What's in a Name?!

~There is this website www.urbandictionary.com that I love going to! It's a wesite where you can make a defintion for any word in the world, including names! I went on it tonight and checked out my name. This was the first one that came up and I think it fits me pretty nicely!

~Ayla is just one of those girls.. one of those girls who can make you laugh (even when you shouldn't), dance (even when you can't), be a little crazy (even when you're the shyest person in the world) and in all reality, just bring out the best in people.

~So check it out, find out what your name means! You could be shocked!!

Prom Weekend

Well, the weekend has been over for a few days now, but I'm still exhausted!!

At the State Choir Competition we ended up getting 2nd place!! We did amazing and so did The Blend (the guys group from BHS that went).

Here's a picture of all of us senior girls in Bel Canto and Mrs. Prather, the most amazing Choir director ever!!

The second part of my weekend started Saturday morning at 5:30! I got up and headed to the Church for The Andy Project. We left early and got downtown! I got to talking to one man named Roy (He looked mexican...). He asked me about my life and we got to talking about Africa. He was a sweetheart. Then there was this other guy there who looked just like Shane Claiborne. It's rediculious because everyone thought so too!! (FYI, he's an amazing author! Check out The Irresistable Revolution). Anyways, his name is Pier and he just got into Indianapolis. I hope to see them both the next time!!

Next was Prom!! Mikeala came over and did my hair then Alex came and picked me up. We went to Arbuckle and met up with Katie and Cameron, and Drew and Ashlee.

We took billions of pictures then went to Cameron's for dinner. The guys had made Salad, Pork, Potatos and so much more! Us girls made desert (brownies). Then we headed to Prom! It was amazing. We all danced the night away and it was so worth going with my best friend, Alex. Afterwards, we went back to Katie's, changed and the guys came over and we hung out until about 2:30am then the guys went back to Cameron's house.

Kings Island was the next day! Ashlee couldn't make it, but Lindsey came instead!! We had so much fun there! We went on their newest Rollercoaster, Diamond Back, and it was the most amazing ride ever!!

Long Weekend coming up!

So, we have a regular 2 day weekend, but it's going to be a long (fun) one!!

Tonight after school we have our choir state competition!!! We were the state winners last year and we are going back to try again :) We will see!! Jake Nobbe and Katie Strifler are in the other 2 choirs from our school also going to competition.

Saturday morning we have The Andy Project, and it's going to be exciting because we have the Kohls representatives coming in to help us. Then, because they come we get $500 from them for The Andy Project. Later Saturday night is PROM!!! I'm super excited! I'm going with Alex, Katie and Cameron are going together and Drew and Ashlee are going together. The guys are making us dinner, so they are probably going to poison us..haha just kidding!! But, then after prom, the girls are going to Katie's place.

Sunday the 6 of us are going to Kings Island!! I haven't been there for about 2 years so I'm pretty excited about that!!


It's going to be a great weekend! I'll get pics up next week when I'm back to my normal non-tired self!!


~*~Africa Girl~*~

As you may have expected, I haven't had much time to blog since we have been in Arizona. It's been non-stop go go go. We haven't stopped eatting since we have got here...We have had 3 meals a day, usually going out to eat!

We got in late Friday night, so we crashed when we got to my Grandma's house. On Saturday we slept in and met J-gray and Katlyn at a mexican resturant. It was nice to see them again! We hadn't seen them since Poland this summer! We hung out with them the whole day. They took us to see their church, Christ's Church of the Valley (CCV). It's a huge facility, but it is beautiful! Alex and I were both amazed at how big it was! We went to one of the two Saturday night services. Then afterwards we ate dinner there at thier cafeteria (yupp, it has a cafeteria with amazing food). Afterwards, we met Gordo and his wife Bethany at a coffee shop where we drank coffee, played a game, and just socialized. My dad had told Gordo to give Alex a hard time about our "relationship", and of course he did.

