Yes I am Still Here

Haha so sorry that I haven't posted since August. It just seems like I dropped off of the planet, but I promise that I didn't. :) So I have 24 days left of my high school career! Prom is in three weeks and I graduate three weeks after that! This second semester of high school is going by so fast, it seems like I was just starting the year and now I have 24 days left! I know that my mom and dad are getting all flustered because everything is happening at once and then again they are sad. So enough about these last couple of weeks of school. Lets talk about what I have been doing lately.

Like I told you in my last blog post I am going to AI in July and I am super duper excited! My family is finally pursuing our adoption further! (If I haven't told you before my family is wanting to adopt from China. We have been waiting to finally start the process of the adoption and this year we are finally starting to. It is so exciting to see God working in our family!) So my older brother has taken a semester off of college to figure things out and my younger brother has decided that he wants to be an automotive technician which is cool. Because if you just watch him work on a car you can see his passion for what he is doing or if you just listen to what he is saying you know that he knows what he is talking about. And now with my mom she just got this awesome new job where she works with kids all day long and she is already in love with it and tomorrow is her first day! You can just see the joy that spreads across my moms face when she is helping children and the fact that she is blessed that she can really do what she loves to do each day! My dad is the best he makes me laugh so much. We were prom dress shopping this last weekend and he kept saying $19.99 was the price that I could spend on a prom dress. He always says that when we go dress shopping because he is just that way. But each year he has said a price and accidentally got a dress that was that price. But this year that didn't happen, because you can't get a prom dress for $19.99 anymore. I mean you could if you lived in the 90s but not now. I don't have a date for prom because I think that if you have a date then it is really overrated. But instead I am going with my best friend Sam Miller! My dress that I got is black and white with two big black roses on it. It is so pretty I will post a picture of it when I take some! I haven't got my shoes yet but I want to get a pair of silver flats that are super cute I just haven't went and gotten them yet.

Okay well friends I have to get to bed so I will post more tomorrow! I know crazy I am going to post twice before another 8 months come around! Mind blowing!!! Goodnight my friends I will talk to you tomorrow!

Senior Year

Okay so I kinda know that my last post was about my Senior Year. But I was just at my Mom's Blog where she had written about me and leaving. It is just so overwhelming sometimes to think that I will be leaving home soon in little less than a year I will be going off to college. I am so excited to go to college and become a Pastry Chef. And at the same time I am very scared. I know I have said this a bunch of times but now with getting my schedule for my classes this year yesterday it all kind of hit me. I am a senior in high school and I will be graduating in less than a year and then a few months after that I will be in college. Now who knows where I will be going it is all a part of God's Plan. I do know what college I want to go to its the Art Institute International in Lenexa Kansas. But if I go there or not is all apart of God's Plan for my life. It is all in his hands. But let me tell you I will be scared every step of the way. I am scared to leave my home the people who love me and support me in everything that I do. I am scared that no one will like me like my friends now do. I am scared that I will fail. I don't want to fail but I am scared of it. Yes I know that it is just Satan trying to test me. But he is not going to win me over. Well thanks for reading my blog! Have a Great Day! God Bless!!!

Lately

Okay so it has come to my attention that my senior year is approaching very fast. I didn't realize how close it was until just the other day. In a few short weeks I will have to enroll for my classes. On Monday marching band camp will officially start. In less than a month we will be moving across the highway into a beautiful home. Last Monday Guard officially started for the season. Also it has come to my attention that I need to change some things about me. For instance I have to change my diet. The reason why I have to change my diet is because of some medical reason. I am kinda excited because everything that I have to do is what I like to do. So it is all good! But the thing is that I can't believe that I am going to be a senior in high school. I have talked to some of my friends and they have said that they are scared and I am just as scared as they are. I remember when I was at the freshman center it seems like it was just yesterday. Yes I know that everyone says that your senior year is your fastest year of school because it is your last so you better enjoy it. And I will tell you one thing I WILL ENJOY MY SENIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL!!! Any ways just wanted to let you know whats up! Thanks for reading! Have a Great Day God Bless!!!

Answered Prayers!

Okay this is going to be a short one folks! In my last blog I told asked you to pray for me and my family. Well our prayers were answered!!!! We are moving!!! Now we won't move until September but moving into this house is putting our family in the right direction for adoption! So that is pretty much about all I wanted to tell you today. Get back to you soon! Love you guys and thanks for reading my blog.

