i hope you all are having a great saturday! I'm not sure how i got up at 7:50am after just going to sleep around 2:15am. like getting upas in, as soon as my alarm went off i hopped up, i've never done that before. and my mom and i were up till 2am watching the first 2 episodes of season 2 of Downton Abbey. yes, i searched in the depths of the internet and found them. it was a happy yesterday. and they are so beautiful. i'm officially addicted.
i'm looking back at pictures from this past spring and summer. i seriously took pictures of everything when we first got our camera. including my math and a pencil. and countless pictures of the sky! sweet goodness. I want to post more personal pictures on here(ones i've taken) and so i thought i'd share some from this past year. ready? ;)
my sweetness.
yeah.
obviously i was not learning about the life cycle of whatever that is.
<3
taken by mom
taken by mom
really once the late fall/winter hit i stopped taking pictures. but now that's its getting nicer outside I'm feeling inspired!
thank you all for your sweet comments on my last post! ♥♥ I too am so glad we are safe! :] We haven't had anymore storms since then, Praise the LORD!! :) Its been overcast and then yesterday and today have been hot and sunny :)
*this photo is not from today*
This morning I was so darn sleepy. I went to bed late[around 1:30 or so] because I watched a movie with my mom and dad and got up around 8 or so and it took me forever to get out of bed and eat breakfast. i seriously could not keep my eyes open. and then at church i almost fell asleep. I had to keep moving my legs or arms or keep writing notes to keep me awake. The sermon was really good and I didn't want people to think that I was bored because I wasn't! I was just so tired. haha! I really need to learn not to stay up late on Saturday nights buuuttt being the person I am, a rebel I'll probably never learn. hehe ;]
Speaking of church, 2 of my friends got baptized and it was so amazing. Their testimonies, songs we sang, the sermon and everything was amazing. {despite the fact that i was so tired ;] I came home just in awe of Christ's love for us. and this beautiful life we have the privilege of giving to Him and living to the fullest. Here is a song we sang and I've had it in my head all day :)
Hallelujah
You have won the victory Hallelujah
You have won it all for me
Sarahlynn [who has a pretty new blog design and you really should check it out here!] asked if this is my temporary or permanent design. This is my new temporary one. ;) The last one got really old and blah and I needed something fresh, clean and springy so I changed it :) Sky is still working on one for me and it will be coming =)
I've watched these 3 movies recently and I love them. posts about them with my thoughts, favorite quotes, scenes and photos are coming :)
Ok, well that's it for now! i'm off to clean up the house and enjoy the rest of the day :)
oh, one more thing:
I'm in love with this picture. and that little girl. L.O.V.E.
much love♥
Samarah
how do you like my picture size? is it too big?? please let me know :)
{I started this post this morning but got distracted until now, details below}
hey all! I don't have a certain topic for this post and I have some random things I wanna post about :) (and i bet you're thinking ok Samarah aren't all your posts random?! well if you think they are deal with it ;)
First of all my family and I have the allergy ick :( My sis Bethany is the worst, she is coughing and coughing and coughing. I am really tired and spent most of the day sleeping or watching something with Bethany or on my itouch. so basically its been a low key day ;] Also I'm really looking forward to tonight and the weekend because my dad is off after working 12 straight days! Praying we can relax and enjoy the nice weather (we are supposed to have) and be refueled and recharged for the coming week :)
ok onto the other miscellaneous things...
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is releasing on DVD, Blu-Ray and whatever else tomorrow! (I think, I know its sometime! ha ;) I'm hoping they have a collector's edition with 3 discs!! (1-movie, 2-special features and 3-digital copy) really hoping! :) I own the 2 other Narnia movies and this one is amazing so I'm looking forward to adding this one to my collection :)
A week or so ago I had to come face to face with some startling facts. I had 468 unread emails in my inbox, I followed 466 blogs and 564 peoples on twitter. I know its shocking. the number of unread emails really got me because I used to never have just 1 or 2 unread emails in my inbox for a day! I'm not sure what happened there. and then 466 blogs?! seriously, I'm blog happy or something. I was getting overwhelmed when I went to my blogger dashboard because they were SO many new posts and I don't have time to read each one. Don't get my wrong I love blogging and blogs but almost 500 blogs to keep up with?! I don't think so. As for the 564 tweeps I just like clicking the Follow button. I don't have an genuine interest in everyone I follow and I don't like that. To be honest sometimes I just follow people to rack up the numbers or just to say I follow that person, that applies to blogger too. so this is my project this weekend:
Go through ALL the emails in my gmail account and only keep ones are from a friend or something and they are special or important. All the others are going to be deleted forever.
Go through the list of people I follow on twitter and only follow people I'm genuinely interested in.
Go through all the blogs I follow and if I don't recognize the name or haven't read them in the last month or so out they go.
I don't have time to read tweets and blogs from people I don't really care about. I want to give my love and support to people who I want to give it to and who God wants me to give it to :)
here are some of my favorite pictures of my Cupcake from the past week♥
she one of THE most gorgeous babies.ever.
These lashes are all natural!! her 4 y.o. sister, Muffins has eye lashes like this also. yes actresses out there, be jealous.
