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Wondering what the meaning of my title is??
My sister and I made up these stupid lyrics to the song "12 Days of Christmas"...it's pretty sorry. :) :) We were sitting at my grandma's house last week watching TV when a commercial for Arby's came on singing "fiiiive roast beef sandwiches!" and then we made up our own...
On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
12 pairs of winter boots, 11 pairs of earring, 10 soccer balls, 9 pieces of candy, 8 quarter horses, 7 pommegranates, 6 pints of ice cream, fiiiiive roast beeef sandwichessss...4 fluffy cats, 3 video games, 2 chocolate pies and a partridge in a pear tree. :) :)
Pretty sorry, huh?
Monday night my sister and I made up these flyers for some saddles we are trying to sell. They're not our saddles, they're my horse instructor's, and she asked if I would help her sell them. :) We made up these flyers and stuck em around at places yesterday and today. :P They look pretty nice!! :)
Random fact: My cat is afraid of plastic grocery bags
The reason behind that random fact? My sister just shook a plastic bag at him and of course, he bolted away. :)
I'm sorry but I just don't understand these people. They go on the news telling how "the earth has a fever" and there's such horrible global warming, then they go on and say how COLD it is and how many snowstorms there are!!
I wish I could make this longer...but dinner is being served...and we are leaving right after dinner for MORE errands. We've been gone since 8:30 this morning!!!
Oh and PLEASE hang in there if I haven't responded to your comment(s) yet...I'm getting there!! I promise!!!!
WHAT'S UP EVERYONE?????? I HAVEN'T BEEN ON HERE IN FOREVER. WELL...I HAVE, BUT NOT BLOGGING. LOL. =D IT'S ACTUALLY KINDA WEIRD COMING BACK ON HERE CAUSE I KNOW PRETTY MUCH NO ONE BLOGS ANYMORE. =/ OH WELL.... LIKE I SAID TO KRISTI (STARDUST) "FACEBOOK IS TAKING OVER." HAHAHA. WELL....THAT'S IT FOLKS. TTYL. BYE
~SHAREEN~
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I'm sorry...I've been majorly busy the past...well, a long time. But this week was especially busy.
My aunt and uncle arrived on Tuesday, and on Tuesday evening (right when they got there) I went out to work with my horse, I rode him for a while, played with him for a while, then he started limping all of a sudden, and my instructor was gonna check on him later, and I'm not sure what's going on with it...so idk if I'm going to be able to work with him this week or if he's all better.
Thanksgiving was great! How was yours? I was SO stuffed, and I felt really bad...then my stomach started hurting (not from all the food...but nevermind) which made it worse, since I was already sick from the food!! lol I mean hey, you've gotta try everything, right?? haha
Oh gosh I'm sorry this entry is so lousy. I can't hardly think of anything to say-I'm so...tired right now. I just wanted to post a small update to everyone, at least just to say hey. :) :) I'm kind of upset right now, so just bear with me, guys. :P I'm actually to be honest with you, overwhelmed...there's too much happening (or things AREN'T happening) all at once. My aunt and uncle are leaving, were taking one of our cars back, I can't go work with my horse, etc, etc, etc...the list goes on.
Well I guess that's all for now. I hope everyone's Thanksgiving was a wonderful one!!
♥♥ellyn
Gottcha! Kidding 
So it's true I love photography. I'm not real good right now, but hopefully with lots of practice and the right camera I will get better. Here are a few photos for you to enjoy.
Funkygirl
This one I took when I was suppose to be doing school. Personally it is one of my favorites.
The sun set, they are so calming right?
I don't really have an explanation for this one...I sort of
just took it.
Ok, nothing is brand new, but I couldn't think of anything else to put.
I'm back tho! I'll wait while you clap and cheer..........Are you done? Ok good:) I was playing with my template and decided that if it was going to look this good, why not start blogging again right? So here I am! I'll wait again while you clap and cheer.......Done? Nice. Yea I'm glad to be back. Now all you have to do is comment me!!! HEHE!!!
l8er guys!
Funkygirl
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1. What does the 5th text in your text inbox say? "ohhhh...lol! drive late, late, late!! :)"
2. Who was it from? My mom's cell phone but my sister texted it. :)
3. What is your favorite way to fix your hair? Um...well I scrunch it a lot, straighten it sometimes, or a messy bun. idk...
