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If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together....
                  There is something you must always remember.

 You are braver than you believe,

stronger than you seem, 

 and smarter than you think. 

But the most important thing is, even if we're apart....

I'll always be with you.

A..A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh) 

Headless Horseman

Finally I drew some more. I guess I am going on another wanting to draw streak. Yay! I like to draw.

~xx

The Sun'll Come Out Tomorrow (bet you bottom dollar that tomorrow there'll be sun)

They are making a new Annie movie! I the trailer for this the other day and now I really want to see the movie. It comes out this December.

I really hope they don't ruin this, because it looks stinking cute! And Annie is so adorable. Like, really! I want her.

I know a lot of fans of Annie out there will either love the idea or hate it, because it's modern and new-y and different. But I am excited to see it. 

Anyway, it looks cute. So yeah.....

xx

Would YOU deny Him?

Eeep! Oh my gosh, guys. I just saw the best Christian movie. Yesterday my church youth group all went to see the movie, God's Not Dead. It was sooooo good! Like, you need to go see it. You need to!

 But really, that movie makes you think. Would you write down "God is dead" if you were in Josh's situation? I think a lot of Christians would, because it would be so tempting to just write it down even if you are a Christian and believe in God. You just want to pass the class, right?  So many Christians out there are just lukewarm and weak, and God isn't really that important to them - more just like a magic potion that keeps you from the flames of hell. I mean, if I was in Josh's situation, would I have written "God is dead"? My first reaction is "NO!!!!!!!!"  I just wouldn't be able to do it. I would feel horrible doing it, and feel like a huge coward.

But here's something a friend said: "We all say now that we would never do that. We would never deny Him. And of course, that may very well be true. I mean, we never want to deny Jesus. But remember Peter? Jesus told him he would deny Him three times. And Peter was like, 'Never! I would never deny You!' But......  he did."

And that's just awful. I never ever want to deny Jesus. Ever. That's really scary to me. Jesus says if we deny Him, He will deny us.

Another interesting point my friend made was that denying Jesus is not just a, "Oh, God's dead." or something like that where you actually say that and verbalize it. No Christian would ever actually say anything like that. Denying Jesus can be an action. What you do determines what you really believe. Are your actions glorifying Him and bringing honor to His name? Or is there no proof in your life that Jesus is your Lord? If you aren't living for Him, what are you saying? Isn't that the same as saying you can get away with it? And if you think you can get away with it, is it because you think God isn't actually real? But you can't get away with sin. You can't. Even if you don't see the consequences of sin now, it doesn't mean that you will go unpunished. You can never escape the consequences of sin, even if it takes a lifetime for it to catch up with you.

Anyways, that's my blib blab speech for the day. 

 But whosoever denies Me before men, him will

I also deny before My Father which

is in heaven. 

Matthew 10:33   

Random stuff

In my crazy house, lots of strange things are said or done. Here are just a few:


 ~ Jackson (8) sees a picture of Adolf Hitler and immediately cries, "He's got a pig nose! He's got a pig nose!" Everyone else is like, "What?!"  and he says, "well, it looks square, to me."

  ~ Jack is doing his math on the carpet, when suddenly he jumps up and says, "I heard a cockroach hiss! I just heard a cockroach hiss!"   Um, no you didn't. (Or so we hope.... :)


  ~ After telling Mom everything he is going to do when he's grown up, Jack says, "I'm not saying you're old, but you might be dead before I do that. I'm not saying you're old, or anything."



 Awkward//Awesome

 ~ Joey (14): "I want to grow my arm pit hair so long I can braid little goatees coming out my pits."   

~ Spewing my water across the kitchen table onto my brother's dinner plate.... He hadn't eaten anything because he wasn't hungry, but he still ate it later. Haha, don't say anything even remotely funny while I take a drink. You will get sprayed. 

~ When someone has something stuck in their teeth, and you're like, "um, should I tell them....?" 

~ This picture:

 If you can't tell what he's wearing, it's a waaaayyyy too small sparky vest. It was "Wear Your Uniform to School" day at AWANA, and since he doesn't have one, he pulled an old sparky vest out of a closet or something. That boy.... is not right in the head.....

 








Awesome: 

~ I went ice skateing with my best friends and sister for the first time! Actually, this happened like, over a month ago. So I'm a little behind.

~ Good books. No need to explain.

~ Homemade milkshakes! They're the best.

~ I've started driving!! Really excited about that. I don't think I will get my license until way later this year though. I'm in no real hurry. 

 ~ Babysitting the cutest little baby boy ever! Actually, babysitting in general is pretty fun. :)




What's been awkward or awesome about your week?  

new picture/ Gracie

I am only just now getting around to posting this, but I actually finished this drawing a couple weeks ago.  I guess I am too lazy to post lately. But I will again soon.

I'm actually not happy with how this picture turned out, but it was so much fun making the face that I guess I don't care. I just wish the lower body and stuff turned out better. I was doing this off  a picture from the internet, and there was no lower body showed, so I added it. I need guidelines!

Also have gotten some pictures in of my adorable sister lately. She is just the cutest thing in the world. Be jealous.

They'll Be the Death of Me

Spiders are my worst nightmare.

They creep and crawl, they have hairy disgusting bodies, and THEY HATE ME.

But that's okay - BECAUSE I HATE THEM.

I detest the creatures. 

I loathe them.

I despise them. 

They really are so odious!





 I have always hated spiders. Actually, I don't like very many other bugs, either. But spiders? I want them dead. Every last one of them. Dead, I tell you! Flushed down the toilet, smooshed under a rock, flattened by a shoe - makes no difference, as long as they are dead.

 I suppose it's typical for females to dislike spiders.What's there to like in a spider? How can anyone actually LIKE a spider????  I am terrified of spiders (except the itty bitty ones) and sometimes have nightmarish dreams where they crawl all over my skin and pry into my mouth - yuck! Then when I wake up in the middle of the night, I lay there shivering and shuddering, and wiping my mouth to get the sticky feel away. And pretty much feel a billion little legs creepy-crawling all over my body.

 I used to have a afternoon job that had to do with spiders when I was younger. You know those things that are like these long poles with a fuzzy ball thing on the end? They are supposed to wipe away cobwebs and stuff. Well, that was my job. Going throughout the house searching for webs and swiping them away. You can imagine how I felt about this job. *Shudders*.  In a lot of the webs, there were still big disgusting spiders living in them! Long gangly legs and a little ugly ball for a body - Daddy Long Legs. Oh, how I dislike spiders!

 Well, it got to where whenever I came across a spider web with a occupant dangling from it, I would literally take like, ten to fifteen minutes just to sike myself up to stab at it with the webster thingy! And then I would shriek and shake out the webster on the deck. The scary part was that sometimes the spider dropped down onto the floor if I didn't hit it with my jab, and then it would get away. Yikes!

 Finally, my mom had enough of my ridiculousness. She assigned the job to someone else. (to which I am eternally grateful).

 And then there's the person I used to clean for. Sometimes in the less used rooms of the house, I would run across big black spiders on the walls. OH. MY. GOSH.  I had to vacuum those up! Run Away. I'm glad I wasn't being watched while I was doing this, because sometimes I would really be freaking out and it would take me a few deep breaths before I finally shot my hand out with the vacuum tube and sucked it up. And then I would imagine it crawling back out to get me and get revenge, even though I knew it was swirling away in the vacuum. I guess I have a big imagination. I am glad I had the vacuum running though, as it covered up my whimpers.

 Man, I really am a big baby, aren't I? Wow. . . yep, I guess I sound super silly right now. But hey! The struggle is real, guys.

 And that is my story about spiders. I guess now you now all know that I am a wimp. Sad, but true. . .

 welllllll, that's enough for now. not sure why I really told the whole world that i am terrified and absolutely loathe spiders, but I did.