random {and that's how i like it}

Yup, like you guessed, this is gonna be such a random post you'll loose your mind. Haha, just kidding. But for some weird reason I feel like doing a random post. So here ya go!

Oh, and by the way this idea came from Abby at Follow God Every Day. I love her random posts. They're fun to read. :]

So as I was sitting here working on a birthday post for my bestie, Haven, {which wouldn't save by the way.urg.}I just felt like posting. But what did I want to post about? Lots of things. 

Woah, that picture is kinda cool, dontcha think? ;) 

Anyways, today is a SUPER nice day! I don't even know why I'm sitting inside right now. Considering the fact that Minnesota's summer weather has just came in. Tomorrow we're going to the water park for the first time this summer! Come on Minnesota! Where's the nice weather!

Right now I am in the packing/planning mode for camp. If you read this post, you'll know how excited I am!
I just got a humongous suitcase from my cousin and I am so happy I have it because I have a lot to pack!

Today I decided to go through my Apples to Apples game and take out all the cards that I didn't like or understand.
Yeah. I'm bored today. :]
Oh, and by the way I took these oreo pictures a long time ago, I just managed to edit them and get them on here!
Right now I am talking to my cousin Haven and we are talking about how excited we are for tomorrow {water park}, Friday {her birthday}, and Monday-Saturday {CAMP!}
Sorry I am probably bugging you guys, but I am like REALLY excited.

Now here's a question for you: What are you excited for?

Reminders, Headphones, and cars!

Okay..I do not know what is going on with blogger right now, but again, my voting poll has been wrecked! I used to have 27 votes..now I only have 14. If you want to can you please re-vote? I would love that if you did!

Also..I am really hoping for some more entries in the {not just a} boring wednesday contest this week..so if you haven't already please take a picture of an animal of your choice and link up HERE! I'm looking for at least 6 more entries by Wednesday! Is that too much to ask? I hope not.. :)

Love this song! Check it out!

I was pretty bored in the car one day..

So I decided to take pictures! I love how in that picture you can see my little brother in the background with his shirt off..ya. It was a really hot day that day!

Have a great Monday! :)

Spring..not really, and some lemon drops!

So, while a lot of you are on spring break right now..I am not. I am in school, and the same crazy schedule - volleyball. It is now over :( So on to the meaning of this post. Spring is supposed to be here right? Well..not here in Minnesota it's not. Not at all. I heard it's supposed to snow 6 inches tonight. Yes..it is defiantly not spring here yet.

 Here are some pictures of my neighborhood, and the darkness, and the rain drops.

I have fallen in love with lemon drops. Yes, lemon drops. They are so yummy, and sweet!

And then there's my brother!

Do you like lemon drops as much as I do? ;)

a walk to the park

Today my siblings + my cousins asked me to take them to the park. I agreed to it, and had to bring my camera! ;) I was waiting for an opportunity to bring my camera and take pictures of little kids! There was the perfect chance! So here are some pictures I managed to take while watching 5 kids at the park today. FYI..today has been g.o.r.g.e.o.u.s. It's been like 50 degree weather all day long! Plus all the snow is practically gone! I'm in love. ♥

They all got ahead of me right away. I had to yell non-stop to get them to slow down..didn't work out to well. It ended up that I had to run to catch up.. Imagine me, running with my camera yelling for these 5 kiddos to slow down and wait for me. What do you think the neighbors thought? I don't want to know.

Right when we got there the youngsters headed straight for the swings. I love taking swing pictures! ;)

I love the shadow!

Oh my word. LOVE this picture!

Okay. This picture is hilarious because of the stupid shadow of the swing ropes on my face. urg. :P

This one is a little bit better..except I have my eyes closed. :P

My cute little cousin Maddie, with her kool-aid mustache. :)

It was so extremely sunny out! When I took this picture I couldn't even see it afterwards on the screen on my camera. That's how bright it was! But, I won't complain for one second because tomorrow it's supposed to rain/snow. :( And be 38 degrees. Come on! Right when we were starting to get nice weather, too. 

My shadow!

Bye park! :(

What is it like in your state right now? Is it nice, and sunny? Is all the snow gone?

I decided to skip this week's contest..since I'm running behind. I will post for sure on Wednesday the next theme, and the winner of the hands/feet contest! Keep on voting!

Toast and Eggs

Hello! I thought I would post a picture just for fun..since I love when we have this for a quick, easy, dinner! :)

I probably will be posting more pictures later on today..just thought I would post this one now. :)

Pictures!

Thought I'd post some pictures:

That's all I'm going to do for right now..sorry! I need to get going to bed! 

Have a good week!

~Ali

Something to Post About..

