All Kinds of Randomness!!

Yes I know I haven't blogged in a while And I apologize! A few things have happend since my trip to Crown College. I Took a trip to Colorado to visit Timberline again. This was strickly a college visit. We didn't fix things. Well except for Chuck who can't help but fix things. I still love it out there! Had a great time meeting some of the new students. We did everything that we would do if we were students. The plane trip was a blast. there was about 11 of us. On the way back we had a blast. Hopefully I will be able to post some pictures.

I went to my first Junior/Senior Prom! I went with Dillon Fenn. I had an amazing time. Everyone liked my dress! It was also a sad time, Because Prom usally means school is almost over which means the seniors are about to Graduate which is happening this sunday. This year's prom theam was " Let the good times Roll" It was Vegas. The Decorations were really cool! It was held at the Red Coach Inn. They sit up bleachers and Chairs and a red carptet. Family and Friends sit in the chair as we "kids" pull up in our cars and walk the red carpet. Yea you feel pretty special. I had a great time with friends! After Prom was really fun too! There was alot of activites and then there was a Hypnoitist. It was fun watching people get hypnotized.

I also saw the orthodontist, Yea I need braces. It sucks. After the braces Im done with the dentist lol. Everytime I go there is always bad news lol.

Youth Group is over with. Yes this is sad. No more wednesday night fun. ACORN is still going strong though. We Actully got booked for a wedding on May 23rd. WE are actully Leading Worship in Church May 17th. We are super pumped. Angie Mackee got all of us shirts which look really awesome! Clarinda Acadamy wants us to come play one sunday. And another chruch wants us to play for them to! We also are planning to make a CD of our songs. Its all very exciting!

My dad Has ordered my Plane ticket. I am leaving May 25th and I shall be back on July 2nd. I wanted to Come back for Jake and Randi's wedding, and VBS. PLease pray for safty for me, and Strength.

School has been good. Choir is always fun. But we found out our Awesome Teacher Mr. Eldridge is leaving after this year. Which is a bummer for most of us. He has accepted a Principal Job In Sydney Iowa. He said he will still give me voice lessons which is amazing.

Speaking of Voice Lessons I went to small group contest this year. I sang " My Lovely Cilia" and " Caro Mio Bin" ( Italian) I got a 2 which is amazing! Last year I got a 3 So I was pretty excited!

Josh Broke his arm! Yea my brother is going to be the bicentinal Man.! He was riding his bike and the chain fell of and he flipped of the handalbars, and broke his wrist, they had to put a metal plate in his arm. Yea it was pretty Narley. Oh my little Brother!

The Attic Is pretty much finished. So we can finally start moving things up there! :D

So thats pretty much everything!!! I'll start trying to be better about blogging!!!!!

Talk to you later!

Crown College!!! WOOT

So here I am in the library/Computer lab of Crown College!! Connie and Dave asked if any kids wanted to go to the winter preview at Crown College, and Brandon Updegrove and I were the only ones interested! I promise you the more I visit here the more I fall in love with it. I fell so at home. Its only day 2 and I almost know my way around the college. I just have troubles with class rooms. Brandon and I have pretty much stuck together here. We have met a few people. Winter preview gives kids the chance to expierence College life. You get to stay in a dorm, attend a class, walk around the school. Go to the bookstore.The works! There were about 70 kids here last night. Alot of them had to leave today. I stayed with Brenna Tillman. I felt fortunet because I know her. Where Brandon Had to stay with a complete stranger. His name Is Mark. He pretty awesome. So is his wife who is pregnant. The Crown Team took all the winter preview students to Pizza Ranch last night, which by the way is way better then Red Oaks! Oh and the coffee shop is pretty much amazing! Along with the chaple. The chaple is right in the middle of the building. and the the building is shaped like a cross. The cafetaria is HUGE! and there are alot of class rooms! They have practice rooms for piano and instrament players. So yea its amazing.I cant wait to go to school here!!!! Brandon and I went to a class Called New Testement History. In the class your bible is the text book. Apperantly the first 3 weeks of school you are to read the whole new testement. Today he was talking about Matthew Chapter 5, verse 3. He started with verse 3 all the way to verse 17. It was pretty cool, to hear the disscusions that were going on. I will be excited to see my family but Yet I will be really bummed to leave knowing I have one more year left of highschool. I can't wait to go to college here. I am very excited.........

Pain,Sadness, and other Randomness

So...I know I havn't written in a while and I apologize. Sometimes I get to busy, and sometimes, I just don't know what to write. So here I go.

