the ultimate gift.

Qoutelove: Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. (Alice in wonderland.)

I never thought that I would live to make it to this day. It all seems so surreal. I mean, in seven hours.. I will be graduating. Yes, I’m writing this at 3am. DON’T JUDGE ME (: haha I can’t sleep. So I thought that I would recap my last four years.. Somehow they slipped by way too fast without me even knowing what was going on. But first, a few thoughts.

1)       Graduation is in 7 hours..

2)      No more school.. (haha summer classes start june 1)

3)      Graduation is in 7 hours.

4)      OH MY GOLLY GUM.. GRADUATION IS IN 7 hours.

5)      .. Was I supposed to iron my tassel lol it’s wrinkly.

6)      I wonder if my cake upstairs is going to be yummy.

7)      What in the sam heck am I going to wear to my party..

8)      I can’t wait to go to church on Sunday.

9)      ..i wonder if I’m going to get there in time for breakfast..

10)    OH NELLIE. I forgot to do the announcements.

FRESHMAN YEAR (:

Wow. Okay, honestly I was lucky. I didn’t have to spend my first few weeks of high school worrying that I would look like an idiot. I went to a Christian school. It totaled out at like 40 people… tops. Lol. But it did give me a different outlook on life so I do appreciate that. (: it was nice. I made friends with all kinds of different people, almost all of which I happened to like. I really loved getting to hear Dilbert Terry preach almost every morning which was nice. It made me smile. Thankfully nothing really embarrassing happened here lol. OH! And I went to the student convention in bowling green, ky. (: and I got 3^rd place in speech (: okay.. I’ll admit there was like 6 people lol but still (: haha I was a champion.. kinda.

         

          SOPHMORE YEAR

Whoa Nellie, hold the horse. SOMEHOW I landed myself into public high school, WITH REAL LIVE PUBLIC PEOPLE.. (random looking around)(yeah people think I’m a little off... haha oh well) which for me turned out to be the best. (: I liked all the people. This is year numero uno with Coach Burchy (: He loved me. Me and Catherine Hester became like uber close and even wrote a story for Coach Burchy about pirates and what not. Looking back, this year was super easy. I wish all of high school could have been like this, but sadly it was not. :( OH! This was also the 1^st time I tripped in the hallway spilling all of my books everywhere. (major embarrassing) It was very much a look at the klutz moment.

          JUNIOR YEAR

=year number dos of tripping in the hall, and coach burchy (: yayness. I drew pictures all over his bulletin board. It made him smile I know. OH! I did an amazing piñata for espanol 2 (: it was cool.. see... his name is hector.. the teacher had a cow.. I named her nellie (;

Oh this was also the year of TRITONES, school choir, winterjam, twilight on dvd, the “emo look”, walking into walls, the j-mark b-day cake (don’t ask), the dentist commercial, my friend mary moving away :(, my photography phase, my twilight obsession, TYLER DUNCAN (:, repainting my room to remind me of the ocean.. edward the dog (deceased), edward the fish (deceased), DORKY GLASSES, piano studded belts, and tri-hipper comics :) and 11th grade english with ms. brewster.

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////SENIOR YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH WOW! Senior year flew by. I tripped in the hall.. again. Smiled at coach burchy every day.. somehow made it through AP English with ms. brew. it was tough. FOr me, senior year was all about, 

decorating lockers, writing my name in the sand, chillin at the park with buddies, JUPITER (sept. 2, 2009), football homecoming senior huddle, ice cream & cake (the dance lol), starbucks doubleshots :), stained glass windows, football games, pouring rain, band section, (: happiness, CHEESESTICKS, hiking (:, face painting, 4 haircuts, CALLING GLORY (GREAT CHRISTIAN BAND), zebra nails, nc youth trip, BOWS, eyeliner, nights with tyler, teagan my puppy, prom with tyler (:, senior day, baccalaureate, bedazzling graduation hats (:, taking over 400 pictures (:, and most of all (: love. OH! and almost having to pay 67.99 for my government book.

WOW! i cant believe that sums up high school (: but i guess all good things must come to an end. 

ADVICE!!!
CHerish High school (:
Love like the rain
Dance with the stars.
Don't waste time looking back (:

The ultimate gift is the gift of love and family, and i have both (: 

Until later, 

Emily ann. (: 

*Like i promised... MY CAP (:

finally feeling sunlight.

Listening to: And Now My Lifesong Sings-Casting Crowns

Quotelove: “Today is your song. Everything that you’re doing.” Mark Hall

May 16, 2010

So here I am. Graduation is 12 days away… counting weekends. (: I just counted to make sure. Wow I feel incredibly dorky now. Oh well. (: I am kind of tired. I stayed up until 4:34 making my graduation cap magnificent. I still have 4 hours to go. (: but let me tell you… you’re going to love, but you sooo have to wait until my end of May post. This is making up for last month.

      Today all of the senior teens at church went to preston’s for lunch (: I feel incredibly loved. Like... I finally feel like I’m completely at home with all of the older youth. (: they feel like family. It was nice. Especially when you think that there’s the possibility that you may never see some of them again.
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finally feeling sunlight
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      The whole point of this blog revolves around an idea… which is kind of top secret* so… I promise to fill you in later, but it is going to be preciously beautiful (: Mostly the idea revolves around a song. (: and it’s kind of old but basically… it’s still beautiful (: so… it’s still new, you know.

Finally feeling sunlight is all about being lost, in the dark, cold, alone, blind in a sense to everything around you, and then suddenly that burden being lifted. Taken away, healed in a sense and suddenly you are brought to the light. And you feel the warm sunshine on your arms for the first time in a long time. Then this really funny feeling begins to spread throughout your whole body defrosting your heart and pumping the fresh, warm blood through the rest of your aching, frozen limbs. It makes you feel a bit fuzzy at first, but then you realize it makes you feel alive. Like a feely good feeling was rising from the very tips of your toes and slowly crawling to the top, creating its own sort of beautiful right in the middle of your heart.

And SUDDENLY something hits you like a stack of bricks… this is what it feels like to surrender, to let JESUS take every bit and part of your life and to make it all His again. To clean you and save you over and over again, and you realize the magnificent love that dwells inside of your heart now, and you can’t help but to smile, because you feel so amazing inside. And you know that no matter how bad things threaten to get again, you are safe from the storm, wrapped in the loving hands of the one who calmed the seas. Knowing this, you have to look around to check and see if anyone else has caught on to this beautiful chaos erupting inside of your heart, causing you to leak from every possible opening with the purest and holiest of lights, because at that very moment you became His all over again. And all the feelings you felt the first time are intensified and somehow completely brand new.

This is giving up to Him your lifesong. And now my blog flows all back together again, and looping right where it began with … Listening to. (:


* i just like saying stuff is top secret to make myself feel more important.. much like i'm in a james bond movie (: haha i know. i'm dorky. i'm sure the secrets not even that big of a deal.

Live Your LIFESoNG! (:

Forever Yours,

Emily Ann. (: