8/24/11
It's 9:30 pm in Amarillo Tx, as I'm Laying on my bed with all of my lights off and window open with only the street light to give light to my room. I stare out of my window watching it pour down rain and I can't help but feel so in awe of Him...Mr Universe (haha he loves that name)! From the lightning strike to the moistened ground .....I love rain! Who'd have thought that THIS is our amazing God! He provides for us so well!
"You know He is calling you to different circumstances and callings when everything is different and nothing is the same!" my own quote
9/3/11
Today we have officially had Benedetta LaRosa for two weeks!
She is an amazing woman with a great personality! Benedetta or Bebe (is what she likes to be called) is from Italy in a small town near Rome! Tuesday night we sat down in the living room for our favorite show "America's got talent" she had never seen it! As we watched she kept telling us " I can do that!" of course the first time we were all shocked cause here we are looking at these guys do pyramids and climb all over the place like a bunch of monkeys and here she is telling us she could do that! Then as we made shocked looks at her she replied "in Italy!"lol this is her" Italian Humor" as she calls it! She makes me laugh! My favorite part of the weeks with her is when I go to my life group located at Roasters in Hastings! The first time I took her with me we were 45 minutes early so we had plenty of time to hang! So she got a cappuccino (she loves these) while I got a hot chocolate (yes I'm strange)! When we sat down she took a sip of her cappuccino and sighed with a smile of happiness and said "I love this place it's so comfortable!" in her Italian accent that I was still getting used to but loved! Bebe+happiness= happy Katie!:)This week I got my license so after school on Thursday I treated Bebe to cappuccino at Starbucks! She also loves sushi! Ha I've never been crazy about sushi neither has my mom!lol so Tuesday we took her to Market street to get her sushi while me and my mom ate corn dogs! No I didn't try any but we took her again Friday and I tried some! Not bad! But only with sauce!lol
Although their has been more good times then bad but also spiritual warfare! I know this is a God thing because I want to be a missionary that spreads Gods word to those who don't know Him! He is preparing me! This situation was particularly hard and made me want to chew someones head off! Yes that sounds bad coming from me but I was so frustrated! Long story short Bebe wanted us to leave her at home when we went to church, we had to get it straight to her and her dad that she was here to experience our culture and that this was part of it! She has been a good sport through it though! She says she is not good with kids but at the north campus we helped in the Hero land area, by the time the service ended she had a best friend!lol I really think God is placing her here for a reason... It's one of His traps and yu know His traps are good ones! Please pray for her heart to open up to Him! She needs to hear His soft voice love on her!
As I have already said I got my license August 31st! I made a 90 on my test! This stepping stone means a lot to me coming from the girl who has wanted to drive since we have first moved to Amarillo (5 years ago)!
Psalms 1:1-3
"1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stand in the way of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in his law he meditates day and night.
3 He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which yields its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper."
9/7/11
This Wednesday was my first big trip by my self! I have a choir group called Crescendo that I go to every Monday! This weeks Monday was memorial day so we moved our practice day to Wednesday! We meet at our teachers house out in canyon! Along the way I got mixed up with over passes and went on one too soon! I then had to figure out how to get back on the canyon E way! I figured out leaving me only 15 minutes late with tons of missed calls, texts, and voice mails from my mom, Dad and teacher! They were all worried but that was nothing I could have stopped! The first Year of driving you can't be on any kind of cellular or electronic devices while driving! Ha I'm not one to be found breaking rules.
9/14/11
Our exchange student Bebe has now been with us 3 weeks and 4 days! She is an amazing women! I can't imagine having to go through half of the things she has to go through! This week her homework has been overwhelming her! She has to read 20-25 pages of a book a day in English writing! So she has been translating every other phrase on google! I can't imagine how frustrating that has to be! I feel for her! Then everybody speaking at 100 mph has to be hard to understand! When we go to the mall she gets on to me for not paying attention because the worker in one of the stores will ask her questions and she can't understand!
She tells me all the time "speak slowly not walk slowly" even though at the time I was juggling a bunch of stuff in my hand and couldn't coordinate all that very well plus unlock the door for her so she could get in from the 100 degree heat!
