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It’s the last day of 2010. What have I done with my year? Did I make it count? Have I made a difference? How many friends did I make? How many friends did I lose? What changes have I made? What stayed the same? Did I reach new goals? What happened in 2010?

Off the top of my head, 2010:
The year started off with a great kiss by a great guy 🙂
February – 20th – Break Free Battle of the Bands, Dime Store Heist won 🙂
26th – Broke up with that great guy…God said we were going down two different roads. we’re still good friends 🙂
March – 5th – Ignite Lock-In. Olivia Ruby re-entered my life and we became BEST friends!
27th – The first Awakening at Buddy Preece’s church. RAIN & The Turn Around was there. I met Leighann, my twin, & Alton, her boyfriend. A guy gave me an apology from the platform for hitting me in a moshpit at the Battle then called me beautiful. That was a good night.
April – 1st – My niece Alexa was born!
24th & 25th – Break Free! all I can say is WOW! God amazes me every year! and this was only our second year. The Wrecking and Among The Thirsty were our headliners. sooo many kids got saved and re-dedicated! Brock, ATT’s bass player, used my flash drive 🙂
Also in this month, I started talking to someone…
May – 16th – Ryan Long preached a message about how we need to get our butts in gear and have a God movement (readers digest version)
17th – Olivia & I started The God MOVEment Ministry
June – 5th – Graduation! I was no longer in school!  🙂 BAM! I wasn’t a kid anymore. =/
Summer Slam was that night in Hamlin! Will Basham is the coolest for making these things happen! This was also the fist event that TGM attended. it was a great night 🙂
Sometime around this time the world seemed like it was turned up-side-down. We prayed a lot for our church and our friends at this point.
9th -12th – Camp ZOE! our churches first camp! it was great! it was an amazing sight to see a change in those kids. I personally watched this one kid come in the first day, would not listen, kept getting in trouble, could not sit down. by the last day, he had got saved, was helping out, would listen, it was amazing! this kid had done a complete 180! I saw things like this happen to 4 other kids.
19th – Alive Fest! Olivia went with me. We saw Needtobreathe! (our whole purpose of going) while we were there, American Idol contestant, Phil Stacy, was getting ready to do a set. We got to hang out and talk with him. He asked if we had been there all week, I told him that my dad & I thought we would be playing at our church that weekend but turned out we didn’t have to so we decided to come up there. Phil said “oh, what do you play?” I told him that I played piano. He asked if I sang and Livie didn’t give him a chance to finish his sentence before she squealed “yes!”. he looked at me and said “the band that was supposed to go on before me couldn’t make it and I have a 2 hour set now…would you like to sing?” Livie said “yes she would! yes!” so I did. I got to play & sing a song (that I wrote) for Phil Stacy, The Lee University Singers, and hundreds of other people! I got a standing ovation 🙂 Thanks Phil for giving me that chance and Livie for making me do it!
That night we had a great time of worship with Chris Tomlin. The sky was bursting with blues, yellows, pinks, reds, purples! The trees were swaying as if they were dancing and their limbs were stretched high like they were praising with us! It was amazing. 🙂
July – I got my heart broken. I was hurt for a long time. I was angry for a long time. Only in November did I forgive this person.
July was my month, let me tell ya. 5 days out of the week was with Jake & Livie. We went everywhere together. If someone saw one of us, they saw all 3 of us. It was great! 🙂
30th & 31st – Amp’d For Christ! great weekend of Jesus lovin! RAIN ministered on the 31st. TGM set up on the RAIN table that day. lots of new friendships were made! 🙂 …one was lost. God moved greatly that weekend!
August – End of Summer, school starting back for everyone…crazy times. Also this was the month my parents were celebrating their 25th anniversary! they went out-of-town for a few days and Laura Epling came over! we partied it up with brownies and Dear John.
11th – went to Kings Island with Ignite! it rained all day, which made it a great day! (reasons not noted ;] ) I rode my very first roller coaster, up-side-down coaster & 5 story tall coaster! Thanks Mark Thomas & Laura Poore! That night, it had dried up, the park was lighting up. it was beautiful. Jacob & I started walking around the park cause i wanted to take pictures…then out of nowhere, BAM! the sky’s opened up again! it was a heavy rain, but a pure rain. I loved it. Jake and I ran and got under the carousel. later he won me a penguin! that was a great day 🙂
September – 19th – 25th – Tennessee Trip! I love Tennessee! It feels like home there. We got a cabin on top of a mountain with a wonderful view. The cabin was just, wow! We went to Cades Cove (our reasoning for visiting the smokies) and saw so many new things that we never noticed before! God always does amazing things when we visit there! Went to the Ripley’s Aquarium in Gatlinburg & got to see my favorite thing in the world…PENGUINS! Went to the Titanic museum and got to experience what it would have been like to travel on the Titanic. We got to see living conditions for 1st, 2nd, & 3rd class guests. The smoke room, the hall, the captains port, the main stair case (Leonardo DiCaprio wasn’t there though =/ ) That was the best vacation ever! 🙂
October – 1st – Chris Tomlin! Faith Long & I got to see Kristian Stanfil & Chris Tomlin from front row center seats! Worship was amazing! It was so great to be a part of worship and sing along with thousands of other people.
28th – Fall Fest! I was snow white this year and I must say… I was the cutest snow white ever 🙂 well, except for this cute little girl who was snow white too and was so thrilled to see that someone else was dressed like her. (I gave her 20 tickets for dressing like me ;] )
November – 6th – Chick-Fil-A! I got my first job at CFA! it’s the best job ever! I have an amazing boss that prays with me & great managers who understand my blood sugars! It’s also cool to work alongside friends such as Ethan Davis, Stephen Stonestreet & especially my one best friends Megan Hodges! The hours are great and the food is great! did I mention it’s the best job ever? God truly put me in the right spot!
18th – FIASCO! my dad lost his job. very unexpected. He thought he was going into a meeting but they stopped him and just basically said “you dont’ work here anymore”. He hadn’t done anything, he wasn’t laid off or fired…his position was terminated…but they didn’t give us a single warning. They hardly gave him enough time to get what he could out of his work car to put in a taxi and sent him home. Didn’t let him go to his office and get his belongings, wouldn’t let him get his pictures off his computer, or get contacts out of his phone. It was bad. It’s been rough on us but we’re doin good and believing God has betting things in mind.
25th – Thanksgiving! nuf said.
December – wow, where has my year gone!?
23rd – My 19th Birthday! Steelers won against Carolina!
24th – Christmas at grandparents!
25th – Christmas day! we get sick. I go in the Hospital. if you don’t already know that story, then read my previous blog titled “SICKness on CHRISTmas”
31st – Today! My mommas birthday! Still recovering from sickness at Christmas so I’ll party hardy with my teddy bear and glass of water! woo! I know I’m such a party animal.

