Living Fully By Faith: September 2012

9/29/12

Saturday!

Saturday. Finally.

This whole week I have been waiting for this day.

Science is too frustrating
There is a homework overload
Trying to finish voice practice

But now I can relax, cause Saturday's here (at least for 24 hr.)!

(Image from google)

P.S Last day to enter in giveaway!

9/24/12

Food!

I went to my neighbors birthday party to help out. I got a ton of food pictures, because the food was awesome, and was set up adorable! They even had a chocolate fountain. Be sure to enter in my giveaway!

9/22/12

100+ Followers

I am excited to ~~say~~ type that I am having my first giveaway.My sponsor for this giveaway is: Samantha!

Some of my favorites

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Do this first to unlock the others:
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Start: September 22
End: September 29
This giveaway is closed.

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9/19/12

Lost & Found

Ever found a dog....With those sad mournful eyes...

Who picture came out as a blur...

Who was scrawny...and not well fed

You wanted to name him something...Trixie...Pepper...Shloiah

Maybe, just maybe your dad would open his puppy heart! (Message to Dad...)

This would be the opportunity you had been waiting!

Till reality struck...your dad would not open his puppy heart (Message to Dad). You'd eventually find his owner, the dogs name wouldn't be a good one, everything would be an opportunity missed!

Message: We did find the dog's owner. We found out the dog's name was Billy. We went racing around town with three neighbors to 5 different dog places (the last was open). We had no info. from all our owner hunting. Somehow we saw an advertisement for a lost dog on our neighborhoods website. The owner came. Anyway Dad who loves dogs, but doesn't want one himself (Open your puppy heart) would probably not have let us kept him. So thus ends the Lost & Found Post.

Sorry the pictures aren't that good.

9/18/12

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear,

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I marked the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

9/17/12

Recipe

My all time favorite muffins: "To die for blueberry muffins"

My Baker notes: I double this for more muffins

Original Recipe Yields 8 large muffins

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
1 cup fresh blueberries
1/2 cup white sugar
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup butter, cubed
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease muffin cups or line with muffin liners.
Combine 1 1/2 cups flour, 3/4 cup sugar, salt and baking powder. Place vegetable oil into a 1 cup measuring cup; add the egg and enough milk to fill the cup. Mix this with flour mixture. Fold in blueberries. Fill muffin cups right to the top, and sprinkle with crumb topping mixture.
To Make Crumb Topping: Mix together 1/2 cup sugar, 1/3 cup flour, 1/4 cup butter, and 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon. Mix with fork, and sprinkle over muffins before baking.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until done.

Then make some cider, and sit down with a book while you it the warm, tasty, moist muffin (and don't eat them all!!!

Enjoy!

9/16/12

Awkward/Awesome Week

///Awkward///

Not being that useful

eating to much chocolate

forgetting my camera and having to run back and get it

Adelie being scared of the clown

the clown's hamster escaped and I saw it before it went everywhere!

trying to make a ballon dog (failure)

being urged to have more chocolate

2 hour Algebra class at co-op

///Awesome///

helping out at a birthday party and getting paid

chocolate fondue at party

best cake ever!

having neighbors over for dinner

found my food picture for photography class

I saw the clown's hamster escape before it went everywhere

having such nice neighbors

Adelie started to like the clown

having a friend over

getting most of my homework done in Algebra class

watching the Lorax w/popcorn

9/15/12

The winner is...

For the photo contest, I had 7 entries. Thank you everyone for entering. I loved all these photos, but I had to pick one.

Michlyn's

Rachel's

Alexandria's

Emma's

Noelle's

Mandie's

Chastity's

The winner is...

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Emma at Rescue the Orphans

I love her sweet sister's face with the pretty blue dress. The wooden chair outside was a great setting. Congratulation Emma!

9/14/12

Milky Way

(Images from google)

Isn't our God amazing?

Hebrews 11:3 - "By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible."

The Milky Way is 100,000 light years long. Light travels fast. So if light were to travel over that one galaxy it would take that light 100,000 years to cross it!!! Milky Way has at least 100 billion maybe even 400 billion. God didn't stop at making one galaxy, He created lots more! Take a moment right now in your busy day to give thanks to God for his greatness.

9/12/12

Do - Re - Mi

For my voice lessons my teacher assigned me the song "Do - Re - Mi" from Sound of Music. This is one of my favorite songs and I love the movie.

Do - Re - MI

9/11/12

My blog in a nutshell

I made a little photo of words that describe my blog.

9/9/12

Photo Challenge!

I am hosting a photo challenge. The topic is: blue.

Examples:

Rules:
Take a photo of something blue
It must be a photo taken by you
Post the picture on your blog
Comment with the link
Only one entry per person
I am allowed to put your photo you entered on my blog

Prize:
Winner gets their button on my blog for a month.
If you do not have a button, I will be happy to make one for you.

You have to enter your entry by September 14th
Winner will be announced on September 15th

9/7/12

More Pictures...

At my co-op I am taking a Photography class. We went outside to the playground to practice taking pictures. Now when I am trying to take good photos, the playground is not what I would pick, but I thought I would share some of the pictures. What do you think?