Poem

Master Artist

Who painted the mountains strong and steadfast? Who molded the soft, white clouds drifting past? Who colored the cherry blossoms a warm rosy pink? Who drew the pine trees, do you think?

Who made the ocean sparkle in the sun? Who told the wind it could laugh, play, and run? Who placed the stars like diamonds in the sky? Who made the sparrow and taught her how to fly? 

Who shapes our nose, mouth, ears, and eyes? Who chooses the color of our hair that is always a surprise? Who is the Master Artist who made the world just so? It is the one and only God and this I truly know.

~Lydia Burnett

More Hair fun

Celina's gorgeous hair! I love playing with it! French Braid with tiny pieces of hair, the same tucked under, and a knot tying braid thing. Which is your favorite?

Hair styling fun

 These are some different hairstyles I have done. The first one is a french braid using small strands of hair and then tucked under. The second is a waterfall braid. The third is a simple french braid across the head and then the end is brought up.The fourth is a style where you tie knots in your hair and add pieces as you go a long and then I tucked it under.  The last is a french braid over the top and then back the other way and then I brought the end around. I love playing with hair and trying different styles!

Jess-Beauty Unfading

Hey gals:)

I'm working on a new project, one that has been on my heart for a long time. It's finally working out! Anyway, take a look at my new blog. Tell me what you think :)
Here's the link! Beauty Unfading

Miss and love yall!
Jess

Babysitting, Celina

I don't know how many of you girls know, but I got a summer job babysitting (BEST. SUMMER. JOB. EVER!).  I am working full time (7:45-5:15, Monday-Friday) most weeks, watching two girls ages 9 and 8, awesome ages BTW, cause they aren't "too old" to do a lot of games, but you can still do some more fun slightly more complicated games with them.  I am hoping to post about once or twice a week about what we did that day, but this week I am not working cause the girls are in summer school so I will show you my babysitting bag.

So the first day I babysat we decorated some canvas bags.  They LOVED doing it and it was a pretty cheap project.  Every day sometime in the afternoon we have "chill pill time" which is when the girls will go into there own rooms and just "chill" (read a book, listen to music, take a nap, color, whatever quite calmish thing they want to do).  It is a great time for them to get away from each other and just chill for a little cause we go pretty hard all day long, and it is a chance for them to step back and breath for a little bit.  They usually end up asleep, don't tell them I know ;) they come out of their rooms yawning and rubbing their eyes, saying "oh, I didn't sleep, I promise!" I don't know why for kids that age sleeping during the day is such a sin, it doesn't make since, oh well. Anyways the girls got to decorate a bag for "chill pill time" and every week I will put new coloring books, new activities, a new book on tape, and new chapter books.  They love the idea of having a special bag just for that hour each day.  

I made a bag for myself just for holding all my stuff everyday and just an essential babysitting bag.  I have even started taking this bag with me to just evening babysitting.  It is fun to have a bag that the kids know there is awesome stuff in.  In has started to be this really cool Mary Poppins bag for the kids, they never know what I may have decided to through in  there that day. So here is what I have in my bag, I think most of this stuff is essential for any babysitter. 

Here is my bag, I used plain scotch tape and put it in (not so) straightish lines and put the blue and red stripes on there, it is a little streaky on camera, you cannot tell as much in person and I let the girls help me so it turned out not so perfect.    

The first thing I have in the bag is a book that I am reading to the girls, just something we read about a chapter of every time I am there.  This is a book Mom used to read to us and I LOVE it, they are really liking it.  It is called "The Mysterious Benedict Society" and ya'll should read it, it is one of those books anyone can enjoy.  And everyone in my family loves it. 

I also keep some sort of prize candy in my bag, the twizzlers are awesome because I can break or cut them into whatever size piece I want.  I can give the girls twizzlers for prizes for ANYTHING, I am pretty competitive and I make like everything they do like cleaning, and regular games, and just whatever.  It is good to find a candy that the kids like but you don't, cause unless you have self control (I don't :D) then you will end up eating the candy pretty fast.  I don't like twizzlers so they are lasting quite a while.  

The next things that I have in the bag is some basic craft stuff.  I have glue, tape, and paintbrushes/sponges.  The girls each have crayons, markers, glue sticks and scissors in their chill pill bags, so I don't have that stuff. But I just wanted to have a little bit of crafty kind of things in my bag too.

