my new blog

check it out, littlemaryisheavenwardbound.blogspot.com

New Blog

OK, so within the next week I hope to have my new blog up and running.....any ideas or opinions on a new blog for me?

GLEE

what are your opinions on this show? personally, I LOVEEE it.....there are some things that are innapropriate, however, so far there has been good decision making. on last nights show rachel, one of the leads, fired the director she wanted because he was mean to her friends and wanted them to change themselves....a good message. of coruse, there is a gay lead, and a celibacy club that pretty much makes a joke of celibacy and chastity, though some of the views are subtle but may leave a mark (the celibcy club president, and cheerleader saying that the c word.....contraception....is wrong)....opinions people?

New blog

ok, so as TC and TCG have done, i am almost to the one year anniv. of this blog.....i am going to start anew and create a new blog....and ideas for a title?

hopeless romanticsm

What two qualities do you want most in your future husband?
most important to me, a strong Catholic faith and that he loves children.

Is there a fictional character you see as a model for your future husband?
prince charming, of course;)

Where do you want your wedding?
st marys catholic church, church my mother, grandmother, and great grandmother were married in

What are your views on courtship?
i think some views are ok, but some just the two of us dates are good too, so we could get to know each other one on one without interuption. of course, getting to know his family and vice versa is usually a very good idea;)

What are your views on your first kiss?
definetly not going to wait til my wedding day, i think the proper time would be right after the first sincere "i love you" exchanged between the man and woman would be the perfect time for the first kiss

Do you have or want a purity ring/locket?
i have a purity ring, and also want a claudha ring, even tho im not irish;)

Do you have or want a hope chest?
i do! it is pretty full. and im only 15;)

Will you wear a veil at your wedding?
um, yeah!!!!!!! and i want my grandma to make it.

What kind of wedding dress do you want?
WHITE, and lacy with beading and sequins and a lonnngggg train;)

What flowers do you want in your bouquet?
lilies of the valley, roses, babys breath, and some sort of purple flower as well;) and a flower dyed to match the wedding colors(i have different colors for different seasons.....fall-plum and pumpkin, spring-shades of pink, or light blue, summer-turqoise, or maybe some other fun color, winter-ice blue

What do you want to name one of your daughters?
fave girl names....anastasya, liliana, juliana, cecelia, maria, leah, rebecca, eve

What do you want to name one of your sons?
jacob, isacc, elijah, benjamin, antonio, thomas, some other italian names probably;)

Do you believe in the 'knight-in-shining-armor' view of courtship?
no, not really, but i know the perfect man for me is somewhere out there;)



What music do you want to play at your wedding?
trumpet in canon d like at my moms wedding.....um, some other cool songs about love;)
reception-lots of country, some bruce springsteen for my mom, whatever else me and husbandtobe choose;)

Are you a hopeless romantic?
yesss!


And i shall tag.....
anna
emily
dixi
michaela

life

life has been amazing. except for my guinea pig dying(im still so sad, turns out it was not worms, but ecoli!), my friend martys sister in law and nieices moving to spokane, and some friends leaving for college, life has been amazing. i am in marching band;) it is so fun. playing the flute! lifeteen YAY starts next month, so excited;) well and school started....college classes....no fun. i have also decided i am definetly called to the vocation of married life ;) <3 based on things that have happened these past few months;)

RIP little miss puff n bones

my brothers gorgeous black and white guinea pig (she was also mine, i was her "aunt lu lu"), little miss puff n bones, better known as puff or puffy, died this morning. she was only 2 years old just this past 4th of July. we believe she had worms that came through in a badly inspected bag of feed or timothy hay. she has been acting funny for the past week or so, not skitting or squaking as much, and we were planning on taking her to the vet this week if she wasnt acting any better. but, today around 10:30am, she went to be with Jesus. i found her around a little after ten, she was breathing but she was very limp and unresponsive, she died soon after that. my friend marty came over as soon as he found out, thank God for him, he was there only 20 minutes after she passed away. i simply cant stop crying on and off, as i have been all day. please pray for my family, and for me that i am able to deal with my grief over the loss of our pet. RIP, Little Miss Puff-n-Bones, 8/16/09

havent posted in forverr

so sorry!!!!!!!!! i have been so increidbly busy....going to chicago, going Grease, and now doing high school musical 2(first performance in only 3 hours!) and fair and 4H and then school! love you all! will try and post somwehat more often;) xoxo

going to chicago;))

leaving earrllyyyyyy wednesdayy! write when i get back;) God blesss!

7 quick takes

things i have leanred this week:

1. facebook is addicting;)
2. God has His own timing that is not the same as mine, but hopefully will work out in the end;)

things i love;)

3. my best friend marty
4. my family and other friends like my best friend bella

things i am doing:

5. mario and marys is going amazzzzing
6. i am going to chicago next weeeeekkkk!!!!!!
7. grease is going wayyy well;)

7 quick takes, steubie edition!

1. you know your at a steubie youth conference when they say the words "we will have Mass in a bit" and everyone cheers!
2.just so everyone knows, bob rice is awesome. buy his CDs!
3.i made some friends at steubie that i now friended on FB!
4.the Franciscan sisters are sooo nice;) my friend and i hung out with them alot!
5.the onlyplace they sang you are holy was at the mens session. being a woman i didnt get to hear it. that made me mad.
6.tammy evevard is a great speaker! do you know who she is?
7.i highly reccomend these conferences, held all over the USA, check out franciscanyouth.com

life

sometimes, i wonder, how can one person, just one person, come into your life and change it forever?

7 quick takes "sunday", YES special edition

1-YES is a community service prject done by teens and young adults and adult leaders in my area.
2-i am a pround member of the bundy crew!, the people who rode in our college leaders car, the bundy;)
3-the roof of SMCC is the best place ever!
4-friday night/saturday morning/whateva ya wanna call it, was the funnest night of my life! we hung out on the roof, and in the classrooms til 5 am, lights out was at 2! hahaha
5-the house we worked on was white with black trim, and i had tons of paint fights, so fun!
6-we got to meet the lady we did the house for, she is chair-ridden, and it was really sad, but she kept saying how blessed she was to have us choose her house to fix
7-i'm tired, thats what i get for late nights of fun!

chicks and YES

we are not naming the chicks yet, because we have to wait and see whos boy and girl, we are keeping the girls;)

i will be gone until saturday night, and i may not have time to post that night, so i will be posting 7 quick takes "sunday" YES special edition on sunday!

chicks!

our chicks are hatching! there was one that hatched overnight, that is sooooo cute!

2 days!

2 days til YES! need to go buy some things!

3 days!

til YES, Youth Elect Service project, i am soooo psyched!

Fr. Jason First Mass!

Congrats to Fr. Jason, who is our new assciate pastor, and having his first Mass today at 4!

7 quick takes friday

1-i got my wisdom teeth out this week. NOT FUN. my face is still red and puffy. and im not smart anymore! no more wisdom!
2-of course being that my face is red and puffy, i have another mario and marys performance tonight....work thru the pain, work thru the pain.
3-and, its also BIKE WEEK! and all the festivities are going on downtown by the theater! so its gonna be a madhouse!
4-i need to make a stop at goodwill to get some old shorts i can wear for YES.
5-YES is the Youth Elect Service project, going on here from wednesday til saturday, we repair and re landscape homes of needy families and elderly folks.
6-being as i wont be here next week on friday for 7 quick takes, i am going to do a 7 quick takes Sunday all about YES!
7-HSY3, steubenville retreat is 2 weeks from today! i am soooo excited!

today is thursday?

i believe so. ok yes it is, just checked. so tomorrow is 7 quick takes, which i am really loving;)

i reallly want a facebook, mom says soon, i say how soon LOL. i think she means before my friends leave for college this fall, thats fine with me.

owch

my mouth hurrtss;(

ok people!

prayers for my surgery today! thanks!

Tomorrow

I get my wisdom teeth taken out. I may try and post in the morning before I leave, but I think I will only have time to check my email. I may not be posting for a few days.

thanks you God!

i had a WONDERFUL day yesterday, and i just wanted to thank You for my wonderful day!

today!

grad party for a friend....woot woot, congrats katelyn!

church(reading todayy!)

performance #2!!!!!!!!

