Random stuff I feel you should know

Summer. One simple word means so much! No school, no grades, little drama, no homework, no classes, no crazy teachers, nothin! Just the beach, kidzkamp, 5th and 6th grade trip, babystting, hanging out with friends, sleepovers. youth stuff, and general "chillaxing" Thank goodness.
Today hasnt been all that great. =( I totally bombed three of my exams and I am massively freaked out by that!!! Biology, Geometry, and Spanish. SPANISH!!!!! I have made As in that class ALL year and I made a D on the exam. A 74 D! I can not believe it. At All..... =(
I still have all As and Bs on my report card and stuff but I massively devastated by my grades this 9 weeks.

Tate has tonight and tomorrow left. I am SO proud of him for getting into Govenor's school!!!! =D It's definitely sad that he's leaving but it's super exciting that he got into this school for the summer!!!!!! After Govenor School is over he'll move to Virginia. I don't think anyone is happy about the situation, but I know we'll be okay. Lol <3
New favorite song? More Time by NeedToBreathe <3 <3 <3

They are all little pieces of me...

The Bucket List =D

Here's my Bucket List of movies I'm going to see before Summer ends. (Summer is capitalized because it is SUPER important!!!) Anyway, I'll cross off each movie as I see it. I've seen quite a few of these once or maybe twice in theaters, but if they're on the list I want to see them again.Some haven't been released yet, but I still want to see them! =)

1) P.S. I Love You I just have to say that was one of the best movies ever.
2) When In Rome
3) Leap Year
4) Becoming Jane
5) Rio
6) Jumping The Broom
7) Water for Elephants
8) Love Happens
9) Eat Pray Love
10) Beastly
11) Country Strong
12) Remember Me
13) The Twilight Saga parts 1-3 (back to back to back)
14) Steel Magnolias
15) Titanic
16) Fried Green Tomatoes
17) Grace Card
18) Mr. Popper's Penguins
19) The old Winnie the Pooh movie on VHS
20) The new Winnie the Pooh movie coming soon to theaters!!!
21) The Smurfs
22) One Day
23) Spy Kids 4 (hahahahahahahaha)
24) Abduction
25) Footloose (New or Old)
26) In Time
27) Puss in Boots
28) Happy Feet 2
29) Removed from the Bucket List of movies
30) Happy Gilmore? (Only b/c I've heard it was good)
31) Where the Wild Things Are
32) Castaway
33) Forrest Gump
34) Big
35) Inception
36) Da Vinci Code
37) Grease 2
38) Never Say Never (yeah, that Justin Bieber movie...just to say I've seen it)
39) The Social Network
40) The Bucket List
41) Letters to Juliet
42) 13 going on 30
43) Iron Man 1 and 2
44) A Walk To Remember
45) The Prince And Me
46) Ice Castles
47) X-Men Beginnings (saw on 16th birthday!!!)


(If they are underlined they haven't been released yet)

I'm also going to reorganize my room, go through all my clothes and get rid of the ones that a I never wear, make a scrapbook for all my youth group pictures and kidz ministry pictures, go to Shelby Farms and bike at least one of the trails, go to Jerry's snow cones at least once, and hopefully earn some money with the babysitting job I got for every Monday and the sub position I'm hoping to have occasionally with Mother's Day Out at Bartlett.


(updated 1/1/13)

If you can't say something nice, then don't say it at all!!!!!

Gossiping. We all do it. Most of us (I know I'm guilty of it!) do it without even realizing it. We even had a Focus group meeting not too long ago about what gossiping is, why we do it, etc. Here's a lesson I learned the hard way: You never know what someones going through.
The other day, a girl at school was being beyond rude and mean. In that situation it was very easy to talk about her with a friend who was complaining about how she acted to a bunch of our friends. I came home and had a message in my inbox. The friend I was talking to earlier? She messaged and told me that the really rude girl's grandmother died the day before and my friend had just found out. How awful is that?
You never know what someone is going through. I messaged the "rude girl" immidately just saying that I was sorry for her loss and that if she needed anything to let her know.
To me, this was pretty much God's way of telling me that I need to keep my mouth shut when people start talking bad about people. I definitely think it's WAY easier said than done, but it's one of my new personal goals. Try to stop gossiping!!!!
A little piece of me learning something I should've already known

"God's love is immovable..."

http://lifeofmoore.blogspot.com/

Read the post entitled "Steadfast" Did you read it? Are you POSITIVE you read it? Ok, I'm trusting that you read it...no seriously. You need to read that before you read anything else.
Today I had 10 minutes to kill before I went to my next class. I got onto my blog dashboard and was looking for something to read. I clicked on Matt's blog and here's what stuck out to me the most:

