its so hard...

its so hard to remember to do these prayer journals. In the beggining i really enjoyed doing them (i still do) its just really hard to find time to do them. I guess thats Gods way of showing me that i have to put him first in my life. Like instead of talking on the phone at night for an extra 15 minutes, i should say bye and do my journal. i like doing my journal right before i go to bed so sometimes its hard to stay awake. but i find that when my prayer journal is the last thing i do, its sorta clears my mind and relaxs me and helps me focus on God. but yeah thats my rant about prayer journals.

mmm yesterday shannon and i hung out and played ps2 with nathan. it was really fun. then leon came over and we watched a movie called hunny. its was super good. lots of hip hop dancing, and really cool stuff. umm oh and we pigged out on chips...ha so much for my promise to eat healthy after the band trip. oh well..

this week is sorta busy but nice. i havemy last soccer practice tonight and my last game on tuesday. i think thats gunna be my last. i love soccer and all but id rather focus on other things like piano, things that im gunna probably persue. i dunno...hmmm ohh yeah still got to write my testimony for thursday...uggg

heyy guys. sorry i haven't updated in awhile..busy as usual. well this morning i woke up at 7:30.. woot 5 hours of sleep!!! lol destiny has now discovered eletrical outlets. she tries to get the plastic covering off so that she can stick her fingers in the outlets. anyways... sooo yesterday (friday) leon wanted to spoil me for taking care of him all week while he has been hurting. hey, helping him up the stairs has been a good work out! anyways, so my daddy took us to midtown and we just walked around a little. then we went into west 49 and in the guys section there was this adorable hat ( a toot toot had) and leon thought it would look really good on me. so he bought it for me. then we looked around some more, and went to starbucks and shared a mocha frappacino..yummm!!! then he also bought me two shirts from below the belt. one is a billabong tank top and then this other yellow shirt thats really nice. then he bought himslel some running shoes. then we walked to my daddys office and we went home. haha i slept the whole way home. if ur wondering y i wasn't at youth its cause i was hanging out with leons family. we had sooo much fun, we went to mcnalley robinson and did some other stuff.. haha his brother is soo cute, he just never stops talking. love u guys!

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gaga nana mama

<--------haha this reminds me of something id say with katelynn...if ur wondering y that is my title, its because that is the sound i hear right now.. ibviously its coming from little destiny! aww shes so cute cept shes really teething now and shes grouchy..and not to mention insanely drooly. oh well. her fat little cheeks (and i didn't mean her butt.. man u guys have dirty minds...lol) make up for it. anyways... well today was fairly boring. be proud of me, i didn't leave my purse on the bus! yay for gracie. umm in first we wrote stuff about our dance workshop..blahhh! and then in second math, with katelynn and kayla.. woot and third band, which is really cold, i mean the room is freezing!!!! although im always cold, so is katie. hmmmm.. then lunch i had choir and me and katelynn had fun making up words and harmonies cause we weren't there for like a month cause of drivers... then in 4th i worked on a bunch of english things i needed to catch up on and me and katie read our beautiful, heartbreaking sonnet..lol then in 5th science!!! i love science!! i have a 95% average. yay. but yeah, we didn't blow anything up today, we froze a block of wood to a test tube thinger though..that was cool.. oh and we watched bill nye. yay!!! bill nye the science guy. so yeah then i went home and had chicken soup and salad and bread for dinner! yummmmm... oh katie i liked those pita thingers u brought for lunch. anyways, now im waiting for 9:00 to roll around so i can go to my soccer game. ugg ill be tired in the morning. but yeah, hows everyones prayer journals?? mines really good, i really like doing them.. well most of the time. can't wait for youth.. worship!!! ttyl... love u guys sooooo much!

xoxo

PRAISE GOD!!!!

guess what!? God is awesome. i was praying so hard last night that someone would give me my purse back and today, a girl in grade 9 came up to me and said i think u left ur purse on the bus and im like yeahh... and then she said well i have it. i was like ecstatic! i said thank you sooooooooo much!!!! i love u!! and she was all weirded out cause i like don't know her.. haha yeah.. im havin a good day. thanks for praying for me guys. today i danced the whole day. and man am i sore. but i had so much fun. we did about an hour and a half of salsa and i was partners with vicki and then we did an hour and a half of contemporary ballet which wasn't even closely related to ballet, i dunno it was weird but relaxing, and then i went to lunch and at a sub with vicki, she was pretty much with me the whole day and we had so much fun. and then after lunch my favorite class... hip hop, man that was awesome. this girl who was teaching us was amazing, man she was soo cool. and it made me miss dancing competitvely a lot. especially hip hop, it all sorta came back to me. but dance acamdemy is really nice and i am enjoying it soo much. well i hope u guys are doing okay. love u all. srry... love y'all!

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guys...help

heyy.. k guys im really scared. i know i already told u about the whole purse thinger but im really scared that someones gunna follow me home or something, its really bothering me. Im on the verge of crying... im just paranoid, but they kn0w everything about me, my school, my age, what i look like, where i was born even my middle name. thats freaky.. i dunno.. thanks for praying. leons worried about me, he wants to like come ride the bus to school with me. but yeah g2g...

oh where is my purse?!

heyy sweeties.. wow thats a new one. well i wanted to tell u guys that i losted my purse. on friday i went on the bus and left my purse on it when i got off. i immediatly phoned the bus station and they said i had to wait for the morning and phone back. So my mom phoned this morning and they didn't have a purse brought it. so we assume that somebody took it. my purse had everything in it; my cell, my drivers lisence, my debit card, social insurance card, health card, birth certificate, cash..and my phone..ugggg... so most of this morning has been spent getting those things replaced and applied for. please pray for me guys, im so scared cause some weirdo without a heart to give my stuff back has all this information about me and yeah im really scared...

bored and cleaning

heyy guys! well i guess i have some spare time.. *gasp* whats that?!? grace has spare time?!? lol yes i actually do right now. grr u know what i find annoying though? ive been sleeping through my alarm every morning this week! its dumb, i have it on really loud and im usually a really light sleeper, maybe thats changing. oh well. soo not much is happening inmy life right now. Mexico is getting to be more of a reality for me than a thing in the future. i recently took a test to see what my spiritual gifts are. Apparently my best spiritual gift is serving. I guess that is true. i love helping out doing random jobs like setting up that bulletin board for youth. that was fun! i also like listning to people and giving my opinion. anyways, what were ur guys like? hmmm wat else? well schools going okay cept for my history mark but that will go wayyyy up after that project me and katie are gunna do. man im excited for that big time! but yeah. im really thinking of getting a job. its so hard to afford things like going out for coffee and stuff and doing things for leon withought being like ahhhh i dunno if i have enough moohlah for that! so i dunno im thinking of regis, or a clothing store or like DQ.. dunno... somewhere close cause obviously id need a ride. Oh,well most of u know this but leon might be getting a job at star bucks! yummmmmmy. that means white chocolate mochas for katie. lol maybe she doesn;t need any caffine. hahaha but yeah. well i better go do something like vaccuume cause i don't want spiders in my room.

change.. is good?

heyy guys, do u all like my new changes to my blog?? gimme sum feedback.. i thought brown was a nice change from the black i had before. love y'all!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

VaLeNtInE's DaY

well, how was everyones valentine's day? mine was pretty good. im not a huge believer in it though, its just a rip off... anyways. leon bought me one red rose and a nice card..even if it was the one that came free with the flowers. All we pretty much did was order fish and chips, yes leon actually ate fish! We watched the illusionist which was good except the ending was crappy and rushed and thats about it. So it wasn't all fancy with chocolate and fancy pasta, but it was much better than that. Well ive been pretty packed this week, even with no school. Ugg school, i don't wanna go. Its been a really nice break, oh well its not over yet. today im hanging out with erin then tomorrow im spending the entire day with stephie poo!!! amn im excited. and yeah, then saturday i have a few chores to do and i have a hair appointement..yay!! and then sunday well, i dunno.. something.. then monday im having pj day at my house...its gunna be me and my mom and baby, oh and leon too i guess..lol yeah we are cool we hang out with my mom and have a fat/pj day..lol anyways, i better go. luv y'all.

woot i blogged!!!