7 quick takes friday

1-No more da vinci dresses for the play;( but the dresses we got are very cute! they are teal, knee length, v-neck dresses that look nice on ALL the bridesmaids!
2-tonight is opening night for mario and marys wedding!
3-i really need to start on my 4h project, i am doing a project called Play the Role(it is about acting)
4-the local theater which is an affiliate with SMCC for their school plays may try and open the SMCC school plays to Catholic homeschooled high schoolers in the area
5-also, the announcement of the SMCC school play happens today in just 40 minutes, and i cannot WAIT to find out what it is!
6-the real-life romance going on in the play is being worked on by the bridesmaids. meaning, me and a groomsmen being what they consider a real life romance, even tho were best friends. such a COMPLICATED situation
7-has anyone seen the jobros parody of single
ladies?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP-KFnYg6Hw

http://www.conversiondiary.com/

prayers

for the people who lost their relatives on the flight that crashed into the atlantic;(

the chicks

omg! the chicks are growing and changing colors overnight! its amazzzzing! its like God zapped them with super grow or something!

June is here!

well, it was here yesterday...but....LOL.

YES starts the 17th!
steubie starts the 26th!
YAYY!

There Goes My Life

there wasnt an embed link on this one...sorry;)
you may cry, i get tears in my eyes when i watch this vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MIJShOqh8Q

oooo....

i now have 21 followers!

God is so good;)

what to do....

i dont know what to do or think. he likes me, he likes me not.....which? idk......oh its so confusing......i pray about it, which helps;)

7 Quick Takes Friday

http://www.conversiondiary.com/



1-OK, so i am in Mario and Marys Wedding, a dinner theater at the local theater. very fun. AND i get to wear a really pretty dress. i am a bridesmaid;) i tried on three dresses yesterday, and they all fit. so i find out tonight which one i get to wear;)

2-speaking of dresses, my dress size, i now know, is a size ten. which was a little dissapointing, til i found out they all ran small, and my real size is probably about a 6;)

3-also on the topic of dresses(i am sooo excited about these dresses!)they are da vinci-DESIGNER! ok, enough about dresses;)

4-my best friend in in florida, which is sad;( but i got to talk to her wednesday;) bet she'll have a reallll nice tan when she gets back......

5-my guy best friend and i had fun running around town after practice.....to the hospital atm.....to get gas in his car.....and run to his house quickly to get some stuff! then back to my house to watch the game and hung out til oneAM!

6-speaking of him, his brother got back to the states from iraq for a 2 week leave yesterday! so happy for all their family;))) he went to the Cavs game with his wife.

7-speaking of the Cavs, woot we won by ten points! go Cavs!

Love....

what IS love? beyond the chapter in corinthians, what IS it? is it when he says something that makes you laugh when your sad? is it when he hugs you and you feel like you could stay in his arms forever? is it when you can no longer imagine life without him?

i love itunes;)

i love it sooo much! its awesome!

i know that was SO random;)

well, except the song i am listening too is an amazing pro life song...."there goes my life-kenny chesney" look it up on youtube!

Bigger than us

i assume alot of you know this Hannah Montana song. it can be applied to many things, including God. only something bigger than us could have created people and the world and the universe! not a ball of condensed stone, gas, chemicals, and stuff!

Memorial Day

Let us pray for the soldiers who gave their lives in service to our country.....thank you to them and also to the soldiers currently serving, like my friend's brother and sister, and my cousin.

Biblical Names

we have named our chicks ruth, elizabeth, rebecca(mine!), and magdalene!

yayy!

i got my permit yesterday....and we got chicks! 4 girls. and next week we get eggs, but are only keeping the girls because we are raising them for eggs.

test 2day!

im probably taking my permit test today....pray for me!

Mario and Marys!

Guess what? Im a jr bridesmaid in an interactive dinner theater called Mario and Marys wedding! its an Italian Catholic wedding!

GO SHARK!

yayy! shawn johnson and mark ballas won DWTS! yippeyahookaiyayyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Halo

omg, i swaer this is my newest fave song. i found it on itunes......
halo by beyonce

please pray for me

im fine, i just need to try and get over something. something i will never actually get over completely, but i just need to move on, basically. thanks love ya'll

annoyyeedd!

my email is NOT working! i am SO mad........

haha;)

thank you joey;)))

im NOT looking forward to not talking!!!

wisdom teeth

mine are coming in....i go to the dentist the 28th.....i probably will need surgery.....oh no so sad......i dont like surgery!

maybe this means im smarter!!!!

party tomorrow!

i am so excited....one of my friends sweet 16 dance party is tomorrow! so fun.


but;( sunday is the last lifeteen....and we may have a special guest!

new lifeteen blog....

looking for authors! here is a link...

http://lifeteenmakestheworldgoround.blogspot.com/

k im gonna try it.....

ok anonymous....im gonna try it!

Dear God....you know what im talking about. you know what happened, so i needent say any more. im trying to forget so i can move on, but i cant. and i know the other person involved hasnt forgot either. which makes it harder. i have thought about talking to the other person, and i think that may be the best idea, so please give me the opportunity. thanks, amen



also, if any of my readers have advice please share it!

Dear God

dont you ever wish you could write letters to God and have Him answer?

Steubie!

I am sooo excited for Steubie this summer! I am going to HSY3 and maybe I will see some of you there;)

YES

does your youth group do a youth elect service project?

mothers day!

hail mary, and all mothers!

wow!

i have now 441 posts......woooowwww! thanks to my followers!

daddy

my daddy graduates from college today!

cool!

i got a callback for grease! and for the other 2 plays, they call you before the meeting if they want you. sweeeeet;)

God is good

i love how God gives me signs when i need them mot, dont you?

audition tomorrow!

im singin love story for a play audituon! please pray for me!

hey all

sorry no post yesterday! i was suuuper busy. lifeteen went great!

pray for my cousin!

he makes his first holy communion today!

first friday

i have a 2-3 holy hour today;-)

college

so much stuff! to finish! ovey......jesus, help me!

God is love

a few weeks ago at lifeteen, we were thinking of ways to prove the existence of God. mine was that God exists because there is love.

cool cooool poem

st catherine-anonymous



St Catherine, St Catherine, O lend me thine aid,
And grant that I never may die an old maid.

A husband, St Catherine,
A good one, St Catherine;
But anyone better than
no-one, St Catherine.

Sweet, St Catherine,
A husband, St Catherine,
Handsome, St Catherine,
Rich, St Catherine.
SOON, st catherine!

good morning!

lifeteen last night was wonderful! it was very fun. our prayers we wrote were amazzzzzing!

scholarships, movies, and lifeteen

today....
help daniel with scholarship apps
watch pearl hrabor with hannah
lifeteen!

fun day;-)

ohhh yeah

i am loooovin this weather! nice and waaarrm......

prayers please

my great grandma is not feeling well.....

more on miss california......

ALL SHE DID WAS SAY WHAT SHE BELIEVES! SHE DIDNT EVEN SAY ANYTHING DISCRIMITORY TOWARDS GAY PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!! ovey.....

3 cheers for miss california!

for goodness sakes, she should have won. all she did was state her totally right opinion!

jesus is my friend....

did i post a link to the video? i should if i didnt!!!

hey all

typing with one hand lol....but my arm i got surgery on, my left, is starting to really hurt.......

me

surgery went well

thanks dixi!

haha i knew i knew that patrick madrid name from somewhere.....he followed me on twitter!

pearl harbor....

i LOVE this movie so bad....i cried like, 4 seperate times...haha. <3 it!

i need help!

my BFF and i been up for the past 3 hours trying to explsin the faith to a protestant friend. we have used the internet, books, everything in my friends house! any tips for next time? thanks!

hey!

tonight i am going out with my friends haha its gonna be fuuuun;-)))

i cant wait til lifeteen sunday, were doing a life night called prove it.....it sounds kewl;-)

abortion paper

for college, i am writing a paper on abortion. it is an argument. i will post it here when done! it is going pretty well;-) i am excited about it!

