Haha Halloween

Happy Halloween!!
Big changes have happened since Halloween 2009. Lets flashback to last year...

 

Some BIG changes and here we are in 2010...

 This was the best family picture we could get. Jovie is a bit of a monster.

Happy Halloween :)

Dare me??

Today something so cool happened! I had to roll down my windows, blare my radio, and sing my lungs out.
I heard a little radio promo about Switchfoot, and I started thinking about MFuge that I went to a couple of summers ago. At the summer camp the theme was "Dare to Move" and the theme song was obviously Switchfoot's Dare You To Move! I looooooove this song, and have since it was on the Walk To Remember soundtrack in 8th grade! (I didn't catch the religious message back then). ANYWAY, I thought I really want to go home and listen to that song, I kid you not the next song that played was Switchfoot, Dare You To Move!! I was sooo excited. Especially because during the promo I was thinking about how that song's message is just the "dare" I need right now.

These lyrics explains my life to the T!

"The tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be"

Check out the music video here.

Halloween Dance

So this Friday StuCo is hosting our middle school Halloween Dance... I am just now starting to look for costumes and so far this has been my best find...

 

Pretty funny in my opinion!! 

This is my favorite!...I wonder if R-dawg would do it?? 

I also like this one...

Honeycrisp

Biggest. Best apple EVER!

Fireflight - For Those Who Wait

Funny how much changes in just a few days.
This is where I am now.



"Just know there is a purpose...For those who wait"

Chris Tomlin - I Will Follow - Lyrics

Such a great song. It has literally been stuck in my head for days...I wonder why...??

Lifting Arms

Tonight I finally made a decision about were to send the funds from Lifting Arms. Follow me here...Ryan's somewhere down the line cousin, also Ryan's cousin Meagan's sister-in-law (not sure how that works), Jessica is adopting a special needs child.  It was an easy decision to give to them! Check out her blog for more about their story.                                         http://jeremiah18-4.blogspot.com/

Namby Pamby

So. Today Ryan and I decided not to do any research on our upcoming decision. No internet research, but I focused a lot on the bible and talked to a couple of people about our decision. I am hardly even nervous about this anymore, but Ryan might not be on the same page. Maybe because we just got on the page like Saturday. I am a bit of a go getter once I make up my mind about something. I recently read a blog of Ryan's cousins and it was incredible inspiring. I just can't get over some of the stories she has shared on her blog of things that God has done so physically in her life. I also can't get over how SIMILAR some of her situation and our situation are!  She has posted about things that we are fearing right now. It is just great how God put her blog in my life. I feel like such a techie talking about God putting blogs in my life! Ha.

A conversation I had with my brother brought up question in my mind. I told him that I like to talk to people that think like I do. What that basically means is that I like to talk to people who I know will be supportive of what  I am saying? Is this being too selective??  I just feel like I don't want to hear negativity. I know negativity is totally unavoidable, so I am glad I have people that will be supportive in most of my crazy ideas. I guess the answer to my question is this: Talk to lots of supportive  people BEFORE you talk to the ones you know will be negative, so then when you hear the negative you will be strong from the support!


Here is what I want to leave you with today:
"Too long have we been waiting for one another to begin! The time for waiting is past!...Should such men as we fear? Before the whole world, aye, before the sleepy, lukewarm, faithless,namby-pamby Christian world, we will dare to trust our God...and we will do it with His joy unspeakable singing aloud in our hearts. We will a thousand times sooner die trusting only in our God than live trusting in man" -C.T. Studd

This is bananas.

God is so big. I was just literally dancing down the hall with excitement in seeing what he is revealing to me. I can hardly contain my excitement. When I am not just utterly excited, I am utterly terrified. It is a very thin line that I can cross within mere seconds. Ryan and I have had a whirlwind of a weekend. Everything started on Thursday. We have been felt to do seriously like 3 different life callings. LOL. It is bizarre. The main and most important thing they all three have in common is International and helping God's less fortunate people. People that do not have clean water to drink. Could you imagine not having clean water??? I mean jsut today I threw away like 5 water bottles, NOT even empty!!! We are so wasteful, and there are people who don't have an ounce of clean water??? How can we sit and be okay with that??  I am not fully ready to explain exactly what Ryan and I are praying about doing, but it is as we keep saying. Crazy. Are we really crazy? Compared to lots of our family and friends- absolutely.

Here is what I am feeling like leaving you with today.
"If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?" Proverbs 24:12 World English Bible

Beth Moore.

So I had this whole blog filled with my "underlined" quotes from the Beth Moore "It's Tough Being a Woman" bible study. Then I thought it very well could be considered copyright, so I deleted it. Bummer. I did save them though so I would have the quotes all in one place!  Anyway. I read today in Mark about the father who's son (i think) had been possessed. That is CRAZY for me to think of that!!

On the menu tonight is........drum roll please.......

GUMBO!!!

Woo-hoo! I am so stoked. Ryan's mom is cooking which is ever better!!

Fall into Christmas!!

I am just so excited that it is Fall and Christmas is just around the corner! I have already started a wish list!

  

The iHome to bring to school OR outside on pretty days like today.

 Just Dance because it is fun! I would have to borrow my brother Wii, but they never use it!

My BIG item list this year would probably be this Olympus PEN! 

Ahhh... A girl can dream....

Fall Pie

Our teacher's lounge ALWAYS has fundraisers. The most recent one was a pie/cheesecake fundraiser. This got me really in the mood for some apple pie. I usually don't like pie, but something in me sparked the desire. Anyway I got a killer recipe from a friend and here is how it all went down...

Tried to peel using this. Completely unsuccessful.

So I used this simple thing ...

Yummmmmm! It was delicious!  Not the most visually appealing, but it was tasty. 

A definite Thanksgiving dessert.

Painting!

So as Ryan and I were driving down the street, I found a chair in the road I just had to have. Here it is...

I initially thought its home would be in our foyer. However, after examining my poor paint job I realized it might fit in better outside. So here is its home...

I plan to get a little table and maybe a flower pot to put next to it.I also want to get a cute seat cushion to cover up the un-level seat. This is a chair for looking at, not sitting in.

Anyway, this is my little attempt at seeing potential in ugly furniture.

Do dogs need dog friends??

The question of the day for this Thompson household is…Would Jovie be a better dog if she had a friend??? We are slowly starting to consider this an option.  I would definitely not get another big dog. She fulfils that role excellently. I would however like a small dog, not tiny, but small. On one hand I would really like a lil pup I could carry around and cuddle with, but the other thinks this is an INSANE idea! Can we really handle another dog??????? Hmm…I guess we will see how this turns out.