Twelve Days of Christmas: Dave Ramsey Style!

This is a project my personal finance class did!

If Dave Ramsey sees it, then juniors get out of their exams! Know Dave? Please pass it his way!



Enjoy!

Fall Break Lovin- Part 1

Senior Year Bucket List!

Remember this? The new and recently updated edition!

Things to accomplish during senior year: 

-go to a public school setting during school hours CHECK! Had lunch with two of my favorite people at BHS!

-go to a high school football game (um never been to one) CHECK! We went to the Brentwood vs Centennial game Friday night :)

-watch Star Wars CHECK- 1 of 6 :) ! Watched Phantom Menace with four of my fave people.

-Go to Sanctuary some Thursday night

-Take a picture with the random Brentwood bruin bear in the track field (why? I am not really sure. I've always wanted to? Weird- yup! :) 

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Right now Whitver is on fall break- and it is wonderful! Unfortunately LU isn't on break too, but it's still nice to have a little break! My goals are to finish applying for colleges, clean my room, enjoy the weather, hang out with friends and family, and relax :)

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Check out the Mako website- updated just in time for the 2012-2013 season!

http://mtheamakos.wordpress.com/

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This will make you happy. "Kid History"- kids are telling a story while adults act it out. Hilarious! "wed gwapes, gween gwapes, wellow gwapes, purpur gwapes"

Love,

Lil

Coming soon...

... revamped pages! You may have noticed the tabs above- about me, things i like, recent pictures, links, and lilylaurenphotography! Check back soon for the update!

Also coming soon... One Thousand Gifts and more Life in Pictures posts!

In the meantime I will leave you with a few things...

~ The Interlude Dance- aka the Gator's Flash Mob dance! So much fun!!



~ A blog that I love reading- New Dress a Day! I have her daily posts emailed to me! So much fun and so much creative inspiration!

~ BlimeyCow= awesome.

#YOLO



Thanks for reading! Check back soon for updates :)

Lily

Ian and Larissa

What a beautiful picture of a God-glorifying marriage! (you might want to grab a Kleenex)


From DesiringGod Ministries

A note from John Piper

Three posts by Larissa Murphy

Larissa Murphy (27) is the wife of Ian (27), and they live in western Pennsylvania. Larissa works in marketing at a local bank, and blogs at Pray for Ian. Ian hangs out with his company, Vinegar Hill. The story of their relationship and trials, along with their uncommon union and their reflection of the Savior’s love in their marriage, was told in a recent online documentary.

Murphy's blog

I heart spring break... Part Two

Hey friends!

I may not be blogging the next few days... I am going with some of my dearest friends to Hilton Head for the week! So excited! :)

All of the Hunger Games fans will be proud... I am on page 56 of book 1! :) Today I will have some good reading time in the car!

I want to share some of my recent favorite songs with you!

We went to Winter Jam last week- it was amazing! I have been hearing these artists on the radio for years and it was so cool to see them perform!



"Take this world and give me Jesus."



I was so excited to see Group 1 Crew! They are one of my favorite bands. They performed several songs, including Walking on the Stars.

Kari Jobe sang "Revelation Song"- one of my favorites! Here is a lyric video:






More coming soon!

What are you enjoying listening to? Leave a comment below!

xxoo,

Lily

One Direction.

I'm a fan.












"We've had a good laugh." "SHERBET." "VOZ HAPPENINGGGG?!" And when they switch spots... So adorable.

We are fans.

One Thousand Gifts:: Take Thirty-Two

1051-1106

1051. my swim team- Makos are the best!
1052. super fun meets (regionals and state)
1053. spending my weekends with Makos
1054. our team getting 10th out of 131 registered HS teams in TN
1055. good chats with super cool and fun friends

1056. God's answering prayers
1057. that God cares about the little things
1058. hanging out with the fabulous Lydia
1059. LU Chickfila with my fam and some dear friends
1060. seeing friends around the campus center

1061. watching a previous WW coach break the national HS record on the 100 fly (four laps of butterfly in 46.64 seconds- wow!)
1062. cheering
1063. finding an online broadcast
1064. being able to go on the pool deck
1065. lots of laughter

1066. being able to be at State
1067. watching the Makos rock the pool
1068. my dear and beautiful sister taking lots of incredible pictures (coming soon!)
1069. being guards with Maddie and Julia
1070. hanging out M & J

1071. two fabulous coaches who love us and support us
1072. more laughing
1073. new friends
1074. Julia
1075. Cara

