Merry Christmas, Everyone :)

Merry Merry Christmas! i believe i have everybody on here beat to posting a Christmas blog :)

This Christmas has actually been one of my best, if not the very best. Most of the time during Christmas time, i normally do the exact opposite of what everybody else does. Normally while everybody else is just in a happy and cheery mood, its like the worst part of the entire year for me for some reason. I mean dont get me wrong, I love Christmas as much as the next guy, but just about however hard i try, i cannot seem to avoid the terrible mood im always in. This year during Christmas time, i have went through my spells where i would get a little depressed, but in all honesty it hasnt gotten anywhere near as bad as it used to. And i feel 100percent sure that i know why this year is different! Obviously, because i have the Holyghost :) i know that everybody on here is probably seriously just tired of hearing me talk about having the Holyghost because it seems like it comes up in every single post of mine. but oh well, dont like it, dont read it! ;)
This year instead of just feeling so alone, i have enjoyed being with my friends seriously like every single day. And my family as well. Sometimes i get so down, just like everybody else does too im sure, but this year Christmas has made me realize what i truly blessed person i am. I have my worries, but most of which are minor. But seriously, the Lord has given me just about everything that a girl could ask for, just about ;) and the rest i believe will come in time. I have the Holyghost first and foremost, which has made my life a thousand times better forreal, i have amazing friends that care so much about me. And they prove that to me not only by telling me, but by showing me how much they care just in little things that they do and how they treat me. And they are all so important to me. I also have such a wonderful family. i love being around my family. They are really just hilarious. but can be serious and loving too. I have like the best parents that have taught me and my brother right. I have the best brother. A wonderful church. Not bragging by any means, but it seriously just seems like i have almost everything, and i have the Lord to thank for that. I take that for granted way too much and just complain wayy too much when i dont have any room to be complaining about anything! So even though this probably should have been my Thanksgiving post instead of my Christmas post, better late than never is all that i have to say :)

I hope that everybody has a merry Christmas and remembers the reason for the season!! ;)

Tuesday, November 15
Yesterday, i was thankful for my preacher, Brother David Kittrell. I love him to pieces! He does such a good job. He does his best to encourage the church and does what he feels needs to be done. He came to toney at just the right time too! I never really knew who he was, considering he used to go to Smryna and i dont think ive ever even been there..because they have the same regular as us and also because its so far away too. but i started seeing him around places, like Williams Cove the week the Hilary got the HG. And then he came visiting to toney one night, and i just didnt think anything about it. but come to find out, he made Toney home. shortly after is when Papa (Uncle Charles Underwood) had his heart attack and started going downhill really fast. Everybody just assumed that he was going to be fine, because nobody could actually imagine losing him. thats how i was, atleast. But while Papa was really sick and couldn't lead the services, he had asked Brother David to lead the services until he could get better. But Papa passed.. and the elders decided that Brother David should just continue to lead the services. So he did just that for a while, not calling himself the preacher, just leading the services. but eventually, he became our preacher and i'm so glad of that(: i also am so thankful for his speech issues. i guess i really shouldnt call them "issues" because its definitely things that he could help lol, such has saying suBtle, yo and yo-self instead of you and yourself, "that'd be AIGHT too", and many more. he has also come to adopt many phrases too.. such as "i aint jumpin no benches, but that be aight.", "whats happnin?" and "aint that wonderful" and he's even adopted Thumper's motto for the end of our services "If you cant say something nice then dont say nothing at all" but all of his little speech.. differences.. make my life so much brighter because its always a fun thing to make fun of! so yesterday, i was thankful for my preacher-friend(:

November 16
Today, I am thankful for this past summer. Especially of course for the night that i recieved the Holyghost, but my second favorite night of the entire summer would have to be the night that Kamran recieved the Holyghost. it was just two nights after i recieved it.. and i had no idea that the Lord was even dealing with him. but looking back at the pictures of the night i recieved it.. you can see it ALL OVER his face! I can remember the night after i recieved the Holyghost, when he started the alter.. i was praying for my brother when somebody told me that Kamran was about to make it! it was almost just too much for my brain to even comprehend! but he didnt make it that night, but the next night when he did it was just so sweet! it was seriously like i had recieved it all over again.. and it was only two nights after i had! it was the sweetest thing ever.. i didnt even know what to do with myself! i cried and laughed and cried and laughed for the rest of the entire service! and that had to have been atleast 30 minutes before i left the church.. and then when i left the church and got out to my car.. as i was driving i was still just crying and laughing and crying and laughing!  and now if i see him testifying or anything, i always think back to that night and it just makes me so happy(: also, the night after that, another one of my little cousins Connor Hindman recieved the Holyghost.. then exactly a week to the day after i did, my best friend/cousin Lindz did too!! and then there was more.. some related to me and some not. but it was hands-down the BEST summer of my entire life! so today, i am so very thankful for the summer of hope!

Thankful

Saturday, November 12
Saturday i was thankful for lazy days. Saturday i had a beyond amazing lazy day with Lindz. the first good lazy day ive got to have in a couple weeks, and i so enjoyed it. theres nothing like kicking back in the recliner with a just watching tv and playing on the computer all day with a best friend. so saturday, i was thankful for my breaks(:

Sunday, November 13
Yesterday, i was thankful for my Holyghost. im sure that all of yall have been surprised that that wasnt the very first day of what i was thankful for, but i saved it for this day because as of yesterday, i have had the Holyghost for 5 months(: and so far it has been the best 5 months of my life! so yesterday, i was more than thankful for my ticket(:

Today, November 14
Today i am thankful for one of my best friends, Haley. today is her 21st birthday! Time for a little reminisce. most people have only known Haley for about 2 and a half years, because thats how long shes had the Holyghost. but me and her go way back. we met through Whitney, because she used to live on Whitneys street. i can vaguely remember going over to her house a time or two whenever i had spent the night with Whitney or something. One time i'm pretty sure we watched atleast part of Harry Potter over at her house.. and i thought it was so wierd because she had her tv in her closet lol. i dont think i ever told her about that though lol. we never really were close then though, we just knew of each other pretty much. Then one day, she moved into my neighborhood. and from then on we just started hanging out. and it had got to where we were seriously with each other like every.single.day. this all started when i was in 5th grade, so she wouldve been in 7th grade. We were with each other so much, that by the time that i got into middle school with her, the bus driver just knew that it was okay if i got off the bus at her house, or that she got off the bus at my house (they make a big deal about that, for all homeschoolers that may be reading this) My mom would take us to school in the mornings and eat our cereal in plastic cups.. and our favorite kinds of mornings were FOGGY MORNINGS! mom is super afraid of fog.. she gets like claustrophobic in it. So on foggy days, we would get checked in at like 10 or 10:30.. and im sure there was a time or two that we just didnt go at all. We had even convinced our moms to let us spend the night with each other on school nights (something that with most would never be acceptable!) I could seriously write soooo much about what all we did.. stretching from playing battle of the kitchens and jailbreak with the neighborhood kids to going to the smokies. but then when she went to high school we just kind of grew apart, i guess since we werent in the same school anymore and because she ended up moving out of my neighborhood. whenever i got to high school and i would see her in the halls and stuff we would wave at each other but we would never just stop and talk. it was really sad actually because she was my very best friend for most of middle school!
When Whitney died, Haley came around. she came her house the day after, and then to the funeral and everything. She was really tore up about it too, because that was one of her good childhood friends. she felt kind of out of place at the funeral and everything because really the only ones that she knew were me and Ben, but of course me and Ben were happy to have her back. (her and Ben were also really close too, he was just as much her brother as he was mine and still is) I guess she was happy to be back too, because she just kept coming around! then she started talking about how she wanted to come to church. and that was unheard of from her! because when we had been such good friends i would try to get her to come with me but she wouldnt, not even once, because she thought that she was just a target for people to lay hands on her. (she used to go alot when she was little, shes brother Buford's step-granddaughter and her brother has the Holyghost too) so she came to church with us, and then she started talking about how she wanted the Holyghost. and you could tell she really wanted it, but she knew that she couldnt just decide that she wanted it and come get it, she had to go on God's time. but she kept coming with us, and she would always get on to me and Amber for eating and talking during church because she wanted to pay attention! well to spare a whole testimony.. she ended up running to the alter (behind brother David's back.. he was still preaching to the lost people behind her before he realized that she was down in the alter praying) and got the Holyghost! and she ended up marrying my cousin/brother Jared.. which was just dandy because i had always wanted Jared to marry one of my close friends that way i could always stay close to him too! so today, i am thankful for my bestfriend(:

Thankfulness

November 10-
Yesterday, i was thankful for my car. i know this may be a strange and random thing to be thankful for, but seriously i use my car almost every single day. i would hate not having one. Me and my car, as of right now, dont get along too well because it just has issues that i'm getting fed up with! hopefully very soon i'll be getting rid of it and onto my second car, but i still am thankful for this car because it has held me through 3 years of driving. so, i am thankful for my transpotation(:

November 11-
Today, i am thankful for music. mainly gospel music, because thats mostly what i listen to. and it can always lift my mind up and make me feel so much better. i'm also thankful for all of the groups that make the cd's (such as new harmony.. definitley my fav) so, i am thankful for my pick-me-up(:

Two Thankful Days

Tuesday, November 8
On Tuesday, I am thankful for my church. Even though we have our ups and downs just as any other church does.. i still love it so much. i can't imagine not going there. I hate to ever miss a service there and i just love all of the people there! and i can definitely tell that they love me too. they are so good to encourage. So on Tuesday, i was thankful for my extended family(:

Wednesday, November 9
Today, I am thankful for my grandparents. All five of them (Pop-Jerry Underwood, Grandmother-Carolyn Underwood, Poppop-Roy Gaines, Granna-Margaret Gaines, and Sue.Sue-Sue Gaines). They all are such a light to me. They have taught me so many things through my life, but most of all the fear and trust in the Lord. They all do, or did, so good in church. I have 100% faith that my Granna is waiting in Heaven for me, because she led such a great life, and i could tell that even when i was just young. Whenever they get up in church, they always have my full attention, and it makes me so happy to see them get up just to testify or when they get a good blessing! So today, I am thankful for my Lights(:

Three Thriving Thankful Days

Saturday, Nov. 5th.
I am so very thankful for Alabama Football. Even though our kickers were temporarily out of their minds, and even though they let LSU get too many interceptions on us.. and even though they quite obviously just gave up during overtime, the most critical part of the game, i still love them. They are such a good team. and i dont care how many auburn fans want to comment on this and bash Alabama until their fingers bleed, the tide definitely is a good team. so on Saturday, i was so thankful for my team(: #rolltideroll


Sunday, Nov. 6th.
I am so very thankful for Huntsville church. Last night i went to Huntsville and enjoyed myself just as i always do. Huntsville is definitely like my second home church. it is so special to me because, as if the entire blog universe didn't already know, that is where i received the Holyghost. And everytime i go there i am reminded of that night! and also, i get to see all my wonderful family and my best friend hilly g. so on Sunday, i was so thankful for my second home church(:

Monday, Nov. 7th.
Today, i am thankful for my mom and dad. They are so beyond amazing to me and always try their best to help me. Even though i dont always get along with them, or dont always agree with them, they still are two of my favorite people in the whole entire universe and i can depend on them more than any other two people in the world. so today, i am thankful for my support system(:

My Jobs

Today, i am thankful for both of my jobs. Even though so fat the babysitting job has been hectic, i still am very thankful that i have it because it comes in very handy whenever its time to pay up. I'm also thankful for my job with Rainbow, very very thankful. i love this job. its super easy and i enjoy doing a lot of the things that i do here. so, PTL. (:

My Bed

I am so very thankful for my bed. Somedays when its raining and cold outside, i could just stay in bed allll day. me and my bed have such a wonderful relationship. i think about it all the time. especially at work. and it always welcomes me back every single night, and every single day at about 5:30 when i lay down after work for my 5 minute relaxation time. I repay it by loving it with all of my heart.. and never ever wanting to get out of it when my alarm clock rings in the morning. especially during winter.. when my bed is 307 degrees.. and outside my bed is -55 degrees. my bed has been faithful to me for years now, and for that i am mighty thanful.

November

I am thankful for November because since its November... that means that i can listen to Christmas music freely, wake up to a Christmas song going off on my phone as an alarm, put up my Christmas tree in my room, hang Christmas lights up outside, and spend a ton of money on Christmas gifts in the frenzy of the day after thanksgiving.

Tuesday

I am thankful for Tuesday because we have church on Tuesday nights! and i am thankful for that because Sunday is just too far away!!

Happy Halloween!