4. Do you wear makeup? Yep
5. Where is your dad right now? Sitting at his laptop on the phone
6. Your mom? Um...I'm not sure. Somewhere in the house. I think maybe in the family room
7. Are you wearing socks? Yup
8. What are you wearing? Socks (lol), dirty jeans (hey, that's whatcha get when you work with horses even though I don't exactly LIKE having dirty jeans...), a blue tshirt, a black sweatshirt, a ring, and a ponytail on my wrist...lol oh and pearl earrings. Yep I gotta go down to the last teeny article of clothing. Well I left out some...lol
9. Ever been to Target? You've got to be kidding. YES! lol
10. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone? Debbie. Oh no, it was Mom. haha oops
11. What color is your phone? It's...kinda brown. :) It's pretty!
12. Do you play a sport? Well I...ok, long story short. Soccer (and horseback riding is a sport too!! You gotta be athletic for that too ya know...)
13. Would you say you're athletic? Um...I CAN be. But not...idk
14.Last thing you said? Yeah just a minute
15. What did you do today? Riding lessons, went to our friends house for lunch, went back to ride my horse, ate dinner...yep. interesting
16. Nickname? Hehe...you're gonna laugh. Willow
17. What size jeans do you wear? Uh why would I tell you? well I guess it's not THAT embarassing
18. What's your favorite dessert? All of them!! give em all to me!! well I do have to admit, ice cream and chocolate chip cookies are my favorite...simple and good :)
19. When was the last time you cried? It was...um...2 weeks ago
20. What color is your bedroom? Pink :P not baby pink
Now for finishing it up...I had to leave last night
21. Do you play any instruments? Nope...well I can read notes sorta and play the piano a little but not really
22. What color are you eyes? Green
23. If you could change the color of them, what color would you change them? I wouldn't change them. :)
24. Who was the last person that called you? Mom
25. What does the 5th text in your outbo say? Oh. My. Goodness. Not good...
26. Whose picture is on your wallpaper on your cell phone? I have 3 wallpapers cause there's 3 screen things and one has my friend and her baby bro on it, one has my horse Bill and the other is just an image that came on the phone.
27. What do you hear right now? My sis video taping me and this entry...lol
28. What are you saving up for right now? Well I should be saving up for a car but nothing really right now. All my money is just sitting there...lol
29. What's in front of you? My phone, a check that my mo should've mailed a long tme ago but forgot (oops), and a piece of paper
30. What are you excited about? Um idk...my aunt and uncle coming, riding Bill tonight...Thanksgiving...
31. What's outisde your window right now? There's 3, and one I see the swimming pool and the canopy thing, and out the others I see the upstairs deck/balcony with an airchair hanging off of it and the woods
32. What was the last thing that came in the mail for you? A letter...from Felicity
33. Do you wear glasses? Nope
34. When you woke up this morning, what did you think? "ugh I don't want to get up. I'm too exhausted...oh there goes my stupid alarm again...shut up phone...gotta get up...gotta get up...ok I'm getting up any second now...then I got up and went to the bathroom :)
35. What do you normally do when you're bored? Use the computer if I'm allowed, watch TV, text, clean my room...if it needs cleaned
36. What was the last thing you bought? My phone...I got a huge rebate on it though so it was a really good deal!!
37. What were you doing a year ago today? Cleaning the house for Thanksgiving I think...yep cause it took like 3 days...ugh... and getting ready for my friends to come over for Thanksgiving
38. If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go first? Alaska :D
39. What's your favorite fruit? I love all fruit! But I like grapes and watermelon...:)
40. Do you have a digital camera? yes and I share my dad's too...
41. Do you get nervous easily? Um yeah...usually. :)
42. Did you know that it takes more muscles to frown that it does to smile? Yup
43. Ever ridden a horse? Um YEAH!!
44. Do you know anybody whose name starts with a K? Yes a couple
45. Where did you last go before you sat down at the computer? I was already sitting...lol at the bar. :) Before that I went...I was in the schoolroom doing math. Blah
46. Is your room clean at the moment? yes I just cleaned it today...it's never really messy messy but just cluttered sometimes
47. Turn fully around...what do you see? The closet in the office (the room I'm in)
48. Where are you going to be in an hour? Riding Bill...down the road. Not riding him down the road but I have to drive down the road to get to where I'm going to ride him...*gasps for air*
Ok that's finally it. :) Thanks for reading. If you read it.
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Thanks everyone for all the happy birthday comments! I was thrilled...:D My birthday was wonderful and busy...getting ready for my trip. 2 of my cousins and grandma came over for cake and ice cream then when they left I packed my bags and hit the sack...
