Before the Throne of God Above - Robin Mark I love this song!! It's been "running" through my head all evening. :) We had a very nice Christmas... my brother came home and surprised us!! (just like you'd see on youtube! haha!) It's so nice to have him home though. We didn't think we'd see him until March. (my enter button isn't working on this keyboard, so everything is kind of smashed together.) I received a really neat book for Christmas called "Own It." It's a book about owning your faith. Super good read!! Mom and I watched the movie "Grace Unplugged" and that is where we saw this book. Then Mom gave it to me for Christmas! :) I recommend both the movie and book. As this song says, God sent a "strong and perfect plea" to save me from my sins. So thankful for Christ!!
I know life is busy when I haven't posted in a month. :)
Oh, yeah, I have a blog!
-School. I had mostly history to finish, but I am "all set" in my other subjects.
-Violin! I'm just doing various stuff. Ghost's of Brandenburg for orchestra, Bach double and a Handel sonata for kicks. I played the Handel sonata for my recital. It went really good which was surprising because I wasn't really prepared. :) So now I'm playing, not practicing, it for a music competition coming up in February. Just to keep it in my head!
-Reuben! Reuben just turned one! Remember when he was born?? He is soo cute! Soon I will have a post of pictures, but first I have to edit all 400 of them. (I'm totally serious)
-Christmas! Christmas music, Christmas cookies, Christmas shopping, Christmas cooking, Christmas projects, Christmas tree, (actually we haven't gotten our tree... yet!) Christmas packages, Christmas lights, Christmas....... You get the idea!
-Projects. I made Christmas ornaments for my friends in orchestra. They were made out of acorn tops, marbles and haybale twine. And I made cookies. :) (see yummy cookie recipe below!)
I "dressed up" a plain blue shirt by gluing a white lace heart on the back. It looks super cute, and I'll post pictures soon. Or sometime in November.
Cookie recipe:
Make your favorite Peanut Butter cookie dough. Instead of putting the cookies on a cookie sheet, put them in muffin pans. With muffin papers. Cook about 7-8 minutes. While they are cooking, unwrap a whole bunch of mini Reese cups. As soon as the dough come out of the oven, press a Reese into the middle. Let the cookies cool, and remove from muffin papers. Papers can be reused a few times.
It is really cold now. And I still need to blog about the photo shoot we did a while back.
On the one warm day in October (it actually reached 70!!) I did pictures of two of my younger siblings. And I asked my younger brother to do some photos of me. (We do pictures of all us kids yearly. Instead of "school pictures" we do "birthday pictures.") :)
I was so excited it got warm (it actually got to 70!! But than it snowed three days later) because I wanted to wear a certain dress....
This is my Great Grandma's dress! She is 95 years old now. But she wore this dress a long time ago.
I was snooping through her closet, thinking "Grandma has got to have some cool clothes in here, right?"
Sure enough, I found this dress and loved it! I wore it for a violin recital I was in last May. My Great Grandma is so sweet! I just asked if I could borrow it... but surprise! After my recital Grandma told me "Honey, that dress is yours now!" I was thrilled! I love "hand me downs" and this is a very special "hand me down." :) I haven't had another chance to wear it again, but I knew I wanted pictures in it!!
Plus, I wanted pictures with my violin. (It's so much easier to "pose" with a violin.)
My brother did a great job taking these pictures! Thanks, Matt!
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