1076. an AMAZING women's retreat
1077. beautiful and encouraging women
1078. my wonderful mama teaching on prayer
1079. good chat time
1080. adventures on the mountain

1081. the three dear women + sweet baby in my breakout group
1082. being real and taking off any facades
1083. wisdom from the dear women at my church
1084. Ebenezer stories
1085. God's faithfulness and love for us

1086. lots of yummy food
1087. Sonic, Wendys, and McDonalds runs :)
1088. engagement stories :)
1089. show and tell
1090. super fun games

1091. very cute house for all of us to stay in
1092. finding three different overlooks
1093. self timer on the camera so we could all be in the picture
1094. lots of laughter and fun
1095. worshiping and praising our Creator together

1096. warm weather
1097. encouragement from my dear lit teacher
1098. grace when I took the ACT
1099. Makos pasta dinner before regionals
1100. fun and laid back swim practices

1101. encouragement at Grandview
1102. Annie and Bethany
1103. my Spanish class
1104. treats at swimming
1105. my amazing parents

1106. New song Amy taught us: "O Great God" by Sovereign Grace Music







P.S. Coming soon!!! Let's Talk College Stalker Mail, pictures from regionals and state, pictures from the retreat, and more!

I Love...

These songs.


Outta Space Love- Group One Crew


Bring Us Home- Michael Tait, Blanca Callahan, Lecrae


I Am (Creation)- Music Inspired by the Story


What Makes You Beautiful- One Direction
(check out Cimorelli's cover here)


All This Time- Britt Nicole


Good Morning- Mandisa and TobyMac (my morning song!)


Seven Lies about Homeschoolers- BlimeyCow


Price Tag- cover by Cimorelli

Sunday.

Hey friends!

Hope you are having a good weekend! Hoping that we are all safe tonight with the bad weather coming in!

I hope you watched the 7 Lies about Homeschoolers video. It's kind of amazing.

I am loving this CD: The Story. "God's story of love and redemption from Genesis to Revelation told in 18 new songs." Some of Christian music's top artists have come together to create this fabulous CD! Check it out!

One of my favorites... Check out "Bring Us Home"- Michael Tate, Blanca Callahan, and Lecrae



Can't believe this week will be my last meet of the 2011-2012 season! I love my team. The Makos are the best! So thankful to be a part of it!

Yesterday I got to hang out with my dear Theophili sisters! I love them!

Thursday was kind of a rough day... But Jesus time, Chickfila, ice cream, and Pride and Prejudice made it much better :)

Check out MoneySavingMom's post on goal setting. "If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time."

Check out my church's Vimeo channel in the next couple of days. Pastor Stephen had a really great sermon about spiritual gifts!

I really like Group 1 Crew's newest music video for "Outta Space Love."

Is today a big recruiting day for colleges? I have gotten 10-15 emails from colleges just today...

Favorite convo with Cara recently:

Cara: Here try this. *shoves a spoon of corn into my mouth* Cara: How is it? Me: Yuck!! What is wrong with it?! Gross! Cara: Oops I need to season it. You are my hamster. Me: Um I think you mean guinea pig...

Coming soon... finishing the photo challenge?, one thousand gifts, and more!

Thanks for reading!

peace to you,

lily

7 Lies about Homeschooling... Debunked

This is hilarious. And very legit.

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

Saturday

~ This morning I had breakfast with three wonderful girlies! I went to Bongo Java for the first time (how have I never been there?!)- YUM!

~ I am kind of in love with these Disney Dream Portraits by Annie Leibovitz... Check them out! I am a huge Disney fan and love these pictures!!

Here's one of my favorites... Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella!



~ I made a pizza for dinner...



~ I love the Hipstamatic app!



~Played some Pride and Prejudice...



~Last night we had a family movie night and watched Chariots of Fire!

"I feel God's pleasure when I run."

Here's Dad and Cara enjoying a shake and some Boy Scout popcorn:

~Newest store coming to the Green Hills Mall: The Container Store! 

~I love that LU has a Chickfila. It makes me happy.

~Reading Kisses from Katie!! Loving it! What an amazing story! Here is Katie's blog. Katie, from Nashville, is a 22 year old young woman who is a missionary in Uganda. She is mother to 13 girls (see picture below) Here is her ministry's website, Amazima. Here is her book on Amazon. Check out this article about her by NPR. Check out the links!

~The Gettys talking about one of their newest songs! What a cute family they are!