Happppppy Halloweeeeeen!!!! (:


This past weekend was full and fun! Friday night consisted of lots of family fun! Mallory's sweet sixteen party.. loved playing on the big slide and seeing all the cute little costumes. then afterwards i spent the night with Grace, Katie Claire, and Anneliese. Katie Claire has been begging me to atleast come over for quite some time now, so i figured this would be the perfect opportunity!
Saturday i killed time with shelb and olivia until saturday night! me, Brett, Shelby, Ben, Garrett, Maegen, and Ross went to eat Zaxbys for supper and then headed out for Arx Mortis! Arx Mortis is the main haunted house that i have looked foward to since last Halloween night, when me Andrew and Garrett went out there. last year was its first year as arx mortis. the previous years it was called greystone manor. well last year, we fell IN LOVE with it. it was by far the best one i have ever been to! we had so many laughs last year.. especially going with Garrett. for those of you who have never been to a haunted house with Garrett.. you have to steer clear of him because if you stand in front of him, he will pull your hair (just ask April) and if you stand behind him, its just as bad! because when Garrett gets scared his knees go out on him. therefore causing him to stomp on the poor person's feet behind him. but anyways, enough remeniscing from last year.
when we got to arx mortis and saw the line, we seriously considering just driving home. this line was insanity. but since we had already drove so far, and since we were determined to go to this amazing haunted house.. we stayed and endured. Preston, Luke, Dylan, Reese, Corey, and Kelsey ended up meeting up with us. and we endured the freezing cold line for about 3 hours. then all of the Gunters Mountain people were about to leave without even going through because it was already going on 12 am.. and they still had the two hour drive back. we then found out, AFTER standing in line for almost 3 hours, that if you just paid 10 extra dollars you could get a v.i.p pass and go straight through the haunted house. but we werent complaining too much because we still had like an hour left in the line. so we all ended up going through since we could go straight through now. but it still took about 40 minutes for both of the attractions we went through. me and shelb got stuck in the back for BOTH! and i was sooooo scared. in my opinion, it was even scarier than last year. and of course, alll of the boys left all the girls in the back. Luke ended up coming back there for part of the time, he was probably just tired of hearing our bloody-murder screams.. but im pretty sure it didnt get much better once he came back there lol. the second attraction... all the of the girls ended up in the back AGAIN! surprise surprise. with me and shelb in the very very back holding onto each other for dear life. i had so much fun! because like i may have already mentioned, those things dont really bother me that much anymore, i can usually get out with just several screams. but at this one.. i felt tears coming several times.. but i held them in!

needless to say, i cant wait for next year!!!!
i still didnt get to go to disturbia this year, which i heard was really good, and theres a few others that i would have loved to go to but just didnt get the chance to. maybe next year though(:


until next time!

Follower

THE BASICS
1. Name?
Bailey Jean(:

2. Gender?
Female :)

3. Status?
Single!

4. Age?
19

5. Height?
5' 3" ish

6. Weight?
Too Much

7. Eye color?
Green!!!


8. Hair color?
Brown with hint of red... typical Gaines haircolor

9. Race?
White.

10. Piercings?
Close but no cigar

11. Where?
Nowhere

12. Tattoos?
Close but no cigar.

YOUR CRUSH
13. How long have you known this person?
What person? were going to go with one of my outrageous crushes. Shelby and Brett should know exactly who i'm talking about.

14. How did you meet this person?
technically probably through church. also with the help of a friend ;)

15. What made you like him/her?
Oh my, my, my. his money. his looks. his money. his money. his looks. his humor.

16. Does (s)he have any piercings?
Doubt it, but i guess its a slight possibility

17. Does (s)he have any tattoos?
Yeah, pretty lame ones, but yeah.

18. Smoker or nonsmoker?
Not really sure..... were gonna hope for non.

19. Favorite thing about this person?
His money.

20. Does (s)he know you like him/her?
I think he actually thinks i dislike him... so i guess not lol

21. Does (s)he like you, too?
I think he dislikes me too.. or he used to.. but that was years ago so maybe things have changed now;)

WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE...
22. Color?
All

23. Flower?
eh..... rose?

24. Type of pants?
Fluffy Pajama.

25. Type of shoes?
flip flops and sandals. with a side order of boot.

26. Tv show?
The Walking Dead, Pretty Little Liars, Secret Life, Friends, The Lying Game

27. Song?
theres soooo many

28. Movie?
Tough One! hmmm.... i really like the transformers movie.. have yet to see the third one though! and i reallllly like Burlesque

29. Food?
im a food fanatic. were just gonna go with pf chizzle

30. Game?
MONOPOLY. Phase 10, pit, speed, Life, Scrabble, SCATTEGORIES, Clue, the list goes on. im obviously a game person too

31. Candy?
Milky Ways!



32. Book?
The Bible (: 

33. Place to go?
Hawaii.. even though ive never been there.
and smokies!

34. Website?
probably just this one.

THIS OR THAT...
35.Burger King or McDonald's?
BURGER KING ALL THE WAY! mcdonalds is gross except for ice cream(:

36. Subway or Firehouse Subs?
Subway because ive never been to Firehouse!

37. KFC or Popeye's?
How about neither! except for kfc's buscuits and hot sauce!

38. Pizza Hut or Domino's?
Pizza Hut!

39. Chocolate or vanilla?
Chocolate!

40. PINK TEAM OR BLUE TEAM?
Pink!

41. White or black?
black!

42. Dark or light?
Light (:

43. Right or left?
Right!

44. Wet or dry?
Dry !

45. Cold or hot?
Hot!

46. Sunny or rainy?
Sunny!

47. On or off?
on!!!!

48. Top or bottom?
Top!!!!

49. Up or down?
Up!!!!

50. Against a wall or against a door?
Wall! if im leaning on a door and somebody opens it then ill fall!

51. serious or crazy?
CRAZY!

