Update: Aug 13th, 2012

Hey everyone, I'm so sorry it has been such a long time since I wrote. Wow! The last time I blogged was two months ago! Life has been crazy this summer, filled with little trips and changes I'd never imagined possible. I will do my best to try to sum them all up for you. First, my grandma is getting married again! I am really happy for her yet very much surprised. I never expected it to happen, it has been  a long time since my grandpa died, 7 years but I remember it well. I know how lonely my Grandma has been without him but she's kept herself busy and found healing over the grief. She wasn't looking for love but it came to her in the form of a kind, understanding man named Tom. I like him very much and I'm soooooooo excited that he is going to be my future grandfather. He is so sweet and affectionate and easy to talk to. On one occasion a few days after I'd first met him I went with Gramma to his house for dinner. We had the most heavenly time eating shrimp over the most interesting conversations and playing bochie. I made some pumpkin bars for dessert and we left about a dozen for Tom. Well, the next day his son came over and was eating a lot of them( apparently he liked them) and Tom said to him," Hey, don't eat all of those. Rosie made them for me." ( Rosie is the nickname he gave me.. because I told him I despised being called Lys which is what my family calls me). He is such a dear!   So their wedding is going to be September 5th, I AM BEYOND EXCITED... I am exuberant with delight! Secondly, our life and home have been up in the air up until the moment we'd found out God was telling us to WAIT.. wait on moving to Kansas City. For the past two years, we've lived here in Ohio with no fellowship or close friends and no directive for the church of kent that we thought could be rebuilt. So we looked for houses in KC whenever we traveled down there and prayed all the more, finding it harder than we thought when it came to looking for the right house. So right now we're here up in Ohio and this lesson is teaching me a new lesson in life... to learn to be content with whatever God has planned for me... to accept his will even if I don't want too. Cause' when dad first talked about moving to KC, i was like, " No Way! I love it here, I have a few good friend,  my family's here, we have a nice house everything's perfecT! And I don't way to live in KC!" but God changed my attitude to where I was cool either way. I cheerfully tried to find the positives of both. IN KC I have older good friends and the familiar excitement of going back and forth between Ohio and Missiouri is fun. Ok so now we're here and I'm content. Life is very good right now. I just became a teenager and there is so many exciting new things going on.. I'm learning new things.. experiencing new things.. it's great. Okay... so some of the great things that happened this summer included: 1: Grady and Paula Gamble, two or our best friends came with their adorable crew of four kids. Let me just tell you: they are the bomb! They're both wholeheartedly in love with Jesus and do workouts and eat healthy! They always encourage us when they're around. They stayed for two weeks... the two most heavenly weeks of my entire summer! Filled with a crazy fun day at Cedar point, watching little house on my laptop in the mornings while munching cereal together with the kids, crazy campouts watching star wars till 1am with their little kids, playing superheroes, going to Spiderman 4, my lord it was like YEAH baby! It was soo great. And I'm afraid I just have to tell you this hilarious story that went along with it... okay here it is.... the most stressful, exhilarating experience at a movie EVER! K, Dad and Grady took us to see the new spiderman. The craziness begins here. Six kids, two dads crammed into a van( now I loved this!). We arrive at the theater after sitting all of us in the back seat leaning over to watch little house on my laptop. We hop out and of all wonders... guess what? Naomi and Zac forgot their shoes! Yippee skippey! So.. ok Naomi finds hers but Zac's forced to go tramping in wearing nothing BUT A SUPERMAN OUTFIT.... the hems hanging over his feet! We've must have looked like quite the party... Elisha( Grady's oldest son) wearing a batman outfit.. Zac wearing superman.. two dads, two girls nervously watching to see if we got caught, and Noah the only one keeping his peace. We enter... suspicions are raised.. but the movie crewman overlooks Zac as he sneaks through the doors.. in we go.. we're late.. 5 minutes hurry! Me and Naomi have to go to the bathroom... we rush in.. oh joy of wonders..