Busy Days

Wow. Life can be so busy sometimes. I've been doing so much lately with school, church, friends, babysitting, etc. It's been crazy, but I absolutely love every minute of it. It's Easter break! % whole days off and I'm loving it! The week before last I had three real days of school (took off school to go skiing one day and went on a field trip to UCCS the next), last week I had three days of school (Thursday and Friday I had off), and then next week I getmonday off for Easter and Friday off for prom! Wow life is easy right now :)

So skiing was pretty much awesome. It was a complete last minute decision, like at 9:00 the night before I decided to go. I went with my older brother's friend, Ren, and my little brother. We went up to Loveland ski resort (my first time) and there was like no one there. It was great! I boarded the first half of the day, and skiied the second half. On the way home, my truck wouldn't shift past 3rd gear so we drove at a steady 45 mph for like an hour until the pressure valve finally decided to work :( That was no fun because what should've taken us two hours ended up taking like four. We did finally get home and I made a video for American History.

Ahh the video. So first I made one about Betsy Ross, but when I went to upload it on the website (http://samsungk-12.com/videos.html) everyone elses were super cool so I figured I had to do something else. I made a video next on the inventor of hand sanitizer and tried to make it silly, but it still wasn't working. So then I decided to recruit my big bro and his friend Michael to help. We decided on Rosa Parks and those boys didn't cooperate at all, but It was 11:00 p.m. at this point and I had been skiing all day and I had the field trip the next day so I went with it. It didn't upload to the website like everyone else's at first so I figured it was too bad, but then like 5 days later it finally got there.

Break has been great! I got to babysit a lot and today I'm going to look at cars becuase we're getting a new one (even though we alredy have 4?? whatever). Tonight I get to babysit two of the cutest kids in the world, Paxton and Evie. I love them!

Alright so this was going to be much longer but the time is 12:46 and I have got to go pick up my little bro to take him car shopping. Sorry about the lack of pictures. I'll try to get some up next time.

Been a Little While

So, two weeks have passed and not a whole lot has been going on. That's just my boring life I guess ;)

Last Tuesday I got a call from my parents asking me to go to babysit right after school. The dad had to go to the E.R. because he had been so sick. I went and watched their two boys (1 and 4) and had so much fun. We made home made bubbles and blew those for probably a good 30 minutes. We also played in the sand box... that is until the one-year-old started eaing the sand. Yikes! I felt terrible because the parents got home right as evrything was happening. The 4-year-old had just had an accident and came up to me and said "I need to go change my pants." so I sent him upstairs to change letting him know I'd be there in a minute. I was rinsing off his plate he just gave me. As I had just finished rinsing, the parents walked in and I told them their little one had ran up to change his pants. I can only imagine what they were thinking "The babysitter is standing blankly in the kitchen. The baby is in the high chair finishing his sandwich. Our son is upstairs changing his pants by himself. Wow." I felt so bad. They didn't say anything, but still I'm sure they weren't fond of the situation.

Last Wednesday was my Daddy's birthday. We went out for yummy Chipotle dinner then went and saw Battle Los Angeles at the theatre. It was pretty good, but really didn't have a good story line. It was all pretty much guns, blood, soldiers, end of the world type movie. It was fun, though.

I made flip-flops with my friends for prom! We had all decided not to wear heels because everyone takes them off to dance anyways. The problem was when you take off your heels, your feet get all dirty and gross, so we decided to wear flip-flops. We got the cheap Old Navy ones and decorated them with a boatload of ribbon and jewels and tulle and the like. So fun. And we had pizza and other snaacks. A fine time if I do say so myself.

Alright a bad picture, I know. I'll get better ones the day of. I promise.

The next day I went and got my prom dress! We went to this lady's house who we found on craigslist. She has over 200 (probably) different prom dresses each for only $10! Most of them were brand new, too, with the tag and all. It was fantastic. I tried several on, but ended up choosing a very simple purple gown. I'll have to add a bunch of jewelry, but that's alright because I love jewelry. I went with the Prouty's and Sarah and Sarah's mom. 

I went to little Judah's two-year-old birthday on Saunday! He's so big! I remember when we got the call that Mrs. Ruthie was pregnant. I was so excited. But there's exciting news because we just found out she's pregnant again! 5 Fravel children! I love it!

I got to watch sweet little Rocky and Luke on Monday! It was great! Rocky is such a precious little man! He spit up all over me, though. Lol it's kind of a given with him. Luke and I had a lot of fun playing with "tom" or Thomas the train. And boy does he love bathtime. He was in there for forever and when I tried to get him out, he screamed. Lol. At least that's better than when they scream getting into the tub. That's never fun. 

Already Three months :-(

The rest of the week has been pretty blah. I went to church on Wednesday which was fun. Oh I almost forgot. I got a voice mail on Wednesday right after church. It was from an unknown number and was like "Tiffany" (as in one was telling the other my name) "Hey Tiffany. Wanted to know if you wanted to go on a date sometime. Alright, I'll call ya back.". Haha boys are so crazy sometimes.