I also have a notebook for writing down random things during the day, what to bring the next day, whose turn it is to clean up dishes, just whatever I need to remember.  

I also have some "me" things, chap-stick, gum, lotion, deodorant, and single serve lemonade mix. Just some stuff for that I want to have around during the day.  

I also have a deck of cards and some Ivory soap.  Just basic "I'm bored" solvers, there are TONS of games you can play with a deck of cards for any age.  I don't know if ya'll know about this but you can put Ivory soap in the microwave and it will expand into this HUGE, fluffy, squishable, awesome, cloud.  Totally awesome to crumble outside and watch it blow away, it is just MEGA fun, I will have to post pictures next time I do it with the girls.  

So there ya have it basic babysitters bag stuff. I usually have more than just this stuff in there and it changes every day.  But this stuff is always in there.

Storage Cuteness, Celina

HELLO LADIES!  I made something cute today and thought I would show you how I did it.  

I found these totally awesome drawer thingies in the basement.  I don't know if ya'll know this about me, but I LOVE organizational thingies (cute little drawers, notebooks, pens, folders blah blah blah) I am horrible at being organized but I love the thought of it all and office supply stores....gosh they are amazing!  So I saw these little drawers and my heart started singing a little bit, and I did a little jig, yes I had a heart flop about five dollar plastic drawers, so shut up.  I saw these and started putting my makeups in it and getting all happy.  It was Sunday afternoon and I don't know why but I am always a little creative on Sunday afternoons, weird I know but whatever sauce.  

 So I found scrapbook paper and decided to jazz up the drawers (I didn't end up using this paper, but I took pictures after I had already made the covers so I just used this as in example)

It is kinda hard to see but I took one of the drawers out and laid it on the paper.  The drawers arn't flat on the front (I know bummersnot) so I had to kinda guesstimate and roll the drawer around to figure out the right size to cut out.  It took a couple tries but just start bigger and you can cut it down to the right size 

                                      

Then you can use the first one as a pattern for all the rest of the drawer fronts.  Next label all of the drawer fronts. 

Next get some glue that is clear or will dry clear and put it on the patterned side of the paper 

Then just kinda smush the paper onto the drawer, on the inside front.  Mold it around the shape of the drawer and hold it on a little until you are happy with the look. 

Do this on all of the drawers 

BAMMO! Cute AND organizational..... yeahhhh it will be a horrible mess in a couple days but right now it makes my heart happy!

Philippians 4:13- I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength  (FAV VERSE! Good reminder... Sitting on the internet MUST..... GET...... OFF..... just repeat this verse then click the little red X of DEATH! :D, ok maybe a little over dramatized, but whatever)

A peak into my Vacation

So, I have been having a busy week! We went to my brothers graduation on my birthday-Go Philip! We cheered loudly as he walked across the stage. However we were in very uncomfortable seats. Brooke, Benjamin, Faith and I had to sit in the wooden "bleachers". They were actually wooden benches with not much room to spare. The guy behind me kept banging his knee into my back. Not exactly the massage I was hoping for ;). Note taken-we were squished and uncomfortable through a two hour ceremony. Oh well. We ate delicious Pappa Johns pizza with my aunt and uncle (they came for the graduation). Then we ate Oreo Dessert and when my aunt and uncle left (later than expected) we got to watch the first half of the Hobbit. Yay! Sad, only half-but Yay! :) This is probably boring if you are reading this right now, but oh well, you are the one who chose to read it ;). I have not had much time to write on here or read or do anything else leisurely because we have been doing stuff with out pause. We went to Silver Dollar City yesterday all day. That was fun. The bad parts were the following: Stinging ants during lunch, soaking on me during the Lost River, taking forever to dry out, and sore feet. The good parts were the following: Getting to ride the new Outlaw Run, getting a funnel cake at the end, Hanging around people I like, not getting sun burnt, beautiful weather, not a TON of people, not being overly hungry, having someone to go on roller coasters with, and that about sums it up. A pretty good day with the good things out weighing the bad. Then we went to a place called "Danna's Barbecue" for dinner. It was awesomely yummy! I of course got...A plain hamburger and it was delicious! It was a nice friendly little restaurant. One of Philip's friends came with us back to our condo (He is very nice and is actually Philip's best friend) and we had oreo dessert again and then watched the rest of the Hobbit (Philip and his friend left before we watched it). That sums up pretty much all we did. I probable won't get to write for awhile, but if I do I will tell you about all the "scary" things that I will have to do.

