Goodby 2010..........

Hello 2011!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you as excited as I am? I can't believe it's almost been a year since I started blogging! I've got 43 awesome followers and  177 comments and 76 posts! I'm so happy!!

And whats a New years post without...................................................New Years resolutions?
I'm going to grow closer to God,
Post and comment more (but stay off the computer as much as possible!)
Have a better attitude towards school!
And I'm going to read the whole Bible!
I better go spend time with family!



P.S I'm still trying to get 50 followers before the new years so help me out!

Will you help me out?

Will you help me get 50 followers before January 1st? Don't get me wrong I love all my 36 followers! But I would love to have 50  followers! And my magazine Forever magazine I'm trying to get 50 members maybe you'll help me out with that? Thanks you girls! I love you my faithful followers!


(sorry for the super short post more coming soon!)

Photography contest update!!

I've been having a poll to see if you girls would enter my contest and some of you said that "You would but my prize wasn't a real prize". But now I have a real prize!! As some of you may know I own Forever magazine and that gave me a idea! Whoever wins my contest will get the banner and one of their  pictures will be in the February issue of Forever magazine!!

My original post will be updated and this one deleted tomorrow night!

Photography contest!!

Hi girls, I'm going to be having a photography contest it will be going on until February 26.

And the theme is winter! and you can enter up to 3 pictures!

The Rules are simple,

No editing, nothing bad or inappropriate.



So just post 3 or less pictures on your blog and come back here and leave a comment with the link to that post!

And whoever wins will get this and one of their pictures will be published in the February issue of Forever magazine! But I will have a second place winner and 3rd place winner!

Make your own banner at MyBannerMaker.com!


So get clicking!

( Please vote on my poll at the top of my sidebar)

Sick!

Hi blogger friends!! I need to ask you a favor could you all pray for my family? From Sunday to this day we have been throwing up and stomachs hurting and such and the only one of my whole family is my mom and 4 month year old sister!!! My dad is even sick today! So please pray for my family! Thanks!!

CHRISTmas!!

Christmas time!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Joy to the world!!!!!!!!!
Christmas time comes with alot of I wants!! here are the things I want!


I want to scream to the world, "Jesus loves you!!"
I want to stand in front of Wal-mart in the freezing cold and ring the salvation army bell, and say MERRY CHRISTMAS not seasons greetings!
I want to see people get saved!
I want to see fellow Christan's witnessing in Target!
I want to be a BRIGHT light for God this Christmas, not just someone worrying about what gifts I still need!
I want to walk into Taco bell and see people praying over there food!
I want to walk past someone in the freezing cold and hear them singing "Jesus loves me this I know!"

I want Jesus to know that I love HIM more then anything else!

What about you? What do you want?

Do a post like this and say what you want!

Jesus loves you!!!!!!!!

I love this!!!!!!

I DID NOT WRITE THIS, but I love it!

Twas the Month before Christmas

When all through our land,

Not a Christian was praying

Nor taking a stand.

See the PC Police had taken away

The reason for Christmas - no one could say.

The children were told by their schools not to sing

About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.

It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say

December 25th is just a ' Holiday '.

Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit

Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!

CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-Pod

Something was changing, something quite odd!

Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa

In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.

As Targets were hanging their trees upside down

At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.

At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears

You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.

Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty

Are words that were used to intimidate me.

Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen

On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton !

At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter

To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.

And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith

Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace

The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded

The reason for the season, stopped before it started.

So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'

Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.

Choose your words carefully, choose what you say

Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS ,

not Happy Holiday !

Please, all Christians join together and

wish everyone you meet

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Christ is The Reason' for the Christ-mas Season!

If you agree please post on your blog.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A cool story!

THIS IS A TRUE STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In Phoenix , Arizona , a 26-year-old mother stared down at her 6 year old son, who was dying of terminal leukemia.
Although her heart was filled with sadness,
she also had a strong feeling of determination.
Like any parent, she wanted her son to grow up & fulfill all his dreams. Now that was no longer possible..
The leukemia would see to that. But she still wanted her son's dream to come true.
She took her son' s hand and asked,
'Billy, did you ever think about what you wanted to be once you grew up?
Did you ever dream and wish what you would do with your life?'