On Sunday, Katlyn picked us up and we went on an adventure (we didn't go to Church cuz we had gone the night before)! We went out into the middle of no where and hiked around. It was a lot of fun! We ate at a little resturant/bar thing. It was in the middle of no where, but it was really really good!! That's when Alex and I decided that we wanted to go skydiving while we are out here! Afterwards, we went to CCV to meet up with Alex's parents. They are in town at a condo...and no, they are not spying on us!! We went to lunch with them, J-gray and Katlyn then went back to my grandma's house. Then we went to Organ Stop Pizza with my Aunt, Uncle and grandma! We spent a few hours there...the food was great and the entertainment was amazing :) This guy plays an organ and it is amazing how many different things he can play on it!

The next day, Monday, I went to my Grandma's church with her to play Skip Bo with her and some of her friends. Alex stayed behind to work on some of his editing that he needs to get done over Spring Break. After that, we went out to eat at In-N-Out Burger then went to the Rec Center. My grandma has a membership card for there, so we went Putt-Putt Golf and played a few rounds of Bowling, which Alex won every game! Then we walked around the lake, which was absolutly gorgeous! I wish we had something like that in Indiana. For dinner, Alex treated us all to Buca di Beppo!

Today, we met one of my teachers from my school in Kenya for Lunch. It was nice to see her again. I hadn't seen her for over 6 years now! Then we came back here to my Grandma's and watched a movie! Alex and I started to watch "Sydney White", and he sat and watched the whole thing with me. I'm impressed...most guys would roll their eyes at a chick flick and walk away. But, as he stated at the end, "Only good gentlemen would sit and watch a chick flick.." haha

Right now we are waiting for my Aunt and Uncle to call. We are going to Texas Roadhouse for dinner, and they were going to call when they were ready!

Sorry it's a long blog, but I haven't had the chance to blog since we got here!

Today's the Day!!

Today's the day we leave for Arizona!! Alex and I are completely stoked! We can't stop talking about it. We are planning on recording a video every day to put on our blogs to keep you all up to date about our trip! Check out Alex's Website too!




:)

4 Days!

Since spring break is coming up in 4 days, I decided to do some research about Arizona right now...aka See what the weather is like!

Last week, it got up to the 90's!! YAY for warm weather!! Early next week it will be in the high 80's, then as the week goes on, it will get down to the low 80's, but then go back up to the high 80's, and maybe even into the 90's!!

One thing that I'm super excited about is seeing my grandma, aunt and uncle!! I haven't seen them for almost a year now and it will be nice to see them again!!

Another thing is seeing the sunsets! I remember when we would come back into the USA to visit, I always loved seeing the sunsets in Arizona. There is something about the sunsets that made me feel calm and relaxed! I can't wait!



School today has been extra long! It seems like this week will go by so slowly!!!

Right around the corner

It has been close to a month since I have posted! Time flies by so quickly!! Especially since it's senior year! Thankfully I get to get away for a week and just relax! Spring break is in 5 days and I really can't wait! Just thought I would let you know what's up right now! I will blog more!

Wowzers

I haven't been keeping up to date on my blogging...whoops!! School, family, friends, Church, work, college thoughts and many other things have been getting my time. But, I thought I would blog today. No specific reason but to blog :)

Last week, I went to Ozark Christian College to take a 'Tuesday Tour', and with that I got an automatic $500 scholarship :) (yay for free money!!) I'm deffinatly going there in the fall, so any $ helps :) Even though I have toured there before, it finally just hit me that I am going to college. I was meeting people and talking with people and when the day was over, we said "See you in the Fall"! Wooooahhhh!! Craziness!!

Friday was Battle of the Bands at Church and it was pretty much amazing! Farebridge won...shocking much? haha Everyone loves them!! The singer has an amazing voice!!

Saturday was the choir competition at BD. We got 2nd out of 10 and we were really proud because we didn't even know all the words for the songs the day before! Praise the Lord, we pulled it through and got 2nd! After that was the dance, and of course some drama...what do you expect?