Friend on EWTN!

IDK if any of you watched Threshold of Hope lastnight, but the little red-headed boy, Jacob, is one of my favorite boys on the planet! he is so sweet! his mom and my mom are good friends and in prayer group together. he is so sweet, and the EWTN trip was his Make a Wish trip. it was so cool he was on there!

fun

last night some kids in my youth group went out for ice cream....so fun;-) i love Lifeteen, it is so awesome and i have gotton so close to everyone;-)

driving, wow!

the last 2 days(sunday and monday), i have gone driiving. seriosuly, talk about Jesus take the wheel haha. or the brake. i do the brake toooooooo heavily LOL and tooooo fast! but the parents are trying to teach me a bit before my surgery monday because i will nto be allowed to drive;-( for a while

yay!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/duggars_grandchild

Easter Monday!

I have off school today! yay!

ALLELUIA!

HE IS RISEN!

Holy Saturday

I am going to Easter Vigil in my church tonight, I loooove Easter Vigil! A friend of mine is joining our church.

Also, Living Stations went verrrry very well. My friend who played Jesus did an amazing job!

Good Friday

Please everyone, try and make it to a Good Friday service or Stations of the Cross.

xoxo

background

you will notice my new spring easter background. i know its only holy thursday, but i dont think i will have much time on here the next few days other than to post to my blog! hope you like it!

Holy Thursday

Have a blessed Holy Thursday. My mom and I are reading tonight at Holy Thursday Mass!

soooo....

God has helped me with the slight relationship issue between me and my guy best friend......anyways, its all good now haha. we have established that i like him and he is kinda on and off about liking me.....and were still the best of friends. so yeah haha!!!!! anywhos, whats everyone doing Good Friday? hope you can make it to a Stations of the Cross(my lifeteen is presenting a living stations...i am veronica!) or a Good Friday service!!!!

standardized tests....

God, please help me! First the ACT, and now these.....I am gonna be all tested out! hopefully i have time to call my friend later....we need to talkkkkk.....and text another friend.....we REALLY need to have a little talk......pray for me!

(its about relationship stuff)

randomness

What is your current obsession? haha.....if you know, you know....
What are you wearing right now? brown ords, brown tee with pinks, brown, white, purple plaid cami
Do you nap a lot? nooo i cant sleep when its light out!
Who was the last person you hugged? actually....yep marty haha
which animal would you be? puppy!
What’s for dinner? idk....thats for ya marty;-)
What was the last thing you bought? 2 camis, 2 sweatpants, 1 tshirt
What are you listening to right now? hey baby by no doubt
What is your favourite weather? not too hot....but NOT cold!
What’s on your beside table? whats NOT?
Say something to the person/s who tagged you. haha i copied it from a blog!
If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you want it to be?rome, italllly!
where are you typing from right now? dads laptopppp!
A book you're currently reading? haha.....none, unless my schoolbooks count...
What would you like to have in your hands right now? haha....not posting that here....
What is your favourite tea flavour? lipton citrus green tea...mmmmmm
What would you like to get rid of? abortion
If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go? make everyone get out of school and go to bellas, hannahs, or martys
What did you want to become as a child? doctor
What posters/pictures do you have on your bedroom wall? jonas brothers.....lots of pictures, and things my mama crosstiched for me!

lifeteen

lifeteen was great....we went through holy week! we had our Palm Sunday Mass, then for Life Night went thru Holy Tjhursday(Adoration), Good Friday(veneration), and Easter(a movie clip of a Ressurection scene)! it was really different, and cool! and then we had Living Stations practice....seriously, we need to get it together. But some funny things happened, inducing laughter. Actually lots of funny things. We are meeting @ 5 on Friday....so hopefully we get it together before 7!!!!!!!

lifeteen lata!

Happy Palm Sundayyyy! Lifeteen later....learning about HOLY WEEK....which is this week;-) and then practice for the LivingStations of which I am taking parrrt in!

YAY!

I am done with the ACT, hopefully the Hail Marys I said were helpful haha;-)

I liked this post so much....

I am posting it here too! for those of you who dont read the Princess Lessons blog;-)

Many people have the misconception the princesses only wear PINK, only date rich PRINCES, and always DRESS UP. I can prove this wrong. I don't like pink very much.....I don't care if a guy has money or not.....and I hate skirts and dresses! To be a princess, you just need to be a daughter of the King! the King accepts us all no matter if we wear pink dresses or dirt stained jeans and an old t-shirt. He loves us no matter if we marry rich or poor, though He does like us to marry for love....never for money (although, He doesnt care if the guy you marry is rich, He just hasnt designed that to be the REASON for marriage!) He doesnt care if you dress up....He loves the girls who come to church in dresses as much as the ones that show up in *holy* jeans.

one week....

til Good Friday. I hope everyone is going to their Good Friday services(NOT a Mass since there is Communion, but it is pre-consecrated). Also, I encourage you to attend a Stations of the Cross at least on Good Friday. For personal reasons, I was unable to go to any other Friday Stations this Lent, which makes me uber-sad;-( Maybe I can go tonight.....I will ask my mama!!!!!!! My lifeteen group is doing a Live Stations, which I am gonna be in, Good Friday evening. YAY!

ACT!

hey all, please pray for me this weekend as I take the ACT. I know prayers will help me to do well, because I am freaking out already!

XOXO

well....

i couldnt really think of any good jokes. so happy april fools day anyways;-)!!!!!

ND?????

OMG, a supposedly Catholic college....inviting Obama to speak???? I wonder what the ND alumni are thinkin about this!!!!!!! Theres a petition somehwere sponsored by USCOCB (sp?) if i find it i will post a link so ya all can sign too.

lifeteen!!!!!!!!

the social night was way fun, they showed a slideshow with pix both me and one of the leaders took haha there were some hilarious ones in there;-)!!!! i enjoyed playing scissors and confusing the heck out of all my friends, while me marty heather john and patrick, who all know the game, laughed our heads off and tryed to confuse them more;-)!!! and then the travel game, which is SOOO confusing and noone will teach me!!!!!!!

lifeteen later

social night! yay, so we can talk about the play haha!!!!!!!!

the music man

the play was very good! i liked it alot, it was really cute. this is Musical Weekend here in my town...all the musicals are the same weekend, therefore i cant see them all and could only see the one from last night, i am babysitting tonight so i cant go to the one my other friend is in!!!!!!! basically, i picked the play with the most friends in it, because i felt less bad about it then!!!!!!

yayay!

knitting and music man today! i am going to my moms friends to knit, then later to the Catholic schools production of the Music Man!

dont forget, blogger outage!

i know it says right on your dashoard, but for you people who dont look at your dashboard....i know some of you! there is a blogger outage at 4pm today for about 10 minutes!

Music Man!

i am so excited to go see this play friday put on by our catholic school! alot of my friends are in it.....

oh and the scissors game is fun, i cant tell you how to play tho or it will ruin the game for you;-/

prayers please

my dads cousin is real sick she may have leukemia, please pray for her!

scissors!

does anyone know how to play this game? its a silly retreat game my friend taught me!!!!!!!

UNSTOPPABLE!

this was the best retreat ever. carey is beautiful. sometime this week when i have more time i will write more about it;-)

retreat

please pray for me and my friends on retreat this weekend!

retreat tomorrow!

yay! i am so excited!

How tragic!

We must pray for her and her family....I really loved her work in the Parent Trap.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_natasha_richardson

lifeteen retreat!

i am so excited! it is called unstoppable, based on the life of st paul. i am gonna finish, for the most part, my packing today i already have half my stuff packed tho!!!!!!

right!

lifeteen review....must write/.....
how is everyojes Lent?

HAPPY!

HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509487,00.html

Twitter!

any of my other readers have a twitter? let me know and we can tweet each other!

so cool!

over the skype we were able to hear the bells ringing from st peters in rome! the same bells the POPE was hearing at the same moment!!!!!!!!!! it was sooooooo cool!

lifeteen later

live from the vatican via Skype!

im on twitter!
http://twitter.com/littlemarybt

thanks all!

my brother is home! thanks for the prayers!

i am on twitter! will post my link tomorrow or later.....

Twitter

OK, so i hink i may actually make one. later when i have some time anyways. any of my other readers have one? leave your link in a comment and i will follow you!

Twittering?

I am considering Twitter....anysimple explainations for me on it?????

oh wow!

my brother has been on the hospital for a week! and my mom hasnt left him once. i feel so bad for him. he is going crazy! please pray he can come home soon!

heyy!!!!

my brother is still in the hospital. they are doing an at least 24 hour EEG. prayers pleez!!!!

yay!

yay! we had Adoration at lifeteen. which was great cuz i felt bad about missing the Holy Hour my family signed up for for first fridays that i was really looking forward to! (we were on the way to the hospital).

Early earliness!

My sister and I are not going up to visit my brother todayy, we simply have too much going on, so my dad is going up after taking us girls to 7:30 Mass. Early! LOL. I wonder if anyone will even be there cuz of the time change haha if they forgot they will all be late! SPeaking of which, with the time change i only got 6 count em 6 hours of sleep same as like last night this is all gonna cathch up with me and i cant get sick!

Thankk God!

I thank God so much right now for all the good care my brother is getting in St Vincents Mercy Medical Center. I LOVE Catholic hospitals! Yesterday, we had a priest up to his room in 5 minutes so he could have anointing of the sick. We had 2 sisters come visit and pray with us and give us Communion (they second time another one came back for when my brother was awake). One of our former priests from our parish made a special trip to the hospital the other day just to see my brother and Mom!

Soooo....

I am missing my Holy Hour todayy. I feel quite bad about it. But there is really nothing I can do to get there.....i cant drive after all. and you know what is awful? my mom was going to take me driving here in a month or so, and then wham! wrist surgery. i wont be able to drive until at least june. ugh!!!!!

cheerleading and an update too

So. my friend called me last night an on sunday at Lifeteen he needs help making a routine for cheer tryouts. Luckily, they gave him a cheer to set the routine too;-)


anywhos, my brothers headache is worse today, and they sent him in for an MRI


i have my picture for my final project for art. it will be very pretty when i get it onto the paper!


i am SO SORE! from doing finnegans, but it is SO FUN!

read and pray

http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-missingboaters-nfl&prov=ap&type=lgns

i know everyone knows by now about the missing boaters and the one that was found alive(thank God!) and the 3 still missing(the 2 football players and their friend). Last night they called off the search. According to the article, they combed over 24000 feet of water. I am praying to God that even though the chances are slim they will be found alive, that they do find their bodies to grant their families some sort of closure. Who knows, they were all strong men, and maybe they did make it to somewhere....like in Lost or something. I know I am being overly optimistic. But I really hope God can grace these families with some kind of closure, even if the men do not turn up alive.

LOL!

No dixi, I will be back on my blog within 5 days.....thats a promise! sooner if my mom lets me. lucky for me i can type AND text with just my right hand! i would be very unhappy not texting for 3 months.....and typing! my mom would never do that to me.....i hope! i know she wouldnt;-) Lifeteen will be very fun haha....aw alyssa, what did you do? are you ok? i can just imagine.....*sigh*!!!!!!!haha


update about my bro, they took him to the bigger city hospital....still dont know whats wrong.

prayer request(s)

first of all, my momma and dad took my brother to the ER, this happens every so often when they up his meds dosage. he will be OK.


i have to have wrist srgery ASAP. probably right after the play. 12 WEEKS RECOVERY! yeah i as thinking like 6 weeks....nope....12!!!!!!!!

HAPPY SQUARE ROOT DAY!

think about it......just think. not too hard now. think!

extra lenten sacrifice!

i didnt put my clothes away sunday.....and my mom took away my phone til tomorrow. so i m ofeering it up as an extralenten sacrifice.....i get it back toorrow after i do school and then she sees how my room is. and then i can have it back if it is clean enough!!!!!!!!

Social!

Last night Lifeteen was a social night. I have to write the review on it, so I will post about it later!

background

no, it is not required for lent....Jude asked all the TCs to do it. and RG, Jude told me nooo floooowerrrs! I liked them better too;-(

must find a new background

no flowers....not even purple ones haha.

purple for lent

i changed my background for lent....its purple! my fave color!

moooorninnng!

waaakkke uuuuup!!!!!!! LOL!

im older!

2:11pm for me!

im older!

2:11pm for me!

second day of lent

really, i cant believe it is lent already! time goes so fast! it seems like just yesterday we were celebrating Christs birth!

you know you and your frienda are crazy catholic when...

you and 2 friends are texting(one for 2 hours and one for half an hour) about what you are doing for Lent and how your ash wednesday went!

evann!

yes, my bday is november 22!!!!!!! so we are the same age(your 15, right?) fun!
xoxo-alyssa

Horton Hears a Who

Horton is God. The speck is Earth. We are the Whos. Think about it.

happy fat tuesday!

take some time to enjoy whatever you are giving up for lent!

lifeteen!

lifeteen went very well. the talk was very good, and all the boys and girls took purity pledges too!!!!!!! it was a very awesome life night!!!!!!!! i will post more later!

lifeteen!!!!!

tonight we are learning about the theology of the body! it should be a very good talk!

haha evann!

yeah i am verrrry pale LOL. they could just do little freckle dots too LOL!!!!!!

too all my comments...

yes i should have pix! thank for the congrats, and yes i cant wait to irish step dance....but i am in no way irish!!!!!!! altho my strawberry blonde hair had to have come from somwhere a long time back!!!!!!!

finnigans farewell!

yay! i was aksed to be in a play! i didnt even audition! soe of my friends are too. we are dancers. it is an irish dinner theater, so hopefully we get to wear the cute dresses and maybe the dances are clogging dances oooo so fun haha!

i love cherry cobbler

it is very tasty. we got some from a bakery. mmmm.

1 week til Lent

I am giving up buying scrapbook suppplies, and since i dont eat meat my extra friday sacrifice for each frieday will be no snacks. i am also gonna try to start exercising! and get back to reading my bible every day.

lifeteen!!!!!

Tonight we learned about the Holy Trinity. We learned two fun Greek words, ousia, meaning nature, and hypostasis, meaning person. The Trinity is one ousia, three hypostasis. Chad was the speaker for the night, and he did a fabulous job. We played a fun 6-legged race (with three people, for the Trinity!). I was one of the volunteers for the race. It was really fun, and we had to hobble, jump, hop, etc. around the tables and at three separate points sing a song (I love you, you love me; I'm a little teapot; and Itsy bitsy spider). After a further in-depth lesson about the Trinity, we played a game of This or That to get into our small groups. In our small groups, we discussed our favorite Person in the Trinity, as well as the Person we have the hardest time understanding. When we were all back in the gym, we sang some Trinity-inspired songs and said a prayer to the People of the Trinity. Afterwards, we had a delicious dinner and some of us stayed around talking for a while before we went home. It was a wonderful life night!

lifeteen!

it went great....once i write my review i will post it here!

Baptism!

Today my cousin will be baptized1 I am so excited to go and watch her become a member of God's family!!!!!! I do kinda wish I was the godmother, but thats OK. Haha. Well I have lifeteen tonight! yay!!!!!!

For God So Loved The World

OK, so as far as I know....theres lots of depressed girls out there tonight without a date for valentines day. haha but ya know what? i have chosen to NOT be depressed today and make JESUS my date! yay me! so before I go to sleep tonight(other than taking a shower and trying to get my hair to dry so i can straighten it for the baptism tomorrow!) i am going to read my Bible(the Love Chapter, of course!)!!!!!! And take a few minutes to think about John 3:16. It is perhaps the most universally known verse in the entire Bible. If we just take a second to think about it, we realize that this is the greatest act of love to ever befall mankind. Contemplation, yes, is the hardest part of prayer....for anyone! Trying to not think of anything else....hard! But if you went to Steubie last summer....at least the ones in Steubenville....you will probably know what I am talking about. The Picture. You know the one. During Saturday nite Adoration. The picture of Jesus with big open arms on the blue and white background???? Thats the picture I always envision!!!!! So everybody, Happy Valentines Day!!!!! XOXO

Lifeteen Blog

I hope the technology person emails me back soon so I can get one set up. it will be great forour youth group to have a blog!!!!! and yes anyone else can read it too LOL.

