Almost a month already?!?

Heyyyy…

     I can’t believe I haven’t posted anything in almost a month! The past several weeks have been pretty crazy for my Family and I. We moved out of the old house (after many weeks of packing and cleaning) and We’re now in the new house. We’ve been having to do a lot of work around the house, such as fixing random objects, planting flowers and bushes, scrubbing the dirty pool, painting furniture, building furniture, unpacking and organizing box after box, and just thoroughly cleaning everything. We still have a lot to do around the house, like putting the finishing touches on our color coordinated bedrooms, painting, and cleaning the pool deck. Aside from moving, this past month, we’ve taken a short trip up to Powder Springs (my Georgia hometown), to retrieve several things (including our couches) from storage in my grandparent’s garage. I got to hang out with my Best Friend for a day, and also go to enjoy the leaves changing and the cool weather. (I got a lot of good pics of the leaves! I posted one of them below.)

      After getting back from Georgia, my dog Kida was having some sort of mid-life crisis and was shedding hair all over creation. So I decided to give her a “hair cut”…hahaha, as a result we now call her “chops” (need I say more?) . My Dad was going to make his Facebook status “i’m not sure whether Macey got after our dog with a weed-eater or a chainsaw..” and my Sister Megan said that we could’ve made a whole dog  just out of the fur that was cut off….. Let’s just say, a Hair Stylist….not on my list of future careers.

     But the best thing by-far that has happened over the past few days, is the Cold Weather we are having in Central Florida! It was actually 50 degrees when we were leaving for Church on Sunday morning, It’s amazing! It’s finally starting to feel like Fall (even if the leaves don’t look as beautiful as they do in Georgia.) Although, it’s not still 50 degrees today, it still feels great outside, I’m getting to wear pants and sweatshirts, and we can leave all the windows open in the house to enjoy to Fall Breeze (:

QUICK QUESTION…why is it that all of the “best movies of all-time” are old movies? Just because they’ve been around for many more years, doesn’t make them any better than new movies like…..let’s say “the Dark Knight”..My Mom is convinced that it will never be one of the best movies ever, but since it made billions of dollars, and was one of the biggest movies of all-time, I think it will one day be called one of “the best”, right up there with “Gone with the Wind”, “Titanic” and “the Wizard of Oz.” (hahaha)

     That’s really all that I’ve got to write about today, sorry if it seemed like I was just rambling, I just wanted to update you on what I’ve been doing for the past few weeks, and explain my absence. (:

Thanks for reading! Keep checking in for new posts!

-Maceyyyy.

 

Georgia Leaves.

 

Kida aka "Chops"

 

Moving….again.

     In my life-time I have moved 8 times, lived in 2 different states, lived in 7 different houses, lived in a Camper for a year, and lived in my Grandparent’s house 2 different times. I’ve shared a room for many years, and I’ve had my own room of several years, I’ve lived in big houses and small houses. My Family and I once completely packed one house, and moved into another in just over 8 hours (it was one of the craziest days in my entire life). 

     Well, if you haven’t already guessed by the title…we’re moving again. It might sound like I don’t enjoy moving, that’s not true, I actually do like to move into a new house, it’s exciting to get to organize a new room, and have a new neighborhood to walk around in, but I do NOT like the packing process! I’m fine with unpacking (because like I already said, I love organizing all my stuff in a new room, it’s so much fun.) but packing is a dreadful thing to me. It might just be that my family has  A LOT of stuff, and it just seems like I’ll be packing for hours and hours at a time and I didn’t get anything done, it’s an endless process that I dread every time we move.  One of my best friends told me that he liked moving because he ‘finds all the things he forgot he had’, but when you’ve moved as much as my family, it’s not as exciting, because I know EXACTLY what all I own. haha (and most of it’s not even unpacked from the previous move.)

     The new house, is hopefully going to be more of a ‘home’ to us instead of just a ‘house’, we’re staying in this house for  at least 2 years, so I won’t have the worry of not getting too settled in because we’ll be moving. I also get to Paint my room!!!! I haven’t gotten to do that in several years, I’m so excited about that!! (: I already have my colors and everything!

     We’re moving this week, so I am in the middle of the most stressful period of moving…getting everything in the house, out of the house. haha. Hopefully we’ll get everything cleaned up and get settled in the new house, it should be pretty exciting….keep checking in for moving updates! (: You can also follow me for more updates on my Twitter.  

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“Music’s in my soul…”

     You may or may not know this about me, but I am very passionate about music. No, I don’t play a single instrument, and I’m not an extremely gifted singer, but Music is very important to me. I like almost all genres of music(i’m not that crazy about the 80’s, but I do like a few songs.) I like to listen to everything from Pop to Country, Rock to Rap. The genres I listen to the most are Pop/Rock and Christian. I have a yellow iPod Nano 4th Generation, and I have to say, it has to be one of the greatest inventions ever. I love to just get on the iTunes store and get new songs, I do have my favorite artists where I own every one of their songs, but I also am always looking for something new to listen to. About once a week, I go on the hunt for some fresh songs to put on my iPod. This may seem strange to you, but I’m just very passionate about my music.

     Below are a few different Genres, that I listen to and my favorite Artists in that catorgory. (:

Christian- Chris Tomlin, Hillsong United, Third Day, Casting Crows, Tenth Avenue North, Brandon Heath, TobyMac, Mandisa, MercyMe, David Crowder Band, Jeremy Camp.

Pop/Rock- Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, Honor Society, Kelly Clarkson.

Country- Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, Kelly Pickler, Rascal Flatts, Shania Twain, Trace Adkins.

Pop- Jordin Sparks, Miley Cyrus (I don’t like Miley at all, but I have to admit, I listen to a lot of her songs. lol), Ashley Tisdale, Leona Lewis, Beyonce, Kris Allen, Backstreet Boys.

Rock (some can be considered Christian Rock)- Family Force 5, Skillet, Daughtry, David Cook, 3 Doors Down, Bon Jovi, FlyLeaf, Paramore, Switchfoot, Adam Lambert, The Fray.

     Here’s my Favorite Song of all-time. (:

<3 when you look me in the eyes.

 

Thanks for Reading! (:

 

oh, the adventures of babysitting.

     My little sister and I babysit 2 little boys (the Son’s of our Mom’s close friend from church) every few weeks, and just let me tell you..never a dull moment with those two! We’ve kept them a lot of times, but I have to say, none of the times have been as exciting as this weekend. We arrived during “quiet time” and the boys weren’t aware that we were coming, so when they came running out of their rooms looking for their Mommy, they were extremely surprised to see us. 

     We started off the afternoon, playing on their big water slide. My sister and I decided to join in on the fun and get wet along with the boys. We had a good time watching the boys go down their slide, and before long another little kid from the neighborhood came and joined us (we weren’t planning on having this little girl stay). Then we had 3 kids that we were watching. After about and hour and a half the kids become bored with the slide, and decided to dig a hole in the mud, after we got them cleaned up and filled the hole back in, the three kids came in the house to play (the unexpected little girl is still with us).

     I was in the kitchen, when I heard one of the boys yelling at himself “TAYLOR! WHAT DID YOU DO?!” I ran into the boys bathroom, not knowing what to expect. Turns out,  Taylor felt guilty that he had been playing in the mud in his bathing suit, and took it upon himself to “wash” it in his sink. He had plugged up the sink, and turned the water on, but apparently he forgot to turn the water off after the sink was full, and he completely flooded the bathroom. By the time I got in there, he was standing in a 2 inch puddle of water that covered the entire bathroom. I quickly grabbed a few towels that were on the counter and threw them on the floor. Taylor insisted that he would clean it up he kept saying “I made the mess, I should be the one to clean it up.” it was the cutest thing, but I told him to go play, and that I would clean it up.

     So now, I had a flooded bathroom, I was in the middle of cooking supper, and the little girl (that wasn’t supposed to be here) was still here, and I didn’t know how to get rid of her. I threw about 10 towels on the bathroom floor, went and added some vegetables to our supper, and was trying to figure out how to tell the little girl to go home. Right as I was telling the little girl she needed to leave, the doorbell rang and with a sigh of relief, I answered the door, and sent her home with her Dad. I ran back to the bathroom, and dried the floor on my hands and knees. After I had about 12 soaked towels, Malary and I wrung them out in the bath tub, then through them in the dryer.