Mommy, 'I always wanted to be a fireman when I grew up.'

Mom smiled back and said, 'Let's see if we can make your wish come true.'

Later that day she went to her local fire
Department in Phoenix , Arizona , where she met Fireman Bob, who had a heart as big as Phoenix !

She explained her son's final wish and
Asked if it might be possible
to give her 6 year-old son a ride around the block on a fire engine..

Fireman Bob said, 'Look, we can do
better than that. If you'll have your son ready at seven o'clock Wednesday morning, we'll make him an honorary Fireman for the whole day.
He can come down to the fire station, eat with us, go out on all the fire calls, the whole nine yards!
And if you'll give us his sizes, we'll get a real fire uniform
for him, with a real fire hat - not a toy -- one-with the emblem of the Phoenix Fire Department on it, a yellow slicker like we wear and rubber boots.'

'They're all manufactured right here in Phoenix , so we can get them fast.'


Three days later Fireman Bob picked up Billy, dressed him in his uniform and escorted him from his hospital bed to the waiting hook and ladder truck.
Billy got to sit on the back of the truck
and help steer it back to the fire station.
He was in heaven.
There were three fire calls in Phoenix that day and Billy got to go out on all three calls.

He rode in the different fire engines,
the Paramedic's' van, and even the fire chief's car..

He was also videotaped for the
local news program.

Having his dream come true,
with all the love and attention that was lavished upon him, so deeply touched Billy, that he lived three months longer than any doctor thought possible.

One night all of his vital signs began to
drop dramatically and the head nurse, who believed in the hospice concept - that no one should die alone, began to call the family members to the hospital.

Then she remembered the day Billy had spent as a Fireman, so she called the Fire Chief and asked if it would be possible to send a fireman
in uniform to the hospital to be with Billy as he made his transition

The chief replied, 'We can do better than that. We'll be there in five minutes.. Will you please do me a favor?
When you hear the sirens screaming and see the lights flashing, will you announce over the PA system that there is not a fire?'

'It's the department coming to see one of its finest members one more time. And will you open the window to his room?'
About five minutes later a
hook and ladder truck arrived at the hospital and extended its ladder up to Billy's third floor open window--------
16 fire-fighters climbed up the ladder into Billy's room.

With his mother's permission, they hugged him and held him and told him how much they LOVED him.
With
His dying breath,
Billy looked up at the fire chief and said,

'Chief, am I really a fireman now?'

'Billy, you are, and
The Head Chief,
Jesus, is holding your hand,' the chief said.

With those words, Billy smiled and said,
'I know, He's been holding my hand all day, and
The angels have been
Singing..'
He closed his eyes one last time.
My
Instructions were to send this to at least four
People that I
Wanted God to bless and I picked you.
Story is powerful and there is nothing attached,
PLEASE
Do not break this pattern;
Uplifting stories are one of the best
Gifts we receive.
There is no cost, but a lot of rewards, let's

Continue to uplift one another~

True Story

 

Amazing, right? Love you girls, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you like my CHRISTmas look? I had Kendra do it again and every time I need a new look she will be doing it! She has a designing blog with some girls, here and it's all FREE!!! So check it out! Sorry I haven't been posting much, I've been busy! But I will TRY to post more, sound good? alright I'll post more later (sorry for such a short post)


Merry CHRISTmas!!!!!!!!!!!!

Celtic Woman-Carol Of The Bells

Amazing video! I love it!

First off I hope you all had a awesome Thanksgiving  and if went black Friday shopping I hope you had fun! Hmmm... Lalala  (cough) Dadum..... Soooo I'm at a loss of what to post about! Can you help me out? What do you want me to post about?


With love,

Yummy easy recipe!

Yes I've decided to post a recipe, it's really yummy too! The family will love it!


