Snow!?

What's this I hear!? More snow?
Hehe. I so goofy. But, yes, I look out my patio doors and there is snow. I just swept the patio, too. I'll have to again before Marisol needs to go potty again.

Speaking of my dog... she just sprinted down the stairs and nearly fell on her face... And now Dad is sharing carrots with her. She's so goofy. So is my dad. :) And she's hiding under the tree!

Ugh... exams today. World History and Spanish are now out of the way. So now I have Bible and Geometry tomorrow. Science and el examen de Ingles is Thursday. Would you like to know how weird I am? I chrocheted after my exams... yeah... people were talking behind my back. (brothers are just to tell you who's talking about you)

Would you like to see some of my awesome sentence in espanol.

Hola. Me llamo Kaylyn. Como estas? Yo estoy bien. Y tu?
Me gusta leer y escribir. Te gusta?
Yo estoy pelirroja. Tengo pelo largo y ojos marrones.
Tengo una perra stupida. Se llama Marisol. Ella tiene tres anos. Ella es mi amiga.
Yo quiero Taco Bell y dormir.
Tengo clases de Ingles, Espanol, Biblia, Historia de el mundo, Geometria, Ciencias, Arte. y Educaccion Fisica. Me gusta la clases de Arte y Geometria. No me gusta la clase de historia y educaccion fisica. Y tu?

TRANSLATION
Hello. My name is Kaylyn. How are you? I am good. And you
I like to read and write. What do you like?
I am a redhead. I have long hair and brown eyes.
I have a stupid dog. Her name is Marisol. She is three years old. She is my friend.
I want Taco Bell and to sleep. (hehe)
I have classes of English, Spanish, Bible, World History, Geometry, Art, Science, and Physical Educaccion. I like Art and Geometry. I do not like History or Physical Education. And you?


Yeah, ya'll know I'm just that good. :) The translation is pretty much exact... So it might sound a little weird.

Oh yeah! I'm blogging on my Wii. It's fun. :)

Adios. Yo necesito to do mi pelo. (Goodbye. I need to do my hair. :D hehe. I'm so funny.)

But first I need to use some awesome symbols!!
∞ § @ ™ © ® º ª ♭♪ * ← → ↑ ↓ # $ ¢ € £ ¥ œ ø Æ Œ λ ζ Ξ Σ ◎ ☆ ○ ◇ □ △

Hey everyone that reads this blog. I'm typing this from my Wii with our new keyboard!!!

I have a prayer request for all of you. One of my really good friends that I have known for a few years has been really stressed out lately. One of her friends told her he wanted to kill himself and she came to school the next day and could barely function. This guy lives all the way across the country, so there isn't much that she can do. She told his parents, but he lied to them, so they think that she is the liar.
She is also going through a lot of stress because of school and she was sick back in October and had to have surgery.
I'm just asking that you guys would pray for her and this guy that both of them would receive the Lord's peace.

And also prayer for me. Finals are next week and I'm already stressed out. Actually... stressed out is a bit of an understatement.... I'm majorly stressed and spread really thin.

So... yeah.

Thanks!!

-Kaylyn

Pride & Prejudice...

So... I have this book report due on Tuesday, and guess what! For the first time ever I don't have my book finished yet! ((No, I'm serious. I always have my books done weeks ahead of time.)) I have 110 pages left of "Pride & Prejudice" and I'm almost out of juice. The book is boring me to death... and I just want to do something else...

back to reading...

-Kaylyn-

So how did you like those? That's all for now. Comment on them. :)

Daddy... plz, a facebook?

DUCKIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH. It's going to eat me!!!!!! Tehe...

It was mis-matched shoes day. :P jk. I was bein' weird. I'm good at that.

From the Revolve Tour in September. We held up signs for HawkNelson. Those are song quotes around the outside.

more...

AWKWARD TURKEY!!!!! Gobble gobble!!!

lol. superbowl joke. haha

GASP!!! MORE PICTURES!!!

My best friend's keyboard is kind of weird... so I'll take this time to post some pics&icons. :)












This is so definitely true. :D

One project down... 1 million to go...

That's how I feel today. I finally finished my art report presentation, to give tomorrow. BUT!!! Lo and behold, my health teacher would tell us just today about extra credit to do, and I have a history project due Monday... A Bible project to Friday... Tests to make up after school on Friday ((why, oh why did I not take a study hall? Oh yeah, so I could graduate with honors and not be completely stressed... oh wait! I already am.))

This is exactly how I feel: GAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!

And my communication skills are exactly zero today, so I barely spoke. I couldn't make words come out. They just stayed inside. I could write them down fine... but I hate speaking anyways... writing always makes more sense to me.

Yo estoy loco. Es verdad? Yo necesito dormir... Adios.

Te amo...

Kaylyn

hey everyone...

so yeah... it's been boring lately. I'm just trying to keep up with the stress of school. I feel like I have a project in every class due in the next 5 days. But I don't. I'm just exaggerating.

I really felt like blogging... except I can't think of anything to type... darn it...

I made this really spiffy hat yesterday... I'll have to post a picture sometime.

Yes, I knit. Is that weird? I enjoy it. Keeps my hands busy so that my mind can either concentrate on that or on something else. I've made lots of stuff. That hat, fingerless gloves, pygmy puffs ((from Harry Potter!)), umm... I'm currently working on leg warmers. My mom thinks I'm pretty cool. haha....

-me

Things that bother me...

So while shopping at 1 am on Friday morning, I came up with a list (quite a long list) of things that bother me. Once again, these things are in no particular order...

-Chipped nail polish. ((That is why I don't often wear nail polish))

-When guys wear baggy pants and I can see what their boxers look like when I don't really want to know what they look like.

-Old video game music.

-When my computer is retarded.

-When the fingerless gloves I knitted roll up at the ends.

-Christmas music in November (and in January).

-When people act dorky and I'm left out of the dorkiness.

This will be continued....

I am thankful for...

This year I am compiling a list of what I am thankful for... I was orginally going to just do it in my journal, but then I thought "heck, why not share my list?"

(These are in no particular order)

-The recoveries of Corey Ellis and Owen (I believe his last name is Lambright... not sure, though). Both nearly drowned, Corey after having a seizure in a hot tub, and Owen after falling into a tub of water in a neighbor's backyard. Both have made complete recoveries, both with no brain damage.

-My own recovery (those of you who know what I mean, 200+ days :D )

-A church summer camp that got my attention.

-A God that messes up my life.

-My cousin Shealey who loves to just sit with me on the couch.

-My cousin Tori who is just a stinker.

-My cousin Travis who is as obnoxious as all get out.

-Two older cousins that know how to do anything on a computer.

-My father who has confronted me on more than one occasion, and who shows me love in his own ways.

-The promise of being a world-changer, even to just one person.

-A best friend who is dorky, but talks enough for the both of us. (And I'm also her "cousin". tehe. :) long story)

-Another best friend who doesn't care when we both act stupid or crush on boys. (We have to deal with each other about that.)

-A chance to go to a private school where carrying a Bible does not bring ridicule.

-My memories of the babies.

-A mother who wants to go shopping at midnight, and who doesn't like coffee, but gets hot chocolate at Starbucks.

-A twin brother who drives me insane, but is fun to play Wii with.

-Rhonda's blog. (It just cheers me up. :D )

-The sunrise this morning. (We never know if we will have another day.)

-The hope of tomorrow's sunrise. (Which will hopefully be seen coming over a building at the Lighthouse Mall. :D )

-My vast taste in music.

-A Savior who came to this earth to take on the form of a man and died on the cross (and would have died even if I was the only person). And who rose from the dead three days later to give me and whoever else believes eternal life.


So... yeah... this is my list... :D

Some Random Pictures to Talk About....

