Merry Christmas!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

I hope everyone is having or had a wonderful Christmas! In all the busyness and stress that this time of the year brings, let us remember the real reason for this season and that is Jesus Christ. It isn't about the number of gifts we receive or the amount of money we spend on others but it's about celebrating the birth of Christ and all He has done for us. Let's be sure to put Christ first today and be thankful for all He has done for us. Didn't get that gift you wanted? Doesn't matter. Because Jesus Christ is all we are going to ever need, ever. Focus your eyes on Him because He is the reason we are even here. He is the greatest gift we will ever receive and He goes above anything this world has to offer. Thank you Jesus for ALL YOU HAVE DONE and your sacrifice. I love you Lord!

The Reality Of Christmas :) Watch :)

WOW! It's been WAY TOO LONG since I've blogged!!

Well, for anyone who reads my blog, I am SORRY! I have been "busy" and haven't had a sufficient amount of time to blog. But I'm back now :) I'm going to try to stay consistent with blogging! I don't even know where to start.... It's Christmas break! yay! Can't wait for Christmas :) 

Well, my initial reason for blogging is because I told baby Charley I would! He was born November 3rd, 6lbs, 7oz, 20.5 inches and I've yet to blog about this beautiful baby!!

so here's some pictures of this adorable cutie!!! Kristen and Charles are the blessed parents :) Congrats :) You two are the best and so deserving. 

Charles Anthony Young Jr. (Charley)

     

                                      

He is such a cutie!! 

Okay, that's all for now, I'll try to blog more often :) Hope everyone has an AWESOME CHRISTMAS!! and remembers the real meaning of Christmas- Christ.

until next time....

procrastination! its my thing!!

wow. okay so its been about three months (since school let out) that ive pulled one of these all nighters. im still working on my summer assignment. :) im all done, i just have to type it all up! yay :) the hard part is complete! im actually not that tired. starting to crash though. i would like to thank myspace and aim for distracting me for a good 3 hours! its currently 6:30 am and my dad will be getting up to go to work soon. ha. i have 3 and a half hours until i have to "wake up" for church. ha! i just love ap lang! let the good times roll. ha. not :).... procrastnation, its my thing!

cutie nephew :)

i havent blogged in a while, so i figured i need to :) so, this is my little nephew with a blanket over his head. cutie pie :) anyways, thats my blog :) ha. yeah :)

Lovely Lexi Leavell!

Born July 24th, 2008 at 10:07pm weighing 7 pounds and 5 ounces and 19.5 inches long!!

My new baby cousin! Love her :D I'll post more pics later, but for now I only have two uploaded! :D

happy 4th!

kristen and i last night with sarah went downtown and watched the beautiful fireworks! it was fun :-) they were really neat! loved it ;)

chuck e cheeses!

wow. i havent been here in ages!! ha. my brother and i took a few sketch picture things :-) pretty cool :-)

flood!

seriously! heather hills was flooded with water!! it was really cool to drive through it :-) ive never seen so much water!! fun though. haha

Trust in God.

"These things i have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage [cheer up]; I have overcome the world." -John 16:33

With God on our side, how can we lose? -Romans 8:31

"Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? Of course not." -Matthew 6:27

*Too often we let our experiences determine the level of our faith instead of letting our faith determine the level of our experiences.

...I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. -Philippians 4:11

home!

almost home from miami! 7 day cruise is over and now i can sleep in my own bed! so happy to be back!!!

charles! monkey boyeee!!

so check this out- charles attempted to climb the tree so he could get the rake and tp out of the tree! im surprised he didnt break his neck ;-) i mean with his wifey being gone he hasnt been having the best luck ;-) charles realized that even with a belt he couldnt climb it so we cheated and used the neighbors ladder then used the hose to spray the rest of the tp down...the football deezy threw is still stuck in the tree though! oops! haha

tp!

seriously! what the heck! we rolled one of the leader's house last night and today we had to clean it up! what kind of prank is that? yeah, we r def. church kids. haha we threw a rake and broom up in the tree to get the tp down and they got stuck! ha! then we got them down then got them stuck again! we threw the broom up there again and then it broke!! it snapped in half! not cool not cool! but it was funny...

homies!

fed the homies this morning! yeah! 40 or so peeps were there! yeah

God is amazing!

He just is! check out how beautiful that is! and He made it! :-) i took this pic a while a go and just realy like it so i decided to blog about it :-) god is good! all the time! love that!

twloha.

TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS!

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There is hope.

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kristas graduation party

my sisters graduation party was today and i vandalized her car. haha! yeahhh boyeee! love it :-) i did the other side too but i liked this side the best. u like the cute stick figure? my brother drew it :-) wow my sisters leaving for college....i cant believe it! shes actually going away to college! already! wow! who am i going to pick on at home ;-) haha. atleast she will be close by, only an hour away! but im going to be like an only child for the next 2 years. crazy! time goes by quickly.....