Jess, a little idea

Dear friends,
Lately, my heart has been really heavy about some topics. We're all teen girls here, and I know for a fact that each of us is struggling in some area of our life. In Galatians, Paul talks about carrying each other's burdens. I don't mean like legit stressing over something 24/7 and losing sleep over a situation someone has brought to you...I mean coming together as sisters in Christ and asking for prayer, asking for an ear to listen and encouragement. So..this is my little way of saying that whatever it is..whenever it is, let us be open to one another.

My really close friend and I have recently been struggling with similar things. A little while ago, we just kind of stopped and asked "why aren't we doing something to help each other?" And that's just it. We all struggle, why not help each other, relate to each other and encourage our brothers and sisters through Christ? We sort of created this "accountability" system. Every day we text, call, e-mail, snail, mail..whichever we're in the mood for, and ask "so hows this going?" or "have you been in the Word today?" This is something very near and dear to my heart, and I just felt like sharing with you all. If this interests you, or you wanna talk about it..pray about it, shoot me an email or if you have my number text me! I believe that we need to be keeping each other accountable, encouraging our friends in the right direction God is pointing us in.
I love you all so much!

"For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." -Ephesians 3:14-21


-Jess

YBH?

At a youth conference in Branson recently, a speaker was teaching to our group of 4,000 + teens and leaders about his experience growing up in church. You hear a lot of the "Jesus died for your sins, now you need to live for Him!" and "God loves you, you should love God!" along with many, many other common Christian-living cliches. He said that he would write down all of these things people were telling him to do, and underneath them the letters "YBH!" He went on for quite a while, teaching another cliche and then screaming YBH! YBH! YBH! "This is something every teen Christian wants to know. Shoot, every Christian!" We were on our toes...what in the world was YBH?!

Yeah...but how?


"LIVE FOR CHRIST!!"

Yeah, but how?

"It's easy! Just share the gospel!"

Yeah, but how?

"Man, don't take it so hard...just trust God!"

Yeah, but how?

Starting to see a trend? It seems that everywhere we go, people are preaching at us what we have to do. Maybe even why we have to do it. I've even underlined scripture with YBH, tortured as to HOW IN THE WORLD I'm suppose to do it!! Are we suppose to know? Is this some great mystery that we just have to "trust God" with? Some of the sermons at my church I would leave in tears, because my heart was so torn. I didn't want to sound like this person that didn't want a relationship with God. But I was soooooo tired of all of the do this and do that, I just wanted to know HOW. It seems no one can tell you. Any of you out there feel like that? If you're like me...it's almost always.

That's when, (at this very moment to be exact) I was given this "aha!" moment.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened." (Matthew 7:7-8) 

          "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." (Jeremiah 29:13)

And that...though simple..is it! 

"Trust God, man!"
Yeah, but how?
I may not know, but He does. Just seek Him, ask for the answer to that, and He'll give it to you.

"LIVE FOR CHRIST!!"
Yeah, but how?
First, you must seek Christ.

A lot of times...I find myself rambling about something that is worrying me. (I'm probably rambling about this...so my apologies if it's confusing.) And I never take the time to bring it before the One who even gave me a mind. Who even gave me life! I find, that if I EARNESTLY seek His face, and ask, it will be given to me.

NOW. Is that an always yes? Most definitely not. But it will be an answer. It may be "Wait, child, just praise Me, and wait." Or it may be "not yet, I only know what your plans are." No matter the answer, trust that His is best.

YBH?!?

I dunno..

...but He does.

Character Costume Challenge: Susan and Lucy Pevensie

"Don't worry, I'm sure it's your imagination."

"What is this place?" "...Narnia."

Dressed and ready for the conflict to come!

"No! Aslan cannot be dead!"

of the sunny southern slopes, I give you Queen Susan the Gentle.

to the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant.



"Once a King or Queen of Narnia, always a King or Queen"

Character Costume Challenge: Nancy Drew and George Fayne

Nancy Drew-Ace Detective and George Fayne-Sidekick Extraordinaire
And don't forget Togo!