She turned 1 on March 24. she is growing and changing everyday.
my favorite!! I love this girl and her sister so much♥
This is song is awesome. It rocked my week. Don't you leave this blog until you give it a listen ;)
(ok so you hated it? well its your loss, ha ;)
I'm looking forward to watching this movie this weekend! I've read and heard so many good things about it. Didn't it win an award for movie of the year or something?? I don't keep up with stuff like that. anyways, it seems like it has a good plot and action and such and I think I'll like it :) I'll let ya know what I think of it though! ;)
Alrighty well I'm off to start my project, hope you have a good weekend! :)
much love,
Samarah♥
P.S. I can't thank you all enough for following and commenting on my lil' blog! You all rock my world♥
well I can't find her blog. I've clicked on her button and googled it her blog name(Living for His Purpose/Emily's Cancer Blog) and when I click on it, it has an error message.I've even tried it on different computers so I'm wondering if they've deleted her blog or something like that.I can't even get to her little brother's blog. Is it just me or has her blog disappeared?? I really hope it isn't!!
I saw this really neat video on Bleah's blog. There is this really neat movement called I am Second and its really fantastic.I hadn't heard of it until I watched this video. It features Jason Castro, a new-er music artist with a really neat voice and awesome hair! (seriously, I love it and I'm seriously thinking about getting dreadlocks, more about that later). here is what I am Second is and the video.
I am Second is a movement meant to inspire people of all kinds to live for God and for others. Actors. Athletes. Musicians. Business leaders. Drug addicts. Your next-door neighbor. People like you. The authentic stories on iamsecond.com provide insight into dealing with typical struggles of everyday living. These are stories that give hope to the lonely and the hurting, help from destructive lifestyles, and inspiration to the unfulfilled. You’ll discover people who’ve tried to go it alone and have failed. Find the hope, peace, and fulfillment they found. Be Second.
You are here for a reason. We all have needs and could use some help. Talk to us. Call, chat, or email. 24 hours a day.
Go a step further, talk with the people in your life. Spread the revolution of Second. Share the videos with friends. Start an I am Second Group in your neighborhood, workplace, or school. Click on Get Involved to find help getting your group started.
Or you can join an I am Second Group already meeting. Check out Find an I am Second Group.
Volunteer at concerts. Serve through I am Second community service events. Organize your own I am Second events. Sign up for an I am Second Expedition to help people in other countries. Check out Get Involved for opportunities. Connect with us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
I am Second is designed to help people discover their purpose in life. Have you discovered yours?
see, doesn't have he have awesome hair?! ok moving on..... ;)
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I've come to the fact that I'm expecting too much out of myself regarding my gluten free eating plan and exercising plan. I hate to say that but working out every other day is just too much. My body can't take that with all that I've been through and what I am going through. I get Jillian Michael's Losing it newsletter everyday and one day it was about making setting goals that you can accomplish and work your way up to bigger challenges(read it here) It reminded me that I can't just plunge right into working out or eating gluten free or really can't jump right into many things in life. I was feeling bad when I couldn't not eat gluten for just 1 day or I had to stop for a few mins while doing an intense workout. I need to start small and work my way up. When I first starting thinking about this I thought " I feel like a lazy slacker or I need to do more!". But if I take it slow and accomplish small goals then I can work my way up to greater challenges. So I'm going to work out 2-3 days a week and work my way up to eating gluten free all the time. so if I eat some bread or a granola bar for a snack then I do and I keep going on. I'm not going to just eat whatever I want but I'm not going to beat myself up for eating something that's not GF free. I've also thought of the idea of at night writing down the things I've accomplished that day. So I write if I went the whole day without eating gluten or if I ate 1 meal GF or exercised that day. I'm going to do this with Bible reading, I really need to get in the Word more and so I'm going to start in Genesis and read 1 chapter everyday( we are doing this in our youth group at church). That way during the weekend I can look at the the goals I've accomplished during the week and be encourage but also look at the things I can work on during the next week :) So those are my ideas and thoughts!
That was a lot longer than I expected it to be! if you read through all of it congrats ;)
and yes I have 2 Taylor Swift songs on my playlist ;) Never Grow Up and Tied Together with a Smile. They are really neat songs and they don't involve any boys!! ;D Never Grow Up is such a sweet song, even if you don't like Taylor Swift please take a listen. I can relate this song to my little brother and sister and the little kids we(my mom and I) babysit. There is a little girl who is 8 or 9 months,who shall be called Cupcakeand she is so.adorable. seriously she's the cutest little thing! when I first saw her and held her when she was just a few weeks old, she created a sweet and very special place in my heart :) We watch her older sister, who shall be called Muffins(which is is her real nickname ;) and she is such a sweetie also. Cupcake and Muffins are my "adopted" sisters ;) wow, I got way off track ;P so the main thought of this section is that I would really like to keep the little people in my life to stay little. they grow up so fast and I'm learning to treasure every moment with them :)
I really didn't intend this post to be long but it is. I've been sitting at the computer for like *ahem* 2 hours. I've probably killed hundreds of brain cells and I won't be able to think for the rest of the night. oh well, the dead cells will be replaced quickly... I hope. ;)
hope you are having a great week, serving Christ and loving others :)
