♥this beautiful life♥

Life is beautiful. because Christ is beautiful and mighty and I'm so thankful that He gave me this life to live and glorify Him and love others. Ah, the gift of love is beautiful and fulfilling. I'm SO blessed to to have many people I can love and who love me.

Today I am celebrating life and beauty that God gives us :) 

Day 28: Hopes, Dreams and plans you have for the next 365 days-

I pray in the next year I would draw closer to Christ and serve and glorify Him in everything I do and say. That I would live my life out loud and love like crazy. To reach out to those who God puts in my life who are in need and that I would show mercy and compassion. 

I would be healthy and fit and would feel confident about myself. Continue to be gluten free {almost, just staying away from flours, breads, pasta etc.} and working out regularly. Find joy and strength through the pain. Do my school work will diligence and perseverance. 

And that I would take time and enjoy the everyday blessings and pleasures :) 

 

 thank you so much for all the happy birthday notes :) they made me smile♥  y'all are awesome :) 

much love, 

Samarah

forever 21, eyes, sick and birthday :)

Ah I just got back from an fabulous afternoon with my lovely and amazing friend! She took me out to lunch for my birthday and then we walked around and shopped :) ok, I'd been hearing so much about Forever 21 (great things!) and I'd never been there but I was curious to see why it was popular. well... I found out today! And now I know why everyone loves it. it has super cute and stylish stuff for really reasonable prices! :) 

I got this lovely necklace!  

My friend and I both got the same cardigan :] its long and has pockets, its so cute! I'll post a picture of it later :) I'm need of spring/summer clothes so I'm always excited when I find clothes that are reasonably priced, I like and that look good on me ;] I had such a great time with my friend! love her♥

Onto the 28 day challenge which is ending tomorrow! I think its kinda cool because its also my bday ;) I have had lots of fun with this :) 

Day 27: A physical feature you love-

A lot of people are picking the same feature but its such a good one! so I couldn't resist ;) 

eyes. 

   its usually the first thing that I recognize about a person

they convey a lot about what a person is feeling  
happiness
sadness
nervous 
relaxed 
etc...

 

they are all kinds of beautiful colors. I'm partial to blue :]

 

really partial ;)

The creator of eyes had to be someone so great and powerful. No man could ever create something so beautiful and lovely. Only God :) 

but I do have some sad news... my whole family is sick. We've been healthy all winter and then yesterday we got sore throats and today all 5 of us have headaches, sore throats and stopped up sinuses :( Needless to say its gonna be an interesting week... praying we all get better soon! 

Can tomorrow really be my birthday?? seriously, time is just flying by! Wow, well be looking for a post tomorrow answering these question; Day 28: Hopes, Dreams and plans you have for the next 365 days which is a great question for a birthday :) 
oh and real quick I want to explain my birthday just a bit, its a lil' confusing! 

• I was born on February 29 
• the 29th comes once every 4 years 
• so I celebrate on the 28th and March 1st 
• fun fact: my "real" birthday lands in the year of the Election AND the summer Olympics :] 
• I'm not saying my age but I'm between 14-18 ;)  
• I love being a leap year baby :] its so fun and unique! 

  
till tomorrow! :)

much love,
Samarah

♥A childhood memory and one of the best 2 weeks of my life♥

Day 26: A childhood memory-

hmm....I'll have to use my brain for this one. a lot and it hurts ;) heehee ;] Ok, I have one. SarahLynn and I have been friends since like we were 1 and we used to live in the same state. I remember Sarahlynn, her older brother and I playing together all the time. We got along really well (most of the time) and I just remembering having SO much fun. Laughing, yelling, running, screaming, talking, crying and all those other things that little kids do ;) Now, they live in another state but we have remained close and when we get together now, as teenagers we still have a BLAST together. We have another friend who is our age and we've known him and his family since we were little also, and put us together and you have an crazy bunch of kids! :) We went camping once and THAT is a awesome time I will never forget! When ever I remember us spending time together, I think of tons of laughter and craziness! ahh good times :) 


ok, onto a post that I wrote a while ago but never published. *drum roll please* ....

The incredibly awesome 2 weeks I spent with Sarahlynn!!

Sarahlynn  came for a visit back in the beginning of December. Our two families are close and are more like family then friends :) {we call each others parents "aunt" and "uncle" :) }She fits right into our family and is like a sister to me and my siblings and a daughter to my mom and dad :) Sarahlynn lives in a different state now but we keep in touch and remain close friends. but we have seen each other at least once a year for the past few years and I was SOOO stoked when she was able to come for 2 weeks! She was willing to come my way because of my health and I wouldn't want to be far away from home and feeling bad or something. that girl is a keeper! ;)  When ever we are together there is TONS of laughing and fun. needless to say, we had an absolute BLAST! We did do some school but it was so much fun doing it with a friend ;) 


Some highlights of the 2 weeks: 


- went shopping and bought some scarfs and took some craaaazzzyyy pictures! 
- went to see The Voyage of the Dawn Treader the day it came out! and we LOVED it!! 
- my family got wireless! a long awaited treat! :D Sarahlynn had lots of fun with our itouchs ;] 
- and much more! 

here's some pictures and I'll tell you more about what we did :)  (we took a lot more pictures but they show our faces so we can't post them but we did take some specifally for you all ;) i know i know we are too nice ;]

 we watched the BBC version of Emma!! it was Sarahlynn's first time watching it and she loved it! we watched it like 3 more times ;) 

its a tradition to play UNO when we are together....

taking pictures of my ipod... 

