Tuesday!

A few of the pictures I took this morning:

Liddie-dog had just finished tackling Sam and licking his face. :D 

Leah

Benjamin

Leah, jonnah, and Ethan. and the beginning of our snowman.

paw print! ^_^

under the snow it's a layer of frozen rain from yesterday

Ethan gotz hat hair! :D

Our finished Snowman! or...snowlady, rather. since the accessories are rather feminine. ;) lol

selfie of Ethan and I on the trampoline. ^_^

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I woke up to the prettiest snow yet this year. :D I can't believe how gorgeous it is. It's so thick and white and everywhere! It looks like Narnia. not joking. ^_^ 

After running some errands with Mum this morning me and some of my little siblings got bundled up and went outdoors. I was gonna just take a walk, but got sidetracked helping with a snowman, scraping snow of the trampoline, playing with my doggie, and getting in a snow fight with my brother. It was awesome. 

This evening I my sister and I have a concert with our orchestra. It's gonna be so great! We're playing a lot of really fun songs, including a kind of medley of the Lord of the Rings soundtrack! It is so cool. really. I wish you guys could come hear us. :D 

And I smell a fresh pot of coffee. *yesss* 

I hope you have a fantastic Tuesday! 

<3 <3 

{xx}

Parties and whatnot

I had pretty much the funnest weekend ever....

Parties literally every evening, lots of very good friends, games, hanging out, ect.,. :D <3 

I hope you were expecting pictures! 'cause here they come! :D I narrowed it down to just a few...

Friday night was the party at our house. It was so much stinking fun. <3 <3 

A lot of my epic friends got to come and we had so much fun together! 

We played games and jumped on the trampoline in the dark and got wet 'cause it was raining and chatted about eveything and had loads of caffeine and laughed *so* much. 

I'm sure I have the best friends on the planet. 

Jonni pointed the camera at us and Emmaline (left) and I (right) hid while Ameron was her regular adorable self. haha. <3

here we go. :D 

the littler boys playing x-box in the boy's room...

Trampoline!!

Thayne, Daniel Dean, Me, Jon, and emmaline

Thanye, Daniel Dean, Daniel B., Me, Jonnah, and Hannah

so much fun. 

Saturday afternoon we went to the Springfield Symphony Matinee that they do. It was all pretty good music except I'm never fond of children's choirs, and The opera lady was awful. :/ 

Anywho, Wednesday evening was a party at s friend of ours' house. 

It was awesome! :D We played lots of Ninja, Around the world Ping-pong, Catch Phrase, and Capture the flag outside in the dark. It was a blast. except for that time when I tripped on the gravel road and skinned my hand on a great big rock....:P 

Catch Phrase!

NINJA! I'm not very good at that game, but it's terribly fun. 

I took this today and you can't see it very well, but that's my injury. lol. It looks quite a lot worse in real life...and it hurts like the dickens still...

Sunday afternoon/evening was my church's party. A pretty small party, which is expected since I come from a tiny little church, but it was fun! :D A bunch of us got together and played around on our instruments for a while, and one of the guys from church put together Jeopardy. 

Other than that it was just hanging out and some games and such. good times. 

Jeopardy! :) 

 Good times. Good times. :D 

Today I just babysat my little siblings all day wile Mum did her Christmas shopping.

it was boring. and a very long day. but It was nice not to have to get dressed up and prettied for a party. lol. 

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Right now I'm just chatting with Noni and watching Prince of Persia with my family. 

Mum just got home and she brought me foods. goodgood foods! :D 

So I'm gonna sign off. 

Even though this post feels slightly lame...I just can't figure out why. O.o 

{xx}

Thankful for...{A-Z}

Happy Thanksgiving, bloggy world! 