// I forget the 3D glasses! Dad fixes me with an angry glare as I rush back and FINALLY we take our seats. AT least the movie was great and there was no interruptions.. nothing that is save swapping popcorn the whole time.. Dad getting up 10 times... and me and Naomi switching seats three times. We exit and begin the quiet ride home... am I nuts to say this? It was crazy.... Dad and Grady having an important involving conversation on who knows what and in the back.... , Elisha, James, and Noah ARE..... sprawled out on the floor of the car wrestling! But it's ok because in our car kids do whatever they want! Dad and grady are too caught up in their conversation to notice or care.  Not to mention the fact that Noah came up with some new brilliant joke to make the others burst out laughing Don't judge me for sarcasm( JK) but it was the most funny moving experience ever... I laugh just thinking of it! K, so done with that. The 2nd greatest thing the summer was: writing my book. I had the most stressful, heavenly, romantic, fun time writing it ever!! K, so it's about the 1997 movie Titanic, the love movie I spoke about earlier and the BEST Romantic movie ever in the history of mankind, not a joke in my opinion. I won't go into detail on this one, you'll have to read it yourself. but, hey I felt so professieniel when my dad gave me a deadline and I worked for it for hours, weeks, months, stayed up late, every spare second going into my dream to someday get it published. Not to mention the fact that I got to do this while the gambles were visiting! WHAT COULD MORE EXCITING than the adrenaline of work and play every day? Living with them for two weeks was heaven... even if we weren't doing some extraordinary fun thing. Normal life.... chores.. sleeping... meals.. playing outside... swimming until we turn in water logs... drinking Paula's amazingly great smoothies... watching another part of a little house episode while propped up against the swing set on a cloudy morning... watching cartoons in pjs... cracking up on a Thursday night while watching Stuart Little while Paula and grady go on a date... sleeping from 3- 7pm after an exhausting but fun fireworks show and night before when we stayed up till 2am watching Narnia; prince caspian... talking and joking about videos and our favorite scenes from the New spiderman... the list goes on and on. Those were the most amazing 2 weeks my whole summer! Tada! Summed up for the greatness of this summer.. Dreams while bringing back the mail... imagining delightful things about Jack and Rose... dreaming in bed while listening to Jewel lullabies and the frogs croak outside my window... staying out in the dark till 10pm on the swing by the waterfall while working on my romance novel... watching my brothers play... listening to James ideas about life and football... sitting in chairs at football practice where believe or not, my brothers are attired in helmets and playing hard... watching the rain fall while rushing to finish a crazy scene in my book.. eating pizza and watching Sport's center.. cleaning bathrooms and doing cooking lessons with Mom... watching the boys play with their new friend from football Mckaven.. staying up to 11pm to finally complete my book while listening to parts of Messy mondays... bursting out laughing in the middle of the night when I think of a hilarious scene from Napeleon dynamite... reading the most amazing verses in the Bible during quiet time... hearing Jesus tell me he loves me while watching the water turn on the lake.. reading Anne shirley while propped up on two pillows outside.. amazing fun times with friends at a water slide park.   Not  to say that they're wasn't some bad days too. But these are the good things  LIFE IS GREAT and I'm thankful for it.

