Starts with Goodbye.

     I’ve said in previous posts, that I have a passion for music. Recently I’ve gone through something that’s completely new for me. I’m not going into detail, I’m not saying any names, but I will say that a lot of prayer and a whole lot of music can get you through the toughest situations that life may throw at you. I’ve recently come across some songs, that I have put on ‘repeat’ on my iPod. They could almost be the lyrics of my life right now, and I just wanted to share those songs with you.

Breathe- By Taylor Swift.

“I see your face in my mind as I drive away
‘Cause none of us thought it was gonna end that way
People are people and sometimes we change our minds
But it’s killing me to see you go after all this time.

Music starts playin’ like the end of a sad movie
It’s the kinda ending you don’t really wanna see
‘Cause it’s tragedy and it’ll only bring you down
Now I don’t know what to be without you around

And we know it’s never simple, never easy
Never a clean break, no one here to save me
You’re the only thing I know like the back of my hand

And I can’t breathe
Without you, but I have to
Breathe.
Without you, but I have to

Never wanted this, never want to see you hurt
Every little bump in the road I tried to swerve
People are people and sometimes it doesn’t work out
Nothing we say is gonna save us from the fall out

It’s two a.m., feelin’ like I just lost a friend
Hope you know it’s not easy, easy for me
It’s two a.m., feelin’ like I just lost a friend
Hope you know this ain’t easy, easy for me

And we know it’s never simple, never easy
Never a clean break, no one here to save me, oh

I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry
I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”

Starts With Goodbye- Carrie Underwood.

“I was sitting on my doorstep,
I hung up the phone and it fell out of my hand,
But I knew I had to do it,
And he wouldn’t understand,
So hard to see myself without him,
I felt a piece of my heart break,
But when you’re standing at a crossroad,
There’s a choice you gotta make.

I guess it’s gonna have to hurt,
I guess I’m gonna have to cry,
And let go of some things I’ve loved,
To get to the other side,
I guess it’s gonna break me down,
Like falling when you try to fly,
It’s sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life,
Starts with goodbye.

I know there’s a blue horizon,
Somewhere up ahead, just waiting for me,
Getting there means leaving things behind,
Sometimes life’s so bitter sweet.
Time heals,
The wounds that you feel,
Somehow, right now…
I guess it’s gonna have to hurt,
I guess I’m gonna have to cry,
And let go of some things I’ve loved,
To get to the other side,
I guess it’s gonna break me down,
Like falling when you try to fly,
It’s sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life,
Starts with goodbye.”

The Climb- Miley Cyrus

“There’s always gonna be another mountain, I’m always gonna want to make it move. Always gonna be an uphill battle, sometimes I’m gonna have to lose. ”

October, November, December.

Yes, as you can tell, I just want to get done with this series, haha, I’m really annoyed with it, so I’m going to finish it up for good.

     Ok, so in October, we moved into a new house (still a rental house, but this time we’re here for a few years, so we can really get settled this time). I love the house, it feels a lot more “Homie” than any other house we’ve had down here in Florida, and I’ve still got my own room with  a view of the pool, so I’m happy (: In October, we also had a yard sale, went on a Gnome Hunt with the youth group, and had the Fall Fest at church. Ohhh, and we went up to Georgia for a weekend, to get all of our stuff from storage for the new house. I got to spend about 24 hours with Haley, but it was pretty much amazing.

     November was great, I bought my new camera (Nikon D5000), after many hours of researching cameras and comparing prices and brands, I decided on my Camera (the biggest purchase of my life), and I haven’t had a second of regret about it, I love my camera, it’s like my child. haha. Also in November, My favorite family in the whole world (The Brown Family) got to come down and visit us for an entire week, we squeezed all 10 of us in our house, but we had the best time! We went to Disney, and Hung out, it was one of the best weeks ever! Also in that week while they were down here, My Youth group had the SuperBowl Lock-In, (technically more of a Lock-Out), we went to a Magic Game, then to Fun Spot, where we rode tons of rides and had a great time, then we went to this sports complex and played/watched basketball, and chilled (this was an all night event).

     Also in November, Megan turned 19. For her Party, we had a lot of friends over and went to go see New Moon at midnight at Downtown Disney, it was my first Midnight movie, and it was amazinggg. A lot of people were dressed up, and they whole night was just so exciting, I loved it.

     December was great too, Christmastime is my favorite time of year! (: We had the Circle Christian School Banquet, it was pretty boring, but I had a good time dressing up and getting to be with my friends, and eat gross food. Also, we got to go back up to Georgia for a weekend to see all of our friends and family for christmas, I absolutely loved the cold weather, and getting the chance to wear my coat and scarf (I had no idea that in a few weeks, it was going to be just as cold in sunny florida as well..haha).

     New Years Eve this year was so much fun, My Family and I went to Pizza Hut just like last year, then came home and watched all the New Year’s Special and danced around in Megan’s room to Sean Kingston, while eating leftover pizza, then we all watched the countdown, and once the century changed, we ran around outside blasting music around the pool, then we stayed up almost all night watching movies, we had the best time.

Well my friends, this series is coming to a close. 2009 was truly an amazing year, one of the best yet. I hope you have enjoyed this series (I haven’t. haha), and I hope you keep coming back to read my other post (:

—Maceyyy.

Here’s the video that I promised, “2009 a year in photographs”.

August & September

AUGUST 
     So I’m starting to regret this series, haha. I didn’t know it would take this long so I’m going to try and hurry things along so I can finally be done with this series and get back to blogging about other things.
     Ok, so anyways, August was another fun month, a few things that I did were-
Nathan and I played Putt-Putt on one of our “dates” with a chaperone (Megan) it was a lot of fun, I cheated a lot. Haha yes, I’ll admit it. I got several “hole in ones” that didn’t actually happen. Hehehe. (:
     We also went and saw Half-Blood Prince again (for a fourth and final time) in theaters. My best friend Aimee got baptized, We went to a Patrick Gibson (Country Singer) Concert.
     But the highlight of August was the Jonas Brothers concert! Megan and I had bought tickets back in April, and the month had finally arrived for us to go to the concert! We started getting ready that afternoon, by Painting our nails, and picking out really bright colors to wear, while blasting Jonas Brothers music really loud in my room. The concert was out in Tampa so it took about an hour to get there. We were cracking up because we passed a ton of cars on the way there that had girls in the front seat, with “JB” written on their faces, or they had on Jonas Brothers shirts. It was like every teenaged girl in that area was headed to the same place. Once we got their Megan and I finally got to sign “the bus” I had always dreamed about one day getting to sign that thing, and this time I actually got to. Then we went inside and found our seats, got some drink, and got ready for the show to start, they had 3 opening acts, the Wonder Girls (“I want Nobody Nobody but You!”), Honor Society (loveee them!), and Jordin Sparks (one of my favorite Female singers). After over and hour of opening acts, the boys finally came out to their hit song “Paranoid” and the place went crazy, with thousands of girls screaming and crying. They sang a ton of songs, and it was one of the best concerts I’ve ever been too.
     After the concert was over, Megan and I got to give all the members of Honor Society high fives, then follow them over to their meet and greet, (they smelled so good! Haha), and they were really nice. We also got to get a picture with their Drumstick and Guitar pick that they used in the show. The concert was great, and one of the best experiences of my life.

SEPTEMBER

  September was a great month as well, My Mom had a birthday, and we celebrated by going to Red Lobster, My friends and I through my friend Samuelle a going away party (She was going off to college), We went to Outback, then to Disney to Resort Hop and watching the fireworks, then back to Kristen’s house for a sleepover.
     September was our 1 year anniversary of moving to Florida for the second time, I couldn’t believe how fast the year flew by.
     The absolute best thing about September and one of the greatest days of the whole year was, Night of Joy. I’ve already posted a whole Blog about Night of Joy, so you can just go to ‘previous posts’ at the bottom to read more about it, but basically for those of you that don’t know “Night of Joy” is an event at Walt Disney World, where a bunch of Christian singing groups come together at one of the parks (this year it was at Hollywood Studios), for a huge concert event. My youth group went this year, but we made a whole Disney day out of it, it was incredibly fun, and I hope to do it again next year.
     That was pretty much everything that happened in September, come back later to read October! (:

-Macey

(Below is a video I made with my video and pics from The Jonas Brothers concert!)

