Why?

I must share this song with you. It is absolutely beautiful. It's a song called "Why" by Nichole Nordeman.

WHY

We rode into town the other day
Just me and my Daddy
He said I'd finally reached that age
And I could ride next to him on a horse
That of course was not quite as wide

We heard a crowd of people shouting
And so we stopped to find out why
And there was that man
That my dad said he loved
But today there was fear in his eyes

So I said "Daddy, why are they screaming?
Why are the faces of some of them beaming?
Why is He dressed in that bright purple robe?
I'll bet that crown hurts Him more than He shows
Daddy, please can't you do something?
He looks as though He's gonna cry
you said he was stronger than all of those guys
addy, please tell me why
Why does everyone want him to die?"

Later that day the sky grew cloudy
And Daddy said I should go inside
Somehow he knew things would get stormy
Boy was he right
But I could not keep from wondering
If there was something he had to hide

So after he left I had to find out
I was not afraid of getting lost
So I followed the crowds
To a hill where I knew men had been killed
And I heard a voice come from the cross

And it said, "Father, why are they screaming?
Why are the faces of some of them beaming?
Why are they casting their lots for My robe?
This crown of thorns hurts Me more than it shows
Father, please can't You do something?
I know that You must hear My cry
I thought I could handle the cross of this size
Father, remind Me why
Why does everyone want Me to die?
When will I understand why?"

"My precious Son, I hear them screaming
I'm watching the face of the enemy beaming
But soon I will clothe You in robes of My own
Jesus, this hurts Me much more than You know
But this dark hour I must do nothing
Though I've heard Your unbearable cry
The power in Your blood destroys all of the lies
Soon You'll see past their unmerciful eyes
Look there below, see the child
Trembling by her father's side
Now I can tell You why
She is why You must die"

Fort Worth

Today I went with some of my friends to ride on this mini train that runs through Trinity Park in Fort Worth, TX. While doing this, I realized how many fun things there are to do in Fort Worth alone, and even this area that we never do. So many little adventures to be had! I'm determined to do these things more often.

Here's a link to the website that describes a little bit about it: http://www.fpmt.us/

Why, hello there!

So you see, I have this problem. That problem is that I can sometimes be forgetful, and in this case I have forgotten to continue writing on my blog for almost a year. I think if I knew that people were reading it, I would wright more often. However, like I'm sure that I have said before, I am determined to keep this going. For the moment, I am a little overwhelmed because I have not written in so long and I'm not quite sure where to begin. I suppose for now I could do what most of my posts have been: a long list of things that have happened. So prepare yourself. Strap yourself down, get play some exciting music, just do what you've gotta do to read a long blog.(But you will get to see a lot of pictures. But who would expect anything less?) Don't say I didn't warn you.

I last left you telling about how I was soon going to graduate. Well, you will be glad to know that Idid graduate! Graduation was June 6, 2009 at the Fort Worth Convention Center. Of course, here's a picture to show you!

The Family:

The first thing to always kick off my summer for the past 6 years has been youth camp: one of my favorite parts of the summer. It's at Riverbend Retreat Center in Glenrose, TX. For a week, several churches from around the Tarrent County area come for a week of crazy fun! There is so much I can tell you right now, but I don't want this post to be longer than it has to. So pictures it is!

Friends :)

One of the most popular parts of camp: the Dodgeball tournament. I was a part of the team "The Foxy Ladies" (haha) and we played in the girls division(so as not to die). Well, we thought we would do fairly well and would get to win the Ken trophy(on right), but we did not anticipate playing against a team of manly girls. They were beasts. Oh well... and as you can tell from the picture, Jennifer is not thrilled at all with our loss.

This was my second year to be a family group leader and I LOVED it!! Go Ice Mountain!
"Ice Ice Mountain!"

I would explain this picture...but then I would have to kill you.

One of the best parts of youth camp is gaining new brothers and sisters in Christ. This year God moved in an AMAZING way and over 30 people in my youth group alone gave their lives to Christ and were baptized the next Sunday. This year there were over 700 people at camp, 97 salvations, 115 re-dedications, and 25 surrendered to full time ministry. Glory to God!

For our youth group's YCAM (youth creative arts ministry) trip summer 2009, we went to San Diego, California. It was an amazing trip filled with great things, but also many moments where we were tested. Overall, however, the trip was amazing and God was glorified.

This is what a bus trip all the way to California will do to you:

On one of the beaches with my Dad and sister Amanda.

FIRE!

So, definitely one of the low points of the trip was spraining my ankle. I was in a group that did a recreational camp with kids in a neighborhood of a church we worked with. Especially since we only had a few kids the whole week, we all had to play(not that we wouldn't have to begin with). One of the games we played was called "Octopus tag". While I was being chased by the "octopus", I stepped in a dip in the ground that was covered with grass and got a high ankle sprain. The funny thing about it was that the first thing I thought the second I hit the ground was "kayaking!" because later that day we were going to go kayaking in the ocean and I did not want to miss it!

Well, I did end up not kayaking, and I was really really bummed about that, but I still had a great week.

Ice bucket = death. I had to do this every night for what seemed to be forever.

On the day we left, we stopped at Mount Soledad to have lunch and just take lots of pictures. It was beautiful that day.

All of the SENIORS on the trip! :)

Since it was taking me so long to hobble back to the bus, my youth minister carried me. haha. One thing that came from having a sprained ankle is that I am now a pro at hopping up into a charter bus on one foot.

Dust storm we ended up driving through! Crazy!

Home Concert: Seniors at the front for the last song.

Last Senior Sunday School :(

Mud Night! Sad I couldn't play! Stupid ankle! I guess I should say: stupid octopus!

Best Friend Day

Moving in to the dorm!

Roomies!!

Dodgeball Night during first flight week.