PRAY

So lately I have been in my summer school class and I am glad to tell you that I have one more day left but that is not what I wanted to talk about. My family and I have been very blessed. Now I don't mean that we have a lot of money or we have everything in the world. We have been blessed by the little things. And it is the littlest things that matter. Now I came on to this blog not knowing what to right but as I listen to Michael Buble's song HOME I know what to write about. See my family and I had something come up a couple of months ago that would possibly in the near future let us move into a new home. This home if we were able to get it would let us be one step closer to getting a little girl from China. So that is a good thing. But this opportunity went away because for what it seemed like God was closing the doors or so we thought. Just this last Friday we got a call from the owners of the house saying that they have reconsidered us to rent this beautiful home. So that put some hope into our minds my mom has been talking to the three of us kids to see if we even want to move and of course there is going to be some conflicts. The good thing about where this home is located is that it is in the same school district that we live in now.  But my dad from what it seems like isn't in on board like the rest of us are. My mom has been talking to the owners of the home and they are planning for us to go and look and the home Wednesday or Thursday. So what I am asking is if you will pray for us that God will put it on our hearts on weather or not we need this house or if we just really want it. Pray that he will give us a yes or a no. My mom feels like it is a leap of faith leading into our adoption and I believe that also. Pray that my dad will see what my mom and brothers and I are seeing. PRAY

You Find God's Grace In Every Mistake

So I would love to tell you that I love summer school but I don’t. First of all I only have two classes that each last the length of a morning. From 7:30-10:45 in the morning is my first session and 11:15-2:30 in the afternoon is my second session. So that is the first reason why I don’t like summer school. The second reason I dread waking up in the morning is because I have ABSOLUTELY NO FRIENDS that are with me. Now you’re probably thinking that its because they passed their class and yes they did. But see in my morning class I am taking Personal Finance or “Senior Seminar” as you older people like to call it. And this class is a class that tells you how to buy a house, a car, manage a banking account, balancing check books. So this class can be boring especially this week because I a have had a sub for a week. I am not talking this class because I failed it. I have never taken this class before. I am taking it so I don’t have to take it next year. See only seniors are allowed to take it so since I am going to be a senior next year I would have had to take it but instead I choose to take it in the summer because one it is so much easier in summer and two I have room to take other classes that I want to. And in my afternoon class it is the same length as the morning class. I am taking Algebra Two because I actually failed that class second semester. I chose to take it this summer instead of during the year next year because in the summer it is always easier. Another reason why I hate my afternoon class is because for the first hour we take notes then go to a fifteen minute break. After break he gives us a worksheet which takes me literally two minutes to do. After I’m done we sit there until our next break which isn’t for another hour. And after that break we comeback check our worksheet and take a quiz. So since it only takes me two minutes to do my worksheet then you would probably guess that it takes me about the same to do my quiz. And it does, it takes me at least five minutes to take my quiz. After that we sit until the bell rings at 2:30. Also another reason why I don’t like summer school is because the school it so stupid. In my morning class I am at another school and there rules are that bad but in my afternoon class I’m at another school and there rules are so stupid. One of their rules is that you’re not supposed to bring any un-opened container or food on the “campus.” UGH I HATE SUMMER SCHOOL. I hate that I am ranting but I won’t be happy until my last day which is June 30th. That is also another reason why I hate summer school. Because it takes up half of my summer. I have band camp so my second half of my summer is that. But I’m okay with band camp I love that part of my summer. But this part it torcher. “Please just shoot me now,” as I like to say, of course I don’t mean it, I just want to get out of this place. I’m actually writing this while I’m at summer school in between two of my breaks in my afternoon session.

Now how this blog pertains to my title I have no clue but it is my Facebook status and I thought it fit. I’m not sure if it does now but oh well I like it!

Thanks for reading! Have a Great Day! God Bless!

Growing Up!

So I am sitting in my garage with my mom, my little brother and my other “mom.” We are watching my dad and my older brother help fix my best friends car. Her name is Michelle and I have known her since we were in kindergarten. I love her to death but sitting here watching her fix her car is so boring. People may ask me what’s wrong and I will tell them it’s because I am bored. I am sitting here looking on how much we have grown up. It seems like just the other day we were sitting up in my room playing with Barbie dolls. And now look at us we are sitting here working on her car and now we are seniors in high school. It’s weird to think that we have grown up so fast, but we have. Sometimes I wish that we were little girls so we won’t have to worry about anything besides bumps and scratches, and now we have to worry about which boy likes us or if he even likes us. Or weather or not we am going to make it into the college we want to go to. No more worrying about selling the most Girl Scout Cookies to get the biggest prize and a patch to add to your vest, now its worrying about turning a big paper in on time so we don’t fail the class so we can graduate. Life is changing and so are we. The thing is, we have to change with it even if we don’t want to we have to because if we don’t grow up we won’t get anywhere in life. So when you are called to be a Pastry Chef or an Aeronautical Engineer you have to answer it because it may be your one chance to actually grow up. Now don’t get me wrong I love being the age I am but sometimes I just want to be a little girl again. And I will tell you right now that I am scared to death to go into my senior year of high school in a few months. There is just something about being in my home that is so warm and comforting. I know that my parents want me to leave the “nest” and then again they don’t. And I am feeling the same exact way because I have been in the comfort of this city for so long and to go to another city and go to college is kind of scary to think about. So now with me sitting here with these two families shows me how much I am loved and how much people support me. Our two families are really great friends because of Michelle and I, and if our two families would have never been friends I don’t want to even think about how our lives would be because they have changed our lives so much. Thanks for reading this today! Have a great weekend! God Bless!