july in review || hello august

July was such a great month, I don't even know where to start! From the wonderful 4th of July I had to my seventeenth birthday, it was awesome!

I got my own car!!! (new post coming soon :D )



Jason, Katy, and the three girls (and Napoleon) left to move out West. I miss them more than you can imagine.



I celebrated the 4th of July with my wonderful family and friends! It was soooo much fun! :D

Daddy took us to the VA Historical Society and to the VA Holocaust Museum.



I wrote a letter to President Donald Trump and Barron Trump!! I hope that I get a reply back!



I celebrated my seventeenth birthday!



I started learning the upright bass! It's so much fun! :)

I have 45 followers! :D

 



my car

going to a local bookstore and getting five books for $4.00


getting to see my Uncle, Aunt, and cousins

riding in the boat and going for an evening walk with my cousins ^

milkshakes at Sonic



homemade iced coffee



emailing a friend from England!

phones and facetime so we can talk to Jason, Katy, and the girls out west :D

all the phone calls, comments, emails, letters, and packages for my birthday! thank y'all so much!!!

visiting with missionaries and their adorable children

Daddy buying us each a Frosty at Wendy's!





get to Nehemiah in my Bible reading

try a new recipe

get to 22 hours in my driving time

take a picture I'm proud of

pass out 20 gospel tracts

 

I hope that August is a wonderful month!



 

 

 

how was your july? what are some things you did this month?
your favorite thing about july? what are some of your goals for august?

a graduation + busy days

I have been SUPER DUPER busy lately. Everything about June so far has been busy. It started out with my going to my best friend's graduation! It was so much fun! She asked me and a few other girls to play "How Great Thou Art" with her for her graduation. Even though I was really, really nervous, I felt so honored that she asked me to play with her at her graduation!

(This picture was taken right before the graduation (sorry its so blurry))
While we were eating lunch together on Sunday, I was asked to come and stay with them from Wednesday through Saturday since my Daddy and Abigail's Daddy were going on a Baptist History tour and Daddy would be going to their house anyway. I was SOOOOO EXCITED!!!!
Wednesday didn't come fast enough. Finally, it was Wednesday morning and Daddy and I were on our way to my best friend's house. I had such a fun time with Abigail and her family!!! I don't think they will ever know how much fun I had!!



(while I was there, we went four wheeling. EEEPPP!!! :D )

I've been reading a lot of books. Abigail and her brother filled me up with tons of books to read. I'm going to try and read them all before July 4th, which is when Abigail's whole family is coming up to stay with us! YAY! I CANT WAIT!! :D

I might be starting to teach a new girl piano! Its up in the air right now on their end, but if they want to do it, I'll probably be starting sometime in July. I have mixed feelings about it. Most of me is really excited, but some of me is quite nervous. I mean, she is a beginner and I will be building her foundation for piano. But she seems like a real nice little girl and I hope it works out.

We've been really busy with house hold work. Getting things done that we haven't been able to get done because of busy times.
We've been doing some deep cleaning inside and outside, mulching, filling some ditches around the house with stone, pulling weeds, and etc.
Us girls spent the whole morning in the kitchen today, and quite possibly will be spending our whole evening in there too, because of our Father's Day meal tonight! It is going to be delicious! (Maybe I'll do another post on this on Monday. We shall see. ;) )



 

 

 

what have you been up to lately?
have you been doing a lot of reading?

may in review || hello june

WOAH!!! I cannot believe that may is over. It went by way to fast in my opinion. But it was a good month.

We had a party at my church celebrating Daddy being pastor for fifteen years!

We got new chickens! Six to be exact and they're red sex links! They're so cute and they've actually started laying!

We had a "favorite things party" for Mothers Day with the ladies in our church! It was so much fun and I got Katy's gift she brought. Coffee M&M's and iced coffees!!

I finally was able to go to Spotsylvania Battlefield

I have 37 followers!! Yay!!!

I almost went white water rafting, but there were really bad storms and they closed the whole place down because of flash flooding. :(

My chicken holding my hand! EEEEPPP!!! :D

a cold coke in a glass bottle (with peanuts mmm... :D )

root beer floats

running through the fields at Spotsylvania Battle field and picking wildflowers

reading in the car

picnics

babysitting my nieces

my doggie, Gideon

I didn't do quite as good as I did in April, but I was still happy!

read two new books. Check. I actually read three!

try a new recipe. Check.

read Joshua through the book of Ruth in my Bible. Check. I'm almost finished  I Samuel

pass out 20 Bible tracts. I did not do very good with this, so I'm going to try again in June.

finish 11th grade so i can start my Summer. I'm almost finished.

be ready for my piano recital in June. Almost there, but not quite yet.

 



finish school

go for a bike ride

pass out 20 gospel tracts

start exercising

get to 40 followers (help me guys :D )

 

Also, Happy Memorial Day, y'all! I hope everybody has a wonderful day!



 

 

 

what was your favorite thing about may?
what are some of your goals for june?