<---- haha sopngebob is my hero!!

well i actually have some spare time today to do some blogging! its so nice being bored and not being at school. plus having absolutely no homework helps too. last night i had a blast at drop in. Actually the whole day was really nice. I got up and went to sunday school bright and early at 10:15..lol and we talked about the barenaked ladies concert that mike went to the other night. He bought a memory stick that has the whole live concert on it. We listened to some of it then got into half of the bible study lesson. Oh well, it was fun. Then it was tome for church and i sat with steph all by ourselves in the 2nd row..lol aren't we so cool! then after the service me, anthony, lynn and leon went out for a super yummy lunch at chianti. i was soooo hungry. And after we shared peanut butter pie. it was soooo good!! (goot..lol steph) After that we went back to tony and lynns and leon and i did our bible study and played video games. at 5:30 i got to the church for drop in and me, erin, jeff and leon sorta set things up. i had soo much fun. and leon did the anything for a coke. it was disgusting. he put jello in a cup and put layers of whip cream and veggies in it. They had to suck the jello through a straw and the eat the veggies after. uggg it makes me cringe. Then after drop in leon and i gave my parents a break and babysat destiny for them. shes so cute but shes got the flu so shes kinda fussy. but yeah, so not any major plans for this week. Rock climbing, sams b-day, hanging out with erin and steph. umm not really much for valentines day.. unless leon plans something and surprises me..*hint hint* jk jk actually i think valentines day is more of a "hallmark holiday." they just want to u to buy stuff so they can make more money. but yeah... oh and im having so much fun writing in my prayer journal for mexico. oh yeah, stpeh have u been writing in yours? im supposed to ask..lol its really nice to just write down prayers cause i can actually concentrate. cause i dunno about u guys but sometimes when i pray i just start thinking about something else and its like grace pay attention!!! prayer journaling helps me soo much. well i better get back to the real world..lol i love you guys. i hope ur having fun katelynn!!! oh and something gross happened yesterday, my housen smells really nasty cause my mom was boiling bottle nipples for the baby to clean them and she burnt them.. it smells soooo gross like burnt rubber.

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some stuff..lol

Well I did eventually pick my courses out. Obviously, seeing as they were due today. Anyways, im going to be going into math A and B 30, Psychology 30, history 20, english 20, band 20, dance 20, physics, chemistry and bio 30. oh and choir too. So i have a pretty full schedule for next year but i love being busy as you all know. But yeah, im also pretty excited for break. Even though it doesn't seem that long since we just had a break but hey im not complaining! But so far all i have planned is, one day doing something with erin, and another with shannon, going skiing with steph, dancing, and shopping with my mom.. ha im going to buy a super cheezy valentines card for leon.. maybe one that sings. lol more embarassment=more fun!... for me anyways! hopefully ill just have a day to myself to just chill and watever. Let me know what days u are all gunna be around so we can hang out.

Oh and as u know i am going to mexico. i was pretty excited about that. And im sooo glad that all u guys are coming too cause i think that would've been really sad if only one of us or w/e were going. So i hope that everything goes okay for u guys the rest of this week. Oh and steph i hope your shoulder gets better! Love you all...

p.s. katie i hope ur having fun tanning ur butt off in hawaii cause we are freezing here back at home. we miss you! oh and we all love u, cept me..lol jk jk

p.s.s. i loooove step up and i think we should watch it steph the day we go skiing.

crushed dreams..

heyy guys, well this morning i woke up and decided to start picking my courses for grade 11. i knew my mom would have alot of input into what classes i would be taking. Anyways, i was having a nice conversation with my dad about what classes i was taking and then my mom comes down and asks mewhat i was doing. I told her and she looked at the sheet. she saw that i wanted to take bio 20, chemistry 20 and physics 20. She told me physics was hard and that why would i take all of the sciences. I just felt like she bursted my bubble, and that i wasn't good enough. I doubt that that was her intentions but it did make me feel that way. I guess after that i was a little bit snappy because of the way she made me feel. And now shes mad and im confused. She wants me to be a little girl still and she wants to pick my classes for me because she knows best but this is my life too. I need to make my own mistakes and figure out the hard way sometimes. Im not that little girl in the pretty pink party dress anymore.

yay!!!

IM AT KATIE'S HOUSE!!! yay for me. anyways, so we are really hyper cause we are trying to make all these plans and omg its 11:30 cause I like have a sim at 12:00. oh well. keith answer your phone!!!! lol yah, so well i think wats happening is im going to go to the track and run with katie and then we are coming back here and then we are going to hang out!! whooo hooo!!! yeah so then leons coming over and hanging with the home girls..lol yeah anywyas, so me and katie had a hyper history party. it was aweomse, definalty stuffed our faces.. hahahahahah. yummmmy. there was cookies and chips and other yummy goodies..haha goodies, wat a dumb word. but yeah i better go cause i got a sim at 12:00. i lover you all!!!!

fruity madness.....

heyy guys, yeah katelynn gets to be special today but yeah..lol these pictures reminded me of you totally.. dunno y tho..lol

so bored...

