Well I've babysitted twice in less than 24 hours. I'm kind of tired of kids right now...but if anybody needs a babysitter...I'm totally available! I honestly don't even want to babysit (although I'm CPR certified and I'm good at it), but I really need money right now. I have to pay for driver's training and the longer I wait to get my permit (which costs money) the longer I have to wait until I drive. My parents are tired of driving me everywhere! I've kind of resorted to asking for the money that they would have spent on me in like a Starbucks or something in cash.
My dad is taking me out maybe to dinner or a movie tonight and we're just gonna hang out. I'm kind of excited. So my dad has kinda had a revelation. As you may know, our family is having some problems with Northside and my dad has been really negative towards everything, not just at church. As you probably know, it has kind of worn off on me too. So today he totally like repented and talked to all of us about how he was being so negative and ....it was amazing. I could not hold back the tears. He is kind of prideful sometimes and when I would point out to him that he was being prideful, he would say "I'm not negative, I'm truthful". And today he totally recognized how he was acting...it was really cool! He is also paying for part of CIY and driver's training!!!! I'm really excited and we can already see him being less negative and less stressed out. I'm so proud of him. This thing tonight (my dad just told me) is a surprise...I hope it's fun! OK...I realy really like posting everyday...I kind of want to post twice a day....maybe not everyday. Ok see you tomorrow! Love you guys!
-Danica

PHIL!!!!!!!! this is a great picture (thanks to Jena)! He always wears that scarf and I think he's one of the only men who can pull off a scarf! And look! I didn't cut anybody out of this picture!

Well I don't really have much to say today. I took 2 tests and had to write 2 huge essays back-to-back in like 90 minutes(not a long time for the essays my teacher expects us to write). We had an incredibly dumb and boring rally today. The only thing that I liked about it was that before it started they were showing us some random funny facts and they were kinda funny...well I thought they were. Like they banned Donald Duck comics in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. I'm sad that Brandy's leaving, I didn't really get to talk to her that much this time...maybe next time. As you can see I am kinda just rambling on and on about nothing in particular. My dad is off work this whole entire spring break and we aren't doing anything...don't know why I mentioned that.....lol.....ok see you guys later!

I've noticed that my blogs usually are incredibly unorganized and are just rambles about my day and Alyssa's are all organized and pretty.

I'm really excited about CIY this year. The theme is ONES and I'm really looking forward to seeing what kinds of videos and new ideas they'll have for this year.

I really like hanging out with Jena. She makes me feel so welcome in the group and not akward, like last night with Megan. I don't know her very well and I don't know Liz and Chelsea that well. It was really fun last night. Ok, I have to go do homework. Thanks for the Chicken Goodness Recipe!

P.S. I love Phil Wickham! (just in case you didn't know)

Well...I'm having a pretty good day today. We watched a sermon on TV this morning and it was pretty good. It doesn't really relate to me because it is about the woman's role in a marriage, but it was really good. I was really nervous about worship this morning because my voice was not working very well. I was having a sound check and I saw Alisa Hopper. I was so nervous. Singing in front of the best worship leader I know?!?!?!?! Yeah...I was terrified. She totally talked to me and wants to meet with me and I'm so excited. And after my not-so-good worship set, she totally told me that she loves my voice and OH MY GOODNESS!!! It made me feel so amazing!!! Yeah and going over and hanging out with you guys was really cool....I didn't know Liz was so emotional. I know she was having a bad day, but tears were streaming down her face after I said she was beautiful. I guess people do take what I say seriously. lol. We had a pretty good leadership meeting (well we didn't really have a meeting, we kinda just had fellowship time) and at home I got to play my guitar for a ridiculously large amount of time...it was amazing! I just had a good day. Oh and yeah, I got to hang out and talk with Emily. I love her! Ok well I'm gonna go see what's for dinner...bye!

Well this week went by pretty fast. I failed a history test, passed a Biology test, and did pretty well on a French test. When I say failed...I really mean I failed, I got a 57%. It was not fun. This week week God has been teaching me a lot. I've learned that I need to trust God with everything I do and not worry about what might happen cause I'm never right when I think of the possible outcomes of a problem. God is always right so why can't I trust Him with my life? I'm also trying to give everything in my life over to Him and I honestly don't know if I'm doing it right and I kinda don't know if I really am giving it to God. I don't want to just say that I am but still worry about it. So...yeah I'm trying to work on that... After school today I totally put my bathing suit on and laid out in my backyard. It was amazing and I have a little tan...not as much as Emily's was though. I hope I don't get addicted! Well I'll see you guys on Sunday or the next time I see you...love you!

-Danica

I'm kinda offended that Alyssa isn't really on blogger anymore....I guess Myspace was just too good for me..... I looked back to Alyssa's first post and it suggested we should use Blogger as an alternative to myspace......mmmmm........I forgive you, Alyssa and you can go use your myspace...I will always be here...on blogger.........hum...........:( I still wont get a myspace, but please don't leave me hanging here......all alone........on blogger.....because Jena never updates...... I like using these..........things! :)

"Ah...just another day" -Halle Rae Overton

Alyssa- I wanted to tell you this at Bible study, but I couldn't stay very long. I just wanted to let you know that I love what you're doing with the group. I know that this will help tighten our group and draw us close to God. I also wanted to apologize for being so negative sometimes about our group. I can be pessimistic sometimes....ok maybe all the time... but I'm gonna really try to be positive and see the good things that happen in our church. I had a lot of fun with you on the trip and I love getting advice from you. Thank you so much for being so willing to talk to me and answer my questions. I really appreciate you!

Jena- I love you, I just wanted to tell you that. You have been such a blessing to my life and I also thank you for being so willing to talk to me and be there for me everyday. I really hope our friendship grows stronger and that we could continue to hang out together.

So nobody else looks at this, but I love you guys and I can't wait until we start this new Bible study set up. I am also excited about Liz and Chelsea coming to our group and also...OH! OH! OH! that girl Jessica, Sarah Bryant's friend was so in my first grade class and I haven't seen her since then. She so remembers me and she is so nice. By the way, she also has the prettiest teeth I have ever seen, just so you know. See you guys!

-Danica

SHEEEESH! Here is my update:

I'm excited about Discipleship and I've decided that I already REALLY miss Mallori and it's been 15 minutes since lunch when I saw her! Ok...I'll update when I come back.

(could you see me playing this guitar???)

I survived finals week and managed to get a 3.8 G.P.A. which I'm not really proud of, but I am taking an AP class so maybe it's ok. I was craving a salad from Round Table (I know it's weird to want a salad from a pizza place and not a pizza, but I LOVE their salad bar). I've decided that one of my favorite things are salad bars. I love them because you can take all you want and there's no waiter who gets to mock you in their heads for being a pig. My throat hurts........ummmm.........trying to figure out what to type next...........oh! We rented some movies and my sister is at a Jr. High thing so it's just my parents and I and my beautiful little baby sister! I want cookies....ok see you Sunday!

-Danica

So, It's been a while since I have last updated and since the only people who look at this are Alyssa and Jena, I will just update you on my life for the past couple of days.

This is finals week and I was super scared about Biology because I had an 89% and I needed to get an A on the final to get an A in the class and I studied the review sheet over and over, but I was still terrified. I took the test and it was almost word for word the exact same thing as the review sheet. I'm almost positive that I got and A and with my extra credit, it boosts my chances of raising my A. My English final, on the other hand, was way harder than I thought. I might of failed, but it's ok...I'll be fine.(I'm trying to persuade myself that it is ok to have a B)

Tonight at church was really cool. During worship practice I was kinda bummed because I sounded horrible and I was like wondering why people even like my voice, I would not even buy my own CD if I had one. But, it's always better during the real thing, so I felt better......if I could only sound like Alisa.....

I'm taking Driver's Ed online and I have finished and taken the test for 6 sections out of 19. This program is so retarded. One of the sections explained what an 8-sided red sign that said stop meant. I just hope I get my dad's car when I get my license.

I've been really wanting to obtain (I used a big word!!!!) a whole bunch music from random people. I want to expand my knowledge of music and learn some new bands and stuff. If you have any music you think I would like, just let me know. Ok sweet!

Tomorrow's gonna be a good day. I usually don't like Thursdays just because I don't like Tuesdays and Thursdays and I have no idea why?????(I do like girl's lunch though!) I don't have any finals tomorrow and I have pretty much easy classes. So that's good.

Mallori's sister I guess just sprained her ankle and she's ok. I was freaking out when Shay came up and told her that her mom wanted her in the Children's center and it was kind of an emergency. Thank goodness everyone was ok....I got scared. :/

I had a really good dinner tonight and I would just like you guys to know how much I appreciate your friendships. I really don't care that you are 15 and 2 years older than me, you guys mean so much more to me than my younger friends. (with exeption of Mallori, she's pretty much up there) I'm also super excited that Alex has been coming to Bible Study again. I love her, she is so funny and even when she does weird stuff to my body, she's still amazing. Ok, time to go! See you tomorrow or today or yesterday whenever you read this. -Danica

this is how long it takes to get our pictures developed!

I know these pictures are old, but I wanted to post some of them!

I'm updating because I was ordered to by Jena. So, I really don't have anything to say other than I think this worship thing is a door to my future. I've heard of so many singers, including Phil Wickham, who started out leading worship in their high school group. I'm not like wanting to be famous, but of course I want to be good. So, yeah, and also I used to be scared of singing in front of people, but now I'm fine. It's great!

Halle Rae

Well...my little sister is the cutest baby I have ever seen in my entire life! Not to brag or anything......lol! Here are some pictures of her first week of life. Fortunately, she doesn't cry very loud and she's been only getting up twice throughout the night (that's very good for a newborn). I really don't know what to say, but here she is and you can schedule an appointment to come over, just ask me or my mom. Ok....see ya later!

-Danica

P.S. I have more pictures but because she doesn't have any clothes on I didn't want to put them on the internet.

