Wednesday, February 23, 2011

1000 things!

128. These lyrics: ♫ I want to live out of the overflow/'cause deep in my heart I know Your love is all I need/and I want to shine with radiance deep inside/reflecting compassion and your grace/for all to see/Your love in me. ♫ -Overflow,Sarah Walker.
129. Watching American Idol with my Dad.
130. I great birthday weekend...
131. Spending it on vacay with my family at Niagara Falls.
132. The beauty of the Falls.
133. A win for the TML last night... 6 points out of the playoffs!
134. Helping with jr. girls' basketball at school.
135. Practicing piano.
136. Watching the NBA all-star game with my 1.5 year old cousin.
137. All of my younger cousins: all so cute in their unique ways!
138. My surprise birthday cake!!!
139. A good report card.

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Friday, February 11, 2011

Basketball Tourney!!!


Fourth Place!!! :) Luckily, I was able to make it to most of the tournament, only missing a game and a bit! My team played the best basketball we've played all season, in my opinion! :) Fun times, great spirit, fourth place, pretty awesome tournament, if you ask me. :)
Above is a picture of my team during a timeout. With about 25 seconds left, my team was leading by a point, and our coach calls timeout. While me and the other four players on the floor take instructions from coach, what does the rest of my team do? Pray! So proud that I'm a part of this team, that is not ashamed to pray in front of everyone! Love it! :) We pray when teammates get injured, when we're in need of strength, before games and just randomly on the bench together! Right now, our team would appreciate prayer for an injured player. :) We ended up losing this game by a basket, mostly because of foul trouble, but had great effort! Thanks for reading!

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

i seriously need to blog more.

Haha, I guess the title says it all?! Yep, I seriously need to blog more. :P So... I promise to blog more than just my 1000 gifts. :) Be warned though, because of my blogging more, you might find some extremely random stuff on here... Today's blog is gonna be a random one, just to get me going. This is just gonna be a total "Everything That's On My Mind List." Okay? Here it goes...

1. Did you know that the food bank's shelves are the most empty NOW, this time of year? Well, you know now, and now you have to do something about that. Go buy some non-perishible food items, (no, not for you!) and donate them to your local food bank! Both my school and church in the past/up-coming two weeks are having a food drive to help stock those empty shelves. Please do something as well.

2. My basketball team is still undefeated!!! :) We have a tournament tomorrow and Thursday, exciting stuff! Sadly, I'll only be going to half the tournament (get to that later...) so wishing all my girls good luck!

3. Reason #1 I'm not attending the tourney: Mandatory Band Practice! I was privileged to be picked to join an honour band, a band made up of some of the best musicians in my school board! Super excited and totally stoked for it! :) Let's go Band! :)

4. Reason #2: I'm going to a Toronto Maple Leafs game with my Daddy! :) Super excited, hopefully they win!!!

5. A couple nights ago was the superbowl and what an exciting game it was! I was cheering for Green Bay and they won! :) We had an impromptu superbowl party with my dad's sister's family, and it was very much enjoyed. :)

6. I'm reading a book called "Tell Me Why" by Eric Walters at school. This non-fiction book is a collection of letters responding to a letter Eric Walters wrote with some students. Basically the letter asks: Why are humans living in war, poverty, sickness, total un-fairness? Why do some people do horrible things to others so that they are made to live in these terrible conditions? And most importantly, what can a kid or teen do to make a difference? This letter was sent to many people who have made a difference and one of the responding letters brought up a great point. Here is how I interpreted it: In our schools, we are told, in the subject of bullying, to never stand-by, but stand-up to the bully. With the technology we have today, we are able to witness (or be by-standers to) SO MUCH bullying, though the news, internet, phones, everything! The question is, are you going to stand by, or stand up to this "bullying"? Most people choose to change the channel, but how about sitting through it and watching it for once and then finding ways to stand up to it?

I can't really think of anything else... so yup, that's it, my "Everything That's On My Mind List" for right now... hope you enjoyed it, LOL. :)

Monday, February 7, 2011

1000 Things I'm Thankful For

109. Starting the week with an amazing time of worship.
110. Letters to/form our compassion kids.
111. Impromptu superbowl party with my cousins...
112. ...and the team I was cheering for, the Green Bay Packers, won!
113. Helping to serve a dinner to homeless people.
114. My monthly Susie magazine.
115. Tagging along with my Dad to work, don't get to do it often!
116. Dinner with my younger cousins.
117. Piano lessons.
118. School basketball team UNDEFEATED!!! :)
119. Tournament this week, Playoffs next.
120. Playing totally random, pointless games on my iPod touch, haha. :P
121. A half snow-day...
122. ...and shovelling my driveway, and then shovelling our neighbours', just to help out.
123. Perspective.
124. Reading a great book.
125. How beautiful the snow looks in the sunshine.
126. Warm P.J.'s and a blanket
127. Chats with my Mom

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