Tuesday Nights

Last night was the first soccer game of the season for our guys!!! They won 7-2! :) It was fun sitting in the bleachers with mah frannsss and cheering on our team!

sierra, me & hans!

Sisters <3

friends :)

How did you spend your Tuesday night??

Love,
Manda

The Beginning of the End

Three days ago I started my 1st day of my last year in high school. It is soo hard to believe that I'm almost done! Tuesday night the senior class had a campout at school. We made a big bonfire and made s'mores, lit sparklers, chalked up almost the whole parking lot and all of the sidewalks, danced and played music, and talked around the campfire for about 4 hours. Mostly all of us stayed up the whole night and into the morning when school started. We were soooo tired, but senior campout was worth it!! :) 

{Tuesday night}

Me and Em. She calls me Salamanders and I call her Millie.

Playin with silly string!

Sparklers with Nat-Nat!! :) So much fun!!

Senior Girls <3

Felicia, Natalie, & me after the rock was painted!

{Wednesday}

WE MADE IT, NAT!!! SENIORS AT LAST!

Power naps before the last chapel sesh!!! :)

{Thursday}

Thursday was chapel all day, and something that the speaker said really stuck with me. He said, "If I were to come videotape you living your life, what would I see? At the end of the video, would I say that you really lived your life for God, or that you wasted your life doing things that gave you pleasure?" And then also on Friday, our Bible teacher spoke in devos before heading to KOA for the day. He said, "We do what we do, because we want what we want." And that really got to me, too. I spend soo much of my time selfishly doing what I want, instead of dying to myself and living for Jesus only. I pray that this year I will start dying to self daily and start living for my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

{Friday}

   the CLASS OF 2014!!!!!!!! <3

Awwwww ;)

We came in 2nd in the boat race!!! :)

this picture just makes me laugh!!!

This is the beginning of the end.

Love,
Manda

Discoveries

Sooo my family's "adopted" sister Kara, introduced me and my sisters to the most amazingest show on earth - Once Upon a Time. Like, I don't have the words to describe it. Its confusing, and complicated, and exciting, and filled with romance and adventure and mystery.

To sum it up - its the awesomest show ever created so go watch it now and fall in love like I did. :)

oh hello there ginnifer!!!

 awww James, er... David... I mean, Prince Charming... see its confusing!!

 Emma. You da bomb girl!!!

 This guy!!! Graham!! :)

 L is for the way you look at me...

 The Charming Family. <3

CUTEST on/off screen couple everrr!!

 ohhhh they make me smile!! :)

Now go watch it. You know you want to!!!!! ;)

Love,

Manda

I've Got Little Treasures...

... and they happen to be my friends.


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The FB msgs we send to each other... ;)

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  you are gorgeous and beautiful and sweet and caring and amazing and i loooove youuuu!!! 
  
  
• Hannah

  
  

  Awwww, you just made my day love!! I love youuuu too my dear! And you are also those things and more! <33
  
  Manda 
  awwww you're a doll!!! thanks sweetie!! i'm so glad God gave me you!!! }
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   church with my girl 2 weeks ago!!

  
  

  
  

  On the other hand, I got to have a GRREAT skype sesh tonight with my forever bestie, Mackenna, who lives in Iowa!! It was awesome to catch up, and actually see each other face to face!! :) I love you Mack!!!

  
  

  

   younguns <3

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Love,
  Manda
  

  
  

   

  
  
  

5 Things I'm Looking Forward to for Fall

1. Wearing boots every minute I'm not in school

 via collegefashion.net

2. Soccer games

 via pinterest

3. The Clothes

via pinterest

4.The Scenery

via pinterest

5. Pumpkins

via pinterest

There are sooo many more things I'm looking forward to, but its a long list, so I thought I'd just stick with five. :) 

What are you looking forward to??

Love,
manda

 

 

About Me {20 Things}

I got this from Erin at SWEETNESS ITSELF so decided to do it here, cuz it looked like fun!!! :)

1. I have three big loves in life: kids, horses, and volleyball. I'm trying to figure out how I can make a career out of them, but besides the idea of kids riding horseback while spiking the ball over the net, I haven't come up with anything. :)

2. I'm a movie addict. A few movies I can watch over and over and over and never get tired of are: "International Velvet", "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken", and "Remember the Titans".

3. I have this new thing for iced tea. I love it soo much!! Like, raspberry is one of my favorite flavors! Soo good!!

4. My life verse is Jeremiah 33:3 "Call to Me [Jesus] and I will answer you, and will show you great and mighty things which you do not know."

5. I laugh the most, and the hardest with my family. Especially my sisters. Once you get me going, I can't stop. lol

6. I'm a country girl through and through. Give me some dirt roads and an old farmhouse with a very big wraparound porch, and I'm set. :) Oh and a horse or two.

7. I lovelovelove country music!! Some recent favorites are: "Wagon Wheel" by Darius Rucker, "See You Again" by Carrie Underwood, and "Why Don't We Just Dance" by Josh Turner.

8. Three of my favorite modern TV shows are Duck Dynasty, the Today Show (Which my famfam was just on when we were in NYC this past Sunday and Monday!! more on that trip laterrr). and What Not to Wear.

9. I loveeee the camp setting, and I've worked two summers in a row at two different camps. Thinking of doing it again next summer.

10. I'm 19 1/2 and still not driving. Next summer I'll start all that.... :/

11. I love the Book of John, and the Book of James, in the Bible.

12. A few of my favorite blogs are 'Marie Loves...', 'Sweetness Itself,', 'A Beautiful Heart', and 'Yours Truly'.

13. My favorite seasons are fall and winter. Love me some cold weather. <3

14. I've been blessed with the bestest friend in the world! Love you Mackenna Alyse!! <3

15. I don't know how to swim.

16. Someday, Lord-willing, if I'm blessed with a husband, I would love to adopt kids, even if we are blessed with our own children. I love the wonderful thing that adoption is, and I want to have a part in that someday.

17. I have a sweet-tooth, and so I got my first cavity ever about a month ago. I was terrified, but it all went well and I didn't even need anesthesia!

18. I have to eat popcorn while watching movies. Its a must.

19. I love Jesus with all my heart!!

20. I hope that my future hubby will love to cook, cuz so far in my life I don't. :)