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

you may have noticed

that i changed my blog template! i really like it! :D i'm excited.

okay...so...i...am...so....excited...and...nervous....because......i will be leaving for camp ONE WEEK from tomorrow!!! :O i am so pumped! but like i said, i'm really nervous too...oh! but mr. tony and miss sue (our children's pastor and his wife) WILL be there! for the first week i'm there! it's PERFECT!!! :DDD they'll be in charge of the chapel services!! so it'll be like it was when i was a camper! :D and, guess what! my DIA leader just told me that she thinks the theme will be the fruit of the spirit, which was the theme my first year of camp! it'll be so fun! :D i still don't know what cabin i'll be in...but i'll most likely be in one of the younger cabins since i'll be one of the youngest JCs. :)
i ordered 25 bracelets off ebay a couple weeks ago. they're for the girls in my cabin (approximately twelve girls each week), and the bracelets were hand-made in israel!! isn't that so cool?! (they weren't expensive AT ALL, so that was AWESOME!!!)
okay, so i want to tell y'all about the devotional that i'll be doing with the girls in my cabin. i have to lead one devotional each week (totally nervous about this, since i've never done that before! :S ) okay, so i got this from MY camp counselor, Mrs. B (who is now my DIA leader :). she did this devotional in our cabin my last year of camp, and it stuck with me cause it was so different and fun, AND it had a good message! okay, so you have a tube of toothpaste. (hehe) i now instruct you to squeeze it out as fast as you can...GO!!! okay, you've successfully squeezed it all over the table. now i tell you to put it all back in the tube....whoops! can't do that, can ya? nope. well, that's like words. you can spout them off as fast as lightning (or toothpaste ;), but you absolutely cannot take them back! you can say "i take that back" all you want, but they're still there. now, this wouldn't be a problem if we always said kind things, would it? words can build up...or they can tear down. it's your choice how you use them!
and then we'll talk about it and read some verses about the tongue (like out of 1 John). I really like this devotional, cause i mean, how easy would it be to forget a devotional involving squeezing toothpaste all over the place?! haha :) when my cabin did it (we were in 6th grade, btw), we gave ourselves like, idk, hand therapy or something by rubbing the toothpaste all over our hands while Mrs. B finished the devo. :) it was so fun!!!...until the bell rang for chapel and we still had toothpaste all over our hands and we had to use the girls AND boys bathrooms to frantically wash it off before chapel started! haha, it was so funnyyyy!!! and then our hands burned like crazy! lol :) ah, good times...

anyway, hopefully that wasn't too terribly boring ;)

right now at wednesday night church, i'm working in a kids class called "fun summer club". i'm sure i've mentioned it in summers past. lol. but it is SOOO fun! except that i just learned this week that the teacher isn't teaching the class anymore!!! :'( i loved her! :((( but i think i'll like the new teacher, too :) anyway, there's this one girl at my table that has asked me twice "are you married?" HAHAHA! i promptly respond "no!!! i'm only fifteen!!!" lol :) it cracks me up! and i love how those kids act so mature...hehe, too cute! ;)

oh my word, is it just me, or does it totally feel like this summer is absolutely FLYING???? it's horrible! before i know it, school will have started again!!! *sigh* i kinda wish summer could last forever...with changing seasons...okay, just summer BREAK, but then we could still have spring, fall, and winter, too! ;) haha

well, i gotta go. i MIGHT post some pictures! that would be fun! :) ipml!!

~beth

guess what...

IT'S SUMMMMMMERRRRR!!!!! well...not the actual season...but as far as school goes....IT'S SUMMMMMERRRRR!!!! :D haha
so, today we went to the pool, and it was awesome! :) i hung out with jaymee and a little with leanna. and then i finished reading "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett. best. book. ever. period. it's my favorite of all time, and i read it once a year :)
i'm also going to be reading The Firstborn Series by Karen Kingsbury this summer. well, finishing it. i've already read all the books except one. and then after that, i'll read The Sunrise Series by the same author. these books are awesome! the first series is The Redemption Series. that one is my favorite so far i think. but i really like Firstborn, too.
anyway, i like reading. jtlyk :) hahaha, okay, i just remembered. a few weeks ago, i said "jtlyk" (which means 'just to let you know') in an email to jacob, and he was like "what does that mean? 'just touching large yellow kangaroos?" hahahaha! yeah, i found that quite amusing.
so...i might be getting contacts! i'm very happy :) i really don't like wearing glasses...first of all, they annoy me, second, they don't look very good on me. i would love to have contacts. and since i need my prescription updated anyway, my parents decided that i might be able to get them :)
oh yeah! okay, so idk if i already told y'all this or not, but i got the job as a JC at that summer camp!!! :D i'm so excited! i'll be there for two weeks next month. it's going to be quite a new experience, and i'm really excited/nervous about it. OH! but i recently found out that the children's pastor and his wife MIGHT be there for one of the weeks that i'm there! so that would be amazing if they happened to be there the first week that i'm working at camp. it would be nice actually knowing someone there! :)
wow. i just tripped up the stairs while running away from shadow! i hurt my shin really bad...i have no idea what i did to it, but it hurts like crazy and it's already swollen...
well, i gotta go. oh yeah, my best friend, erin, is going on a missions trip tomorrow. she's going to mexico and she'll be gone about a week. so, if you could pray for her, that'd be awesome :) she asked that i pray specifically that she doesn't get sick, and no migraines. she gets them a lot, so it would be awesome if she didn't have any while she's there!
ipml!