No clue is safe when they're on the case!

Oopsie! 

"...George better come back with the cavalry and that is
one creepy hand!" 

When Nancy's in a jam, George comes in with a helping hand!

"I'm the blonde with the creepy hand and I know how to
use it!" Nancy- "Two can play at this game! Some times you
just need to take a stand...or have a friend with a music stand."

Case Solved! The blonde was a fake...and so was the hand!

Character Costume Challenge

Hello friends! I have a very fun idea that I think would really be fun for us all. I would like to challenge each of you to dress up as a favorite character from a book or movie and post pictures of yourself in different poses. I can't take credit for this idea, I have stolen it from some other blogging ladies who like to dress up as characters from their books. We are not all writers, so we will have to borrow some other characters, but if you would like to create a fictional character and give a little bio about her that would allowable as well. Post as soon as you like, I can't wait to see you all!.

This is the blog where I got my idea from. Go check it out sometime!
 http://enterthewriterslair.blogspot.com/

(Celina) Verse of the Day

1st John 3:1- See what great love the Father has lavished on us that that we should be called the children of God! And that is what we are!  The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

(Celina) Bible Study/ verse of the day

For my Bible study ever day, I read a chapter in the Bible.  I skip around a LOT but right now I am reading through Matthew.  I also have a little bible study book that is called God, Girls, and Getting Connected.  The bible studies themselves I don't really enjoy, they are not very long and aren't quite as bible oriented as I would want for my daily study.  But everyday they have a verse that they use in the study.  The verses are always good and ones that I would like to have memorized.  After I read the verse I try to find some sort of picture online that I could use to help me remember the verse, or just some sort of visual to use as the background of the verse.  I will open that picture in "paint" and type the verse over the top of it, then I will use that verse as the background on my computer all that day.  It is a fun way to help me remember the verse, because I am reading it, thinking about it to try and find some visual to go along with it, typing it out, and looking at it multiple times all day long- here is today's verse. 

Fifteen

This song has been on my heart for a while now. Partly because of its WONDERFUL message, and also because I'm experiencing a situation similar to it. Here's the lyrics to it. It's so powerful :)

I was sitting at the table 
As the waitress took our order 
In her eyes I knew that something wasn't right 
And before I saw it coming 
I was caught up in her story 
Of the storms that she had weathered in her life 
My friend said can we pray for you 
She said I think I'd like you to 
She walked away, we bowed our heads 
But then he turned to me and said 

If it takes fifteen times 
To hear about Jesus 
For someone to believe 
Wherever I stand in line 
I've got to make a difference 
In case it comes down to me 
'Cause, I may be the third, may be the seventh 
There may be years in between 
But what if I'm fifteen 
What if I'm fifteen 

Just a chapter in a story 
With the ending still unwritten 
Do they find the truth of Jesus after all As I listen for the whispers 
And I follow where they lead me 
I pray that I'll be faithful to the call 
If I'm who I'm supposed to be 
I know that God can work through me 
I may not understand it now 
But I believe somehow 

If it takes fifteen times 
To hear about Jesus 
For someone to believe 
Wherever I stand in line 
I've got to make a difference 
In case it comes down to me 
'Cause I may be the third, may be the seventh 
There may be years in between 
But what if I'm fifteen 
What if I'm fifteen 

God I don't want to miss the chances 
When you open the door 
What may seem so insignificant 
You see so much more 

If it takes fifteen times 
To hear about Jesus 
For someone to believe 
Wherever I stand in line 
I've got to make a difference 
In case it comes down to me 
'Cause I may be the third, may be the seventh 
There may be years in between 
But what if I'm fifteen 
What if I'm fifteen


Be blessed this week, sisters! :)

Catching Up :)

PEEPS! It's been a while :( But I'm excited to get back into this :) I've missed all my girlies!!

Anywho, I guess I'll letcha all know what's been going on over here :)

Lately, school has been taking up most of my time. 9th grade turned out to be a whole lot harder than I expected, and my old friend Procrastination keeps making his daily visit. I hope to be done soon though and then get on with summer! OH how I love summer. I tell my friends that the first day I miss summer is the first day it starts. (for those of you wondering...it's not really suppose to make sense..) My current favorite subject this year is...um. nothing. I literally take a big sigh of relief when I finish my last subject for the day...lame right? Ok..I take that back. I'm taking a New Testament class that is pretty cool. Last month was on witnessing to your friends, and at the end I got to write a pretend letter to a friend telling them my testimony and why accepting God is the best choice you'll ever make. It was really eye opening, and made me that more excited to go out and share the gospel. 