hi guys, its my official last day in victoria, tomorrow im going to vancouver, and guess what im doing?!? im having a huge party and hanging out with cool people who are my friends.. jk jk no first of all i don't have any cool friends... not u guys are awesome. and secondly i have no where to have a party. but yeah. woah, k my uncle and auntie came over and they have a huge puppy. haha he came down and licked my leg and ran away. i guess i don't taste very good..lol. hmm.. anyways, today i think im just hanging out in my huskie shorts and cleaning, reading and blogging of course. then maybe this afternoon im going out with my parents (nathans skiing) and shopping and stopping by my moms friend's place to see her kid. then i think tonight we are all going to our family friends house for dessert. yummmy!!! and i'll probably come home, check my email and crash for the night. i have to get up sorta early cause we are all going to breakfast (still can't decide where) before we catch the ferry, which we catch at 10:30. so yeah, then after that i spend the night in a hotel which we will be nice. and my grandparents are staying over in vancouver with us for the night to have new years dinner with us. i think we will be going to earls or moxies or something. then monday i begin my journey of traveling again.. woot woot, i can't wait. yes u can hear how enthused i am. but duty calls and i must leave you.

an old friend...

well its been another relaxing day in victoria. i have to say though that i love it here a lot, but i miss you guys soooo much. i miss being able to call you and just hang out. anyways, well this morning my dad, nathan, destiny, my grandpa and i all walked up mount doug. it is so beautiful out there with all the tall trees unfortunalty which some have been damaged a lot by the wind and snow. anyways, its just beautiful out there. after our walk we came home and nathan and i went into the hot tub. that explains itself.. lol i got out after 5 minutes.. hey thats pretty good for being in there with my brother! anyways, after that we all got dressed and showered and whatnot and we went to my grandpa's golfing club. its quite fancy there and they even have a dress code! but the funny thing was the only pants i brought were jeans because i wasn't going to dress up too much but i had broght nice tops to kinda dress the jeans up a bit. but anyways, the only kind of pants u are not allowed to wear are jeans so i here i was in this expensive golf club eating..in my huskie pants..lol wow that was fun.. after we had lunch my mom decided that i should go over and visit my old buddy Luke. now luke and i were best friends since about grade 2. we lost contact when i moved and we haven't talked since. i was so excited to hear that he moved to victoria so i could finally see him. so as i was walking to his door i was nervous not knowing what to expect at all. i saw some dogs run to the door and my heart was racing then.. he answered the door. i actually said oh my gosh when i saw him.. which was sorta weird but i was used to the Luke who was shorter than me, short haired, obssesed with limp biskit and skateboarding instead standing in front of me was a long curly haired, somewhat grungy/skater boyish guy obssesed with his computer wearing a pink floyd t-shirt. he looked at me and i looked at him.. we said nothing and my parents talked to his dad and i left. i had a feeling that no words would be exchanged between the two of us but at least i saw him. but yeah, he still looks the same underneath all that hair and i honestly miss having him as a friend. but things change when people grow up and move away. i wonder what it would be like if i was still in calgary. id probably either be skateboarding with the guys, or watching a movie with nathan and amanda. in some ways i miss that but now i have katelynn, steph, erin and leon of course and u guys could never be replaced. thats the good thing about moving u make new friends but u still have ur old ones too. although in the process people stop keeping in contact, like luke and i which is a shame but life must go on. anyways, i mustn't start with my moving stories and move onto a different topic. now im sitting in the dark worrying about things. worrying that i won't finish my homework and i am going to mess uop on my piano exam and that i won't find my purse and i will loose all that money and stuff. but theres not much i can do. but i better go for now. i miss you guys a lot.

another day in victoria

well i had another interesting day i guess. woke up around 10:30 and had breakfast. i walked back to my room and was gunna grab my towel to have a shower but i got into bed again and fell asleep tile 12:50. which is really not like me at all to sleep in. anyways, then i got up and got dressed. our family had lunch, my dad went out to visit with his old school buddies, and after he came home we all went out shopping. i didn't buy anything cause my mom and me started to fight a bit but we came home with a screaming baby. we think her stomach might be hurting her cause she was just screaming her head off. anyways, now we are back at home with our grandparents and my great auntie and uncle are over visitng my parents mostly. i have no clue what i am doing tonight, all i can reallly do is eat and go on msn. for some reason my email isn't working. maybe its this dumb macintosh computer im on. oh well. but i guess ill go for now cause i can't think of anything else to write or type i guess. but i better go.. i miss you all soooo much and i can't wait to see you guys next week. have fun at the all nighter too. love y'all

again!