52. Covered or uncovered?
Covered

53. Radio or cd?
Radio!

54. Sony PSP or Nintendo DS Lite?
DS!

55. AIM or MSN?
AIM!

56. Laptop or desktop?
Laptop!!

57. Private or public?
Private and Public!

58. Rich or poor?
RICH!!!!!

59. Love or money?
LOVE!!!    .... AND MONEY!

60. Sharp or dull?
sharp

61. Hard or soft?
soft!

62. Thick or thin?
thick!

63. Long or short?
long

64. Water or fire?
water

65. Crayola or Rose Art?
Crayola

66. Emails or letters?
letters

67. Sidekick or Blackberry?
This not-smart-phone-savvy girl doesnt know!

68. Prepaid or monthly?
monthly

69. MTV or BET?
MTV

LAST...
70.Picture you took?
With Brett

71. Thing you bought?
Starbucks

72. Person you talked to?
Brett

73. Person you called?
Linzell Washington

74. Person who called you?
Mom!

75. Text message you received?
Blake!!

76. Text message you sent?
Blake!

77. Clothes you wore?
pj's

78. NOT APPLICABLE!


79. Thing you said?
".On the computer!"

80. Show you watched?
That 70s Show

81. Place you went?
Haleys for Kylees shower

82. Thought you had?
"whats the last thought i had?"

83. Dream you had?
Funny you should ask! lately ive been remembering my dreams like crazy. so last night, i dreamed that i was going to church like any other random Tuesday night but there was a huuuuge crowd! and Brett was there.. but i wasnt sitting beside her. she was sitting in between two people that go to my church that she really dont know that well... well she ended up being beside sis Towana. and i saw an empty spot by sis Towana so i went and sat down by her.. and when i did she said that i had took somebodys seat but that was okay lol. but then i got up to go to the bathroom. and for some reason i stayed in there forever just doing a crossword puzzle or something. well then Brett texted me and told me to hurry up and come out there. and i heard that Brother Totchie was out there preaching. so i went on out there... and the crowd had dimished from being one of the biggest crowds we've ever had to even smaller than a normal Tuesday night!
THEN! i was talking to haley in some point in my dream. and she wanted to know what ICU meant. (who knows why it was those letters. but keep in mind this is a dream.. anything goes lol) so i went to whatever this ICU place was... and it had it written out on the side of the building what it stood for (cant remember what it was now) so i called Haley and told her. well then, this little old crazy lady came up and stole my purse! so i like got her in a headlock or something and ran inside the building with her to tell on her! and then at first the lady didnt believe me that she had stolen my purse. but then i guess she realized i was telling the truth and she tricked the old lady into going into the building and the nice lady locked her inside. and i was gonna call the cops... but my cell phone was in my purse that the crazy old lady had. and the woman that was with me had left her phone in the building. luckily, there was a rite aid right across the parking lot. while the other woman went and did some other stuff..... i ran to the rite aid to use a phone to call the cops. we had to work fast, because like ive mentioned this old lady is crazy. and she was trying to knock down the door. so i ran up to a woman in rite aid and asked her if i could use her phone to call the cops. well... at first she really didnt want me to use her phone because she didnt believe me!!! eventually... i talked her into letting me use it. i called the cops. and then there ended up being random people such as Nathan Davis and Andrew Cardin just sitting around in rite aid with me. the cops were suppose to be on their way. but then here comes the crazy old (and apparently super strong) lady!!! into rite aid! throwing a fit! she came at me like a bullet! but me, being as strong as i am, and being as mad as i was about her stealing my belongings, crushed her! i banged her head up against the wall until she was knocked out and probably barely still alive! and then for some reason i went and slapped Andrew in the face with her. lol. (im always being so mean to him.. even in my dreams.. poor guy lol) but i ran outside.. because i knew the police should be there by now. i saw one way over on the other side of the parking lot chasing a duck. i came up to him, holding her almost-lifeless body in my hands.. and turned her in.
Let this be a lesson to anybody who read this... never steal my purse lol

HOW MANY DO YOU OWN?

84.Cell phones?
one that works one that barely works

85. TVs?
One in my room that i want to get rid of

86. Computers?
One

87. Dvd players?
None

88. VCRs?
i think i have one upstairs or something

89. CDs?
who knows

90. DVDs?
again, who knows

91. Pairs of shoes?
again again, who knows

92. Belts?
probably around 8

93. Watches?

i dont think any at the moment! the one i really liked broke!

94. Rings?
probably about 8

95. Necklaces/chains?
who knows!

96. Bracelets/wristbands?
probably anywhere from 5 to 10

THE END

Smokies with Lindz!

so a few weeks ago me and Lindz went to smokies!! i was sooo excited to go too.. because i hadnt been since last fall and i just love it oh so much! <3 but anyways... we left out on that Wednesday at 4 oclock in the morning.. so i had to be up by 2:45!! me and Lindz rode with Uncle Rod and Aunt Donna and Mitchell Mouse & Dakota rode with Mamomma, Aunt Kristy and Jonathan. The ride up there was filled with lots of sleep and random songs that Uncle Rod would make up and the giggles of Aunt Donna. we went straight to Dollywood (minus the breakfast stop and gas stops). The Chances were there too.. but we barely saw them at all in Dollywood because everybody else besides me, Lindz, Mitchell and Dakota went to a gospel awards festival thing that lasted like alllll day. now dont get me wrong.. i love gospel music. i listen to it more than anything else nowadays. and i like going to watch them live and stuff. but when youre in Dollywood.. where there are big roller coasters and dippin dots and spinny rides and ferris wheels and a train and ALL..... i would be miserable being in a awards ceremony alllll day long! especially when it was as beautiful as it was that day!! needless to say... me and Lindz rode the fire out of the roller coasters. we also rode all the other rides too... such as the ferris wheel ( which to me is wayyy scarier than any roller coaster) but the roller coasters were def the best! and also... i am SOOOO excited because they have started building a new coaster! it should be done sometime next year... so surely it'll be done by my October trip next year!! #FingersCrossed it looks like its gonna be amazing... maybe even the best one they have so far! i seriously could talk abt Dollywood for hours. its just such an amazing place! enough of it for now though.
after Dollywood we went to our cabin for the first time. SUPER NICE! 3 stories.. plenty of bedrooms.. and every single bedroom had its own bathroom (which means alot when your sharing a house with 8 other people.. especially 8 other Underwoods!) it even had a hot tub! we all got ready to go eat.. then met back up with the Chances and went to eat at Texas Roadhouse. which is easily one of my favorites cause they have like the best mashed potatoes there! The trip was filled with delicious food and plenty of arguing between me and Blake (yes, it started as early as the first day) After we ate im pretty sure we ended up just going back to the cabin and chilling in the hot tub for the rest of the night. (well me and Lindz anyways lol)
The next day was our shopping day! we woke up, had amazingly delicious Mamomma breakfast, then headed out shopping. Tanger Outlets, here we come! One of my favorite parts of the Smokey Mountains! we went for hours and hours and spent dollars and dollars!!! and dollars! haha after we were all shopped out (and some almost out of money) we met up with the Chances again at Calhouns. Yet another one of my favorite parts of smokies! its seriously some of the best steak you can ever place in your mouth. easy. it was delicious, no doubt. after that.. the "kids" i guess you could say lol went to one of the little attraction things on the strip. we had tons of fun there.
after that, we went back home to play some scrabble and scattegories! it was just me, Lindz, Mamomma, and Aunt Donna that played scrabble. and i definitely called Mamomma out for trying to spell "NEAT" like "NEET" . and after an argument.. it was proven that I was the correct one! of course! we laughed sooo hard at that. she thought it was just so funny that i called her out , considering that most of the time her own kids are too scared to call her out on something like that ! after that, me, Lindz, Aunt Donna, Uncle Rod, Brother Rob, and Mamomma all played scattegories. (the boys were downstairs playing xbox... shocker there) scattegories was super fun though. definitely filled with TONS of laughing.
Friday was Gatlinburg day! which also means that it was pancake pantry day!! mmmmmmmmmmmm! i cant even put enough M's to describe it. its just so unbelievable. its one of my favorite parts of the smokies (every part apparently is my fav lol) we shopped around for a while after we ate.. and i reallllllly had been eyeing the sky lift. i havent rode it since i was little... and i had pretty much decided that i was going to this day. so just about everybody else had decided to go to some little motion ride .. so i figured that this was my chance for the sky lift. Blake ended up riding it with me, because he didnt want to go on the motion ride or something like that. so we put our differences aside for a 15 or 20 minute ride. it was such a pretty day... such a perfect day to ride the sky lift! the sun was shining bright on the mountains and it was just seriously the prettiest thing ever! we went to play arcade games after that... and then when we were on our way back to the trolley that afternoon i realized that i hadnt taken a single picture on the sky lift.... and i go furious with myself!!! how could i forget when it was such a pretty day!?!?!?!?!!?! #dumbmistake
we went back to bullfish grill that night.. which wasnt a hit with everybody but i sure did enjoy my mozzerella sticks! we went shopping then called it a day after that. (after more hot tub and girl talk for me and lindz)
Saturday was our final day. we got up and had yet another batch of delicious Mamomma breakfast. we got all packed up and then went to the chimneys for a bit. it was soooo cold though. it was beautiful.. but i really couldnt even enjoy it because of how freezing it was. after a few little pety errands we ran.. we were on our way back home. and i hated it. i wanted to stay for atleast another week!
Smokies is just so amazing. i think i could go for 2 weeks and not get a bit of tired of it.

That night once we got back home... i took the little Toney girls to the Haunted Gin. it was all of their first time to go to a real haunted house.. even Lindz's! Andrew and Ross also came with us.. i guess they were the so-called "men" of the trip. it was a decent trip.
My birthday was the next day! the big 1-9! yeah... i hate birthdays now lol.

until next time!

Blog From a Stranger

it has been FOREVER! so much has happened.. there's no way that i could remember every single thing to blog about. we'll start with MY JOBS!
well, as anybody who has ever read my blog should know, i worked at the dreaded books a million. i didn't like it.. at all. i loved the people i worked with, don't get me wrong.. i already miss them! but i didn't enjoy spending Sundays, Saturdays, and early early Friday mornings or late late Friday nights at books a mil. also, trying to sell discount cards was not a fun game.  but annnnyways. enough complaining about the mil. lol. so i was at work on one monday... and they called me back to the office and told me that we would be closing the store that saturday! quick notice.. i know. i couldnt help but be extremely excited knowing that i would no longer have to work there.. but still i needed some kind of income somehow so i was a little worried about that! because i had been trying to find a job since like a month after i started working there because i wanted OUT! well, that week, i ended up working like 60 hours i think. and that was not working at all on sunday lol. one of the days i was clocked in for 14 hours straight! then maybe about Wednesday or Thursday one of my managers came out and told me that we'd be staying open for an extra week. so the next week i worked a good bit too. Then the next week i worked a little because we had to pack all the books up and send them back and whatnot. i did the magazines.. and i had to count them. i seriously probably ended up counting about 11000 magazines in just 2 days... and im NOT overexaggerating one bit lol.

I had been putting in for several jobs... like putting in at different banks and i had people trying to help me get on at TOC and at the utilities. i even had one woman come up to me while books a mil was still open and asked me to come in and fill out an application and come in for an interview about a daycare job. and that seemed pretty great because it was gonna be monday thru friday until like 5:30 or 6 every day... and also i was gonna be able to get free blue cross blue shield insurance with that too. its not really what i wanted because i wanted like a good job.. but i was thinking beggars cant be choosers! so i ended up going in for the interview and everything. well, meanwhile, my aunt Nickie had said something to me about taking over Kylee's babysitting job that she had considering shes about to be moving out to higdon. and aunt Nickie said that this was gonna be a really good job.. the only thing that i was worried about is that this job was only going to be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and i really wanted something that was atleast 4 days a week.. preferably 5. i went on in for the interview for that job too though, just to keep my options open. ALSO Stanley and Denita Stinnett was needing help in their office just as like a secretary and stuff. but they was only needing like a few days a week too. So after the interview with Jenny, the lady that Kylee works for, i was sooo confused as to what to do! Working for Jenny would definitley have its benefits.. but the daycare job had insurance and stuff. Jenny offered me the job on the spot but i told her i needed a couple of days. well, the next day i think it was... the daycare called me back. and they offered me a job.. but the job they were offering me changed from full time hours to only 1 to 5:30 monday through friday. and considering that it was no longer a full time job.. i wouldnt be getting the benefits anymore or any of the vacation time and stuff. so, i kicked that idea fairly quick and called Jenny and accepted her job. I had also realized that since Stanley and Denita was only needing somebody a few days a week.. that i may could even work something out with them. and it ended up that it did! I've already started with Stanley and Denita... and my first full day with the kids (Norah -3years- and William -10 months-) is November 1st. i'll be working with Stanley and Denita on Mondays Wednesdays and every other Fridays and watching the kids Tuesdays and Thursdays! so it turned out perfect. I really believe the Lord gave me these jobs... because like i said i had been looking for another jobs for like 8 or 9 months and nothing else every worked out but when i actually NEEDED another job instead of just wanting a different one.. He worked something out for me! so far i have loved my jon at Rainbow.. even though this is only my second day.. and the kids that i'll be watching are just precious! (i went to meet them tuesday)

i guess that'll be all for today.. considering this blog is already wayyy too long lol. but considering that i'll be in front of a computer more often with nothing to do... im sure i'll be blogging alot more so ya'll can stop crying now ;)

until tomorrow?

I guess its about that time again...

... to blog. even if i dont really know exactly what to blog about!

im pretty bummed out that revivals are coming to a close this year! it'll be nice for about the first week to just relax.. but then it'll start getting boring again!

as far as my job goes.. im still at books a mil :( this week though ive had awesome hours! i havent had to close a single time this week! if my hours started being like this every single week i really wouldnt mind working there as much! but ive still been applying to several jobs lately. i had an interview with superior bank over 2 weeks ago... apparently they didnt think it went to well because i still havent heard back from them.. even after leaving them a message! people these days.... oh well!

School starts back this month.. and im actually kind of sad that im not going to be going back!! but at the same time.. its a relief knowing that i dont have to go back! atleast not to high school! i was going to start calhoun this fall.. but it doesnt look like thatll be happening.. so maybe i will in the spring, and if not then i will next fall! still not too sure what i want to go for.. but we'll see (:

Well... i guess , even though that wasnt much at all, im finished for now!

and still having an amazing life! (:

The Amazing Garrett

This blog is not gonna be all about Garrett. but hes amazing.. thats why the title of this blog is what it is.

