Still failing at

posting more from my laptop! Hahaha :P Reeeeally gotta work on this...

At this moment I am feeling extremely sleepy. And it's not even ten o'clock. I think I've been staying up too late...

Anyway, let's get to the things I wanted to post about! :) I don't plan on going in any particular order...considering that that is not how my mind works, in the least. ;)

But I guess I'll start with the most recent: Tonight in our church's praise gathering, I sang on praise team for the first time ever!!! It was amazing! I absolutely loved it, despite how nervous I was beforehand. :) I felt that I worshiped more...I think because I was able to focus better than when I'm just in the congregation singing along. And I don't think I had ever felt so confident singing before. :)
And then The Tipos sang our TI song! That went very well, also. I did mess up...my throat got all dry  (even though I wasn't nervous) and my voice cut off for a second. But apparently it wasn't noticeable...except for the fact that my hand involuntarily went to my throat when I messed up. But oh well! haha :) The message was still the same, whether we sang it perfectly or not. :) And I hope it was a blessing to people...because that's the important part.
Our practices before the service went VERY poorly, and so we were nervous about it. But then we prayed together, and we felt much better. :)
Oh! This is so terrible...every time we perform our Tipos song this year, even if I'm not nervous, my face starts twitching!! It's awful!! It makes me laugh, but it's super embarrassing WHILE we're singing! Hahaha :)

So, another thing I wanted to post about is our Senior Banquet. Our church hosts a banquet every year for our youth group (well, the Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors), and it was yesterday! This was my first year going, and can I just say that it was one of the most amazing things I've ever been to? It was one of the best days ever... :) We got all dressed up and ate a gourmet meal (and I mean GOURMET). There was a salad bar type of thing first, and that was amazing! A beautiful salad with good toppings, they had shrimp and cocktail sauce, and plates of fruit (my favorite! They had pineapple, blueberries, raspberries, kiwi fruit, and strawberries). The main course - or courses - was lemon and herb chicken, beef brisket, and cucumber salsa salmon (which is what I got...amazing!!). The side dishes were zucchini and yellow squash, green beans and onions, garlic mashed potatoes, and rolls. :) And then there was dessert....my plan was to sample one thing. So much for that. :P There was cheesecake with a mixed berry sauce and a strawberry sauce, mint brownies, two chocolate chip cookies with chocolate between them, and three different types of gourmet brownies. O.O So. Yum.
Anywho, enough about the food. Pastor Kent wrote and read a poem about the Seniors. Apparently he does this every year...it's a poem with about two lines about each of the seniors. It's so sweet and personal...I loved it! Made me tear up... :)
The dads of the seniors did a skit...that was funny! :) Pastor Kent presented a charge to the seniors. His messages are always so good. :)
And there was a video slide show at the end... there was a collection of photos (birth to senior portraits) of each senior, with a message from each of their parents playing in the background. That was so sweet. :)
And then there was an activity afterward that was apparently EPIC, but I didn't go to it. Mrs. B (my DIA  leader) and her son, Anthony, created it. And they always make the best parties and activities. :D It was a Survivor game...it sounded pretty intense! :)
Yep, so...I can't wait until next year when I'm a senior. Just sayin'. :)

So, I started this post over an hour ago. Haha! My parents and Ben got home and they wanted to read, so blog post had to go on hold. :) My mom is reading this epic series out loud to us...it's by the same author  (Suzanne Collins) as The Hunger Games (LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE), and it's called Gregor the Overlander. They're a teensy bit more juvenile, but not drastically. Like, adults can for sure enjoy them. :D

Okay well, I was probably going to write more...but I'm dying to go to bed at the moment. Hopefully I'll have the willpower to get up and work out in the morning *crosses fingers*. haha ;)
Goodnight and ipml! :)


P.S. - Pictures! :)

I am now going to

post some pictures!!! Yay!!! :D


Okay, this is Ant Janet's favorite statue in the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. It's so  pretty!!! :)

Love stained glass windows!! :D

Ant Janet thinks this angel is Lucifer....haha

The first cemetery I've been to with a pyramid! :) It's really cool!

Pretty Autumn colors... :) And of course, a bell tower! I LOVE BELL TOWERS!!!

Okay, how creepy is this manequin??? o.O  All of the manequins at Forever 21 are freaky...

The mountains in front of our house :)

My first successful French braid!!! :D

My birthday meal!!! - Mushroom burgers!!! xD



Me on my birthday with my mushroom burger :)

Okay, well, that's all the pictures I can upload for now - I have to go to bed. lol :) ipml!! :D

yay! pictures!! :)

this is me playing my guitar! well, obviously i'm not actually playing it because i'm taking the picture...but i CAN play guitar! so just pretend that's what i'm doing!

this is me and my dear kitty cat <3<3<3

<3 me and my daddy!! <3

lightning!! (i stood out in the rain for a LONG time to get this picture!!! but it was worth it! :D)

ben being totally awesome during a thunderstorm! this was such a fun photoshoot!! :D

okay, terrible picture of me, but i just wanted to show you my chicken named "diva" unfortunately, now she's all grown up and i can't tell her apart from the rest of them :/

me and three of my BESTEST friends ever! (left-right: erin, me, matt, jacob)

my prince!

well, i suppose that's all for tonight! tune in next time for something else! haha :) ipml!