9/11/11
9/12/11
Today was my first day to be my own taxi driver! Ha! I was out of the house from 11am - 9:30pm! From choir to student council to basketball to a book club where we are reading "mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis" I finally arrived home at 9:30! And to think this kind of day will happen once a month on the second Monday! Ha! I love it though! Driving is fun! I catch myself trying to think of Arron's I need to run just for the sake of driving all the time!:)lol
9/18/11
One year from today I created wild at heart and my oh my has it been a journey! I know it's just a blog, but sometimes it feels like it's a person as well! I think God gives it that! I know all of these post you read doesn't seem like much work but it takes a lot more sometimes! Sometimes I don't have the words coming to my mind to even write which makes it drag on months before I post. Other times I write it, edit it, then lose it because of a technical malfunction! I have learned through these simple mistakes that when the Lord leads you to it He will lead you through it and when it is not His will He will delete it! Ha that's happened!lol
He seizes to amaze me!lol
9/29/11
Today I have finished my 3rd week of basketball practice! I play with a home schooled group in Amarillo called Lady flames. I love my team! They are amazing, positive and a big influence in my life. No matter how awful I did they always tell me positive encouragements....something I am not used to hearing (coming from the girl who has been in public, small town, and private school and has never heard this kind of positivity before). Its not just in Basketball its everywhere through out the home school community. Every where I turn their is a bright and smiling face staring me in the eyes. I am so thankful and blessed to be home schooled.
Deuteronomy 11: 18-20 “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up."
3 John 1:4
"I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth"
9/30/11
Tomorrow we will have had Bebe for exactly 6 weeks. Honestly it has been like riding a roller coaster blindfolded in my home. That is pretty much what life has consisted of lately. :) short and sweetly!
" Id rather people love me for who I am, then love me for what I am not." unknown author
10/1/11
Today has been nothing but tears. As a family we all went to go see "Courageous"! It was an amazing movie that moved me in every sort of direction ever possible. I laughed and cried a lot. Even held my Daddy's hand as he was sitting next to me.:) I'd suggest everyone go watch the movie and bring tissue's when you do (you will need them).
It's 9:30 pm in Amarillo Tx, as I'm Laying on my bed with all of my lights off and window open with only the street light to give light to my room. I stare out of my window watching it pour down rain and I can't help but feel so in awe of Him...Mr Universe (haha he loves that name)! From the lightning strike to the moistened ground .....I love rain! Who'd have thought that THIS is our amazing God! He provides for us so well!
"You know He is calling you to different circumstances and callings when everything is different and nothing is the same!" my own quote
9/3/11
Today we have officially had Benedetta LaRosa for two weeks!
She is an amazing woman with a great personality! Benedetta or Bebe (is what she likes to be called) is from Italy in a small town near Rome! Tuesday night we sat down in the living room for our favorite show "America's got talent" she had never seen it! As we watched she kept telling us " I can do that!" of course the first time we were all shocked cause here we are looking at these guys do pyramids and climb all over the place like a bunch of monkeys and here she is telling us she could do that! Then as we made shocked looks at her she replied "in Italy!"lol this is her" Italian Humor" as she calls it! She makes me laugh! My favorite part of the weeks with her is when I go to my life group located at Roasters in Hastings! The first time I took her with me we were 45 minutes early so we had plenty of time to hang! So she got a cappuccino (she loves these) while I got a hot chocolate (yes I'm strange)! When we sat down she took a sip of her cappuccino and sighed with a smile of happiness and said "I love this place it's so comfortable!" in her Italian accent that I was still getting used to but loved! Bebe+happiness= happy Katie!:)This week I got my license so after school on Thursday I treated Bebe to cappuccino at Starbucks! She also loves sushi! Ha I've never been crazy about sushi neither has my mom!lol so Tuesday we took her to Market street to get her sushi while me and my mom ate corn dogs! No I didn't try any but we took her again Friday and I tried some! Not bad! But only with sauce!lol
Although their has been more good times then bad but also spiritual warfare! I know this is a God thing because I want to be a missionary that spreads Gods word to those who don't know Him! He is preparing me! This situation was particularly hard and made me want to chew someones head off! Yes that sounds bad coming from me but I was so frustrated! Long story short Bebe wanted us to leave her at home when we went to church, we had to get it straight to her and her dad that she was here to experience our culture and that this was part of it! She has been a good sport through it though! She says she is not good with kids but at the north campus we helped in the Hero land area, by the time the service ended she had a best friend!lol I really think God is placing her here for a reason... It's one of His traps and yu know His traps are good ones! Please pray for her heart to open up to Him! She needs to hear His soft voice love on her!