So tuesday night when i got home from work (which has been my least favorite thing.. ive dreaded it soooo much lately.. i need a new job.. anybody hear of anything let me know!) and mom told me that Ben & Dylan were going to pleasent grove in the morning (which wouldve been Wednesday) so i figure i'd go too.. in case Ben got the Holy! (: well i was thinking about riding up there with him.. but i knew that i had to be at work wednesday night at 5 and that he might be staying out there all day so i decided i'd drive. i got Olivia to go with me. church was awesome :) after church.. we were all eating.. when i get a text from a girl that always texts me now asking me to work for her! and she asked me to work for her thursday night.. which was when i was planning on going back to pg for church. well.. just as i was about to tell her no.. i decided to cut a deal with her! i told her that if she'd work for me that night.. that id work for her the next night! because that would work out amazingly.. because all the Toney people were planning on coming out to pg that night anyways.. and since i was already out there... why not!? so i was pumped and i really hoping she would agree... and she did (: so in between church .. me Olivia , Mallory Mc, and Sarah Rigsby went to scottsboro for a while until time for my first prayer meeting with the hg (: it was sweet (:
that night, church was out of this world insanely amazing awesome! i enjoyed it soooooo much!!!!
after church, me.. olivia.. brother jimmy's daughter(hahahahahaha).. BEN.. dylan.. blake.. and last but not least Preston! went to mcdonalds , after discovering that KRYSTALS was already closed. (i wasnt happy about either choice though lol) it was fun..  but then dylans dad called and ordered him to be home immediately.. so it was hilarious watching dylan chew preston out. as soon as he got off the phone he was like "Preston! you better have a chicken nugget in your mouth at every second! eat your chicken nuggets and not your fries!"   smart thinking Dylan, protein first :) and any time within the next 5 minutes that dylan caught him without a chicken nugget in his mouth.. he would yell at preston "PRESTON. CHICKEN NUGGET." it was one of the funniest parts of the night by far!
today.. i went to haleys to let her help me with my resume to send out for a receptionist job .. and then came home to work on my cover letter.. and ended up being late for work because of that!
while i was ringing somebody up tonight.. i kept hearing snickering behind me.. and it ended up being Kamran and Arian. they stayed at books a mil with me for like probably close to an hour while aunt tammy and cindy ate at surin. which was a great time-passer.. i love listening to kamrans little funny stories that he tells! (: the rest of the night.. work was just work. but garrett shull kept trying to call me at work.. but i just ignored it because i obviously couldnt talk on the phone right then! i figured id call him back on my way home. well, a few miinutes after we closed.. garrett started calling like back to back and left me a voicemail then i finally texted him back and was like.. I AM WORKING. and he sent back a text that said IM OUTSIDE!!!!! so i called him and explained that we were closed.. that i couldnt let him in.. so i went to the door and saw that he had a zaxbys bag in his hand! and that changed everything! i told him to hold on that i would be out there very shortly! so i took a ten.. and went out and ate zaxbys with him! he surprised me with like my favorite fast food restraunt! (seriously.. me and hil go there like 3 times a week.. ATLEAST) he. is. so. sweet.

4th! of! July!

This year 4th of july was AMAZING! one of the best yet :) i woke up yesterday at around 8:30 with intentions to leave at 9.. but i didnt end up leaving till a little closer to 9:30. when i left, i went to go pick up Mallory, Aunt Heather, Anneliese, and then Katie Claire from her friends house then off to Aunt Nickie's we went! All of the little girls and me and mallory went swimming and the little girls played church and baptized (or babatized as Macy would say it) and it was hilarious! we swam for a while, and even though the water felt amazing.. i needed to get out because i was planning on going over to hilly g's afterwards. so i got out and laid out to dry and ended up falling asleep. well of course i shouldnt have fallen asleep, because Lauren was there! and she came over and busted a water balloon on my back and woke me up! i was a little irritated.. because i was on my way to being dry.. but the water balloon wasnt that big so i just continued to lay there and dry, but then she came over and sprayed me with another one! the whole time i had been laying out there drying, i was so tempted to get back in the pool, and that just pushed me over the top. i was already soaking wet again.. so i just went ahead and jumped back in the pool! around that time, Grant , Jessica, and Hunter had showed up. the little girls had still been making water balloons because they were planning on pegging the boys with them once they got there. but Lauren was in the pool, not paying any mind to me, and i found a water balloon, so it just seemed like the right thing to do to hit her with it since she had gotten me with 2 already. so i threw one and hit her in the head and of course, she got really mad because its only fair that she can hit me and i cant hit her! so she had to "get even" with me again. she was chasing me around trying to get me, and i got up on the diving board to jump in and when i did, she threw a water ballon at me, it tipped off my head (but didnt bust) and went and splatted on Jessica who was sitting in the sidelines still in her regular clothes! it was hilarious.. i wish i couldve gotten it on video! Lauren loved that, but she still wasnt "even" with me and she wasnt gonna forget that! so when i wasnt looking, i turned around and Lauren got me with one right in my eyeball.. which was extremely painful and all my little cousins were saying that it busted my pupil open hahaha. eventually i got out.. and went over to hils in my wet clothes only to get pelted with water balloons some more! that water balloon fight was pretty lame though... no offense to anybody there.. it just wasnt my idea of a good time haha(: but after we all got ready again we just hung out. Blake Chance was playing some dancing game and ripped his pants once again.. that alone is hilarious.. but the fact that hes ripped his pants once before playing some kind of video game just makes my life sooo happy! i wasnt in there to witness it.. because i was hanging out with Blake Golden and Ross in the living room, listening to them talk to what all girls are going to be in their Heaven haha. but once Blake ripped his pants, i guess he decided that he had enough of video games so me, him, Blake Golden, Brother Greg, and Eric all went out to play basketball some. we just made shots though because the car was in the way.. so i didnt get to show off too much of my skill :) but as we were playing basketball.. the game of monopoly got brought up. which isnt a surprise.. considering that everybody out there was huge monopoly fans and all convinced that they are the greatest.. so we moved the party inside for some monopoly. not. a. good. idea. jk ended up joining us too. i knew that this game would not end well, because me and Blake Chance go way back when it comes to monopoly.. and he always gets sooooo mad if hes not winning.. even though he would never admit it. this game was terrible too. all of the properties were spread out among everybody. blakeC was the only one that had a full set, and that was just the railroads. Kirk was beside me trying to wheel and deal with me the ENTIRE game.. going so far as to text me to tell me that i should trade some properties with him.. as if i hadnt heard him the first 50 times he told me that! Eric had a bloody nose for the second time that day.. and looked like he had just been through a battle of dragons and warlocks. Me and Blake Golden were in tight spots.. because i had his one red that he needed to make a complete set.. and he had my one light blue that i needed to make a complete set.. and i wasnt willing to make that trade. and Brother Greg was sitting over there with his one yellow, compared to everybody elses like 5 or 6 properties.. talking about how he hadnt lost a game since he was a kid. pish posh.. is what i have to say to that! the game was tight.. Eric was the first one to bail out. followed by brother Greg.. followed by Kirk.. even though it took a while for kirk because he knew he was making blakeC soooo mad.. and he loved every second of it! then, after everbody calling me ridiculous and dumb and stupid.. because i wouldnt sell them my properties that would undoubtedly make them win.. we all ended up quitting. we cleaned up the game in complete silence. i ended up having to just go away by myself for a little while to cool off.. im telling you.. monopoly is a terrible game for me to play because i get way too into it ! eventually.. after many many jokes being made about me and not being able to get Connecticut Avenue.. and getting my feelings hurt by everybody but JK pretty much ganging up on me... we all just laughed it off.. them a lot earlier than me :) after everybody left... it was just me Hilary and Brett left. Hilary wanted to go to sleep... she was pretty much drained.. but me and Brett got super hyper.. as always.. and danced around the kitchen for a while before going to sleep. oh... how i love her :)
so all in all... it was an amazing day.. despite getting pegged in the eyeball with a water balloon and having such a hard time with monopoly (:

