Carnival Fun!

My little sister and I would pass by the carnival and say how much we would like to go. In my mind it was just wishful thinking, but to my surprise on a Monday night my parents said we could go. I enjoyed the piercing lights with their contrast against the black sky. The sounds of people enjoying themselves, and the machines whirling away. Some friends were visiting and we were able to go on Saturday as well! God is so good!

 My $5.00 cotton candy that I bought only for nostalgic reasons.

I get dizzy super fast. Spin twice and I'll start feeling dizzy! This ride called the Round Up is all about spinning! It starts completely level then spins until it is on its side. At one point it felt like the park was upside down. Of course I got on it! I must have a daring side after all.

 Little sisters favorite ride the spinning swings! 

This ride is similar to the Round Up just that you are sitting. When Kianna and I were little I remember her encouraging me to get on this ride and I did... I do not remember it being so 'scary'. It was definitely the most intense ride of the day! We were able to relive that childhood moment (this time I insisted on being on the inside so all my weight landed on her this time:) 

Over all we had a great time! My favorite moments were going on the ferris wheel with my very active and daring little cousin. Trying that what appeared super scary/ dizzing ride. The power going out (thankfully none of those in our group were on a ride) Screaming just cause you can! Though not a enjoyable feeling being dizzy at the end. 

Kianna's "Portraits"

I am finally writing a non book related post! I've been in writers block mode for too long. Last Saturday the weather was beautiful. We decided to go to the park and we met up with Kianna. Since our little sisters were busy swinging and our fathers pushing we decided to have an impromptu photo shoot.

We both agreed it is way easier watching Jasmine* doing the posing, than actually doing it ourselves. It was fun none the less!

Count Your Blessings: IG Style

Library Run With @kianna_rose/ Welcome To The Bronx Sign/ My Friend For [That] Day/

Liberty's Kids/ I ♥ Packages/ Drawing Faces/

Blog Pic./ Breakfast/ 18 Emails/

Target Run Getting Goodies/ Peach Rings and No Shoes in Car/ Yummy Food/ 

• Mom tried a new recipe. I told her Olive Garden would want the recipe:) She blogged it here.

• On Monday we did a major purging of our house. We finally gave our donations to the Salvation Army. We celebrated our tax anniversary (President's Day is when we do ours) Went did some shopping and returning.

• On Tuesday we went to my aunts house. We had loads of fun, laughing, sharing, eating, and sniffing Scentsy that is:)

• Had an achy throat on Wednesday. I could barely talk for half of the day:( Made the seasoning for the meat all by myself. I have converted my Father into a book lover! I enjoy recommending new titles and  talking about the characters and plots of the stories with him.

• Such a classic moment on Thursday. Since I was in between sniffles that day and had to sing with Pastor for the worship, I decided to tuck a tissue in my watch just in case. Since I wear my watch on my left and hold the mic with my left as well you could see my tissue sticking out:) I am thankful I didn't have to use up there!

• Enjoyed a girls night in today. First a rendezvous with Kianna:) Followed by a time of just relaxing, talking, reading. Next we ate a scrumptious salad that we made together. So time later we proceeded to have our home pedicures. 

Count Your Blessings: IG Style

I took a week and half 'vacation' from instagram, these are my count your blessings since I got back on.

Fishtail Ponytails/ Bday Ecard For Bff Pilar/ Four Pages of Restart Notes/ 

Restart With J*/ Chasing Jupiter and History Novels For Sis/ Proverbs Art/ 

Manual Mode/ Breakfast cookies and Español/ Water 

Noah's Ark Craft/ WW1 Project/ Snowing!/ 

#Scorethrifty/ Lindor Truffles/ Mother's Coffee Mug

Count Your Blessings: IG Style

Restaurant chocolates/ Olive Garden with the family/ Gotta love casual Fridays/

Leg warmers/ Great mail day!/ Going to church/ 

Cold days equal tea/ Can't wait for summer/ Ceviche with grandma (before the cilantro was added)

Sunday- Giving and wrapping presents are so fun. After seeing so many mason jar ideas on Pinterest, my mom and I did one. Gave my first gift of the month/ Monday- Banana shakes/ Tuesday- Les Miserables audio drama/ Receiving the cutest thank you card/ Wednesday- Girls read aloud Hinds Feet in High Places/ Thursday- Getting over excited about an AIO episode/ Listening to "Steal My Show"/ Hot chocolate after church/ Latin work out with little sister/ Friday- Seeing my grandma, aunt, and cousins after their trip/ Fun family stories and quirks.

You know you're an avid book reader when you are riding to church listening to music and you think such and such character should listen to this song.

Count Your Blessings: IG Style

Like Hannah likes to say "score thrifty" at Target $1 aisle/ After a day of running around/ Costco shopping in the rain/ Trying to pray, but only getting this far/ Sn@p scrap booking goodies/ Restart workshop notes.

Restart workshop by Jasmine Star/ Lasagna lunch/ Distraction during homeschooling/ One star in the night sky/ The street out my window/ Vintage Sprite bottle.

On Sunday I taught my Sunday school class/ Monday I finished the book Interrupted/ Tuesday was the first time I had to season and slice raw meat/ Wednesday, we received our Scentsy package. Enjoyed smelling over 20 different scents!/ Bought my first gift of the month/ Rescued little sister from a mouse trap/ Stepped out my color zone and went royal purple and caramel printed skirt w/ caramel cardigan!/ Besides getting so many goodies today while shopping, my favortie shopping moments of the day were: Watching an older man on a Target "wheel chair" cruise down the parking lot his basket filled high with green storage containers. I thought, He obviously had a successful trip:) 

Watching two older gents animately discussing which type of electrical razor to buy. I didn't think they still cared about that.  I pictured them still using that knife-like thingy. 

Love how easy Instagram is to document my life in just a click of a button. 

My Year in Photos: 2012

1. January

2. February

3. March

4. April

5. May

6. June

7. July

8. August

9. September

10. October

11. November

12. December

My Day In Pictures

I have been wanting to do this for awhile now, and finally gotten the chance to do so. My life in pictures post was suggested to me by my mom.

Waking Up

Morning Chores

Breakfast

Homeschooling

English

Praise the Lord for whiteout

Lunch and AIO

I am "doing" math

Trying to finish math:(

Bible Reading

Sister time read aloud

Finishing dinner and homeschool read aloud

Blogging

Drawing

I went to bed shortly before 10:30. 

That was basically how my day went by. Do we share any similarities?