January 5, 2009 - Happy New Year

First of all I just want to say HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe it is 2009? I don't know about you guys, but for me 2008 went by very fast.  Did any of you guys do anything fun for New Year's Eve? My friend Sierra came over for New Year's Eve and she spent the night! We stayed up and watched movies till 3:00am!  The movies we watched were The Dark Night, An American Carol, and The World Is Not Enough (an old James Bond movie).

The Dark Night was pretty good. It had some very interesting characters, the joker being the most interesting. The movie proved some pretty good points! I'm not going to give them away, you will just have to watch the movie and find out what the points are. Overall I liked the movie and I would recommend it to teenagers and adults!  I would not recommend it to children under 10 or 11 due to some of the gruesome parts of the movie. I would totally recommend you to read the overall review, click on the link and it will take you to the review of The Dark Night: The Link to the review of The Dark Night

An American Carol was awesome! It was so funny and I just loved it! The liberals got a taste of their own medicine with this movie! I recommend it to people that are interested in politics and people that want to have a good laugh! I recommend you to read the overall review to this movie, click on the link and you will be able to read the review of An American Carol: The link to the review of An American Carol

The World Is Not Enough is an older James Bond movie starring Peirce Bronson as James Bond.  I love the James Bond movies and this one was pretty good! It was kind of funny seeing Peirce Bronson in Mama Mia and then in James Bond, it is a drastic change in character.  If you like James Bond then I'm sure you would like this movie!

Well, that was my New Year's Eve!

I almost forgot to tell you guys that one of my family's Christmas presents this year was......A NEW PUPPY!!!!!  He is so cute, he is 9 weeks old now and he is a beagle! We named him Copper!  I took a bunch of pictures of him and I will post the pictures on here when I get them loaded up to my mom's computer!

Okay, for my next post I wanted to do something special! I need some ideas from you guys! Would you like to me to do a post of pictures, reviews on CDs, reviews on Movies, politics, etc! Let me know in a comment or a message!

Have a great week!

~Makayla~

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December 29, 2008 - ~Poem~

Hi Peoples,

How have you been doing? Did you guys have a great Christmas?

The majority of our snow has melted. We have had 2 strait days of rain and so now we have several inches here and there.  I will say that we had a VERY White Christmas this year. On Christmas day we had three feet of snow and in drifts we had up to four feet. The day after Christmas it rained and rained and rained and needless to say by-by snow.  I will have to say I am thankful that the snow is melting, it is so hard to function when there is so much snow. I know I felt VERY housebound. Hopefully we will not have this much snow again for a couple more years!


I got this email from one of my friend's and I thought it was well worth sharing!

Here it is:

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December 25, 2008 - Merry Christmas

Hi Everyone,

First of all I just want to say:

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Today is CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!! So far I have had a great Christmas! It was so funny, my little brother Jared opened one of his presents and there was a package of sippy cups and he grabbed them and started to jump up and down and say yeah, yeah, yeah, he was so excited! He loves his sippy cups and we only had one  because the other ones were getting old and we had to throw them away, so he was overjoyed that he got a few more sippy cups to pack around!

Some of the gifts I received for Christmas were:

Taylor Swift's CD Fearless
Beyonce's CD I am Sasha Fierce
2 pairs of Pj's which are extremely soft!
Make-up
A jar of pickles from my wonderful brother Matthew ( I love pickles by the way)
Several gift cards
And I still have a few more gifts that I haven't opened yet.

I just wanted to give a quick review on the CD's I received!

Taylor Swift's Cd Fearless is a really great Cd! All the songs are clean and they all have really good and cute meanings and they have catchy tunes as well! The majority of the songs she has on her album Fearless, she has written herself.  I just really like artists that write the majority of there songs! I think it is so cool! Her songs express what has happened in her life life and what she has went threw!  I would rate this album 5 stars!