  The reason I haven't been posting in a week..is because I don't know what to post about! I mean I haven't done anything too exciting that everyone needs to know about.. Wait..here's a few things..On Monday night I started my JO Volleyball season. JO stands for Junior Olympics. We had our first two practices on Monday and Wednesday..although on Wednesday I had to leave early for youth group (because I wouldn't miss it for the world! :)) I love my coach. She is the perfect coach for my team. She can be very demanding and honest with us..but a very good coach at the same time..she can also be funny and have lots of fun with us. She plays with us too..she doesn't just sit there and watch us play. 

   Lately I've been spending lots of time with/texting with..a new good friend. I mean we've always been friends..but after last weekend we kind of "went outside our comfort zones" and told each other how we felt about each other. Honestly I'm glad I did..because that one night pretty much changed our relationship. :) I felt like God kind of gave both of us each other..because he knew we needed a new, understanding, loving, truthful, follower of Him, someone who will love you even when your having a rough day {friend}. That's exactly what he gave me. We both needed a friend..and God (because he is gratefully AMAZING) gave us one! So thank you God! :)

  A prayer request: I was reading a blog. She had a prayer request. I've prayed like 3 times now for them. Take a itty bitty section of your prayer time with God, and ask for the healing of their family after this rough time. http://hannahshangout2.blogspot.com/

Thanks!

~Ali

A Game of..Bootball!!

Well, I'm sure most of you look at the title of my post and think..hmm, bootball. Bootball is a combination of basketball and football. Me and my friend Abby, got a little wild, I'll admit, and decided to use a football and tackle each other. The goal was to try to get the football into a laundry basket. The point talley went like this...

Laughing Skills

Wow, do me and my friends know how to laugh or what? I thought that was a great way to start out this post. I don't know why, I just felt like I needed to. Today I was over at my friend's house, and all 4 of us were doing homework together. How do you think that turned out? Well we had lots of laughs, and lots of talking...but surprisingly I got everything done!
  I thought it was funny looking at my friend's blog, and seeing almost the whole post about me going horse back riding, when I didn't even post about it in my own blog. On Sunday I went horse back riding with some friends. We didn't do lots of horse back riding just doing games on the horses. There's not much else about it that I necessarily need to blog about it. And...there's not much to blog about halloween either..other than you know...a picture...

                            (If you look in the background you can see my little cousin: Nicolas!)
Well I'm sorry but that's all I'm posting for today...got to go get ready for dance. Let's all pray that I can get my puroettes today!!!


Thanks for reading!
Ali (owner/creator of livin my life 4 jesus)

Writings...

Remember how I told you about my Patriotism Pen Essay? Well I decided I'd take some pictures of my rough draft...just so you guys could see how 'easy' it looks. I just took the pictures a couple hours ago, so it's not like I've had these pictures for weeks. :) Today is just one of those lazy days...I've been sitting around in my pjs all day long. :P But soon I'm going to have to get up and start getting ready because tonight we have family coming over for my brother's birthday party. Than I have a halloween party to go to. The reason I haven't posted the pictures yet is because I'm still waiting for them to load. While we're waiting I want to talk about a contest I've been thinking of. I really want to get up to 20 followers on my blog, but it seems like no one is ever going to follow! So if you're one of the next 10 followers you are awesome! {Sorry I have nothing to give away. :)} Just please pretty please with a cherry on top follow me!? I have a question for those bloggers out there...QUESTION: How can you make your blog look more...hmmm..."professional"? I want my blog to layout differently....like have my posts spread out longer. Would it make a difference on how many tabs I have on the outside? If you know a lot about blogs please drop a comment below and tell me what you think. Thanks! Or you could also just email me :here. Thanks so much!
    Since my pictures still aren't done loading yet, I am going to talk about an awesome blog I've been reading recently: it's called Hannah's Hangout; The writings of a christian girl. It's a great blog, she is an excellent example of how a christian daughter of God should act and what they should post their posts about. I am following her blogs so if you want to check them out I'm sure she would appreciate that! She also has another blog that's a photography blog called Clicked and Captured Photography. -she can really 'click' 
   I have another recommendation for you: check out my cousin and my blog: Naturally More. Just look under 'My Blog List' and you'll find it there. We hadn't posted in over 2 months..unitl today. I think it was because we felt that no one was reading it. Than one day I was over at my grandma's house on her lap top and sure enough she had our blog on her 'favorites' list. That's when I decided we should probably post more often on that blog. I also feel so bad for Haven {my cousin} because when I got my own blog she was nervous that I wasn't going to spend as much time on our blog, and that I was going to focus more on my own blog, and for a while that was sadly true. I kind of forgot about it... 
   I feel bad...I really want to go to my church class tomorrow, but my friend asked me to go horseback riding with her for a halloween party. So I have to miss it. I want to go there to see friends and to learn more about Jesus Christ. I do my devotions every week day...but for some reason not on the weekends. {bad habit} That's a horrible habit. You don't only need God's word only on the week days!! You need it all the time! Ugh, that's a habit, sadly I don't know if I can get out of. 
    The reason why it's taking so long for my pictures to upload is because I forgot I had videos on there too. I just clicked 'select all' and they all are uploading! Man! I'm mad!
  I better keep writing because I am certainly not deleting this post after all this writing. In school band we can sign up to play the piccolo. should I??? 
    I am so excited to see my little cousins tomorrow they are going to dress like Mario and Louige. {if you look at my favorite things category it says I hate video games. and hate is a strong word} That's how much I dislike video games. I guess that can be a really good thing. That means you will never find me sitting on the couch downstairs playing video games. Computer on the other hand...
  Guess what? Only a couple more pictures to go! 
I wonder what life would be without blogging...I mean the world would defiantly not be destroyed or anything..I'm just wondering what I would do all day without a blog in hand. 
The pictures are done!