...

my brother broke his thumb so please pray for him!!!!

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my brother broke his thumb so please pray for him!!!!

he loved her!!!!!

OK, so if you havent seen the movie Here on Earth you must. And thisis kinda a spoiler, just so ya know. So this girl....she had cancer. Jasper loved Samantha, even though he KNEW she would die, because it was incurable. But she fell in love with a college boy, and he loved her, but then he found out she had cancer, and left. He did come back after realizing how much he did love her though, and spoke at her funeral. But before she died, Jasper(boyfriend who loved her more thananything) told Kelley(college guy) that Sam needed him (Kelley), and even though it hurt him so bad to see them together, he knew she loved Kelley, and that was what was best for her. Jasper loved Sam SO MUCH, that he let her love someone else. I want a love like that.

wow!

I have readers from like 7 different countries!!!!!!

lifeteen;-)

last nites lifeteen was awesome! we learned about how aith is like a river, leading to the Ocean of God. we had a water boat race. the USS MAHJ flipped over;-)

Lifeteen!

Tonight we are learning about "faith as our response to Christ". I am excited! I missed not going last week! Lifeteen ROCKS!

First Fridays

First Fridays are the first friday of the month, and many churches have exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at these times. The churches try to organize it so there is always someone with Jesus, usually each person goes for an hour. Although it would have een easier to pray if my brother didnt ask me 20 times if we were leaving yet! i wish he would get more into church and all. Same with my sister.

First Fridays

so we have signed up to do First Fridays! I like it alot. we do from 2-3. they had these really cool booklets out so I took one home they were called meditaion in front of the blessed sacrament!!!!

from Anonymous

when I asked for post ideas, I got this from "Anonymous"...
I think it means; loving a person, giving your whole self to that person and asking for nothing in return. When the other person loved, knows why they are loved, they return that love with their whole heart.

Thanks Anonymous! That was very insightful;-) I like!!!!! Actually, I love!!!!!

I believe in happy endings

I believe everyone has a fairy tale ending out there for them. All they have to do is make it happen.

love never fails

I remember reading in a forward from a friend"Just because two people fight,it doesnt mean they dont love each other." Love is never just there. it is something one needs to work on.

Lent

hey what are you giving up?
me? snacks after dinner and buying scrapbook stuff!

love!!!!!!!!!

now I am asking your opinion....any ideas for posts on love you would like to see?

Love Chapter

Tonight I encourage all of you to read the Love Chapter (1 Corinthians chapter 13). Its my favorite chapter in the Bible;-)

I'm in love

Really and truly!
With little Madilynn Grace.
Yep;-)

GOD LOVES YOU!

This is the first and most important love ever;-)

LOVE

Starting tomorrow! All kinds of things about love! songs about love....bible verses about love....stories about LOVE!

Its really cold

Its really really cold. Porbably because it was dark upstairs and I couldnt find my slippers;-) haha. Cheerleading.....I have to go eat breakfast.....to be CHEERful.....LOL

Morning 2 U!

God has given us a beautiful day....sun shining on the snow....so pretty!

WOW!

I just found out today on blogpatrol i have a visitor from MALAYSIA!

Jesus loves the little children...

For some reason thats stuck in my head! but it is true!!!!!!!

new background to celebrate LOVE!

i love Valentines Day. Starting in February I will have every day something to do with LOVE, true love, and Gods love!

I'm not gonna be able to do it!

ALL I was doing was looking at the Lifeteen schedule. Thats all. And I saw the one at the end called "Going Forth".....and of course the description is say goodbye to the seniors, etc.....and I just GLANCED at it! And got tears in my eyes! Most of them arent even going more than a few hours away to school! I am gonna need Gods help with this alot.....And besides I will get to see them ALL SUMMER with YES and Steubie and etc etc....so I dont know what my problem is! God help me please, I dont know why it is bothering me so much!

Good Morning!

God has blessed us with beautiful snow!!!!!!

yay!

so i am not going to lifeteen this week and get to see my male friends make a fool of themselves watching football. haha. ut i get to go see my new cousin! and i can send my friends real pix from my phone! not pix of pix of pix!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!

yay!

so i am not going to lifeteen this week and get to see my male friends make a fool of themselves watching football. haha. ut i get to go see my new cousin! and i can send my friends real pix from my phone! not pix of pix of pix!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!

yay!

so i am not going to lifeteen this week and get to see my male friends make a fool of themselves watching football. haha. ut i get to go see my new cousin! and i can send my friends real pix from my phone! not pix of pix of pix!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!

Lifeteen Rox/PLYC

Lifeteen was so awesome! I really wanted to talk about the March but only 3 people got too. Me sad. I had alot to say too! Then again that may be why they didnt ask me. I always talk to much;-)

Check out this site, I am joining!
http://www.prolifeyouthcongress.com/

300!

i just looked this will be post 300!!!

morning;-)

morning!!!!!!!
lifeteen today!!!!
my fave thing in the world!

this is sweet!

BlogPatrol.com

Babies are perfect

Walking the March route yesterday there were blown up pictures of parts of aborted babies. They had their tiny arms on coins, and their hands were so PERFECT! they were tiny tiny teeny tiny versions of my own hands and your own hands. They had fingernails. That made me think of the movie Juno, where an abortion protester, one of Junos friends, is outside the clinic, and before Juno goes in her friend simply tells her "your baby has fingernails." Juno is inside the clinic and is overwhelmed by people drumming nails on the table, biting their nails, everything fingernail related, then she leaves the clinic and makes the choice to put her baby up for adoption.

Also, I couldnt get a tshirt on the March route but I found a great site with lots of prolife tees.....LiveOffensivley.com
I ordered the Abortion is Selfish one and the Cupcakes for Life one. My mom got the Mother Teresa Pray for Peace one;-)

Juno Bill

I think this is the best idea ever. One of the Ohio representatvies the the March said something about introducing a Juno Bill to have taxpayers money give funds to women to carry out a pregnancy. (for those of you who havent seen the movie Juno, thats what this bill would be named after!)

lifeteen tomorrow;-)

i am so excited!!!! we are watching the movie "bella". i love that movie i have seen it twice!!!!!!

DC deets;-)

Wednesday Night
See Tarek Saab at state theater
Join up with other kids in Lobby
Board bus
Go to SM church and do introductions and prayer
Leave again
Try to take pix and get in trouble(not really,) for the flash
Wait for picture taking time where we tell the driver and he knows there will be camera flashes
Take bus pix;-)
Rest stop
Go to back of bus and sleep with my friend while Madagascar is on (or try and really only sleep one hour) haha and wake up with my friends arm around my waist and us holding hands LOL.....(yes this friend is a guy;-))
By then its Thursday
After we woke up marty and I talked for a bit
Stop at breezewood and wait in line for bathroom LOL and then eat the buffet for food because my stomach hurt so bad but the food wasn't very good
Get back on bus
Talk for a while to friends
Rest stop
Get stuff together for DC and get onto groups used for the day for counting off
Drop small group off at Verizon Center
Rest of us headed to Holocaust Museum to get in line
Part of us HM goers go get something to eat in the cafe, of which you need security checked to get in
Get back in line find out other group at Verizon didn't get in and went to Alternative Mass and walked around DC
While they did that we froze in line for the HM and then went to the museum I liked it a lot and cried in the Remember the Children temporary exhibition idk if it was there last year
Bought one and only souvenior, a remember the children button for my purse
Ate lunch at history museum very expensive! and met up with other group on the Mall
Rallied, etc and took pix of group etc etc
MARCH! Very fun, got seperated a lot! from others and others were seperated from others LOL anyways I just followed this one guy in our group because he was like a foot taller than most people there and has red hair LOL
Met up at union station
Went all the way back to Louisiana where we swerved off from the march and went to union station so basically all three blocks back.....grrr
Boarded bus
Everyone way out of it texting friends at home etc
Talk to people
Visit back of bus and talk to friends for a long time like 2 hours
Stop again at breezewood and get bob Evans for dinner
Bus again
Texted a friend back home who couldnt come and was sad
Was super cold so my friend(the one i was holding hands with....no we are not an item!) gave me his jacket
Another rest stop where we saw a former priest from our parish, who we actually saw during the march too!
Tried to sleep on bus
Slept for 15 minutes
Talked to more friends
And eventually went up by other friends and slept on the floor in the aisle;-)
Got home said goodbyes and went home to sleep didn't even take a shower, did that this morning!!!!!






it was the best experience EVER!!!!!!! there were so many people all together for an AWESOME cause!!!!

