The Gangaroos

So today I remembered this halarious duo. It has been so long since I watched their videos so I thought I would share and you could get some laughs from them as well. These guys are genious! I present to you = Hamish and Andy












These are some new ones I found while looking up the old ones. Had a good laugh and took me double the time to post because I couldn't help but watch them.











And then their silly projects turn into something with a purpose love it!



Well I hope you enjoyed! Just look up Hamish and Andy on Youtube and there are many more. One involving their mothers, its funny.

"Sweet Gabriela, BA-BA-BA"

gabbi is my bestest friend in the entire planet
she is like a fierce wolf singing to the moon under a sheet of twinkling stars that dance as they light the darkness.
she is a white unicorn graceful, strong, and untameable.
when i do something idotic, moronic, retarded (which often happens) her eyes pierce my soul as if she were medusa and i realise my wrong and apologise- she is a saint.
she will take over the world with her steel punches and swift karate moves. im honured to be a follower of this divine being.
i'm also gonna keep her allllllll to myself (with the exception of her family, and paul squared)cause i love her that much.

she is a genius, an advocate of peace, and the epitome of greatness.

she is the essence of legitness.

Gorgeous

I am the worst at drawing hair. It is the one thing i can't do.

So it is what im going to work on. But I found this peice online it is pretty good i'de say.

"I feel like i'm floating"

I was browsing Itunes about a month ago and found this amazing pianist. Because I want to learn to play the piano so much, and will someday soon, it found his songs super inspiring. Paula makes fun of my because I kinda feel like I'm floating or running in a Field full of flowers when i'm listening to his music. His peices have a voice all to themselves. It just puts me in a complete sense of peace. And its so amazing how music can do that do you. A song can directly affect your mood, that's why i'm so careful to what I listen to sometimes. But you gotta check out his music. The stuff from his latest CD I couldn't find anywhere on youtube so this is from his last. I like his new stuff better. You all have heard his compositions before because he has wrote music from many people one being Celine Dion...haaha

Recognise this...

yeah i thought so. :)
He also co-wrote the official olympic song "I Believe"

Twilight zone?

If any of you don't know, which i'm pretty sure all of you do because no one reads my blog besides my closest friends pretty much, two of my best friends took off on a plane. one to plight to Bradford, England and the other's travels took her to Buenos Aires, Argentina. It has been super hard to keep each other updated. Even with technology all the technology in the world it doesn't change the time difference...well actually if you have a time machine it would, that would be sweet I would go back in time and be like hey jesus whats up? Well maybe I wouldn't say whats up cause i don't think I would be that casual i think i would be more in awe and be like jesus is in front of my right now...right now. Wow that would blow my mind...okay i'm getting off topic. On our Saturday night sleep over the three of us made a plan to skype..(or well tokbox because its better when you want to video more that one person), all 5 of us. Well it failed, lame time change calculations.

So the time change completely ruined us all skypeing together..but the one thing that was kinda neat was we actually did get to talk to both Chanel and Letitia at 1am. So it was like we were talking to both of them at once except we weren't does anyone get what i'm saying? Let me break it down. 11:30 to 215ish* we talk to Chanel. Except because of the fall back we got a complete second chance at 1am. Letitia comes on at 1:16...yeah thats right one minute after Chanel goes to bed.  That was probably a waste of your life reading that paragraph but I found it pretty cool.

Even though we didn't get to talk all 5 of us at once, our conversations where awsome. We sang Chanel a string of songs to make her cry, except she held the actual tears in very well even though they were on the brink of pouring from her eyes like a spout. I loved singing all the old songs we used to listen to in Hector. I should make a mix of the songs we used to listen to, i'll call it the hector mix :) But it was truly great to hear what was going on in our lives straight to each other and not just in message. Its not quite the same when you tell great news and you don't get to see their reaction.

This is probably getting boring so i'll leave you with that and the fact my eye is gonna twitch right out of its socket within seconds. But the night way grand, its amazing i was able to spend the night with all my best friend even though their half way around the world. It was a little like we all had a sleep over and stayed. Went to bed with Chanel and woke up with Letitia and had pancakes.

100th post

When my soul is weak

I sing God strengthen me

When I find myself in need

I sing God rescue me

When my troubles overwhelm

I sing God bring your peace

Lord your one and only Son

Is all I ever need

I am free, free

All my chains are broken

Sometime this is all I really need to hear. Man Parachute Band is so good, just put them on random and I hear exactly what I need to hear ALL the time...well i know that has alot to do with God. Man sometime I really don't realise how much he's needed in my life. From where I am just over a year ago to now like i know i've said this a few posts earlier but man i can't even believe it. Like I love my family but I have a whole new one that god has given me that makes up for all the crap at home. Always supportive never judgemental and I have the best friend you could ever ask for man their halfway around the world because god brought them their. Amazing.