                                                                 Chair Parade




Thanks for reading this ginormous post. I better go get ready now. :)


ali


owner/creator of livin my life 4 jesus

BOO!

Happy Halloween!!! 


Sorry I have nothing else to post about...hmmm....


Guess what I'm being for Halloween???







Does that picture explain it?? :) I'm being a blue crayon! 


Here's a look at my weekend:


Tonight(Friday):Jake is having his friend party over here at my house...so I'll probably have to help with that...
Saturday:Jake's family party. I also have a halloween party to go to!! fun fun! 
Sunday: Going to another Halloween party at a horse place with friends.


Well since I can't think of anything else to blog about right now, I guess I better go!! :)


Bye!!


P.S. If you are reading my blog...please follow me!!! I desperately need followers!! :) Thanks!


BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

I Made It??

Ok, so today was one of those icky Mondays...well not for me!


A couple of weeks ago our History teacher assigned an assignment. We had to write an essay on Patriotism. Patriotism website-check it out here. It had to be between 300 and 400 words. It couldn't be more or less or else you would get kicked off the competition. Only 5 people from our house or 10 people from our school were chosen to go. 


This morning I was in math class and I was talking to a friend. We were talking about how we probably would never ever get chosen to go to the next round in the competition. So the girl I was talking to had History next. I was walking by her classroom to get a drink of water. She came out right as I came by the door and said "Ali! You made it!!" 


I was so excited to hear that I was one of the 10 from our school to make it to the next level. Now the teachers send it off to a lady who picks one person from each school to move on again. If you get far enough into the competition you could start getting money for your savings bond...let's just see if I get that far. :)

Long Weekend

As you all probably already know I had MEA week this past week. I had half of Tuesday-Friday off. Let's see what I did...

Tuesday: had early release, then went home painted nails with friend, read with my neighbor, went to my cousin's  volleyball game, went to the dentist, went to dance, then went over to my grandma's house.

Wednesday: Mom and dad left for Mexico, so we were at my grandma's house. Went to a babysitting class...9-4, then went to the grocery store, went back to grandma's house, had dinner, and made a gift for a friend.

Thursday: Watched a movie,  went to drive our aunt to the airport: she is going to France, went to Walmart to get Haloween costumes, had Subway, and icees, came home, looked at  scrapbooks, went to a birthday party.

Friday: Got picked up from friend's house,  came home,  Haven came over, went to Nickelodeon Universe, had McDonalds, watched Letters to Juliet (best movie EVVEERRR!!!!)

Saturday: Watched a movie: 13 Going On 30..then Haven got picked up, we sat around and watched TV, then went to CUB and got dinner, had dinner, watched ANOTHER movie, and ANOTHER movie..and went to bed.

So yupp, that's my week! I wish I could have taken  pictures, but my battery was done for. :)

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Homework Crazy

Hello everyone...this week has been HOMEWORK CRAZY! I've had so much homework and projects...Ugh I just can't explain how busy I've been! On Tuesday I had my last volleyball game...sadly we lost :( and the same night I had dance practice. I had a bad stomach ache that night and could hardly get anything done. I am now done with volleyball for a few months than start with a new season called JO (Junior Olympics). Last night was Wednesday night so I went to church for S.M.A.C.K. DOWN! (students modeled after Christ the King) It's a fun Wednesday night program! And as for today...I have conferences and I just finished a big project in History. So I've had an exciting week...haven't I? (sarcastic) 


Sorry I haven't been able to post any pictures for picture a day...maybe after I get over this week I'll start! :P


So...I think I'll just put a picture up just for fun...

{very fallish}

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Babysitting!

Hey guys! Lately I've been really wanting to babysit, but i don't know who to babysit for...if you know me well and have some ideas i would love to hear them! Plus it would be nice if they live in the Eagan-Apple Valley area, since I live by there. You can just email me at alilovesvb97@gmail.com, and if you want to call me just email me and i'll give you my number from there! Also, if you're reading this and you want your kids to be babysat, I'd love to babysit for you! I am a 13 year old girl that loves kids, and I am going to a babysitting class October 20th, so i would love to be with your kids! :) 


Thank you so much! Hope I can help you out!

As you can see I loovee kids!! :)