So you get out any size pans, NOT cookie sheets. Grease the pan or pans

 This is the chicken breast we use, put these in the pan frozen,

 Here is a exaple of what it will look like at this point.

 Pour ranch on it and spread it around. ( Hint: Don't go light  on the ranch)

 This is what it will look like now.

 Then pour parmesan cheese on it,

 And put it in the oven at 350, leave it in for one hour, And to make sure it's done, cut through the biggest chicken breast, if it's not pink inside there done!

 This is how they will turn out!

We have them with potatoes and peas, but anything will work!
I hope you try it and if you do let me know how you liked it!


Have a great  week!

I was tagged again! By Lulu this time! Thanks Lulu!

1. Favorite Smell? Vanilla cream candles!
2. Favorite Food? Pizza!
3. Favorite Color? Pink! But....(cough) in the fall I really like red and orange!
4. Favorite Drink? Hmmm...... Winter = Hot coco  Summer = Ice tea!
5. Favorite Treat? Hello my name is Hope, and I love popcorn, the butteryness the warmness (stop drooling Hope!!)
6. Favorite Place to go? Wait is this like peoples houses? My best friends Emma Lou's House all the way!!! (what that doesn't count? Fine!)Thrift stores!
7. Favorite Candy? Any thing Chocolate!!!!!!
8. Favorite Clothing to wear? Skirts! Well mostly this blue skirt I have.
9. Favorite Fall Holiday? Thanksgiving, What else is there?
10. Favorite Haunted place? I don't go to haunted places.
11. Favorite Pie? Apple!
12. Favorite Fall Hobby? Baking pie, and decorating our house and room!
13. Favorite Fall Sight? There trees!
14. Overall Favorite thing about Fall? Thanksgiving and the leaves.

I tag
Bleah
Kendra
Megan
Tirzah
Grace
Jo March

One more thing, Do you like my design? If you do you can get one or a different one go here all the awesome designs are free! 

My Wish

I've had this song stuck in my head for the past two days! I thought you girls might like it though, because it's a beautiful song! God bless,

Tagged!

Bleah tagged me with the "deepest desires" tag. So what is this tag? You share 7 likes, 8 hates, and 1 love... in that order. Here's how I did it:

I like when my family is happy!
I like to hear the birds chirping when I wake up in the morning!
I like to read my Bible!
I like  riding in our van while it's raining
I like it when I find letters in my mailbox!
I like hearing my friends laugh ( Emma Lou, Fallon)
I like reading all day!
I hate it when I don't get a good nights sleep!
I hate going outside alone in the dark
I hate being sad
I hate when people are mad at me
I hate when my family is sad
I hate it when I make people mad
I hate it when people look at me like  I'm weird
I hate it when  dogs lick my face.
I love each and every one of you...

Now link this tag up to me, and then some other bloggers people you admire:

well... I can't link it to myself so...

I admire:
Emma Lou because she's awesome! And sweet, nice, cool and much much more!
Fallon because she's cool!
Tirzah because I love her blog!
Autumn because She's awesome and I love her blog!
Jordan Elizabeth because she inspires me to get closer to God.



Hope you girls liked this! With a joyful heart,

Happy birthday Dylan!

Happy 17th birthday Dylan I hope you had a awesome day! And for the readers enjoyment  the cake we made for him!

Looks like a fire doesn't it?

So happy birthday Dylan!


Also please check out my online magazine here. Thanks,

Thanks!

Hey blogger friends, ( I love saying that don't you? ) I just wanted to say a quick thanks to all my followers, you girls rock! And to let ya know I do consider you all friends. I never thought dreamed I would have 37 followers and  148 comments! So thanks sooo much!! Also I've been getting lots of comments lately and I love it!!! Any ways please check  out this blog, click here  I love this blog! Thanks for reading my random post

"Boy, Don't You Dare Say 'I Love You' to me"

                                                         (not my picture)
I am the type of girl who does not want a man to ever say “I love you” to me unless he is going to marry me. (and vice verso) Why? Well, let me first share with you a few examples you all may have encountered before I explain.