Washington DC!!!!!!!

It was so way awesome! I have some stuff to get caught up on I will post a total detail thing when I have time!!!!!!!! XOXO

YAYAYAY!

WERE LEAVING TODAY! I will miss my dear blog....I probably wont be able to get back on and post til Friday. It will be the first day I have missed posting since i opened this blog over 3 months ago;-) I will have trip details when I get home!
We made signs yesterday....my one side says ******** teens for LIFE, ******** LIFEteen.....the asterisks are my hometown;-) and the other side is "It is a poverty to decide a child must die so you may live as you wish.-Mother Teresa"

President Barack Obama

My, how 2 and a half months ago I was hoping I would never have to write that. However, now all we can do is pray for a change of heart for Mr Obama.

Tomorrow we leave!

I am getting so excited. My youth leader said we could make signs. If we get posterboard I am gonna make one!!!!!!!

Morning!

Yippee! 2 days!!!!! I am going to the Holocaust Museum, but I wanted to go to Mass and the concert in the Verizon center, but my mom wants to go to the museum. Oh well. Plus I am doing a term paper on the Holocaust so it will be helpful;-) Next ear I will go to the Mass and everything....I mean, you go to a museum once youve seen it forver, so;-)

lifeteen;-)

i wasnt there but have been texting it sounds like it was a great night!!!!

its official!

we are going to dc....leave in 3 days!!!!woohoo!

Tomorrows my sisters bday!!!!

She will be 11. I got her a dress for her Baby Alive! I am not going to lifeteen because my mom wants me to stay home, but I iwsh we could at least go to the Mass....she really wants to go, my sister does, so I dont see why we cant. Oh well. Peoples going to lifeteen....I want to know all about it!!!!!!xoxo

Time to Cheer

It is very hard to be CHEERful at this time of morning;-) Cheering for Jesus! Thats what we tell the girls!!!!


4 days til we leave 5 days til the march......
I am lectoring at Chrurch today how many times have I looked over the readings....one.....

Our First Game Tomorrow!

My cheerleaders know 8 cheers now. Tomorrow is the first game. I am so excited for them!!!!! It is my brothers first bball game of the Upward season too!!!!! Upward is a great program, it is Glorifying God Thru Sports, which is awesome!!!! They dont even keep score, and it is super fair!!!!

Morning;-)

I am up early....for me, anyways. Snow day for the 3 schools in town, really, a "cold day". I have an eye doc. appt. so I have to do my schoolwork in time to have my contacts in for 2 hours. LOL.
5 days til we leave for DC!!!!! and 6 days til the March!!!!!
I am so happy God is blessing me with the opportunity to go!!!!!

not even i text this much!!!!

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/text-phone-texting-2275269-bill-daughter

cheer!!!

I am so excited the girls know 8 cheers for our first game on Saturday!!!!!!! they are so cute;-) they learned a "pyramid" formation today!!!!!!

eeeep cant wait!

my Mom and I have been figuring out clothing for layers and outer layers such as coats hats etc as well....it is fun! we are getting so excited to go defend LIFE with my LIFEteen youth group!!!!! woohoo!!!!

xoxo

xoxoxoxoxo! love you all!!!!!!!!
"the greatest of these is love".....
xoxo

My summer

Sure, its busy, but hey its not so bad;-)

All Summer
4-H
Junior Fair Board

May
Get done with school
Last few Lifeteens
Dad graduates from college
Mainly free days

June
2 weeks nothing just summer
17-20 YES
26-28 Steubie

July
Possible Vacation late June/early July
6-10 St Meinrads
20 thru end of month Mon thru Fri HSM workshop

August
HSM workshop thru performances on the 13th and 14th
Fair 11-15th
Last few weeks of summer free


Its not all too busy, really. I wont be able to make all 4-H meetings, but I wont die from that. I wont run for an office this year to save time for other things, and am planning on taking one project. I may run for Fair Queen, though.

XOXO

I was nominated!!!!

To go to the St Meinrads youth conference!!!! I am so excited to be able to go to this conference, it is similar to Steubie, except it is a leadership-type conference, to teach us teens how to lead in our Catholic community.
check out this web site!!!!
http://oboc.saintmeinrad.edu/

White Horse

I LOVE THIS SONG!!!

Love Story!!!

My ALL-TIME favorite this-is-how-I-want-my-life-to-go song!

Hail Mary to fight FOCA

Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with you.
Blessed are you amongst women, and Blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of Death.
Amen.

Videos!

I learned on the Princess blog to embed videos...I may add some music videos tomorrow!!!

HEY ALL!

I am sooo very excited about the March!!!!!!!! I am praying the stand we make that day in DC will make the Court change their minds about FOCA. It would be awful if that went into effect;-(

LOL

I wish we were able to spend longer in DC!!! I would like to go to the Basilica!!! But right now it doesnt look too promising....the trip is only supposed to be 30 hours, at least 20 of those on the road!!!

good news!

soooo...I was texting my youth leader, and it looks like DC is a GOOOO! woohoo! I am super psyched! So any and all ideas for the trip, they can now come my way!!!! Thank too to those who have already offered tips! You wouldnt believe how much stuff I was gonna forget;-)!!!

Lifeteen

Last night we had a wonderful welcome back, we learned about Lectio Divina, and played a fun game of movie line trivia! Seniors and Sophomores team won(yay us!!!)It was a fun life night. Since I am unable to come this week due to my sisters bday, I expect those of you blog readers who are going(bella and kelli) to email me and make me feel like I was there;-)LOL

XOXO

Welcome Madilynn Grace!

My aunt had a baby girl this morning(I was right!!!) Her name is Madilynn Grace, she is 8lbs, 8 oz, 20 inches long, and she has dark brown hair. Sadly, we are unable to go visit in the near future, maybe not even until her Baptism. But my grandparents are going down today and taking pictures! I can't wait to see what she looks like!!!

march;-)

OK....sooo, we are going as of now. we still need about 15-20 more people though. we got 6 more tonight @ lifeteen. lots of my friends are re-asking their parents LOL....though none I think more than carli;-)!!!!

my cousin;-)

can you tell I am excited? I can't wait for this new little blessing to be added to my family....and if it is a girl, it will make a tie on my moms side, 3 girls 3 boys....but if it is a boy, my sister and I will be outnumbered, probably forever! Girls dominate my dads side, 6-2 LOL!!!!! When he or she is born I will make a special post! Which will be made late tonight or tomorrow. My aunt is going in tonight, but late-ish like 9 or so, so probably no baby until early tomorrow morning! At least its not much longer to keep guessing if it is a boy or girl....I have tried everything to get them to spill....no such luck!!!!

FINALLY Lifeteen!

I have soo missed it! Tonight we I am lectoring at the Mass and at Life Night we are having a movie lines trivia game, and then learning about Lecito Divina! I am sooo excited!!!!
In other news, late tonight or tomorrow I will have a new cousin....my 8th cousin!!!!

check it out!

http://thechristianprincess.blogspot.com/

me and RGs new project!!!!!!

totsh and some surprises too!

http://teensofthesacredheart.webs.com/
if you are interested in being a cousin blog of the teen catholic family please visit the site and contact jude!

today was my BFF rachels 16th bday! i went to a party @ her place very fun!