Since October!! :D

I went to Since October's "CD signing release mini acoustic concert thing" last night at FYE in the mall. It was AWESOME!!! They were AWESOME!!! I really enjoyed them acoustic!! They are just great though! Crazy how they go to my church! I had a lot of fun! You should check them out.... http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=35145577

that's their myspace :) Their CD is on sale now too :] It's slamming!

much love ya'lls! GOD BLESS! :D

god is good.

all the time. He is FOREVER faithful....that is all.

ahh snake!!

so, i dont know why i would even want people to know this but it happens so here it goes. this beast of a snake (shown above) was in the bathroom in my house!! eww, gross, scary- i know!! its a corn snake or a rat snake, whatever you want to call it. thankfully my dad got it out. my dad just grabbed it with his bare hands like steve erwin and ta da! then i made my dad hold his pose so i could take a picture. i took 2 pics but they turned out blurry so i was like hold on! stay steady! the longer i took though to take the pic the more the snake tightened around my dads arm. haha, he was small though, so its not like he hurt my dad. isnt that weird how they wrap themselves around an object as a defense?...anyways there was a snake in my house and i wanted ya'lls to know about it! haha. god bless! peace readers 8-)

high school musical!

i found something to blog about...ha...look everyone its the cast of HSM3. haha. idk. i just felt like taking a peekcha with some cardboard figures at the movies, so i did. a group of us went to the movies to see prince caspian after outreach and it was amazing!!! cant wait to see it again! :-)

Trash Pick-up!

yo yo yo! so check this outttt boyeee!!....Today REACH picked up trash alongside the road downtown!! Gotta keep da place lookin' clean! You know! ;) Then afterwards we ate us some pizza!! mmm! Us youth just be doing what we gots to be doing to make Jesus famous!!! We be flooding the streets in our red tees to bless the community so look out! :D God is awesome! :)

feedin the homeslices!

yeee yaa boyeee! down like 4 flats on a cadillac! reach fed the homies again this sat. am and it was lots of fun!! we be making jesus famous!

seagulls!!

alright, i officially hate the seagulls at the beach! sure, they look all cute and dandy in that photo but when u are at a party on a friday night and all they wanna do is eat your food and poop then we develop problems! so thank u gross seagulls for surrounding me, more like suffocating me while i was trying to eat bbq! ha. atleast, thankfully, by the grace of god u didnt poo on my head but u pooed near me and i didnt like it! haha. yay for charles though who nailed one of u suckers with a football!! u had it coming! better him hit u, then me kill u!! jk i wouldnt! oh btw there were more seagulls, way more seagulls than shown in the pic i took! gotta loves gods beautiful creations! haha.

DISTRICT CHAMPS!!

BRADEN RIVER LADY PIRATE'S SOFTBALL TEAM ARE DISTRICT CHAMPS BOYEEEE!!! GO PIRATES :D woo woo!!!

pocketful of sunshine!!

alright so i havent blogged in a while and i thought it would be apropriate to do so! lets see- softball- who wants an update? tonight we played the semi final district game and we won 10-0 against palmetto! the best part was that i hit another homerun! yay! im not a one hit wonder anymore haha. anywho, i was 2 for 2 plus a walk and short stop went well too! glory to God! hes amazing :-) im so proud of my team and how far weve come! we just have to keep it up! district champs if we win tomorrow night! or should i say once once we win ;-) yee yaa boyee! down like four flats on a cadillac! ight ill letcha know tomorrow or so how it goes! go pirates! we got a pocketful of sunshine :-)

busch gardens!

i went to busch gardens today with some kids from my youth group! it was a lot of fun! look at us girls in our fly stunna shades! :-) haha yee yaaa boyeee!!

drafting project!

yay! i got my dumb drafting project finished! it took me literally like 100 hours!! thats the final product. it couldve been better, but not bad for my first house! yaaa! im just glad its done! :-)

rossi park boyeee!

yee yaa boyee! reach fed the homeless again this past saturday!! servin' is what we do!! cuz we be down like fo flatts with jesus! mmhmm! dats right! 8-)

easter sunday!

easter service was amazingggg!! loved it! actually, loved all 5 ;-) ya, i went to all 5 easter servies at bayside community church with my girl kristen! :-) it was a lot of fun!

shoppingi

went shopping this past weekend with my girls kristen and brittany!! it was so much fun! i bought a lot of cute stuff! thanks to the fashion experts! ya!!

filler up!

yee yaa boyee! getcha some free gas! mhmmm! woo woo! down like 4 flats!

refuel!

bayside community church hit up the hess gas stations on sr64 and 70 and gave out free gas cards and car washes for our refuel outreach! woo! loved it! it was so much fun!! BCC is crazy fun :-) God is amazing!

god is working!

REACH fed the homeless yet again on saturday morning! yee yaa boyee! you gotta love it! God is working and working big! woo!

follow up pic!

you cant tell because of the lighting! lol maybe u can...idk ill find another one!

highlights!

yeee yaaa boyee! kristen gave me highlights today and they look awesome! ;-) thanks kristen! ill blog a pic of my new hurr next blog....

free pop tarts and coffee at the river!

yeee yaaa boyee! today kristen and charles (youth pastors from epic) came and gave out poptarts and starbucks coffee for the students so we could have full bellies for fcat ;-) everyone loved it! they practically threw themselves at the table! haha it was great! the mess afterwards though- not so much :-) kristen and charles young are (to sum it up) the greatest youth pastors ever! they are dedicated and love what they do and i love them for their generous and loving hearts!...etc, etc. ya! :-) well peace and love home skillets!! down like 4 flats!

crazyyyyy gals!

yes us girls in the His Girl small group are crazyyyy! haha. i dont know how kristen puts up with us over at her place! anyways we always have a great time tuesday nights! woo!