The 26th

I hope you all had a great Christmas.  Mine was full of Movies, Light looking (don't know if thats a word), and a really good Christmas eve serves.

This year I got my very own camera, but not just any camera a Canon PowerShot ELPH 300 HS.

Her name is Elphaba (my camera not me.........just clearing that up:)

So to try it out today (the 26th)  Megan, Marissa, and I all terrorized the town square (and boulevard.)  Taking pictures of everything in site.

Here's a recap of are day.

Midg:  Guys it's not focusing.

Marissa:  Is it on Micro?

Midg:  Ye.......Ummm......Oh.

(Use after months of them siting by your bed.)

Megan and Marissa's feet

¡Hola!

(As you can see I'm bilingual:)

Okay, I know it's creepy but it was a memorable part are trip.

Midg:  Hey guys look at this picture.

Marissa and Megan:  Oh puddle.

Scary ally

The coolest car ever!

Ugly Unique brick wall.

Marissa:  Ahhhhhhhh!

Midg:  What are you doing?

Marissa:  Scaring the birds away so they don't poop on us.

After we got done taking pictures we walked back to my house made (and ate) cookies, watched the last five minuets of a spanish soap opera and explained to Megan who the Kardashians are

(what can I say we're homeschooled.)

All in all the 26th was an awesome day.

-What are you doing now that Christmas is over?

Christmas time is here

It's time for....

Cookies for me for Santa:)

Hot Chocolate

Christmas Eve service

Live nativity

Lights

Christmas trees

Giving the gift of Love

Pictures from:  Google Image and Pinterest.

The Gangs Christmas Party

This is The Gang

(so if I ever refer to "The Gang" these are the people I mean.)

(from left to right)

Me, Becca, Kaylee, Marissa, Krista, Nicole, Whitney, and Megan.

We always have tuns of fun together and are constantly laughing until we are in danger of breaking a rib.

(No.  I do not know what exactly, Becca is doing to Whit.)

As you can see we love each other very much:)

Every year we have a Christmas party with Games, Movies, Food, and Secret Santa (I got Whitney.)

 For some reason I brought a Santa hat which inspierd what I like to call........

Santa and his (hers) Raindeer Family Portrait.

(Wow I love my friends!)

This has to be my favorite picture of The Gang all together.

What crazy things do you do with your friends?

Pictures taken by Megan's camera (It's a smart camera:)

Ta,ta for now.

Photos

Yesterday my good friends Megan and Nicole were kind enough to take pictures with me while facing  the bitter December cold (cold, but yet no snow):  Megan's sister and my other good friend Marissa was kind enough to let me use her cannon powershot 14.meg (I desperately want one.) 

These are some of the photos I took.......

I had to lay on the ground for this one while enduring laughter from Megan and Nicole (:

(as you can see I'm kinda obsessed with the whole (: thing right know)

Love of beauty is taste.  The creation of beauty is art.

                                                     -Ralph Waldo Emerson

If that's true, then God is the bestist artist in my book.

(:

p.s.  If you're wondering why all the pics say "Brianne" on them it's cause it's me middle name.  

(Oh no.  My secret has been revealed.)

Quirks

Pronounced |kwərk|

noun

 a peculiar behavioral habit : his distaste for travel is an endearing quirk.

We all got 'em:  biting nails, chewing your hair.......

Some people think they're annoying, but I think they make someone unique and lovable.

Personally, I have some "interesting" ones.

Pencils

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I'm constantly loosing them.  They just disappear.  So, a couple years ago I just started putting them in my ponytail or messy bun, but unfortunately there is one flaw to this.  I forget I put them there, then franticly look around the room thinking "I could have sworn I was just holding it."  Thankfully if I'm at school my trusty friend, Whitney, kindly informs me (while laughing) "Um Midg, do you happen to be looking for the one on your head?"  If I'm not at school then I end up either:  (A) hopelessly looking around until I happen to look in the mirror or (B) scratch my head in frustration, and then feel it in my hair.

Singing in the rain and any where else, for that matter

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I will, and do, break out into song everywhere (not necessarily good or on key. :)  It's like living in a musical.  I love singing about my family, friends, even about food.  But the best is singing camp songs at the top of you lungs while skipping down the sidewalk with some good friends.