I am sure that most of you that read my blog read my mom's. So that means you know we are moving. I'm excited yet I'm not. I'm going to miss our house very much. Especially my bedroom and my bathroom! I'm going to miss the coming over to Grandma's and Grandpa's house just to visit. I'm going to miss having my friends over, and being loud. Even though they said we can have friends over, its not going to be the same. I'm excited for my mom though. Cause I know she really wants to go back to school, and stay home with us kids so she can teach us. So thats all I really have to say about the house thing.



In December, my mother ( yes Im using Mother. I tend to use it when Im not happy about something!:)) Schedualed Jordan and I to go to the dentist. Ok first off I HATE the dentist. I hate the fact that they put things in my mouth, and so on and so forth. Now Jordan was pumped up! I mean it was like Christmas for her. She wants braces! Yea I wonder how long she will want them after they are put on??!?? :)So we get there, and just to top everything off it was my least favorited dentist. Dr. A and I just dont get along well I think. Hes not the nicest person in the world. Well anywho, I'm lucky number one, so I go in they do some X-Rays, he looks at my teeth, nd proceeds to tell me whats going on. about 5 or 6 years ago, I got a root Canal done. Yea that was a bunch of joy. Dr. A tells me that its not HEALING RIGHT! Are you serious!?!? You couldn't have told me a while ago? So he gives my Grandpa the number to the oral surgons.( Score..Not) Jordan goes in, Comes out and announces I GET BRACES!!! Yea shes pumped. She bugged mom for a week about when the ortho appt. was. So mom called the Oral surgons and they set me up for Tuesday January 27th. Yea I'm not so excited.

We get to Omaha, and find the place. We sign in, and the nurse takes my mom and I to the back. Mean while im clutching to my MP3 player bag. If they are going to do surgery, Im listeing to music..End of story. They take me into this room that doesnt look like a dentist office room...Looks like a place in the doctors. They have a heart monitor, and everything..So Yea im freaking out a little. The nurse comes in and my mom and I had talked about Putting me to sleep while this is getting done. In fact my mom was joking how she could pay them to put enough gas in me to let me sleep longer.The nurse is just taking the notes she needs then says So are we putting you to sleep today? I say umm Yea! She then proceeds to tell me That they use an IV! Not a gas mask! An IV! Ok I don't know about you guys but I dont like needles in my hands and arms. So then another nurse comes in tells me she will mostlikly put it in my arm. At this point, I dont see the point in surgery.....The Dr. Comes in. And he is a really nice guy! I was happy to have a nice Dr. He talks to my mom. As he was the nurse starts putting heart monitor stuff on me. She tells me she will be monotering my heart and IV and stuff. Yea If I wasn't freaked out before I was then! So I put on my MP3 player Say good-bye to mom cause she has to leave. Then the other nurse grabbed my hand and said she would hold it. yay! It was truly a comfort at that moment. I dont care how old I am I was gonna hold her hand! they even gave me one of the thoese oxyogen things that go in your nose...The one nurse put the IV in my arm and within a few minutes I was out. I woke up and I wasnt very coherent. I saw the DR. With a string going in and out of my mouth, then I went back out for a minute. and I woke back up and he was gone, To me it went fast. They took out the IV, and the heart monitor stuff. I shut off my MP3 player. And my mom came in. I couldnt talk very well due to the fact I had Gauz in my mouth, and my mouth was numb. They gave me my meds, and my restrictions and I left. The cool thing I remember, was my mom and I prayed before everything happend. I remember I went to sleep with Believe by building 429 playing and I can remember christian music playing in my ear the whole time. I dont remember the names of the songs but I know it was playing. I woke up to it too. It was truly amazing, and I knew God, was there comforting me. He was the Older Lady, my nurse who took my hand. Telling me It was gonna be ok. He was there the whole time comforting me.

So its Thursday. My face is still swollen a little ( joy..not) My mouth still hurts...Im still taking meds. I feel tierd alot thanks for the Vidicon. I thank my mom, Grandparents and Jo. My mom for caring, and being a mommy, to her girl who is in pain. My Grandparents, for letting me take over their bedroom during they day!!! To sleep, watch TV. and go on the computer, all in one room! To Jo: who has done alot for me. Going over home and getting things, bringing me water, napkins, jello, ect. I love you guys!!!!!!!!

I PASSED!

So This year I began taking Drivers Ed. I was determined to get my license. In Iowa you are allowed to get your permit at the age of 14 years old. I waited till I was 16 because I was lazy. So when I turned 16 I decided it was probably time to get my permit and not to mention that everyone wanted me to. So I got it and I took Drivers Ed. Today was my last day of that class. I had to come today because I had a test I had to make up. Now This scared me alot because This test would tell me if I was going to pass this class or not. And If I didnt pass then I was going to have to take the class again. And that is someting I defienly did not want to do. So I just took the test again like 20 minutes ago. Mrs. Lamb called me about 10 minutes ago to ask me a question about it, then she counted all my little marks up and said I missed 7, yea my knees were shaking. She then figured everything out and told me that I passed!!! So Now I can finally go and get my lisence! I am so pumped I had to blog about it!

The Dark Stranger...................

Last year I was having alot of trouble with the boy thing. My sister Amber was always dating guys, where I never had a boyfriend. And this Really bothered me alot because I wanted a boyfriend to. SO one night I had an interesting dream and i thought I would share it with everyone This is how it went:

I was in our church. I was actully in the bright green sunday school room. I heard voices out side in the hall way so I poked my head out to see. Pastor Dave, and PB were talking with my mom and dad. And every one was dressed really nicly! SO I shut the door and looked around. And there was a beautiful white wedding dress in the corner. So In my head I was like ok whos getting married and why am I wearing sweats?? My mom and Amber came in. Amber was wearing a nice bridesmaid dress and mom mom was wearing a beautiful dress too. So I asked them what they were doing. Amber replied " we are helping you get dressed" I asked her for what. She then told me" For your wedding..Duh." I just sort of stared at her for a minute while took my shoes off. It was finally time to put the dress on. Amber fixed my vail and my mom handed me flowers. I walked out of the room, And my dad was standing there. He told me I looked beautiful and off we went to the sectuary. The doors opened and The theme was apperantly a toyland theamed one. (OK to be completly honest with you some day I want to have a winter wonderland wedding, So this was a toyland winter wonderland wedding) So I walked down the isle, and everyone I knew was there. I finally looked up to see the man I was about to marry and spend the rest of my life with. He turned around and his face was blackend out. But I continued to walk up to the isle and I smiled at him and got married. The girl that got married in the dream knew who she was marrying.

To me It felt like God saying to me, "Don't worry Samantha, I have the perfect guy for you to marry and I will bring him to you, just wait." That is a dream that happend a year ago and still I can remember it. I am excited to see who the faceless stranger is. And I will wait for him..........

Soap???.............

So two weeks ago at work I started to face like I was told to. So I'm facing in the soap isle. I'm in the laundry soaps now And I'm facing tide. So As I was pulling up the third thing of Tide My arm hit another thing of soap. I didn't bother to look down because I always bump in to things and they tend to fall. So when I got done with the Tide I looked down and Blue laundry soap was EVERYWHERE! I was like "OH No!" Not only did I have to clean that up but I got of in like 3 minutes and this was going to take forever to clean. So I go in the back and I asked Andy the produce guy what I should do! I was about to grab a mop and a bucket because honestly I wasn't thinking right! lol! Next thing I know Andy was like NO! And me not thinking that if I clean up soap with a mop and water..I'm going to have a bigger mess! So Andy explained this to me. So here was my next obvious question. " What do I use?' So what does Andy do? He hands me a roll of paper towels and says have fun. SO I grab the "caution wet" sign and head out towards the My soapy mess. And while I'm walking I'm thinking " Omygoodness...My coworkers aren't going to let this one go for a while!" Sure enough Aaron Black walks past then steps back to look. He looks at me and the floor. Starts to laugh while im explaining this. SO he walks off. Then some more kids walk by. Yea it wasnt so bad. I finally got it cleaned up then off home i went.

Last Thursday I went clothes shopping with my grandma. When we got back in town we stopped by Kmart, and went to look for stuff for my secret pal. On our way out of the store I got a phone call from Jordan. " Sam, I loaded the dishwasher, how do I run it?" I started to explain to her how to but she just wasn't getting it so I told her I was on my way home, I'll do it when i get there. Just don't touch anything. So I got home set the bags down and went to the dishwasher. I said wheres the soap tablet. She told me it was in the thing already. I said OK good. So I showed her how to run it. My cousin Mo and his wife and son came upstairs and we were talking when Jordan says " Sam! I think something is wrong with the dishwasher!' I turn around and soap is coming out everywhere! So I'm thinking OK what did i do wrong. Then I looked at Jordan.." Jordan what did u do?" She proceeded to tell me she put DAWN Dish soap in the thingy and the electoral tablet. I was like WHAT! She thought I had told her to do that. When in reality I told her to just wait till I got home. So I stop the dishwasher, and its filled with water! So I grab a cup, and start taking water out. Now its like 4:30 p.m. and in my head I was thinking moms going to freak. She gets home at 5. So I was like " this is going to take forever!" So I thought for a minute and a Idea hit my head. I called PB and asked him if he had a mop I could borrow. So Of course I had to tell him! So he started laughing, and sent Kaleb over with a mop. So Kaleb comes over with the mop. Starts laughing. ( by the way Mo and Jen left)So I tell Kaleb to help He takes towles and soaks the water up and then I take the mop and suck it up. So we got all the water cleared out at 4:56 p.m. YES! So Kaleb went home and took his mop and Jordan and I sat at the dinning room table pretending to be busy. 5:00 hits. Mom comes home and says. " wow the floor looks really clean did u mop it?" we tell her no. she talks with us for a minute then says "wow it does really look clean." OK so at this point I can't hold it in any longer. So I let the whole story spill out and she starts laughing. And tells me PB he called her and told her the story. She knew the whole time!!!!!!!!!!! So anyway I thought I would share about my soapy time with you guys...........

A.C.O.R.N.

So A.C.O.R.N Finally preformed last month. We started on Wednesday night for youth group and then we were able to do so on that Sunday! It was AMAZING!!!!! Julie Showalter actually wants us to lead worship every 5th sunday after the adult worship team! I am so excited! We are learning new songs alot and its all coming together well. And of course like all bands we have our days were we just want to rip each others heads off! Take for instance Saturday night. We all decided to have practice Saturday at 4:00 p.m. We then changed it because Caleb had to work so we moved it to 5:00p.m. Well then Brandon our bass guitarist decided that he may not be able to go because he wanted to go golfing! He finally decided that this was just a little more important since we were learning 3 new songs and really need him there since he has the guitars! Well that day Brandon, Miles, Travis, Caleb, and Josh ( basically the band except Victoria and I) Had marching band in Clarinda. It was a All day event, they got up at 5:00 a.m. and went to the school then went to Clarinda,then they got back, relaxed a little except for Caleb who had to go to work, then at 5:00 they came to the church. So they are all a little grumpy. And not to mention Victoria couldn't come because she lives about 45 minutes away! Oh and just to put the icing on the cake Caleb couldn't play the jimbae because it was locked in the office and no one had keys! So we decided to get started. Have I mentioned how much I love Travis and Josh?? I do! But on Saturday I was ready to smack both of them, I understand they were both tired but trying to get them to play was like pulling teeth! Then I started to get really irritated because They had time to relax, Unlike Caleb who had to be at work at 2:00 p.m. so he went straight from Clarinda, to work, to Band practice. No breaks. And believe it or not Caleb was fine with it. he didn't complain he just did his thing.by 6:00 everyone was getting on each others nerves. so my mom decided to feed us. especially the boys. At this time I really missed Victoria because being around a bunch of tired, hungry boys isn't fun! So my mom ordered pizza. so we went and got that came back and fed everyone. then it was time for practice. Then you could feel everything going wrong. I was getting irritated because Miles wasn't using his manners very well in fact if thought he was being bossy. I was also irritated because Travis and Josh were being irritating. Miles was irritated because Josh was playing his guitar when Miles was trying to give out instructions. And because Caleb and Josh wouldn't stop talking and Caleb wouldn't stop playing piano. Brandon was irritated because he wanted to Just get everything done so he could go home. Caleb was irritated because Miles was getting mad at him. Josh was getting mad because everyone else was yelling at him to stop the guitar playing. Miles and I were both irritated because we were trying how to figure out how to sing one of the songs and it wasn't going well. And Travis was just sitting at the drums watching us all lol. At the end of practice and I was driving home I started to think , I had to reason to be irritated at Miles. He is the leader of our band, and he was tired, and he was getting sick of trying to talk and having people play there instruments or talk over him so he couldn't give out proper instructions. Now could he use his please and thank yous? yes! And I will tell him that next time in a calm tone. Because snapping at each other isn't helping us out at all. Now Josh and Travis..I had a reason to be irritated with. Because it was getting annoying with all the complaining. And Josh needs to learn that when one of us is talking NO INSTRUMENTS NEED TO BE PLAYING! Yea we tell him this every time we practice. I hope next practice will go way better. One way I can contribute is by no getting snappy, and try to work things out in a calm matter.... other then that our band rocks! :)

Here is a song called "Hosanna" Its by Hillsong United. We want to play this song soon! If you get a chance to listen to it I recommend it!


~Hosanna~


I see the king of glory
Coming on the clouds with fire
The whole earth shakes
The whole earth shakes

Yeeeah

I see his love and mercy
Washing over all our sin
The people sing
The people sing

[Chorus]
Hosanna
Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest [x2]

I see a generation
Rising up to take their place
With selfless faith
With selfless faith

I see a near revival
Stirring as we pray and seek
We're on our knees
We're on our knees

[Chorus]

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you have loved me

Break my heart from what breaks yours
Everything I am for your kingdoms cause
As I go from nothing to
Eternity

[Chorus x2]

Hosanna in the highest