Day 10 {20 More Days To Go!!}

10.A picture of the person you do the most crazy things with

One of my bffs, Miranda! We can get pretty crazy!

You can check out Miranda's blog

                                                                               *here*

Love,
Josie

Day 9

9.A picture of the person who has gotten you through the most:

My mommy <3

Recently I came across an amazing song... It's called "You Can Have Me" by Sidewalk Prophets and the lyrics have been a challenge for me to surrendor my life fully to God... Take a look at some of the lyrics:

If I saw You on the street and You said come and follow me
But I had to give up everything, I once held dear and all of my dreams
Would I love You enough to let go
Or would my love run dry when You asked for my life
When did love become unmoving
When did love become unconsuming
Forgetting what the world has told me
Father of love, You can have me, You can have me

Aren't they amazing... I highly recomend this song!

Love

Josie

Days 7-8

7.A picture of your most treasured item:
My camera :)

8.A picture that makes you laugh:
This is Michael Tait and I, for more info, scroll down....

We went to the Winter Jam tour in  Grand Rapids on Sunday... It was my first ever concert and it was AH-MAZING!!!!! Whoa! What a night.. But the above picture is of me asking Michael Tait of Newsboys if I could touch him... I wasn't able to while he was preforming so i waited 1/2 hour in line to meet him. Let me say, it was worth it! My hand smelled like the Newsboys for awhile after... *sigh* It was amazing!

I loved it all and want to go back next year!

Here's a pic of Chris August and I

When I went up to Chris August to have him sign me Winter Jam shirt, this is what happened:

Me: You were amazing! I love your shoes!

Chris: Thank you! You know what? I love *you*! Wait. That sounded wierd. We just met!

hahaha, it was awesome! :)

We where in the 4th row from the stage and even though my camera lens' zoom was awful, I got some awesome pictures! Below is my fav one of Michael Tait preforming "Way Beyond Myself"... Don't you just LOVE the Newsboys? hehehe But they preformed allt he songs I hoped they would, I loved everything.... :)

Love,

Josie

Day 5

6.A picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day:

Taylor Swift.. I love her style, voice and I love how she writes all her songs!! :) *sigh* she's awesome!

PS Last night me and my mom and sisters did henna {a natural way to dye/tint your hair and I chose to do red... Here's a picture of before and after, tell me what you think! :)

Love,
Josie

Days 3 and 4

4. A picture of your favorite night:
The opening night of "It's a Wonderful Life" and also my b-day {tho, I don't have a picture of that :/}

5.A picture of your favorite memory:
Taking my first picture with my Canon Rebel T1i :)

Day 3 :)

3.A picture of the cast from your favorite show

My favorite show is "NCIS: Los Angeles"! An awesome, awesome show...

"The Mentalist" is a awesome one too! :)

Love,

Josie

30 Day Challenge- Day 2

2.A picture of you and the person you have been closest with the longest

My BFF Bridget... I've known her since I was like two! And we're *thiiiisss* close ;)

By the way, I'm the one holding the Bridget ;)

30 day challenge

Hey guys! I did the 30 day challenge on Facebook and I though it might be fun to do here on my blog... And it will give something to post about everyday! So here we go: Day 1.

1. A picture of yourself with 10 facts

- I'm a grammer and spelling freak. It doesn't mean I don't have typos though! {that is why spell-check is a friend ;)}

- I'm a homeschooled freshman in high school

- I LOVE theater!! In case you haven't picked that up. hehehe

- I have almost every kind of music on my iPod except rap... I'm hoping to get some Lecrae sooon! :)

- I LOVE thrift store shopping.... You can find sooo many good things in those stores!

- I'm 5'10" and 1/4" tall

-  I have brown freckles on my face, I love how they make me unique {I don't know many people w/ them :)}

- I don't exactally know what color my eyes are.

- I love food! I could never be anorexic, which can be a good thing! :)

- I am a born-again Christian.

Question????

I have a blogger question: *has anyone else had problems commenting*???? I can't comment, like I write my comment and then go to click the "comment" button and it doesn't comment. At. All. I'll go look at the help section, but i was wondering if any of you have had this problem.
Thanks! :)
Josie

Update About Bryan and His Family in Japan!

Okay, so I'm sorry I didn't post about this earlier but, I just didn't. *hehe* But  Mr. Bryan and the two students decided to go back to Japan to be with their families and left on Wednesday morning... At the airport the local news station interviewed Mr. Bryan about what was going on over in Japan w/ his family! Mr. Bryan was a great witness to God and the interview went fantastic!

We haven't heard whether or not they made it home safe, or not. The radiation levels have increased highter than normal where Mr. Bryan lives so they have been told to stay inside... But PLEASE keep praying for their safety... Especially since they have 3 young children...

Here's a picture of Mr. Bryan at breakfast one of the days they stayed here

The one "American food" that Mr. Bryan missed was pizza! Hence the cold pizza for breakfast...

*Below* the group that stayed w/ us {Mr. Bryan, Gorgugo, and Yamato} before they left to go to the airport

A Magnificant Love Story-Pt. 2

Remember when I shared Part 1 of Brittany's love story??? {if not you haven't seen it, you can see it*here* }  Well, here's part 2!!! :)

The Awesome Necklace I LOVE!

