what can i say... we're just that good..

so i looked back at a few posts from before and i noticed that tif and i tried to convince the rents to let us get another dog..
well...
they went on a trip for a month to asia land.. and we brought home a dog while they were gone..
and he's staying. He's an absolutely gorgeously friendly dog that i love and his name is Kairo.
kairo and kiera... oh dear...
but yea.. i think we realised that it wasn't so much our convincing that got him his permanent res in our house.. it was just that my parents fell head over heels for him as soon as they saw him..
it makes no difference to us.. we get to keep him =)

thanks...

thank you to the one amazing person who decided to turn in my ipod. Whoever you are. You might not ever even see this post.
but thank you.

thanks...

thanks ...

to the marvelous, ingenious, fantastic, heroic person that invented the umbrella, for without it, i would have gotten extremely wet from the pouring rain in the past few days...so yeah...

....thanks

yes i'm still alive...

hahah january 16th was so long ago...now it's like what? July 27th?? hahah so i realise i haven't updated in a very long time but you have to give me some slack..the few times i wanted to actually update i forgot my username so i couldn't sign in and it wasn't until last night that i actually took the time to receive the emaill..anyways! yea so now i know my user name... but wow so much has happened since my last post. for one thing i made it into the Earl Haig arts program so i'll be going there next year...ahhh so excited!!! i can hardly wait, and it's gonna be pretty fun cuz i have a few close friends going with me. soo yea..it's all good. uhm what else, school finished, and ahhhhhh i went on an
*AHhhhhhhh* MAZING trip! from May 23rd, which was my sister's bday, until June 13th, i was out of school for a cruise around the mediterannean...and after spending 3 weeks there i still don't know how to spell it..meh. so yeah, 15 days on sea and a few extra days in london and greece, plus flying days, equals up to 3 weeks of NO SCHOOL! it was awesome...and i managed to do all the catch up assnmnts and everything else before i left. we saw 10 different places...let's see uhmmm....athens (Greece), cadiz (Spain), civitevecchia (rome, Italy), london (England), lisbon (Portugal), barcelona (Spain), kusadasi/ephesus (Turkey), le havre (Paris, France), and marseille (France), Monte Carlo (Monaco), Valleta (Malta)...haha...thanks tiff. we also saw some volcanoe that i can't spell the name of so forget that...hahaha...what else happened....uhhmmmm....i went back on av! yey! that was tons of fun...and i'm pretty sure i'm missing like a million events but you must excuse me because of my horrid memory. Another HUGE thing that started was softball...yey! softball season is always the highlight of my summer...and this year i'm playing for DUNAMIS! YEYYYY GO DUNAMIS!!!! ...that's pronounced doo-nah-miss...NOT du-nah-mees...hahah vanessa...we're doing pretty good this season so yea...gj everyone gj! and oh yes...history class...summer school sucks...no kidding. it's so boring. ahhhhh! but luckily it's only like an hour and 15 mins so i'll survive. it also ends in about a week and a half but then my exam is RIGHT after it soooo yeahhhh....

okay so this weekend, as in tomoro and sat and sun, there's summer retreat and i know there's going to be a lot of changes...i'm praying for a change especially in the bethel ages...and yup a whole revolution would be nice...but yeah...anything's good..hhehe...i know it'll be tons of fun but i guess more details to tell when i come back?

so one last thing, my sister and i are trying to convince our parents that getting another dog would be a good thing...and it's not like we just WANT another one..but it's better for kiera (who is an adult now! yey!) since starting pretty soon no one's home all day most days so she's alone for 8 hours and tears apart our house..which isn't so good...so hopefully another dog will keep her occupied and they'll have fun and she won't be so bored? We don't know but there are a LOT of things to take into consideration and lots of things my parents are picky about...so we're praying and hoping to convince our parents and find the right dog. but yeah...i think that's about it for now? haha in about 4 months or so i'll come back and update again! yay! haha...

cookie.monster*

drama....

ahhhhh....life is soooo good! THANK YOU GOD! i just got my audition letter..and yea i guess everyone gets an audition date but i was getting really worried cuz mine was late and there are two audition dates and i got the one i wanted! yey! so happy!

anyways...i just spent forever writing a play with 2 friends and even though we had a blast the script wasn't as good as we wanted it... w/e i'm in too good of a mood to care right now.

i was drawing/sketching yesterday for fun and i never realised how much patience art takes before now. i'd never actually tried to draw something before...and now that i have i realised that it's not just sitting down and adding talent with pencil and paper. I am in even more awe of all those artistic people that i know because of their amazing ability to hold onto and imitate images that capture life/meaning/love/pain/and so much more, so that more can enjoy it. It also makes me wonder in awe of the One who created it all and what an amazingly creative being our God truly is. It took me about 3 hrs to complete 2 mediocre drawings....wait..they aren't complete...yes i think about how long it took Him to say "let there be...". it's truly amazing/astounding.

Life is too marvelous for much more words at the moment.

wow. the last time i posted was christmas! ahh i'm lau-z at keeping this thing updated. haha oh wellz. soo sorries. anyways...Life has been a blast. i killed myself trying to snowboard over the break and then i got back and we now have this crazy self D teacher and he's literally insane. He's whipping us into shape and it's killing our out of shape bodies.

anyways... telly seems to be really into bethel now so thats good. she hasn't been coming lately but i think that's cuz i keep forgetting to remember to ask...hehe whoops! wow so much has happened yet i'm completely blank right now...

oh! attatching a sketchpad onto comp so i can draw perty pics for deviant account... yey! fun fun fun! auditions are coming up and i can't wait but i'm getting super nervous. pray for me! wish me luck! ta ta.

cookie.monster <3

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

hello everyone! it's been so long since i posted! wow! December is definitly the busiest month of the year! first there were all those practices, and then there was that Children's Worship night...and more practices than ESC Christmas Dinner, which was an awesome night. I truly admire the people who put it together cuz they must of had absolutely no sleep at all. I learned so much that night...yet i didn't really learn anything.confusing but not really. i guess that night mean more to me becuase i felt that a lot of it really applied to me in my life...and it was just overwhelming to see that God did understand and that i wasn't the only one going through it all. Anyways, that came and went, and the art gallery was amazing. I had no idea our church had so many artistically talented people! So on Christmas eve there was this family/co-workers/friends dinner and then almost all the adults went to the CSC Christmas service at church. Then my sister, Alex, and i watched Beauty and the Beast and the Enchanted Christmas...SUCH a GOOD movie!!! I miss those Disney movies that were musicals! I mean the movies are still great but they're not musicals anymore..and i find they don't mean as much..but anyways...we spent a lot of time together and it was good bonding time... Today i'd planned on waking up everyone super early to do gifts together before church, but that didn't work out so well. Christmas service was good, but i was blown away during worship.Seeing how CSC worships together and fellowships together, and actually give their hearts to God during worship, really astounded me. It was amazing to see and it basically was the highlight of my day, seeing a giant group of people gathered and pouring out everything in worship to God.
Lunch was with the family and then we came home and did presents. After that we all just hung around at home, and that's about it! Tomorow is Boxing Day Sale!!! Yay!!! I'm determined to get together with a few people and catch up with them during this Christmas Break. anyways, Merry Christmas everyone...!

thanks...

thanks...
for instruments...i'm not saying acapella is a bad thing...but i feel as if instruments were gifts to help us enrich our music...do you not feel that sometimes music with instruments adds that certain touch that something else couldn't?...so yea..thanks...

first of all..thanks so much gummi! loved that site..haha very interesting..enjoying your book? yes? good!

so if anyone else wants to read this site mentioned above it's right here:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/012/9.28.html

it's fantastic, basically talking about the life if CS Lewis and his amazing works...can't wait till the movie comes out! YAY!

So it 3 days it's going to be December..and with December comes...Christmas! Yay!...i had a very big conversation about Christmas with someone recently... and how Christmas songs on the radio now a days contain no mention of Christ, God, or anything else like that... Christmas is no longer about the love that God gave us by sending us His son on that day, it's no longer a celebration for the day that our Saviour came to earth... now it's only an excuse to receive/give presents, to have time off of school, to go away to hot weathered places for vacation. It's really sad that this happened... but is there anything we can do about it? Anyways, at least our church still remembers the things that He has done.

Yesterday was quite good... i realised that people are famous for a reason.. Tony Campolo was a good speaker and it was encouraging to see so many people not from our church come... haha..actually there were more people there not form our church then from our church...it was crazy but fantastic at the same time..haha is that even possible? haha....

a question has entered my thoughts recently... if you are given the opportunity to serve God, and you're given the blessing and advantage of not having to worry about exams, or overload of homework... should you not take all the chances given to you to serve no matter if you have a ride or not?...hrmm...

thanks...

thanks...
for cold medicine...what would i do without it?... i'd be dieing in bed if there wasn't cold medicine...so thanks..

augh. i've been sick for the past 3 days and i'm not exactly getting better. So i had a good week? not really, but thursday was the school dance and the parent council forgot to bring food so that wasn't that good....the dj got better towards the end and the streamers lasted about 5 seconds before they were all ripped down by the guys... yesterday was twin day and that was really cute... then bethel was amazing. It was big big worship and that was really good. The worship team was really good and it was a great time of worship. Chantelle had a good time so hopefully she'll be back again next week? maybe? sometimes she seems really interested but sometimes it seems like she completely finds it boring...so i dunno...just gotta keep praying and hoping that some sort of curiosity will spark in her.

i talked to my sister recently about getting baptised...it was a really big thing for me a while ago but then i wasn't sure if i was ready... how do i know when God's really telling me to do something and if i'm not just imagining it? I mean if God's gives you a command you're gonna do it right? so the only problem is, how do i know when he's giving a command? So i'm definitly gonna look more into that...

i was called a princess recently..i'm not a princess...am i? aiyaa...