July.

Heya. Well, we’ve made it to July. The best month of the whole year, and here’s why…

     July 1st, Megan, Malary and I rode back up to Georgia with our grandparents in their big van. We blasted our iPod’s and danced in our seats then entire way. We were calling it “Camp Georgia”, We were staying at our grandparent’s house for 2 weeks. For those of you that don’t know, my Grandparents property is my favorite place in the whole world, I don’t know why, but I absolutely love it there. They have a big field, a Barn, Pool, Woods, Huge Yard, a separate Apartment room, huge porches, and some of my fondest memories are from Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw’s house. My Family also lived there from October 2007- September 08. Anyways, I was extremely excited to be staying up there for 14 days, I was going to get to see all of my family and spend almost every bit of my time with my best friends. In “Camp Georgia” we didn’t have a single calm day, we were constantly swimming, running around, getting cut up by Apple Trees (yes, that actually happened to me. Word of advice, never try to hide in an Apple tree, there will be blood. hah.) Going on Gnome hunts with the Youth Group (In which the Gnome we found “gnomey” died, and we had a funeral), We went to the Varsity, We were in a minor car accident, Watched some insanely funny youtube videos along with Lord of the Rings and Sweeney Todd, We watched Brittney’s (My first cousin) plate full of food plummet into the dirty trashcan, Haley had her 15th Birthday Party, Went on a Wuh Dander with Elizabeth, We had multiple sleepovers, where Haley and I would stay up late watching Bones and the Jonas Brothers 3D concert experience. Me, Megan and our first cousin Ben, made one of the greatest haunted houses ever created (It even had Michael Jackson). We had a ton of our friends over one day to go swimming then have a small photo shoot, (pics are below). We took about a thousand pictures, many videos, created a ton of Inside Jokes. We celebrated the 4th of July with a lot of our relatives out grilling by the pool, swimming, and being thrown many feet in the air, by some of our cousins. (Matt, Josh and Daniel). It was so great to get to see everyone together again, and celebrate one of my favorite holidays. They didn’t have fireworks actually on the 4th of July that year at the nearby park, so we waited until the following weekend to watch the fireworks (from the roof of Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw’s house, with Haley, Will, Megan and Me, just like last year.) It is dangerous to dance on a slanted rooftop on the second floor, but we didn’t care, we danced, and went a little crazy. Haley was actually sitting with the laptop on her lap, sitting on the roof, it was a pretty hilarious site.

     Megan, Malary and I were up there for a week just us, then after a week, Mom came down to join us for the last half of “Camp Georgia”, she wanted to catch up with some friends and get to see the family again. And we were really glad to have her, because we needed her to drive us places. (:

     Also, while I was in Georgia (July 6th). Nathan and I decided that we were officially in a relationship. I know it does seem a little odd that we decided this when I was in a totally different state, but we were talking on the phone one afternoon, and we just decided we were already pretty much dating, so why not make it official, and tell the world (aka, facebook.). So we did. And since then, I’ve been happy in a relationship with Nathan Cloer. (:

     After all of the fun had ended, we sadly said goodbye to the Cousins, and all of our Best Friends. Haley and I hugged each other for about 5 minutes straight, I didn’t want to leave. But, I was very excited to be going home to see Dad and Kida (my dog). 

     After we got home from our long drive back down to Orlando Florida, Dad took the family out to Beef O Bradys, so we could tell him about what all we did in Georgia. Then, after we got home, We got all our Harry Potter stuff out, and Megan, Malary and I sat up almost all night watching about 45 minutes or more of every Harry Potter movie. The next morning, we woke up, and went to the movies to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. (best harry potter movie yet). We ended up seeing it 3 times in July and 1 more time in August. (:

     Last thing, haha. Also in July one of the family’s favorite people came down from Alabama to visit us, Virginia!! (: She didn’t stay for very long, but we went to Disney and had a great time!

Well, those few paragraphs didn’t even BEGIN to cover all of the amazing things that happened in July. It was by-far the best month of 2009, and I can’t wait for this summer, so we can do it all over again! (:

I hope you enjoyed this. See ya tomorrow with August!

-M a c e y y y

Me and Haley! (kayla johnson photography)

"I'm on a roof!" 4th of July Fireworks.

My Best Friends.

RIP Gnomey.

June.

Hey, sorry it’s been several days since I posted…i’ve been kinda busy, and just haven’t been in the blogging mood. But I’m good to go now, so Here’s June! (June is actually pretty short as well, but July will be really long. haha)

     June was the beginning of one of the greatest summer’s of my life. To start off the month, My grandparents came down for a visit (Nanny and Papa), My Parents had their 21st wedding Anniversary, the Jonas Brother’s new album “Lines, Vines and Trying Times” came out (much to my excitement), My Best Friend had her 15th birthday (June 19). Also all throughout June, I was playing in a Basketball Summer League for Circle Christian School, I hadn’t played organized basketball quite a long time, so I really enjoyed getting back out on the court (even if I did only score twice, haha). At the end of the month my other grandparents came down to visit (Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw). We had a great time with them, and they came to my Basketball games. Nathan accompanied us to Chilis before one of my games. (Mom seems to think this is a big deal, since this was the first time I boy ever came with us to eat dinner.)

But that was pretty much everything that happened in June. My grandparent’s stayed until July 1st, which began the best two weeks ever. (But you’ll have to hear more about that in July.)

Until then!

-Maceyyy.

Meg, Me and Nathan in the Car, going to the game.

Summer League.

May.

Heyyy!

     We’ve made it to the Fifth month of the year, May! I love May…the weather is like perfect that time of year. Well anyways, May was a great month is 2009. It was a very important month as well. My big sister Megan graduated from High School, then we went to the movies and to a nice Disney restaurant to celebrate! Also, my little sister Malary officially became a teenager (She turned 13 on the 16th). My Dad got a few of her friends into Disney for her, and we spent the day there. Megan and I got to invite Aimee and Kristen too, so we had an amazing time. This is wear the “pinky holders” were born. (: We were running around Magic Kingdom talking in british accents watching the fireworks and riding rides, it was one of the best nights of the year.

     Nathan and I went on a “fake date”…(we still weren’t going out yet).. to the Movies to see Night at the Museum 2. At the end of a stressful planning period, what was originally supposed to be just Me, Nathan and Megan…ended up being Me, Nathan, Megan, Malary, Aimee, Aaron, James and Mrs. Cloer. It was pretty awkward at the time, but now that I look back at it, it was still fun and not as bad as it seemed, well actually now that I look at it, the whole thing is pretty funny. haha. 

     Other random things that happened in May were, Kris Allen became the newest American Idol, I started going to Open Gyms for basketball at Circle Christian School, The Jonas Brothers’ new TV show on Disney Channel (JONAS) premiered, and my Dad also had a birthday!

Thanks for stopping by today! Come back tomorrow for June ! (The posts are going to get more and more interesting starting from June..because a ton of good stuff happened over this summer!).

-Macey

Megan the 09' Graduate!

Me and Aimee at Magic Kingdom.

April.

Hola!

     To start off I’m going to say, I absolutely love it when we have our church services out by our HUGE cross at our church, and an Easter service just makes it even more powerful.  The Easter service out by the cross, was one of my favorite church services that I’ve ever been too.  When you’re looking around in the dark sky from miles away, and you see this huge Cross that’s glowing Red, it’s just a sight that will kinda take your breath away. It’s amazing.

     In April I met my boyfriend (well, we weren’t dating at the time..obviously) Nathan! He and My older Sister had been talking on Facebook, and when he realized that she was the older one, he decided to talk to me instead..haha (it’s a funny story, but I don’t think he wants me to tell it on here for everyone to read, so I won’t…) So, we started talking every night on Facebook, and he would call me every few nights, and we’d talk on the phone for a longgg time. Once we realized that both our families were going to the Fair one night, we decided to meet up. I met Nathan back at the Pig Show, and we talked for a while, then my family left to go get some food…and I made one of the biggest mistakes of my life, I didn’t invite him to go get a corn dog with me (to this day, he has not forgiven me for not inviting him to go get a corn dog with us, and leaving him at the pig show…and yes, I still owe him a corn dog!) But anyways, my family really enjoyed pigging out on all the Fair food, that looks so gross, but it’s totally awesome. I love Fair food!! haha!

     Also in April, my best friend Haley and her family came down for a few days, and we had a divine time. (: We took walks and got stalked by freaky landscape trucks, saw a snake, Deformed pictures, talked to Nathan, played Nertz, Watched Megan get hooked on Kingdom Hearts, chatted with people, Had a photo shoot, ate Taco Dip, attempted to go swimming, Went to the Beach…and made a lot of memories! (When they were down here was the first time Nathan ever called me, and it was pretty late one night, and he kept falling asleep with the phone.)

Well, April was a pretty great month! (: Come back tomorrow…por favor! (that means, please in spanish.)

-Maceyy

Me and Haley. April 09'

Nathan and I, this was our first Picture. We look so little!!

This isn't on Easter, but here's our Cross. (:

March.

Hey!

     Sorry it’s been several days, I had to fix my blog (as you can tell by all the changes) and I had a really busy weekend. But I’m back now, and ready to continue on with the series!

     March was a great month, this was the month that I really started making friends at Church. I went to my first sleepover with friends from church, We went crazy with Twilight stuff, we bought almost everything that had the word twilight, vampire or  Edward on it at Wal-Mart. That day began an amazing friendship with each of those girls. I also met one of my very best friends in March (Aimee), I was stuffing my face with a donut, and she walked up and introduced herself to me outside before church (haha, talk about a first impression). We’ve been friends ever since. (: 

     D-Now was also in March, it was a fantastic weekend. We went to the “Leadership Rocks” conference in Tampa, and also stayed in an extremely freaky hotel, filled with lots of creepers, but it was a lot of fun, and we definitely made some memories. (haha). Then we played the guys in basketball, and almost beat them, it was pretty funny, and so much fun. Overall it was a great weekend, and I can’t wait to do it again in a few weeks!

     Also in March, we saw the shuttle go off, went to Blizzard Beach (water park…and yes, it was pretty cold to be wet outside) Then we came home and Malary jumped in the cold pool, and we ate Tacos and watched movies with Dad.

Well, thanks for reading! (: See Ya tomorrow!

-Macey

Meg, Me, Kristen and Ruth buying all the Twilight stuff! (:

D-Now 2009. (10th grade)

Technical Difficulties.

Helloooo..

     Well I know I’m supposed to be posting March today, but my Blog has been suffering from Technical Difficulties this week, as you can probably tell everything on it looks weird, and my post/pictures aren’t where they are supposed to be, so I’m going to try and work that out today. It could possibly look totally different when you check back in later, because I may have to change some things in order for it to work right again, so just stick with me, I promise I’ll continue with my series as soon as I get this little issue worked out.

See Ya Later! (:

-Macey.

February.

     Well compared to yesterday’s post, February will be pretty short. All throughout February I was coaching Upwards Basketball, It was a lot of fun getting to teach basketball to girls 3rd-6th grade. We were still really new at church (First Baptist Church Central Florida) I didn’t know hardly anyone, but I was starting to meet people and make a few friends.

     Also My Nanny and Pop-Pop came down from Georgia to visit, and We made a lot of crazy videos, because my Nanny thought they were hilarious, so she told us to make more while she was there, so we did…hahaha, it was so much fun. I would post one, but I don’t have any of them on youtube, so I guess you don’t get to see the videos…:(

     We also joined the Church in February. We haven’t really been involved in a Church in several years, so I was so excited to be joining a Church family, getting involved in the Youth Group, and meeting new people.

Well, February wasn’t too exciting, so this post is going to come to an end. Come back tomorrow to read March!

-Macey (: