CONCERTS GALORE!!

so this weekend i went to 2 concerts. Friday night i went to Starfest with John Mayer and One Republic. i got to go back stage and meet One Republic which was great!! the concert it self was very different. like whenever you think of a concert you think of like high energy and everyone jumping up and down and all that stuff but this one was very chill and relaxing which was VERY nice. and another thing that made the concert interesting was the fact that it was hosted by Budweiser! so yeah needless to say we saw some people doing some really stupid things! but then Saturday night my family and Hollie and Katie went to go see Craig Morgan. despite the fact that there were cock roaches crawling around everywhere, i had a blast!! :) we are all now official members of the redneck yacht club!! ha ha!! Craig was a REALLY good singer and i almost cried when he played my mom and dads song!! its called tough and all of you men out there really need to go and listen to it. my dad played it for my mom on their anniversary and now every time she or i hear it we almost break down!


plans for labor day included......writing my speech, finishing projects, and cleaning the house!! wohoo!!! it wasn't so bad though. I got sleep in until 9:00!!! yay!!! lol i got a lot of work done too so all together it was a great labor day! ok im going to leave you with something to anticipate...on Wednesday i have my first uniform day in ROTC. so yes i will be wearing my all blue air force uniform. pictures will come up immediately following school!! haha!! i hope everyone is having a great week!!

Morgan, me and Megan at Starfest!

Backstage what what!!

Craig Morgan

much needed update...

ok so these past few weeks have been really crazy so sorry I haven't been updating. but anyways was has happened over the past week...lets see...um homework and then there was more homework oh yeah i forgot also more homework!! haha! yeah the shock of school setting in and im getting used to all of the homework. but besides homework this past weekend I won tickets to Starfest with John Mayer and One Republic so that is on Friday and im TOTALLY STOKED about it. On Sunday I had my cousins wedding shower which was fun. it was really nice to see my grandparents and some older friends who have known me since I was itty bity. and then I cannot forget Saturday. last year my friend Jarrod took me to this festival called Reveal at a church near his house. I enjoyed it a lot and it turns out that they had it again this year. so I decided to get a bunch of people together and go to it. Erin, Juan, Phillip, Meegan, Austin, Stephen and I all road over there together and we had sooo much fun! The festival was really cool because they had very diverse set of performers. First was the punk band called The Rise Of Science. These guys were really great and really liked their music. Up next was A scream-o band called Of Tara. They were very different but also very good. Then there was a rap group that came up which was HOPPIN!! :) Then the best performer of the whole night and my favorite band, yes even more than the Jonas Brothers, Ocean Is Theory came and played all of the songs from their EP. I was soo happy to finally hear them live and they put on an AMAZING show!! like im not even kidding! I finally got to meet the guys after months of chat on Myspace. So yeah I had a great weekend and this Tuesday topped it all off by getting to go to my favorite restaurant, Kaysons, with my family. Here are some pics from the weekend!

My cousin Elizabeth and my Aunt Marcia at the wedding shower.

Ocean Is Theory

Me and Josh from Ocean is Theory

The Rise of Science

!!!ONE REPUBLIC!!!

yes i realize that i haven't blogged lately but that's because i haven't had much to blog about......but that all just changed!! so i'm doing my homework and listening to the radio. i was listening to the top twenty countdown on star 94 and i always right down the top five and try to to call in and when the prize that they give out every night....well guess what...it all payed off!! i just won tickets to the SOLD OUT Starfest show with John Mayer and One Republic but that's not it...i also got backstage passes!!! ahhh!!!! i'm totally freaking out right now so i thought i would blog about it!! haha!! more to come later now its bed time...if i can even sleep!! :)

Live Like We're Alive

so i was looking at some of my favorite bands page's just checking up and i saw that this really cool band called Nevertheless has a song out called Live Like We're Alive and i thought it was really cool. so here are the lyrics.