Beyonce's CD I am Sasha Fierce is a pretty good CD! I haven't listened to all of her songs on her album, but the ones that I have listened to were pretty good! She co-wrote all of the songs on her album, which is cool! Two songs on her album are not the best, but other then those it is a really good album! Beyonce has a very beautiful voice and my favorite song of hers is her most recent single, If I were a Boy. It is a great song!  I would rate Beyonce's album 4 stars!

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December 21, 2008 - !Tag!

Hey,

4 days left till Christmas!!! Is it just me or does it seem like this year has just flown by.  It seems like just yesterday it was the first day of summer and now it is almost Christmas!

So I know you guys have probably heard this from a million people, but I am going to be that million and one person you heard it from. Even though Christmas is so close and everybody is so excited , just don't forget why we celebrate Christmas. We celebrate Christmas because it is our Lord and Saviour's birthday. We all like it when people come to our birthday's and help us celebrate it.  We should do the same for Jesus. Spread the news of the true meaning of Christmas and help me celebrate Jesus Christ's birthday!

Just a quick update on how the weather is here at my house. At the moment we have around 3- 3 1/2 feet and it is still snowing like crazy.  I took a bunch of pictures and I promise I'll post them on here soon! Oh, one more thing, my family and I are expecting a power outage soon, due to all the snow and now the ice that is accumulating on top of all the snow. So if I am not on for a few days you'll know why.

Before I finish this entry I have a tag that I am going to do. The tag is an Ipod/MP3 tag! I always love doing this type of tag! They are so fun to do and extremely funny to read! I got this tag from BriahK and here is the tag:

Here are the rules: Put your Ipod/MP3 player on shuffle, and the song that comes up, you put in as your answer.

1. This song was playing when you were born:  Do It ~Nelly Furtado

2. First day of school: Apologize ~ One Republic

3. People think of you whenever they here the song: Why Not ~ Hilary Duff (lol, that is kind of scary)

4. This song describes my life: I'll Stay Me ~ Luke Bryan ( I think that song describes my life very well)

5. Whenever I hear this song, it makes me cry: Shy Boy ~ Jordin Sparks ( lol, not at all)

6. This is what I think of my friends: I Told You So ~ ( I do not think that about friends, although I have told them that before, lol)

7. This is how I would describe my boss/teacher: Fly ~ Hilary Duff ( Sometimes, lol, Mom, you did not read that)

8. This is what I think of my parents: Rain ~ The Wreckers (ummm, I don't get this one)

9. This is what my friends think of me:  I Will Not Be Moved ~ Natalie Grant ( lol, they probably do think that, sad, I know, lol, just kidding)

10. This is what my parents think of me: Chicken Fried ~ Zac Brown Band (lol, no I don't want to be fried)

11. This describes what I'm going through right now: Wake Up ~ Hiliary Duff (lol)

12. I often think about: The Way He Was Raised ~ Josh Turner

13. The title of my album would be named: Santa Baby- Taylor Swift (lol, thats embarrassing)

14. This is what I think of my best friend: Baby I go Crazy ~ Josh Turner (lol, ewwwww, no way)

15. This is what my best friend thinks of me: One Of The Guys ~ Kellie Pickler (lol, Sierra is that what you think of me, lol)

16. Break-up song: You Can Let Go ~ Crystal Shawanda (lol, so true)

17. What I think of my boyfriend/girlfriend: Don't You Know Your Beautiful ~ Kellie Pickler ( lol, totally, just kidding)

