It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right- I hope you had the time of your life!

Today is the last day of the year 2009. What an incredible year it has been!

This year, I've grown in my relationship with the Lord, my parents and my friends. I feel so blessed, so many amazing things have happened this year. This morning I made a list of things that happened this year that I really enjoyed.

This year, I survived my freshmen year of highschool and was able to participate in Pilgrim. That was a ton of fun, as well as Summer Celebration, going dancing with friends and lots of fun things that we did over the summer. Friends coming over, my fifteenth birthday party, camping...lots of stuff.

Little things I came to love doing, reading my Bible more (I finished reading the Bible all the way through this year) reading Nicolas Sparks books such as A Walk To Remember, movie nights. Tree House Gang, sleepovers with friends and making cookies. Shakespeare camp, playing in the rain, photoshoots...

The youth retreat, celebration of friends being healed and God working in their lives, talks with my parents about God and friends about faith. Playing games, getting messy. Randomly bursting into song.

Funny Dad moments...tons of laughter.

And no, my year wasn't perfect. There were times of frustration and sadness, and plenty of tears. There was pain, things went wrong... every fight I was in, every stupid thing I've said...yes I regret those moments, and I'm sorry for anything that I have done this past year that may have hurt any of you in any way. You all have been great friends to me this year, and I don't deserve you at all. Looking back on the year I see how incredibly blessed I am, and that God is so good to me and I don't deserve it. He has given me wise and loving parents. He has given me friends with hearts for God. He has put me in a wonderful church with an amazing youth ministry.

2009 has been great. Happy New Year everyone. :)

♪ Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road

Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go

So make the best of this test and don't ask why

It's not a question but a lesson learned in time

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right-

I hope you've had the time of your life ♪♫

I want to take you to the Island...

trace your footprints in the sand...♪

love that song!

Anyway, 50th Blogpost. Seriously! Haha, that's a lot.

So what's been on since Christmas? Well, cleaning and organizing stuff, using the new gifts I've received. And I did something Saturday that I can't remember....what was it? AHHH thats going to drive me crazy...

Then Sunday we had church, :D it was a great message as always.

OH I REMEMBER WHAT IS WAS! I read alot, and I finished the first Nicolas Sparks book my parents gave me (434 pages) and I didn't cry. I'm so proud of myself ;) lol.

So now I'm reading "The Blind Side" and it totally makes me want to watch football. Especially the Ravens cause the football player in the book (Michael Lewis 'big mike') plays for them. Lol. :D

And then yesterday, Kiera woke me up cause she thought I had biology. Which was weird because 1) I normally have biology on tuesdays 2) we're on break!!! :P Then mom made me accompany Ramil and Kiera to the dentist because she had to pick up my Aunt from the hospital. Have I ever mentioned that I hate going to the dentist's? Yeah. Dentist's offices scare me.. :P But yeah I was left in charge...FAIL. I was supposed to take them to lunch, but the only place we could go within walking distance was California Tortilla, and that was way too expensive cause I only had twenty bucks and that caused a lot of yelling and distress. It was AWFUL. I hate it when I get left in charge and all that happens is we yell at eachother. Bad sister. Bad daughter. Im terrible. Sigh. A sinner in need of a Savior.

And then I had lunch and read and rehearsal and sleep. I was kicked out of my bed because the Blendermann girls and their dog Calle were spending the night. I have a big bed so they shared and I slept on a mattress on the floor next to the heater. Which wasn't so bad. lol. But I was looking foward to my bed after a long day and then I was like "oh...nevermind..."

And then this morning, woke up, quiet time, ate quick, rushed out the door, struggled through my moms pilates workout :P lol had rehearsal then I came home. And here I am! Listening to Celtic Thunder and singing loudly.

Yup....

I Celebrate the Day

That you were born to die~ so I might one day pray for you to save my life.

