.thankful.

thankful for these people and so many more. i am so blessed to have the bestest friends and parents and brother in the world. they make my days better and my jokes funny. 

 i'm also thankful for tradition and my country.

i have a lot to be thankful for. mostly for a God who loves and forgives me every single day. 

have a beautiful day friends.

xoxo

late night 2 am blog post

hi friends, it's been so long i know. i have a lot on my plate, and a lot has changed since my last post.

people change, feelings change, and yet it all stays the same.

as i am rapidly approaching my graduation day i am mixed with feelings of fear and excitement.

i am scared of what lies ahead, friends. what will college be like. will i make a name for myself. will i make friends. will live out the plan the Lord has set out for me. will i lose contact with my friends i currently have today.

and then at the same time i am excited, i'll be in a new town, i'll have a new life, i'll be working towards my career, i have yet to experience so much of life.

one of the things i fear the most right now is leaving my sweet home and going somewhere that is completely different and new to me. i've never known another town that isn't my sweet st cloud. (heh sweet st cloud didn't see that one coming) i just.. i'm filled with such..anxiety i suppose that i don't even know what to feel.

luckily i know my sweet Savior knows what i am set out to do in life. there is so much of the world i want to see. so many people and needs that i want to reach.

{Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like You have loved me
Break my heart for what breaks Yours
Everything I am for Your Kingdom's cause}

words that i find myself conflicted with at 230 am. break my heart for what breaks yours..always afraid to ask my God to do that because i know that it'll mean a whole other chapter in my life to prepare for and see lay out. 

i want to kind of jump back to the graduation part.. i ran across a song tonight that i haven't heard in years. it's called "graduation" by vitamin c...goodness the last time i heard that song i was, i believe, in 7th grade.. i remember thinking that one day that would be me. and now it is. may will come so quickly.. i want to remember this last year with a smile. i want to make sure i did things right, i lived my senior year right.. so many thoughts friends. 

xoxo

Last homecoming week!

Well as you know I am a senior this year (Class of 2013!) and it is my last and final homecoming! So crazy and sad. Anyway my school has a homecoming parade on the Wednesday of homecoming week. I walked with my French Club. We passed out Hershey kisses (We were the "French Kisses" heh get it?) and had an awesome time laughing and well..sweating because come on when has Florida ever had an actual 'fall'? Anyway this is just a quick blogpost (from my iPhone! Technology is insane!!) here are some pictures from my week so far!

Xoxo

decisions.

Being a senior in highschool is rewarding, stressful, exciting and nerve-wrenching all at once. You have the responsibilities that come with it (i.e. grades ^, scholarship information, where the heck you want to go, what the heck you want to do) and it is so overwhelming at times. I stayed up late last night registering for ACT/SATs once again and looking into the requirements for the college of my choice (which is flagler, btw). IT SO DANG STRESSFUL Y'ALL.

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" //Einstein

That is a quote that keeps me going, well most of the time. Testing hasn't always been a strongship of mine, but I can usually accomplish it with lots of studying and tears. but testing happens a lot, especially during your senior year. You have AP tests, Ch tests, ACT/SAT tests, and who knows what else. Luckily as a senior you can exempt 3 finals and don't have to take FCATs because who knows if i'd be able to handle that. 

 "He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty. A faithful man will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished" Prov28:19-20

What a verse. In times where I am completely engulfed by my emotions of fear and overwhelment (yes i know that isn't a word,shh) I need to think of who my God is. He is Alpha, Omega, Beginning and The End (Revelation 22:13). He brought me this far, surely He will lead me to the end. It's is just the process of the during which is the hard part..

thanks to whoever for reading my pointless rants and emotions,

xoxo

{{senior year}}

is.stressful.

that is all

xoxo

::summer lovin::

summer is ending in just a week and it has been a splendid one

this past weekend my family and i went away to the beach and it was whimsical

now to finish my summer class, do my summer assignment, paint my senior parking spot, and visit with friends before summer is up!

 

xoxo

olympics, juju, and lisa frank

ok, first is first:

 The Olympics

everyone knows it, happens every four years, people compete, basically The Hunger Games, blah blah blah. 

Well this year the ones I have been keeping track of the most is the Women Gymnast, in other words The Fab Five: 

these girls have seriously blown my mind, they are so young yet so good! I can definitely say I was so happy to see them win gold. 

Another sport I'm up to date with, so to say, is swimming. Phelps is a crowd favorite, with being the "most decorative Olympian of all time", that's pretty darn amazing. 

but beside keeping track of this guy another guy thats been on the watch is our very own Gator, Ryan Lotche:

(oh hey)

ANYWAY enough with all this let's talk Juju and Lisa Frank. 

Juju is my 5 year old cousin who is visiting from North Carolina. He doesn't stop talking and has the best laugh. He comes down twice a year and it's always so much fun with him. He is staying a couple days with us and we are taking him to build a bear (mostly for me but well you know).

And well Lisa Frank is a girls sticker maker..lol my description is gold of her. anyway when I was younger I used to have Lisa Frank everything and it was eventually discontinued and last night I found out that they had an app! we went crazy.

xoxo