the most peaceful month I have had for a long time. God is really working on me, He is putting peace and joy in my heart when it usually would not have been there. He is teaching me to enjoy every area of my life, and teaching me to live each moment to glorify Him. It really changes the way I do things when I think that way.

Praise God for a great start of the year 2009! :)

Lovin' the Sand

I immensely enjoy taking pictures, and playing with them. I really want to show them to people, and so I decided that I would post one of them on my blog for YOU to see!

I have a flickr account that I'd love for you to check out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spritely_photography

The photos I take at game nights, birthday parties, & events like that are kept for only friends and family to see, but if you have a yahoo/flickr account, you can let me know, and I will add you as a friend, so you can see ALL of my pictures!

Here is one of my many photos:




I wrote "Love" in the sand on a beach in Canada, and took a picture. I played with it on Picnik, and I really like how it turned out... =)

The Best Medicine

Me- Age (Almost) 2

I often find it hard to live in the moment. I think this is because I love to plan and organize things so much. I love planning things, and even though I know that I cannot control the future, I love to plan future events, even if I know that there is a slim chance they will actually happen.

The problem is that if I focus on the future too much, I won't be paying attention to right now at all. Or, I will begin to worry about the future, unless everything is working out just as I planned.

When I feel like I am "living in the moment" most is when I laugh REALLY hard. When something is hysterically funny, It's hard not to focus on whatever is funny, and focus on that moment alone!

Speaking of laughing... *haha* I LOVE the sound of children laughing. When I hear the sound of a true, genuine laugh from a child, it seems like life couldn't be better. I love how kids laugh! Really, I feel the same way when I hear teenagers and adults laughing, but I don't hear laughter quite the same from older people. Too many teenagers I have met are just "too cool" to laugh, and many adults don't make time for laughter. It's so sad :( Kids let it out, though. Which ROCKS MY SOCKS OFF! Lol, my co-workers give me a hard time at the Church where I work sometimes. (I do childcare) I will be with a child playing with some goofy baby toy, and whichever little person I am with will be cracking up, and I'm laughing just as hard with them. The other adults whom I work with find it humorous that I can be entertained with a silly baby toy, and a little laughing boy or girl for so long :)

<3... Planning ahead is a good thing, and living in the moment is a good thing, but finding a happy medium seems to be the best. So plan ahead, and always find time to laugh. If something TOTALLY cracks you up, don't feel like an idiot & try to refrain from laughing... you are missing out on an indescribable opportunity :)

Disciple News!

*Squeal*

For about the past year, I have been DESPERATELY wanting to get a video called "72 Hours with Disciple". I asked about it at concerts and stuff... and nothing really seemed to want to work out. I almost simply gave up hope about getting it. I REALLY wanted/want it, though.

Anyway, yesterday I was on the Disciple forum, and I found out that they have some available that they are selling!!! I literally made myself sick from excitement! I CAN'T WAIT! Now I'm all nervous about my check getting lost in the mail, or whatever could possibly happen. LOL :) I am BEYOND excited about it, though!


Not only that, but they are coming out with a NEW CD! Anyone who knows me at all can probably imagine how excited I am! At first I was excited, and then I got nervous. (Lol, I guess my Mom is right, I am neurotic) The thing is, I was extremely excited about Kutless' cd, and when it came out, it made me less of a Kutless fan :( And seriously, it's not just that I wasn't a big Kutless fan to begin with. I was a HUGE Kutless fan. Now I don't even consider them one of my favorite bands. I have nothing AGAINST them or whatever, I think they are amazing people... I just... I don't know what it is. Anyway, I DON'T want that to happen with Disciple! I have decided that I think the album will be good... they played a song from "Southern Hospitality" at the concert I went to on the 18th, and I REALLY liked it. So I'm excited, and I'm not really worried about it at all anymore! I cannot begin to tell you how curious I am about it, however :) I'm curious about the lyrics, and the soft songs.

I will tell you one thing... I'm getting SO TIRED of buying CDs that I get tired of after a couple of DAYS! I'm so thankful that this is coming out in 2 months... (Oh my gosh- I have to wait TWO MONTHS!!!) because I'm getting terribly despearate for a good cd that will stay "good" longer than A FEW DAYS.

Oh! Guess what? Another thing about the AMAZING concert on the 18th... a few of the members of Disciple remembered my name! (For the 2nd time) There is another reason to be happy about the unusual name my parents chose for me! LOL :D

I'm really quite fond of Disciple at this moment. I mean, I often am. But it seems different now. I've been a fan of their's for what seems like a LONG time, and they recognize and even remember my name at concerts now! It's like we are almost friends! :) Hahaha...



Praise God :D