Snow Daze 2013 (in words)

Our school's Snowdaze dance was last night. 7-11 pm.

I was nominated with 5 of my other good friends for our sophomore royalty.

The dresses were gorgeous.

The dancing was crazy and so much fun.

The DJ was great and funny.

The people were amazing and entertaining.

The music was loud.

The decorations were beautiful.

My friends were the best!

My sister Erin and I before we left for the dance!

~Michlyn

P.S. More pictures to come as soon as they are up on our school website.

back to december

Since it's December...I thought this would be a good song.

I've been listening to it a lot lately. 

I just love it. And Taylor Swift. 

Oh and there is a ton of snow up where I live. So happy winter from me!

~Michlyn

New Orleans Day 6

It was the last day of the conference. :( It had been one of the best and amazing weeks ever! We learned so much, and grew closer to God in our faith. It was Thursday, and the night before we had been busy packing.

Our room was sooo messy... *ahem* hint: 3 teenage girls.

Erin hiding from the mess :)

Everything had to be packed, and ready to go before we left for the Convention Center Thursday morning. Our rooms had to be checked over, and clean. It was a pretty hectic morning. Even though it was our last day - The gatherings, huddles, food, music, and speakers were all still amazing!!!!! We spent most of our day outside, and we weren't quite ready to say goodbye to New Orleans.

We heard Shane Stacey that night, and he was such a good speaker. He talked about really good topics, and it was a great way to end the week. Plus we got to sing our praises with Kristian Stanfill one more time too.

*Photos by Challenge Staff*

Thursday night, we all gathered in a conference room to go over the plan, and then head on the bus for home.

Good bye New Orleans, we'll miss you!!

Bus adventures and Six Flags tomorrow!
~Michlyn

New Orleans Day 5

Wednesday meant that there was only 2 whole days left of the conference. :( It was also the 4th of July!!

Like every morning, we went to the gathering and then did our huddles outside.

Since it was the fourth of July, after lunch we got to spend some of the day site-seeing! We took a trolley ride down about 6 blocks, then walked through a small town. We saw a cathedral, and the Andrew Jackson statue. 

The bummer thing was, that since it was sooo humid all the time... It would randomly rain for a while, then it would cool down. So after this it started down-pouring and we had to walk six blocks in the rain, getting soaking wet. Oh well, it was definitely a memory. After the rain stopped, we made it to River Walk again. This time we had about 2 1/2 hours of free time to shop! It was a blast!

Fountains outside of River Walk

That night, at the gathering they set up small stations. This is when everyone, all 5500 students could make their way to each station, and do an activity. Here's an example of one.

This was called "The Curtain". The white sheets, were long pieces of cloth. There were 3 of them, and on all of them... messages & prayers FILLED them. It was amazing to see all the praises and prayers being lifted up to our King. Truly incredible.

After the gathering that night, the worship was incredible! Kristian Stanfill (look him up) really knew how to get over 5000 teenagers pumped for Jesus. The room just overflowed with love for our God. :)

Since it was the 4th of July, we got to go see a really small show of fireworks. They had already started them when we were in the gathering, but it was still fun to see. 

Such a fun way to end the night! Plus we were all a little hyper too... haha we are teenagers!

~Michlyn

Annoyances

I follow The Farmer's Wife Tells All and she also did this post a couple of days ago. I thought it was a pretty cool post and I wanted to post my list. Enjoy and feel free to do this on your blog too, if you want!

1.When girls wear shirts on purpose to see their sports bra - I understand that is might be "in", but I just hate it. They will take a perfectly fine T-shirt, cut the sleeves off, and rip it all the way down. It would be ok if they wore a tank-top underneath, but they don't! Just their sports bra... Ugh it bothers me so much.

2.Screamo music - I understand if it's upbeat and fun to listen to. I like songs like that too...But if you're listening to and you can't even understand (or hear) the words that the people are singing, then how is that fun to listen to? You can barely hear the music, and then you don't even know what the song is saying. I'm not against loud music, just the songs where the singers literally scream the words.

3. Magazine subscriptions. Those little pieces of paper that are in between the pages of a magazine you're reading. They are always in the way, and does anyone seriously use them? They always end up falling out of the magazine when you pick up, or I just rip them out. Does anyone ever subscribe to magazines this way anyway, or do they just go online? I just don't like them.

4. Judgmental people. I'm not saying that I'm perfect, and love everything about everybody on the earth. I'm saying that I hate it when people will give you a bad face, stare at you, or say a rude comment. As most of you know, I have an adopted sister and the comments and stares we get are downright hurtful. I personally love having her out in public, and showing her off. I like to have people see that we're different. My mom also got a rude comment about "having too many kids". That is impossible! Whether God calls you to have a big or small family, it's never too much or too little. It's just right and just the way He wants your family to be.

5. Pointless Pictures. The ones where you stand in front of your bathroom mirror, and take a picture with your giant camera. (which you can also see in the picture) Then there are the ones that have really dumb poses. Such as: duck lips, peace sign, stick your butt out, or wear kiss your boyfriend pictures. Yuck. I really think that people should express themselves, and show who they are but do they have to take pointless pictures?

Those are a few things that I can think of right now

~Michlyn

We Are

I've heard this on the radio a lot lately.

I love it a lot.

Up beat and it tells a great message.

What we are. What we should do.

"We're the light of the world. We're the city of the world"

We need to spread the light and the word.

God tells us.

We need to obey.

~Michlyn

More Beautiful You (#5)

More Beautiful You

by Jonny Diaz

~Michlyn

Count On Me (#4)

Count On Me
by Bruno Mars

~Michlyn

Better With U (#6)

Better with U

by Big Time Rush

Enjoy!

~Michlyn

Video of the Week

I think I'll be posting a video of the week, every week for the next month or so. I've heard some very encouraging songs lately.

Sometimes they relate to my life.

Sometimes they relate to my friends.

And sometimes other things... This world is very imperfect, but it's amazing how many good songs they can make!

That's all.

~Michlyn