Blue night at youth group

Me and Delanie overdid it haha

Jonathan looked like a hobo.. the stuff turned his hair kinda gray haha

this game was kinda nasty... haha

haha I love shane hes awesome

me and shane were doing the same pose i guess... thats what delanie said haha

First time skiing/wakeboarding

First day water skiing didnt go all that well haha

Second day I got up :)

Wakeboarding I got up like the third try haha

then I went on the tube.. that was awesome!

The Whole weekend was awesome!

Cool Devotion-Friendship Recipe

I was looking for a devotion to do and I found this.....

Sisters In Christ Friendship Recipe

* Shortening - Provides texture. Our fellowship and friendship with our sisters in the Lord can add much depth and texture to our lives. We blend together in unity as part of the body of Christ.

* Sugar - Adds sweetness. Our fellowship with our sisters adds such a sweet taste to our lives. If we didn't have sugar in our cookies, we'd sure miss it. The same is with our fellowship with our sisters. We can't leave it out of our lives.

* Eggs - Holds ingredients together. Sisters in the Lord are someone to lean on. We are held together by fellowship with them. We are stronger because of them, their prayers, and their love in the Lord. We have a special bond in Christ.

* Vanilla - Adds flavor. Sisters add that flavor we need. They give us that extra sensation. Without friends and fellowship we become kind of bland.

* Flour - Adds substance. We need the substance a sister in the Lord can add. They give us many things by way of mentoring us when we don't even know it. Their shared testimonies and way they live their lives has an impact on us.

* Baking Soda - Leavens. Leavening agents in baking helps to lighten the dough. Friendship with our sisters in Christ lightens our burdens through their prayer and encouragement.

* Salt - Enhances flavor. We know that friendships add flavor and just when we need it, they help improve the tastefulness and quality of our lives. Friends are the type of people that know just what we are going through and are there when we need them.

* Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips - - The kind of chocolate chips we normally add to our cookies is semi sweet. Our sister friends tell us what they feel and think and that's okay. They can be honest and truthful to us. "Iron sharpeneth iron" (Proverbs 27:17).

* Nuts...Optional - Just a little craziness in a sister friend is great! Sometimes a little zaniness in our friends can be just the ingredient we need.

I posted this on facebook but i guess i'll put it on here too...

Alright so this is the people I love and why I love them :)...

I just felt like doing this because one of my friends did so I thought I would too... and this took a very long time to write! haha

Im gonna start with Jasmine because I dont have a picture of her..After Jasmine left our church we starting talking a whole lot more! We were texting each other every single night talking about all kinds of stuff! Since she left we've become like best friends! We tell each other everything! anytime one of us is going through a hard time we pretty much stay up all night talking about it and try our best to help each other out, I can tell her anything, I love her so much and i Miss her :)

Jon Fritch
He looks Totally different now! no glasses and braces, haha anyway... I hardly see him anymore but he is also one of my best friends, he makes me laugh everytime I see him, he's always been one of those people who could make me laugh no matter what mood i was in.. Shane
Shanes awesome. He's fun to hang out with and really helps me out a lot with my walk with the Lord. On the retreat I ended up talking to him for 2 hours I think? It was a pretty long time haha, anyways I was asking him all these questions about Christianity and the Bible and all that and he answered all of them!He's pretty crazy too! haha I love him :)

Charlotte & Shaina
I love both of them. Their both so encouraging to me and there awesome! I love how everytime I see them they give me hugs :), Im glad charlotte came back for the summer even though she has to go back again, I wish I couldve saw her more though, and as for Shaina I think its awesome that shes a leader for highschool now, it made highschool group(so far) seem a lot better knowing that one of my Junior High leaders are there


Moses
See this picture right here is why we call him moses. At awana camp in i think 5th grade was we we first started hanging out, We were both bored so we started hanging out together, thats when he picked up the staff and i was like dude you look like moses! thats been his nickname ever since. Hes awesome he also gives me hugs everytime i see him haha he was my friend since elementry school and now were going into highschool and are still friends :) Garrett
Rusty

Seany

FitziAlex

sorry guys, I didnt have enough time to keep writing stuff induvidually about everyone :/ but I love you all just as much!... Ok so my JH leaders were and are still amazing, even though I dont see them at youth anymore they still talk to me on sundays and ask me how im doing and stuff:D.. A lot of fun stuff happened with these guys, Fitzi taught me how to play halo, Rusty and Alex dressed up like giant babies, Garrett claimed he was a ninja and probably still thinks he is and sean was and maybe still is trying to get revenge on me from the winter retreat :) I miss them too :) I love you guys

hmm...

um.. so I need pictures, I haven't done anything fun since the retreat so I don't have pictures of anything haha... Id post some old ones if my dumb computer hadn't crashed and deleted them all plus all of my slideshows :( which I also cant make any of unless I have pictures :( oh well i guess i still have the hs slideshow... If anyone has some pictures that you could send of anything we've done at youth group or anything like that can you email them to me please... im very sad all my pictures from the past are gone :( haha, well I have 2 email addresses ahp226@yahoo.com and Sims2freakSms@aol.com I dont really care which one you send them too... and also email me anytime I love talking to people :)

Anyone want to go to the beach?!?...

...Like thurday or Friday afternoon? Im going on a vacation to the beach but its so boring when im there by myself! I want to have one day where I just invite all my friends!So If I did please come! My brother isnt even going, he never goes on vacation with us anymore, so im gonna be alone... on the beach... with no one there..

HS Retreat Slideshow

Most of the pictures from the highchool retreat, these are everyones pictures... some of the pictures are a little blurry and some of the captions are a little off..

The Highschool Retreat

OK well first off, the highschool retreat was awesome overall i think i got a lot out of it. I liked being away from all the electronic stuff I usually use like computer, TV, cell phone etc.. It was cool to just hang out with people and spend time with God at the same time.

Every morning we would have like 45 mins to just spend time alone with God. So i went up on this cliff thing to do my devotions and pray. Just being on that cliff and looking down at all the trees and even the ocean I was thinking wow I never take much time to think that God created all this! A lot of time people just go on this cliff and think oh yea this is cool but don't take time to think about God in all that.So that was pretty cool for me... and also another thing we did during one of the lessons was to invite God to do things in your life and we wrote them down on a card. I wrote "God I invite you to have a relationship withe me outside of church not just in it, Show me that your real and show me you love me when it feels like no one else does" I think everything I wrote down happened or is in the process of happening,which is great! Im gonna try harder to spend more time in Gods word and about the showing me thats God is real thing, I was talking to Shane about a lot of different things and after about 2 hours of asking questions I think i have a much better understanding of it, and as far as the last thing goes,feeling loved, when i didn't feel loved i think God showed me that love through my leaders and friends during the retreat.

And as for the rest of the retreat! I remember the first night it took us forever to go to bed cuz no one was tired but the second day we went to the beach and then came back and played games so we were dead tired that night and the next morning! Then Thursday we went to wild rivers and had an awesome time there! Katie brought Micah too, he is so cute! I remember when we were eating lunch i was eating a cookie and Micah wanted some so i gave him a piece and then Ainsley comes up and grabs a huge chunk off my cookie! i was like ok then,haha... and to finish off the retreat we played ultimate frisbee! which was awesome! we also played Mafia like everyday of the retreat which was awesome because in junior high the guys always play by themselves in there tent so i never get to play but this time i did! most of the time i was the first one to die though and i think 70% of the time(at least) i was a citizen so they had something against me haha, anyway this whole retreat was awesome and Im so glad that I went!

Is it just me or...?

...did blogger totally die for everyone? I mean come on no one comments and no one ever posts anything new!? whats the point? seriously guys get a facebook or email me, i need more people to talk to! haha

Need Prayer...

I know its late but I cant sleep and i have to write this while its on my mind... I'm having major friend problems, I have a friend that criticizes me a lot and mostly in front of people so everyone starts talking about it when im standing right there, I really can't stand it and I've told them that they do this and they just say I get mad too easy and go on and on about that which makes it worse, I dont try to get mad or sad that easy but it just happens and obviously(like ive said in other posts) i dont act mad or sad when im around other people, just when im alone.. I really wish I wasnt friends with them anymore but I just can't do that, I cant explain why but its just not an option.. anyways sorry i sound depressed all the time(well some people say that) but im just going thru way too much, please just pray for me I really need it, this doesnt look like its getting any better

July 4th...

by far the coolest firework ever!
this kinda looks like a flower

we got these cool flashing mouth pieces...

I just have one of those natural smiles that sparkle! haha
the sky looked like cotton candy! :)
this looks like a fireball!
I didnt get many good pics of the fireworks...
this one looks like a fountain

I just put the pictures on my computer so thats why its took so long to put them up...

Texas Pictures

my cousin got stuck haha
a humming bird
peach farm
I love sonic!

George the scarecrow
some of the peach trees

I broke the window playing golf :0
haha he didnt know his hair was like that

Need Prayer

Both my grandpas are in the hospital. My grandpa on my dad's side(who is 80 something) fell and hurt his back and may need to be put in a nursing home. He's in the hospital right now.. and my grandpa on my moms side has a blocked artery in his heart and he needs to have open heart surgery on it tomorrow, there also something with his leg to not sure about that... but anyway the doctor said if he doesnt stop smoking completly it could be fatal, because thats why he needs heart surgery...so please pray for both of them

First time playing golf...

Ok so for the very first time ever in my life I decided to learn how to play golf. Not mini golf actual golf. My grandma has a space set up for playing golf like shes got the hole and everything... well anyway I thought i was doing pretty good until my dad smacked it and it went flying and i was all ive gotta try that! So I was doing pretty good and the next time i smacked it i was all where did it go? Then all the sudden I hear a huge crash! and then I hear my dad screm "Amanda! You broke the window!!" I didnt even know I could hit it that far! Everyone thought it was funny tho..

Leaving for Texas

Just cuz im going to texas for two weeks doesnt mean Im not gonna need someone to talk to, I'll be at my grandmas house on Wednesday so talk to me :) Email me, write on my facebook wall, whatever or just talk to me on blogger :) but my email is ahp226@yahoo.com email me any time not just within the next two weeks :) I check my email pretty much everyday so Im not one of those people who never respond (I hate that!) haha

Got a lot on my mind, need someone to talk to..

It seems like ever since my 14th birthday Im sad or depressed almost all the time! Theres too much drama even when school got out so that sucks, and on top of that the friends that I do hang out with are turning into huge jerks! Even my own best friend! At the beach yesterday its like she did everything possible to make me mad I just can't explain it, and plus everytime I do make a comment about something she says or does to me that hurts my feelings(especially in front of other people) she says something like well you do the same thing or something to just make it sound like its my fault and that just makes me feel worse. And since we were at the beach I didnt want to show my feelings , I guess?, I dont really know how to word it, but in the car ride back and at my house I couldnt stop thinking about it! and I went home and literally start crying, which is what I wouldve done but like I said i was trying to hide my feelings, I guess my point is I try to hide my feelings all the time and i always seem depressed but I dont wanna hide my feelings anymore and I just need someone to talk to...

Totally bummed...

So Im really bummed Im missing out on six flags :( I wish I was old enough to have a job so i can actually get money! haha, so that sucks, well since i didnt go to six flags I guess I won't see you guys for 3 weeks :/ Anyone who is going to the beach thursday i'll see but after that Im going to texas. We leave Sunday morning really early so before church. Ok well bye for 3 weeks. Im staying at my grandmas house so i'll still be on blogger and facebook...

My new haircut

and now its even more in my face then it was b4 haha.

Midnight blogging 4 (man these are getting boring haha)

um well im talking to catie on aim right now so i'm not as bored as i usually am... I have gummi bears and im eating them! im totally excited about that! omg i just realized its friday the 13th! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! well anyways um i guess today i have to clean my room and clean my closet and under the bed! dun dun dun! so thats gonna be torture! and now im almost out of gummi bears! stupid friday the 13th! haha

Midnight blogging 3

well idk what to say so this is gonna be kinda random :).. idk why but i was thinking about this, you know how some people give you hugs but other people just give you like a high five or handshake or something lame!? haha jk but anyway it seems like (for me at least) the people who give me high fives always end up doing some akward high five handshake hug thing. I just thought that was weird and kinda funny lol but anyway haha... ok so I went out to icecream with Catie today that was fun and so was youth group but then again it always is. Except for the fact that this was my last day of JH and im leaving my leaders thats sad :(... um what else is there to say... Well im gonna go on facebook... I think everyone should get a facebook or aim or something because I need people to talk to! Not just at night but all day too!... well ive ran out of random things to say and im bored so adios!