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hey all!! it seems like I've been away for ages! So sorry about that! A lot is going on right now, good and bad and life has been/is busy. I've really missed blogging and keep starting posts but never finish them. Either I just lose my train of thought or I get interrupted. ;) SO, all of that said. I have a A LOT of stuff to tell y'all but don't have time right now. I'm really hoping to catch you all up on life (a.k.a. a huge long post) this weekend but I'm not promising anything. but  hopefully this weekend or early next week :) Know that I've been thinking of my blogger buds :]


this is my theme song right now. it puts the feeling of my heart and soul into words. --



MUCH love!
♥Samarah

p.s. thank you so much to my new followers! I'm not even blogging and people are following me! haha ;) thank you so much. i hope i inspire you♥

hello there! its me. :)

just popping in to say that I'm still alive :) I've really missed blogging but I've been busy[ school, babysitting etc.] and having some more health problems[despite my gluten free eating and working out deal that I've been sticking too well] and when I do have down time, sometimes sitting down to the computer doesn't sound appealing. Even though I have things I wanna blog about. hopefully i'll get the energy to blog very soon! because I really miss you all!! I am on Pinterest and twitter if ya wanna follow me there :) Those 2 places don't take so much brain power like blogging ;] oh! AND our air conditioning went out on Sunday. and its 80 degrees. and as of now it probably won't be fixed until like next week. yeah its hot. and its supposed to get even hotter this weekend. its hard enough for us but add extra kids and other events to it. yeah, not fun. shorts and ice water is how we're rollin' right now. ;)

Okay well there's a quick "update". I really hope to get back into a regular blogging routine! soon. i miss it. hopefully soon :)
here's some photos from Pinterest that i'm just loving. i thought i'd share them with y'all :)

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hope you're having a good week lovelies!

much love,
Samarah♥

P.S. thank you for all your following, prayers and sweet comments[ despite my absence!]. they mean the world to me. ♥♥

hey mama, don't want no drama

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hey all! just a quick post to say that I've been doing much better since saturday. i was really exhausted and in a lot of pain and it took sunday to really get myself back up again. (although I am having some bad back/hip/ right leg pain. :/ arghh!) Thank you for all your prayers and sweet comments! y'all are THE best. :)
I've been having a pretty okay week over all. I'm doing good about staying on top of my game with working out and eating healthy and school. those are my main focuses right now :) I feel a lot less stressed and overwhelmed over all and I know its all God because there is no way I could do this on my own!


I have some ideas for posts and I hope to blog them soon :) I'm wanting to blog...
some confessions--I love just laying it all out there. I'm love to be real and honest. :)
about my health, working out and eating choices and changes that have been hard/awesome
some photography
my thoughts about Thor[yess!!! ;], Prince of Persia, and National Treasure
workout/healthy eating encouragement
current favorite tunes


i'm not going to say when they'll be blogged about but hopefully soon ;) *excited*

just FYI: I think I just died. like seriously. Lindsay from Aisle to Aloha started following my blog tonight. She totally made my day. more like week. She is super sweet, gorgeous and funny! she is a talented artist and has some fabulous art pieces. Her husband is currently away working in the Navy but is returning back to Lindsay VERY soon! I'm so hyped for her! I love her and her blog. Go check it out.

and a huge thanks to Lindsay for following me!

well, i'm off to workout and then either go to head to bed or watch something... haha ;)

much love♥♥

Don't get upset, sometimes my brain says no but my heart says yes :)

 {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♥

shakin' the funk, workout mix, spring and followers♥

Please note that I'm not trying to brag about myself and my accomplishments, I want to share my life and I hope to inspire you!

I was in funk last night and this morning. I really don't know how to explain but I felt blah and far away. This morning I'd had enough of myself and decided to work out. I wasn't going to even though it was my day to do it. I got done about 20 mins ago or so and I'm so glad I did! I think I shook that funk :) Even though I thought I was going to keel over I made it! :] Here is my tweet a few minutes after I finished:

sweat running down my face & arms,clothes sticking to my body,cheers from my dad and skillet in the background. #sightsandsoundsofworkingout

Yep, there's nothing like a good work out to sweat out whatever funk you're in :] And you see the results in no time! But I AM struggling in my eating. Being gluten free is awesome and beneficial but you can still over eat gluten free food! ;) I'm going to start keeping track of what I consume, how many calories I eat because I know this working out thing isn't gonna work so well if I keep putting the calories back on :P I might even start back on livestrong.com. The temptation to eat all those yummy cookies or whatever is very strong but my God is stronger and He will give me the perseverance :] Are you going through the same thing??