{Relient K}

Merry Christmas everybody! I hope you all had as great of a holiday as I did. Last night I kept waking up about every twenty minutes cause I was so excited. When I finally woke up at the right time (7:30) my parents told us they weren't ready yet. SO since I was so bored and crazy excited for Christmas I got dressed and ready, and went downstairs when the time came. We opened our stockings and waited for our grandparents to come. Then Mom and Dad opened gifts, and we opened presents from the siblings to eachother. Haha, Dylan totallly went all out buying presents for the family this year. He got Kiera two of those Zhu Zhu pet hamster thingies. They are so cute and fun to play with! They run around the house and run into things and smell them and then spin around and stuff :D Oh and Ramil got me the new game of Bop It... :)

Then we open the presents from Mom and Dad. My parents always get us each three presents, because that's what Jesus received from the wise men. So we get a small, medium and large present. I kind of felt bad because my parents ordered a lot of stuff online, and many of the gifts didnt come in...but all of mine did. So each of my siblings opened up one box with a picture of the gift that hadn't come yet, but I got to open mine. :-/ But everyone was happy with their gifts just the same, but I think my siblings will be extremely happy when the rest of their gifts arrive. :) I got some great stuff too. I finally discovered what was in that suspicious box the size of texas...it was one of those reading pillow thingies, along with some Nicolas Sparks books lol. And I got some cds and an ESV STUDY BIBLE!!! :D

and we had Brunch here with Dad's side of the family, not everyone but a few people. Aunt Moe, Megan, Megan's fiance Kris, Kris's daughter Ashley, Matt, and Aunt Al. :) Mom always makes all this great food...monkey bread, sausage and egg casserole, and lots of fruit and bagels :D its a tradition every year to do this, and I love spending time with my cousins. We played Beatles rockband with them, they all love the Beatles (can you tell we're related?) and just hung out.

Then we went to my grandparents house for Christmas #2. that's my Mom's side of the family. We have stockings at my grandparents house too, and in my parents stockings and my Uncle Mike and Aunt Lois's stockings... they all got Mp3 players. SO not a stocking stuffer. lol.

So we opened some presents there too, I think it was really funny to watch Kiera open because she got lots of hats...and colorful socks...you could not have been happier than her. Seriously. She was squealing and laughing with joy. It was really funny. :D We we all happy with what we got...haha I asked for a Celtic Thunder cd, and my Aunt and Uncle bought me a Celtic Ladies cd. haha. :D I didn't have the heart to ask them to take it back, so I kept it. Who knows, maybe I'll like it?

and we had this amazing Christmas dinner...that was to be honest- bigger than thanksgiving. It was amazing. :D FOOD GLORIOUS FOOOOOOOOD

and we just came home about an hour ago, and here I am, telling you all about my wondrous day with my family. :) today was another one of those days for me that I realized how incredibly blessed I am, to have such an incredible family, amazing friends and a Wonderful God. :)

I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas! Merry Christmas Everyone! :D

{comments please}

Kylie

ps. Oh I forgot to mention, last night at the show I recieved a few gifts from friends. :) They are so nice to have thought of me, and all of their gifts were really sweet :) haha and guess what? Remember how much I love the prius?Jayme got me a toy prius! and it's blue! How funny is that? :D Thank you all so much, and thanks for being such awesome friends I don't deserve :) (and not just for this :P )

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

EVE!

So last night was the first show we had at the church and it went very well! :D It was a lot of fun! I had a lot of fun singing the the choir, doing the dance and crowd * phew * haha. Then I had fun talking to friends afterward :) Oh and my grandparents came to see :D I'm excited because tonight several more of my relatives are coming, none of which are Christians. Be praying God does a work in them! :D