I hope you've all had as fantastic a day as I have. I'mma throw up some pics (most of which don't pertain to thanksgiving....just so you know. lol) and some random things that I'm terribly thankful for and leave you with wishes for a fantastic weekend! 

our desserts today after baking *all* day yesterday: Pecan pie bars, Pumpkin pie, Apple cranberry pie, cranberry almond rugalach. :D 

{Link-up with Hannah Nicole}

Avocados. I adore avocados. lol. pretty much in any version
Beauty! There's beauty everywhere. if you just take the time to notice it...
Chuck taylors! Best shoes evah...pretty much. I wear them with everything casual.
Doctor Who. silly? yes. but I am. :D It's fantastic. and I'm a Whovian all the way through.

Every single one of my friends. I have so many amazing friends. 
Family!! my family is beyond epic. and food. I love food. ;)
Guitar! I love playing guitar. I'm not very good at it, But I'm so glad I decided to learn! + the color green!
Hands. really. and I notice people's hands all the time...I love pretty hands....

Tom Hiddleston's hands....prettiest hands I've ever seen.....<3 <3

In-law siblings!! I have three sisters-in-law and one brother-in-law, and I just wanna say that I love them all to death. :D They're amazing. 
Jesus! I'm forever thankful to My savior for saving me! He's my Rock and my Salvation. <3
Knowledge. I'm thankful for being homeschooled by my amazing mum and for the chance to learn! so many people in other parts of the world never get the chance....
LOVE!!! Enough said. :D oh, and Laughter.

love this quote. :D 

Music. Couldn't live without it. Ever. 
Nieces and Nephews...<3 I have seven of the most beautiful, funny, adorable nieces and nephews on the planet. I'm such a blessed Aunt. ^_^
Orchestra-Almost every Friday of my life for as long as I can remember. :D I always look forward to it. I love playing in my orchestra! 
Pumpkin pie!! :D I'm having my second piece right now. piiiiled with cool whip. mmm...

lol. so been there. 

Quirks in people. those little things about them that define them so clearly and that can either make you hate, or love them. lol. 
Rain...I love rain...<3
Sparkles. Shoes. Science Fiction. Stargate. Super heroes!!! ;) 
Time. {ecclesiastes 3:1-15} <3

Unique-ness....:D Be "you-nique" ^_^ 
Violin...I'm soooo thankful for my violin and for my mother for making me continue with it when I wanted to quit because now it's one of my greatest passions. <3 <3
Water. :) I'm definitely thankful for clean clear water to drink whenever I want it. 
XoXo- Kisses and hugs!! So thankful. <3

You!
Zzzzzzz...Sleep. ;) <3

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There you have a few of the things i'm thankful for this year from A to Z. <3
I hope you've all had a fabulous Thanksgiving and continue to have a beautiful weekend.

{xx}

Lifey stuff...

This week has been crazy. Ever since Lovely Asa got here. It seems like we haven't had a day to just breathe in much too long. I'm falling behind on school, I can't seem to find time to practice my violin and when I do I'm so sucky at it it frustrates me, and the busy isn't gonna stop....

*sigh*

I'm just trying not to let it get to me too much. (see how well it's working? :P guffaw) Life will slow down eventually. for now I just need to keep going getting whatever I can finished along the way. :) 

Saturday was my Granee's (great grandmother) 90th birthday party! My amazing mum and Gramma put it together for her and she was so surprised! A bunch of family got to come and it turned out so wonderful. 

Granee holding her seventh great-great grandchild. Asa Matthew. ^_^  

me (in the short brown skirt and brown boots) and some of my siblings and one of my nieces. 

Friday was This epic girl's ^^ 18th birthday! 

She was able to come hang out at orchestra with me all day  and in the evening we had some girlfriends over and watched The Amazing Spiderman, ate food, played some games, and laughed our hearts out. 