Halle Rae

Halle Rae Overton was born on Monday, December 4, 2006 at 2:07 pm weighing 7lbs. 2oz. and 18 3/4in long. She has blondish brown hair and she is absolutely beautiful. The story is that my mom was "leaking" on Sunday at the Christmas concert so we called the doctor on-call and he said it was nothing. So we went to bed and the next morning she was still wet so we went to the hospital. She wasn't having contractions or anything, but they took her into the room where they checked to see if she really was going into labor and it turned out she was. We got settled in the room at about 7:30 am. She started having bad contractions at like 10 ish she was dialated to 2cm (if you don't know what that is don't ask me) (lol...Halle's crying right now). Paige was getting a little scared so we got lunch and waited a while. We came back about 1:00 and it was worse. So we left and we were just downstairs in the lobby when my dad came running. We ran upstairs and when we walked in the room, Halle was already getting cleaned off. We missed the whole thing! It was so good how it happened cause Paige was not excited about seeing mom scream. And another good thing was that 2 years ago on Monday my dad's dad died and then my sister was born on the same day. My mom's sister's birthday is on the 4th and when my grandpa died, she felt bad like her birthday was a bad day or whatever. Now she is really encouraged. So...yeah. Just wanted to keep you updated. Ok...see you guys later!
-Danica

Christmas spirit

Well...we are decorating our tree today. Well, Paige and my dad are decorating our fake plastic, non-pine smelling stick of a tree and I'm trying to ignore them as they go through what seems like every ornament and talk about each one. But, on a more positive note, we are trying to get in the Christmas spirit. For example, we made hot chocolate, a fire (which isn't real wood anyway), and we're listening to Scott Reinemeyer's Christmas CD from last year. We're trying. Ok gotta go...bye

i don't know what to write. How about...i like the song "sound of melodies" by leeland. Alisa played it today and I love it...not as much as Phil Wickham though. The song has this certain feel to it and I love it. Ok this is boring and I don't know what to talk about.

My Friday night

This is my sister, Halle about 2 months ago. Sorry about the picture...it's kind of scary.


Well...I have come to the conclusion that my dad is really cool. As you already know, I was feeling sick when my dad picked me up from Mallori's and I was hoping to take some medicine and then be all better. He surprized me by taking me out ot a really nice restaurant (for our family) and then to a movie. It's not just because he spent money on me that I'm happy, it's that he wanted to spend time with me because earlier had to leave me home alone and bored for a couple of hours. I can stay home by myself, but if I do I get so bored that I eat everything in the house. I love my dad and I thought I would share the love with you guys. So at the restaurant, there was an hour wait and we were both starving so we thought we would just leave when out of nowhere, a couple that my dad barely knows and I just met offered their table for us to share with them at. (Sorry about the bad sentence structure) So we didn't have to wait an hour to get seated, we just acted like we were with them. I got to know them and they are super nice and I made a new friend. Well...that was my Friday night. Ok see you later!
-Danica

Well....I realize I haven't posted anything here for a while. I'm really bummed because I am all congested and stuffy and I really don't feel well. :( But I am really into drinking hot tea and I think I'm hooked. I don't usually like tea, but I guess I do now. I spent the night at Mallori's house last night and that was fun. My mom is at a Tupperware convention and my dad had to work today and my sister's at a leadership retreat thing. So I'm here doing nothing except for telling everybody who is reading this about my really boring couple of days. I have a funny story...but most likely it will be completely not funny to anybody but me and Mallori's family. Anyways...we were at Wendy's and I saw my English teacher. I really don't like to talk to people when I see them places...especially teachers. So I try to just prentend she's not there by just walking right past her to try to get out of the door as fast as I possibly could. Well.......she caught me and asked me why I was trying to ignore her. I was so shocked and I tried to play dumb by saying.."Oh! Hi! How are you?" Well...Mallori's mom told me my face was a dead giveaway that I was totally trying not have to talk to her. Then, I endured 20 minutes of mockery and laughter from the lovely Martinez family (including Mallori's 11 year old sister who now thinks I am the biggest loser in the world). On Monday, I have some explaining to do. Thankfully she is a cool teacher. So....that was my day, other than being congested. Well...see you all on Sunday at church.

-Danica

P.S. I don't think I have ever sneezed so much in my life. This picture describes me today.

Habakkuk

Well... I read Habakkuk because Pastor Dave talked about how to see Jesus in every book of the old testament. It was really cool and I encourage you guys to read it. I thought it was cool because it talked about Habakkuk's complaint to God and then God's reply. Then Habakkuk complains again and then God replies again and helps Habakkuk. (Habakkuk is really fun to type) I complain a lot so I thought it was cool to see how God dealt with it. Then Habakkuk writes this really long prayer that was suposed to be set to music which would of been cool to hear. There was also some prophecy and if anybody knows which book there is more prophecy in, please let me know. I am interested in learning about prophecy.

I also read Ruth and I am pretty sure someone needs to make it into a movie. It was really good and I am probably going to read it again...right now! Ok bye -Danica


P.S. Does anybody know the name of the song that we sang last night at Encounter, I think it was "Wash Over Me" or "Watch Over Me" I don't know, but I really want to learn it. Please let me know if you know.