Sorry, my friend is here to pick me up for Bible Study. Sooo, I will blog more later..hopefully :)


<3 Ayla

Finally Accepted :)

So, I have been going through a lot with college and scholarships and such since the beginning of my senior year. But, I finally got the news I wanted :)

I have always wanted to go to Ozark Christian College, and that's the only one I applied to. They told me on Monday that they sent out my acceptance letter, so I should get it soon. But, it didn't come in until today (Saturday)!!

I'm soooo excited :) Can't even explain my excitement!! I know God had amazing plans for me at that college and I can't wait to start there!!

<3 Ayla

A quick little blog

Just a story to get you through this day:

A young girl falls asleep around 10:30 and is fast asleep. She sleeps through the whole night and she is dreaming of the beautiful beaches and lucious green trees. She is awaken the next morning and gets ready for the day. She looks outside and she can't even see the road because it is covered in white stuff. She doesn't know what to do. She realizes that she still has to get dressed and ready for the day. Her friend then picks her up for school and on her way out the door she says, "Bye mommy, Love you! Have a good day! See you after school." She heads to her friends car, but she can hardly see it because the white stuff that was all over the ground is coming down really hard from the sky.

As they head to school, her friend can't drive straight because under the white stuff is a lot of slippery-ness. The slip and slide all the way to school, almost having an acident or two on the way there. They get to the parking lot and they can't even see the lines, so they just park wherever. The girls don't want to get out of the car, but they know that they can't just sit in the car all day. They get out and face the white stuff, still coming down hard, and slowly walk up to the school trying to slip and fall.



Can you guess who that girl was? That was me...this morning. A 2 hour delay would have been nice...the roads are probably cleared a bit, it's not snowing as hard anymore (but it is a bit), we could have slept in, and it's light out. But, we have a final later today, so they didn't want to do that to us.

At least Michigan is getting a good amount of snow!! I can't wait to go skiing this weekend!!

Not Me Monday

So, I decided to join in on Not Me Monday. This is when I tell you what i 'did NOT' do this week. Danyele does it every week, so I thought I would join in.

i DID NOT staple my finger today helping my mom in her kindergarten class, and i did not start bleeding and have to put a band-aid on it.

i DID NOT hold JK, Danyele's daughter, while worshiping at Church yesterday.

i DID NOT watch 2 full seasons of The Office last week. (That probably wasn't smart...)

i DID NOT spend friday night ice skating for Laurens Sweet 16. and i DID NOT get knocked over by some guy.

i DID NOT start a count down til ELEVATE

i DID NOT talk to my uncle about spring break plans when Alex and I are out.

i DID NOT hear from my friend Dennis, who is in the navy, today who told me where he is being shipped to. And i DID NOT almost cry thinking about the last time we hung out (which was 5 months ago).

Spring Break, here we come :)

I know we have 78 days until spring break, but I'm already getting ready for it.

When Alex and I went to Poland this summer, we had a group from Arizona who came out with us. So, Alex and I talked about going to AZ for Spring Break, but we weren't sure if it was going to happen or not. But, last night we got our flights booked and we are stoked!



We are going to be staying with my family, then go visit his "aunt" who lives out there. She's a missionary from our Church, so we are going to go visit.



After being in this snow, I will be ready to get out to some warm weather!!

Last day of Christmas Break

This is so sad. Today was the last day of Christmas Break. Tomorrow we are going to be put to work, learning about stuff most people don't care about. Ahhhhh Not fun!!

But, today was deffinatly an amazing day!!!

Church was a great place to start my day!! I love my youth group, and I don't know where I would be without it! Lydia, Lauren, Makenzie, Alex, Nate, Jake, Keegan, and I went out to lunch at Pizza Hut. It was really good! Then, later some of us went to a movie. We watched a disney movie called "Bedtime Story". It was so good!! Lydia, Jake and I were laughing the whole time! I don't know if Lauren, Brandon and Nate laughed as much as we did, but it was pretty stinkin' hilarious!

Favorite line:
"Why did you kick me?" "Because I'm angry!!"

You have to see the movie to really understand it. But it is deffinatly one that I am glad that I spent $6.75 on! '

Right now I'm working on my Psych project//blogging//dreading school tomorrow!!

So, here's to a great Christmas break!!