Where do i even start?!

its been so long since ive blogged... that i dont even know where to start!
Today we had my baptizing.. and it was amazing to say the very least! there were 5 of us that got baptized.. me Lindz Underwood, Caitlin Powers, Connor Hindman, and Ireland Schrimsher! it was super super crowded too.. and im sure i didnt even get to talk to half of the people that was there.. and im sure there were people there that i didnt even know came! because most people definitley just scattered left as soon as it was over cause it was sooo hot.. but the water felt soooo good. i definitley didnt wanna get out! nd apparently after brother David baptized us all.. he squatted down to where the water came up to his chin! he's so funny... i love him (:
So pretty much my life now just conisists of work and church.. seriously.. just about any time that im not at work im either at church or just came from church.. with the occasional just hanging out with friends:) but i love it.. my life has been sooo great these past 3 weeks and i honestly feel like its just gonna get better from here (:
so i guess thats really all i feel like saying right now... not as much as i had intended on saying but maybe there will be more next time !  (:

My Holyghost Blog :)

...or should i say my holyghost novel?!

This alllll began in January of this year. random, i know! all of a sudden i really started wanting the Holyghost & i started praying just about every single night that the Lord would work out my life for me and give me the Holyghost. I didnt really give anything up back then but i knew that i wanted it and i knew that i would be willing to give up whatever i needed to. well i guess whenever i started praying for the Holyghost.. i expected the Lord to call me the very next service i got to go to (i had just started working at books a million then and they had me working just about every sunday so i didnt go to church as much as i used to) well obviously it didnt work that way. i do remember finally getting laid hands on by brother David once like maybe sometime around march.. and even though the Lord didnt call me that night.. i had to hold onto to that because i was to the point by then where i thought that the Lord was never gonna work with me again. and it reallllly scared me!
About mid-april me and Hilary went to the beach with the Goldens because Blake had a singing down there. That saturday night at the singing, both Blake and Hilary got really good blessings.. and whenever any of my friends got really good blessings it would always tear me up because i knew i wanted to be able to enjoy that with them! so of course, i sat back there wishing that i had the Holyghost. We came home on Monday.. and it was a full day trip. Once we got back to April and Blake's house, me and Hilly g still had the almost 2 hour trip back to her house. well on that two hour trip sometime is when it hit me. the best i can remember we werent really even talking about revivals.. and if we were it wasnt about me or anybody getting the Holyghost.. but i just felt like i was gonna get the Holyghost during Huntsville's revival. & of course that made me happy.. but i just thought that that was me just thinking that.. because i still felt like the Lord was just never gonna call me again.
The more time that passed the more serious i got about it..i had got to the point where if anything crossed my mind that i could do that might would be pleasing to the Lord .. i would do it. because i wanted to change His mind about me! i would try to pray longer than i had been praying before i went to bed.. i had loaded a ton of gospel music onto my ipod and that had got to be just about all i listened to. instead of reading my book every night before i went to sleep i would either read the Bible(even though most of the time it didnt make a lick of sense to me.. i'd just read each individual word and hope to get something out of it) or i would listen to gospel music(normally either new harmony or the old Joylanders ) on my ipod until i fell asleep. sometimes i would even do both! probably about 2 weeks before i got the HG i had even started getting down and praying first thing whenever i woke up too. i wanted to do everything i could.. but i didnt want anybody to know. right before i got the HG i was like so weighted down with feeling like that Lord still was never gonna call me.. but i still had that little thought that i was gonna get the HG during Huntsvilles revival! but i remember laying in my bed one night (listening to my gospel music) thinking that i just HAD to talk to somebody. i seriously considered going to mamomma (sister Nona Underwood) and talking to her about it. but i just tried to hold off on that... im pretty sure that i decided i was gonna wait till after Huntsville's revival.. just in case (:
So here it is.. Sunday morning Huntsville's revival! pretty packed-out.. of course. i cant really even remember what was said that morning.. after that we went to zaxbys.. then back for the singing.

The singing started getting really good.. and Brett went and stood out in the isle i guess where she could feel Jesus better :) haha and then some of the young people started laying hands on each other.. then Hilary like pushed her way out into the isle cause Brett started getting a really good blessing. that right there like pushed me over the edge.. i had to hold myself back from crying.. tears were definitely in my eyes cause i wanted to be out there with them sooooo bad. but i was able to hold my composure.
That night at church, brother Jimmy did the whole invitation thing.. where theres 5 "invitations" (songbooks) left to give out. well surprisingly.. there wasnt many people that held up their hands for one.. so i was a little bit hesitant.. i only held up my hand like halfway to where he probably coldnt even see it.. but once two went out i got a little more confident i guess youcould say and held my hand up high. and he says "this young lady back here wants an invitation! " and runs back there and gives it to me. im sure i was thinking something along the lines of "yeah, only if this invitation was real" hahaha. i kinda felt like mayyyybe just maybe i should go to the alter that night.. so i asked the Lord if he wanted me to go to the alter.. let Brother Jimmy lay hands on me. instead of laying hands on me.. he just turned the service over to brother Edwin. so of course i dont remember what brother Edwin was saying cause all i was thinking about was how i wasnt being called. once.again. i did keep my eye on brother Jimmy though.. just in case he felt the need to randomly shoot back there and lay hands on me.. but it didnt happen.
After church, we all went to Kylees. by the end of the night, we were all sitting on her front porch steps. there was probably close to 10 of us out there. i wasnt really in the conversation.. just kind of sitting there thinking and listening. then i got to looking around and i noticed that i was the only one out there with us that didnt have the HG. That was definitley and depressing thought! so i went straight into praying in my mind again. and that night.. even though i was with Brett and Hilary and we probably couldve just talked ourselves to sleep.. i laid in bed and prayed myself to sleep!

