Today's post

I don't really have much to say today. . Um. yeah. So, I'm really tired. But anyways.
I just finished reading 3:16 by Max Lucado. I gotta say, it was pretty amazing. He went through the verse John 3:16 word by word. Now, normally this verse is pretty amazing right? You can read it in such an amazing way through this book. It was soo good. I especially liked the way he painted pictures with words. . like, I don't know how to explain it, but it was good. Very good. I definitely suggest you read it.
Yeah, sorry for the short blog post I just can't seem to think. Haha anyways. .
Yepp, I'll talk to you guys later!

Vivian the Zombie

Just kidding! I'm not done posting for today!!

Me- My legs are smooth like a baby's behind!
Mom- My legs are hairy like a new baby monkey's behind!

Yes, I do live with the crazies.

Fun product name of the day - Anti monkey butt powder

I refuse to explain that one.
Okay, now I'm gone.

Later gater,
Viv

Wow. It has been so busy.  I've been babysitting a lot. I love my kiddos :) It doesn't get much better than one kid starting up a hymn and everyone joining in and finishing together. The children we watch are just too precious :) Haha.

I had a glucose tolerance test done this week. This is the oh so fun test where you fast for 8 hours and then they stab you with a needle and suck the life out of you and you almost throw up and pass out and bite a whole in your thumb all at the same time and then they give you 5 minute to drink 8oz a super sugary drink that tastes like the juice at the bottom of those cherry popsicles that come in the bag and after that you get a sugar high like you wouldn't believe (If you are like me you also see stars and get a headache) THEN you sit and wait bouncing in your chair for two hours until the lady calls you back in to suck the life out of you again and then you almost pass out and throw up and bite a hole in your thumb AGAIN, but this time there's a boy and his mom watching you. Then, the nurse puts a bandage on your arms so tight that it cuts your circulation off and your forearm turns purple. (I took this as a sign that the work out I did two weeks ago before I smashed my foot in a door *COUGH* I mean I got attacked by wolves. . really did work and my muscles were just busting out of that bandage.) Yep, so that's what a glucose tolerance test consists of. Oh! And then they eventually call back with your results telling you everything is perfect and it was all for nothing. Grand right?  I thought so.

So, I've been hinting at my boyfriend to take me to Mama Mia's Pizzaria for a couple months now and he finally decided that he should take me there. So, he went to take me there and it was GONE. I know. Tragic right?? So, instead we go to Skimo's. That will not ever happen again. Their pizza was like a slab of grease with 5 pepperonis. Our new mission: Locate Mama Mia's ASAP. They moved to Collierville!! Noooooooo! So, Curtis tried to suprise me by taking me there. The suprise aspect failed, but that doesn't suprise me. :) So, props to Mama Mia's. This is the girl who is not fond of pizza saying she LOVES your pizza. With a floppy purple passion. I encourage you to go there. You will not be disappointed.

I recently discovered what a comfort it is to know you have a God who loves and protects you and how wonderful it is to know that you have a brother or sister in Christ praying for you. Not that I didn't know already, but it's really been on my mind. So, If you have any prayer request, any at all, please let me know. Even an unspoken. No prayer request is too small. So, yeah. I just wanted to offer to pray for my readers (If there are any. . lol O.o)

Well, all I had was a piece of cheese for breakfast so it's getting to be my lunch time.

I bid you farewell,
Viv

Princess tea parties aren't me. .

So, this past Sunday we had a birthday party for my little sister who turned ten. What little girl DOESN'T want a princess tea party?! So, we princess tea partied. This is the princess Miranda "from Mirandaland where everything goes slowwwwwwww."

The pretty princesses acting like princesses.

 The royal spread with Prince Wannabe's hand in it. (My brother.)

The cake that I was pretty sure I would shoot before I actually finished it. Icing and I do NOT get along. Things kept exploding in my hands. My hands were multi colored with food coloring and sprinkles that had melted while clinched in my angry fist. It was really quite enjoyable to rip the legs off a barbie doll.

Queen Mom from the land of Icangroundyoufortherestofyourlife says this is her best picture of a kid blowing out candles she has ever gotten. You are looking at a masterpiece. Be in awe.

Opening the royal treasures. All the princesses are behaving in a very ladylike manner after attempting to start a riot for cake to be served.
I am glad to say that this party was a success. A hard earned success. :)

Now, this weekend was also my boyfriend's birthday. He turned 20. His birthday gift consisted of a nerf gun, Disney Cars erasers, First aid kit, and super hero band-aids.

Needless to say he was pretty dawg on excited. This picture is only a small glimpse of his excitement.

AND simply for a good giggle I am posting this picture of my uncles. Asleep on the couch. They look like mountainmen. Bless their hearts.

That's all for today.
I bid you farewell,
Princess Vivian of Ranchland *with heavy country accent*
(I had nothing better alright?)

Congratulations! It's a. . .