18. What my boyfriend/girlfriend thinks of me: Gotta Go ~ Toby Mac ( Ahh, whats that supposed to mean, lol)

19. This is how other people describe me to others: The Meaning Of Life ( LOL, totally)

20. Make-up song: Big Girls Don't Cry ~ Fergie

21. First date song: Miss Independent ~ Kelly Clarkson (lol)

22. Wedding song: I Wanna Be ~ Chris Brown ( Oh, that would be so awesome, great song for a wedding)

23. Death song: Piece Of Me ~ Britney Spears (lol, that is interesting)

24. Funeral song: Freeze ~ Jordin Sparks ( that would be a cool funeral, lol)

25. My dream job is: What I want ~ Daughtry

26. Tell me your biggest secret: Tonight I want To Cry- Keith Urban (sometimes that is true)

27. If someone tells you that they like you, your response: The Way I Are ~ Timbaland

28. This is how people describe my personality: Little Voice ~ Hilary Duff (Uh, I think not, lol)

29. What's the meaning of life: Love Story ~ Taylor Swift (So True)

30. This is how I would describe my life so far: Rehab ~ Rihanna (lol, NO WAY, NEVER going there)

31. This describes how I feel about the Holidays: Anywhere But Here ~ Hilary Duff (no, I like the holidays)

32. This is how I deal with heartbreaks: For You ~ James Otto

33. I see myself doing this before I die:  4 minutes ~ Justing Timberlake and Madonna (lol)

34. If a celebrity asked me out, I would respond by saying: Tennessee ~ The Wreckers

35. When my friends and I get together we start off by doing this: Beautiful Disaster ~ Kelly Clarkson

36. This is what I think of this tag:  Waitin' on a Woman ~ Brad Paisley ( LoL, Not At All)

37. I consider this a positive title of life: The Song ~ Craig Morgan

38. The name of this tag is...: Nowhere Fast ~ Josh Turner (very true)

39. What do you think of your pet/s:  Goodbye To You ~ Michelle Branch ( Sometimes I think that, lol, jk)

40. What do you think of your sibling/s:  Young And In Love ~ Jordin Sparks (lol)

41. What do you think of your church: Last Christmas ~ Taylor Swift

42. The song thats gonna play at your next b-day party:  Stupid Girls ~ P!nk (lol, that is totally us, lol, NOT)

43. How is your computer working: What about now ~ Daughtry

44. What do you think of your clothes (wardrobe):  Your A Mean One Mister Grinch ~ NewSong (LOL)

That was an awesome Tag! I love doing these tags!  Okay, I am going to tag.... CylonofPeace, Shootingstar, Strive17, and DannyD13.

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December 19, 2008 - ~SNOW~

Hey Everyone,

Has anybody gotten any snow yet? We got nailed with snow today. At the moment we have around 7 inches. Tomorrow we are supposed to get a couple more inches.  I will say that I like the snow so much better then the extremely cold and windy weather that we were experiencing a week ago.

This entry I am going to post pictures. I love taking pictures and I took a bunch of our field and the mountains with snow on them. Our field is so gorgeous when it snows, I take pictures of it every year, lol!
I had the brilliant idea of taking a "children portrait", my dad's parents live a ways away from us and they always love recent pictures of us, so I thought why not take a nice recent photo of us kids and do a little photo shoot. First of all doing a photo shoot with your 3 brothers that are 8 and under is like torture. They want there pictures taken, but, they want it taken when that are posing in their "Star Wars Pose". I'm all like, ummm let me think about that, these are Christmas pictures that we are going to be giving people,  we want them nice not "Star Wars". My answer.... NO! Anyway after much hassle we got some pretty decent pictures and of course after promising to let them do a Star Wars pose after we got all the nice pictures done!! I am going to show you the pictures that we took and on my next entry I will post the pictures that I took of our field! That way for those of you who have dial up will not have to wait for an hour to have all the pictures load up.  Here are the picture of me and my brothers,  enjoy..........


This is me! My brother Matthew took this picture of me, it was my favorite out of all them!



This is my brother Matthew! This picture was my favorite out of all of the ones that I took of him!



This is my brother Luke! This was such an adorable picture of him I just had to show you guys!



This is my brother Jared. He loves getting his picture taken and he has the cutest little smile ever, lol!



This is the "children portrait", this one was the best out of the 4 or 5 my mom took!


I hope you guys all liked my pictures!

