New Year 2011 Resolutions

As stated in a journal entry, the thirty-first of December, in the year of our Lord, two-thousand and ten: My New Year 2011 Resolutions are as follows:

1. I will focus wholly and solely on Christ, not on worldly pursuits and desires, to run the race, fight the good fight, and keep the faith. (2 Timothy 4:7)
1. Furthermore, I will refrain from indulging and involving myself in distractions of the male kind, so as to focus more intently on my studies and athletic pursuits, as well as to better keep myself for my future husband.
2. I will try my absolute best and hardest to offer up time every day to worship, praise, and talk to my heavenly Father.
3. I will train myself to include and involve my Lord in every action of my life, so as to declare and implement His leadership and will.
2. For the sake of my beloved sister, I will pursue the habit of re-assembling my bed every morning.

You, as Readers and Witnesses, have been elected to aid and keep me accountable in these pursuits. Your duties in this matter are as follows:

To continually remind me of these pursuits throughout the year of our Lord, two-thousand and eleven (year of the Rabbit) by:

1. Talking about them with me.
2. Putting links to this post when you comment.
3. Emailing me to ask what the progressive status of each resolution is.

If you accept this position, please say "I will."

I, Naomi R. D., hereby claim that I will strive, with the Lord God Almighty's grace and guidance, and with the help of the Readers and Witnesses, as well as my friends and family, to pursue excellence in and attainment of the aforementioned resolutions.

Signed:

flo on the go

finally, snow

Tori and the sunset

Christmas breakfast set-up

Christmas breakfast :}

XMAS BREAK!!

woop woop!! I love Christmas break and watching 3 Feature Films for Families (Alan & Naomi, Gunther & the Paper Brigade, and the Inheritance) IN A ROW and staying up until 11:48 PM!! and sleeping in until 11:36 AM!! go Jesus for being born!! ;P lol

i love my family :}

we are special. x]

lol hahaaaaa! no one looks at my blog anymore!! everyone's on facebook!! but i don't have a facebook!!
anywho... it's almost Christmas break! today i didn't go to school b/c i had a migraine last night and didn't get 2 rather important assignments done, so i just didn't go! hehe ;P
hopefully some Christmas pictures coming soon... we'll see... when i have some time ;) b/c now i have to finish finishing dinner, then take a shower, then go to a Christmas concert... then go to bed, then go to school!! lol but anyways... here's some inspiration i recently found: KristinRogersPhotography...

(of course, all these pictures are NOT mine and are property of kristin rogers, i'm just showing y'all how awesome her photos are :} it's not illegal, right? if i say they're hers?...)
i love the way she plays with light! maybe i can be cool and when it snows i can get some funky pictures of old stuff in the snow!! ;D
got to go, hate to leave,
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that's sweet :D

aaaah!! i love this guy!!

Hansi: the Girl Who Loved the Swastika

"Germans are too stubborn to be sensible!"

"Determined, sir, not stubborn."

YEAW! that's me! i'm not stubborn, i'm determined ;P

(this is from Hansi: the Girl Who Loved the Swastika that i read like 2 years ago... it's fantastic, i recommend it, especially if you are intrigued by WWII and the Holocaust, etc... i know it sounds kind of awful, but a lot of people--me included--are very interested in it... anywho!)

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TORI'S A SENIOR!!

and i got to do her senior portraits!

woah miss gorge

work it girlfrien'!

this one...

and this one are the 2 we like the most...

i am sooo satisfied with how all the pictures came out :) it was great!! xD

(click on the pictures for better-looking/quality versions ;P)

now i gotta go to bed ;P

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ancient lovers

this is something i read about in my history book last week...
in ancient egypt, two lovers would call each other "brother" and "sister". there was a little bit of a poem by a dude who was lovesick for his "sister". as Christians, our lovers (i know, it's an old-fashioned, soppy word ;P) should be our brother or sister in Christ. i kinda don't have anything else to add to that, but i thought it was really interesting...

life as we know it now

watching A Knight's Tale on tv xD i heeeeaaaarrrrrtttt heath ledger!!!! *OUCH* rufus is beating up heath!! noooooo!!! i love rufus in Amazing Grace... not so much in this movie *grimace*
holy cow, there's so many people i know in this movie!! james purefoy (the philanthropist), paul bettany (dustfinger), rufus sewell (amazing grace), alan tudyk (firefly/serenity)... woooow!

anywho! school started last tuesday (WOW it feels like i've been going to school for a couple years already...), so i've had 4 days of school. i'm taking French 1, Foundations of Christianity, Foundations of Language & Literature, Algebra 2 Honors, Foundations of the Modern World, Physics, Intro to Theatre, and Art 1 Basic Design. i've had atleast one of all of my classes. and i am LOVING it! it's been soo awesome! people always ask if you have any friends when you start school... no, i don't have any friends. i haven't even talked to anyone in my grade. JK!! i've talked to almost everyone and (it's so weird saying it) but i think of most of them as my friends! what classifies them as friends? if you've talked to them more than twice, or have hung out with them more than twice... lol then, yeah, they're my friends ;D
so it's been great! and i love it! :}
i'm playing soccer, and guess what?! i made varsity!!!! normally i play keeper, but they already have one. yesterday we went to a jamboree in maine (it's like a tournament, but there's only one round). there are four schools. i played forward (sooooo much fun!!) in the first game against the pretty tough home team and we tied 0-0. the second game i played midfield against a team that i seriously thought was jv and we beat them somewhere around 7-0. the third game i didn't get to play at all (it was tough), but we won 2-1. so that was a good start to our season! it doesn't actually count for anything, but it's encouraging!! :D
have an awesome next week!
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school and soccer

so i'm really sorry, i was going to write a big long post, and as happens OH so often, i started doing something else, and -hey look!- i have to get off :P
so remind me to post later :{ soooooorrrrryyyyy...

quickie!

soooo sorry i haven't updated, like, at all! this is just to say i AM alive, i'm just so busy with school starting next tuesday, and i don't really know what i'm doing because i've never been to school before... so prayer is awesome, i love prayer... and i'll be praying for all of you with school and everything else... that's happening... in your... life. so! tata!
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my top 3

favorite tv shows!
1•The Electric Company
2•The Amazing Race
3•The Mentalist

I think the mentalist is (soon to be, if not yet) tied with the
amazing race... ;D simon baker is histerical!!

the flume gorge

a covered bridge

barely catching the light

just take out ashlee's head and there's a summary of the gorge

the gorge wall

a view of how high the walls are :D

sums up the gorge

i really like this one... :}

*light from above* 

woooooaaaaaahhhhh!!! 

sunburst!

can you see the rainbow?

a whole lot a running water and rocks ;P

you could go through that--it was the tiniest thing ever. i barely made it ;P 

dead george washington mountain thing...

and we'll finish with some pretty flowers i snapped on the way out :)

camping pictures!

finally, i'm doing stuff!!
do you like the template? it's so... peppy ;P
i decided to post some pictures, because however much i adore words, posts can be kind of boring without pictures :}
here are "the best" from camping:

i tried to get a sunburst the whole trip there...  *ka-ching*

ashlee, you're the creepiest person. ever.

aaaaw family :}

tori and a random mountain behind the bathrooms... ;P lol

aren't you cute...

pretty flowers in front of the rockin' bathroom ;)

om nom nom xD

ah yeaw, dutch blitz in the dark!

nice face.

k, i rock. a war i set up in the toy store... with the medieval figurines... oh yeah all 5 layers. 

ashlee with her dream car ;)

epiiiiiiiic! i love this photo... :D

one of the million pictures of running water. wow.

*really* excited family in the flume gorge...

woah look, a boulder!

my model mother...

and pretty cupcakes (that turned out to be *disgusting*) from the cupcakery

i'll do a whole other post with pictures from the flume gorge, because i got buckets of good ones from there... so there's my handful for now!
have a smashing day!
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