currently....

{just an old picture of what I've been up to lately!}

wishing:

for flowers

to see Amy before she moves

excited:

for the His Little Feet 5k walk/run

for the family camping in June with all my uncles, aunts and cousins

loving:

winnie the pooh

my new pink nail polish

polyvore

thrift stores

italics

my trimmed hair

reading:

be the change

the Bible

rilla of Ingleside (again)

passion and purity
emma
the Amish midwife
jane eyre

listening to:

"I love you this big" -Scotty McCreary

"All this time" -Brit Nicole

"Carry me to the cross" -Kutless

"We are" -Kari Jobe

"Your Man" -Josh turner
"What a Savior" -Laura Story

double exposures

oh, I've been loving double exposures and so I pretty much did a little happy dance when mary ann guest posted this post. and it is so super easy. And these are some of my favorite ones that I made.

Which one is your favorite?

awesome and awkward// no. 2//

this is a collaboration of the last 2 weeks:

awkward:

- walking smack-dab into the door post 

- going through random collections of stuff and finding scraps of paper, cut outs and everything

 else under the sun.
- sending an email to someone who you didn't mean to
- stepping on a lego
- finding out that Audrey Assad is married... what! I've loved her music for a long time and never knew she was married.  {later: okay, so she recently got married, I wasn't that oblivious, right?}
- wishing that we wouldn't have had spring break at Options {our home school group} weird right?
- algebra
- opening a small little think of applesauce and having it shoot out over your arm. note to self: next time don't press so hard on the foil while you are pulling open the tab.
- accidentally shutting down your web browser in the middle of a timed speech
- painting nails on your right hand (when you are right handed that is)
- watching students have graded conversations in front of the speech class {oh, and this is on video}

awesome:
- having someone think that you are above eighteen, our conversation went something like this

nice black guy at Bass Pro: would you like to enter our drawing for $1,000? 

me: um, sure, I'll enter my mom.

nice black guy: uh, how old are you?

me: fourteen

nice black guy: OH. 

- going to Cinzetti's, the most amazing authentic Italian food I've ever eaten. 

- checking a lot off my bucket list/102 in 2012 (I will post on them soon, I promise)

- ordering my 10th grade books for next year {eek!!} 

- having blossoms on our tree in our front yard

- watching the play Persuasion

- spring, in general
- music fest. {the picture of the hand-bell is from music fest.}
- journaling
- going on quick bike rides at night
- starting a speech class
- this giveaway!! (it is huge!)
- our God {'nuf said}as


p.s. Samantha is having a couple of wonderful giveaways over >>here<<

when spring arrives..

{entering into Lily's photo challenge the last two photos}

spring. finally.
I'm not one of those people who gripes and complains about winter being so long, but I am more than happy to welcome an early spring here. :) I almost literally watched our tree upfront burst into little flowers. And I am loving the warm sunshine, and waking up to hearing the birds outside my window. oh, spring. you make this girl very happy. 

what's your favorite thing about spring?

p.s. giveaway over >>here<<

mt. rushmore

last weekend, we went made a very last minute trip to South Dakota and stopped by Mt. Rushmore. I had only been there once before when I was like 4, so it was amazing to see it in 'real life'. There was hardly anyone there (as you can see from the first photo) because usually in March, there is a foot of snow on the ground. The town we stayed in had only 2 hotels open because all of the other hotels were closed for the season. Seriously, there was two places open to eat, and even the museum was closed. 

And I get to check something off my bucket list today!!! I'll tell you later, but boy it's awesome!