So, I just went to edit my account and my gender was set as "not specified" . . So, just for the record. . It's a girl!!

World Changers

Hey, sorry it's been so long since my last post! Things have been crazy!! We had VBS one week and worked at a camp the next and then fourth of July weekend. Busy busy busy. .
Now, in my last post I promised more about my mission trip and now (finally) I come bearing more!
I only have notes from the second night and somethings have faded so please bear with me. . I'll share as much as occurs to me at this time. . i tried journaling while I was there, but there was never time. Hahah. 
My crew that week was amazing. We were actually paired up with another group that was awesome as well. Our crew name was the Shingle Bells. . . Needless to say there was a lame parody to Jingle Bells going on. . :P
We worked on a man's roof. He had four layers of shingles. All different colors. . Black green, red, white I think. . Yeah. Shingles are heavy. Super heavy. I was clean up. I don't get on roofs. . So, I liften many many shingles while cleaning up. I got some MONSTER muscles now ; )
The man whose house we worked on was awesome. He was so thankful. And not just thankful. He got up on the roof and helped work. The first day I didn't even know he was the home owner. I thought he was just another worker. And a great worker at that. He was a Brother in Christ and he was just so awesome to work with. He was so selfless about everything. I can't even really describe it. .
We also had a crew encourager who was awesome. She wasn't over peppy and fake. You could tell she had a heart for Christ. She was very honest. She was tired and hot (as were we all) , but she just had this happy giving spirit about it. She was so awesome.
Our crew leader was a very sweet man. He was such a hard worker and good instructor.
A lot of my time in the week I was thinking about me. . What do people think about me? Am I thinking too much about me? Um. Duh.
Later that week the pastor called a family up to the front before service. This family had been working with us all week. Big family. Some Extended family, even the baby. (Who was absolutely ADORABLE) They all came to work with us that week. What I didn't realize was that my crew leader was part of this family. Not only did they come and give their time, but our crew leader's uncle (I think) was very very sick. . So sick that they didn't know if he was going to make it. . And the family came to work anyways. . But they didn't just come work. they came with happy hearts. Worked hard. Loved a lot. They didn't complain.
They were so selfless. I was just in awe. This family was just so amazing and full of love. That was God totally opening my eyes and revealing my selficenteredness (Is that a word? Well, it is now.) 
That was the biggest thing I learned . . Just how often I/we think of ourselves.
I am so thank ful for my crew that I had and the staff and family that gave their time to be there to minister.
You can be a World Changer
Shining a light for those in danger
Sharing the love of our Lord and Savior
You can change the world
You can change the world

The school we stayed at was super nice. The boys were on the second floor and girls were on the third. No elevators. It was too risky because there could be no purple.
Boy(blue) + Girls(pink) = Purple
So, not only do us shingle bells have MONSTER arm muscles, but us lovely ladies have fantabulistic legs.
Soreness was kind of unavoidable. . I know my friends and I went up and down those steps around 10 times a day probably. .
Insane.
Oh, and the kitchen staff was AMAZING. They made this chocolate cake that was incredible. . Chocolate cake with creamy chocolate icing and white chocolate drizzled over and white and milk chocolate  shavings on top. Wow. Oh wow.
They also made these HUGE double cheeseburgers. . My friend Isaac ate 1 and 3/4s burgers. Insane.


I'm watching hoarders. . They are fixing to put this dog to sleep(And not the gonna wake up soon asleep). . So sad. So so sad.  It's her son's favorite. . Aww. . no. .
I gotta go. . It can't get sad and depressing on here. .

Til next time,
Vivian

Until next time,
Vivian

This past week

Hi! Long time no see!!
So, I went on a Mission trip. I was not planning on going, but I was praying about it anyways. . If I were to have the opportunity to go would I choose to? Maybe I would go next year. This year was just not my year. I didn't have the finances to go and convinced myself I didn't want to go anyways. Even after I decided all this it was still really on my mind and I continued to pray about it if I got the opportunity to go next year. . Time went on until a couple weeks before the trip someone backed out and left money for someone else to go and I was invited. I was excited. It hit me that I really wanted to go. . Maybe there was a reason I couldn't get the trip off my mind. . I prayed about it that night and also got a verse. . . . You see, I was not wanting to go because the year before I was convinced I was useless and it was pointless for me to go cuz I couldn't do anything because I was a girl and I didn't know how. Now I realize how dumb that was. My verse was

1 Timothy 4:12
Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.

What I can do through God has absolutely nothing to do with my age, gender, or knowledge.
It has to do with my heart and my willingness to be used by Him. By convincing myself that I am not able to do something for such a dumb reason is keeping Him from using me.

So, I went on the trip. . It was very amazing and I have so much more to share. . Next time.
For now I am going to help my mother make nothing for VBS props. I've never made a bunch of nothingness. . . So, here goes nothing! HA!

Thanks for reading!
Vivian