Hello everyone!
First off I hope everyone has had a great Thanksgiving spending it with family and friends! Did anyone go shopping on black friday? Well I am not a fan of shopping at all and I went shopping on thursday night the night before black friday! I think its fair for me to say NEVER AGAIN! People get very crazy when it comes to shopping sales! It even leads people to stand outside in the cold for hours just waiting for the store to open! But anyways so i did just that I stood in line at a store outside in the cold! We finally got in and my mom and I saw this lady that was flipping out at one of the managers because she couldn't get way she wanted. My mom though being the loving and amazing women she is tapped that lady on the shoulder and told her to lighten up. The lady turned and looked at my mom with these evil eyes. She told my mom to shut up. I about smack that lady across the face. Oh also forgot to say the lady had a cane as well but man I wanted to say to her to never talk to my mom like that ever again! So then we continued our shopping didn't get home till at least 10:30 Don't get me wrong it was fun but waiting sure makes your patience run low. But it was a great way to spend some quality time with my mom. :) So that is what I did and over this thanksgiving holiday I get to write over 100 things I am thankful for the challenge from my teachers is to get over a thousand! How many think I can beat the challenge? So my next question is who's ready for the Christmas holiday? I tried to get all my christmas shopping done before black friday, that didn't happen though! Today my mom and I are decorating the christmas tree! Tell me how you will be sending your christmas holiday. I got to go help my mom decorate the tree now but I hope you all have a fun-filled safe week! Keep Christ first!
Blessings to all
Short Stuff
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Friday, November 16, 2012
Happy Thanksgiving Week!
Hello Everyone I hope everyone had a great week of work or school! This week has been full of fun! This tuesday I had school and then I got to go to church to help my brother with production stuff. Wednesday I had another great day of learning! That night I headed to youth group and I got to hear FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) from Iowa State talk to us about prayer and just how they got into that program at Iowa State and how God is working through them. So that was pretty cool!
Thursday I had another day of school and then I had a BLAST staying up till midnight waiting for the last saga of TWILIGHT BREAKING DAWN PART 2! It was an awesome movie and then Friday had school and then came home and now getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday! What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving! I am thankful for my family because they make my life a fun filled adventure! I am also thankful for my church family Hope Ankeny! They are such a blessing to me! I am so glad to call them my church! So Overall things are going well for me!
I would like to ask my followers if you know or have any advice on how I can improve my blog please don't hesitate to leave feedback!
So last but not least I hope everyone has a fun filled Thanksgiving holiday!
Blessings to all,
Short Stuff
Thursday I had another day of school and then I had a BLAST staying up till midnight waiting for the last saga of TWILIGHT BREAKING DAWN PART 2! It was an awesome movie and then Friday had school and then came home and now getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday! What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving! I am thankful for my family because they make my life a fun filled adventure! I am also thankful for my church family Hope Ankeny! They are such a blessing to me! I am so glad to call them my church! So Overall things are going well for me!
I would like to ask my followers if you know or have any advice on how I can improve my blog please don't hesitate to leave feedback!
So last but not least I hope everyone has a fun filled Thanksgiving holiday!
Blessings to all,
Short Stuff
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Short Stuff has a new church family
Good morning everyone!
I usually don't update my blog in the morning but I felt like it so I am writing a new blog update.
Well as a shared before I recently moved to Ankeny and I now attend a different church and I am homeschooled! Well today I want to share with you a little story. It's my story!