RG and I are working on a surprise blog.....it will hopefully be up tomorrow!

snow!

it is so pretty, thank you God for the pretty snow!

the snow is COMING!

hard! we are supposed to get 6-14 inches by tomorrow morning! and tomorrow is Upward picture day! I hope we can have that happen for the cheer squad! and also my friends bday party, her sweet 16, I hope it is not cancelled1 and of course Lifeteen on Sunday(yay) i hope the roads are clear by then....they better be or WOW this is a bad storm! couldnt be worse than the bad blizzard last March though! and we got to youth group in that.....just after it was legal to drive again on the roads;-) and lifeteen is promised to be a blast, a game of what movie is that line from(with prizes) and a lesson on Lecito Divina!!!

Updated DC list...thinking positively!

Tennis shoes incase it rains and I cant wear my comfy warm suede boots;-(
Magazines
Sketch Pad and pencils
Makeup
Toiletries(toothbrush etc)
Contact case and glasses
Extra socks
a book
my Bible so I can read my one chapter a day even when I am gone
Camera(how did I forget that????) and extra battery
CELL PHONE! Again, how could I forget? and everyones numbers programmed in!
Spending money!!!!
Hand Warmers if I can get them
Cards!
Rosary
My Mary statue to put in my backpack
My voice....as my cheerleaders will tell you, no problem;-)
A sign, if we are allowed!




Thanks everyone for the advice, and Maureen, it would be so cool to visit FUS on the way home....except strangely, I think we dont go that way!!!! we go thru PA, I believe! But I miss that place, but cant wait to go in June! YAY STEUBIE!

Prince Caspian/Rah Rah!

WONDERFUL movie, great graphics!!!!!! it was sad at the end....it oddly reminded me of a high school graduation of sorts, which this year is especially getting to me, anything about graduation. and i'm not even graduating. anyways, great flick! and the war scenes oddly reminded me of pearl harbor, great flick as well, not sure why.....and William Mosely, wonderful actor, have loved him since the first film!!!!*love*...LOL


And first cheer practice today, went great, 7 girls, 3,4,5th grade! sooo adorable too! although I wish the colors were blue and gold, not green and white. Love the Panthers!!!!!! The girls learned 4 cheers!

Waiting (im)patiently for my new cousin

My aunt is due tomorrow, but if she does not go into labor on her own, which she hasn't with her previous two, they are inducing on Sunday, but it would have been cool tomorrow because it is my uncles bday! they know the gender of the baby but are keeping it a secret, but my aunt told me if it is a girl the middle name will be Grace, and a boy, Anthony, because those are their middle names.....but the first name they decided, is obviously gender specific and would soooo give it away! I am thinking it is a girl but I am not sure;-) I am getting soooo excited, even though they live 2 hours away and I wont get to see him/her much. I can't wait!

Prayers Please

I just found out my group may not be able to go to DC if we do not get 15 more people, my youth leader is around @ high schools today during study halls to get people to come. Please pray Gods will be done and if at all possible my group is able to go!!!!

DC question

For those who have been to the March before, is there any things I should bring like for sure I may have not thought of???? I have that I am going to pack
Tennis shoes incase it rains and I cant wear my comfy warm suede boots;-(
Magazines
Sketch Pad and pencils
Makeup
Toiletries(toothbrush etc)
Contact case and glasses
Extra socks
a book
my Bible so I can read my one chapter a day even when I am gone


Anything else????

XOXO

DC question

For those who have been to the March before, is there any things I should bring like for sure I may have not thought of???? I have that I am going to pack
Tennis shoes incase it rains and I cant wear my comfy warm suede boots;-(
Magazines
Sketch Pad and pencils
Makeup
Toiletries(toothbrush etc)
Contact case and glasses
Extra socks
a book
my Bible so I can read my one chapter a day even when I am gone


Anything else????

XOXO

ok....

so SMCC DID win....I was right;-) yay PANTHERS!

2 WEEKS!

TIL THE RIGHT TO LIFE MARCH!!!!! YEAH BABY!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!
and the swim meet went well. saw lots of frriends. and i think SMCC won, because they won most of the events. or so it seemed;-)

GO PANTHERS!

my BFF and I are going to a swim meet today to see 2 of our friends! hope the meet goes well!!!!!!

XOXO

;-(

OSU lost to TX.....16 seconds in the game, touchdown TX....of well.....always another year....maybe next year we will make rose bowl! Oh! and maybe you have noticed or not, but some OSU players have bible verses on the eye-smudge thingies, there were close enough close ups of both Larinitis and Pryor that I could see the vereses and look them up!

Larinitis-Galatians 2:20
Pryor-Phillippians 3:14.....

Go read these verses. Very good, especially for athletes!!!

GO BUCKEYES!

We went and got some food for the game....OSU v. Texas....go bucks!

Novena to stop FOCA, from Dixi's blog

Please read the information below and join us in prayer and fasting January 11-19, 2009.

The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) will be signed into law if Congress passes it on January 21-22, 2009. The FOCA is the next sick chapter in the book of abortion. If signed into law, all limitations on abortion will be lifted, resulting in the following:1) All hospitals, including Catholic hospitals, will be required to perform abortions upon request. If this happens, Bishops vow to close down all Catholic hospitals - more then 30% of all hospitals in the U.S.2) Partial birth abortions will be legal and have no limitations.3) All U.S. taxpayers will be funding abortions.4) Parental notification of abortions on minors will no longer be required (regardless of age).5) The estimated number of increase in abortions is 100,000 annually.Just as important, the government will now have control in the issue of abortion. This could result in a future amendment that would force women by law to have abortions in certain situations (rape, Down Syndrome babies, etc) and could even regulate how many children women are allowed to have.Needless to say this information is disturbing, but sadly true. As Catholics, as Christians, as anyone who is against the needless killing of innocent children, we must stand as one. We must stop this horrific act before it becomes a law.

PLEASE JOIN US IN saying a novena and fasting from January 11-19. For Catholics, the prayer of choice is the rosary for the special intention of stopping the FOCA. For non-Catholics we encourage you to pray your strongest prayers with the same intention for 9 consecutive days.

We hope and pray this will branch and blossom to become a global effort. Please do the following 3 things:1) Pass this information on quickly (so as many as possible can start praying on January 11)2) Say a novena from January 11-19, asking God to prevent the FOCA from becoming law in the U.S.3) Fast at least 2 days during this novena (either a complete fast of bread and water, or a Lenten fast of no meat and meals limited to 1regular meal and 2 lesser meals during the day).Remember that with God all things are possible and the power of prayer is undeniable.

"If every good Catholic girl became a nun, there would be no Christian mothers!"

What St Giannas priest told her. It is SOOOO true! I thought at one time it would be awesome to be a nun, and it would, but I feel called to be a mother in the vocation of marriage, and have a large family, and raise my children in the Faith. Without mothers to raise the children in the Faith, there would be no next generation of Catholics, Catholics who may also raise Catholic families or become a religious! Being a Catholic mother is going to be great;-)

morning!

back to school!!!! it went well!!!!

St. Gianna, from RosaryGirl

St. Gianna Beretta Molla

Gianna Beretta was born on October 4, 1922, near Milan, Italy. She grew up in a Christian home, and her parents carefully passed on to her their Catholic faith. As a teenager, she was active as a member of Catholic Action groups. When she was sixteen, she made up her mind that she would rather die than commit a mortal sin, and that she would do everything for Jesus.

Her parents' deaths, four months apart in 1942, were a heavy blow to Gianna, who was just beginning medical school at the University of Milan at that same time. After six semesters, she continued her preparation at the University of Pavia, where she earned a doctorate in medicine on November 30, 1949.

