Lent

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

HAPPY 2009!

I am headed upstairs for the night to ring in the new year with my whole family! My mom is actually gonna watch the ball this year;-) So, I will be posting again....next year! I havent missed a day yet....and am not planning to until the march for life, when I will be gone all day the 22nd!

My new year will bring...

woot woot! a new year....things it will bring
DC trip
famine
my surgery....ugh
spring retreat
YES
STEUBIE!
hopefully a permit and maybe a license too;-)
st meinrads trip
senior friends leaving and going to college;-(
start of my (eeep) junior(eeep) year(eeep)
my 16th bday;-)


YAY a new year!!!!!!

The Year In Review!!!

YAY ITS NEW YEARS EVE! YAY TIMES SQUARE! YAY!

January-Its 2008!!! Moms bday, sisters bday....right to life march I did not go to;-(
February-Valentines Day LOL! And the 24 hour famine!!!! Which was sooo fun!
March-24 hour famine(hey, it was February 29-march 1st, ok? And Easter!
April-hmmmmm....not much that I recall!
May-Confirmation!!!!! WOO HOO!
June-Steubie!!!!! Steubie, and YAY STEUBIE!
July-Dads surprise bday party! On his bday, July 4! And HSM theater workshop, and winning first with a tie with my BFF for 4-H scrapbooking!
August-COUNTY FAIR! HSM workshop, and performances!
September-Lifeteen Kickoff! Found out a new cousin was on the way!
October-My cousin M's 1st bday! SMCC HOMECOMING! and I got this blog!!!
November-ME 15!!!! And thanksgiving too!
December-Brothers bday, I organized a lifeteen skit, BFF R's youth group party, Christmas.....and now here I am, giving a basic overview of this year!

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVE!

Later I am going to post a year-in-review. Also, I read yesterday online that tonight there is a Leap Second, where all atomic time stops for one second to keep up with the earth turning, they do this every few years, anyway, it can make cell phones, computers, etc crash. I dont know exactly how to avoid it, but I am thinking maybe by turning off your computer and or cell phone a few minutes before 12 and turning them back on "next year" you will be OK!!!

Off to family party!

Dads side, we arent going for long as Jamie is here. Also, Jamie got me a Christmas present...
*"Believe in the power of believeing" necklace, the pharase is around a circle with a cross in the center!

What a Trip

So we are one half hour away from destination. My dad, brother, and sister need a bathroom break. We stop at Taco Bell. My dad goes to start the car back up....no starty. At all. For one whole hour. Yep. So we get to their house, had a wonderful time, delicious dinner, and adorable desserts(little cakes decorated by my aunt!). We get presents.....(list adding right here...)
*Travel stickers, really cute(for all my trips!)
*Quote and Phrase pretty sticker...ivories and purples and dark pinks....one cute dark purple one says"create change"....I am gonna use it for my DC pages about the March!
*Red strap-hinge album

K so thats that. We visited, I got to see my 2 cousins(both boys), the littlest one is 2 and sooooo intelligent. I was palying air hockey with my sister and he took the score-slider numbers and used them like an abacus, going 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10!!! He counted all the way to ten! Just 2 in September too! And his mom has a pandora bracelet, and she has 3 birthstone rings on it for her kids(baby due in january, very soon!) and he told her all 3 colors!(green, blue, red) He is sooo smart, and sooo cute!!! He tells us all the time he loves us, and before he left he said "please dont go. no leave." It was sooo sweet. I have little holes in the jeans i wore, and he put his finger in one of the holes and said "is that you leg in there?" It was adorable! And the whole time I tried to get my aunt and uncle to spill the gender of their baby(they know but nooone else!) I tried asking what the middle name was, and my aunt said, "Grace. Or Anthony." Those are their middle names. No luck there;-( They didnt want to know but they saw something on the ultrasound, which may lead one to think oh its a boy, but it was a fancy 4D one, so that can also be clear if it is indeed a girl. I want a girl as a tiebreaker, I hope so!!! They do have a name....they even have paint(locked in their closet LOL) which my aunt told me 2 colors...beige and ivory. and blue or pink!!! I cant wait for the newest little blessing!!!! If it is a girl and I get married before say I am 23 or 24, she would probably be my flower girl, cuz she would be anywhere from say 6-8ish then. Haha that would be fun;-) So we left for the one and a half hour ride home, and about 45 minutes from home....brrrbumpbrrbump.....tire trouble. Pull over and everything looks fine, so we waited til my Granparents were caught up and headed onward. Now we are home. Quite a day, but so happy to see my cousins!!!

XOXO

Another stop today!

To my aunt and uncles and cousins a few hours away! we are leaving at 3 and coming for dinner and staying to visit and do presents and come back here around 9ish! I am excited to see them!!!

In the words of Frsoty the Snowman...

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
I couldnt wait to post my list....so I will just add to it later! I do have to say, however, that as I was opening my presents Christmas morning(and the night before....and that afternoon) I was thinking of the family my lifeteen youth group adopted, thinking about them opening their gifts. I hope they liked them! I got so far....no particular order, just the order I wrote them all down in!
*Xyron 500 refill
*Travel Case(purple!) for DC trip
*Gray hat with pink heart outline
*Journal Set
*Mirror/brush Combo travel compact
*Hot Pink legwarmers!!!
*Hair Scrunchies
*Body Butter
*Frame stickers
*Nail care travel set
*Digi Watch
*HSM3 Book
*Bracelet craft
*PJ pants
*Gray striped top(matches hat)
*Purple and pink striped sweater
*White button-up top
*Cell Phone holder
*Money for Steubenville etc...x lots of people;-)
*Art Classx2(one from each set of grandparents)
*Adhesive
*Die cuts
*Monogram A in purple
*East High Forever board game
*Scrapbook supplies(LOTS!!! Christmas, DC, regular.....lots!)
*"Peace to all Living Things" top
*Black Jeans
*Really super cute Suede and Feux Fur boots...That I cant wear today because it is raining;-(
*Birthday Card making set
*Birthstone Heart Earrings
*A huge brown and white stuffed stand up cow I named Coco
*Ornaments
*Aeropostale shirt I have to return but will get another one
*Super cute socks, 4 pairs!!! Txt socks, and a set with a pair of striped socks, argyle socks, and heart socks
*HSM3 purse
*Jonas Brothers book
*2 Nancy Drew mysteries
*HSM3 trivia game
*2 candle holders that match my room
*Furry Logic book
*Purple cable knit tunic sweater



That seems to round it up for now!!!! Will add more later! Hope you all had a great day celebrating the birth of our Savior!!!!!!!!!!XOXOXOXOXOXO

Happy Boxing Day!!!

LOL!!! I cant wait to post my list of presents, but I would like it to be complete before posting it....so I will tonight!!!
We DID NOT get the white Christmas promised us by the weather people for like 2 weeks now. Grrrr. And we talked to our friend in Michigan and she has 2 FEET!!!;-( Saddness! And now it is freezing Raining!

bye bye Christmas

its here and its gone! thats what i dont like about holidays! but what was important was the fact that we celebrated Jesus' birthday!!! so i got a new backround commemorating the fact that this grand and wonderful celebration is over;-(
LOL;-)

;-)!

Hope your CHRISTmas was merry and bright!!!
I am gonna post a list tomorrow night!

Must be Christmas Eve...

Chiffon skirt(i never wear skirts)
Rhinestones in hair(last time I did that-homecoming)
1 and half inch stilletto kitten heels(my moms and I can barely walk in them because they are a little tight and make my 4th toe on my left foot do this weird popping thing)
Wrist brace makes a great accessory....not


Have a blessed Christmas Eve, I will try and post a greeting tomorrow morning after presents here before my dads parents!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE!!!

Have a great Christmas Eve! Todays schedule...

Normalness til later this morning
Cemetary visits to bring flowers to deceased family members
Come home and get ready for Church at 4(I am lectoring)
Visit great-aunt in nirsing home
Go to Church
Go to moms parents for dinner and gofts there!!!

hello all

2 days til Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY! Tomorrow I lector at Christmas Eve 4 oclock Mass! I am nervous though;-)

Happy Holidays???

Why cant people say Merry Christmas? In stores, on TV? 80 percent of Americans believe in God. 80 percent. And I have never met one Jewish, Islam, or Jehovahs Witness offended by Merry Christmas. Seriously. What was our country founded on again? hmmmm...

G'day, mates

Almost g'nite, but whatever. Today I didnt go anywhere. Didnt even put in my contacts! Or do makeup! But I did do school, watch a history video, watch TV, work on a history report, and talk to Bella. I am super sad there is no lifeteen until the 11th of January. But of course, we have shopping on Monday. That will be fun. Even though Jake and his sister Carliann cannot come probably. Jake came last year.....it was really funny. He didnt cut paper the right size and patched the gift part showing with a different color of paper. It was really cute, actually. But we are wrapping at my place this year after shopping at Target, eating pizza, and praying!!!! Yay! Fun! Then next month is the Right 2 Life March!!!!! SUPER YAY! I get to go this year! It will be great to stand up for something I really and truly support!!! With my friends! By bus! To DC! Even though we will only be in DC for about 8-9 hours, it will still be a great experience. We are going to the Holocaust Museum when we are there too. Oh and I am planning on typing a year in review for December 31st, so you all have that to look forward to while reading my mostly boring blog posts!!!XOXO

Good Morning!!!

Lifeteen today!!!;-) Last one of the year;-( But we have Christmas shopping next week, so that will be fun! We are having a home-made dinner!!!!!!!! YAY!!! We are learning about the Sacrament of Reconciliation and then we are having Confessions too. The rest of my family went yesterday but I wanted to go with my youth group. I havent been to Confession since Steubie in June and I like to go before Advent too!!! XOXO

sweet!

yesterday at church for Immaculate Conception, I saw one of Mother Teresa's Missionaries ofCahrity!!! so cool! And Fr Phils homily was about St Bernadette, one of my Confirmation saints and also a patron of my blog. We have a St Bernadette grotto inthe back of our church where we can light candles and offer prayers. I like to do that!


Oh and Rosary Girl has more followers than I, so if you read this blog but do not officially follow please do so quickly!!!(we kind of have this contest thing;-))

the whole 9 yards, anything and everything

as i am typing this, my brothers guinea pig, puffy, is on my lap squealing. today we saw the christmas light show at skate world, with the lights coreographed to music on a local station, mostly trans siberian orchestra. my vietnam paper is now on the fifth page, and since i only need 4-5 pages, i am done excpet for finish-ups and a good closing sentence. i am geting nervous we wont have enough people for the lifeteen skit. but the youth leader is calling more people today and he may do a part as well. so we will have enough people i suppose. once again, happy st nicks day!!!