...God's love is immovable, it can't be budged. And for a sinner like me, that is an incredibly comforting thought. The second definition of steadfast is equally epic. Because God's love is steadfast, it is not subject to change. Think about that for just a minute. When I run away from God, his love is not subject to change, when I do what I know I should not do and seek to satisfy the flesh and the old sinful nature His love for me (and you!) never changes...(emphasis added)

I litterally had tears on my eyes, threatening to spill over and run down my face. I was getting an interesting look from the girl next to me! =) I definitely think that God used something as simple as a blog post to make a HUGE  impact on my life.

=) Thanks Matt! Lol

A 13 year old student's English paper he made an A+ on

Since the Pledge of Allegiance 

And 

The Lord's Prayer 

Are not allowed in most 

Public schools anymore 

Because the word 'God' is mentioned..... 

A kid in Arizona wrote the attached 

NEW School prayer: 

 

"New Pledge of Allegiance"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Now I sit me down in school 

Where praying is against the rule 

For this great nation under God 

Finds mention of Him very odd. 
 

If scripture now the class recites, 

It violates the Bill of Rights. 

And anytime my head I bow 

Becomes a Federal matter now.

Our hair can be purple, orange or green, 

That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.. 

The law is specific, the law is precise. 

Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice. 
 

For praying in a public hall 

Might offend someone with no faith at all.. 

In silence alone we must meditate, 

God's name is prohibited by the state. 
 

We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks, 

And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks... 

They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible. 

To quote the Good Book makes me liable.

We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen, 

And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King. 

It's 'inappropriate' to teach right from wrong, 

We're taught that such 'judgments' do not belong.. 
 

We can get our condoms and birth controls, 
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.. 

But the Ten Commandments are not allowed, 
No word of God must reach this crowd. 
 

It's scary here I must confess, 

When chaos reigns the school's a mess. 

So, Lord, this silent plea I make: 

Should I be shot; My soul please take! 

Amen 

Justin Beiber Fan?

 I'm not a big Justin Beiber fan, but this changes my mindset a little bit....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9tJW9MDs2M (Why isn't that a hit song? It's pretty good!)

http://www.projectinspired.com/justin-bieber-an-artist-that-you-should-really-get-to-know/

Just saying...

It's been crazy lately! I have been super busy, and so have the rest of the Jennings. Sometimes it's SUPER easy to forget to just sit back and breathe, and to remember everything God is doing in my life. I hope you have a wonderful week!!! The rest of this post is just a bunch of random stuff...

"But to God be the glory and I mean that whole-heartedly. In our trials, in our pain, God is glorified most high, and if it takes pain and loss and destruction and other high costs for us to raise our hands and fall to our knees and finally realize the detrimental need for a Heavenly Father, then shame on us for not realizing sooner. Shame on us for waiting for loss, for only saying our prayers when it seems to be dark. Shame on me for questioning "why?" when the answer to why is quite clearly me." ~Jessica Nabakowski http://jessicanab.blogspot.com/

I found myself a hiding place
I found myself a secret space
In the shelter of Amighty's love
In the safety of the Saviour's arms
Chorus:
I will run to the hiding place
I will run to the hiding place
Draw me ever closer to look upon Your face
I will run to the hiding place
~Hiding Place by New Life Worship

If everything comes down to love
Then just what am I afraid of
When I call out Your name
Something inside awakes in my soul
How quickly I forget I'm Yours

(PRE-CHORUS)
I'm not my own
I've been carried by You
All my life

(CHORUS)
Everything rides on hope now
Everything rides on faith somehow
When the world has broken me down
Your love sets me free

          ~Hope Now by Addison Road

Chorus:
Here in Your presence, we are undone
Here in Your presence, Heaven and Earth become one
Here in Your presence, all things are new
Here in Your presence, everything bows before You

Bridge:
Wonderful, beautiful, glorious, matchless in every way
Wonderful, beautiful, glorious, matchless in every way
Wonderful, beautiful, glorious, matchless in every way

~Here in Your Presence by New Life Worship

I'm wayyy too excited about the trip to Destin this year! Lol I made a collage of beach pictures from the internet on Picasa wrote "I'll be there soon!" in a cool font, and made it my background on my computer. Ha! I really can not WAIT to go to the beach to the same exact hotel and location of where I became a christian 2 summers ago...

I added a fish pond on the side of my blog. =D Just saying
*Update...I removed the fish pond*