Lake Junaluska,,,,,,its over. :(

Well, my AWESOME week at Junaluska is over. It was AWESOME~!!!!!!!! I just loved it up there. Tuesday was the talent show and it rocked! And thanks to God, so did I!!!! It was awesome being up on that stage singing! Wensday, there was an orgen concert.....was not that exciting for me. Now Thrusday ticked me off. It started off good with the rehersing for the concert. Then we had alot of time for ourselves. Then the concert came and that was awesome. Then it was time for the youth dance. Now they got my email of songs i wanted played, and they played them....when there was only 5 people there! Then it was back to everyone elses music when everyone was there. Then get this.....Soldja boy started playing. Witch i got kinda mad at but danced to it with my version of it in my head...refusing to sing that stupid version. Then i heard all the cuss words in the song! The DJ was stupid enough to play that song.....AND WITH THE CUSS WORDS!!!!!! I almost went off on him but i just let it go. A few more songs played, some of the line dance songs that we all like. Then i could not believe the song that came next, and everyone was singing and danceing to. The song "I kissed a girl" comes blaring thru the speakers and EVERYONE is singing it. I ran out of the room in disblife! Like this is a CHRISTIAN retreat and this is the kind of music we pick to play for kids 10 to 19 to listen to!? I went off on the DJ then. I asked him why he played it. He said someone requested it. And i told him i did not think that was the kind of music to be played in a christian envioment. He told me that if i were to pay him, he would play some "Chrisitan envirment music". I was like...UGH!!!!!!!! And went back to my hotel room. I hated it! But that was really the only BAD thing about it.

Life is Good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Life is so good right now! Im on the tird floor, sitting in a rocking chair looking at the mountains from the balcany. How much sweeter can life get!!!!!!! Well Junaluska is turning out to be better then the past two years i have been here. I guess thrid times a charm. LOL! The paster talked today about God invading your personal space. How we are always in our comfert zone, our own little space. But how God has other plan for us. To get out of our comfert zone, so he invades our space by getting us to new places. This lession was very powerful for me. This one song we are doing kinda fits that tone of the sermen called "Go light your world". Its just really pretty! Thats my favorit of the 6 songs we are doing. I really feel the Holy Sprit moving in me! Giving my voice to go higher then a 2 sapraano! lol. To like a 1st................and thats HIGH!!!!!! lol! So yea im having alot of fun here. I met up with an online firend and that was sweet! She came over here, we played pool, and we went back to my hotel room and we just hing out for a few hours. Im hoping to see her again this week before we go back to where we live. God is just so cool on how He can take a girl from Cali, and a girl from Florida, and put them in the same state, same town, same week. How awesome is that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And God is just so powerful! I just love the view of the mountions that i have! I love,love , love love love love love love love LOVE the view here!!!!!! Good thing its only monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cause im not ready to leave this!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, thats all i have for you now! Gonna see a drama thing tonight! ITs gonna be SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bye and God bless......love you all!

Sweet Home Junaluska!

"Sweet home Junaluska, where the lake is so blue. Sweet home Junaluska, im acoming back to you!" Yes the time is here to go to Lake Junaluska in North Carolina!!!!! I am super excited! I love that place so much! I just hope i can be more at peace with God this year then i was last year. Its so pretty, the lake, the smoky mountions, the fog when you wake up in the morning, the.....EVERYTHING!!!!!! Im hoping to have alot of time with God while im there. So many spots to pick from! LOL! Plus we have the talent show and the concert! AW MAN! I need to write about Junaluska every day! Yes i will have my laptop with me so i will keep you updated! Im just so excited! We just finished packing, Brandons gonna have an air card for me and him so i can be online while in the car on the road. And i cant wait to see old friends again. Plus an online friend my family and I are gonna meet up with! This is gonna be the best vacation EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any way, who ever may read this before tomorrow, please pray for a safe trip and same fun. need to do a few things then go to sleep! Good night everyone!