oh and by the way...... this is one of the reasons going to the movie theater CAN be stressful. I said can, not every time.

I'm really starting to like Taylor Swift's music, and her too, she is so much like me, just the things I like to sing about, write about, my personality and everything.
So wanted to share my newest favorite by her, so sweet, cute, and good.

just wanted to write a short, sweet entry to update you on recent happenings. Sorry I have  neglected this blog for so long. Anyway, right now I am living in a beautiful, fun, happy dream. Because it is the truest thing to say a dream is coming true! My  dear, funny, lovable Uncle David is getting married! Ever since I was 4 years old, I have dreamed, hoped, and planned. I've almost given up on it every happening and firmly decided it never will. But then, my dear Uncle falls in love with my dear future Aunt, Audrey. I knew from the moment I saw her she was the girl I had always dreamed of being my Aunt. She was perfect and I loved her so much. And so they fell in love and now they are getting married!!!!!!!!!!! It is so excited I can barely describe how happy I am!!!!!! all I can say is.. I love you Uncle David & dear aunt Audrey!( Soon to be!!!) so excited she is going to be my aunt!!!! I had so much fun at the wedding rehearsal today, it was so enjoyable  and I love where their wedding is.. it is like a land of fairytales.. beautiful churches with stain- glass windows, rolling green hills of Maryland, cool breezes, and unimaginable beauty and charm and I love Audrey's family and everything about this dream which is only just beginning! .and now we are going to a delightful little , yummy bonfire dinner. Nothing fancy, just laid back and wonderful! And tomorrow... the beautiful, golden, heavenly wedding day will dawn and we will be transported into a paradise of fulfilled dreams and unending happiness and love as our dear son, brother, and Uncle David and daughter- in law, sister- in- law and Aunt are married

and start their life together, filled with hope, love, and joy.

Francesca Battestelli- Hundred More Years

hope you all enjoy this song by one of my favorite  artists, Francesca Battestelli. It is such a cute love story song, I love it!

Random cute love story pictures

thought these pictures were cute.

 I love the movie October Baby, a very good,

inspiring movie about forgiveness and healing and of course I loved the love story between Jason and 

Hannah. They are so cute together and I loved this pic when I found it! 

I also loved this picture  thought it was very cute  and sweet of anakin and Padme) From Star Wars: Episode 2 Attack of The Clones

Thankfulness

I have been thinking lately about the true meaning of being thankful. I read this thing in a Corrie Ten Boom biography that really blessed and encouraged me. Corrie Ten Boom and her sister, Betsie, Christian women who were captured in World War II for hiding Jews in their home, were talking in their concentration camp bed and reading the Bible. When, Bestie was meditating on a passage she said " Look at this verse, Corrie. Give Thanks in all things." Corrie had been complaining about the fleas in the concentration bunk when she stared at Bestie and said." You mean we should give thanks for fleas?" " Yes!" Bestie cried." It doesn't say give things for pleasant things, give thanks for everything."Corrie found this extremely hard to do, as it is for all of us. How could one possibly be thankful for irritating, annoying fleas? But later that week, when she was talking, reading the Bible , and praying with the other prisonors    , she found out the reason the guards did not enter the dormitories. You see, reading the Bible was not permitted and Corrie and Bestie were surprised the guards did not notice and punish them. They found out it was because of the fleas! The guards did not want to get near the prisonors because of the fleas! And that's when Corrie truly learned  to be thankful for fleas. God truly did have a reason for everything in his world and all one could do was to thank Jesus for everything he gave to them. For it was in thankfulness and gratitude you found joy and happiness. We are so blessed with everything the Lord had given us and this really taught me to not sin by complaining about minor things, when those in poor countries are really suffering and are not complaining at all. It reminds me of Job who suffered from so many horrible things happening to him, and yet did not sin with his mouth. Lord, help me to not complain! I need Jesus's grace and strength to overcome complaining, because I know I can never do it alone:that what one of the things I learned from the Corrie Ten Boom book and I really enjoyed the Corrie Ten Boom biography by Sam Wellman. I encourage you to read it yourself, it has taught me so many things that will always help and strengthen me to live a full life in Jesus, portraying his image to the world. 

Flowers

Here are recent pictures of the spring flowers blooming this 2012. I couldn't help but take pictures to remember and treasure  the beauties of Spring!

Beautiful flowers, hyacinths, which are my favorite flowers! They smell wonderfully fragrant and are so springlike and beautiful!

 

 daffodils.

 crocuses.

I LOVE FLOWERS!