     The rest of the evening went extremely smooth, we ate a delicious supper, had homemade rice krispee treats, played for a few minutes, then got the boys ready for bed, put in a movie, and waited for the parents to get home. I love getting to keep the boys, and they’re so much fun to be around, but I have to say this past babysitting trip was by far the most exciting. (:

 

Night of Joy 09′

     My Church’s Youth Group, went to Disney’s Night of Joy this weekend, and just let me tell you, it was amazing! For those of you that don’t know, “Night of Joy” is a Christian Music event that Disney hosts every year. This year it was at Hollywood Studios.

     We started off the day, bright and early at the church, then we took a bus over to Magic Kingdom. It rained the entire afternoon (and my poncho lasted about 5 minutes.) but it was fun, even though we were soaked (and i’m not joking….soaked!) We got to ride almost everything, I’m guessing because it was so rainy, so everyone decided it wasn’t a good day to go to Disney or something, but it turned out to be a great day at Magic Kingdom for us.

     At about 3:30 we headed over to Hollywood Studios to N ight of Joy, there was a ton of people there, before it started we got to ride Tower of Terror, and Toy Story Mania, then we grabbed a bite to eat and went to the first concert of the night…Grits. We almost didn’t make it into the concert, because it was so full, but we eventually managed to squeeze ourselves into a few seats for the show. Grits’ genre is Christian Rap, and they were awesome!  Brianna and I rocked out to “My life be like ooh ahh, ohh ahh….” and we all had a great time. After the Grits concert we went to go check out Rockin’ Rollercoaster’s line, but it was still 2 hours long, so we didn’t wait. On our way over to the “Dance Party” we saw the guys from Grits walking across the street, so we stopped them and asked for a Picture, they were really nice, and let us take several pics with them. Then we went to a Dance Party, it was one of my favorite parts of the entire day, the DJ was blasting music, and everyone was dancing, Donald Duck and Goofy were out there dancing with us (Donald was hitting on me..it was kinda weird.). After we had been in there for about 20 minutes, we went to go see Mandisa. Mandisa’s concert was amazing, she gave a short speech before singing “Voice of a Savior” that was very moving, she is such a sweet person, and I really enjoyed her show. After we had to get over to the complete opposite side of the park (the light’s motors action theatre) for the MercyMe concert, we didn’t get to hear all of their songs, but we did get to hear ‘I can only Imagine’, ‘Word of God Speak’, ‘Finally Home’, and a few others. They did a great Job, and I really like their concert as well. After MercyMe was over it was time for the real Concert to start, Skillet. Nathan had saved us a seat, so when we got back in the theater, we waited for about 30 minutes, then it started. They sang several of their most popular songs, including ‘Hero’, ‘Ribirthing’, ‘Whispers in the Dark’, ‘Monster’, and my favorite ‘Comatose’.  The Light’s Motors Action theatre was completely packed with people. They put on a great show. During the Skillet concert the Youth Group left, but Megan and I were getting picked up by my Dad later on that night, so we got to stay for the last show of the Night….Family Force 5. Megan and I hurried back to the other side of the park (the Beauty and the Beast theater), and waited in this long line to get a seat. Family Force 5 came out in skinny capris, tank tops, football shoulder pads, and war paint, the lead singer (Soul Glow Activatur) had Mickey ears sitting on the side of this head. It was rather odd, but they put on a rockin’ show, (My favorite concert of the night) they sang 12 of their most popular songs, including ’Supersonic’, ‘Luv Addict’, ‘Radiator’, and ‘Dance or Die’. Their concert was highly entertaining, and so much fun to listen to.

     The thing I enjoyed most about Night of Joy was the variety, Grits rapping, Skillet rockin out, Family Force 5 dancing, MercyMe’s songs that just touch everyone in the crowd, to Mandisa’s amazing speech and songs. The other thing I loved was seeing so many Christians coming together for an event such as this, it was good to see the thousands of people that bought tickets, most of them Youth Groups, and just seeing all of the children of God gathered at one place for a Night of Christian music! It was an amazing night, and Jesus Christ definetely made his presence known at Hollywood Studios September 12, 2009.

Here’s a Video that I made with my Pics and Videos from Night of Joy!

 

 

The Gift of a Friend

     I have recently made a picture slideshow to Demi Lovato’s new song called “Gift of a Friend”, and I thought I would steal My Mom’s idea from one of her recent blogs, and Write a whole post about my friends.

      I think every girl has that one friend that they feel is more of a sister than a friend, and I definetely have that one friend in my life. We’ve been extremely close for years, and We’ve gone through so much together, and I couldn’t love her more. She’s always been there for me, and she’s stuck with me no matter what (or how far away I live). We’ve made so many memories together, and We always have the best time when we’re together. She’s my best friend, and I wouldn’t trade that for the world.  I love you girl.

    We all have our best friends, our close friends and our just plain friends, but we also have friends that are our Favorites, and this Friend is Definitely one of my favs, We’ve been super close since 2nd grade, and she is one of the most amazing people I’ve ever met. I could sit and talk to her for hours at a time, and know that she’s not getting bored, she is one of the best listeners I’ve ever known.  I’ve always considered to have a special bond with her, that I just didn’t seem to have with the rest of them, she’s such a great friend, and I miss her terribly.

      I also have a best friend that I have so much in common with, We always like the same movies, We like similar Hobbies, and we like the same Food (taco bell and strawberries and creme. lol) If there was a friend that I could give an Award for the “Best Sleepover” it would be this girl. We always have so much fun together, making crazy videos, eating tacos, getting freaked out in the middle of the night, and drinking huge starbucks. I love her so much.

     Although Old Friends are special, New Friends are great too. I’ve made a lot of new friends this year. One of them I’ve grown to be a little closer to than the others,  She’s so much fun to hang out with, and easy to talk to, we like to tell stories, and speak in different accents, I love her to death, and can’t wait to become even closer in the years to come. One of them is unlike any of my other friends, she’s so much fun to hang out with, and you just can’t help but laugh when you’re around her, she’s so funny, even if she doesn’t mean to be, and I love spending time with her. One of them, I have also grown to love a lot over the past few months, she’s a lot of fun to hang out with, and we like to facebook chat during out favorite TV show.  Two of them are sisters, that I grew extremely close to in a short period of time, they have so much in common with me and my own sisters, and we love to go out on sister outings, I love them both so much. We love playing sports together, we even invented a new one. Never a dull moment with them.

     I also have a friend that I’ve pretty much always considered to be my second Big Sister. She’s so close with my family, and she just fits right in. My family and I like to mess with her, and laugh at her misfortunes. Even though most of the time she doesn’t mean to be, she is hilarious. I laugh so hard when we get to hang out together, and we always have a great time. We mostly just play cards when she is visiting, but we get so competitive (she always wins. I always lose. lol) Even if she does like to pee and puke when she’s at my house (jk..love you girl) She’s one of my favorite people, and I love her a lot.

     There’s also a lot of guys that I’m close too….One of them, is super sweet and funny. He’s so much fun to hang out with and talk about sports, we get super competitive while playing Putt-Putt golf. He would much rather be eating a Corndog with Me than watching a Pig Show (haha).  He’s recently become my boyfriend, and I couldn’t be happier about it. One of them is my best ‘Guy Friend’, I’ve known him since I was little and he is like the Big Brother that I never had, he’s great to talk to, and so much fun to be with. Yes, he’s a little strange, and you never really know what he’s going to do next, but he’s really interesting and one of my best friends.

 

     That is just a small paragraph on a select few of my closest friends, I love them all so much, and even though I don’t get to see most of them very much anymore, they’re still my best friends and I miss them all so much.   

Friends For Life

Chris, Kayla, Clay, Haley, Macey, Will, Megan, Justin.

