One year ago today;

Happy Anniversary sista.

No, it's not a rumor...

I am indeed dancing in our homecoming float in the half-time show on November 7th.


Oh, and one other great bit of news...since the sophomore theme is clowns (I know, ew), we have to dress up crazy.
So, I thought, what do I have that would be perfect? And then it immediately came to mind.

That's right. The unitard is coming back.

Meet Guacamole!

He is my Chemistry extra credit project.
In Chem, we use units called 'moles', so the assignment was to sew together some fabric, stuff it, and create your own little animal masterpiece. Some students got very punny with it, and made "Mole-y Cyrus", "Marsh-mole-o", "Holy Moly", "Mole-ton Lava", etc., etc.
I decided on Guacamole. Original, right?
It was actually a fun project, minus almost getting my fingers stuck together with the glue gun.
And here he is:


Look! I gave him marraccas!

Tagged by Kayla and Elise

Aight, here we go:

1. I love really old music and could listen to it all day, like Judy Garland or Frank Sinatra...mostly because their voices remind me of Christmas!

2. I can quote lines from mostly all classic Disney movies. I'm a bit of a nerd.

3. I desire my iPod and camera more than I do my phone.

4. I have never dyed, highlighted or colored my hair in any way, shape or form. People always ask me that.

5. If I laugh super hard, I will snort. True story, it happened today!

6. I can't cook, bake or make any kind of food for my life, except for sandwiches, cookies, soup, cereal and Funfetti cake. I need desperate help. I know, it's sad.

7. I've always wanted to be Ariel from the Little Mermaid in the Disneyland parade, judge me all you want (:

I tag Erin Brady! and anyone else who wants to take a whack at it! (Parent Trap! refer to true fact # 2!)

My weekend through pictures

First of all, found this gem last weekend in the church parking lot

Spectrum!




Mr. Manipulitive photoshoot by Chelsea LaBelle (:
(and Chase Parker helped with moral support, great job bud!)






Digital Macro fun

OH EM GEE I MET JOE JONAS! VVV




Then ended at El Torito Grill(e?) and Borders (oh, Lauren)



It was a lovely weekend (:

God is SO great

Today in 6th period Geometry class, we had a (terrible) sub, so instead of working on class work, Jessica Raleigh and I started mingling, catching up on life, you know. It was lovely.
Until we overhear a girl in the front of the room named Taylor mention Saddleback church. So we started listening a little closer and she was telling someone about her weekend there and such. I'm not positive if she had ever been there before, but it didn't matter...the next part was the greatest thing ever.
Taylor: "I accepted Christ this weekend."
Me and Jessica: (gasp!)
Me: "Taylor, did you say you accepted Christ this weekend at Saddleback church?!"
Taylor turns around: "Yeah," with a smile on her face.
Me: (starting to choke up) "Can I please hug you?"
Taylor: "Ha ha, of course!"
So she runs back to me and Jessica and hugs the both of us and tells us how amazing the service and music was this weekend and how much of an impact it had on her. She loved hearing what Josh Pease spoke about and how much everything was just so moving to her. She said that she was already feeling Jesus changing her life and Jessica and I were literally about to cry with joy.
It made our day! I couldn't believe what I was hearing. God is so so great!

Fine Riley, here you go

no mas braces!

Sweet, sweet love of God
We revere Your firelight heart
Sweet, sweet grace surrounds
We've been sought, through all of our Years
You've carried our tears with you

We are all here to find
The place where our restless souls will be free
We were all made to see
Our hearts could not rest until found in Thee

In this divine invitation we find your embrace
And in our deep adoration see the light of your face
In this divine invitation we all find the place
For our souls where the longings were born long ago

Sweet sweet Savior come
Near us now
Into the depths of our hearts

Sweet sweet breath of life
You fulfill
With the warmth of your love
A mystery of your ways

My small group is incredible

We had such an amazing time.
Just knowing that all our girls feel that they trust everyone in the group enough to tell the issues they're going through is so fantastic to me!
We've only had two small groups (and Ojai), and already we've experienced so much laughter, tears, deep conversations and the love of God and the love of each other's presence.
This year is going to be absolutely marvolous. I can tell.
(: