FINALLY!

Its finally here! The Christmas season has finally come from inside of the rubbermaid bins in out attic, to our living room, kitchen and upstairs bathroom and landing! The more decorations we put up, the more excited and anxious I get about Christmas coming! I love how the mornings are getting colder, and the nights are getting darker, and the Christmas music is being heard more and more! I am sooooo excited! But I know that with all of THIS, it can become quite a distraction for me because I just love the season, sometimes I don't think of the real reason we are even putting up these decorations. Im sure you all know about the real reason I am talking about and if you don't... GO AND GET SAVED! Haha no just kidding. But umm yeah, the real reason we are celebrating Christmas, and why Christmas is so important is because it is the birthday of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And well, without him being born and all, this whole exciting, fun, celebrational (I think I just made up a word!) day on our calendar would not have happened. So yeah all the other stuff is pretty great, but we can't let that become a distraction and a focal point of Christmas to us and we need to remember the real reason of it all. 

Christmas Cookies

I started baking the first batch of Christmas cookies today to get into the Christmas feeling. They are called Snowball Cookies, and seriously when I was eating the dough, it had the chalky, soft, melty kind of feeling in my mouth! They just came out of the oven. Here is the recipe:

Crunchy pecans, vanilla and powdered sugar become delicious decorative Christmas treats for kids and adults to enjoy. Serve up these festive white Snowball Cookies for your next winter fete.

INGREDIENTS

-1 cup butter or margarine
-1/2 cup powdered sugar, sifted
-1 teaspoon vanilla
-2 1/2 cups flour, sifted
-1/4 teaspoon salt
-3/4 cup pecans, chopped - optional

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Cream butter in large bowl. Add sugar, cream until light. Stir in vanilla. Mix in flour and salt. Stir in nuts.
3. Shape into balls.
4. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes.
5. Roll in additional powdered sugar straight out of oven. Roll again when cool.

Servings: 36 cookies

Hope you enjoy! Top: Yeah those are the ones I... ME MYSELF AND I baked. Not some dumb pic on the website... I mean in our familys.... old...generational cookbook...... ha

:(

Well the awesome really cheap shirt was not found in the inventory today! It was there one day, gone the next... well I still found some really cute stuff for a good deal :D thats always good too :D 

What a Bargain!

Hello, I just have to share this amazing news with you folks! I was searching through Aeropostal clothing, and found this really cute top for NO JOKE only 2 dollars!!!! I am hoping that it will add to my 'bag' easily because I have tried like 30 times and nothing has happened, well whatever, it will work soon

Toodles!

AHAHAHAHA!

Okay, I know your probably all thinking "Mercedes, why the heck would you still be blogging! This is your third post in like half an hour" but do you know what I have to say to that? "Well thats just to darn bad!"

Okay well, you know if you go to your profile it shows you how many times your profile has been viewed? Well, I was in the mood for some popularity, and clicked
'back' then 'view profile' on my dashboard a couple of times. And miraculously my profile views were going up like a rocket! So, if you are feeling low, and need a self esteem boost, click 'back' and 'view profile' a few times. I mean, right now, I am feeling pretty ON TOP OF THE WORLD!

Okay sorry about that it wasn't supposed to be that spread out, the preview thing was not working and smushed up all my blog post, so I had to keep spreading it out and KA-BLOOWIE! All of my blog post was spread out by like 5 spaces!

CONSUMED! [one]

Well, tomorrow is the starting point of this years youth conference CONSUMED!!! I am super excited,



1. Because they are so life changing and wonderful

2. I get to wear this really cute top (Thanks Mik!)

3. I just love CONSUMED!!!

4. I know that God is going to do so many great things this weekend!



We are having some awesome speakers come to you know, SPEAK and we are going to have our wonderful Northgate Worship Team!!! Woooo! Yeah so I am super excited, I just cant contain it!!!! Tomorrow, once I get back from school, you know how much time I am going to have to kill before I can enter those church doors? LIKE AN HOUR! But I know that God will keep me occupied so that the hour doesnt seem like eternity :D Hope to see a bunch of ya there!



Toodles!

Remembrance Day

Ok, sorry about the header thing, I hate it too, you know how it hangs off the side... I'll have it figured out soon. Well, today is remembrance day and me and my family like every year, attended the cenotaph. One thing that really made me think this year, was my monologue  that I had to present at my school's remembrance day presentation. It is part of the story/testimony of Eva Braun:

"When I heard about freedom, I was also very frightened. What would we find? 

We had survived, and we had to return to civilization, but how did one behave 

  in a normal world? We were two young girls who had nothing. Who would look 

after us? What would we do? 

 

There was excitement, but our feelings were mixed. We were afraid. It's hard 

to describe and explain these feelings of simultaneous fear and joy. That was 

our next stage. Now, after liberation, what were we going to do? We had 

nothing. We were frightened that we might not have anyone left in the world. 

We needed someone to look after us and take care of us. And to a great 

extent I was looking after my little sister and another girl. More than anything 

else I wanted someone to look after me and relieve me of the burden of caring 

for the girls, so that I wouldn't have to be responsible, so that I would be under 

an adult's protection. It's hard to explain it, but I wanted someone to look after 

me, I wanted someone to lean on. It turned out that freedom is relative to a 

very great extent.  

Worry about the future weighed heavily on me. We had to build our future, but 

how does one build a future?" 

This testimony made me realize that so many children have stories like this one. Their parents leave and go off to war, they fight and die, and their children are left in the world with sometimes no one to look after them. I am so thankful for the sacrifice that so many men and women made, so that our country can have the freedoms it does today. Today we remember. 

A New Revelation

In the past two days of my life I have become a Canucks fan! I have never thought of hockey as something fun to do... well I still don't, but I like watching it on tv! Anyway I thought I would just put that out there, because I am pretty proud of myself!

It's Been a While...

Well, it's been a while since my last blog post! Sorry, it's just my life isn't as eventful as some one say like, Christy Miller, because she has like the most perfect life anyone could ask for! By the way Christy Miller, I highly recommend! Very interesting and eventful stuff and all about God! I got the first 3 books during the summer, and I finished them in about 4 days. I read for hours everyday! I just started reading the second college one, and it had me up to 11:45 it was so good! So, if you get your hands on one of these... READ IT!!! Ask anyone who has read them and they will probably tell you they were the best books they have ever read!