~beth 

i know, i know, once again

i've waited too long to blog :/ i'm so lame! haha

wow, okay, so i have something very sad to say: ant janet moved TWO HOURS away!!!! :(((( we moved her on the saturday before easter. it's been really sad not having her less than two MINUTES away :( but i'm happy for her because she has a good job where she is, and i think she likes it there :)

also, Regional Teens Involved was this past weekend! and guess what?! we did really good! i'm so happy! so, this year i was in choir, our 'Tipos' singing group (me, erin, laura, and katherine), a piano duet with erin, and drama. drama doesn't really count though because all i did was push a button at three different parts. i was the EXPLOSION! haha. and believe it or not, i actually managed to botch it up! i was like "that figures!" but yeah, apparently it wasn't THAT bad. like, i accidentally pushed the button when i wasn't supposed to. oh well. lol
and at Area TI, i messed up mine and erin's duet, so i was SO scared this time, but we made it through the whole thing and we actually did really well!!! :D we were thrilled! :) and tipos went well too! hahahaha, except, it was SO funny, we tried really hard to coordinate our outfits. we decided to do a theme of red, black, and white. and we said that we could have different patterns and stuff. i guess that's where we messeed up because one of the judges said (nicely) "next time you might want to think about coordinating outfits." :) hahahaha, we laughed so hard when we read that! i guess my zebra print didn't match erin's flowers and laura's diamond-ish pattern. lol :)

oh yes, and i would like to announce that tomorrow is laura's birthday!! actually...it's laura's birthday in five minutes!!! OMW!!!  i need to get on facebook and tell her happy birthday because i wanted to be the first person to tell her happy birthday on her bday!!! :)

okay, i need to go :) thanks for reading my ramblings! ipml! ;)

~bethie

ok, i just wanted to say that EVERYONE

should read ted dekker's "circle trilogy" because it is......................................................................................................................................................................................
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZZZIIIIIIIIIINGGGGGGGGGGG

yeah. and also, the "paradise novels" by him are awesome! i'm reading "sinner" right now, and IT IS SO GOOD! :D ok, just had to say that :D bye!

~beth

wowowow! how does this keep

happening?!?! i keep forgetting about my poor little blog (i also keep misspelling "poor"...i keep putting two 'r's instead of two 'o's! lol)! :((( but then one day, a friend reminds me that "beth! you haven't done anything on your blog in a LOOOONG time!" and then i'm like "oh! you're right!" and now here i am. :)

anyway...yeah. haha, maybe the reason i don't blog much is cuz i don't have anything interesting to say....

so, today was our church's annual (that means yearly, right?) cleaning day!!! :D it's so fun! my dad and me and his sunday school class cleaned the sanctuary. i was one of two vacuumers!! :D and i also helped wipe down the metal parts of the chairs! probably nobody except the people who did it will notice, but that's ok :) it's fun to clean when you have an ipod to listen to...just sayin' :)

sooooooo.........
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hehe, that's fun! :D

aaaaaanywaaaaay, I LOVE BECOMING A FAN OF THINGS ON FACEBOOK!!! it is SOOOO much fun! idk why, but it just is! lol

so, besides cleaning the church this morning, my mom and i also cleaned our house :) spring cleaning! ok, WHO IS EXCITED THAT IT'S SPRING WHICH MEANS THAT IT WILL BE SUMMER NEXT, WHICH MEANS THAT THERE IS NO SCHOOL, WHICH MEANS THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO GO TO THE POOL AND READ AND SWIM AND READ AND WORK IN FUN SUMMER CLUB AND READ AND BE IN THE READING CONTEST AND READ AND READ AND READ AND STAY UP LATE AND READ AND...well, you get the point. i love reading.

ok, so here are my awesome reasons for loooooooooooooooooooving summertime!! :D :

1. no school



2. greenness (grass, trees, garden)


3. flowers


4. fun summer club


5. strawberries


6. green beans


7. sugar snap peas


8. spinach


9. tomatoes


10. strawberry/spinach salad


11. squash


12. cucumber


13. wearing t-shirts w/out ppl saying "oh my! you must be FREEZING!"