   

 

 

A Year in a New Place

          In a few weeks (September 10th to be exact) My Family and I will have been living in Florida for exactly one year, it seems unreal that we’ve already been here that long, and my mind can’t grasp the fact that it’s already almost Fall again, Halloween will be here before I know it, and the Holiday season is much closer than I think. Why is it that time goes by so fast now? I remember when I was little and a year seemed like a lifetime, now it just seems like a few short months fly by and all of the sudden it’s a brand new year. Summer breaks go by much faster than they used to and School years are…….ok, the school year still seems to go by slow, but you get what I’m saying.

     I know the saying “time flies when you’re having fun.” and I guess that’s true, I have had a lot of fun this past year in Florida, I’ve made a lot of new friends, Found a new church (that I love!), Had the best Sweet 16 Party ever, Went to a Jonas Brothers Concert, Saw the new Harry Potter movie 4 times in theaters, Joined a Varsity Basketball Team, Gotten my first Boyfriend, Fell in love with Edward Cullen and went crazy on Twilight stuff with my friends! (but I’mstill Team Jacob), Spent two amazing weeks in GA with my family and my bestie, Went Crazy at Disney World with my Sister and 2 of my Best Friends,  Went on Many Beach trips with my family, Made some pretty awesome videos, Moved completely out of one house and into another in 8 hours (haha, long story), Went on a Wuh Dander too lame to be considered a Wee Dander (haha), Saw My Big Sister Graduate,  Realized that I love Photography, All those late night sleepovers and dance parties with my Sisters, Swimming in the Dark, Duke Games, Watching my new Favorite TV Show “Man vs. Wild”, Mom & Dad blasting music in the car on the way home from the beach, Getting soaked in the rain outside of Pizza Hut, Watching Storms, and so many other memories that I’ve made this first year living in Florida.

Now, I know the years not over yet, but I just wanted to share with all of you some of my best memories that I’ve made my first year living in Central Florida.

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A Beach Trip with my Best Friend.

 

Those Brothers that sing…

If you haven’t guessed by now, I’m talking about the Jonas Brothers, Kevin, Joe and Nick. My older sister and I were lucky enough to get tickets to one of their concerts (thanks to Mom, who was on the exact time they went on sale, while I was at an event for my church.) The concert is tomorrow night, and I am beyond excited. I have to admit that i’m not as obsessed as I used to be, (don’t get me wrong, I’m still a huge fan!) I used to have hundreds (yes, I said hundreds, as in, over 200 posters) of posters on my walls, I was constantly on the Internet reading about what the Jonas Brothers were doing, where they were, who they were being seen with I had binders full of JB articles, I had scrapbooks, and a tape that I recorded every single TV appearance..I spent hundreds of dollars on Tickets, Clothing, Movies, Albums, Autographed Books, Bags and everything you could put the word “Jonas” on, I had it. You could pretty much look up the word Fangirl and get a picture of Me. After being  “obsessed” for about a year and a half, God kinda spoke to me, and I started feeling a little guilty for what I had done, I had Idolized these boys, all I ever thought about was  ‘jonas brothers this…’ ‘jonas brothers that…’ and I actually started putting them before God. One day, I just realised how stupid I was being (nothing against the jonas brothers at all, this was all my fault), and I just prayed and I asked God to forgive me for taking every bit of my time and putting it into something about the jonas brothers, and not giving him any of it, and right after I prayed that I just felt amazing, all the guilt was gone and I told myself right then and there, that I would NEVER let anything come before my God again. I still love the Jonas Brothers, and I’ll be a fan as long as they makemusic, but I’ll never let myself get so obsessed withsomething like I did with the Jonas Brothers ever again. But…..I’m still very excited to be getting to see them for a 4th time tomorrow night (our seats aren’t very close, but someone once said “all seats are good seats at a jonas brothers concert”) and I’ll be posting a pic in my next Post!

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My Room in Georgia summer of 2008.

 

Welcome to My Blog!

Hello World!

     Yes, I have decided to start a blog. I thought having a blog would make it easy for me to share my writing, photography, slideshows, and random thoughts with all of you (and I thought it would be pretty fun.) This is also sort of a school project for me, taking writing and adding photography in it and creating a blog for the public to read and see. I’m really excited to start sharing my thoughts and works with you, so keep checking in for new stuff!