So I was born in Guatemala and I was adopted at eighteen months by the most amazing people ever! My parents. So they did all the paperwork and then after that process I went to my new home in Iowa. My other sister who was also adopted from Guatemala got adopted before me so I came later. But anyways I lived in Newton for a while and then we moved to Pella. I went to a public school for one year I loved it. Then my parents wanted me to have a Christian education. So I went to Pella Christian grade school. I graduated from there after eighth grade. Well then I moved up to high school and boy that was a change. So I went thru my freshman year and sophomore year at Pella Christian high school! Then my junior year changed. I did do part of my junior year at Pella Christian but then after Christmas break I didn't go back and I will tell you why. One day my oldest sister asked me if I wanted to be homeschooled. I didn't have an answer for her at the time and I thought about it and I later came to the conclusion that this would be a good thing for me. So after Christmas break I started going up to her place and being homeschooled. I have really enjoyed it and the thing I LOVE about it is its set at a pace that I can grasp the learning and actually get the lessons. It's great! Pella Christian was a school that I didn't really connect to. It was hard for me academically and socially. But I am going to leave it at that because if I share those stories you will be read at least a three page blog :). But anyways so then later into my homeschooling my parents start looking at houses and when I found that out I was thinking "hey I love homeschooling but I also love Pella don't make me leave my town of Pella" but we ended up leaving. We packed everything up and we sold our house and we moved to Ankeny. First couple of weeks I can honestly say we're hard. Because I wanted Pella back. I wanted things to be the way they used to be. I had a system going in Pella I would get up go to school come home and drive my golf cart for a while and then do homework and have a little family time and go to bed. That was my system. I liked that system. Actually I loved that system. But there came some unhealthy things to that system as well. When I was still going to Pella Christian high every Friday night my peers would be doing something. But I did not do anything on Friday nights so instead of being with my so called friends at the time I spent most of my Friday nights driving my golfcart all night long. I loved every minute but I look back now and it just wasn't healthy. I mean kids that age are usually hanging with friends but I was hanging out with my golfcart. To me that golfcart was not just a golfcart...it was my friend. That might sound weird but that's how I look at it. So when we moved tons of questions were going through my mind and here are the questions I asked myself.
Is driving in ankeny going to be hard?
What church would I attend?
Is friends going to be hard to find or make?
And what youth group would I go to?
Those are the questions I asked myself and here is what God answered
Is driving in Ankeny going to be hard? Yes, but you will learn in time.
What Church would I attend? Help out with Vaction bible school and volunteer at Lutheran church of Hope ankeny. If you like it then become a member.
Are friends going to be hard to find or make? I am your forever friend! talk to people at Hope and you will be blessed.
What youth group would I attend? Ignition at Hope ankeny!
So those answers I did not just make up I believe that God said that to me! So I did just that. And I learned how to drive in ankeny and friends were right there at Hope I didn't have to look far! Finally with tons of praying and hard thinking I have came to the conclusion that Hope Ankeny will be my new Church family! I attend there youth group every Wednesday night! It's a lot of fun! Last night I went to the new membership class for Hope and I am now an official member of Hope Ankeny! God is good all the time! That is something I say to myself all the time! Even though at the beginning I was stubborn and didnt want to move to Ankeny God knew that it had to happen! So overall I am very excited to be a new member of Hope and I can't wait to see what God has in store for me!
I hope you enjoy reading my story! Feel free to leave a comment! I love feedback!
May you be blessed throughout this week!
Blessings to all
Short Stuff
I usually don't update my blog in the morning but I felt like it so I am writing a new blog update.
Well as a shared before I recently moved to Ankeny and I now attend a different church and I am homeschooled! Well today I want to share with you a little story. It's my story!
So I was born in Guatemala and I was adopted at eighteen months by the most amazing people ever! My parents. So they did all the paperwork and then after that process I went to my new home in Iowa. My other sister who was also adopted from Guatemala got adopted before me so I came later. But anyways I lived in Newton for a while and then we moved to Pella. I went to a public school for one year I loved it. Then my parents wanted me to have a Christian education. So I went to Pella Christian grade school. I graduated from there after eighth grade. Well then I moved up to high school and boy that was a change. So I went thru my freshman year and sophomore year at Pella Christian high school! Then my junior year changed. I did do part of my junior year at Pella Christian but then after Christmas break I didn't go back and I will tell you why. One day my oldest sister asked me if I wanted to be homeschooled. I didn't have an answer for her at the time and I thought about it and I later came to the conclusion that this would be a good thing for me. So after Christmas break I started going up to her place and being homeschooled. I have really enjoyed it and the thing I LOVE about it is its set at a pace that I can grasp the learning and actually get the lessons. It's great! Pella Christian was a school that I didn't really connect to. It was hard for me academically and socially. But I am going to leave it at that because if I share those stories you will be read at least a three page blog :). But anyways so then later into my homeschooling my parents start looking at houses and when I found that out I was thinking "hey I love homeschooling but I also love Pella don't make me leave my town of Pella" but we ended up leaving. We packed everything up and we sold our house and we moved to Ankeny. First couple of weeks I can honestly say we're hard. Because I wanted Pella back. I wanted things to be the way they used to be. I had a system going in Pella I would get up go to school come home and drive my golf cart for a while and then do homework and have a little family time and go to bed. That was my system. I liked that system. Actually I loved that system. But there came some unhealthy things to that system as well. When I was still going to Pella Christian high every Friday night my peers would be doing something. But I did not do anything on Friday nights so instead of being with my so called friends at the time I spent most of my Friday nights driving my golfcart all night long. I loved every minute but I look back now and it just wasn't healthy. I mean kids that age are usually hanging with friends but I was hanging out with my golfcart. To me that golfcart was not just a golfcart...it was my friend. That might sound weird but that's how I look at it. So when we moved tons of questions were going through my mind and here are the questions I asked myself.