They say we can't make it through too young; don't know what to do. This life is much too hard for you and me. They say we're living in our dreams black, white, and nothing in between. This world is never as it seems to be. But they don't want this and they don't feel this but this was never theirs at all! So here I stand. I'm ready for anything. Just a man, but I'm giving everything. We're here only for a second and then we're gone when we least expect it. So do more than survive. Let's live like we're alive! They say, Stay inside the lines we've drawn and you will be just fine. Don't take chances with your life. C'mon. But they don't want this, and they don't feel this, but this was never theirs at all! So here I stand. I'm ready for anything. Just a man, but I'm giving everything. We're here only for a second and then we're gone when we least expect it. So do more than survive. Let's live like we're alive! This world, we've gotta let it go. This life is out of our control. So here I stand. I'm ready for anything. Just a man, but I'm giving everything. We're here only for a second and then we're gone when we least expect it. So do more than survive. Let's live like we're alive!

so God really spoke to me through this song and I've been going through a season of change as my pastor would call it but God has really put it on my heart to go out and get the word out about him. God has revealed to me in my walk with Him lately that there is a totally different life you get when you become a christian. its more than just a set of rules and a religion, it's a relationship with the greatest friend you could possibly have. you've got to die to yourself and let him live through you and when this happens is when you can really experience life how God intended it to be. not just living until you die. I've become passionate about getting the message out that life is not just about living on this earth and hoping that your good enough to make it to heaven and then that's it. God has put each and everyone of us on this hearth for a divine purpose and i believe that we cannot experience that life in Him until we totally and completely die to ourselves. so i thought that this song really described my passion really well. (you can go and check out Nevertheless by clicking here )

First Day of School

So today was the first day of school and you're not going to believe what happened. it will definitely be a day to remember. it started in lunch when i noticed that my knuckles where gray. i didn't pay much attention to it and thought that it was just from the pencil. so the day went on and then while i was in 6th period i just happened to look down at my hands and they where BLUE! i had to look twice but again i saw the same blue-ish gray color on my fingers. i turned to my friends and asked if i was the only one that was seeing this and they all saw it 2. so i grabbed my sanitizer out of my purse and tried to wash it off but it wouldn't go away. i kept examining it and once it started getting worse i decided to take myself up to the nurse and see what was going wrong...well guess what..,.they don't have nurses in high school!! ha! so i went up the administration office and showed the ladies at the desk. they were shocked. one of the ladies wouldn't take her eyes off of it. but they immediately called my mom and told her what was going on and that she needing to get down to the school to pick me up immediately. so while my mom was on her way to the school she called my pediatrician and asked him if it was anything we needed to be concerned about and he said that i need to get to an urgent care facility ASAP. so thank God there was an emergency room right down the road from the school so we drove down there and saw the doctor within minutes. ok so by this time i was totally freaking out!! we go into the cold doctors office and they checked my blood pressure a bunch of times and all of that junk and then the doctor came over and told me that there were many very rare things that this could be. and he described them all but he then said what he thought it was was Raynaud's Phenomenon. and that's where your blood vessels experience an abnormal spasm when they are exposed to cold or hot temperatures. i explained to him that although the school was very very cold that when i had my jacket on, i was fine. but he said that even when i had my jacket on and i felt warm that my hands were still being exposed to the cold temperature and that was what was causing my blood vessels to spaz and the discoloration. but he said that there was no need to run any blood tests just yet but that if an discoloration on my lips or face occurred that i needed to head to the hospital. he also said that if it continues to do this that i need to go and get some blood tests because it might be an early sign of Lupus Disease or Rheumatoid Arthritis so definitely keep me in your prayers if you don't mind. the funny thing about this whole thing is that i haven't felt any pain the whole time its just been a lot of nerves and stress but thank god no pain. so needless to say my first day of freshman year will never be forgotten. but other than the whole episode i really enjoyed the classes that i got to go to and I'm really excited about the rest of the year!!