Lizardbit's Blog of Happenings: 2012

Thursday, November 1, 2012

October

Yesterday our church had Trunk-or-Treat. It was really fun! I dressed up as a taco! Five of my friends were Taco Bell hot sauce packets! It was awesome :) I took the PSAT in October, I thought it went pretty well. I'm glad it's over though! haha :) Our church youth group has started a new ministry called Dance Outreach. I think it's going to be awesome. We have two proffesional dance instructors who attend our church and they agreed to teach a two hour session once a month to our youth group and any friends we want to bring. I can't wait until the next one! I am now an official member of the worship team at my church. My dad is the worship leader and has been trying to get me to get on the team for a while. I started singing with them because of my friend who also sings. She convinced me to sing with her and it turned out to be not as bad as I thought it would be. I won't sing without her though! haha :) I went to the Rescue Conference 2012 last month. It was amazing! Francis Chan was one of the speakers and was very inspirational. Josh Shipp was another speaker and was inspirational and hilarious! The worship was amazing! I loved it! There was one "act" that performed called The Petting Zoo Band, and they were amazing! They drummed on a pile of junk and it sounded so cool! You should look them up! haha :) A guy that I knew when I was little played a song with the worship band. It's called "The Stand" by Hillsong United (or Kristian Stanfill), but he sang it in spanish! It was awesome, and so powerful. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that he's going to be the worship leader at our church's highschool winter camp this year! :) I can't wait!

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Last Saturday we made creampuffs at my Grandma's house. They were so delicious! :) And pretty I might add. haha :)

Ttyl and something about an alligator :)

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Exciting Things! :)

I haven't written in so long! Well, no better time to start than now :) I went to Hume Lake Christian Camp at the end of July. It was the best week of my life!!! The people that went with our youth group were incredible. Stronger friendships were formed and I got to know everyone better. The girls in our cabin were so nice! I love them so much! :) It was the first time that they really got to see me. I think they like the real me haha :)
               I went to week 6. Chris Brown was the speaker. He presented the Bible as a movie, and made it so much more interesting. I'd never heard the story of Moses and the Israelites quite like that. One of his main points was "The scariest thing I know about God is that, given enough time, He'll give you exactly what you want." I'm so glad I got to go to Hume this year. It is Megan "Fate" Marshman's last year in Ponderosa. I can't imagine not being able to have her as spirit girl. She is so amazing and unique and fun! She did a seminar called "Life." She talked about how to live each day right, following Jesus, and just not caring about what other people think of you. She shared a story about how she and her friend had/have "Tuesdays with Jesus," where they spend all of Tuesday pretending that Jesus is really with them. They would open the door for Him and save a seat for Him and even buy Him food. Then she said that one day, she forgot Jesus. She started driving to meet her friend and was about 7 minutes away when she remembered. So she turned around, drove back home, opened the door for Jesus and apologized for forgetting Him. It was so funny but teaches a good lesson about not forgetting God and Jesus, and not caring about what others think. Her main analogy was a cup. A cup for love and happiness. She talked about how if you try to fill up your cup with other people's approval and love, then it won't last and you'll feel empty very soon and won't be able to splash your love on others effectively. However, if you fill up your cup with the love and approval of God, your cup will never run out and you will always have enough to overflow onto others. She shared the way she prays. It is so powerful. She puts out her hands, palms up, and just lets everything go. She apologizes to God and lets everything that keeps her from being fully with Him. Then she asks Him to fill her up with His love so that she can overflow on others. At the end of her seminar, Megan asked us all to pray with her like that. I was crying. I'm so thankful to God for letting me be at Hume this year, so that I could hear that seminar.
               On two nights, our youth group did swing dancing in the parking lot. It was so much fun! I didn't think I'd like it so much, but I did!!! I danced with three guys multiple times. For someone whose shy, like me, I think that's pretty good! haha :) On Fancy Friday, we took some fun pictures. Two tall girls from youth group told me to put my arms around their shoulders. Little did I know that they were going to stand up, and my feet were left dangling about a foot off the ground! haha :) Another one was a group picture and two of the tall guys stood in front of everyone, so some people were looking around them, some over them, and I stuck my head inbetween them! haha :) Hume was so fun, I wish I never had to leave! Well, there's always next year! :)
               Last week, my aunt, uncle, and cousin came to visit! We had so much fun with them. We hadn't seen them in such a long time. I can't believe my cousin is 20 now! On Thursday, we went to the Tech Museum. My cousin really loves astronomy so we spent alot of time looking at those exhibits. We saw the Imax movie "To the Arctic." I enjoyed it. On Friday we went to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and Seascape beach. My cousin went on the rollercoasters with me because we were the only two who wanted to ride all of them. It was so fun! I rarely get to ride rollercoasters. After the boardwalk, we went to Seascape. As we were walking down to the beach, a golfcart of teenage girls was driving up. They saw my cousin and started yelling "Hey! Guy in the green hat! You're really cute!" It was kinda embarassing but also really funny. haha :) On Saturday, we spent the day in San Francisco. We went to the botanical gardens and Lombard Street. There was so much traffic! Half of our day there was spent driving! We went to Pier 39 for dinner and then we had to drop them off at the airport. Their stay was short but so much fun! We get to see them again in December, for Christmas in Tennessee! I'm really looking forward to that! Well, that's pretty much all the really exciting things that have happened to me since last time I posted, save school starting. Hopefully it won't be so long before I post again! :) Ttyl!

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Last night I went to my first R2R! It was so fun! It was grad night and there were black-lights and smoke machines! I really want to start going regularly :) I was surprised at how many people there remembered me. People usually don't... I saw "Tim" there too. (I was hoping to) (; There was a fire for roasting marshmallows and making smores :) They also destroyed an old airhockey table with a baseball bat! :) I cannot wait 'til next Monday! Thank you so much Michaela for taking me! :)

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Today was the Ladies' Tea at church. It was really fun. The theme of our table was Hawaiian. Everyone at our table was really nice. Last night, was the one year anniversary of Parents' Night Out. PNO is a sort of babysitting service that the teen girls of our church do on one Friday each month. I was able to work with the kids and in the nursery. It was great. :)

Sunday, June 3, 2012

It's been a while since I wrote last. Also, I apologize for the doubles from polyvore. I'm still getting the hang of that :/ Anyway, we had a chili cookoff at church today! It was so fun! It was a fundraiser for Hume Lake. We raised $757! I'm out for summer. I got out May 18th. I'm so relieved that I don't have to worry about schoolwork anymore, but now I don't know what to do! haha :) We went camping for Memorial Day weekend. It was really fun :) We went with some old friends and had a great time. It was a bit colder than we had anticipated however, and we weren't able to take the boat out on the lake (that we were camping at) :/ I got my hair cut last Friday! It was a big deal because I donated it to Locks of Love. :) I got about 11 inches taken off! My hair is now at my chin, whereas before, it was about an inch above my waist. Last month we had another fundraiser for Hume. It was a lip-sync contest. Some of the acts were amazing! The winners definately deserved it! :) After the contest there was a Sleepsies, which is when the highschoolers from youth group sleep over at the church. We went to see The Avengers! I really liked it! :) We had so much fun that day! :) Well, that's all the important and exciting events that I can think of right now. TTYL :)