One day at the baby center it rained (quite hard) and when it was over someone said there was a rainbow. We all ran out to see two complete rainbows. This isn't the best picture, and it doesn't nearly do the rainbow justice, but here it is.

Mar, this one is for you. *bother*! ((hehe))

A gorgeous African sunset

Derry!!! Look! There's an elephant in the room!! Should we talk about it?

Pretty flower picture, from the Tea Hotel.

This is Abby Rose. Isn't she cute? She is one of my best friends.

Electricity in Kenya isn't very reliable, so there were a few nights we had to light candles. (and one night that we just felt like it) This picture was taken of a candle shot down the neck of a glass coke bottle. I thought it was cool.

A gorgeous sunset from the window of the guesthouse. We had many amazing sunsets.

This is my Rony. He came to the baby center sick and underdeveloped. He is now average size and learning to walk. Isn't he gorgeous? He was one of the quieter babies and I did not see him smile until the day before we left. And when I heard him laugh I wanted to cry, so much joy filled me for him.

Another pretty flower.

And another....

And and upside-down palm tree....

Davie is one cool dude. :)

Kenya, post # 1

Here it is, Rhonda, my first Kenya post!!!

Oct. 17-18

When we left on the 17th I did not really know what o expect. I had never flown for more than a couple hours at a time. I had never gone through international security. I barely knew the people I was traveling with. But I had prayed a lot about the whole travel part of the trip, so I knew it was in God's hands.

After checking our luggage and going through security we walked to our gate. My mom and I were rather hungry by this time and decided to go to McDonald's. We said goodbye to our much loved Diet Coke and I got my last Starbucks for two weeks. (Rhonda, could you do that? No white chocolate mochas, for two weeks? :) ) We climbed onto the plane not long after and got ourselves settled for an 8-hour flight.
Somehow I always seemed to end up next to Abby,which wasn't bad, because I enjoyed her company. We had lots of fun chatting about the most random things. And I watched her knit for quite a long time, and she watched me play tetris.
The coolest thing about the flight? The TVs in the back of the seats in front of us. There were video games and such that you could play. The movie choices were not great, but they were okay.
When we got to London we had to go through another huge thing of security. Poor Abby got her peanut butter taken away. :( We watched the sunrise over the runway and walked around for most of the layover. When they opened out gate we gathered everybody up and made our way there.
Jodi and I decided to get some water. We did not have any pounds, so we used my American dollars and got pence for change. We got onto the plane and settled in for another endless flight. the movie choices were a little better this time, and there were still a ton of episodes of "The Office".
We got in Nairobi really late and still had to stand in line to get our visas and then collect our luggage. y the time I got my visa the others had collected all the luggage. Then we waited for Jodi, my mom, and Jolinda. We met one of our drivers right outside the airport. We had three vans and managed to fit all of our luggage in there, with fur people in each van I got my first taste of Kenyan roads and the many speed bumps therein When we came up to our hotel and got through the gate, I was incredibly ready to fall into bed. Mom and I checked in, got our luggage to our rooms, got water from the guy who showed us our room, took some pictures, changed our clothes, and fell into bed.


I think that's good enough for now. :)

"The Greatest Thing Is Just To Love And Be Loved In Return"

I know... no post about Kenya? But I've been extremely busy with make-up work and such. And my nightly 5 hour play practices. Those are pretty exhausting.

Last night was pretty fun. It was the drama girls' annual sleepover. We decorated our t-shirts (even though the whole cast is getting the same shirts) and it was a ton of fun. We had a whole bunch of movies to watch (including my two faves, "Pride & Prejudice" and "The Phantom of the Opera"), but we only watched our traditional movie. "Moulin Rouge!" is really good. (beware, kleenex must be on hand!) (Rated PG-13, btw) It's hilarious how there are so many modern songs in it, when it is supposed to be set in 1900 Paris. And the soundtrack has got to be one of the best I've ever heard. And I already know most of it after only hearing the songs a few times. (beware, kleenex must be on hand!) Then we stayed up until 3 am talking about the most random things and eating oreos. (atleast I was eating the oreos... wait, CARA WAS TOO!!!!)

