Life in Pictures: November

Here are some pictures from the last few weeks!

With Ariane at Opryland!! 

Hot tea in a happy Christmas mug :)

Love this girl!!

Artsy food pic?

Take two

Cheesy Sweater Day!!

Cheesy Sweater Day!! (Yes I did wear that little gem to school... senior year no regrets right?! :)

ESL Certificate Ceremony! So proud of all of the students!

Lighting of the Green 

Factory chair with my little sisters!!

Finished an application!

Lighting of the Green

Mom!

Love these girls!! 

Lunch with my favorite guy! 

mmm... Peppermint mocha freeze at the Well!

Cute girls!

Lunch with my favorite guy!

The extent of my Settler skillz...

Love this! PC: Julia

Classic Opryland shot

Love this girl!!

Sometimes mysterious pictures show up on Julia's instagram... *cough*

The Well!

Cute girls!

Look at the fun Thanksgiving Eve swim practice we did :) Thanks Coach Lezlae!! My favorite was definitely the pumpkin toss :)

Thankful- A bit behind... :)

Today, I am thankful for:

-a wonderful Thanksgiving
-a week off from both schools
-Darling Ariane, who came to stay with us for the week! We are missing her!
-Starbucks on chilly days
-two more weeks of classes (very bittersweet)
-a great semester
-the privilege to go shadow an amazing Spanish interpreter at Siloam Health Clinic.
-being very blessed during my times there (post coming soon)
-Pandora Christmas radios
-warm weather, especially when our upstairs heat goes out...
-having much-needed hang out time with several friends over break!
-Lighting of the Green with the fam
-chat and adventure time with Julia, Rachel, and Sarah
-that God is in control at all times and is using current situations for my good! (Romans 8:28)

Coming soon... Jenny's senior fall shoot, Siloam, and recent pictures!

Love,

Lil

Thankful- November 19

Today, I am thankful for:

-beautiful weather
-not having to go to classes this morning
-feeling good after a long practice
-going to the Well with Dad, Julia, and Cara
-getting to see a friend I haven't seen in a long time!
-the Makos

One Thousand Gifts:: Take Twenty-Seven

854-900

854. my dear family! I love you!!

855. family outings

856. breakfast or lunch with Dad (he takes each girl out for lunch or breakfast on Saturdays!)

857. homeschooling

858. the Academy

859. amazing teachers who love us and want us to succeed

860. our wonderful Academy family

861. Thursdays

862. swing dances

863. much-needed chat time with dear friends

864. physics labs

865. long walk with Dad on Thanksgiving

866. wonderful Thanksgiving with friends and family

867. midnight shopping with my favorite shopping buddy- Mom!

868. Black Friday shopping

869. my study hall clean-up crew

870. their willingness to get down on their hands and knees and scrub the muddy floor with me

871. cheerful and hard workers

872. class discussions

873. laughing all day

874. spanish studying with a sweet new friend

875. my spanish class!

876. last test before the spanish final= done!

877. "So where do you go to school?" "Umm... uhh actually I'm homeschooled..." and then the person tells me a ton of homeschoolers we both know

878. trying to explain the whole dual enrollment thing :)

879. an awesome Thanksgiving break

880. Christmas music!

881. Pandora

882. playing Christmas carols on the piano

883. the Christmas Spectacular tomorrow!

884. my Mako girlies

885. our awesome lane

886. FIST BUMP

887. lots of fun and laughter amidst hard practices

888. interviewing a sweet neighbor for a Spanish assignment
889. Christmas lights
890. lights up outside
891. pizza night when we go buy the tree
892. tree shopping
893. celebrating a dear friend

894. joy because of Christ
895. grace in difficult times
896. lessons the Lord is teaching me
897. peace that His plans are best
898. peace that He has a plan for my life and future

899. a new schedule that is changing my life (!!) called the Pomodoro technique! (ask me about it!)

900. Isaiah 9:6

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

What are you thankful for this week?

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Well, this week will be filled with lots of final studying... Only TWO MORE WEEKS OF SCHOOL TILL CHRISTMAS BREAK!!!!! (can you tell I'm excited?! :D)

Love,

Lily

Christmas Songs

{Belated} Thanksgiving post coming soon!