Also in 2010 I got to see many MANY concerts :House of Heros, TobyMac, Skillet, Revive and so many more! Underground was started at HBC by Will Basham. God has done great things with that ministry and I’m excited to be a part of it! I met a great friend from Texas named Ruel! He came in and it was like he’d been a part of the gang for 10 years. definitely one of my best friends! He moved back to texas last week and by what Facebook says, he’s getting married in 2 days! Congrats Rue! I lost a lot of friends too…I still don’t know why, they just stopped talking to me. But hey, God definitely put new friends in my life! like Megan Hodges, Amanda Blevins, Brittni Furry, etc. Oh! Andddd Amanda Basham found out she was pregnant!! Bella’s gonna have a little brother! all thanks to a text message (haha) 🙂

Happy New Year EVERYONE! Hope you made your year count! Have a blessed 2011! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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A tissue box just attacked my face and the sheet just fell off the couch. i have the best of luck. now, to the blogging! *said in super hero voice*

On December 23, 1991 a beautiful baby girl entered the world showing her most famous side, her butt. I caused my momma such pain for 8 hours (that’s just how long she was in the hospital) for her to have to find out that I was going to be born by C-Section. (love ya mom!) but that has nothing to do with I’m getting ready to get into.

On December 23,2010 a beautiful baby girl entered my home, my niece Alexa. My brother and his family came over for my birthday. Alexa had been up all night throwing up and running a temp. the night before, but they came over anyways. That night, as we were all getting ready for bed and Christmas the next day (we celebrate Christmas on the 24th) Jordan, my nephew, became ill as well. PUKE all down the hall, the bathroom, his bed, half of the bedroom, GROSS! a little later…so did my brother, just not as severe. The next morning we go through with opening gifts and such…then mom enlightens me that we all will not be going to Maws for dinner and grab-bag (a game we play every year at Christmas that may send you home with stitches). Christmas, I knew, was already going to be different because dad had lost his job and 6 other family members would not be there to celebrate. (6 other family members = my aunt, spoken of before that has my name on a hit list, and her family). I went to my room ticked (for lack of better words) off as could be, cryin, yea, i was quite angry. Screwed up birthday now a screwed up christmas, I was done. Mom went down stairs and my brother asked what was wrong with me, mom said I wasn’t feeling well. THEN the sister-in-law said “well maybe we should leave, I don’t want us to be the cause of her getting sick”. psshhh, well there’s a thought!

Anyways, they left. Mom, Dad & myself still got to go to Maw & Paws for Christmas and had a fun time. Since I had a stupid birthday the day before, Maw had stacked reeses cups and put a candle in the middle. Happy birthday me 🙂 The family gathers around and Aunt Donna starts singing Happy Birthday. I told her “no! I haven’t even blown my candle out yet!” but no one listened…the whole family joined in. I said “no! this is bad luck! stop till I blow out my candle!” but the singing continued…so I just blew out my candle and sat down as they finished their song. Christmas commences and all was joyful.

That night, around 1am, Dad warns me that mom is sick. All through the night mom hugged the potty. She threw up a good 30 times, to say the least. No one got sleep. She was contained to her room and the down stairs bathroom, I stayed in the living room. Dad kept checking on me saying “how are you feeling?” ” If you start to feel sick, let me know” “You haven’t had anything to eat, are you sick?”…and I kept saying “Dad, I’m fine”…and I was. at 7:55pm I was getting my Xbox ready to play dance on my kinect, dad was making cinnamon rolls, and all was fine. at  7:58pm, Isaiah, my nephew called, and at 8pm I was throwing down the phone yelling “DAD! I’M SICK!” and there she blew! (note, I did make it to the bathroom first). I had been praying all day, speaking healing and a bubble over myself in Jesus name, and I just knew that I was NOT going to get sick! but you’d know that just as soon as Titanic was coming on…on Christmas DAY mind you, my luck would turn around. Now I don’t believe in luck, but it’s the best way to explain it.

I don’t want to sound like a brat and selfish about Christmas, I just wanted to have THE perfect Christmas my last year being a teenager. Anywho…I knew by 8:15pm that it was going to be bad. my blood sugar was low and dropping and I couldn’t eat anything to bring up because I puking my guts out. I told mom to take me to the hospital. I was in too much pain and too sick to be able to do anything. dad called 911 and the paramedics showed up around 9pm. the lady in the ambulance was a nut, i don’t think she knew how to put in an IV (because last time I went to the hospital she couldn’t get an IV in me) first she tried the left hand but it didn’t work(the whole time I’m singing Healer to keep my mind off of it and claiming it on myself) she said “I’ve never had to put an IV in a curved vein before” yea, that makes me feel safe. I started getting sick again so they just pulled out and said “we’ll try again on the interstate”. so we get on the interstate and she trys again…this whole time I’m puking…and moms getting sick too cause she hadn’t recovered yet from the night before. note, that IV didn’t work either so she stopped.

we get to the hospital and we find out, I’m too old to be there, they’re wanting to take me somewhere else. umm, HELLO! I’m sick, help me a little then we’ll talk about moving. They told me to stand up off the gurney so they could check my height and weight, I told them that I didn’t know if I could stand. This stupid male jerk of a nurse said “well mam, if you want any help you’re gonna have to do this. so I try to stand up and I start to fall, and while the jerk just stood there and watch me almost hit the floor, mom had to come in and help me. I don’t think she was supposed to, but who was going to? I tell her that I had to get to the bathroom right then, cause by this point, I wasn’t just throwing up…yea, I’m getting gross on ya. the jerk said “mam, you can’t leave this room” but I went anyways. when I came out I was seriously sick, they had a wheel chair waiting on me. Mister Jerk was rushing me, I was so weak. mom was tryin to help me get my feet on the little feet things and jerk was sayin to hurry up. then I said, you might not want to take me anywhere yet, I’m feelin it again but I don’t know which way I’m gonna blow. he said, quite harsh and loudly I might add, “well if you want the doctor to see you tonight then you’re gonna have hurry and…” I interrupted and said ” well if you want me to throw up on you …” mom said shut up and this jerk took me so fast down that hall I bet we could have won the indie 500. he was such a jerk! since it was a pediatric hospital, I hope he doesn’t treat the kids that way.