Journal......................

i had no idea it would be so painful to fill up a journal!!!!! LOL! I had this one journal for a year. And its been thru everything with me. the laughs, joy,tears,up times and so on and so forth. And i just filled up the last page today!!!!!!!!!!! So yea. I never really understood why people wrote in a journal untill i got one. Now im on the serch for a new journal that i can fill with my up and down times, my prayers, my laughs, joys, sorrows, and everything else. I just love having a journal that you can just write everything in when something is wrong. Your deepest thoughts are safe in writing and no one can see them. I was looking thru the pages of my journal before i put it on my bookshelf, i saw all the up times with God i had, the times i was really down, the first draft poems, the randomness, the things that friends put on one page while i was not looking, untill i caught them and almost raised hell. lol...........good times. You know, in a way, i think your jouranl is your best friend! IT knows everything about you! So this blog is for my filled up journal!!! Im gonna miss you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VBS week................

Sorry I did not post about VBS the rest of the week but nothing really that exciting happened. 2nd day was Moses goong to tell pharo to let his people go, and I was the queen so i had stuff thrown at me by the kids. Day 3, was when God takes the first born of every family. We had the kids paint red lines on the paper before entering the house, and when the "angle of death" came, i had to act like a person walking around, have the angle kill me, and fall. Most of the kids just laughed. 4th day, Was Jesus............yea.......weird going from Moses to Jesus. But yea. We did a last supper kind of thing. We were all bored trying to think about what we could do for third group, our worst group. So i had the idea of putting salt in the grape juice shots we had for them. Everyone loved the idea so we did it. So when 3rd group came, we had everything set up, then when the kids drank the grape juice, NOTHING HAPPENED! NO "EWWWWW" no reaction, nothing! We waited too long. There were a few that did have the taste, and only two kids got that.......so we failed in out prank. Ans day 5, was moses spliting the red sea. We took the kids down to the tunnel we have at my church, and we had the kids run thru, and me and another helper were in this little cubby hole the tunnel has, and as the kids ran by, we sprayed them with fresh water and salt water. That was great!!!!!! Thats always fun! So yea, thats really all that happened durring VBS. But it was alot of fun. Cant wait for next years VBS.

VBS......DAY 1!!!!

o wow. VBS day 1 was AWESOME!!!!!! But one thing is that im never gonna do drama again cause i have to miss my favorite parts of the day. The opening and closing! I have to miss opening to go over what we are gonna act out, and closing so we can set up for the next day. :(. But we had some very "interesting" kids in drama today! The story wasa moses and the burning bush, you know, when God told him to free his people from pharo and all that.......yea. WELL, we had a pretty cool burning bush, and a place for the kids to sit and all that. So we had the first 3 groups come in for the first showing...lol. There was this one little girl who kept scream " That did not really happen! I know the true history!" I was trying my best not to laugh! I was dying inside! So yea, Then we had 2 groups come in for the 2nd showing. And it goes good then we ask the kids what the hardest thing for them to do. This one little girl said "Its hard for me to hurt mother nature cause it comes from God and I come from God!" LOL! I was laughing trying to hold it in but i failed! I had to cough to hide my laugh!!! So im just waiting to see what the little girl had to say about tomorrows story. Its when Moses goes back to egpet and has the plages go thru egept to convince Pharo to let everyone go. Now what i find weird about the week regarding the stories. This does not sound right. MOnday.......Moses. Tuseday........Moses. Wensday.......Moses. Thrusday.....Jesus. Friday......Moses. Like what in the world......we have 3 moses stoies.....we skip a few hundered years to Jesus.....then back to moses again......THAT MAKES NO SENCE!!!!!!!!!!!! But we have to follow it.....we have no other way to do it....we have to follow it!

Pre Vacation Bible School (VBS)

YES! At last the day is almost here! One of the reasons why i look forward to summer....its VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL!!!!!! VBS is a kids program we do at my church for pre schools thru 5th grade. It really is alot of fun and so many kids get to learn about God! Its awesome! This years theam is Crocadile Dock. Or as i like to call it...Croc Dock. lol. Im so excited! The songs are so much fun and im doing drama! I get to act for everyone! WOOT! Im really excited. Our bible point for tomorrow is "God loves us" and everyone has to shout in responce "FEAR NOT!!!!" Its really cute! I cant wait to start the first day! I have been doing good. Sorry i have not been on in a while but ive been kinda busy. Its been raining alot here and its kinda cool. lol. What else is new. o yea....some one stule my yearbook and ipod touch. :( a few days before school ended. But its ok i guess. I got in ALOT and i mean ALOT of trouble. But thats over with, and the yearbook is whatever, and i can always raise enough money to get a new ipod so its all cool. wow, thats all i have to say. Talk about a short blog for today BUT i will keep you all updated on each day of VBS, whats going on with it, what happened each day, and what mess ups we did in Drama! LOL. Bye and God bless! :)

Birthday Day!

YES! I am 17! WOOT! Thanks be to God. If it was not for Him, i might of been dead the day i was born. Long story.....lets just say i could not breath!!! But God healed me and now I am 17 and still working on God wants me to do! YAY! Today was great! I wore my crown to school and i got to be birthday/Gods princess. I had random people wish me a happy birthday and i only had two classes today! Durring last class teaceher said to go where ever we wanted. So on my way there, i ran into 3 friends. So i walked around a bit with them untill i came up to a calssroom that had two of my friend in there. I sais goodbye to my other friends and asked the teacher if i could stay in there. The teacher knows me well so she let me stay. So i chatted with my friends untill school was out. Then Blondie and I went to the 7/11 for monster....but they had none. I asked if they could restock for me cause it was my birthday, and he said if its my birhtday, he would give me a free slurpie of any size i wanted!!!!! So Blondie and I split it, and we got a big bag of cheetos. SO after that we headed back to school to wait for my mom to take us to the movies. BUt she took forever in her meeting so we went with Blondies mom to pubilx where Blondie got me a purple windchime with butterflys! Then we went to BK to have some lunch. Then we chilled at Blondies house till my mom picked us up. We got there and we saw the new night at the mussiam movie! IT WAS AWSOME! SO then after that, we went to........brace yourself...........HOT TOPIC!!!!! LOL! Blondie got a shirt for the New Moon movie coming soon. Then my mom was already there so we went to Cleirs. We got a neckless......one with a purple heart and one with a blue heart, and it says "Sisters at heart!" IT WAS PERFECT FOR ME AND BLONDIE!!!! And i got a black wrist band with a pick peace sign with silver rine stones on it. Then we went to Johnny Rockets. They sang to me happy birtday. and after a while we left to go home. Then it was time for cards and my gift. All the cards were purple......but the gift was not, I guess i can get over the fact that the gift is not purple because the gift was a LAPTOP that im typing on right now! How awesome is that!? Then we went out to dinner and i had a very emmbarcing birthday singing! But thats over. So now im home eating ice cream cake, in my PJs, Wearing my crown.....lol. and watching NCIS!!!!!! I just thank God that I am still alive today! THANK YOU LORD JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Final, school, rain, bike ride, God, and cell phone!

Yes,,,,quite alot to talk about! LOL!!!! Ill start with the final. I had my LAST FINAL TODAY!!!! WOOT! I dont think i did that well. It was math. But i suck at math! So yea. The rest of the school day was chill. I slept in english, threw paper air plains and paper balls at one antoher in 4th period. In acting we watched the rest of the finals....And my friend Jackie went. She had an awesome skit!!! Shes really good at acting. ok. Then we have rain. As soon as we got out of school, it started raining. OF CORSE i was in it. Lol! Blondie and I went to the 7/11 to go get a monster then i was trying to find my bro so he could take me home. After i got home, i changed into some PJs to get warm. So my mom had to leave so that left me alone. So i changed into some mathching PJs, slippers and went for a bike ride forr quite a while. First i road to my 2nd church and i ran into my friend Ashley who lives close by and we were chatting. After that i road to the park praying and when i got to the park, it was raining. So no one was there. I ended up swinging on the swing for quite a while singing to God. I just felt like all my sins were be washed away in the rain. I felt like God was saying to me "Shannon, your sins are forgivin. You are my child and I love you very much. Dont worry about your past sins anymore cause i have already fogoten them." No i did not hear a voice saying that, but its what i felt like he could have been saying. lol. So yea...I love my bike rides in the rain with the Lord. Its awesome! And last but not least....my cell phone. With being in the rain, it effected my cell phone. I can not hit the "talk" butten or hit "send" on my phone when it is fliped out. I can still send by flipping the phone back in. And i can do the long way of dialing someone. But it still works. Im hoping that my phone just drys up the water that is in it. Im gonna take the battery out and blow dry my phone to get the water out. I hope it works again because im not getting a new phone any time soon! And YAY!!!! First post of June! My birthday is in two days and yes youll hear from me tomorrow and then! Blog ya tomorrow. :) GOD BLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!