Happy Weekend!

Lily

Thursday Thoughts

~I love Thursdays. Why? One word- Whitver. :)

My rockin study hall clean up crew. Pow wow time. Chicks in seats. JB. Mt. Everest. Greased watermelons. Moose. "Muved." Chat times. Class pictures. Laughing a good chunk of my day. The fabulous people I am blessed to call my friends.

"One less screaming girl" ~ Jolene

~But y'all, we need to talk about Nashville's latest big news. It even made the front page of tennessean.com. There is still a special "Bieber Fever" section on the home page. I think you need to go appreciate the video on the Tennessean's website here. Here are the pictures courtesy of the Tennessean. What, might you ask, was the Biebs doing in Nashville? Downtown Franklin to be exact? Filming a music video for his new Christmas album! And of course gf Selena joined him in Music City. Last night 90% of my FB newsfeed was about JB. Facebook even went to the trouble to say so many of my friends "also posted about Justin Bieber." Selena went to the Cool Springs Chickfila (I think we would be friends ;) and a friend of ours that works there got to talk with her!

What was really great... The Tennessean: "Teen idol Bieber will prowl and swagger his way through historic downtown Franklin tonight as part of a music video shoot."

Let's appreciate this.

Merriam Webster's definition of prowl: to move about or wander stealthily in or as if in search of prey. Swagger: to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner; especially: to walk with an air of overbearing self-confidence.

Very, uh, interesting verbs, there...

HOW DID I MISS JUSTIN BIEBER.

So tragic.

~Song on replay on my iTouch:

~I LOVE this blog. She is actually inspiring me to start sewing again! New Dress a Day!

~The blog of one of my favorite photographers!

~GO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!! From the creators of Facing the Giants... Courageous!!

(Caution: rated PG-13. Check out PluggedIn's review, but know that it contains spoilers)

~ Umm... best college announcement ever?!

"If you’ve walked or driven around the campus in the past several months, you’ve probably noticed the large lake and new fountain—now known as Lake Lipscomb—located by the baseball field. While the lake may look like a good place for whitewater rafting, scuba diving and swimming, the fountain pump is fed by high voltage power lines and if you were to damage the electrical system by doing anything in the lake, it could create a potentially dangerous — or possibly deadly — water experience. We ask that you not swim, boat or participate in other water activity in Lake Lipscomb."

~How do you like this blog design? Is it just me or is the black bird on the right ------->

kinda creepy? It makes me think of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow... Time for a change I beliebe... :) (hehehe get it? ~;-) yeah I don't think I have had enough sleep recently... ;)

Have a lovely evening!

Lily :o)

Songs I am enjoying

Here are several songs I have been enjoying recently!

Yahweh by Tal and Acacia (this video isn't very exciting but I love the song)

Clearview by Tal and Acacia



Let's Go by Group One Crew (I cannot get sick of this song... :)



Happy Never After by Megan and Liz (two Nashville girls! They are super cute)

1234 by Feist

More coming soon!

Happy Videos Part 2.

Here are some more videos that make me happy... and I hope they make you happy too :)

Yup, I like group dancing videos :)

Other things I like:

~sugar free cookies

~diet (sugar free) coke

~sugar free ice cream

~fun evenings with friends

~being back in the pool with my Makos

~feeling like I was coming home when I went to the ISC for the first time in months

~shopping with Mom

~my Spanish class

~laughing

~new phone

~dear friends

~playing games at the end of a hard (for someone who is really out of shape haha) practice

Love,

Lily

....more coming soon....

Happy videos.

Sometimes we just need some happy videos of laughing babies, dancing babies, and sneezing baby pandas.

How can you not watch this and not laugh?!

...coming soon... more videos that make me happy... :) and maybe a real blog post... :)

I hope these made you smile because they made me laugh :)

Today was wonderful. I <3 my people.

~ "Don't wells make you think of Snow White?!"

Love,

Lily

Wednesday Love

Wow- I am posting on time so far this week! :)

This week's Wednesday Lovin' is on a new movie coming out September 2nd!

Thanks to Grace Hill Media, the four Scott ladies saw a free screening of it last week! Check out Grace Hill Media here. Want to get in on the free screenings? Sign up here for their email updates!

Seven Days in Utopia- coming out September 2nd!