Have any of you heard of *Ruche*? If not, you are missing out on some big time drooling!!!!! That store is almost as bad as Etsy in the terms of you are bond to find a whole bunch of things you *love* yet can't buy... The problem w/ me and that store is that the dresses are GORGEOUS but too short for me, I've been blessed with being *very* tall. :) I love being tall but finding storebought dresses that actually are long enough is awful!

But, my mom got me a adorable necklace that I loved... You can see it *here*... Well actually I wasn't supposed to know about it, it was going to be a Easter present, but the box came while she was away and I knew she got something from Ruche and I had a hunch it was the neckalce but I wasn't sure soooooo, I did what you probably would: I opened the box and saw the necklace and tried it on and I loved it all over again... Here are some pics of it I took ;)

Here it is again {below} with some of my bracelets.... :)

Bubbles

We had a gorgeous day yesterday... Sunny and 35*... *sigh* it was lovely. And everything is starting to melt and I got this interesting picture while taking a long walk... I love the perspective of it! :)

Can you see me? :)

I love the simplicity of this shot....

Pray For Japan!

*UPDATE* We have just found out that another reactor blew up, this time it is more serious and closer to Bryan's home.... Bryan and the guys who came w/ him are out tonight and we haven't been able to get ahold of him to tell him what has been going on. His wife would like him to come home but we don't know if that is possible, but the family is in more danger now, PLEASE PRAY!!!!!!

I'm sure many of you have heard of the devastation in Japan this past weekend, it's all so terrible. Our church has a missionary family that we support in Japan and they weren't effected by the earthquake {thank you Lord!} but they are somewhat close to a nuclear plant.

While all this happened on Friday, on Thursday the dad of the missionary family {Bryan} and two Japanese college students that Bryan has reached out to, came to America, well, not *just* America... Our house. They came to the U.S. for a global outreach celebration at out church this upcoming weekend. They actually are staying for 10 days at our house! It's been alot of fun hearing about their ministry over in Japan!

But on Friday morning as we were getting ready to leave for our co-op at Delta, my mom was checking her e-mail and saw a new article about the earthquake. Bryan read it and explained where exactly the earthquake was in relation to their home, while the two students read the article in Japanese on the computer. :) But as I said, the rest of the family still in Japan are okay, but they are somewhat worried about the nuclear power plants because they have 3 small children and it's it really hard for the mom as she is trying to make all the decisions without her husband by her side. But thankfully Bryan has been able to talk w/ her every morning about what is happening...

But having them here has made this disaster more *real* and *close to home* for us all, but it must be really hard for Bryan as he isn't even on the same continent as his family. I don't think it was coincidental that they are here now as this is happening, my family and I have a big opportunity to be a shining light to our friends from Japan after their world has been turned upside down!

Prays not only for his family and Bryan, but also for the people of Japan are desperately needed at this time!!!! Thank you! :)

Love,
Josie

A Magnificant Love Story...

The kind of love story I described in the tittle is not a written story by a human author, well He is an author, but He has written *your* story in detail, I'm talking about our heavenly Father... He has written each of our love stories and they are more amazing than each of us can imagine.

My dear friend Brittany has been an very close friend the past 3 years even though there is a 6 year age gap between us :). I have watched her go from a recent home schooled high school graduate, to a college student, to a stay at home daughter who teaches piano and riding lessons, and finally a newlywed wife. I've watched her love story unfold just as God had written it...

She has just written a "Part 1" of what has happened in her love story, it is quite amazing! I actually was with her the first time she saw John {who is now her husband} after the event when they first met. I actually didn't know what to think about him. I mean he was nice, very outgoing and he was very funny! Pretty soon they became serious and I didn't know how to feel about it... And then they became even *more* serious and I got confused and kind of upset, and then they got married. I was definitely not that excited right after I found out, it was a big change with a friend who had always been a constant in my life. But now, my eyes have been opened and I'm soooo very excited for them! :)

Here is "Part 1" in Brittany's love story, I'll share "Part 2" as soon as it's posted!

Please check it out!

Love,
Josie

*below* I took this picture of my sister's horse {yes, we now have a horse, I don't like it that much :/} and layered a picture of a page of my journal over it, I like how it turned out... What do you think?

Love...

I've been reading through the New Testament in 90 days, it's gone well so far... I'm learning so much from just reading and mediating on God's word. Lately I've been reading 1 Corinthians and here are some of my favorite "love" verses that I've been reading:

"Love is patient and kind: love does not envy or boast: it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hope all things, endures all things..." 1 Cor. 13:4-7

"Love never ends..." 1 Cor. 13:8

"So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love..." 1 Cor. 13:13



Tattered and Worn

Those shoes were my Grandma Cindy's... She wore them for a highschool dance and since then they have been well loved...I have loved stomping around her house wearing those elegant shoes, brings back alot of good memories of my Grandma Cindy, I miss her sooo much :(

I remember the shoes were kept in a toy trunk at her house... I would peak into the trunk and see them, beckoning for me to try them on and play...

The dress she wore with the shoes was a silver grey with red crinolin undreneath, it must have looked gorgeous, the colors of the dress have to be left up to my imagination beacuse the only picture we have of it is black and white. But leaving it up to my imagination makes it more exciting and elaborate...

Is there anything that you can only imgine about it? Do tell!
Love,
Josie

I'm a Canon Girl...

As of today I am a Canon girl... my camera came and it is AMAZING!!! Wow! It was totally worth the wait! :)