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December 13, 2008 - ~Saturday~

Hey,

How has everyone been doing? Are you guys enjoying the Christmas Season? 
Has anyone gotten any snow yet?  It is supposed to snow at my house tonight! All next week the temperature outside is supposed to be around 20-25 degrees. That is FREEZING. I kind of like the colder temperatures, especially after a really hot summer, but 20-25 degrees is like getting a little carried away.

So what are you guys doing for Christmas? What is the main gift you are hoping to get this Christmas?

This is a little off the subject of Christmas, but I was thinking about doing a political entry soon and giving everyone an update on the economy and whats happening in the world. I was wondering if you guys would be interested in an entry like that or our you tired of hearing about politics and would rather me post about something else. I would like to know if you would read it, because I really like to post about something that would interest you guys and if that is something you are not interested in hearing just let me know! I would like to hear your thoughts on this!

Back on the subject of Christmas! My grandpa sent me an email that was really great! It was sweet and wonderful and the story was so touching! So I just had to share it with you all, !

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November 30, 2008 - ~Don't forget what Christmas is all about~

Hey Everyone,

Did you guys have an awesome Thanksgiving?  I had a fantastic Thanksgiving! We invited friends and family!There was a lot of food so I am glad we had some help eating it! My mom and I literally cooked all morning and part of the afternoon on Thanksgiving Day!  I made a apple pie and a pumpkin cream cheese cake! I am not a big fan of pumpkin, I do not like pumpkin pie,it is just has to much pumpkin in it for me. But this pumpkin cake I LOVE! It doesn't have to much pumpkin, it has a lot of spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, all spice, and ginger! When I get around to it sometime I will have to post the recipe on here! The cake is really moist as well, mmmnnnn so good! I would love to hear what you guys all did for Thanksgiving? Did you guys have family over, have a party, or eat tons of pie?

As you may have noticed I changed my template! It fits more with the upcoming holiday..... Christmas!  I also added some "New" things to my sidebar! When you get a chance, you should check it out!

I was searching the web an hour or so ago for Christmas quotes!  I found some that I really liked, so I am going to share them with you! Also if you would like to view them sometime in the future they will also be posted on my sidebar! Without further ado here are the quotes.


The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas." ~W. C. Jones~

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.
-George Mathhew Adams -

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. ~Janice Maeditere~

Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given, To crown us with the joy of heaven. -Martin Luther-

I loved all of those quotes! They have such great truths in these quotes! It really reminds me what Christmas is all about!  During this Christmas Season all I have to say is don't forgot what Christmas is all about. The Son of God was born on Christmas Day! God gave us Jesus and the Wise Men gave gifts to Jesus! Christmas is a day of giving, a WHOLE day of giving and remembering that the greatest gift of all was born in a stable on Christmas Day, let us not forget that during the Christmas Season!

~Makayla~

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November 24, 2008 - !!!!!PICTURES!!!!!!!!

Hi,

WOW! Time has flown by so fast. I am sorry I haven't written an entry, it has been a very busy week and weekend.

I started swim team last Tuesday! It is a LOT of swimming! We swim around 2,000 yards each swim meet. We meet every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. I like swimming and although swim team is hard I really like it and it is great exercise!

My friend Sierra, my mom, and I went to the Revolve tour last Friday and Saturday! The Revolve tour is a Christian concert. There is music and people that speak on different topics! The speakers were Jenna Lucado( Max Lucado's daughter), Chad Eastham, and Courtney Christine Clark. The people that sang were Hawk Nelson(They were totally awesome), Group 1 Crew(they were really good as well), Krystal Meyers, Danielle Kimmey( She sings in the band Out of Eden), and Natalie Grant!!! All The people that sang were really good!!! I encourage you to check out their sites and listen to a few of their songs! The speakers were also really great! Chad Eastham was defiantly my favorite! He has written a couple books for girls and guys! You can check out his books at your local library. The title of the books that he wrote for girls are The Truth About Guys and Guys like girls who.... The book that he wrote for guys is The Truth About Girls. I have read the book The truth about guys, it was really good and it was funny! I really liked it, I recommend it to girls, as for the book he wrote for guys I haven't read it and I don't plan to, so guys you will have to read it and tell me how you liked it, lol!

