Ever After

Hahaha!!! I LOVE Ever After... I'm watching it now and I keep getting distracted by the quotes :D

Stepmother: Perhaps I shall ship you off to the Americas with all the rest of the thieves.

Stepmother: You're hiding something from me. I can feel it. I demand to know what it is.
Danielle: Why don't you tell me so I can get back to sleep?
Marguerite: What about our breakfast?
Danielle: You have two hands. Make it yourself.

Davinci: I know that a life without love, is no life at all.

Prince Henry: And love without trust? What of that?

Davinci: She's your match, Henry..

Prince Henry: I am but a servant to my crown, and I have made my decision! I will not yield!

Davinci: Then you don't deserve her.

Stepmother: How can anyone ever love a pebble in their shoe. (Oh my heck, if anything screams heartless it's this!)

Danielle: I belong to no one, least of all you.

...

Creepy Dude: I could hang you for this.

Danielle: Not if you are dead.

Woman: Once you wash the tablecloths you can start on the napkins. And move those over there.

Stepmother: Marguerite, you heard the Woman.

Marguerite: So did you.

Stepmother: Yes, but I'm management.

Marguerite: Like hell you are. You're just the same as me, you big nobody!

Stepmother: How dare you speak to me that way, I am of noble blood!

[Umm, excuse me, Mrs. Management? If you are of noble blood, well... so is your daughter!!!]

Woman: And you are getting on my nerves

(pushes them into freezing, dirty water)

Woman: Hahaha, now get to work

Ominous Lady Voice: And while Cinderella and her prince did live happily ever after, the point is that they lived.

Pretty great, right :D

You know, no matter what form, Cinderella is a great story. I've loved each and every version I have ever seen. Disney's Cinderella, A Cinderella Story with Hilary Duff, Ever After, Ella Enchanted, Another Cinderella Story with Selena Gomez... They're all amazing.

"Be to her virtues very kind;

Be to her faults a little blind;

Let all her ways be unconfin'd;

And clap your padlock--on her mind."

     ---  A Bride Most Begrudging, 161, by Deanne Gist 

I love the first 3 parts, but seriously?? How sad would that be? 

Honorable and faultless, yes... but mindless??

There's no way I could have lived like that, way back then.. With the guys in charge and having all the power.. No thank you!

How 'bout this...

"Be to her virtues very kind;

Be to her faults a little blind;

Let all her ways be unconfin'd."

Much better, yes?

This is life ever after :D

Oh Crap

Somebody teach me prealgebra, algebra, geometry and trig... please??

See, I have to take the ACT Saturday morning, and, well... easy math isn't so easy now that I'm in hard math...

Okay, on a better note

my photo poster is displayed in the high school hallway. I'm kinda psyched :D

Positivity

I've never really thought of how important being positive is. With a positive outlook on life and chores and such, everything seems better, more fun.

I've noticed that when I do something with a happy heart it's... different. A good different.

I mean, think about it.  No matter what it is that you're supposed to be doing if you think happy thoughts you can fly.. Not literally, but doing things in a jovial manner makes the task at hand so much easier.

School

Homework

Service

Chores

Favors

 Add a pinch of positive thinking and your whole day can be turned around. So.

Be optimistic and make every second count!!

And remember, faith is like muscle. 

You have to exercise it, because it's continually moving, whether that movement is forward or backward is up to you :D

Hillybilly

On the way home from church Bailey was talking in her British accent... Brock was talking in his "hillybilly" accent. And yes, that was what he called it :D

Driving home from NV we passed a white truck with... wait for it... wait for it... antlers attached and sticking straight up from his truck!! Now, THAT is what I call hillybilly :)

Because I was too slow in snapping a good photo, just try to imagine it.

This truck, mud splattered on the sides and directly in the middle on the top of the truck antlers sticking up more than a foot.. True story :D

Earth to Shelby!!!

During the car ride to town Brock was giving me a politics lesson... He was able to not only name all the republican presidential candidtaes, but he knew where some were from and what some of them looked like. Did I menton he's 10?? I kid you not, my jaw was dropped.

He then asked me a simple question: Who do you like??

Talk about a wake up call.

Here I am, I can't even name a single candidate nor have I ever had any interest in politics. I'm 17. He's 10.

Sad, right??.

I am still in awe at his political knowledge. He was nonstop talking politics for about 20 minutes.

I have never had an inkling to know what's happening in the political world, but wow...

I know at 10, politics and who the next president was going to be was the last thing on my mind. Brock already has a mental note of the 'good' guys and the 'bad'. He knows what they believe and if they're the governor of some state or another..

