youtube videos :)

Youtube Videos Rated by me:

Owl City- In Christ alone. I love Owl City and when I

found out they sung this song they just got 10x better!

Rating: 10

                                                Owl City- Galaxies.
                                          Rating: 8

                                         The Afters- Lift me up. God is there to lift you up.
                                  ~Such a pretty Song.
                                      Rating: 9

Kids React-The greatest marriage proposal. Haha so funny!

Rating: 8

              Taylor swift- You belong with me. -I love Taylor Swift and I really like this song. :)
                                Rating: 9

Casting Crowns-Courageous.

-Beautiful.

Rating: 8

Always love, Mikayla

I am Thankful

This weekend was Thanksgiving weekend and I was at a relatives house who lives 6 hours away and I didn't get back till yesterday night, it was an alright Thanksgiving, but I wasn't really in a really thankful mood, I have been really tired and sad lately and I was really disappointed my 2 sisters were not gonna be home for Thanksgiving, my eldest sister Natasha is in Germany right now and she has been gone for 9 months doing ministry, (she is coming home this mid November) and my 2nd oldest sister Rachel is in Denver going to a school for Social Justice (if anyone does not know what Social Justice is feel free to ask questions about it or you can go to this link about the school she is going to-

http://www.ywamdenver.org/training/school-of-social-justice/ )

-I miss them both a lot. :(

But,I have to admit this weekend was good, I saw a ton of family I haven't seen since this summer and it was fun. :)

-Though I probably ate way to much! It was just all so good! :D

Yum. :)

I have a lot to be thankful for, so I don't really know why I wasn't in a thankful mood this past week and I kinda feel somewhat selfish considering there are people all around the world who are living off less than I do. I really have a ton to be thankful for.

I am Thankful for:

1. My family
2. My sisters
3. My church/youth group
4. My friends
5. My house
6. My country
7. My dog
8. My comfy bed/ room
9. Beautiful sunsets
10. My ipod/ music in general :)
11. Going for long walks with Friends
12. Freedom
13. Sleepovers
14. Late nights out
15. YC
16. Hanging out
17. My Faith in God

What are you thankful for?

~Always LOve, Mikayla

"If" by Rudyard Kipling

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
                               by Rudyard Kipling

*I read this poem today for poetry*

Much love,
Mikayla

Its been a good year

Beautiful

Driving home from YC

Fireworks from the fair

Walking around town with my sisters

LOL

Straight hair!

Posing with my puppy Solomon

YC

Old fashioned hats

Hellooo Everybody

Sunsets

Sleepovers

Life is a journey, not a Destination

pretty flower

Bubble photo shoot with Amy :)

Owl socks!

I love the clouds in this pic :)

Awwww so cute!!

Curly fries!!

Renovation 2011

Walking around the trout pond :)

2011 I know you are not quite over yet, but you have been a pretty awesome year. :)

Aways Love

~Mikayla

Woke up this morning...

HELLOOOOOOO EVERYONE!!! Wow, I have not done a post in a while and let me tell you it feels good blogging again after not blogging for a while! So to kick off
this post I'm gonna tell you all a story about my day, anyone ever heard of the song "change" by group 1 crew? Well I'm gonna tell you all about what happened today with the help of that song give or take a little. This is what happened today:


Woke up this morning ( at 5am!)
 put on my make up ( at 5:36 am...)
Didn't stop to think of what's going on ( because HELLOOO it was 5am)
Outside my window, the world is changing I
can't remember where it all went wrong...

So I wanna make, make this a place
Where we can forget all the problems of yesterday ( so I went to this event called burn 24/7 where for 27 hours the church was open for worship and prayer...)
Let's make a change for a better today
Let it begin with you and me lets, make it a reality :)
So we can make a difference if we turn it around-
the world is upside down
The revolution starts inside ( of you)

In need a better future, let's be a part of the cure ( 'cuz i know we could)
where unity can be the brush to paint a better picture ( In most stories it usually only starts with one with an idea to make things better)
we need to plant a seed of something we're all in need off
trough God we can make this world
Into something we only dream of ( a place a peace, hope and love...)

*I did not do most of the lyrics from the song above, if you want to hear the real version of the song just click the video below.*

This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it." :)
Psalms 118:24



I have hope...
Always Love

             Mikayla

My Mondays are usually...

Mondays are usually quite boring for me, I mean the weekend is over and the weekend rush  is gone, this weekend was really great. On Friday night I went up to this youth event that was called ``Rock the Park`` that was being held in a city about 45 minutes away from my town with my youth group and I had so much fun there. 2 girls from my youth group slept over at my house because we got home pretty late and since they live in the country it would be hard for their parents to come pick them up. The next morning I was supposed to be helping my dad with our renovation, but my 2 friend`s mom invited my sister and I to come swim in their new pool which they just got working- it was no skimpy pipsqueak of a pool posing as a pool-it was huge!!
                                                                                   
 So my sister and I slept over at their house and on Sunday morning we went to church, I can`t really remember what I did that night. Then the next day was Monday and I was kinda down about the weekend, I was just doing school and the normal stuff any homeschool kid does on a weekday. Then around 6pm these 2 Filipino boys we know (ages 3 and 7) called us and asked if they could come over and play, Rachel, Julia and I went over to pick them up around 7ish a little after supper. I played wii with them while Julia and Rachel went on a quick bike ride. The wii was having some issues and was not working right but after a while I got it to work on wii sports and that was fun. :)
                                                   
 Rachel and Julia joined us in the basement after their bike ride and I went upstairs and made popcorn for the boys, they enjoyed it a
 lot! Rachel, Julia, and I drove them home shortly after I made the popcorn for them. While we were driving back home we drove by a Boston Pizza and Rachel joked about going there to get a Chocolate Explosion. we got home and we were going to go downstairs to watch a movie or a episode of something but my mom and dad watching their own show so we asked if we could go get a Chocolate Explosion and my mom said yes. We got to BP`s (Boston pizza) ordered our Chocolate Explosion to share and gobbled it down. it was SO good! So life is good and I can`t complain, I hope everyone had a good weekend. :)

-Always love 

Mikayla

This picture is dedicated to my friend Amy.

                                  

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