the next morning i had to work.. and at work people kept saying stuff to me asking me why i was so sad or why i was so angry.. but i hadnt really noticed me being sad or angry but apparently everybody else could tell something was bothering me. that day i kept thinking about how awesome it would be to be able to stand up there with all the young girls and be able to actually take part in the services. also, brittney hunters wedding was thursday night and i still had to find time to come all the way out to hazel green and pick up my jacket for my dress.. and i was planning to do it Tuesday morning.. since Hilary wasnt gonna be at church i wasnt gonna go either. but i got to thinking.. if the Lord would give me the Holyghost that night, i would come to church the next morning and just get up at the crack of dawn to go get that jacket if i had to! i couldnt wait to get off work.. i didnt get off till 6. and i still had to run to hilarys to get ready.. so i was gonna be pushing it.
On the way to church, i was telling Hilary and Brett about how one time when i was in the alter a few years back at Huntsville's revival.. Brother Totchie kept calling me Megan and it would just get my mind sooo bad!

^^The before picture. the very last picture i took before i got the Holyghost!



Church time! i sat on the very back bench in the middle that night. we sang songs of course, then brother Jimmy got to preaching. and that night, i kid you not, it felt like he was preaching to me the entire time. it felt like he looked at me through the whole sermon. He got Dylan and another boy to stand up and talked to them for a little bit, asking them if they would rather be up there with all the happy rejoicing people or if they wanted to be back in the back with all of the sad sinners! that really got to me! cause i always wanted to be up there with all the happy people! He turned to me and asked me if i wanted the Holyghost.. asked me which i would rather be with.. and i just pointed up there to all the young girls with the Holyghost. then he laid hands on me.. and just about as soon as his hand left my head i reached down to my purse to get some paper for my gum cause i knew that tonight was the night! the gave alter call.. and i made my way up there. and i knew that would be the last time i had to make that dreadful trip. i was just sooo beyond happy that the Lord had even given me another chance! that was one of the main things that i thought about. i was sooo thankful! Heres where the funny part comes in! brother Jimmy asked me what my name was. and its alter call.. at huntsvilles revival.. so its LOUD! i tell him my name.. but apparently he didnt hear too good. so he starts calling me Haley. and the first thing i think of is ohhh boy. i just got done telling Brett and Hilary the Megan story ... whyyyyy!!!??! he would call me Haley just about any time that he talked to me if i stopped praying. and one point he was even like.."Look up at those girls right there! theyre cheering you on! theyre saying GO HALEY GO! GO HALEY GO! " luckily.. i have a best friend named Haley.. that has the Holyghost.. so by that point.. i was just thinking 'I wish i was Haley! Shes got the Holyghost!' Eventually somebody told him that my name was Bailey.. not Haley! Mom eventually got there.. and i stood up and hugged her. and just told her about how i didnt know what to do. i had already let everbody else around me know that i just didnt know what to do. because the previous times that i had been to the alter i felt like i had done everything i knew to do. and they just all told me that i just had to keep pushing! my mind was up and down.. i would pray good then i wouldnt.. pray good then wouldnt.. and one of the times that i wasnt praying good Satan got in my mind and i was thinking well.. i could just get up and try to figure things out tonight and come back in the morning and get it. but right after that thought i put my foot down and refused to get up out of that alter unless it was with the HG. i started thinking about being up at the front and thinking about testifying after i got the HG and just started thanking the Lord for even calling me back to the alter! Then, either brother Jimmy stopped me or i just stopped praying again and he said "Bailey, this is probably the last thing im gonna say to you... " and i have no idea what he said after that. just that phrase caught my attention. i started panicing .. i had to make this count because this was the last thing he was gonna say to me! so i went back into praying and i knew that i wasnt gonna give up. all the times that i went to the alter.. i can remember Papa(Uncle Charles Underwood) telling me to just love that power.. along with tons of other people that told me the same thing. but this time thats what i did. i just started loving the power then all of a sudden i felt my tongue running but it wasnt me doing it! i like jumped and i know i had to have the funniest look on my face because i knew that i had spoke in tongues.. but i wanted to do it again to be double sure! but when i started going into praying i couldnt.. because i was laughing too much! i bent straight over into the floor just doubled over laughing. i told them that i was pretty sure that something happened.. but i wanted to do it again. so i went into praying.. and it took me a minute.. but it happened again! i was laying down when i did it again.. and i dont even remember how i got up! it was just soooooooooo good! i wanted to hug everybody.. like a thousand times! i went to call people.. and i already had several texts! good news travels fast! i got soooooooooo many texts that night and all the next day! and ive still been getting a few straggler texts of people that are just now finding out. a lot of people that werent at church came up to the church.. and then several came to the house afterwards. i was just soooo happy! everybody was telling me how awesome i was gonna sleep that night.. but i kept waking up that night wondering if it was time for church yet! i wanted to go to church sooo bad! and im still that way.. i cant wait for church tonight!

After picure.. hair messed up.. face red from happy tears.. but smile just as big as ever!

definitely one of my favorites:)

loving kirks face (:

me and Haley.. the real Haley

i got one with Brother Edwin and Sister Dean but Brother Jimmy and Sister Towana ran off before i could get a pic with them!

All happy but one

Sweet little Kamran pre-Holyghost

Little Anneliese was so happy that "Baidey Bug dot de Hodey Dhost! "

still missing a few from the Gaines clan

the next night.. Kamran started the alter. he was just so sweet. he didnt get it that night though.. and the next morning he didnt pray good at all.. but wednesday night.. two night after i got the Holyghost.. he got the HOlyghost! and i felt like i had got it allllll over again! i even shouted some that night! it was .amazing. to say the very least. the next night.. ANOTHER one of my little cousins got it.. Conner Hindman.. who happens to be in Kamrans grade and goes to school with him! Then, sunday night at toney, Lindz started to the alter. and i had no idea the Lord was working with her. because when i got the Holyghost i was expecting her to be tore up and crying but instead she was happy and smiling!!! but the Lord definitely was working with her becuase she got sooo close sunday night she was even to the giggling point! the next night.. monday night.. a week after i got the Holyghost.. we all went out to Williams Cove.. where 2 more had made it the night before. Miranda Moore(Lindzs cousin.. and may as well be mine too) got the HG and then about 2 minutes later Lindz did too!! it was so awesome. this is like way more than i couldve ever imagined! all i wanted was the Holyghost.. but He gave me the Holyghost and 3cousins with the Holyghost and another one that may as well be my cousin with the Holyghost!

 

More random pictures :

matching!

laura walking in the mall like this.. real!

It's just way too good (: way more than i ever could imagine to be worthy of :)