Government is shutting down at midnight tonight. Let's pray that America gets this all under control soon. Crazy stuff!

Alright that's all. Now for some Jesus time and then whatever I else I can think up. Zombies? Maybe.    

Spring Break Highlights

• Sleeping.
• Winter Retreat!
• Having Grandpa here!
• Talking with one of my best friends on the phone!
• Sleeping.
• Watching this precious girl!

• Tons of 20 questions and Spinner!
• Watching these silly boys!


• Sleeping.
• Completing my essay!! (two exclamation points for that one)
• Eating at Outback and seeing Brandon!
• A close to four hour drive just hanging with the family and looking for bears!
• Working with Mrs. Katie in her at-home daycare!
• Sleeping.
• Bike rides!
• Snow this morning!
• Staying up late watching Chopped in bed with my parents!
• Chemistry! (ok that wasn't so great actuall)
• Cooking chinese for dinner!
• Watching these little cuties!

• Sonic slushies!
• Sleeping.
• Working in the nursery today!
• Venezuela missions meeting!
• Cleaning!
• And tonight I get to watch a bunch of cute kids at thr Fravels house!
• Did I mention sleeping?!

All in all I'd say it's been a fantastic break! One bad thing about it is that it seems to have been too short :(. Also, if I hadn't gone to Ecuador back in November, I'd be there now :(. And my grandpa left this morning :(. But the pros definitely outweigh the cons on this one! Love it!

Finally Figured Out the Whole Picture Thing!

So today it actually let me uplaoad the photos! I did the exact same thing I tried yesterday but it actually worked today! Yeaa!

The beef and snow peas. It looked better in real life.

Fried rice. Yummy!

So Ive been typing today's blog one-handed because I have a sweet baby boy sleeping in my arms. He's super precious. Here's a picture I just took.

Slepping so peacefully.

 

Meanwhile, his older brother is chilling with me just sitting there. They are both so great and I love them to death! Here's one of big brother.



I'll have to fugure out how to turn the pictures later. For now, you can turn your head sideways. lol.



I'm going out to lunch later with my Grandpa and parents then we're headed to woodland park. I'm super excited! One last thing, I finished that paper last night! I was so proud of myself. It stinks, but it's finished. That's all for now!

Finally, I set this thing up!

First post! Woo-hoo! So I'm not so sure if I'm going to like this or not. I'm not even sure what I'll be blogging about. Any suggestions? I am just glad that after weeks of trying, I've finally figured it all out. Yea! Okay I know what I'll start with. My winter camp story.

So, I was just at Winter camp with my youth group. We were supposed to go skiing, but we didn't. This was really upsetting to me at first. It was all I thought about and I was just an absolute mess. I couldn't get over the fact that they had promised us skiing and now we weren't going. So my attitude was sour. We had worship the first night then went to bed. The next day, we went tubing and ate the nasty camp food and just hung out in general. That night was incredible... or it was for everyone else anyways. I was still sour and just kind of stood back. Brittany has been having on and off stomach pains for a while now, and they came back that night, but super intense. These weren't just stomach pains, they had put her in the hospital. This nighgt they were so excrutiating (sp?) that she had been screaming during worship and had been oppressed. The leaders drug her out and prayed over her. Before long, she came in laughing with the joy of the lord. It was amazing how God came through. The next day I spent most of the day with Laura, Ashley Townsley, and Emily making a testimony book for the winter retreat. It was super fun and I really enjoyed their company. That night we went to service again. At the begininng I was till pretty sour. I just stood there and sung the songs like I had before. Lauren Agee began to have the same stomach pains Brittany had the night before. An attack from the devil? Quite probable. Laura told me to grab Elisabeth, so I did. Then, Todd came up and told us that the devil was looking to attack those weak in faith and we needed to get right with God. At that instance I realized something I hadn't realized earlier, I wasn't right with God. Not only was this sour "no skiing" attitude hanging over me, but I had a lot of other junk in my life, too. I hadn't picked up my bible in weeks, I had been listening to the wrong type of music, watching the wrong t.v. shows, and texting the wrong people. I had even started playing this video game, Zombies, which wasn't bad in itself, but I was becoming adictted. All in all, I wasn't where I was supposed to be. I asked Todd to pray for me. After he finished, I saw an image of God and his arms were wide open as if waiting for a hug. Then it was like I ran into them full speed. I immediately felt freedom and forgiveness rush over me. It was absolutely amazing. The rest of the night I spent just worshipping and thanking God. It's going to be a struggle, and I know I'm going to stumble, but I'm commited to keeping my life in the right spot this time.

That's my story! Other than that wonderful experience, I've had lots going on. I baby-sat on tuesday night for a precious baby girl and then for most of the day on Wednesday for 4 absolutely adorable kiddos. My Grandpa has been here since Monday. Actually, right after 3 hours in the car on the way home from camp, I spent another 2-3 to pick him up from Denver. Now, I'm working on an 8 page paper. More on that and the rest of my Spring break later.