I've been wanting to do this for a while but haven't gotten around to it till now. When I work out I have to have music. Have to. because A: I love music. I love it with a passion. B: When I'm workout it helps keep my mind off the fact that my body is on fire and it keeps me motivated.
So here's my workout mix. It needs some updating because I'm getting tired of the songs. Some of the songs aren't my favorite and kinda of annoy which I put on there on purpose. A song that aggravates me keeps me going... I know its weird. anywho here's the list :)

The Comeback kid by B. Reith 

Your Love by Brandon Heath 

The Lost Get Found (remix) by Britt Nicole 

Dear X, You don't own Me by Disciple 

Get Back Up by tobyMac 

Tonight(feat. John Cooper) by tobyMac 

Lift up Your Face by Third Day 

Awake and Alive by Skillet 

Whoa Whoa! by Soul.P 

He Did That by KJ-52 

Stuck in the 80s by KJ-52 

Wake Up(feat. Toby Morell) by KJ-52 

Fuego (feat. Funky) by KJ-52 

Comatose by Skillet 

Feel It In Your Heart by Abandon 

Movin' by Group1Crew 

Gimme That Funk by Group1Crew 

Depending on the intensity of the present work out I'm doing I put a "heavier" song on. I usually start at Awake and Alive by Skillet when I begin my workout.
Do you have a work out mix?? Whats on yours? Do you have any suggestions for good workout songs? :]

I think Spring is here!! We've had nice warm sunny weather yesterday and today! like 50-60 degrees! :) There is a slight breeze and it just perfect :) That has lifted my spirits :)

Thank you all SO much for all your lovely comments on my last post! thank you for praying for my mom :) it means a lot to me! you all are THE best followers and friends a girl could have :] ♥♥

Hope you all are having fabulous weekend!

Much love,

Samarah

Feelin' Good, YOU, football and songs that i love ♥

 to be honest, I started this post yesterday and wrote it and rewrote some things and couldn't put everything together. so i am finishing it today.

I started realizing a week or so ago that I need to be in the Word more. I've heard people, who are reading it or doing a devotional, that there is so much "meat" in it. God just woke me up and said "hey, you need to be reading my Words!" So I took a hint ;) I simply cannot live without Him. I need to fed spiritually more than just going to church once a week. i need it everyday. I felt lead to start reading Job. so I am :) I started yesterday and I'm reading a chapter a day. although I haven't done it today yet :/ I want to read the Bible for a purpose-to be captured and in awe of how great and awesome our God is and how I can love and serve Him more everyday. I'm going to use my blog as an accountability "tool". So feel free to ask me how its going ;) especially if I haven't talked about it for a while! ;)

Are any of you reading the Bible daily? or doing a devotional? I'd love to hear about it! 

I was stressed about starting school the past few weeks. *note* Because of my health, I wasn't able to do much school the past year. but I kept up with science and history because I had too. but for math,literature etc. I didn't do too good* But I want to feel good about school, get it done and feel good about it. One step in that direction was that I had to get all my school stuff (textbooks,notebooks,papers,folders etc.) organized. I did that on wed. and I felt energized and ready to face "the school zone" haha ;)  thursday I was actually able to do about half a days worth of school. I was so proud of myself! :D Its the first step on the long path but I know that I'm on the right road :) and God is leading me and by my side :)
To summarize the 2 paragraphs: I'm feeling better mentally,physically and spiritually :) Praise the LORD!

I want to thank all my readers and followers for reading my blog! You all are such a blessing to me! the sweet comments I get are so encouraging. I love that you find my ramblings and posts about life is interesting. that you  think my blog is lovely and fun. i am so blessed by God to have such wonderful readers! :) 

eeekk....I'm getting antsy for the Bears vs. Packers game tomorrow!! :))) Come on packs you can do this! ;)

Here are my 2 favorite songs right now :) 

I'm really loving this song but there isn't a video for it. but its called Ground Zero by Mr. Talkbox. its a very fun, catchy, weekend song! ;)  





Hope you all are enjoying your weekend!

♥Samarah

beautiful scarf and jewelry giveaway!

Ashley and Gabrielle over at Bramblewood Fashion ( i just love their blog title!) are having 2 really neat giveaways! Go over to this post and enter to win this gorgeous necklace!

and go to this post to enter to win this lovely scarf! I really like the color of this one. I've really gotten into scarfs this fall and winter, they are a great little extra to spice up any outfit :)

I have 76 followers according to my dashboard. 76 wonderful followers! :) I can't believe it! many thanks to my faithful readers and commenters!!

Love in Christ,
Samarah

Catch up sunday : )

Michelle's Summer Bash Party ended a few days ago but I'm a little behind so here's my last few days!

