"IIIIIIIIIIIIII'm dreamingggg, (dreamed.) of a whiiiiiite, Christmassssss!"

My AWESOME Switchfoot shirt I got for Christmas! It has all their faces on it. ;) It rocks. (Even though I kinda cut Tim out of the picture, on freak accident. Sorry Tim.)

Pretending to eat snow. :) (Even though it wasn't snowing..)

The: "It is FREEEEEEEEEEEEZING out here!!!!!" face.

Hey peeples! Guess what?! I HAD MY VERY FIRST WHITE CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR!!!!!!! Even though I didn't get to enjoy it until Boxing Day, it was still awesome. ;) So above, are the Boxing Day pictures. :P Enjoy! I shall blog again soon. :D

-Allie.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, peeps! Hope ya'll had a great one. :) Please see the post above to listen to me talk about Christmas. This post is only here to show you the awesome picture of Ethan, Audrey and I, on http://www.picnik.com/. Enjoy. ;)

-Allie.

"Tomorrow is Christmas, its practically here!" (Not quite. But anyway.)

Hey peeps! So, obviously, its almost Christmas. Just a few days away! I can't wait. But I'm a little sad-Soon all the happy, holiday season-ness, will all be gone. Then we'll all go back to our normal lives. Work, church, (Piano, for me.) all that stuff. Kinda sad, really. Anyway. Back to the Christmas festivies! From the picture above, I obviously like The Grinch. You know, the Christmas special we all know and love. Its always been my FAVORITE Christmas special. I'm not sure why, I just always loved it. And up until recently, (a few moments ago..) I never really got the 'lesson'. So, here it is: During the special, it talks about the Grinch HATING Christmas (which I find nearly impossible to do, in my opinion.). And during the half-hour, he steals all of the town's folk's Christmas decorations (Because he thinks if he gets rid of all the stuff, it'll get rid of all the Christmas spirit, also.). And right as he is about to throw it off a cliff, (very original..) he hears the people down below (The Who's.) singing. Which made, "his heart grow 3 sizes, that day.". So, he then returned all the Christmas stuff, realizing the true meaning of Christmas. Of which, is: Christmas ain't about presents, decorations, all that mumbo-jumbo. Its about LOVE. Which I completely agree with. It IS about love! What kind of love, you ask? Jesus' love to US. (I know I've talked about this about 8,000 times already, just trying to get the point across.) (I kinda doubt The Grinch talks about the same love that I'm talking about, but I'm just sayin'.) ANYWAYS. Lets get back to my Beth Moore sermon. Jesus' love is the ONLY thing that "grow's our heart's 3 sizes". He's the ONLY thing that will put that Christmas spirit into us! So, basically, my point is: Its Jesus' way, or the highway (trust me, you do NOT want to go down the highway. It ain't pretty.)
Well, that concludes the longest 'Grinch' blog post ever. Thanks for listening to me ramble. ;)
I'll blog again soon-Merry Christmas!
-Allie.

Welcome to December!

Bonjour Peeps! Welcome to December! The most wonderful time of the year. Don't you just love December? I sure do. I love the Christmas music, the Starbucks Hot Chocolate, the Christmas shopping (I mean, who doesn't love Christmas shopping?!), seeing the family, all of it! I love everything about December (except the coldness...lucky Australian's.). What do you like about December? My favorite part is Christmas-Celebrating the birth of our Savior. Hope ya'll have an awesome December!
-Allie.

The Album of the Month!

Hey Peeps! Its time for....The Album of the Month! (Sorry I haven't done it in about a 10 years...) And the album of the month is.......Faith Hill's Joy to the World! Holla! In honor of Christmas, I thought I would have a festive Christmas album this month-and this one fit just right. :) So please, buy it. Download onto your iPod. Enjoy it. Admire her prettyful pink dress. Happy Holladays!
-Allie.

"This is your life, are you who you wanna be?"

Hey peeps! So the other day, I was sitting in the car on the way home from a day of shopping, and Audrey was asleep, so I decided to turn on my iPod. And as always, I shuffled it, and Switchfoot came up (I mostly have Switchfoot songs on my iPod...go figure.), which I was quite excited about. And it was one of my favorite songs, "This is your life". So it was starting..."Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead.." (First part of the song.) And it went on, and once it reached the chorus, I felt as if the words hit me harder this time. It goes: "This is your life, are you who you wanna be? This is your life, are you who you wanna be? This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be? When the world was younger, and you had everything to lose." The first part, "Are you who you wanna be?" really sunk in for me. Am I who I want to be? I've been thinking about that for days now, and still haven't come up with an answer. Am I REALLY who I want to be? In some areas, I would say yes. In some, not so much. I could go on and on about my highs and lows, but I shan't, since ya'll probably have lives. But, I do know what can make me who I want to be. JESUS PEOPLE. Before him, I was a sinner lost and confussed (I was 3, but still.). But now, I am (almost) who I wanna be! So I shall leave ya'll with one question: Are you who you wanna be?

-Allie.

(Ps, the pic above is of Jon Foreman (of Switchfoot.) at Celebrate Freedom.)

Happy Holladays!

Hey Peeps! HAPPY (late) THANKSGIVING! Hope ya'll had an awesome day. I did, I had lots of food and what-not. :P So, the holidays are approching, so I'm sure most of you are decking your halls, making your Christmas List's (Hehehe..), and attempting to get a good family photo for your Christmas card. I love the holiday season. I love listening to Christmas music, writing out all my Christmas cards, seeing family, and sitting in front of the Christmas tree staring at the ornaments sparkle next to the lights. But honestly, none of that matters. Its not what Christmas is about. Yeah, I know what your thinking. Your thinking: "Oh here comes the whole 'Christmas isn't about presents' lecture." Ready or not here it comes. CHRISTmas IS NOT about presents, candy canes, holiday music, any of that stuff. Its about celebrating the birth of our Savior. And unfortunatley, alot of people don't get that. Alot of people DO think its about presents, christmas music, christmas cards, all that stuff. Its quite sad, really. So, this Christmas, I'm going to try to put the CHRIST in CHRISTmas more. Not gonna worry about buying the most presents, eating the most candy canes, any of that junk. I'm going to put Christ first. What are you going to do to put Christ first this Christmas? Hope ya'll had a nice Turkey Day! Oh, by the way, above is my Christmas Card picture that I edited on www.picnik.com. Thank you for your patronage.

-Allie.