14. commuting between gma & gpa's house in the grass w/out shoes on


15. talking to mamaw while picking strawberries


16. scratches all over my legs from shadow chasing me


17. visiting the creek


18. AFTERGLOWSS!!!


19. more social time


20. pool


21. swimsuit shopping


22. FLIPFLOPS!!!!


23. vacations


24. imagining that there is still a beehive in our woods :(


25. camping


26. the slim possibility of being a JC at GBC


27. ben being gone for a week at GBC (jk ;)


28. staying up late and then sleeping in (sometimes)


29. summer reading contest


30. getting tan






as you can see, there are many reasons why i can't wait for summer! and there are very few reasons why i dislike summer. here they are:






1. bugs


2. having to always have my toenails nicely painted


3. picking in the garden and washing the produce


4. no WOL


5. my friends being gone on vacations
 
hehe, ok, so i feel like i cheated cuz i copy/pasted that out of an email that i sent to all of my friends...but i mean, why type it twice, right? lol
 
so...yeah. i think i'd better get off the computer now...i have to get up kinda early for church tomorrow. well, ipml! (mayyyybe...lol, hopefully!)
 

~beth

WOW! DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN DO THIS? IT'S SO COOL! WOW..OKAY, BYE! LOL :)

IT'SSSSS.....

SNOWING! lol :) it's really pretty, and we have like, a foot already! :) very cool (haha...cool..yeah..)

ok, just wanted to say that! :)

~bethie

tonight is the first

night my mom and i are going to a Bible Institute in our area! i'm really nervous about it, but i'm excited about learning more about God's Word. :)

so, right now i'm......drumroll please.....MAKING A NEW SLIDESHOW!!! (finally!!) lol :) the one that's up there now is SO outdated! seriously! those pics are ancient! this one's pretty cool, though! hm...i should upload some pics! :)

.....nevermind...all the pics i wanted to post i'm putting in my slideshow! haha :) ttyl!

~beth

i am so nervous and excited

because i just sent an email asking for a job application!!! :D so, i've been thinking that God may want me to work at a summer camp. more specifically, the summer camp that i went to and LOVED and have amazing memories about! :) so, i found out that i could be a junior counselor (JC) at this camp for a few weeks, and i got majorly pumped about it, and i'm REALLY hoping and praying that i'll get to do it this year! i've been wanting to be a JC at this camp since i was a camper there. our church goes every year for a week and rents the whole place, like they take their own JCs and senior counselors, and cooks, and everyone, and i have been hoping for the longest time that our children's pastor would ask me to be a JC. i'm on his list, but he has to have an opening first, and i have NO idea how far down on the list i am! so now i'm excited because i may not have to wait for an opening to come up! plus, i think this will be a wonderful (and terrifying) experience for me since i absolutely despise doing ANYTHING which involves socializing with people i don't know...let alone spending a few weeks working and living with them!!! lol, but i'm excited, and i can't wait to see how it turns out and how God might use this experience in my life! like, i'm so excited about it that i couldn't get to sleep last night just thinking about it! haha! and this is the fastest paragraph i think i've ever typed in my life! lol, so that explains why you're probably confused and dizzy. hahaha

anyway, i just wanted to share my enthusiasm and excitement and thrilledness with y'all!! :D ipml! :)

~bethie

hahaha! wow...

i am ashamed of myself! lol...ok, not even gunna go there...i'll just say that i'm sorry for not posting anything in like, idk how long...just because i got a facebook doesn't give me an excuse to desert my beloved blog...*sniffle*

anyway, so...what's up? well, right now my church is having a two week revival summit. this group called 'life-action' is at our church, and they're doing EVERYTHING. like, they lead the service, youth group, AND all the kids' classes!!! it's really nice for a break for all the regular workers :) it's been a really neat experience, too! i've learned a lot. and i've just gotten to see a different view of myself, like, i'm coming to realize all these sins that i didn't know i struggled with! it's really painful, to be honest, but it's good. :)

so, that's the main thing that's going on here right now. um, oh yeah!!! dude, WOL teens involved is NEXT MONTH!!!! AAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!! yeah, it's kinda scary because i like, JUST finished learning and memorizing the piano duet ("power in the blood") that i'm doing with erin, YESTERDAY! yeah, and we've only practiced it together, like, twice! :S and then the tipos are singing together again! yay! :D and the song we're singing is "your grace still amazes me" by phillips, craig, and dean. :) it's so pretty!

symon is doing really well! he's as adorable as ever! shadow is still fat, and suzi is still slow. but we all still love them :)

haha, it feels like there HAS to be something else that i should tell you about!!! grr! haha, um.......OH YEAH! i'm not taking piano lessons this year because...*drum roll*....I'M PLAYING GUITAR NOW!! yay! lol, yeah, i know it's not that awesome, but i LOVE it! :) so yeah, that's pretty cool...

well, i'd better get off cuz i still need to..oh my word! i still have to study biology and then i have to take a shower and get ready for church which is at six thirty!!! :S ttyl! ipml! lol :) hahahahahahaha! wow...anyway, bye! :)

~bethie