Prayer request

One of my dears friends younger brother, Noah, has struggled his whole life with a mitochondrial disorder. It is a very serious disorder and has no cure. He's only five years old, and been through so much. 

His oldest sister, Hannah, messaged me and told me he's very sick, and not responding to medication, which might mean kidney failure. She said they'll be trying medication one more time, but if he doesn't respond, they may only have 2-3 days left with him at the most. Please be praying for them.


If you want more info, you can go to his blog : http://www.prayingfornoah.com/

three days until Christmas O.o

the house is full of secrets 

older brothers teasing you about gifts

little sisters begging to show you the gift they got for you

                         

hyper little brothers eating too much candy

a mother who can't stop laughing at your begging

a father who wants to give the biggest Christmas surprise away early

                                                       
                                                 dogs who have no idea what's going on
                                        a cat who will soon be waiting on the roof for
                                  Santa if she doesn't quit waking everyone up at night.
                                                        a leetle turtle who just eats and sleeps
                                  a snake, who pretty much does the same thing as the leetle turtle

                               
                                      bedrooms doors are being slammed in peoples faces
                                         half a million random trips to Wal Mart
                                    because somebody forgots a whole bunch of stuff.

And now.. I have to go find a gift, I hid it so well, I can't find it.

wooooow. 

I do not think Aaron and Elijah are capable of being serious in a photo

                                                     
                                                         he's "all cited for Christmas'

                                                           
                             Rachel : "mawahaha. *starts laughing like crazy* lets make weird faces."

 
                                          he's all "super duper cited for Christmas"
       

                                                      I have the best siblings ever.

                                                             Sooo it's almost Christmas.

I'm really liking black and white pictures!

Surprise pictures are so much fun. I'll go running around the corner and yell at Rachel and then take a picture when she looks at me. I got a little close in this one :P

                                 Micah dropped and broke my ipod screen [twice]
                                       so Joshua put a lovely new screen on it <3
                 Eeeexxxcceeepppttt. He left two fingerprints on the LCD screen.
                                           He's trying to make me go crazy.

                                                       Monday is candy making day.

                                These little sparkly Styrofoam thingys make greeeeaaat Bokeh.
                                                                 Bokeh is a weird word...

        I think this stick is having a hard time deciding whether he wants to cry or smile.
                                              

                                                                      Hm.

 A few months ago I came across this song by Jon Schmidt. I then looked up a few other songs by him, and I was completely amazed. Then I happened to come across his youtube channel. [it's not *just* his channel] And from there, I just kind of kept going. For a while I wanted to stop piano, the music was getting harder and I didn't want to sit down and learn it all. But then I heard this  [by the way, that is my favorite song by him <3] song, and I was kind of like "Ah! I have to keep playing!" So here is one of my favorite video's Jon Schmidt has done. I suggest you listen to it, it's pretty amazing. [He is accompanied by Steven Sharp Nelson in most of his songs.]

                 


                                      And if you have a few minutes, go listen to these..
                                                          Rolling in the deep
                                                            Linus and Lucy
                                                    Michael Meets Mozart <<< [<3]
                                                            To the Summit
                                                              Waterfall  <<< [<3]
                         [I'm trying to decide if I want to do that one for a recital..]
                                                         Christmas Medley
                                                     Where are you Christmas?
                                                            Homecoming 
                                                              Ridin' West
                [this one is hilarious. He wrote it when he was 16 [somewhere around there?]
                               and he was inspired by a Tuna Fish commercial! :D]
                                                                 Dumb Song


                                                     

a post, from Rachel!

This wasn't my idea. Anna wanted me to make a post. I really don't know what to say. Actually Anna forced me to. She didn't shove me in the chair and say "Make a post" she just told me to please make a post so you see I was really the one who made the decision. Now do you see what I mean? It's really confusing. Okay, back to I don't know what to say. I had a blog, but the site that it was on changed. So I don't have one now. It was called Always Little. A friend made the template for me and that was deleted. I was so sad when I saw it. And all of my posts were deleted. I think you get the picture. Micah, one of my little brothers, is so cute! He's the cutest baby ever! He has curly blond hair and the bluest eyes and the cutest smile. I need to go. Bye!

and that concludes Rachel's post..

[i have decided. If I can't figure out what to post about, I will force ask one my siblings or parents to write a blog post for me]

I love shooting during golden hour, but nobody ever wants to pose for me or do hair flips. Rachel wanted to yesterday, so I took a few pictures of her, but they ended up turning into"oh, lets make faces and stomp on ant hills and have fire ants crawl up our feet" pictures. [by the way, I'm in the middle of redesigning my blog, so if things look weird...]

:P accidental shot

            aha. ignore my expression. I was trying to mimic Jack Sparrow and failed miserably.