Gianna opened a clinic in 1950. She soon had many patients. In addition to her work as a physician, Gianna also devoted her time to community projects. She continued to be an active member of Catholic Action groups too. She organized talks and retreats, hikes and social events, and was very successful in reaching out to young people. Pietro Molla, a prosperous engineer, who belonged to one of the Catholic Action groups, was impressed with this dynamic young doctor who cared so much about others. Gianna had been planning to become a medical missionary sister in Brazil. Her brother was a priest there, and she knew he would be happy to have her help him. But once she got to know Pietro, Gianna wondered if it was God's will for her to marry him and start a family. After much prayer, she asked the advice of her confessor. The priest answered her, "If every good Catholic girl became a nun, there would be no Christian mothers!"

Pietro and Gianna were married on September 24, 1955. Gianna was 33. In 1956, their first child, Pierluigi was born. Mariolina was born in 1957, and Laura came along in 1959. After that, Gianna lost two more babies before they were born. But she became pregnant again in 1961. After two months, she started to experience pain, and a doctor found a tumor in her uterus. Before undergoing the necessary surgery, Gianna gave the doctors strict orders to keep her unborn child safe. The following April, just before the baby was to be born, Gianna told her doctor, "If you have to choose between my life and the baby's, I demand that you save the baby's life." As a doctor herself, Gianna was well aware of the risks she was facing, and she wanted her wishes known.

On April 21, Gianna had a healthy baby girl, who was baptized Gianna Emanuela. But Gianna was dying from complications in the delivery. She asked Pietro to take her home so she could die in her own room. There, on April 28, 1962, Doctor Gianna Beretta Molla died. Her daughter, Gianna Emanuela, who has been called the "living relic of her mother", followed in her mother's footsteps and became a doctor. On April 24, 1994, with understandable joy and pride, she was present at the beatification ceremony for her mother, who selflessly gave her own life so she could live. Gianna was named a saint 10 years later in 2004.

cool fact!!!

OK, so this is waaaay random, but I saw it on my MSN homepage.....

Who invented the football huddle?

The notion of huddling up in a tight circle for a pre-snap strategy session was conceived in 1894 by Paul Hubbard, football quarterback at Gallaudet University, the world's first university for the deaf and hard of hearing.



The impetus? To keep opposing players, especially those fluent in American Sign Language, from being tipped off to impending plays by Hubbard's hand signals.



Smart guy!!!!

hey all!

woo hoo....17 days til me and my youth group leave 4 DC 4 the Right to Life March!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kit Kittredge, an American Girl

This is the BEST American Girl movie to date! It was wonderful, and while not staying totally in line with the books, had a WONDERFUL plot line, and the story was as enjoyable for me as my 10year old sister. If you are familiar with the stories, you may agree with me....shouldn't Kit and Will be married someday? As with Ben and Felicity from the Felicity stories! I have a PERFECT plot for this Kit story "epilogue".....so it seems as though in the film Will is supposed to be around my age....15 or 16....and Kit is 10....SOOOO....when Kit is 18 in 1942, WWII will have just started....and the two of them get married, just before he is drafted.....and she is pregnant when he leaves and she has a baby while he is gone....they think he is MIA....and then he comes home after VE day!!! wouldnt that make a wonderful story? I should contact American Girl about writing epilogues for their books!!!

my new header!

courtesy of TC!!!

cheer clinic!

It went really well! We met the girls in our squad, the Upward Spirit Leaders, we have 7 girls, one being my sister;-) Us 3 coaches for our squad led all of the squads in the Cheers section. We taught them one cheer(a long one) It was great!

Lyrics(and guitar chords too) to Above All!

Hey all steubie friends, I copied and pasted the lyrics/chords to Above All, the theme song for this years Steubenville youth conferences!!!!!



Above All
Matt Miller
Vs 1
G Em
Yours, O Lord, is the greatness of creation.
C D
The earth proclaims the power of Your hand.
G Em
Yours, O Lord, is the majesty beyond compare.
C D
Glory be to You the great I AM.
Pre-Chorus
C Em D/F#
(And) as You raise us to Your throne,
C D
As You raise us to Your throne…
Chorus
G D
We will sing praises to the King!
Em D
We will dance from the joy that You bring!
G D
We will shout a victory call!
C D G
For You are the One who reigns…above all!
Vs 2
G Em
Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom great and mighty.
C D
Saints and angels exalt Your name on high.
G Em
Yours, O Lord, is the vict’ry over evil.
C D
Darkness fades as we dwell in the light.
Ending
C D Bm Em
For you are the One who reigns above all,
C D G
For you are the One who reigns…above all!

Abortion

How can it be legal? I subscribe to Brio, a teen Christian girls magazine, and there was a article this month about responses to arguments people may make about abortions....one answer I remember makes the most sense of all.....How can a mother kill her unborn child and it NOT be considered murder when in fact, a murderer who kills a mother and her unborn child is charged with TWO, count em TWO counts of murder, proving that the law does recognize unborn babies as people(and scientists even say they have their own DNA from moment of conception, different from their mothers!), except in the case of abortion. It just does NOT make any sense AT ALL. 18 days til the March for Life in Washington DC and I am totally excited to go for such a great cause!!! Like totally as in I have been counting down since I turned in my money in the beginning of December(the week after I got the paper;-) LOL) And now since my mom is coming it will be great, and some of her friends are also chaperoning so she is happy to be able to spend time with them too!!!!!!

XOXO for now!!!

Hello Young Catholic!

It is so great to see another Catholic blog run by another teen/young Catholic!

Please visit!!!!
http://theyoungcatholic.blogspot.com/

Cheer Clinic today!

I help coach Upward Christian Cheer and today we have our clinic!!!! I am excited to meet the girls on my squad!!!!

make that 15...

form teen catholic girls followers!!! help me pleez!!!!! more followers!!!

follow please!

I have 13, teen catholic has 9 and rosarygirl has 14 so I need more pleez!!!!!!!! at least one to tie rosarygirl but more is better;-)XOXO

I just did the coolest thing!

so on my new phone you can set videos as wallpaper, so I got online and got up pix of Sts bernadette and Therese and the Lifeteen symbol, and held my phone up to the screen and changed pix! It looks really cool! Well kinda....but I will make them til I get good at it!!!

yay my new phone!

It is soo cute....i luv it! the thing is tho I cant get PIX right now because that usually doesn't work until about an hour or 2 after activation. hope it works soon and I can get the pix my friends already sent!!!!!

In other news my mother is STILL LETTING me go to DC, I officially turned in the release form....she still has to do hers but I am for sure going! My mom is at it with her what-ifs and all and LOL shes making ME worried! But I am ok with it...Bible verse;-) I am gonna write it down and put the paper in my backpack. Besides, theres gonna be sooo much security that week;-)

good sign, i think

so last night after texting my friend, I got kinda worried about the going to the March. but last night in my Bible, I read"go in peace, your faith has saved you"....so I think thats a good sign....

well i am sad...

I just found out my friends carliann and jake cant come tom DC....and also because the reason they cant come is because there is apparently planned attacks for the inaugural stuff and their mom heard it on the news!!! so now I am sad they cant come....and scared for me and they people who are!

Woohoo new years!!!!!

Means 17 days til sisters bday(need a gift) means 10 days til next lifeteen(YAY, miss that!) means 18 days til moms bday(luckily, have a gift) means t-minus 6 more months til steubie, 5 and a half more months til YES, and like 10 and half months til my sweet 16. means new phone tomorrow, and unlimited tx;-) means a new beginning for my relationship with God. means new years resolutions i didnt make cuz i break them anyway;-) means friends leaving for college;-(

XOXO

YAY!

Tomorrow I am getting a new phone and so is my mom! Mine had problems with freezing up and shutting off by itself, so I am getting an LG Decoy, it is shiny black, a slide phone, and really cute! My mom is getting an enV2 cuz she wanted a full keyboard. I also have unlimited tx!!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

So, I satyed up and watched the ball drop!!!!! I didnt watch the rest of the Rockin New Years Eve but I recorded it on DVR, my mom wanted me to go to sleep! I am so excited for a fresh start, a whole new year full of fun and exciting things, and some not so fun and not so exciting(friends graduating and going to college;-() And some fun things too (YES, steubie 09, st meinrads!!!!!)XOXO