I was put in a bed in the ER, and a new nurse came in. she got my IV in (the whole time I was singing Jesus, Jesus off the Skillet worship cd) she said I sing pretty. while that was going on mom was in the corner going down…like literally. they had to get her a wheel chair and put her in a bed to. so she was in bed 20 and i was in 7. Aunt Donna was there helping out so she went with mom and dad was with me. Aunt Donna said jerk dude was a jerk to them too and that mom gave him a mouth full. mom doesn’t remember any of it…going down, the wheel chair, anything between them coming in to give me an IV and her going into her room.

they gave me anti-nausea stuff and it helped! I was so happy. At 3am I was thirsty so they let me have sips of water, and when they saw I could handle that they said if I could hold down a popsicle then I could go home. at 5am they had unhooked me and was going to send me on my way…then i got sick again. badly! the ER doctor was wanting to send me somewhere else and admit me. mom was like, but all her other doctors are here, why can’t she stay? I’m 19…I’m too old to be there. but he said if my regular doctor would admit me there then I could stay. thank God she did! so I go upstairs at about 6am. they give me more anti-nausea stuff and I was set, or as set as you can be in the hospital. I didn’t eat the whole day of the 26th till that night..I had 2 crackers. at 5am on the 27th they came in a did blood work. I was so scared cause I’m used to being numbed before blood work and this time I wasn’t. BUT I didn’t freak out, I just held moms hand and they took my blood and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be…still bad just not as much as I had worked my self up to.

Later on the 27th I had a piece of toast and 4 crackers! but I picket up a chest cold. faucet nose and bad cough. i was feeling the worst! BUT on the 28th I was free to go! I had held down 3 pieces of toast, 6 crackers and a cup of dry Cheerios! the cough was still there and the nose was as runny as ever, but they thought i could beat that better at home.

so, at 7:30pm on December 28th, 2010, i got home! I’ve been home a day and a half now and I’ve had like 5 pieces of toast, 2 bowls of cereal, 2 pieces of chicken strips and 2 bottles of water! I’m a happy lade! still have the cough and faucet nose though, but i am so much better than i was on Christmas!

and that was my Christmas story.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight! 🙂

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Isaiah left this morning and there’s snow outside and I’m lonely.

Last night as Bub (Isaiah) and I were out sledding at 9pm and making snow angels and such I was thinking, “I love the snow. I want to share my love of snow with a boy. I want to kiss a boy in the snow.” *snow ball hits side of face* Isaiah says “can we eat the snow!?” I draw a heart in the snow, fall to the ground on my back, lay there a while, then Isaiah almost hit me with the sled…thank goodness his has breaks.

Now I’m laying on the couch and have been watching movies since Dad and Bub walked out the door. Movie 1: Grease -Have you ever noticed that at the end of the last song on Grease, the chipmunks are singing witch doctor in the back ground? Anyways, movie 2: The Wedding Planner – I LOVE this movie! 1) Matthew McConaughey is so pretty 2) I have an obsession with weddings 3) I love the beginning when Jennifer Lopez says “You saved…my shoe.”  Moving on…Move 3: TBA.

Another thing about snow is that it’s the first word in one of my other favorite movies…my #1 actually…SNOW WHITE! I love Snow White! I have the dress, the move, the moxi doll, the button, the snow globe, the window cling, the paint by number thing, and…that’s it for now…but I love it! (:

I need to go Christmas shopping. I have something really special in mind for my momma this year (: Bub and I were in a gift wrapping mood last night and wrapped some little things for mom and dad and his parents.

Oh man! I dont have my stocking up yet..or moms nativities! or the christmas lights on the front porch! ok, there’s my to-do list when i’m not working. lol

Speaking of working, I have another blog that I need to make public that I wote about Chick-fil-a…thats where I work now. I’ve been promising my dear friend Megan for about 2 weeks now that I would make it public and haven’t yet…i’m going to that here in a little bit too. one more thing added to the to-do list.

while I’m at it, ya know sharing everything thats coming to mind, I should share……nahh, never mind.

Anyways, have I mentioned how much I love snow?

(:

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