Voice Recital

It was a success!! :)
On Monday we had early rehearsals for solo's then evening rehearsals for the group #.
Solo rehearsal went really well!! The evening one..not so much. My voice teachers husband(Bruce) made us sing the song(Let It Be) at least 15 times! And thank the lord he did!! lol Monday night after rehearsals I went home with Em...on the way to her house we stopped at Circle K(yes, I am going to share a story, I have to its purrrty funny) and when I went to get out of the van, (I was wearing my one pare of sandals I never wear 'cause they are very slippery) I stepped into the rocks descending into the rocks flat on my bottom!! I thought I might have bruises or scratches on my foot but I didn't, so that was good. It hurt a little, but after about an hour it was fine. I was laughing so hard! haha Luckily, no one saw! Then, on the way out, Em told me to grab some donuts and so before I grabbed them I called her a fatty(its ok, she is my bff I can do that) and when I did your "bro-type-of-guy" walks in tries to walk over the "wet Floor" sign and knocks it over, right as I called Em a fatty, on his way out he asked me if I was calling him a fatty..."Did you call me a fatty?" Whaa" "Someone, one of you called me a fatty" "Uuum no, I was calling her a fatty 'cause she wanted donuts" "Oh,...*awkward silence*" haha What a goof! Got to Ems house and we sang the night away(didn't go to bed till 12, yes our voices are sore!!).We were all really tired. Ryan tried telling a joke, and because he was so tired he wasn't explaining it correctly and got mad at us for not understanding! haha

Tues we woke up at 9 took our showers sang lots more..then a little treat, Em's mom has a friend that does hair, so we went and got our hair professionally done for FREE! How cool is that.
Got to the church really early. We thought we were going to be late. But, we weren't! The boy's of the band looked really handsome. And they sounded great!
Some of the girls that sang, oh I was just baffled! There was a young lady that sang "your hands" by JJ Heller, I just love that song!! Delaine keith sang What Do I Know OF Holy by addison road, accompanied by Cam. She sounded great!
Here is the Let It Be video


And My solo, I had to come home and record it because the performance video I look like one big white blob! Not enjoyable! lol

Enjoy!
Me and Em.:)



and the voice group. Band~Preston~Drums-Cameron~Guitar-Cameron~Guitar-Kyle~Guitar-Kyle ~Bass (Three Guitars, one Bass, Drums and Piano)
Voice Group
Bailey~Amanda(me)~Emily~Alec~Erin~Melody~Sara~Emiley~Tiffany~Meagan~Emilee~Mikaela~Rachel~Karlie
After the recital we went to a delicious yogurt place with the Keiths. It was so nice to just visit! :)
Everyone did so good!

Time for me to get off here. Gotta lot to get done before tomorrow!
Hope everyone is having a blessed week! :)

Amanda :)

Graduation/Grad party

Well well well, here I am writing up another post! ;)

Last night was Cameron and Delaine Keiths graduation. Along with my friend Seth's too.(same graduation, same place) The ceremony was, long very intelligent;) and nice! It really was. I enjoyed seeing all the different faces. You should have heard some of the screams. I think there was one lady whos scream lasted for like 2mins! I am not even kidding. It was pretty insane. And there were blow horns(which they weren't supposed to use, but people still did) that were insanely loud!! I guess that just means some kids, are REALLY loved! haha my mom slept through like, half the thing, but hey thats ok I guess!! She kept asking, did they show the Keiths yet..what about Seth, did his face flash yet. Oh mommy, you shoulda taken a nap! jk

After it was all done me and my mom rushed outta there(it was just me mom zach and nate..even tho nate was too busy talking on the phone..in the CAR) Don't know what happened to Zach, but while we were standing there we watched all the graduates come out two by two..looking for our dear friends. Said hi, congratulated hugged then let them go! haha

After that we went to the Keiths house for their party. Wow! Lots of Fun!! So much fun we didn't leave till 2:30..am. (Yep , we closed their party out! haha) I was so tired when I got home I didn't even wash my face just brushed my teeth. I'm surprised I am even up. I didn't get any pics..but it was a very much needed time of fellowship spent with old friends that we just don't see much anymore!!

Hoping to graduate next year myself. We'll see how things go. ;)

This Tues. is my recital. I'm excited, nervous and..a little unsure all at the same time. Just praying we all do well! Ill share pics, and maybe even the video if I do well. hehe Ill def. Share the video of the group number!! :)

Better get a move on!

God Bless,
Mandie

Don't Wanna Let Her Go.

Hey, Everyone!