I've also been doing a lot of music. Piano that is. I FINALLY got past the "Piano is something I have to do" stage and now I'm like "PLEASE. MORE. PIANO. LESS. SCHOOL." Or just music in general. I will never be able to thank God enough for giving us music. It is endless in it's power...I just...wow. It leaves me speechless. I mean, how in the world can you make such...such huge SOMETHING out of pretty much nothing?! Take a few lines...a few million sounds and make...pure perfection. It's really breathtaking. I don't even have words! Yet I'm still rambling making no sense.. that's how music impacts me. It speaks a million voices when I can't say a word. God is so amazing. He's given us SO many powerful tools to share His CRAZY STINKING AMAZING  love that we will NEVER understand. EVER. Sometimes when I am upset, or so in love (with God, nature, my life..whatevs) but I don't know how to voice it, I'll sit down at the piano and just play whatever comes to mind. I heard a quote once that says:

God gave us music that we might pray without words. 

WHOA. That pretty much explains it all. So. Ignore that whole paragraph of rambling...that is pretty much what I was trying to say. :)

OH MY GOSH! I CAN'T forget to tell you all! I FINALLY got my permit!! I love driving SO much. Ask my parents..anytime I have the chance, they always hear a "can I drive?!?" from me.. :) No worries, no speeding from this chic for a while. I've actually been hearing quite a few "honey, you can go a lot faster.." from my mom and dad. I have a hard time keeping up with the speed minimum some times. Haha! Oh well.. I'll get there soon :)

From January through early March-ish I got to help coach a girls basketball team chuck full of kindergartners. Talk about craziness. It was a lot of fun at times. I dont regret doing it, but I have to say that after Thursday night practices I would crash on the couch out of pure exhaustion. 9 girls, anywhere from ages 5 to 7. Bows, ribbons, ruffle socks and LOTS of band-aids and water breaks. It was hard keeping an eye on a bunch of chaotic girls for an hour practice and an hour game, but I enjoyed getting minister to them. Little girls are SO impressionable, and I found myself having to watch a lot of the things I did. I can remember being that age, and even a little older and watching teen girls soooo closely. Ever move they made I worshiped. Their hair was always perfect and adorable, and they had SO MANY FREEDOMS! Now I'm like "oh, to be your age again, Beautiful." ;) My lesson out of that, is don't take for granted the age you are at. A lot of times, I wish I were two, even three years older than I am now. And then I watch little kids and remember how quickly life really goes by, and how important the choices I make are.

ANYWAY. I promise I didn't sit down at my laptop to preach at you all. I hope everyone of my beautiful friends is doing amazing. I keep you all in my prayers!
Much love,

Jessi

(Celina) Hello My Name is.....

I am very blessed to be part of a Wednesday Night Church group that meets every other week.  We have the BEST teachers ever.  We have been reading through a book called Graffiti-

This book is about "learning to see the art in ourselves" it has been an AMAZING book and I encourage all of you to check it out. Tonight was about how others see you, the analgy that they used in the book was - If you are walking down a really nice street where everyone cares about their houses and it is just a really nice street, you aren't very likely to throw a rock and break the window of one of the houses.  But if you are walking down a trashy street where no one seems to care and some of the windows in the houses are already broken, you are more likely to throw a rock to bust out some of the windows. It is the same way with your self image, if you don't think much of yourself, it will show and people will think "well this chick doesn't think highly of herself, so it isn't going to matter much if I take my word knife and slash at her heart again".  But if you think highly of yourself (not in a ego kinda way but in a "I know the LORD made me special and I am proud of that, and I know I am beautiful in his eyes" kinda way) they won't be as quick to take out their little word knife (or in some cases a word bazooka)

So our teacher had us take little name tags that said "hello my name is..." and we had to right what we thought that other people might think of us.  It was MEGGA hard, cause in the back of my mind I am like "well they probably think of me this way..." but it was hard to fess up and write it down for all the girls to see.  We wrote those down and spilled the beans to the other girls (I have a feeling that they all already know these things I mean what the heck are sleepovers for?!?!  But it was harder to talk about them, when your face wasn't five inches from one other girls face trying to have a heart to heart, laughing/crying to hard so that the parents got onto us).  We after we wrote down what we thought others thought of us, we each took the leftover name tags and filled in things we thought of our friends,  with those new name tags we covered up the old ones that we had written.  It was REALLY cool to look at and see what others thought, and since I have AMAZING friends it was EASY to find things about them..

