Candace's Blog

Canadace has her own blog now too. Now we finnaly all have our own blog. It's called Candy Land. You can visit it here.

Mom, Pris, and Kezzi went to MO for a few days and C&ace and I are taking care of things around here. Luckily we're off for nearly all of our school.

A couple days ago I got my hair cut pretty short compared to how it usually is and compared to the rest of the girls. I like just having something different.

It's really funny, there's this 5 year old boy at church who really likes me for some reason, and tells me I'm his girlfriend. It's so cute. He said he likes my haircut. I was so flattered.

About the cartoon pix...don't ask. (No, actually C&ace found it.) I thought it was funny.

I went to youth group last night and they were having a game where each of the small group leaders picked their 10 favorite songs and we had to guess who the song was by and who chose it. Our team didn't win. I only knew one of the songs and I had no idea what kind of music the group leaders liked. In our small group, we talked about what it means to have a "cross centered life" which is the title of the next book we'll be studying. Basically the question was, "How often do we think about what Jesus did for us on the cross, and how often do we thank Him?" and just that we should live our lives reminding ourselves daily.

Well, my voice has been totally messed up and it's getting worse. I try to talk and I just squeak. I try to sing along with the new CD's C&ace got with her and well...it's pretty bad. lol.

(Okay I've gotta say this. As I'm sitting here, C&ace is playing the song Juke Box Blues from Walk the Line Soundtrack...and she's dancing around square dancing by herself while doing the Charleston [if you can imagine that, but you probably don't want to: )] with a spatula for a banjo...and singing along!! Whoa! I know, very weird! Just thought I'd share that. :0)

Another funny thing, Luke, Abel, and our cousins Josh and Paul are outside right now making a mud slide out of the yard running the hose and getting completely filthy muddy sliding down it. Looks like they're having a great time while ruining the part of the yard that already had no grass growing on it. They felt bad and tried to "fix" it by planting weeds there. Totally pathetic. They look like a bunch of cave men all covered from head to toe in mud.

Anyway, (I'm trying to focus here) here's a Barlow Girl song that really describes how I've felt lately. It's so awesome how God shows Himself to us in new ways all the time.

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I walked with you

Just like we've done for so long

You seem so near

But even that's become so common

It's not just You, just been together so long

That I thought I knew everything about You

But today I saw

Did You open my eyes?

'Cause I feel like I've just seen You for the first time

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I didn't see You

But God I want to

You've come alive

And I think I've fallen harder than the first time

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Was I so blind?

How did I now see You?

Yet in all that time

You never left my side

So for all my life I will live to know You

So here I am, I'll take Your hand

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I see Your face I feel You close

The love You've always shown me

Won't miss it now can't waste a day

Jesus I'm Yours completely

...Or not(?)~(reffering to previous post title)

Okay, I'm back. ...Yeah I know I've been pretty slack lately with blogging. It's been about 2 weeks since last post.

Anyway, all of us girls decided late one night to sleep outside on our hill without a tent, just sleeping bags. It was fun but Kezzi and Pris wimped out in the middle of the night and went back inside to sleep in their warm, dry beds. : )

A while ago we went up to the lake, and even though the water was chilly the beach felt great.

But so much for that great spring weather though. It's been record cold around here for this spring. A lot of the new leaves are wilted and discolored. It was pretty bad having to dress warm for Easter. It actually snowed briefly (very briefly) on good Friday.

However, despite the cold, I have had some time outdoors. We've been doing this really neat nature program and it's got me down by our creek some.

I was totally creeped out this morning. I found a brown recluse and luckily killed it successfully. I've found one every day for the past three days. I was proud of myself for not running to ask someone else to kill it while I let it get away. (That's typical for me.)

Dance has been going good. Just a week off after HiStory got me pretty out of shape. I've been doing more at home like I'm supposed to, and I've been pretty sore. Our recital is coming up quick. It's in May, and we just learned one piece yesterday and have others that still need to be finished. It bad for me because it takes me a while to learn the choreography. Oh well.

Well, we were gonna have a bonfire tonight with some friends, but it's been raining hard so we'll have to hang out inside. Bummer.

Kezzi's started learning the guitar and it's amazing how quick she's starting to play songs. She's been playing constantly so no wonder. It's awesome. We've been having a good time with it. Her and I have spent all day singing with her on the guitar.