As I have already said I got my license August 31st! I made a 90 on my test! This stepping stone means a lot to me coming from the girl who has wanted to drive since we have first moved to Amarillo (5 years ago)!
Psalms 1:1-3
"1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stand in the way of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in his law he meditates day and night.
3 He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which yields its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper."
9/7/11
This Wednesday was my first big trip by my self! I have a choir group called Crescendo that I go to every Monday! This weeks Monday was memorial day so we moved our practice day to Wednesday! We meet at our teachers house out in canyon! Along the way I got mixed up with over passes and went on one too soon! I then had to figure out how to get back on the canyon E way! I figured out leaving me only 15 minutes late with tons of missed calls, texts, and voice mails from my mom, Dad and teacher! They were all worried but that was nothing I could have stopped! The first Year of driving you can't be on any kind of cellular or electronic devices while driving! Ha I'm not one to be found breaking rules.
9/14/11
Our exchange student Bebe has now been with us 3 weeks and 4 days! She is an amazing women! I can't imagine having to go through half of the things she has to go through! This week her homework has been overwhelming her! She has to read 20-25 pages of a book a day in English writing! So she has been translating every other phrase on google! I can't imagine how frustrating that has to be! I feel for her! Then everybody speaking at 100 mph has to be hard to understand! When we go to the mall she gets on to me for not paying attention because the worker in one of the stores will ask her questions and she can't understand!
She tells me all the time "speak slowly not walk slowly" even though at the time I was juggling a bunch of stuff in my hand and couldn't coordinate all that very well plus unlock the door for her so she could get in from the 100 degree heat!
9/11/11
It's 9/11! 10 yrs ago today our country lost the twin towers and many lives to a terrorist attack! I was only 6 yrs old when this tragedy happened! The teachers told us all what had happened but if u know adults and how they talk to little kids they talk down to their level! Which seemed like they were saying it was no big deal, when really it was! I soon figured out it was a big deal! At the time I was in Ballet, at the recital they had was a 9/11 themed dance! A very talented little girl not much older than me danced back and forth to those who have fought for our country while a video was being played in the back ground! Hopefully By next year I can get that on here! My parents videoed the dance! It was very special!:)
9/12/11
Today was my first day to be my own taxi driver! Ha! I was out of the house from 11am - 9:30pm! From choir to student council to basketball to a book club where we are reading "mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis" I finally arrived home at 9:30! And to think this kind of day will happen once a month on the second Monday! Ha! I love it though! Driving is fun! I catch myself trying to think of Arron's I need to run just for the sake of driving all the time!:)lol
9/18/11
One year from today I created wild at heart and my oh my has it been a journey! I know it's just a blog, but sometimes it feels like it's a person as well! I think God gives it that! I know all of these post you read doesn't seem like much work but it takes a lot more sometimes! Sometimes I don't have the words coming to my mind to even write which makes it drag on months before I post. Other times I write it, edit it, then lose it because of a technical malfunction! I have learned through these simple mistakes that when the Lord leads you to it He will lead you through it and when it is not His will He will delete it! Ha that's happened!lol
He seizes to amaze me!lol
9/29/11
Today I have finished my 3rd week of basketball practice! I play with a home schooled group in Amarillo called Lady flames. I love my team! They are amazing, positive and a big influence in my life. No matter how awful I did they always tell me positive encouragements....something I am not used to hearing (coming from the girl who has been in public, small town, and private school and has never heard this kind of positivity before). Its not just in Basketball its everywhere through out the home school community. Every where I turn their is a bright and smiling face staring me in the eyes. I am so thankful and blessed to be home schooled.
Deuteronomy 11: 18-20 “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up."
3 John 1:4
"I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth"
9/30/11
Tomorrow we will have had Bebe for exactly 6 weeks. Honestly it has been like riding a roller coaster blindfolded in my home. That is pretty much what life has consisted of lately. :) short and sweetly!
" Id rather people love me for who I am, then love me for what I am not." unknown author
10/1/11
Today has been nothing but tears. As a family we all went to go see "Courageous"! It was an amazing movie that moved me in every sort of direction ever possible. I laughed and cried a lot. Even held my Daddy's hand as he was sitting next to me.:) I'd suggest everyone go watch the movie and bring tissue's when you do (you will need them).
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