I'm still alive...

Oh gosh...will you guys please, please forgive me? I don't know why I never got around to writing a review for Awakening Fest. I'd hope that I could get one done sometime soon, but it seems it's been too long for me to recall anything properly. Then again, it took me about a month and a half to finish my review for the Newsboys' GO tour back in March, so maybe I could fix something up for Awakening :-) I'll do my best! Do go easy on me though, because on this Saturday, I'm actually going to see Steven Curtis Chapman, Sanctus Real and Bethany Dillon, so I might be having my hands full as far as writing goes. Oh, and incase you were wondering, I don't normally go to concerts this often (you probably noticed that last month I went to AF, and one month later I'm going to this)...my Aunt B won the tickets, and as I love going to Christian concerts (and spending time with my family, of course ;-), I couldn't pass up the opportunity. God has also blessed me (and my family) with these occasions, and I'm very thankful for that. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the concert and sharing my experience with you! A big thanks goes to my Aunt B for thinking of me, and of course, for taking me to the concert ;-) Oh, and in the meantime, would you like to see the Awakening Fest setlists of BarlowGirl and TobyMac? I wrote them down as they were playing, so here you go...

BarlowGirl -
Psalm 73
Let Go
Mirror
I Need You To Love Me
Give You My Heart (chorus, a cappella) / Enough
No One Like You
Here's My Life
Never Alone
Average Girl
Million Voices
How Great Is Our God (chorus / bridge, a cappella)

TobyMac -
Burn For You
Get This Party Started
Catchafire (Whoopsi-Daisy)
No Ordinary Love
J-Train
Gone
Boomin'
I'm For You
Irene
In The Light
Slam
Love Is In The House
Lose My Soul / I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever (chorus)
Feelin' So Fly
Diverse City
Band solos
Old-school medley
Jesus Freak
*ENCORE*
Made To Love
Extreme Days / Na Na Hey Hey (Goodbye) (chorus) / Where My Freaks?

So anyway...I obviously haven't updated in a long, long time. I've got a bit to cover! Let's see...where do I start?

About two weeks ago, my dad took me to an awesome restaurant called The Lebanese Taverna...it was really, really amazing! Definitely the best restaurant experience I've had in a long time. Most of their food had the "different, but good" quality...for example, they serve their french fries with garlic sauce rather than ketchup. It was actually really good! It took a while for my breath to recover, but it was worth it ;-) So, I had a wonderful day with my dad...I took some pictures inside and outside of the restaurant, which you can see HERE.

Last week, I got to have a lovely visit with my grandparents, who I call Grammy and Papa. Since we live far apart, we don't get to see eachother too often, so the visit was lovely. I enjoyed spending time with them, and also enjoyed their sweet cat, Tigger ;-) We went out to a great lunch and afterwards enjoyed a bit of ice cream (big thanks to my grandparents for treating us to both of those!). I'm very glad I got to spend time with them and have a lovely day! I managed to get some good pictures while I was out there, so you can check those out HERE!

On Sunday, I also got to go bowling for the first time, which was extremely fun! Some people from my church's youth group all went bowling together. I'd actually never gone bowling until then, so as you can imagine, my first game was all gutters, and I never knocked down more than three bowling pins. But with the help of instructions from my dad, my youth pastor and others, I managed to get my score to 89 on the second game. I had a very fun time bowling, but even more than that I loved spending time with my friends. There have been times when I've had these feelings of loneliness, or when I've felt "on the outside," if you know what I mean. But recently, I realized that God has blessed me SO much with kind, godly friends. I think that rather than being sad because I don't have more friends, I should be thanking God for the ones he's already given me. And I am. Thank you, God, for giving me such a strong relationship with my mom. Thank you for giving me new, caring friends in church and for the old friends you've kept in my life, for giving me courage to exchange stories with all of them about how you've worked in our lives.

So...I'm glad to have finally updated! My Flickr has been updated lots (more than the times mentioned above) and continues to be updated :-) See you sometime next week, hopefully! :-)

- Isaiah 49:13