Here is all of us with our, name tags on      

 When I got home, I took all of mine off and put them in my journal- here is what I got

it was megga fun to do, our leader had an old window that was just some panes of glass in a frame, and we got to take our rocks and through them into the window to break the glass, just as a visual.  I failed, we were like 6 feet from the window, and I just couldn't do it :D oh well, I had fun trying!!!

Our leader also showed us this video which went along GREAT and was amazing to watch 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpaOjMXyJGk

(if the link dosn't work or you are a little nervous clicking random links, just search for "Dove Real Beauty Sketches" on youtube, it should be at our very near the top) 

We had also just went to "Winter Jam" together and watched Matthew West preform his song "Hello My Name Is..." that was just a cool little thing to tack on and remember the little video he had during the concert using name tags very similar to the ones we used. This is an AMAZING song and you gals should listen to it and enjoy the awesomeness.  This song doesn't have a LOT to do with what we learned tonight, it is more saying that you don't have to be defined by junk that you done in the past, I just like the line "hello my name is child of the one True King" it is a great encouragement! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuJWQzjfU3o

(the name of the video on youtube is "Matthew West- Hello, My Name Is (Lyrics)")

Babysitting joys (Celina)

Today I was babysitting all day, I was there most of the day while the Mom of the children was still there, but most of the time I was outside with the seven kids by myself.  My goal while I was outside was to have only one crying child at a time ;) just kidding! But seriously that is about how it worked, most of the time it was tears because the certain child didn't get the perfect toy at the perfect time, or child A slid down the slide and knocked child B over creating a domino effect with child C and D all the while child E was laughing at everyone and child F was pouting cause no one would play with him/her (I don't know about ya'll but I would rather be off to the side than rammed into with the full body weight of like three children in front of you), oh and then there is always child G that is crying because he didn't get to go down the slide.  We had fun most of the time but there were those moments when I kinda wanted, I don't know maybe a kick in the face so that I could go unconscious and someone else could deal with it all.  So I hung out outside until nap time and then the extra kids left leaving just four kids.  Nap time, let me just tell you, that thang is AM-MA-ZING!  I sat on the couch reading books and playing quietly   Usually nap time is a little boring but I went to Silver Dollar City yesterday and was gone ALL day so I am a little tired. Oh and tip #1- one of the best quite games to play with kids that are just old enough to not take naps- get a magazine (anything appropriate will do) and on each page let everyone pick one thing that they want, just be warned this is probably how it will go "ummm I want her outfit, no actually I want that phone, no no no actually I want that person as a sister, nope nope, I want to have the cupcakes, WAIT! I didn't even SEE the superhero panties THAT is what I want (you start to turn the page), STOOOOPPPPPP, I want the cupcakes AND the panties  I think they come in a set." apparently if anything is on the same page they can come in a set (who knew right?).  After nap time we went back out to play until the parents went on the date. Oh and to get the full enjoyment out of these stories, let me explain the kids that I was babysitting a little bit - Rebekah- 7, bossy  probably the best behaved, but is very picky about everything being fair. Sam-5, rowdy, has an attitude problem sometimes, megga sweety, blue eyes that just have the most emotion packed into eyes possible.  Clara- 4, CRAZY red curly hair she has an interesting personality, very adorable in a weird crazy way, she is very energetic but also very snuggly.  Hazel- almost 2, cute white/blonde hair, massive blue eyes, she is ornery and cute all at the same time.

