Stupendous Skating Situations...

Well, due to my wonderful Mother buying my an early Christmas present... I am now the proud owner of these pretty skates!!
Since I acquired them on Saturday... and am unable to actually skate... I need to learn, so what is a girl to do?
Well, THIS girl talked to her friends and a few of them graciously offered to teach her. So today during public skating today, Kyla took me skating... and (according to her) I didn't do too badly...
Yes, I did hang onto the boards, but I did NOT FALL AT ALL!!

So hopefully by the time we have our church Christmas party (in less than 2 weeks) I should be a pretty good skater... (by the grace of God)

I've included 2 pictures of my pretty skates, there will be more to come of me in them... but for now this is what I have...

God bless and goodnight!

Sweet and Scrumptious Saturday

Well, I'm off to an exciting Grey Cup party tomorrow... thanks to my College and Career group at church...

"What am I to bring to a football game party?" you may ask...
Well, I am making...

Chocolate Toffee Trifle

1 box Devil's Food Cake Mix
1 package instant chocolate pudding mix
2 cups milk
6 Crispy Crunch bars, frozen wrapped
2 cups heavy whipping cream, whipped

Bake the cake in a 13 by 9-inch baking pan according to the package's directions. Pour pudding into a bowl and mix according to directions. Leave bars in wrappers and pound with a hammer to crush.

In a very large pretty Trifle dish or glass bowl, layer in this order:
1/2 the cake cubes
1/2 the pudding
1/2 the whipped cream
1/2 the C.C. bars

Repeat layers. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.

I am currently making this recipe as I type this, so I will post a picture as soon as it's all assembled...

God bless and enjoy!

Sunny Sunday of a Wacky Weekend

Yes.. I do realize that it is already Monday... but I wanted to use this title...

This weekend was fun... I spent almost the ENTIRE weekend with Lauren... having tonnes of fun and making even more memories!!

But Sunday... that was an UNBELIEVEABLY amazing day...
It started with Lauren coming to church with me, followed by an awesome sermon.
Then around 3:00 I headed to my Grandma's house, my dad was there and we ate supper and then played MANY rounds of UNO... it was a great time.
I was really nervous about seeing my dad and grandma, but the whole way there (it was in Stony Mountain) I was just praying that it would be a good time and that God's hand of wisdom and guidance would be present in our conversation...
It was so awesome... then PJ and Stacy arrived a little later and we continued to play UNO among stories and jokes and much laughter... it was quite an enjoyable evening!
I left my Grandmother's around midnight and got home shortly before 1:00...
When I got home, there was a phone message from a dear friend of mine... We hadn't talked (phone or in person) since August... I miss her so much, but it was so good to talk on the phone with her for almost an hour and just share our hearts with each other. God has such an awesome plan and calling on her life, and I'm so glad to be one of her friends so that I can share in the enjoyment of the journey with her!!

Anyway... it was really good... and I'm still trying to recooperate on all the sleep that I lost this weekend... many late nights, and not much sleeping in...

God bless you all, I hope you all had a great weekend as well!

Xoxo

wonderfly wordy wednesday!

well, i went out last night with a really good friend of mine...
*WINK*
but anyway... in the midst of conversation i said a word that sounded
great in conversation that isn't really (technically) a word.
Ok, so here's the word...

AWKWARDFY

meaning - to make more awkward...

does that make sense??

would you ever use this word in conversation??
let me know!

totally tuesday (thoughts from a scatterbrain)

Do you ever think where you would be if you would have made different choices in life, or if other people's decisions would not have affected you?
I do... quite often, not that I like to dwell on things that are not real, or that are untrue. But sometimes I get so wrapped up in others' decisions that I almost let my own life pass me by!

I am sick of living a life that I am not living!

As some of you may know, and others not, I am a journaler... not journalist.
I write in my journal usually once a day, sometimes more.
If it wasn't for these small books of memories, I think I would have completely transferred over into a reality world, separate from my own...

So, last night as I sat journaling, I flipped back in my journal and read some of my entries as an anticipating bride, longing for my wedding day... then I looked at the page I was writing on, a single girl, unmarried....

The hurts in our lives cut so deep sometimes they seem impossible to forget and move past. Especially when we are constantly faced with our feelings and emotions...

**there is a positive note to all my rambling, just let me get there**

I finished talking about my day, and things that are happening in my life right now, then I heard God's voice, and I flipped to the back of my journal and started writing:

I am a child of God! Perfect in HIS sight and capable of all things through HIS Son! In HIM I find my strength and my identity! With HIS perfect love I have no fear, and HIS grace is enough for me! HIS mercies are new every morning!

How profound... these things that I've heard all my life, becoming truth in my heart and mind!

I pray that these words of truth would be imbeded in all of your hearts and minds as well, and that you would remember that you are a child of the KING! and HE loves you so much! (and so do I) :D

thinking thursday

well, seeing as how that all I've posted so far are some awesome recipes... I thought it was time that my blog and i shared a heart-to-heart...
i know that a number of you have been praying for me through this past spring and summer, and i really think that i am doing better... sometimes other times, i feel like i'm still in the midst of the emotions and hurt and pain... and then i just cry...
the biggest factor in healing is my Saviour... without him, i know i wouldn't have made it this far... HE's so AMAZING!!
i know as my family and friends that you all care about me, and don't get me wrong, i appreciate it SO much... but if you guys care so much... how much MORE does HE care? i mean think about it, HE makes sure the sparrows have enough to eat all through our manitoba winters... if HE can care about a bird... how much more does HE care for me... one HE made in HIS image...
Sometimes it's so hard for me to grasp this foreign concept that i'm made in HIS image... because for so long i pictured GOD as a taskmaster... waiting for me to screw up so HE could hit me with a lightning bolt... but... as i've been learning through my late teens, and now into adulthood... HE actually CARES!!
one testiment to this caring is this summer... i was staying up in the girls dorm, by myself (until you came Beth... and i loved having you there) being by myself often did not provide the escape from my emotions and hurts... so i cried myself to sleep most nights... but this one night as i was laying in my bed, crying, GOD spoke to me and said, "why don't you ask ME to comfort and hold you?"
i continued to lay there and cry... eventually i whispered my prayer, "Father, please hold me"
as i continued to cry i actually felt arms around me. i felt like HE had scooped me up like you would hold a baby to soothe them when they cry... that's how HE held me, and rocked me until i fell asleep...
GOD is so awesome... i love HIM so very much!

GOD bless each one of you! be encouraged... HE cares for you!!
Psalms 55:22 and 1 Peter 5:7 are God's written testiment to this!

love ya