Well. I love this weather. It's perrrrfect.
My horses -- Don't. They don't like being stuck in their wet stalls all day. And it's been pretty cool so the blankets have been pulled out and put into use again.
Since there's a nice break in the rain today, I let them out. They were very happy. LOL.
Well just an update. :D
Love Wins,
Hayley
Well now that the weather has turned, it makes it feel a lot more like Christmas. :)
I love it! Here's out Christmasy house...
I just had to throw that one in there ;)
Love Wins and Merry Christmas!
Hayley
I love my church. EVERYTHING about it. Well, except tear down ;) That's whatchya get when you're part of a 'portable church.' But it's worth it!
Everywhere you go, you receive a friendly smile, good morning (or good night), hello, or a wave. It's like Disneyland. I swear! Happiest place in the world! I mean seriously, I feel at home there. I mean come on, wouldn't you love a church where you could be shoeless, in jeans and a t-shirt and not be stared at or made fun of? But yeah, it's just a GREAT place to be. You feel welcome. It's like one big family.
We are SO unique. The lessons are so simple and straight to the point. The music varies greatly! We put a huge effort into everything. And honestly, it's ranked number 3 on my favorite places in the world. If you wanna know, number 1 is home, number 2 is with my horses. Haha.
Being on the praise band, you get to see a lot of the, I guess you could say, 'behind the scenes' parts of the church. We have people that usually just come to service and then leave right away stay for tear down. Afterwards they say, "Wow. I never could've pictured this room as a drama room. Empty." Or "I never knew how much you guys do!"
It's so cool to be playing and see someone walk in the door who's singing along already. Awesomeness. :) And to see people singing along and clapping with us, getting involved, serving, or just being a friend to a new timer.
And I'm sad, because, even though tear down is a pain the rear, (it's still fun sometimes, and I know I'm doing something good) I'm going to miss it this weekend :( My dad is having back pain, and like 45 minutes after getting done with that, him and my mom and my bro have to go to GO training for 2 hours, and this weekend is the Leader's Meeting right after that. So my dad isn't going to stay for tear down. And my mom doesn't anyways, so there's no hope in helping tear down. :( Oh well..
Here's our church websites if you want to check em out :)Main website and here's the Student Ministry one.
On a side-note, the Music at the Mall was today. It went well, despite the fact that we were like right next to the kids little play area, which was loud! And I didn't like the piano they had..ugh. I felt like I had to pound on the keys to get just a little noise out of it. It just had this weird feeling. I didn't like it...and it was a Yamaha. Icky. Haha anywayz....
Love Wins,
Hayley
So today I had my mom come out and take some pictures of me on Missy. I wanted to see how big I was on her lol. And also because I don't have any recent pics. Missy looks so thrilled. Goober. Here's my favorites...
We had a great ride. I rode her yesterday, and I think if I ride her the day before it gives her a chance to get the silly willies out lol.
My mom looked at Cat's sore thingy, and was like, "Oh Hayley! The vet needs to see this."
She cleaned it real well, and also noticed that her back is a lot bonier, like I had told her. Hmmm. So since it was too late in the day, she's calling them tomorrow(or more like this morning since you're probably reading this on Saturday, not almost 11 on Friday night lol) to have her come. Ugh.
Well I should go,
Love Wins,
Hayley
A friend of mine sent this to me, and I thought I'd post it. I suggest you read it. :D
*Twas the month before Christmas*
*When all through our land,*
*Not a Christian was praying*
*Nor taking a stand.*
*See the PC Police had taken away,*
*The reason for Christmas - no one could say.*
*The children were told by their schools not to sing,*
*About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.*
*It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say*
* December 25th is just a ' Holiday '.*
*Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*
*Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!*
*CDs from Madonna, an X BOX , an I-pod*
*Something was changing, something quite odd! *
*Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa*
*In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.*
*As Targets were hanging their trees upside down*
* At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.*
*At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears*
*You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.*
*Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty*
*Are words that were used to intimidate me.*
*Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen*
*On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton !*
*At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter*
*To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.*
*And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith*
* Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace*
*The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded*
*The reason for the season, stopped before it started.*
*So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'*
*Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.*
*Choose your words carefully, choose what you say*
*Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS ,
not Happy Holiday !*
Please, all Christians join together and
wish everyone you meet during the
holidays a
MERRY CHRISTMAS
It's cool huh?
Love Wins,
Hayley