The 23rd of November was my Best Friend Sierra's 13th birthday! I went to her house for her birthday, she got some really nice gifts, a few of the gifts she got was Taylor Swift's new CD Fearless, eyeliner, mascara, Face Cleanser, Toner, and a lot more gifts!

Unfortunately I wasn't able to take any pictures of Sierra on her birthday and I also wasn't able to take any pictures of the Revolve Tour. My brothers failed to tell me that they hid my camera in the couch. Thankfully my mom's friend Linda found my camera in the couch today. So, I had a bunch of pictures on my camera that I have been wanting to post on here! I have finally had the chance to load up the pictures to my mom's computer and I am going to post a few of the pics on here! All of the pictures that I am posting are recent!

 

This is my bed that my dad made me for my birthday this year! His favorite hobby is woodworking and I wanted a new bed and I wanted it made out of Black Walnut, so he made me this bed for my birthday! I was so excited, I just love it!




This is a picture of a sunrise. I woke up this one morning and went downstairs and looked out my dinning room window and the sunrise was so gorgeous! I just had to take a picture of it!




This is another picture of me!




Ok this is the last picture! This is another picture of the sunrise! This is the sun rising over the mountians that are right in front of our house!

Okay! That raps up this entry! Have a great day everyone!

~Makayla~

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November 16, 2008 - !!!!!!UPDATE!!!!!!

Hi Everyone,

How was your guys' weekend? My weekend was fun!! I am going to share with you what I did this weekend and what I have planned for the rest of the week. Oh, and don't worry, this won't be too long of an entry!

Friday evening I went to Wyld Life! Wyld life is a club for 6th to 9th graders. We get together once a month and we play games, hang out, and towards the end we have a bible study! It is really fun! I get to meet new people and hang out with my friends and learn about God all at the same time. How cool is that????
After Wyld Life I went to my friend Sierra's house and spent the night!  Before we went to bed we watched the movie Kung Fu Panda.  It is an extremely cute movie! Jack Black plays The Panda Bear a.k.a The Dragon Warrior! Just encase you don't know who Jack Black is, these are just a couple movies that he has played in; Be Kind Rewind, King Kong, and Kung Fu Panda.

Saturday I helped Sierra and her brothers and sisters clean up their house! After we finished cleaning we went outside and played Basketball and took a walk down to The General Store. The General store is a 15 minute walk from Sierra's house. The General store has a little bit of everything. Sierra and I got a Fuze and a couple Hershey Candy Bars, which we shared with Sierra's brothers and sisters!

Today(Sunday) I came home from Sierra's house.  My parents and brothers spent the afternoon cleaning up our fields and doing some things around our driveway. I didn't feel like going outside, so I spent the afternoon cleaning up the inside of the house. I cleaned it and made it look so beautiful !

That is what I have been doing this weekend, now I am going to write about what I have planned for the next couple days!

Tomorrow(Monday) is co-op! Our teacher was sick last week, so most likely this week we will have extra homework..... Yeah us!

Tuesday is Swim Team! This Tuesday is the first Swim Team meet this fall! I can't wait! I love swimming and swim team will improve my strokes and will help me be a better and stronger swimmer!  Swim Team is Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. To be able to swim on the swim team you have to be able to swim 50 yards easily. I can swim around 200 hundred yards easily!

This Thursday My Uncle Tim is having heart surgery. Four of his six arteries in his heart are clogged. I don't know how risky the surgery is, but considering it is on his heart I am assuming it is pretty risky! I would be extremely thankful if you guys' would pray for him to make it out of surgery safely!
 