Then a whole bunch of us had to go to GoodWill today because we didn't have all of our costumes. So Aly, Cara, me, and a bunch of the guys (Plus Mr. Elrod, the director, and Mrs. Schutz, who is in charge of costumes, and David Crabbe) all show up at GoodWill and it was packed. Yeah, we had fun. Except I had to try on this muy terible dress that looked like a tent (icky green and all!) and I wanted to throw up on it (but I refrained).

And then I had to come home and do homework. Fun, huh?

i'm out,

kaylyn

So... Cara had to read part of Walt Whitman's "Story of Myself" for her English class. And I read along with it because I like to read random stuff like that sometimes. And so when I finished reading it she asked me what it was about because she didn't want to finish it. But I told her to read it because I didn't understand it. Then all the sudden she goes "I understand this guy now!" and read aloud this:

"I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the
wounded person."

And to me that makes sense. I can go up to a person and know they have had a bad day. I can ask them about it and totally understand. I can become that person for those few moments. And through the writing ability that God has given me, I can (usually) accurately depict the way that person feels, the sorrow, the pain, the joy even. I don't have to ask that person how they are feeling, I can feel it.

Just a thought from my jumbled mind...

hugs and <3's

Kaylyn

So.... This has really helped me lately, and I have also tried to encourage my friends with it...

--You say: "It's impossible"
God says: All things are possible...
(Luke 18:27)

--You say: "I'm too tired"
God says: I will give you rest...
(Matthew 11:28-30)

--You say: "Nobody really loves me"
God says: I love you...
(John 3:16; John 13:34)

--You say: "I can't go on"
God says: My grace is sufficient...
(II Corinthians 12:9; Psalm 91:15)

--You say: "I can't figure things out"
God says: I will direct your steps...
(Proverbs 3:5-6)

--You say: "I can't do it"
God says: You can do all things...
(Philippians 4:13)

--You say: "I'm not able"
God says: I am able...
(II Corinthians 9:8)

--You say: "It's not worth it"
God says: It will be worth it...
(Roman 8:28)

--You say: "I can't forgive myself"
God says: I FORGIVE YOU...
(I John 1:9; Romans 8:1)

--You say: "I can't manage"
God says: I will supply all your needs...
(Philippians 4:19)

--You say: "I'm afraid"
God says: I have not given you a spirit of fear...
(II Timothy 1:7)

--You say: "I'm always worried and frustrated"
God says: Cast all your cares on ME...
(I Peter 5:7)

--You say: "I don't have enough faith"
God says: I've given everyone a measure of faith...
(Romans 12:3)

--You say: "I'm not smart enough"
God says: I give you wisdom...
(I Corinthians 1:30)

--You say: "I feel all alone"
God says: I will never leave you or forsake you...
(Hebrews 13:5)

another untitled!

GASP!!! Team comissioning tomorrow!!!

I'm so nervous!! I dunno if I can get up in front of the whole church... going to the altar to pray is extremely stressful... And then I was standing over to the side... BUT IN THE MIDDLE??? Man, I feel like my character in the play... all shy and everything...

Oh yeah!!! You guys can "follow" me, now. SO YOU SHOULD SUBSCRIBE TO ME!! (Sorry, I'm in a bit of a caps mood, today.)

Would you like to know how many pictures I have taken? 183 since September 28... I love the way the numbers look on here.

Oh, dear God. I leave in 10 days. But the good news is, everyone else gets a half day on the 17th and I get NO SCHOOL. (and for the next two weeks... :D )

**ACHOO** Yes, I really did sneeze. Excuse me.

Hmm... I have this major Bible test on Friday that I really need to study for... laterz.