And letsee, Elizabeth and Kevin came over last night after the show for a little bit. :) oh and on the way back home we stopped at Wendy's cause Elizabeth and Kevin were really hungry cause they didn't have dinner, so we went through the drivethru. And who was in front of us? My parents and Ramil and Kiera. We had taken seperate cars and left a few minutes apart. Which is dumb because the whole reason we took two cars was so we (kids) could stay longer and hang with friends.... cough cough Dylan.... But it was really funny because my Dad was making faces at us and yelling at us through the drivethru and giving us strange directions for fixing the clock in the oldsmobile. :P haha. Then we went back to my house and I gave them their presents- it was hysterical seeing Elizabeth's face. I got her a tshirt that said "Muggle" on the front. and for those of you who love Harry Potter and know Elizabeth...haha it was pretty funny. :D and then I attempted to give Elizabeth a manicure with a new green nail polish a friend had given her...I only got one hand done before her parents came...and I kind of failed at that but...haha. oh well. and after they left I went to bed pretty much. haha.

Man, I didn't really have much to post about... :P Hopefully after Christmas I'll have tons of funny stories to tell! :D

if you can find anything to comment on, please comment! :D

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

♪♫ Christmas Time is Here...♪♫

Well hi everybody. :)

Christmas time is here. Christmas is in three days! Good gracious, where has the year gone to? haha. Tonight is dress rehearsal for the Christmas show at my church, Tomorrow is the first show. It starts at 6:30 at Covenant Life church for those of you who want to come. :D

and guess what? I finished my Christmas shopping! YAY! That only took...a long time. haha. But I'm finally finished. With the shopping part anyway... :P lol

one of my friends gave me a present yesterday and its sitting under my christmas tree torturing me. I just want to open it but I promised myself I wouldnt until Christmas Eve. gah! Oh the suspense. haha. :D

Oh and yesterday I went sledding (well attempted to) and watched the Grinch (the Jim carrey one) with some friends. :D It was a lot of fun. :D

but man. Christmas surprises...the suspense kills me :D I'm like "They're hiding something from me! I know it!" and well....duh they are. Its Christmas. Its supposed to be a surprise. :D

comments pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

:D

Im Dreaming of a White Christmas...

and it sure looks like it's going to happen.

So here in Maryland we are scheduled to have 20 inches of snow. Well right now 18 inches is on the ground and it is still coming.

Everyone seems so happy about the snow. I would have loved to have a few inches, but this snow storm has canceled a lot of fun things planned for the weekend. :( I've been pretty bored all day.

yesterday I had coop, where we talked about Martin Luther and watched the movie Luther. And we had a christmas party. Then that evening I had dance rehearsal.

Then this morning I slept in til 11. Kiera wasnt here so it was easy to sleep in. :D But I've pretty much been stranded inside all day, watching movies and chatting with friends. I have so many presents left to get, and now I have a splitting headache. Ah....thats life.

So. Well. Uh.

Life. Yup.

So... not a whole lots been going on. Last day of MCI before break was yesterday so there were lots of Christmas Class parties. :) Very fun. I dressed as a Christmas present...kind of failed. :P But all the same, twas a fun day.

Well...Then I went home and took my Geometry test- I had been dreading this test but it turned out to be easier than I thought! Thank you all for praying for me! Please continue to pray :) I still haven't gotten the results yet.

Uh...Okay so I have been picking the acoustic guitar back up (okay so I only played it for like a week before...but Im really learning how to play it now.) I pretty much gave up last time after my fingers started hurting. But I was practicing last night and my fingers weren't hurting as bad! :D YAY! Right now I'm just working on learning a few chords and once I get that down I'll be playing "Yours to Hold" by Skillet. So we'll see how this works out. Pray that I'd persevere! I really want to do this! :D

Haha, so Dylan and Kiera caught me totally getting into my inner rockstar blaring Skillet music in my room- I was totally rocking out, heading banging and air guitar and everything then I turned around and they were in the doorway and I was like "uhhh hi.......................................................how long have you been standing there?" haha. Skillet is amazing. :D :D :D I SO want to see them in concert but they aren't coming anywhere near here for like...ever. :'( sadness.

And Christmas is getting closer and closer and I have so much to do! :-o AH!

Yeah random. but that's my life. :)

comments please... :)