 

we took the mattresses off of my sister's and I's bed and put them on the floor. we had tons of pillows and blankets! :)  

Sarahlynn took this random picture of her laptop, my sunglasses, a nancy drew book, a goodie bag and her retainer case. yeah we were a bit bored that day ;P

 

ate some good candy that really wasn't for us... oops

watching Emma AGAIN! yes we took pictures of our fingers in front of the screen. cuz that's how we roll. 

ok here comes my favorite pictures... we got these scarfs and got a little creative ;)

{im the one taking the pictures btw} 

this was Sarahlynn's doing....

LOVE this one!! :D

some fun edits...

me :)

Sarahlynn :) yes in walmart and yes pretending to be batman :) 

sorry these were the only pictures that didn't have our faces in them :/ anyway, we went to see VDT with some of my friends, their dads and my dad on the last night she was here :) we really like it! :)

i love this dude... seriously minators are AWESOME! 

it was a great way to end the fabulous 2 weeks :]

I'm so thankful for Sarahlynn. for her friendship, love, and encouragement :) I had a wonderful time with her! even though we live far away from each other, we stay close friends. Thank you Sarahlynn for being willing to come visit, I had a awesome time with you! love you girl, so much! ♥

hope you enjoyed looking at our crazy pictures! :)

with love,

Samarah

Day 25: A recipe, workout fail and friday anthem!!

day 25- a recipe-

to be honest, I don't cook/bake very often. It requires me to follow directions and because I'm head strong, I don't really like that. sometimes it just takes so much time and energy that I don't really have.But when I do, its usually enjoyable and the food usually comes out pretty good and now that I'm gluten free I usually have to actually make my meals. So I'm trying  to embrace the idea of being in the kitchen and creating yummy food ;) but I'm having a hard time thinking of a recipe that I've tried and I've liked *think think think* I still don't have anything...oh I know! I'm gonna post a recipe of a gluten free treat that I want to try :] very soon! ;)

Gluten Free Peanut Butter Brownies from Celiac Teen

*please note that this image from celiacteen.com I do not own it.  I'm only using it for the purpose of showing you what the brownies look like*

don't they just look delicious I cannot wait to try them! and when I do I will definitely let you know what I think of them :] Lauren has a bunch more lovely recipes for gluten free goodies that I can't wait to try out!

I haven't worked out all week :/ I was doing so well but then I don't know what happened, I just stopped! and I'm regretting it. Why do I do this??!! I am going to workout today and get back on the every other day routine :] I'm praying God gives me strength, consistency and diligence in this :)

My birthday is in 3 days! 3 days!! wow, time has flown by! :)

hope you are having a great friday! I shall leave you with my friday anthem :]

much love,

Samarah

♥picture sweetness and i love this awesome kid movie♥

I've been taking pictures like crazy and here are some favorites from this past week :) these are pretty good pictures, if I do say so myself ;)

(all of these are edited but not too much. I feel like editing them a lot takes anyway some of the raw beauty of the picture)

this one is my favorite from the week. absolute favorite. my hand with Peanut's :)  

please note: it was very difficult to keep her still so I'm proud of myself with this one :)

this is THE best gluten free cookie.ever. Enjoy Life: Double Chocolate Brownie cookie. And its not only gluten free, its soy,wheat,fish,nut, diary AND egg free. you might think it would taste nasty but its not. They are smaller cookies and they are soft and oh so good. I like them even more than regular gluten filled cookies. yes they're THAT good.

 

 like this one!

ahh.. love :)

love those baby feet and hands! :] 

Day 24- a movie no one would expect you to love

I really like any kind of movie: action/adventure, romance comedy etc. But when it comes to kid movies, I can be a little bit picky. First of all they are putting a lot of adult content into movies for kids and its supposed to be appropriate for them but its not. second, if they don't put adult content into it then sometimes they get all sappy, tasteless, dumb and boring then its a waste of time to watch it. So its rare to find a good wholesome movie that your whole family can watch that is not boring but not too much for the younger ones. and this movie has a fantastic blend of action/adventure and comedy and it does have a little bit of "puppy love" (for lack of a better word) but its really mild. When I first heard about it I thought I " oh good grief, another dumb kid movie" but when  I watched it with my family, I loved it from the beginning. Its one of the best movies this year...

How to Train Your Dragon

the plot was interesting and active and it kept you wondering what would happen next 

it kept us laughing, even my dad! there were some pretty hilarious parts! Hiccup was so lanky, a bit clumsy and cool

I love his friends...  the scenes where they are training are probably my favorite. 

 

and how could you not love Toothless?? :] 

the flying scenes were so neat

well I don't feel like explaining the plot but you can google it and find it ;] and there's word that there will be a How to Train Your Dragon 2 in the near future, we shall see :)

 so there's a movie that at least I didn't think I'd like ;) its really a great movie and if you haven't seen it, go see it and if you have, what do you think of it??

much love,

Samarah