I have the best bestie ever. <3 ^_^ 

Spidey! I loved that movie. I've always kinda hated Spiderman until now...but that was Toby's fault. Hideous human that. :P Loved this guy though! :D 

Anyways, It's deer season here in good ol' MO and with a whole family that loves to hunt we're staying busy...We process and butcher all our own venison. I hate it. every time. lol. Oh well. I'm pretty good at it after a few years of doing it and deer season'll be over soon. :)

I don't think I'll be blogging much more until after new years....I may be wrong, but it feels like I'm going to be really busy. lol. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it up pretty well, but if you don't see many comments or posts from me, don't worry. I'll be back to my ol' self when life settles down. 

Signing off for today. I hope you all have a safe, happy week! 

{xx}

{P.S. Is anyone else *psyched* about Thor 2 that I'm pretty sure comes out next year??? That and Iron Man 3. :D gosh, the preview for that makes me wanna cry. anyways. yah. :D} 

He's got the cutest li'l baby face...

Meet Lovely lovely Asa Matthew! 

He was born Tuesday night at 11:28 PM after his heroic amazing Mummy endured over two days of labor. I'm unbelievably proud of his amazing parents, My brother Jason and his wife Antonia. 

I was able to see him and hold him Wednesday afternoon...I'm so in love.

Myself and his my bestie/his Tia, Noni. <3 Our first shared nephew! <3 

he's just gorgeous and i can't wait to see him again. I miss him. ^_^ 

I'm hoping tomorrow's gonna be fantastic hanging out with friends and what not. <3 

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!! 

*kisses and baby love*

{xx}

{P.S. Second nephew (>---Eadan Michael<---) this year! 

I'm so lucky to have so many babies in my life. I adore babies...}

{P.P.S. See my haircut? :D hopefully I'll get a real picture up for you sometime..anyways. I'm terribly fond of my bangs this way...I've had them as side bangs for years now. anywho...^_^}

Bring Me That Horizon...

 life has been SO crazy busy lately! It's been awesome for the most part...

Yesterday my Mum and brother went to KC so that my brother could get sugery done on his ankle. A couple years ago they discovered that he had a benign tumor growing in his ankle that was damaging bone structure. he had surgery to get it removed, but they didn't get it all  and a few months ago he went in for an appointment again and it was growing back. So yesterday he had another surgery with the hopes that they could get all the tumor cells out and it wouldn't come back. Well, the tumor was really dispersed apparently and they couldn't get it all out even though they tried. It's really damaging the bones in his foot and ankle though so to avoid risk of it coming back I'm pretty sure he's gonna have to undergo some radiation to be sure to get it all.

So. there's that. lol. :D Just pray for Micah. That he'll recover quickly and that we can get this thing taken care of so it doesn't cause him much more problem for the rest of his life. :) 

Now that all that's taken care of, have any of you noticed my changes around here? :D I'm quite proud of them. I'm still doing some work on a few things, like my "Who I Am" page and a few little details like centering the header better, but I'm getting there! and I think it looks pretty nice around here. 

What are your opinions on it? Anything that really bugs you like font color? size of anything? Those are the things that I'm really not sure about so if you have opinions please let me know! <3 

Plus, I just wanna thank all you guys! You're all fantastic and I love all your blogs and your sweet comments. You've all really encouraged me with your words and I'm so glad to "know" you. <3 <3 

This keyboard that I'm using is *the worst* I'm used to mum's delicate little laptop keyboard and this thing is chuky and huge and the buttons are hard to push. It's bugging me a lot 'cause i have to correct typos every few seconds. Anywho, I'm gonna leave you with something to make your year and go watch a movie with mum and Micah. :)


<3

 *Loki'd!* ;) <3

xx

Happy 16th birthday to my beautiful sister today! 

She's the most amazing girl on the planet. She has been/ always will be my very best friend. <3 

She's always setting me straight and keeping me where I should be! 

I thank God for you all the time, Sweet Jonnah. <3 

Love you to death, sis!! 

xoxo

{RachelJoy} 

{P.S. sorry about not existing recently you guys. :P We've been soso busy. Hopefully next week I'll be able to blog and comment more often. :) <3)