~beth

hey, guess what?!

sammy is not sammy anymore!!! he's now 'peregrin took' or 'pippin' for short. and when we want even SHORTER...'pip' lol ;) isn't that such a cute name, though??? anyway, here's a couple more pics of him:

this is pippin drinking his milk replacement (yum yum, right?) out of a lid..like a mayonnaise lid or something.

ok, these are now random pics of me and symon. this is what happens when i don't feel like reading at night but i don't have to go to bed for a while....i take vids and pics of symon and me!!!!!! lol :)

well...ipml!! bye!!! :D i'm gonna go play with pippin! or maybe make dinner...hm....

this morning

my mom and mamaw found a kitten. he is sooooooo cute!!! my mom named him 'sammy'. then i, being obsessed with middle names, decided that he should have a full name. so, his now official full name is "samwise gamgee"!!! it's awsome!!! he is soooooooo adorable!!! :)

here's some pics of sammy:


this is him in his box
this is mommy holding her hand up so you can see how big he is :)

this is sammy in my arms wrapped in a towel

me and sammy

well, i hope you enjoyed the pics!!! :) i g2g! bye!!! :) ipml! lol :)

~beth

here's a pic

that jessica sent me. it's awesome!!! :)


i like this kitty!!! ;)

i'm gonna post some random pics

now. here they are! first of all, i wanted to post a good pic of ANT janet. she likes to complain about all the silly pictures of her i've put on here :)

ok, and this is laura...we were walking down after choir practice.

and this is laura with her hairclip on her nose...very strange...yeah, this was in the choir room right after choir practice :)

ok, this may seem random, but this car is called a 'fiat tipo'. yeah, idk if i've mentioned it b4 or not, but me, laura, erin, bri, and kat like to call ourselves the 'tipos'. we THOUGHT it meant 'dude' in spanish. but so far we have discovered that it means 'type', possibly 'masculine men' (not sure about that one) and now it's a car. pretty sad. we actually called our vocal group for TI 'the tipos' but at the last minute erin asked the judges to just announce us by our names :) anyway, i thought the pic was interesting. well, it prob didn't interest you...but oh well :)

well, i g2g! see ya!

~beth

right now i'm bored

b/c jessica just left and now i have nothing to do except...ahem...read 'the return of the king' which i don't particularly want to do right now. AND NOBODY IS EMAILING ME!!!!!!!!!!! i'm sad. my friends don't like me....jk :) they'll prob all email me later tonight....save the best for last!!! jkjkjk!!! lol :)

anyway, this is driving me nuts b/c jessica changed the resolution on the computer and i want the font to be bigger, but i can't change that unless i have the parental controls password (which i don't have). and right now daddy is busy and my mom is in another room. yeah, so i'll just wait till later i guess. yeah, i like the resolution thingie, but i just want the font bigger on stuff. i guess i'm just used to everything being big.

oh! here's the pic i decided to put on my desktop!!! it's sooooooo awesome! jessica copied it onto my computer.

isn't it soooooooooo cute??? there's a bunch more, but i like this one the best i think :) it's cute!

ok, sooooooooo......hm.....'rebirthing' by skillet just went off. i like that song. now the spiderman theme song is on! i loooooooooove it!!!!!!! it's awesome! it wasn't what i waslooking for when i searched for spiderman music, but it's awesome! i wanted the music from the movies, but playlist.com didn't have that. the spiderman movies are my all time favorites, but now they have some competition! lord of the rings :) haha

today jessica fixed my parents' computer. so now it's working! yay! lol :) we also went to international buffet for lunch. i like that restaurant. it's chinese. i don't like chinese, but this place is awesome! (oooh! i just thought of something! i wonder what my blog looks like....i'll have to look at it after i post this...)

right now the part i'm at in return of the king is where sam is trying to find and rescue frodo. the part right after frodo gets stung by the spider...yuck! that part is seriously nasty!!!! oh! i remember the orcs' names!!! the captains of the orcs. one is named 'shagrat' and one is 'gorbag'. yeah, shagrat sounds totally disgusting! i was picturing him as being one of the better looking orcs (well, NONE of them are even close to being good looking), but he sounds like one of the worse ones!! eewwww! yeah, orcs are sick, but i think i'd rather meet a couple of them than shelob (the spider). i HATE spiders!!!!!! they are sooooooo creepy!!!!!!!! i have one though, that is my friend. his name is walter. well, he's gone now, but he WAS my friend. i hope i haven't already told this story, but if you've already heard it you can just skip over it :) um, so i was carrying symon from the basement back up to the house. and at the bottom of the stairs on the wall, i saw something just like, stuck on the wall. so i looked closer, adn it was a spider!!!!! so i freaked out and ran upstairs and was like "MOMMY!!! THERE'S THIS HUGE SPIDER ON THE WALL!!!!!! CAN YOU PLEASE GET IT OFF??!!" and then she was like, "oh yeah, i squished that one this morning. it's dead." and i was like, "well, can you still get it off b/c i don't want to have to look at it every day when i scoop the litterbox!" and then daddy was in the kitchen and he was like "if it's gonna bother you that much, YOU can get it off!" so then i decided that i would protest this by just leaving it. so i named it and it became my friend. but then finally it had been there so long that it dried up and fell off the wall :( i was sad! walter was my friend! i said 'hi' to him everytime i passed him!!! oh well. there is still a little bit of him left on the wall...hahaha! i know, it's disgusting. but I'M not taking care of it!!!!!!!!

ok, well i have to get off now, so bye!

~beth

here is my

dream car!!!!!!!! i even want it in this color! isn't it beautiful???

awesome doors, man!!!!!!!!

this color is pretty too!!!!!

either one would do!!!!!!!!

this is a very random

post. i'm just posting pics of symon for the sake of satisfying my dear friend matt. he thinks that i had posted pics of symon sometime in 2009 and they mysteriously disappeared. so, i'll just post these pics of my cutie pie so it can be said that i HAVE posted pics of him this year!

i LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE this last one!!!!!! except that i couldn't fix the color of his pupils. since it wasn't red eye, photo shop wouldn't fix it :( oh well. isn't he gorgeous though???

ipml!!!!!!

ps are you satisfied matt??? pls leave a comment!!!!!!!!!