Day 25 — Your day, in great detail- well this morning I woke up ( unwillingly ;) and got ready for church and my family and I managed to get into a seat a few minutes before the service began! we usually are really late! Then we went to a restaurant and go some food to go, came home, ate our lunch, my little brother and sister got in the pool and I watched some tv, took a little nap :D, got some dinner and here I am now! :)

Day 26 — Your week, in great detail- hmm.. this week, we babysat kids everyday except for Wednesday because on Wednesday my dad was off and we went to an amusement park! it was pretty fun but i discovered that roller coasters make me feel very very sick! :( On Tuesday I had a soccer game ( we won :) and on Thursday I had soccer practice. Saturday I wasn't feeling well at all so I just rested and watched Dr. Quinn and then I cleaned my room later that day. I think that's it!


Day 27 — This month, in great detail- not really sure how to answer this but I'll just tell you the big things that have started this month :) Soccer started this month so that was a pretty big thing and we are slowly getting ready for school and we started babysitting kids more often.

Day 28 — This year, in great detail- I got my itouch!! I've made some new friends, went to my first fair, went to visit one of my dearest friends to celebrate her birthday and went to an amazingly awesome Switchfoot concert!! (that's all the big things I can think of)

Day 29 — Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days- Grow in my walk with Christ, continue to learn to give my life over to him, become closer to my friends and family, play hard and be a better player at soccer, and be a testimony of Christ to my teammates, be diligent and do well in school and do my best and be able to earn the money for a camera and purchase it! :)

Day 30 — Whatever tickles your fancy- this quote :)

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
-- Audrey Hepburn

Thanks Michelle for letting me participate in your Summer Bash :) it was fun :D

Shaynie awarded me! thanks :)



Here are the Rules:

1.) Get really excited that you got the coolest award EVER!! (Excited!)
2.) Choose ONE of the following options of accepting the OMB Award:

• Write about your most embarrassing moment.
• Write a "Soundtrack of your childhood" post.
• Make your next blog a "vlog" (video blog). Basically, you're talking to the camera about whatever.
• Take a picture of yourself first thing in the morning, before you do anything else (hair, make-up, etc.) and post it.

3.) Pass the award on to at least three, but preferably more, awesome bloggers. Don't forget to tell them.

I'm doing an embarrassing moment:

Ok it was my first Sunday in the 6th grade youth group at my Church and at the end while the leader was praying and it was really quiet of course and my throat made this really weird and loud sound and I'm sure everybody heard it and a older girl in the class looked at me and laugh, yeah it was kinda embarrassing and for my first day in the 6th grade class ;) and to this day the other girl and I kinda stay out of each others way ;)

Last but defintly not least, I want to tell you about this very special girl Emily

If you haven't read her blog I strongly encourage you to! She is 16, lives in England ( which I think is so cool!) and has leukemia. Her spirit is so sweet and her faith and love for Christ is beautiful! Please pray for her and go over to her blog, drop her a comment to let her know she has family in Christ praying for her :)

Hope you are having a great weekend!

Love in Christ,
Samarah

P.S. I have 54 followers! wow! thanks girls :D

Relaxing, Free Song and followers!

Hey!
So about 45 mins ago my mom said to my little sister and little brother and I- "ok lets find a movie and we are just going to chill for a while".... it isn't really like my mom to say something like this but I'm not complaining! ;) So my mom and little brother are asleep on the couch and my little sis is watching Curious George and I'm taking this time to write a blog post :)
It feels like its been a really long week but it really hasn't. Maybe because its so hot and because we've had a few thunderstorms the past few days, its humid. Maybe its because I'm still in my pjs and haven't really done anything with my hair today except through it into a messy ponytail( please note that just because I'm homeschooled that doesn't mean I don't get otu of my pjs all day long, I do get dressed in "day clothes" as my siblings call them, in the morning! i do not wear my pajamas all day like some people think!;) There could be a lot of reasons why it feels like its been a really long week. But I am tired and don't feel well and I'm welcoming the down time! OK onto more fun things :)

Ok so I love finding Christian Music websites that give away Free Christian songs!! I love it! ;P I found FreeCCM a while ago and I love all the free and legal Christian songs they give you! Right now they are giving away a brand new song from Addison Road's Stories album (that's not out yet!!).... Change in the Making.

I haven't listened to it yet but I'm sure its great! :)

I absolutely love AR's single also from Stories.... Fight Another Day. Hopefully they are some AR fans are reading this so click here to get it!( you do have to sign up to get the free songs but you only have to create a user name and password and its SO worth it!) Also by clicking on the link you can watch a video to get to know more about Addison Road and submit a question for AR to answer! pretty cool, uh? :) You can get some other great songs from FreeCCM by going to the Free Downloads page!

I have 41 followers!! I can't believe it! thanks to my newest followers :)

Leah at Dance and Be Glad

Maggie at Bliss
Hope at Just {a little bit of} hope
and
Lydia at Something Beautiful

Thanks girls! :)

well that's it for now, I hope you all are having a great day!
Love in Christ,
Samarah♥

Giveaway!

Faith over at Something Fun is having a giveaway to get more followers! The prize is a secret so I can't wait to see what it is! So go on over to her blog and enter! :D

In Christ,
Samarah

Another Award!!

I got awarded by Rose! Here's the award...

1: Apples, Oranges or Bananas? Apples!


2: How many siblings do you have? 2- a younger brother and sister :)

3: How old are you? sorry can't tell ya! I can only say im a teenager!


4: Do you live on/in a prairie, woodland, swamp, city or other? other

5: Scissors or glue? scissors


6: Describe your dream house. don't really have one but somewhere in the city thats for sure!!


7: Is your room clean? no im going to be honest it isn't!


8: If you could be a movie character for a day, who would you be? oh wow this is a really hard one!! probably either Laura Ingalls Wilder in Little House on the Prairie ( like in the later seasons- 8 or 9) or like Rose, Anne of Green Gables :)

9: Italy, Greece, France, Spain or England? another hard one!! umm... probably any of them except Spain

10: What denomination are you? Christian - firm believer in Christ!

11: Do you sleep with a stuffed toy (BE HONEST!!!!) No ( yes im being honest! :)

12: Gum, chocolate, or jelly beans? gum

13: What is your favorite book? the Bible :)

14: Favorite ice cream flavour? Chocolate chip cookie dough or any homemade ice cream. Yum!! ( im just leaving Rose's answer because i love those!)

15: If you had to eat one type of food for two weeks, what would that food be? some sort of pasta probably

16: What is your favorite Olympic sport? Short track speed skating, gymnastics, and swimming!

17: If you woke up and discovered that you had turned into Miley Cyrus for the day, what would you do (note, I am NOT a fan)? I'm NOT a fan but I don't really know what I'd do!

18: Describe yourself in three words. loved by amazing grace ( ok that was 4 words but oh well... ;)

19: What chore do you hate? Unloading and loading the dishwasher. me too Rose! :)

20: If Elmo came into your room with a gun, what would you do? this a really weird question but okay... umm probbably scream and run!

well that was fun!! :D thanks Rose! I now award:

Sarahlynn @ Just Hangin' Out
Tessa @ Chase Your Dreams
Nana @ By The Way

I would award more bloggers but everyone I follow already has it! :)

I have 27 followers! :) thanks to my newest followers- Katherine, Amanda, Shaynie and Antonia!!

well thats it for now,
Samarah :)

Fun Questions :)

Theses questions are a part of the giveaway on Eldarwen's blog but I'm not going to actually enter because I already have the CD :) but Eldarwen said that I could answer the questions anyway :) thanks Eldarwen!

1) How old are you? sorry can't say ;)

2) What name do you go by on blogger? Samarah

3) When is your birthday? Feb 29... yep a leap year baby :D

4) If you could live anywhere in the world, besides where you live now, where would it be? hmm.. thats a hard one... probably Canada :)

5) How did you find out about Blogger? my mom

6) Tell us something interesting about yourself: I love the smell of old books!!

7) What was your favorite toy when you were little? Little People house

8) What is your favorite meal? ahh! i have too many to choose from but i love most anything with pasta and some kind of sauce :) Have you ever cooked/helped cook that meal? yes

9) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I have a tendency to be extremely stubborn... i would like to be maybe a little bit less stubborn :)

10) Are you an outside person, or an inside person? depends...

11) Are you a mommy's boy/girl, or a daddy's boy/girl? both :D

12) In one word, describe the feeling you get when you stub your toe, after just being told by your parents that you are grounded for the next month: frustrated!

13) Let's say you TP'd your friend's house (for those of you who don't know what TP'd stands for, it means toilet papered. As in, put toilet paper on their trees, cars, house, porch, etc.). If someone asked you why you TP'd your friends house, you would say: well probably in the first place I wouldn't do that but if I did i would probably say " oh just for fun!" haha!

14) Have you ever gone swimming in deep, dark, dirty water? no!

15) Have you ever dreamed about getting ready to leave the house, and forgetting to get your pants on? nope

16) Have you ever done something so ridiculous, that you wish you'd never done it? If so, what? Yes but i can't really remember what exactly it was!

17) Imagine that you saw a purse snatching. What would you do?

a. scream and run away

b. move out of the state/country

c. tackle the purse snatcher to the ground.

d. ignore it, start whistling, and turn the other direction.

most likely scream and run away! ;)

18) How many friends do you have on blogger? 2 i know in person but I consider all my followers friends! :)

19) What makes blogging so much fun for you? my followers and discovering awesome blogs!

20) You're a turtle, who has bet that you can win a race with a rabbit. How does it turn out? As long as I did my best that's all that matters :)

hope you liked reading my answers! :) and don't forget to enter the giveaway if you haven't already!!