My trip to South Dakota was wonderful! We left on Sunday (the 15th)...we left around 8 am my time, and got to Mitchell, SD at about midnight their time. :) We got up early the net morning and drove to Chamberlain and stopped at this little restaurant called Al's Oasis. :)
We arrived in Rapid City that afternoon, talked with my dad's partner (I'm calling him Mr. W from now on) for a bit, then went to lunch. We hadn't taken showers or anything that morning because we were going to clean up AT the hotel before my dad's meeting at 4. We got up to our hotel room, tried to flush the toilet and it didn't flush. TO make a long story short, the water was turned OFF! So I just threw my hair back, put on some makeup and perfume, and we left...
Here is the view of part of Rapid City from our hotel room.
And our hotel room...mines the one with all the bags on it lol
So. After his meeting we went to this restaurant called Sanford's Grub and Pub. It was...interesting. Like a bunch of junk hanging on the walls and used to decorating, etc.. By junk I mean old hub caps for these half walls, old license plates, things like that. Ok so for the scary part. There were these tables and chairs for 2 people, and the chairs were shaped like HANDS! Yes, like human hands. Ok so take one of yuor hands, cup it, and spread your fingers apart. That's what they looked like. POST A COMMENT IF YOU DID THIS.
Tuesday morning we had yet ANOTHER meeting. But first we went down to breakfast to meet another one of my dad's partners, Andrea, who is British and flew in from London the night before. How he got a British partner, I do not know.
We had another meeting that afternoon at this coffee shop called Alternative Fuel. It was really nice! And the best part about it was that they played Christian music! You know like tobyMac, Francessca Batistelli, etc. Very nice. Oh and the people are so nice also! I mean I wasn't even part of anything but these people (the guys and girl my dad has these meetings with) made me feel it!! lol
Wednesday morning we neaded off with Mr. W to this teeny weeny town called Timber Lake in SD to go to the place where the new businesses are going. They have 518 people. :) We stayed in the basement of a church that my dad's partner (not Mr. W) re-did to make it a little hotel. We (my dad, mr. W and I) each had our own room so that was cooL!! lol
On Thursday it was basically a meeting all day long. Pretty boring. Luckily though I had my cell phone and my sister had my mom's cell phone so we were texting...:) And the signal out there is HORRIBLE! It runs your phone battery down like REALLY quick. If you want to be able to use it for anything that day, you'll only be able to use it once for a short period of time. But I brought my charger in with me. :D
Pic of the Lodge...
Thursday evening we went to Mr. W's cousin's house for dinner. He has 2 girls who are 7 and 5, and a baby boy who is like 3 months old. It was nice there, because it wasn't restaurant food. :) lol
So Friday we headed back home...it was like an 18-20 hour drive...but we made it...ALL THE WAY HOME! We arrived at 3 am on Saturday morning though. :P lol I was sleeping a lot of the time when it was late until my dad stopped to get gas and he brought me a Starbuck's frappe...then I was awake. :) And texting my friend...lol it was like midnight her time!
Since I've been home, I've just read and read and read. I've been reading Sarah's book...:) Except today we did go Thanksgiving shopping.
Well my sisters and parents are BUGGING me to get off now and make dessert. idk what I'm going to make.
Thanks again everyone for all the happy birthday comments!!!
~Ellyn
Random picture of my cat Rusty laying on my bed this morning...he's so CUTE!!!!
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For right now, I only have time to post one picture. It's a picture of me riding my horse Bill, but my face isn't in it. Sorry! I am going to post a bunch of pictures later on this afternoon but I just HAD to post this one. My sister took it and Bill's face is ADORABLE!! :D Here it is...
Thats Rikku in the background. :)
Oky dokey, more updates later...gotta run. We're taking our Pilot (one of our cars lol) back to the dealership to see if they'll let us buy it...NOOO!!!!!!!!! I want to keep it!!!!!!! Basically, if they don't give us a low enough price we're not going to buy it. :( I love our Pilot WAY more than our other cars. Heehee...it's so much more...smaller and...cute. Ok I really need to go now. UPDATES LATER, SO COME BACK TO READ THE REST
Okay, I'm editing my entry now. :) :)
This will probably be the last time that I will post on my blog until the week of Thanksgiving. Want to know why? I'm going to South Dakota with my dad!!! He has a bunch of meetings out there, and him and his partner are starting a new "branch" to one of my dad's businesses and they have to move supplies out there and stuff...so it's definitely not a vacation but it will be a neat experience. :) :) I'm excited but I'm kind of nervous and I'll miss some people and things here for a week. Like playing with Bill...:( We're leaving early Sunday (Nov 15th) morning and coming home probably on Saturday (Nov 21st). So I'll be able to have my riding lesson!! I actually asked my instructor if we could reschedule it...:)
For my trip...I have a deadline for doing my horse homework. It's November 23rd...and since I'm going on a trip I will need a way to watch them (they're DVD's and books) my dad is going to buy me a portable DVD player...just thought it was mandatory that you knew that.