Let’s say you log into your FaceBook account, and you see your friend’s status reads something along the lines of “I luv u babe…we will b 2 gether 4 ever” along with 20 other comments of the two claiming to be “in love”, saying “i luv u more” over and over again. Now, not only does the fact that it was a FaceBook status and written in “text-message” language extremely bother me, but the fact that it holds absolutely no truth to it. Fast forward two weeks, and you tend to see “Went from ‘In a Relationship’ to ‘Single’” in your friend’s update. That’s not the only thing that changes though. You start to see mean, bitter, and hatred filled status updates from one or both parties. You may see extreme depression in the person, and of course, depressing statuses. Evidently “I’ll love you for forever” did not last that long.

But what bothers me the most is that neither party learns a single lesson from the experience. Give it a few more weeks, maybe a few months, and the cycle starts all over again only with a different person.

When you say “I love you” so many times to someone you believe to be a ‘significant other’ then it just looses its meaning and value. If you say it two your boyfriend of two weeks, what value does it honestly hold? Can you both sincerely say, without the slightest doubt in either one of your minds, that you will truly be together forever, honestly love each other forever, and obviously get married as a result? Of course not, so why is it that you say it so freely like you would with “hello!”?

Eric Ludy, co-author of the fantastic book “When God Writes Your Love Story”( along with many others) once said in a conference that his mother taught him that he better never say something so powerful and serious as “I love you”, unless he was willing to back it up with a proposal for marriage. That’s the type of man I want. A man who knows the powerful, deep, immeasurable meaning and worth behind those three little words, “I love you”. A man who is so after God’s own heart that he goes to what some may consider “extreme” measures in order to honor God, and his future wife.

That’s the type of man I will marry one day, and that is the type of woman I will be. I will never say “I love you” to a man unless he says it to me—for the first time—when he proposes to me.

If you will not be together forever through marriage, then why is it that you go selling lies to one another in a relationship saying “I love you”, when you both know, deep down, that it might not even last—because you really are not each others’ one from God.

Now, I am not saying you can not say “I love you” to your family members or super close female friends(if you say it to a guy, honestly, no matter how long you’ve known each other, they could take it the wrong way and give them false hope.). Those are the type of relationships that never will go away; your mom will always be your mom, your sister will always be your sister, and if you are close enough, then your best gal friend will always be your best friend. These are solid relationships that you know will last.

When you enter a ‘romantic relationship’, then you do not know if it will last. The only moment you know that it will, and that you will not have to take the words back, is when you get engaged, and get married(as long as you followed God’s will, of course.)
Do you want to be a one-man woman who will only ever say “I love you” to one man(your husband), or do you want to be many-men woman, saying “I love you” freely, carelessly, and without meaning?

The choice is yours, but I pray that you all will choose to be a one-man woman.



I didn't write this, I wish I did but I agree 100%  with her. Click here to see who wrote it

Fallons birthday!

Hello again my friends, Yesterday was Fallons birthday, and was it fun the only way to tell you how fun is pictures!

 We decided on this cake since she loves checkers!

 We had spaghetti on the table!!

 Autumn in her party hat!

 The birthday girl! (Fallon) and the birthday dog! (really it is her birthday, she's 13! )

 The table is set! let's eat!

 Dylan being goofy!

 Hmmm what should my next move be?

 Getting ready to pray.

                                                        Me and Dylan being goofy!
As a special  surprise I made Fallon a blog! Please hop over and check it out (and follow her) Click here !
So happy 12th birthday Fallon, I hope you had a great day!

Birthday cakes!

Yes, I know this is a random post but, because it's someones birthday at my house (more about that later) I've been looking at birthday cakes to make and check these out!

 

                                           ( These are not my pictures)

 Yes those are birthday cakes! If you wanna know where I found them it's here  and more I found here so check them out. Which cake is your favorite?


God bless,