heyy guys. wow, does this ever happen? grace updating her blog more than once a week? wow, now i feel special... well i should, katelynn and steph.. and erin tell me that a lot... lol anyways.. i think those tylonol nighttime pills are making me a little bit sleepy.....yeahh im still sick, i felt a lot better today but then as soon as i got home it was like BAM! there goes my throat, my nose and im tired and achy. oh well... i'll live with it. now my mom is sick too. she has wat my dad had. still don't know exactly what that is tho. the only people in our house right now who aren't sick are nathan, the baby (hopefully she won't get sick), the dog, and the fish.. lol but yeah, now i have to get going cause i have to pack my bags for tomorrow. i'll talk to you guys later and im soo excited about youth on friday!
-gRaCiE

long post

hi guys. hope fully this post will be long, or longer than the ones that i usually write, not Katelynn long tho..lol yeah i feel like all i write on my blog is wat i do in the day but not exactly how i feel. i guess i don't exactly want people to know my opininions cause im afraid that it will be alot different from wat they think, although there is that chance that they have the same opinion as you. well today im home sick with a cold. i've gotton sick a lot lately, probably caught it from someone at school or from my family. my daddy was really sick the last two days and still is. i have no clue wats wrong with him. its worse than the flu but kinda like it. hopefully none of you will get sick from me so thats part of the reason i stayed home, except i tried to go back at lunch, made it thru drivers ed.. yay... and then felt really sick and felt like my head was going to explode. so then i went home. when my mom was driving me home she was telling me how ever since i started going out with leon i haven't tried as hard with my piano and theory. im not going to deny this because lately i haven't had any motivation to play piano, or study for my theory exam. i know i'll do good, becasue i always make it through. i was one of the nerdy kids in elementry school (maybeim still a nerd) that freeked out before a test even though i studied hard and new i was going to get in the 90's. everything just came so easily to me, school, band... now that i have got into that pattern of things coming easily to me, when im given a challenge i don't try as hard as i can cause i know that i could just wing it and do a good job. and now its starting to eat away at me because after i do a good job on something like a piano performance or something, i feel this pang of guilt and this voice tells me, grace you didn't do ur best, yes ur performance was good but it could have been even better. even if other people don't notice, you will. and a few days ago my gramma called and was like im so proud of you gracie and your such a determined young women. i know that most grammas say that to their grand kids, but i couldn't help but feel guilty again. things like that make me want to try harder but i feel lazy like y would i want to try hard. and leon doesn't exactly contribute to me feeling like i can't try hard.. the way i see it sometimes is that y would i do my piano or do a good job when i could just hang out with leon or go on the computer. well, i guess theres a lot for me to think about. hmm wats some more stuff thats happening. well i was really worried about katelynn for a bit there. still worried but not as much.. oh my little erin (wait she's taller than me!) is growing up so fast. already off to arizona
for raquetball. i hope you do good hunni and ill by praying for you! and steph is amazing at sewing. lol i am not. yeahh.. but i got to go now
ttyl

were twins erin!

heyy guys. no erin and i aren't really twins. its just that i lost my binder. the last time i saw it was Friday at school. i remember bringing it home and now i can't find it... i looked everywhere for it. so yeah this really sucks. hopefully i'll find it. what else? well my house is now officially christmasfied! we put up the tree yesterday and ate lots of cinnomen buns made by yours truely.. and my mom..lol then we watched pirates of the carribean 2 which my dad bought!! yay now i can watch it lots, we should watch it together guys cause i fell asleep through the whole movie..lol yeah i really wanna watch it again. anyways, youth was soo much fun. i love robyns house i want to have something like that when im older. it looks like fun having your own crib..lol i mean house. yeahh no im not turning gangster, i know im so good at it but... yea no.. im not. hmm wat else can i say? well today ive eaten some pineapple, a boiled egg, and right now some cheerio snack mix. yummmmy. oh if ur wondering y im not at church well its cause my mom needed me home and my dad is sick so my mom needs a alot of help with the baby and stuff. but if u guys can tell me wat the service was about id love that.. haha test to see if ur paying attention! oh at 1:30 me and katie are playing at the library. and then its the spirit of chirstmas at 6:30. but im gunna go cause i have really nothing to say... sooooooooooo bye
-dUcKiE