This is my one hundreth post by the way, yay. So my day was super boring but I know Chanel and Letitia wanna hear it all sooo. Woke up so late and went to the mall cause i'm in desperate need of jeans because i have NONE, litteraly no jeans. So i got jeans and pj bottoms. then got two shirts and a purse for super super cheap cause Off the Wall is shutting down and everythings on sale plus 40 percent off the lowest ticketed price. Nuts. So i think my fall/winter/spring wardrobe is complete can't spend anymore money haha. I have to work at 5 am tomorrow but...i woke up at 1pm today so theres no way i'm sleeping now i've attempted.

OOOH and starbucks drinks are out. MY FAVOURITE. Had a Eggnog Latte today and can't wait to make a chai eggnog latte sunday at church!

And if our God is for us, then who could ever stop us

This morning i was thinking alot while sitting on the bus. Thinking so much actually that i missed my stop and had to walk back one. Anyways this was the conclusion of my clutter of thoughts. This last month has been so overly busy I have felt like i put God in a bubble if you know what i mean. Went on everyday kinda feeling like i wasn't relying on him and praying as much as i usually do. Looking back on the last month i came to an important realisation; even though I may not have felt totally intune with god, because i was so busy i was just able to trust my god instinct. I didn't over analyze, let my mind get in the way, I was fully just listening to what he was nudging me to do. Over the last few weeks the verse "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." 2Corinthians 12:9 has really stood out in my life. I don't even know how i finised all my assignments and made time for everything that needed to get done on top of work 30 hours in a week, between last saturday and thursday i had a total of 12 hours sleep in 6 days i was truly running on god and I hardly even realised it.









And if Our God is for us, then who could ever stop us
And if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
And if Our God is for us, then who can ever stop us
And if our God is with us, then what can stand against?

God, friends, love, life, amazing.

I was just looking at my top tags for my blog. I noticed my top 5 are:
God, friends, Love, life, amazing.

Yeah pretty much sums up my life :)
Love my amazing god, friends, and life.

You changed my life dear friend

THIS IS ACTUALLY THE BEST STORE EVER!
http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/index.jsp

my dear friend Paula showed my this website and it changed my world.
I want to own every book, ring, necklace, pair of shoes, bag.
Don't even get me started at the at home section cause their fabrics are flipping factastic.

This site is filled with amazing awesomeness the makes my mind go all giddy. I kinda feel like i'm a pig rolling in mud. Yes, that happy. And yes, i just used that example.

THANKS PAULA FOR CHANGING MY LIFE.

We're driving around chasing the stars

I LOVE CONCERTS!
I just love them so very much. Band just always sound much more magnificent live, and you get this giddy feeling, and adrenaline pumping through your veins and you sing along with all the songs....well, rather scream them all. And then after they're over you have this withdrawal..but its almost a good withdrawal.









Last night I saw Vampire Weekend at a Venue I have never been to before, but one of the best venue's I've decided, because what's better than a concert under the stars. They are so much better live then I could have ever imagined at one part i got this silly giddy smile on my face as i looked at Vampire Weekend on stage then looked up at the stars then back at the band then back up at the twinkling stars. It just felt so awesome being there with two of my favourite things - stars and live music from a band i love! I'm reliving the feelings all over again and its fantastically swell! Gah, I'm all giddy!
















We went and hung out downtown after, which just topped of the night because downtown is spectacular and i kinda missed my best friend. Which is funny because I see her all the time, but never really get to see her ya know? We're always at church or what ever we're doing is so rushed or routine. We watched the stars at English bay grabbed some food, then watched stars at English Bay again. Such a wonderful end to a wonderful night :)



Found this picture and thought it'd be perfect to start a list of concerts i've been to as i've seen them twice, Cobra Starship that is. + the fact he's gorgeous made me also wanna put it in. I was a meter away from him or probably closer. We were in the front at his concert. I'm not a crazy star gazed fan our anything just thought it was pretty cool. But imma start my list now



Shania Twain
Dixie Chicks
Fall Out Boy
The Academy is... (x3)
Cobra Starship (x2)
Rascall Flatts
The Jonas Brothers
The Fray
Vampire Weekend

Up next:
Matt & Kim
Kina Grannis
Pheonix?
Coachella Concert?

You concur all

"These walls that they put up to hold us back will fall down"

God; you've been blowing me away everyday lately

What makes us feel?

The other night I watched the season finale of So You Think You Can Dance Season 7. After watching a few peices that gave me goosebump and brought me to tears a tad I began thinking about dances from previous season that have done the same thing. I started thinking about why dance, music, and art effect people and why. I didn't come to a wordable conclusion and I don't believe there is anyone reason but art of any form is what it is - that is a outward creation of feelings and emotions. So here are a few peices from Sytycd that have affected me. I find it funny hwo they're all contemporary peices and thier all from either Mia Michaels or Travis Wall who both have amazingly gifted talents. ENJOY!

billy and ade



Robert and Allison



neil and kent



natalie and veincent



travis and heidi



lacey and neil



lacey and kameron



lauren and kent

LIFE KIDS 2010

So it's definately been awhile! Life has been super duper busy. The week after my last post was kids camp! I cannot believe how extraordinary it was. I keep having dreams that its still happening and then waking up fully expecting that i'm back in that week. It is in fact a saddening feeling that it is indeed over, but its exciting to think about all the kids that were saved and have their lives changed and that next year is coming up! The last week basically all i can talk about it kids camp. I think my family and my friends that weren't part of kids camp are sick of hearing me talk about it. I'm sure. I keep telling the following stories; only these are just tid bits because well..then i would just ramble on remembering how amazing those moments were and you would just be bored.
Keasen - that kids just makes my heart grow and break all at the same time.
"everywhere we go..people wanna know.." - team cheer
The Bethlaham Boys and The Galilee Girls Morning arobics
How i still have Boom Chicka boom, Battlefeild, and many more songs stuck in my head.
Kareoke Star Sr.
The kids had to pick out kitchen utensils not knowing that would be what they are dinner with.
Monk's dinner and dog food. Oh my.
Colossal Canyon...Paula + No hands.
Bus rides.
When Jesse's team won, and still to this day he is gloating about it
Baptism
ALL the kids and how much fun I had with them.
and just everything in general.

Get an idea of how awesome kids camp was because i'm 100% sure i'm missing alot there.

Cheerio Mate

Letitia's last night in Canada
No sleep
'Nough Said

Running on no sleep. In a few minute me, Gab, Chanel, Paula, Jeremy are about you accompany the wonderful, amazing, fantastic Letitia to the airport. I wanted to add so many more adjectives..but i'm too tired to think of any. It has been a long wonderful night. listening to music and just chillen. We made a wonderful cake...well i made it paul and gabe just chilled on the computer butching the song "Battlefield" in their own way. It was horrendous.



This is the wonderful story why this amazing girl is leaving us.
She has gotten the oppurtunity to begin her dream to work with girl that have been trafficed or prostituted. It is so inspiring what god has planned for this lady. So she will be moving to Bradford, England for two years. She will be so incredibly missed but this adventure has been planned for her from the beginning and its gonna be a life changer. So good luck to her, Love her most dearly.



Mi Corazon estuyo por siempre

The Urban Gypsy

After stumbling around Metrotown me and two lovely friends, Chanel and Letitia, we headed to new west to stumble around Columbia street. Went back to this amazing wall I had found with some other friends a few weeks ago. This wall is vintage brick painted in the sunniest sky blue ever. As we were gazing in awe and snapping pictures we came across the owner who let us in the gates to take pictures right inside. I asked if she had a business in the building, and in fact she did, a women’s shelter. I think Letitia's heard skipped a beat when she mentioned this. Immediately after we strolled around the corner and found a what looked like a cute like antique furniture store, not aware of what we would find. After the first step in all three of us were inspired and taken away, running our fingers along vintage universal pieces. The owner noticed out awe and came to talk, it's then we realized this was a God thing. He talked about his travels. He had found and bought all the pieces in the store, most from Asia. Letitia and Chanel talked about their future travels and he was quite interested in their future plans. It was pretty fantastic the conversation included more and it was God initiated definitely.



Just wanted to share the amazing wall.
These are three of my friends by the way
Paula, Gabbi, and Kira


I have now decided the destination of my future Design Firm will be New Westminster. This store also opened the idea of adjacently owning a store quite similar to this along with my firm. I started thinking about when my firm has its feet rooted in the ground I can go travel and bring back amazing pieces from all over the world. Be able to talk to my bestest friends who could be anywhere in the world and have them e-mail me a picture of a find and i'll be able to say send it over and pay for the shipping.

Then spent the evening with the Lovely Mia, (who is officially home, I have seen it in person to confirm), and friends.



I'm sad i'm bidding farewell to one friend in a few day and am starting another friends departure present soon after. But I’m excited for the future and where ever it takes us. I know wherever in this world we are, our hearts are in the same place and God has a bright and brilliant future for ALL of us. Wherever we are he is always home, therefore we'll always be together.

Dedicated

This is for every girl in my life. You know who you are, and you all deserve to hear this :

You're beautiful every little piece love,
and don't you know your really gonna be someone ask anyone.
and when you find everything you looked for,

Oh but if it don't will you stay beautiful.

My Dear Friend

You would think only so much can go wrong
Calamity only strikes once
And you assume this one has suffered her share
Life will be kinder from here
Oh, but sometimes the sun stays hidden for years
Sometimes the sky rains night after night
When will it clear?

But our Hope endures the worst of conditions
It's more than our optimism
Let the earth quake
Our Hope is unchanged

How do we comprehend peace within pain?
Or joy at a good man's wake?
Walk a mile with the woman whose body is torn
With illness but she marches on
Oh, 'cause sometimes the sun stays hidden for years
Sometimes the sky rains night after night
When will it clear?

But our Hope endures the worst of conditions
It's more than our optimism
Let the earth quake
Our Hope is unchanged

Emmanuel, God is with us
El Shaddai, all sufficient
We never walk alone
And this is our hope

But our Hope endures the worst of conditions
It's more than our optimism
Let the earth quake
Our Hope is unchanged





I love you Samantha <3