Story from the website:

SEVEN DAYS IN UTOPIA follows the story of Luke Chisolm (Lucas Black), a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour. When his first big shot turns out to be a very public disaster, Luke escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas, home to eccentric rancher Johnny Crawford (Robert Duvall). But Johnny's more than meets the eye, and his profound ways of looking at life force Luke to question not only his past choices, but his direction for the future.

Based on David L. Cook's best-selling book Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia, SEVEN DAYS IN UTOPIA also stars Melissa Leo, Deborah Ann Woll, Brian Geraghty, Jerry Ferrera, Joseph Lyle Taylor, KJ Choi and Kathy Baker. The film is directed by Matthew Dean Russell from a script by Cook, Rob Levine, Russell and Sandra Thrift. The film was produced by Mark G. Mathis (Brick, Precious) and Jason M. Berman (The Dry Land).

Check out IMDB for more about who's who in the movie here.

Check out the blog here and here.

And here are some trailers!

We laughed and we cried. It is rated G - quite a rare find these days!

This was a fabulous movie and I highly recommend it! Go see it on September 2nd!

Random Thoughts on a Saturday:: Catching Up

Hey friends!

I apologize for the lack of blogging... So thank you to my faithful readers!!

Random Thoughts on a Saturday

~My birthday is in ten days!

~I LOVE coaching!! The kids are absolutely adorable. On Wednesday I was so excited- one of our 4 year old 6&unders swam a whole lap of freestyle without stopping! Whoo hoo!

Super cute sign Julia made for the swim team!

Last Fun Friday we had an obstacle course! Above is the "Board Walk" and below are the hula hoops to dolphin dive through.

~We have yet to finish a full meet. I have yet to swim a 100 IM in a meet. Both meets we have had thus far have gotten rained out towards the end. :p

~Last week I went to the Cheesecake Factory with Julia, Cara, Mimi, Sarah Beth, and Jenny before Sarah Beth left for CO :( We had so much fun!!

Julia, SB, and Cara
Charming Charlie- new fave store!

SB, me, Mimi
Tiramisu cheesecake= YUM
Lemon Raspberry
Reeses Chocolate Cake Peanut Butter- they were all delicious!

Mimi & me
Jenny, SB, and Cara

Lunch at Chickfila with some of my Mako girls last week! (minus Hannah who came later :)

~I love these sisters' videos! Six sisters= Cimorelli Band.

~ My favorite:

~Some of the people in my class went to see Mr. Popper's Penguins! Very cute! See the trailer here.

~Did you know a new Winnie the Pooh movie is coming out July 15th?

~One of my favorite photographers- Rachel Moore Photography- just did a wedding that included lanterns like in Tangled! LOVE! Check it out- and be sure to check out Rachel's awesome photography!!

~This video "Thumbs up for rock and roll!" is adorable.

~Latest favorite song: Galaxies by Owl City!

~Jack and the Beanstalk told by a two year old- so cute.

~Special note for Mary Eveleen: we love you hon! :) You are awesome!

Love,

Lily

Wednesday Love:: Belated

This video! It will make you happy :)

Update

Hey friends!

A long post on Whitver memories is coming soon... :)

~As of this past Thursday, I am DONE with school for the year!! Whoo hoo! Ahh (as will be seen in the upcoming post) I will miss my school family so very much :(

~As of this past Friday, guess who's a licensed driver?!?! Yup, this girl! I'm kind of excited about it... :) The test was pretty easy since I have been driving with my permit (and don't worry guys, a parent :) for almost a year! The tester was creepy...

~I am so excited about being a swim coach this summer!! Yesterday was the open house!

~We went to two fabulous dance recitals this weekend! They were amazing!

~My new favorite song: Let's Go by Group 1 Crew feat. TobyMac!

~Verse of the week from Keith Beauchemin (from last week)

Psalm 63:1

"O God, You are my God;

Early will I seek You;

My soul thirsts for You;

My flesh longs for You

In a dry and thirsty land

Where there is no water."

David wrote this psalm when he was living in the wilderness because Saul was trying to kill him. His great comfort was the personal relationship he had with God. He cherished God, so he sought the Lord early in the day. Though the land was dry in the wilderness, and water was scarce, David's greatest thirst was not for water, but for God.

Oh, how we need to emulate David. Do we cherish our relationship with God? If so, then we will seek Him early each day. Our souls will long for Him more than a thirsty man in the desert longs for water. Too often our souls long after the things of this world, and our thirst for God diminishes.

Lord, may we always cherish You above all others, for You alone can satisfy our souls.

Coming soon: Whitver Memories and One Thousand Gifts!

Lily