Ok so now I'm going to post some pictures. :) :) Of course, captions are underneath them. And credits also...:)
This is me riding Bill, my horse instructor, and her horse Sonny. :)
[Picture taken by my sister Anna]
Bill and I again...:) I look really fat...please excuse that. lol It's that jacket...it's so short!
[Picture taken by my sister Anna]
Here I am putting on Bill's rope halter...:)
[Picture by my sister Anna]
Well I think that's just about it. I might be able to respond to comments, so keep posting them. :) I will be able to read them and maybe respond but if not I WILL be reading them. :D
Hope to hear from ya'll when I get back from South Dakota!!
♥ellyn
Mark 12:29-31 " 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."
God seems to put a lot of emphasis on love! The most important things to do in following Him are to love Him with everything you have, and to love other people more than you love yourself. Why is that? What is so important about love?
1st John 4:8 "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."
A definition I’ve heard for wickedness is “the absence of God”. If God is love, then we can replace the word “God” with the word “love” and still have the same meaning, right? So wickedness is “the absence of love”! Wow, I guess that might be what’s so important about love, huh?
1st Corinthians 13:1 "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal."
The tongues of angels…I wonder what angels talk about? Well, they are constantly in the presence of God, right? I’d like to think that because of God’s awesomeness, the angels can’t stop talking about Him! He’s just so amazing that everything they could talk about pales in comparison!
So, if we spoke the way that angels speak (talking about God) to other people (as we’ve been called to do), but don’t love those people that we’re talking to, we’re not going to make any impression on them at all! All we’re going to do is be the stereotypical “hypocritical Christian” who is just telling them something to get brownie points from God! A clanging cymbal that everyone just wants to be quiet!
The only way we’re ever going to get people to listen to us when we tell them about God’s love for them, is to show them His love through us!
Matthew 24:12 “Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.”
This verse sounds a lot like what’s going on today to me. Love is being distorted by the world around us, even by Christians! All that the world tends to see when they think of love is s*x, or something that is there through the good times, but leaves when the storms of life come. This is a horribly distorted image of love, so much so that we can no longer see the very definition of love (God) in it anymore!
And Christians have similar problems. We “love” others by not telling them about God’s love for them. We say, “Oh, but I don’t want to offend them” or “They’ll think that I’m weird, and that will give them a bad image of Christians”. But really, how can we say we love our friends when we won’t even tell them about the most important thing in our lives? Is it really loving to let them walk blindly through life and then find themselves in hell when they die? No! No, that is not loving at all! That’s the opposite!
Dear friends, I struggle with this too. I am not a “super-Christian” who has brought many to Christ. In all honesty, I’ve never brought someone to Christ. I’ve helped someone rededicate their life to Him, and I’ve been there when someone accepted Christ for the first time, but I’ve never been the one to go up to someone and tell them the good news of Jesus. I think “Oh, they’ll see it in the way I live and if they’re interested they’ll ask me.” And while it is very good to live a life that shows Christ through it, that is not enough. This is something God has convicted me of recently, and I am trying to get better at it, because, as I said, that’s what true love is. It’s caring enough to do the hard things that could offend people, but it could also save them or at least plant a seed in them.
1st Corinthians 13:8 "Love never fails."
But without love you are sure to fail.
~SeaChel
Hello, friends. I'm not dead, can you believe it?! There's entirely too much to explain at the present time, but I have just today started a new blog. You can read about why I haven't posted since November and why I'm moving by hopping over to http://drgnfly1010.wordpress.com.
Thank you so much for reading my blog and keeping up with me and commenting.. I know I've been off-kilter not only since August, but even before that, but I'm hoping that that's all going to change now ;). So please check out my new blog and follow it! I'm still in the process of catching up on all of your blogs, as well, but I don't think I'm going to be able to catch everything, so if there's something particularly exciting or life-changing, let me know!
Goodbye for now,
~Bethany