Those are just a couple of my many of quirks.  (It's ok if you think I'm weird now.....or even more-so than you already did.)  What are some of your funny and unique quirks?

So long farewell, Auf Wiedersehen goodnight..........goodbye, goodbye, GOODBYE!

Re-cap time

Oh my, it's been awhile and I have been so busy,  it's been insane, (in a good way.)  So I thought I'd give you a re-cap of what I've seen, done, and important things that happened since the last time I posted.

Camp did finally come and I had an amazing time.

That is my awesome friend Whitney, our cool camp counselor in the back, and me doing Chris August's Candy Rap on talent night in front of 250 people.  It was scary, but fun.

I painted a garage.

All the kids at my church got together and painted the garage of a really cool guy 

named Ron, who wasn't able to do it himself.

Got really sunburned.  Twice!

I probably have one of the coolest moms ever.  We were on our way home from a weekend in Des Moines, when we passed a sign for Adventureland and Mom said, "Hey, want to go?"  I thought she was completely kidding, so I was like, "Yeah, let's do it!"  We actually went, but since we didn't bring any sun block and I was wearing a tank top, well, let's just say Bob the Tomato and I could have been twins.  The other time was while painting Ron's garage:)

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I went to College for Kids

And learned the art of mime.

I went to the State Fair

That was some good ice cream...... Yum!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two came out 

The gang and I went to see the midnight premiere.  It was amazing!

School started.

Ahhhh... I'm in high school now.  When on earth did this happen!

The sixth season of Doctor Who came out.

And I watched every episode.

I read a lot,

but that's a given.

I was in a play.

It was a one act play for a festival and I played a boss of a talent agency.  It was so much fun, but my character had to where a short black wig and glasses so I ended up looking like Edna, from The Incredibles.

We could have been triplets....don't forget about Bob.

Went to Break Away.

It was an awesome youth rally event thingy and we stayed at the Embassy Suites.
(Ooooo Aaaaaa.) 

We had a fancy dinner in the ball room and awards were given out for the 

contests earlier in the day.

My skit team won first place (no one els entered for that competition,) but still, it was fun.  We did a Bible version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.  

Since I was the only girl, I had to be Jezebel. UGH!

(Fun Fact:  That's my older brother, Jonathan, in the middle, wearing the brown shirt.) 

Halloween

pick by Megan

I saw four graduation robes in Goodwill and I was like, (Oh my goodness we can go as Harry Potter characters,) but when we went trick-er-treating, everybody thought that we were a choir and we didn't really want to argue with the nice people giving us candy:)

Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving I had an amazing experience.  My Dad had to work and we weren't going to have our Thanksgiving dinner until Saturday.  So, my mom and I went to our local senior center and I met some amazing people that I would have never gotten to meet otherwise.

Watched an entire season of Doctor Who in one night with my friend Nicole

ZZzZZZ

Black Friday

I went Black Friday shopping with the gang, and it was the definition of insane.

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Christmas Carols

So, I have this weird quirk where I refuse to listen to any shape or form of Christmas  music until after Thanksgiving.  It so happens that it was 12:30 and I was in line at Walmart singing Jingle Bells while getting weird looks from bystanders, 

as my friends slowly shuffled away from me.  hehehe.

First Snow

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Where I live it usually snows in November, but this year Jack Frost decided to wait until December, but let me tell you it was worth the wait.

What were some of the most exiting things you did this last summer and fall?

p.s. This lovely new blog design was done by my good friend Meagan from Megan Kristine Designs.  Thank you,  Megan, for putting up with me, even when I wanted a different shade of white:)  

Can camp come a little sooner um..... PLEASE?!?

Wow!  I am such a geek!  (Way to state the obvious, Midg!)  But my camp is in 18 days.

 (And yes, I have been counting.)

  I just want it to be here sooner!  Now,  I'm not usually the impatient type, but when it comes to camp, I'm probably the most impatient person in the world.  I've even started packing and then

unpacking....

I'm currently packing again (bashful grin.)

 And I am so terrified that I'm going to forget something, so I'm most likely going to totally over pack.
 (I've even had three nightmares that it's time to leave and I haven't packed anything yet.)

 YIKES!

I go to camp at only the coolest place ever (other than England.)

They have everything: a pool, canoeing, tubing, paddle boating, a high ropes course, amazing food, hilarious games, awesome counselors, and most of all an amazing bible study.  I wish I could live there!