Ok, just a quick reminder! My friend Sierra has a birthday that is coming up. Her birthday is this Sunday ( November 23)! I would love it if you guys could go to her blog and leave her a comment! She hasn't gotten many comments lately and It would be a great birth day present for her if you guys' could bombard her with comments!!!!!! Here is the link to her blog... Sierra's Blog


~Makayla~

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November 10, 2008 - My Weekend....... Bible Study, Out to Lunch, Shopping, Reading...

Hi,

How has everyone been?
I would like to say thank you so much for all the comments you guys left me on the post before this one! You all were very encouraging and had some great ideas on how we can help our new President. Some of the comments talked about how Barack Obama is our President we need to have respect for him, God appointed him for a reason and that reason could be for good or for bad we will just have to wait and find out. Other comments talked about how we can pray that Obama will have a change of heart and that he will make the right decisions for our country and that he will become a Christian.

Okay, now I am going to move off of the topic of politics and on to the topic of my weekend.

Friday-  Friday morning I worked on school, cleaning the house, and I finished an awesome book!  Friday evening I went to my friend Sierra's house! Her sisters, Emily and Leanne thought it would be fun to have a bible study for us girls, Emily, Leanne, Sierra, and I.  The title of the bible study books we are using is Secret Keeper. The whole book is on modesty. How the world has drifted so far from modest dressing for woman that it is disgusting. I struggle sometimes with dressing modestly. I'm not perfect and sometimes it is hard for me to dress modest because when I think of modest dressing I think of the woman and children that wear the skirts down to there ankles, white button up blouses that button all the way up to the middle of your neck, and the white tennis shoes or black boot like shoes. I think WOW that is a little to modest for me. I respect there way of dressing and I think that it is awesome that they can do that but I just couldn't ever dress that way. It really got me thinking how do I dress more modestly without me feeling like I am going overboard. How can I be "In Style" and still dress modestly and how God would want me to dress and act like.
So I came up with an answer...........My answer is that I can keep an "In Style" wardrobe, the clothes just have to have a little change to them. Some of my tops are kind of low cut, I wear a tank top underneath them , the top comes up higher and adds a little more to cuteness to the top and makes it look a little nicer and more appropriate.  I used to hate the idea of wearing a tank top under everything, they are kind of thick and it looks funny. But I bought the tank tops that have the thinner fabric and are spaghetti straps, so they don't look show threw your clothes as much and they still come up farther then the original shirt. Another think that I have noticed is the world says tighter clothes are better, for awhile I was believing them, but now I can see that it makes your figure look worse and you look cheap and trashy.  I think clothes that are not tight against your figure, but aren't baggy look a lot nicer on me then the ones that are skin tight.  I really like the shirts that are tighter towards the top of your upper body and are loser towards the bottom of your upper body. I think those shirts are extremely cute, especially with the jewels on them! Ok, so that is my ten cents on dressing modestly, lol! I would love to know what the word modest means to you! When you hear someone say dress more modestly what comes to mind? How do you think that you could dress more modestly? If you are not comfortable answering these questions that is fine! But I would love to know your answers!


Saturday-  Saturday I was on the computer doing a bunch of things, writing comments, making my new template, and adding a few things to my sidebar.


Sunday-  My mom, my grandma, my aunt Lena, my aunt Lena's daughter-in-law, and me went out to lunch. We went to a German restaurant. They had very interesting food, some I liked, some I didn't like. I would have to say I am not a big fan of German food.  After lunch we went shopping and then we came home!

Today was co-op! We watched a movie about the government way back when, like in the 1800s. It was a pretty boring movie, but I watched it anyway and acted like it was the most interesting movie I have ever watched. Other then co-op today was pretty laid back.
Alright that raps up what I have been doing lately!

Ok I have just a quick little thing I would like to say before I finish this entry. My friend Sierra has a birthday coming up! I think it would be an awesome b-day present from you guys if you gave her a bunch of comments! It would be so awesome and she would love it! Here is the link to her blog......... Sierra's Blog.


~Makayla~

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