Crafty. :D

 Well, I was feeling crafty and stylish, so I created this. :)  I'm sorry the pics are so terrible, I was taking them on an iPod.

So, I can get bangles here for epicly cheap, and I just took five thin bangles and started wrapping embroidery thread around them. I did three colors, black, white and gray. Just knot ti when you start, wrap around, and I didn't do this, but I think I should have glued the end down when I finished it.

Mixed feelings

WARNING: This is gonna be rather long and confusing, rambling and weird. :P

It's 80+ and we can't turn the AC on bcuz it trips the power. I'm completly worn out, but don't want to sleep. My bottom hurts, but I'm too tired to get up. My brain hurts, so I don't want to write. I spilled perfume so my room smells like Bath and Bodyworks. I have a headache and my siblings are being loud.

But I have a bed underneath me, friends I'm chatting with, food, I'm no longer on an airplane (Halleluiah), I have a fan giving some cool air, and my cold has mostly cleared up. And I'm home. :)

I'm happy.=D

Well, the family is back in India. :) I don't know how, but I have seriously fallen completely in love with this country. I live in a city, so I've never even seen any of the beautiful parts of it, except the Taj Mahal. Where I live, it's dirty, hot, loud, frustrating, sad...the list goes on. So why do I love it? Because I love the people. They're so lost and I want to reach out and pull them out of prisons and cages that fill this country. I just wish I knew how to start.

Why am I happier here than in America? I think I kinda know. It's been dawning on my slowly the past few months, and I also read recently in a book that someone felt the same way. Life is easy in the U.S. It's too easy. It's easy to forget about God, to feel like you can do stuff "On your own". And I don't like it.
Another thing is (and this is really stereotypical, but it's what I have experienced) I don't like going to church in the U.S. because it's not as real. I don't know how to explain this, but the churches I've been to in India seem so passionate. In the States, it's more of going through the motions. :P I doubt all churches are like this, but that's what I have experienced. :(

Maybe I'm the only problem. I know I'm one of of the problems, anyway. :P

Sorry for making you read this. I had to get it out. :P

What are you guys going through? :D

Friendship

Friends are amazing. They're the people who will pick you up, encourage you, make you laugh, cry with you, let you be yourself and just be there to help you stand up through everything.
I'm so blessed with lots of friends. Tons of friends. :)
But sometimes it stinks to have so many friends. Like when you have to say good-bye to a really awesome friend. :( It hurts.
And sometimes the only thing thing that keeps me from crying my eyes out is the fact that Jesus is always with me, He is my best friend forever!! Even when I feel lost and lonely, He'll lift me up and encourage me.
Sometimes I honestly think I can't take another move, another time to leave people I love. And then God whispers to me: "With Me, all things are possible."
I can't do it. Not on my own. But with God I can do anything. :)

Matthew 19:26 - Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but God all things all things are possible."

Proverbs 17:17 - A friend loves at all times and a brother is born for a time of adversity.

Do you guys have a friend who's helped you out in a rough time?

Pics from our trip...

Mah best friend 4eva, Lil. :)

Holly getting her ears pierced!!

Cutest little face!!

Little girls goofing off in their tent. 

Us eating Chick-fil-a for the first time.

A flower. :)

The boys on a mission.....

Woot, woot!!!

I passed my test!! I have a learner's permit for driving!! =D You should have seen my Dad after I got it. He was so excited. :P And then he went and emailed this picture to EVERYONE and posted on Facebook. Grrrrr.....xD There's one minor  problem...the card doesn't come in the mail for one to two weeks. I have to wait until AUGUST!! =P

Hey, hey!!

So our time in the States is almost over. It's been really fun. We spent a weekend with the Herndon side, Mom and Dad went to Florida and Mexico for a week, we stayed up til about 4 am watching Star Wars, and I landed an airplane three times! =D

Mom and I took a Pinch Hitter course, which just means we know how to fly an airplane if an emergency happens. I don't mean big, commercial airplanes, I mean little planes. :) It's been really fun. I have one more flying session, and I'm looking forward to it. ^_^

When Mom and Dad were out of town, our cousins came over and we stayed up watching Star Wars. We couldn't get a hold of the Phantom Menace or Revenge of the Sith, but we watched the rest. Mac is actually the only one who lasted for all the movies.

When we went to Tulsa, all the kids camped out. The first night us older girls watched Harry Potter too. It was pretty creepy, because we watched it on a laptop in the tent, and then had to walk through the dark, cold, silent, eerie night to give the laptop back to the adults. But we braved the darkness and completed our mission. :]

Oh, and last night Holly, Dad and I went to a Newsboys concert. Anthem Lights, Abandon and the City Harmonic were there too. IT WAS SO COOL!!!! When they sang Jesus Freak, the drum set went up, then tilted until it was completely vertical, and then SPUN AROUND!! and he KEPT DRUMMING!! It was crazy. We went for Holly's birthday, and we got to meet Abandon, which was really awesome. One of my friends introduced me to them, and I bought one of their CD's awhile ago. Here's a link to one of my favorites by them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTY1dj4HOG0

And then, today, we went to see The Hunger Games. The book was better, but it always is. I would tell you more, but I will not spoil it. I would give it 7 stars out of 10.

So what'cha y'all up to?? xD

Poem

Hey y'all. This is a poem I wrote a while ago.


Lost and Found

I'm trapped in a maze of my questions,
Locked in room of uncertainties.
I keep praying for a map, a key.
I'm not getting an answer,
At least not one I can see.
I don't know where anymore,
It's getting harder to move.
Which way do I go, I'm so confused
I'm facing an army of doubts.
I need a sword,
Is it right in front of me?
Then I hear it, a whisper.
A quiet call that I've been ignoring.
A ray of sunlight shines through
My darkness is overpowered
The way is clear now,
Now I understand.
I'm letting go of my past life,
Following the Light.