In my 17 years the only thing I've figured about politics is the fact that politicians are liars. That's it.

I think I need to wake up and start paying attention to the world around me. I may not like everything I see, but that's life and ignorance doesn't solve anything. 



Yesterday Was... Priceless

By now I'm guessing a lot of you have read Breanna's blog...

If not, go read it.

Well, now that you've seen the video, let me assure you it was nothing like that :)

She calls it aggressive, I call it enjoying life...

See, let me tell you the REAL story. It went like this:

Coming out of the school parking lot, Breanna cut me off. Yes, I never would have thought her capable of such a thing... but lo and behold, it happened. I have a witness :D Anyway, making the turn onto 700 E I was stuck behind Bre..Normally that wouldn't be a problem, but yesterday I kinda wanted some fun. I decided to go a different way that still met up on Center, the road Bre had taken. Well, my way was faster.. or my driving.. and I made it in front of Bre... but I maybe cut her off... It was totally safe :)

'An eye for and eye, a tooth for a tooth'
'Do unto others as you would have them do to you'
Shall I quote some more :D 

I must say though, I laughed so hard during that video.. Why?? Because it really is us... We fight like sisters :D

Another high of my day...

Bailey and I decided to surprise our Dad for his birthday, which is tomorrow. We told him we couldn't come see him, but, well.. we lied :D

When we finally got to Elko it was kinda dark, dark enough for us to see inside the car in front of us. Guess what we saw?? They had Shrek playing on their TV!! Luckily, they were going the same way as us. I got to watch like, an entire 10 minutes :) I first noticed it when Shrek went to Farquad's kingdom, then he fought all the guards, then Farquad sent him on his journey to find Fiona... That's when we parted ways.

Once we got to Dad's we totally surprised them. Asia saw us first and her face was priceless. It was a look of confusion, disbelief, then amazement or something of the like. Next, we walked into the family room, where everybody else was. Amber was confused, the kids thought they were dreaming and Dad... he was on the phone with my mom asking where we were :D It was pretty great because Mom could hear us from the other line but Dad was still oblivious. He seemed pretty confused when he turned around and saw us. Again, priceless :D

Happy Birthday Dad!!

Last night, was a night spent on the tramp in a sleeping bag, under the stars. Amazing. Cold, but worth it. :D

Pure Coldness

Have you ever tasted spring water?? 

Well, let me just tell you. It's amazing. I've never had more pure, cold water before in my life!! It's kinda cool that water coming straight from the ground is so tasty and clean and cold :)

But seriously. There is nothing like it anywhere else. No water compares.

Now, I'm sure by now you're probably wondering if I've gone a little crazy... I mean, I'm talking about WATER for crying out loud!!

The reason for my peculiar topic lays with a discussion we had in my communications class. Well, more of my teacher randomly attempting to explain the goodness of fresh spring water to the class. It was quite entertaining, but also made me think.

We... I mean... I take for granted all the joys in life. Finding a spring in the mountain really is one of many joys. It's not something I come upon often, so when I do, I just must have a drink. 

Haha, this has happened all of 2 times that I can remember. One was on top of a hill, everything was green and then there was this source of fresh water, just oozing from a hole into a small pool of water then running down the hill... 

This is my favorite though.

After a hard couple hours herding cows on a horse in the blistering sun with no food or water, Dad took us to this huge rock. All I wanted was to ride back to the truck so we could go home, but here he was, showing us a mound of stone. But. It wasn't just a rock, it was a natural water source..  Oh. My. Heck. That rock is now my most favorite rock in the world! I kid you not, I love that thing. The water that comes from it... I've never tasted better. Hands down. I love it. 

Okay, so kinda silly. But I think when we have so much enthusiasm for something we love, it just makes us love it even more. Thinking about it, I know this is true, because it happens to me all the time. Whether it be churchy stuff, my dog, my blog, or whatever. Having an 

eagerness, 

passion, 

zeal, 

gusto,

 energy, 

fire, 

devotion 

or earnestness

 for something, makes that something the best thing in the world. 

When I get this feeling for something it makes me want to try harder to be good at it, whether it be art, photography or writing. I want to be proud of what I'm doing, and yet I just want to have fun...

I recently saw a picture of crayon art (melting crayons so they drip down a canvas in straight lines. Look it up, it's pretty cool). I've never seen this in my life, but I decided to try it. Yeah... it was an epic fail, but you know what? The 2 cardstock pages with my failed attempt at crayon art is hanging on my wall because I had fun and I made a memory. And who knows, maybe I'll try again :D