I love Christmas music! So much! I can only listen to it around November-early January. I can't listen to it before. haha.

Here are some of my favorite Christmas songs!

~I just bought "Christmas in Diverse City" by TobyMac and friends during Black Friday shopping! It was $5 at LifeWay! I am LOVING it!

You can sample it here.

I especially love "Christmas This Year" (TobyMac and Leigh Nash), "The First Noel" (TobyMac and Owl City [!!]), and "O Come, All Ye Faithful" (TobyMac). Check it out!!

~"For Unto Us" by Point of Grace. You can see it performed here or sample it on iTunes here (#9).

~"The Christmas Song: Chestnuts" - Justin Bieber :) Hear it here.

~"Angels We Have Heard on High" - Charmaine. Listen to it here.

Enjoy! :)


What are your favorite Christmas songs?


Love,

Lily

Friday

We are on Thanksgiving break!! Whoo hoo!! LU and Whitver have all of next week off :)

~Starbucks is doing the fabulous buy one get one free holiday drink deal again! November 17-20 ~ 2-5 pm.


~I am loving the new Coldplay album!

Here are my favorites:



(also check out the cute official music video here)




(check out the official music video here)




Here is Mike Tompkins' acapella version of Paradise:




I love Clocks:



What music are you currently enjoying?

~ Lily

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Psalm 100

A Psalm of Thanksgiving.

¹ Make a joyful shout to the LORD, all you lands!
² Serve the LORD with gladness;
Come before His presence with singing.
³ Know that the LORD, He is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

⁴ Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
⁵ For the LORD is good;
His mercy is everlasting,
And His truth endures to all generations.

Monday

Well... so much for blogging about what I'm thankful for every day... ~:-) I'll catch up! :o)

Today has been lovely. :o) I had piano and swim team. Then, instead of doing algebra in algebra 2 study group, Riley, Isabella, and Chris came over to watch Toy Story 3 and eat pizza. :o) So fun!! Like two seconds after those fun friends left, I headed over to the Cheesecake Factory for a very fun and rockin dinner with some of the HS Mako girls! Jenny, Linds, Charli, Rachel, Hannah, and Harper Grace came!! YUM it was so good!! I love my Mako girlies!!!

Some more things I am thankful for!

11. my algebra 2 class

12. algebra 2 study group

13. chocolate

14. cheesecake

15. peppermint ice cream

16. good chats with dear friends

17. break!

18. learning how to drive

19. safety while driving

20. good news from my dear Nana!

21. skype

22. more good news from other friends

23. photography

24. fall- leaves, colors, bonfires, scarves, smores, pumpkins, mums :o)

25. my mako girls!!

26. getting to see dear friends home from college!

27. good swim team practices

28. laughing

29. freebies

30. my upcoming baptism!!

31. toy story 3

32. getting to play in the worship band at church

33. my amazing church family

34. my dear and precious family

35. keith and kristyn getty's "behold the lamb: the communion hymn" ahhh so wonderful! (see previous post)

36. winning over our technology problems

Today Shutterfly almost failed me. But it came through. I hope. We'll see.

Good night :o)

Lily :o)

Thankful ~ take 1

In honor of Thanksgiving, I am going to several posts on what I am thankful for. :o)

1. Christ- He died on the cross for my sins. wow.

2. My family. They are the best. I am SO thankful for my dear family!!

3. My church. I am so thankful to hear the Gospel preached every Sunday! My church family is my extended family!

4. Friends. I am blessed with incredible friends!

5. Homeschooling.

6. Whitver- so amazing.

7. Makos.

8. Freedom in our country.

9. I am thankful that God is faithful- always.

10. The Scriptures- that we have the whole Bible and can read it.

Y'all, God has richly blessed us.

Saturday

My friend Rachel posted this on Facebook! So pretty!!

Last night some folks from my world lit class came over to watch Macbeth.

Check out these super cute Thanksgiving tags you can download:

http://www.box.net/shared/zrl783iuxe

and

http://www.box.net/shared/17uf3ur57j

I am really excited about this::

Happy Saturday!

Lily :o)