Is driving in ankeny going to be hard?
What church would I attend?
Is friends going to be hard to find or make?
And what youth group would I go to?
Those are the questions I asked myself and here is what God answered
Is driving in Ankeny going to be hard? Yes, but you will learn in time.
What Church would I attend? Help out with Vaction bible school and volunteer at Lutheran church of Hope ankeny. If you like it then become a member.
Are friends going to be hard to find or make? I am your forever friend! talk to people at Hope and you will be blessed.
What youth group would I attend? Ignition at Hope ankeny!
So those answers I did not just make up I believe that God said that to me! So I did just that. And I learned how to drive in ankeny and friends were right there at Hope I didn't have to look far! Finally with tons of praying and hard thinking I have came to the conclusion that Hope Ankeny will be my new Church family! I attend there youth group every Wednesday night! It's a lot of fun! Last night I went to the new membership class for Hope and I am now an official member of Hope Ankeny! God is good all the time! That is something I say to myself all the time! Even though at the beginning I was stubborn and didnt want to move to Ankeny God knew that it had to happen! So overall I am very excited to be a new member of Hope and I can't wait to see what God has in store for me!
I hope you enjoy reading my story! Feel free to leave a comment! I love feedback!
May you be blessed throughout this week!
Blessings to all
Short Stuff
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Update from Short Stuff!
Hello everyone! I hope you have had a great week!
I have been having a great couple of weeks. I am a senior and I have school Tuesday till Friday and for me I just learn different things. This past week I finished reading a book called Diary of a young girl it was written by Anne Frank it in this book she talks about how life is for her when she is in hiding. This book was written during the time of the holocaust. So I read that book and now these past couple weeks I also learned a lot about presidential elections. (something I don't really care to learn about) but it was interesting to see what Romney and Obama believe in. I also am learning about budgeting and how to give 10% of my money and save 70% and spend 20%. That is something I enjoy learning. I also have a tech class which is my all time favorite! I am right now learning about HTML and how to build web pages.
So thats school for me. I also work part time in the nursery and the production team which is fun. So overall the weeks are sometimes busy but can sometimes go slow. My favorite saying is YOLO which stands for you only live once. So its just fun to live everyday and see what comes of it. So thats what has been going on with me. So that is my blog update for you this weekend.
I hope you enjoy reading my blog and I would love to hear back from my followers so feel free to leave a comment :) Thanks so much and have a blessed weekend
Sincerely yours,
Short Stuff
P.S I am unable to get those pictures from my UNI trip up. Sorry for the inconvenience!
I have been having a great couple of weeks. I am a senior and I have school Tuesday till Friday and for me I just learn different things. This past week I finished reading a book called Diary of a young girl it was written by Anne Frank it in this book she talks about how life is for her when she is in hiding. This book was written during the time of the holocaust. So I read that book and now these past couple weeks I also learned a lot about presidential elections. (something I don't really care to learn about) but it was interesting to see what Romney and Obama believe in. I also am learning about budgeting and how to give 10% of my money and save 70% and spend 20%. That is something I enjoy learning. I also have a tech class which is my all time favorite! I am right now learning about HTML and how to build web pages.
So thats school for me. I also work part time in the nursery and the production team which is fun. So overall the weeks are sometimes busy but can sometimes go slow. My favorite saying is YOLO which stands for you only live once. So its just fun to live everyday and see what comes of it. So thats what has been going on with me. So that is my blog update for you this weekend.
I hope you enjoy reading my blog and I would love to hear back from my followers so feel free to leave a comment :) Thanks so much and have a blessed weekend
Sincerely yours,
Short Stuff
P.S I am unable to get those pictures from my UNI trip up. Sorry for the inconvenience!
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