(Wow, that sounds kind a creeperish.)

  

 But what makes it even more narly (and yes, I just used the word narly) is that this year 4 of my closest mates are coming.

Mates: • British., informal used as a friendly form of address between friends :“See you then, mate.”• British., informal a friend or companion : I was with a mate | my best mate, Steve.
But since I can't wait to go,I've had to do other thing to occupy my mind like....
Watching British television.  (What is up with this post and England?)
Reading (well that's a given.)
Hanging out with my friends. 
Helping out with V.B.S. (the preschoolers are so unbelievably cute!)
and 
Blogging of course!
So, I guess I'll just have to wait a little longer. :(

Spider Commercial

Do you remember the Mr. Timn in Candyland video?  Well the same applies to this post.

Have you ever been watching TV?

 (Ya Duh!)

 Waiting in anticipation for your show to come back on, getting annoyed at the commercials because they seem completely unnecessary.   

When suddenly, something like this comes on.

From:  Youtube

(My favorite part is when you think the guy's done hitting the phone and he just smacks it one more time just for good measure.)

One second you're sitting there impatient and bored and the next you're laughing your head off.  Right about now you're probably thinking, "Oh my gosh this creepy girl just posted about a really lame commercial."  But hey, what can I say?  I'm easily amused.

I have learned two very important things from this video.  First, never make a picture of a big harry spider your screen saver.  And second, I think that we can safely say that for future reference 3D phones are not the best idea.

Giveaway Winners

Oh my goodness I was so thrilled to see all the (Home dogs) out there that entered.  Unfortunately only a few could win.

From:  Google

WAWAWAWAWA!

But that's ok, because for all ya folks out there who didn't get a prize...

 THIS IS FOR YOU!

From:  Google

(I know you can't do anything with it, but hey it's the thought that counts.)  

Ok, Ok.  I know you want to go ahead and see the winners and I'm just torturing  you (not in a physical sense, that would be cruel.)  But in an emotional sense, which after you finish reading this you'll most likely need therapy.

J.K.

onwards...

And the winners are...

Drum role please...

Wow I feel like Ryan Seacrest.

 The Winner of the Rap is

From:  Google

Kaylee from: Soaring on Musical Wings (I'll post the rap soon!)

The Winner of Krista's poster is

Kels from: The Flip-Flop Farmgirl (please email me at livinglifebold@gmail.com)

The Winner of Megan's earrings is

Whitney from: Gathering Dreams (megan will give them to you on friday)

The Winner of the first pair of my earrings is

Kelsy from: Forever Dreaming (please email me at livinglifebold@gmail.com)

The Winner of the second pair of my earrings is

Marissa from: Outside the Lines (I'll give your prize to you asap.)

And last, but certainly not least

The Winner of the blog-make over is....

Grace from: Grace Loves The Beatles  (please email megan at metheblog@gmail.com to get your prize)

Thank you so much to every body who entered (enjoy the lollipop.)  Ciao!

I wish all books would end like Harry Potter

Ugh! I hate it when the end of a book leaves you hanging, especially when the rest of the book is really well written.  You go through it.  You read the whole thing, waiting and waiting for some explanation.


 And....


 Splat!  They throw something at you like "and even though everything was in complete despair, they felt inside their hearts that it would be ok."  Or...  "He didn't know if he would ever make it, but for this one moment everything was going to be ok."  I mean what kind of ending is that!  It's like they had no idea how to end it, so they came up with an ending that doesn't really end at all.




 I just spent five hours straight reading "The Giver" from cover to cover.  I got it at the library today and I just couldn't put it down, (don't be to impressed it's a short book.)  But unfortunately, I was disappointed.  Don't get me wrong, it was a really good book, just a bad ending.

From:  Google

(Oh my.  That old guy kinda looks like a really sad Santa.)

But wait!  I had a brilliant idea to fix all this,

I thought to myself.

 I wish all books would end like Harry Potter; no loose ends, making it a happy ending without... "and they all lived happily ever after."  Or like Shakespeare where everybody dies at the end,  (Hey, you know its true.)  It needs to be perfectly balanced with a sense of completion. 

 So, I'm starting a petition that J. K. Rowling should re-write the end of every good book that has a bad ending.