Greatness that happened while babysitting

#1. I went to get Hazel up from her nap I probably left her in there about fifteen minutes after I heard her start to wake up, so I go in there "la dee da dee da, where's my little cutie??? ummm Hazel there is pink all over you" Hazel then holds up a little tub of lip gloss (you know the kind that you kind of dig out of the little pot and then apply to your face) Hazel then proceeds to grin like she is the best thing ever and says "pretty!" riggghhhhttt she had purpley pink glitter all over her, well actually a tiny dot on her face, and then like an inch thick on her knees, elbows, diaper, and hands.  She had completely emptied the little container, but her blonde hair was lookin post nap cute, and her blue eyes were just so proud of herself it was great! Clara had come in with me to wake Hazel up and she says "hey, that's mine! Celllinnnnaaa! Now you made me mad at her!" WHAATTT?!?!?! I am just an innocent bystander, oh well I will take the blame.  

#2.  So I start to make dinner, the kids had started to watch Marry Popins right before lunch and I let them watch a little bit "just until I finish getting dinner ready". Clara's like "dinner always takes a REALLY long time, unless I'm hungry and don't want to watch a movie then you can hurry"

#3. We had barbecued pulled pork for dinner and I slapped some on the bread, put the paper plates on the table and called everyone to dinner, we start eating, it is delish, Clara manages to maul her sandwich, I look over and she has taken the pulled pork and turned it into a lovely little mound far from any of the rest of her food, she eats her bread and then asks for desert.  I tell her to eat some of her meat first, she looks at it then wrinkles up her nose and says "that looks like dog chicken, I don't eat dog chicken like EVER!" Ok well that's a little strange, you don't eat dog chicken, I have no clue what that is but ok. 

#4. I was getting Hazel ready for bed and I put her in the bath to kill time until bed time.  She is in there playing happily but every minute or so she yells out "MOMMY!" which I guess I am supposed to answer to one of the times I go in there, and unscrew something or something like that and I say "I'm Celina not Mommy" I know she knows my real name cause she was saying it earlier today. Clara walks up behind me and looks at me like I am a failure of a person "it's ok if she calls you mommy! She's just a baby!!!" She then walks off and glares at me from the couch. Okaayyyyy I shall remember that from now on, good thing Clara forgives fast by the time I got back she was ready to snuggle and watch the movie. 

#5. After Hazel's bath I went in there and rolled her up in a towel I was going to take her straight to her room and get her dressed. As I am on my way down the hall into the bedroom someone knocks on the door, and before I can say anything Rebekah jumps up and says "I think I might know those people I'll get it." I was like "NO! let me get the door." I sneak up to the door, with a naked baby and three kids sitting on the couch in their pjs just chilling, hoping it isn't a creeper.  I open the door and thankfully it is someone I know and trust WHEW! They were coming to pick up a tv, supposedly I was supposed to know they were coming, I didn't. I'm like "uh hi, the tvs in here.  Do you need help?" thankfully they didn't cause as soon as I offered my help I realized that I was still holding a naked half asleep baby, what was I gonna do? plop her on the floor and help them move the tv? uhhhh no! Oh well after I finished my mini heart attack I chilled and calmly showed them the TV and the chords and stuff all the while lugging hazel around. Right as they were leaving Clara decided to tell them her life's story, complete with a detailed description of every picture in the house.  I stopped her before she gave away social security numbers and phone numbers of EVERYONE. 

So that was the fun for tonight, actually there was WAY more fun than that, but I am megga tired and ready for bed so yeppers, I hope you enjoyed and I hope you can read around my horrible grammar. 

Celina!  

  

      

Easter poem

Jesus

He came to earth as a tiny child,

His mother looked down at Him and smiled.

He grew in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and men.

His mother not knowing he would latter pay the price for all our sin.

He talked to the people, both young and old.

God loves all of you, He retold.

Some listened, others scoffed,

Some agreed and some mocked.

Then one day to a cross He was nailed,

The people cried, the people wailed.

He was whipped, beaten and crucified.

He said, “It is finished” before he died.

Darkest day, darkest hour,

All light and love seemed to be devoured.

He was put in a tomb with soldiers at guard

It had been three days since the tomb had been barred.

Three women came softly to the tomb,

They brought rich spices and sweet perfume.

But the man who had died was not there!

The women searched, but could not find Him anywhere.

Suddenly, a glowing angel appeared!

He spoke, “Fear not! The man you seek is not here.”

 “He is risen, spread the word, He is alive”

The women could not believe their eyes.

Jesus loves you and me; Jesus died to set us free,

He is the key, to heaven.

written by Lydia Burnett