We learned how to swing dance! I did actually dance with guys...just no pictures to prove it.

Cowboys stadium for high school playoff games. BEAUTIFUL!!

BSM Christmas Party

Picture day with Michele Davis.

Downtown Fort Worth

New Year's Eve

BSM Leadership retreat in Midlothian, TX. They had a bounce house for us. :)

Definitely one of the highlights of my year was the Matt Wertz/Dave Barnes concert! We also went to Sprinkles cupcakes before the concert. Both were AMAZING.

There they are: Dave and Matt.

Family picture for the church directory.

Snow day!!! We had about 12 inches of snow!!! So much fun!

Day 2: Retalliation

With some friends at Yogurt Story!

Well, now that I have overwhelmed your brain with a lot of information and a lot of pictures, I think it's time to wrap this thing up. Expect more soon!

UPDATE!!

Gosh, I am so bad at this....I wish I knew that more than just one person read this...that would give me more motivation to update more often. But I will still do my best from now on. What's really funny is that the last time I really updated I was saying what a releif it was to make it through the first 2 weeks of my Senior year, and here I am getting ready to graduate a week from tomorrow!!

So to update on my life since September, I will try to make a list of things. Here we go:

1. I turned 18
2. I voted in the Presidential election
3. I went skiing for the first time
4. I made a yearbook
5. I have decided I am going to UNT in the fall
6. I am about to Graduate

So there. That is the bulk of it. I know there is so much more that I could say, but I just don't have the energy to write it all out. For now I will finish this with some pictures from Unify '09 (girls retreat) that was this past weekend.

Blogging For Dollars

Finding scholarships has got to be one of the hardest things to do. It’s time consuming, and sometimes even boring when you are not getting any results! I love finding any new website that will help me in my search. Scholarshippoints.com is one that I have found and has made a fun way to find scholarships. You find various codes in different locations and you enter them in for points that will help you towards scholarships. What I like about it is that it is kind of like a scavenger hunt for scholarships. You read what you can, and do what you can to earn as many points as possible. The only thing I do not care for is that some links to places to get points or scholarships, I do not completely trust. Sometimes they seem like websites that would steal your passwords and used it to steal information about you. I would just like to be more ensured by the scholarshippoints.com people that I am not getting scammed by these other sites and that they are legitimate. I guess there are just too many horror stories from people about getting scammed while looking and applying for scholarships. But other than that I love this source!

Oh to be a senior!

Oh boy! I made it through the first two weeks of my senior year in high school!! Ahhh!!! So much to say....



The first day of school was pretty good. We went back on Tuesday August 26. It really wasn't as big of a deal this year probably because i've been doing this high school thing for awhile now and we pretty much all know each other and we know all the teachers and they know us. So it was really just like coming back from a short break.



My class schedule:

1A: Pre- Calculus...Bailey

2A: Student Aide

3A: Yearbook...Dudzinski

~~where i'm an editor. yay! :D~~

4A: Early Release

5B: Government...Buck

5B: (next semester) Interior Design...Boyd

6B: Housing...Boyd

6B: (next semester) Economics

7B: AP English IV....Springstead

8B: Early Release



soooo....my schedule is definately not as packed this year. only one AP class, which I think is all I can handle because AP English IV covers about 2 other AP classes...sooo hard. But yeah, I think it'll be fun.

Also this year we have a new dress code where whe have to where a collared shirt in certain colors and either khaki, navy, or black pants...and only black or brownish or navy shoes....fun. It actually hasn't been too bad and some people have even figured out how to make it look cute. Some girls have even worn jumpers...which some people shouldn't be wearing...and you would never see me wearing even though I wish that I could.

The friday before school started we had "Meet the Panther" which is basically a big pep rally thing where all the fall sports are introduced (mainly the football team) and the band, color guard, drill team, and cheerleaders. Me and the other two editors came to take pictures and such. So other than it being my first Senior event, it was my first event as Yearbook editor! I love it :) I don't have any pictures that I'm allowed to put up here until the yearbook is out, but I do have a picture of me right before I went with my yearbook shirt from last year. :) haha

This is the second year that North Crowley has officially allowed Seniors to paint their parking spots. I really wanted to because it sounded like a fun thing to do and a fun memory to have. A couple of weeks before school started I had Michele (she's the artsy/creative friend) start helping me come up with ideas for my spot. We came up with some different ideas but our final idea was SOOOOO cute and we did it for most of Labor Day weekend...so here it is!

This is me standing on my old and boring spot....

Painting the polka dots in my super cool sunglasses!
yay for pink polka dots!
posing on my almost done spot


working hard! :D

My completed spot!! I definately have THE CUTEST spot out there! ....not trying to brag or anything... :)

Me and Michele posing on my almost done spot! :D
Doing some touch ups on my name.
haha...i love this one....being bossy :)

Michele painting her super cute swirls!

My parking space number
yay for painting!
Me and michele in our super cool sunglasses!!!
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About two weeks ago (same weekend as painting my spot) we had our first football game against Mansfield Summitt. We didn't play too horribly, but we still lost. :( The game itself was not really what was exciting though. I got to take pictures at the game for Yearbook which meant that I got to get into the game for free and have the best place to watch the game. It was really interesting because I was terrified that I was going to get tackled by a player running off the field to catch the ball, but thankfully nothing like that happened. I mostly followed the big time photographers around so I could figure out the best places to take pictures and such. It was fun watching the players yell at each other when they got mad at each other. ohhh good times. It was really tiring thought walking up and down the length of the football field several times, but still fun and a good learning experience.

Oh! also, on September 1(i think) I registered to vote!!! ahhh!! crazy! I can't believe I'm going to be old enough to vote soon!

Well, that's all I can think of to write about for now. More Senior stuff to come! :D