I have a huge prayer request. Many of(actually, I think all of you know) you know that we do foster care. Well, our youngest one (I can't give out names or anything like that over open content such as thus, so lets just put it this way, she is one, absolutely adorably chunky-monkey sweet stuff baby girl) has a high possibility of going BACK to her birth giver (we don't like to call her 'mom, mom' we provide for her, raise her and love her, her birth giver, not so much lol). We have one month to see how things go. Basically there will be people living with BM to make sure she doesn't get into any 'trouble' and that the environment is clean, and she can provide for her. Ha! Good luck. Now, we don't want to pray harm over anyone, that would be terrible. But, maybe could you guys just please pray that something happens that will prevent my precious baby-cakes from going back to that horrible lady!?

This sounds selfish, I know(or maybe not) but if she goes back, it will tare my heart out and rip it up in pieces! We are all she knows! Not only will it seem like she is dead to us, but she will grieve too. She isn't too young to grieve. she will know. Not only that. She will grow up not knowing what purity is, she'll be into drugs more than likely be living on the street and God knows what else!! I am pretty depressed. I love her to pieces, I don't wanna let her go!!!!

Anyways, could you all just please pray she doesn't have to go back!? I know we want Gods will to be done too, but we love her to pieces and would be so so so sad if she has to leave.

Thanks. :)

I better go.

God Bless
Amanda

In Sickness and In Health~Business

Lately we have been bouncing between being sick, and not sick. One day feeling totally fine, the next down for the count! On Fri. Mom wasn't feeling 100% and some of the little's were still sick(with the flu) but, some friends of ours persisted in coming over. Now, I love my friend-and her family. But sometimes they can just go over board. I don't wanna say too much, but lets just say when they left we had four days worth of house work to do! *sigh* Anyways...that day I also had voice rehearsals. They went pretty well. There are some parts in my song that I really need to work on, but practice makes better than before! :)

On Saturday, we were all feeling really well. So we went to the AZCA appreciation day at the zoo. It was pretty warm. But, nice too. It was really crowded. There musta been at least 10dif associations there. From gymnasts to the AZCA! First thing we did when we got in was go get food! (Even tho it was only 11am:)) After we got food we went to see if there was sitting space at the pavilion, luckily when we got there there was a family getting up with just enough seats for us and the Kirkpatricks. It was nice to just sit and enjoy the lunch, until they started blaring the most worldly sexual music out there! There were little gymnasts there that were really cute flipping around, until they started dancing not so, um....I can't think right now. Still waking up, but the dance was, OH! Provocative. And these little girls were only like, 4-maybe 14. Yeah. After we ate we went and did hand prints. Then made our way over to the water cave. I was so tempted to go get wet! But instead just stood in the shade. I felt bad for Mr. Tyler who just stood in a corner while Nathan went off talking on the phone for hours with *cough* a special someone.....of course, I sorta did the same, stood in a corner silenced! haha Usually I take lots of pics, but I think this time I only took like, 10maybe.

Mothers day, I felt bad because it WAS MD and I usually try to do a lot for my mom but on Sunday I slept alllll day, I was too weak to even lift a pen. So, I plan on doing something special for her. :) And doing something for the two birthday kiddos in the house, M turned 5 and J turned 2 over the weekend! :)

Well, I better go I have a lot of cleaning, singing and piano playing to get done! :)

Hope everyone is well!

Mandie(:

Ever hear these words from your mommy?

I'm pretty sure I have! ;P In honor of our moms, for mothers day! hehe (:



Too cool, huh?!!

God Bless.

Accelerated Classes~ All Organized

I've been dreading Tuesdays lately cause I cant find my books!! My, piano books that is. Someone packed 'em away and they seem to be lost. But! My teacher never fails to have an extra set laying around! Anyways, to the title. Today in class She(My teacher, Lori) told me that she is holding a class for the month of June for accelerated students and asked me to attend. This class is to learn chords how to construct your own arrangements and what not. I think it would be fun to attend! And now that I only live 20mins away, I'm seriously considering it. But, before then, I seriously need to find a 88key-keyboard. I had found one for only $149 in perfect condition but the person never replied so, I take it as they sold it. ;) So if y'all know anyone, or something selling one for 100-200-250ish Please, let me know! My upright is of no good use anymore. :/ Thanks. :)

Finally all organized. Got my bed made(even tho I hate my bed 'cause its the most uncomfortable thing ever, it makes the room!), got the loft in order, now just gotta let the boys do their jobs by getting their things in place!! yay!!!
Oh, really quick, for those of you who know, our adoption should be final in Aug.!! yaay!! :))

Mandie:)