Well we are a whole bunch of slackers......
To get you back up to date, We have been way busy..... We finished our play, that went very well... Immediately after the play we left for teen camp....... That was amazing! We learned a whole lot...... After that was junior camp...... and during junior camp Casey went on a trip with a couple from our church to a bajillion and one places...... After that was middle school camp...... After that we had a group from Oklahoma come out and help us with VBS, well techinicly we helped them with our VBS...... After that we had a youth group from a little town called Brush, it's in Colorado.... That was this week.... And tomarrow we are going to Sonfest, a thing up north... Then we are done with the summer..... I can hear the hallelujah chorus now.... Well I think I'm done taking up your time now so I'll let you go......
The Wannabe's
Psalm 3
A psalm of David, written when he fled from his son Absalom.
LORD, how numerous are my enemies!
Many attack me.
Many say about me,
"God will not deliver him."
But you, LORD, are a shield that protects me;
you are my glory and the one who restores me.
To the LORD I cried out,
and he answered me from his holy hill.
I rested and slept;
I awoke, for the LORD protects me.
I am not afraid of the multitude of people
who attack me from all directions.
Rise up, LORD!
Deliver me, my God!
Yes, you will strike all my enemies on the jaw;
you will break the teeth20 of the wicked.
The LORD delivers;
you show favor to your people.
Thursday
Wow
Wednesday
Man, this is sad...
Wow...what a slacker I'm turning out to be! Anyway, this week has been really crazy with stuff like testing [see my blog for details] and such trivial things...
Last week's prayer requests:
Church in the Park was great! [Saturday the wind was howling and the wind on Sunday was limited to a refreshing breeze!] Good turnout! Big Praise!- Our friend from church was at Church in the park! [Praise] Continued Healing
- The Play; We're thinking that Bethany is going to help us out with curtains and such trivial things. God's will
- Tori's great-grandma w/ health issues
- Continued praise for good weather!
This weeks requests:
- The Play; memorizing, practicing, making time to practice
- Band; some internal stuff that needs prayer
- Direction for band
- Continued for Tori's great-grandma
- Motivation for those still scooting toward summer break!
Anyway, I thought I would do that before I just don't do it at all...cause I'm bad about stuff like that.... Anywho, God Bless!
Tori<><
Saturday
Quick Prayer Request
ok guys quick prayer request: our pastors son got in a car accident and car rolled. we think he is ok but the guy who was driving is in pretty bad shape they had to life fly him, his pelvic bone was shattered and he has a wife and kids so please pray for them.
Ashalee
Romans 12
Well would you look at that!!!
Hey Everyone, I have officialy made my own blog! You can check it out http://www.strumminforhim.blogspot.com/ . It doesn't have much yet, but I'm working on it!
Thursday
Happy May!
Wednesday
I am sooo ready 4 summer
I am soooo Pysched for summer! I am going to SWC this year and this will be my fourth year going and one of my friends Jasmine might come and now that i have my camera i can promise lots of pictures and videos! here are some of the people who are going to be there
newsboys
tobyMac
Third Day
Matthew West
Stellar Kart
Disciple
BarlowGirl
Pillar
Kutless
Aaron Shust
Skillet
Seventh Day Slumber
Ruth
Phil Joel
Thousand Foot Krutch
The Myriad
Wavorly
Leeland
Needtobreathe
Brandon Heath
Jars of Clay
Esterlyn
Group 1 Crew
MOI
Nitengale
My Second Chance
Rush of Fools
33 Miles
Paul Wright
Manfest
Big Daddy Weave
Christafari
The Marcus Kenny Band
Todd Agnew
Future of Forestry
Transistor Radio
A Rotterdam November
A Current Affair
After Edmund
Remedy Drive
Pure NRG
Benjamin
Inhabited
Francesca Battistelli
So I am Totally Psyched and i will try alot harder to keep all of you updated! okay so i saw this video and it is soooo cute but the song gets stuck in your head so easily! it is right underneath all of the posts check it out! But i warn you it can get annoying!
Monday
Weekly Update
Wow, another week gone to the wind! It seems like last week went bye really fast because we were so busy all the time practicing and stuff!
Church in the park went really well I think. Some of the kids were kinda rowdy, but that's typical. I had a lot of fun with the bounce houses and stuff (Even though most of the time we were manning them, we got to play for a little bit!) Our in-house National Guard recruiter recruited some of the NG guys to bring in a climbing wall. I only went up once (Didn't even make it to the top might I add) and my abdomen hurts anytime I laugh or cough!!! I'm such a wimp!!! Oh well. We got a lot of pictures with the bounce houses and stuff, I'll be sure to post some. We got one of all of us coming down the slide...kind of embarrassing! Anyway, onto more important things, like Last weeks prayer requests:
- Yard Sale went well, came out way ahead! Praise!!!
- Continued Prayer for our friend from church, she's still in a lot of pain
- Church in the park this weekend; manpower; turnout; music [turns out we're going to be helping with the actual worship part of the service with the drums and stuff]
- Continued for Casey and Taylor's Friend
- Our play thing; that God would work out details
- The School year is almost over!!! [That's a praise By the Way]
This Weeks requests:
- Church in the Park was great! [Saturday the wind was howling and the wind on Sunday was limited to a refreshing breeze!] Good turnout! Big Praise!
- Our friend from church was at Church in the park! [Praise] Continued Healing
- The Play; We're thinking that Bethany is going to help us out with curtains and such trivial things. God's will
- Tori's great-grandma w/ health issues
- Continued praise for good weather!
Thanks again for your prayers and support!
Love Always, Tori<><
1 Timothy 4:12
Sunday
Exciting News!
We Officially have a new member of the Wannabegarageband! Bethany B. has been singing with us for a while, but is now an Honorary member, (We had our first official Wannabe... meeting to prove so!) So welcome to the 'family'!
We finally got some group pictures. My favorite one is set on the main page. The rest of the ones, good and bad, are in a slideshow video on our youtube account. We also added some videos of pictures of us chilling after our practice that day. Go check it out at our Youtube channel, Wannabegarageband .
Tori<><
Galatians 1:10
Saturday
Wow!!! I can't believe church in the park is TOMORROW!!! I'm really excited about it, yet I'm really nervous! I woke up this morning and like my throat was hurting and my nose was running I was like, "NOOOO!!!" But I think it will be OK as long as I take it easy on the talking and yelling and bring plenty of water!!! I think we are going to record our special music number if not the whole worship service! It's pretty cool. I really hope the wind stops blowing though, it's howling right now!!! The only other bummer thing is that we have to be at the park at 7 AM!!! Like Before noon! Gonna hafta go to sleep early tonight. Sooo, if you know where we are and are up and awake by 10, you should come on over!!!
Tori<><
Romans 12:2
Tuesday
Crazy Life!
Hellooooow Everyone! How's it going? Time for the weekly update:
Last Weeks Requests:
- Friend from church fell and broke leg yesterday; having complications; still in hospital
- Youth Yard sale this weekend; Lots of stuff;
- Church in the park [our church is going to go to the city park and have church in the park as an outreach into the community]; manpower; turnout
- Casey and Taylor's Friend
- Praise God for the great weather we've been having lately!!!
This Weeks requests:
- Yard Sale went well, came out way ahead! Praise!!!
- Continued Prayer for our friend from church, she's still in a lot of pain
- Church in the park this weekend; manpower; turnout; music [turns out we're going to be helping with the actual worship part of the service with the drums and stuff]
- Continued for Casey and Taylor's Friend
- Our play thing; that God would work out details
- The School year is almost over!!! [That's a praise By the Way]
So yeah, Last Saturday was our first play rehearsal, but all we really did was read through the entire script thing... It was cool though. I'm still really excited about the whole thing, much more than my mom is though. She's less than enthusiastic about it. I got one of the four biggest parts. Way cool!!! Praising God about that, but still asking his help too because it's a lot of work! Well, that's all for now!
Luv in Him, Tori<><
Psalm 28:7
Saturday
......And We can Act Too!
Hey everyone, very exciting, last night were the auditions for a play at the community theater in town, and Casey, Ashalee and I all tried out and got a part!!!!! I actually got one of the bigger parts! Our friend Liesl tried out too, but didn't get a part and was glad because she had to go out of town like the week of the play... too bad. The only bummer things are (1 That the very last performance is the first night of our church teen camp and (2 that I have to stage kiss *EEEWWW* the frog prince......not fun. Oh well......anyways, that was all for this morning.
Tori<><
Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the maidens
Song of Songs 2:2
Wednesday
BLAH!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday
Church in the Park
Hey Everyone, our church is doing a church-in-the-park! it's exactly what it sounds like, we're gonna pack up our church stuff and go to our city park and have church there. We did it last year and it went very well! This year, we (our wannabegarageband+our friend Bethany) are gonna do a special music number and thought we would invite everyone! Well, I guess everyone who knows where we are... sorry everybody else. Anyway, after the actual service part, we are gonna have lunch of hot dogs and hamburgers, then we'll have some inflatables and some fun stuff like that. You're welcome to come, I think the Youth Group is gonna be manning the inflatables and the other stuff like that and in theory we'll have our Youth Group shirts done by then so you will be able to tell who we are!!! Hope to see you there!
Tori<><
Proverbs 31:30
Monday
Here is comes Rolling around again!
Good week everyone, that was kinda wierd. Anyway, welcome to another wonderful week!
Last Weeks requests:
- Our youth group still needs a leader - continued from last week
- Hispanic friends still recovering, doing well
- Unspoken for Casey and Taylor's friend
- Tori's friends moved from California, praise for safe travel
- Which Tee shirt for our youth group
This Weeks Requests:
- Friend from church fell and broke leg yesterday; having complications; still in hospital
- Youth Yardsale this weekend; Lots of stuff;
- Church in the park [our church is going to go to the city park and have church in the park as an outreach into the community]; manpower; turnout
- Casey and Taylors Friend
- Praise God for the great weather we've been having lately!!!
Wow! I can't believe that another week has gone by!!! My brothers birthday is this week and he's turning 12! Very exciting, ya know?
My siblings soccer season ended last weekend, so that's kind of a bitter-sweet thing, bitter for them, sweet for the rest of us.... Anyway, that's all! Have a great week!
ha ha ha ha! Love this pic! and.. COOL BAND ALERT !
Wednesday
Total Slacker
This is me, total bad Tori, didn't post on Monday!!! And it's what? Wednesday? Bad Tori!!! Though I do have a valid excuse, I was sick. Yes I was really sick, not just faking to get out of going to school (like some people, cough cough, not naming names...cough) Cause I ended up doing my school that afternoon anyway:-( Anyway, I'll get on with important things, like the prayer requests:
Last Weeks Requests:
- Our youth group needs an actual 'Youth Leader'- that God would bring the right person forward
- Our friends sister - visiting - praise for safe travel
- Hispanic friend - doing very well, still healing
- Unspoken for Casey and Taylor's friend
- Unspoken for Tori's friends
This weeks requests:
- Our youth group still needs a leader - continued from last week
- Hispanic friends still recovering, doing well
- Unspoken fro Casey and Taylor's friend
- Tori's friends moved from California, praise for safe travel
- Which Tee shirt for our youth group
I think that does it for the week. Anyway, so my dad printed the tee shirts for a church that we go to on wednesday nights a few days ago. That was interesting. This is the last week of my siblings soccer games. Sad. Anyway, not alot happening this week.
Tori<><
Like a lily among thorns
is my darling among the maidens.
Song of Songs 2:2
Sunday
How To Make A Cheap Date Look Good ; - )
HEY!!! It's my mom and dad's anniversary today!!! So he (meaning my dad) took her to McDonald's...... Here's the twist!!! Before church, we got a bunch of stuff together (silverware, plastic wine glasses, a nice tablecloth, candle, and my guitar). After church, we had some friends drop us of at McDonald's. (Here's the fun part ;-D) We set up the tablecloth on one of the table's, with the candle, the silverware (on a napkin), and a (decorative) bucket with water in it (for the flowers he was bringing). My brother and sister were the waiter and waitress. So they took there orders, got there drinks, ordered there food, and brought it to them!!! My dad had me play (romantic) music in the background. BUT GET THIS!!! My mom had no idea we were going to do that, so it was a total surprise for her!!! Yes, it was a little embarrassing in front of ALL those people. But it was fun, and worth it in the end!!! Anyways..... I would post pictures if I had them, but I don't. But I had to tell you "how to make a cheap date look good", so I guess that's it, see you later!!!
- Taylor*
1 Corinthians 13
"Horton Hears A Who"
Hey! I went to the movie theater last night with Bethany. But there really wasn't anything to see (as usual). So we went to see "Horton Hears A Who", and it turned out better than I thought it would! It was hilarious, and the storyline was pretty good too. I have to say that my favorite part is when the Mayer decided to trust in what he doesn't see. I also like the fact that the Mayer was willing to stand up for what he believed in, under persecution. Sound familiar? It reminds me of our everyday christian walks with God. To believe in what we can't see, and to stand up for what we believe in, EVEN WHEN IT HURTS!!!!! The Mayer made a difference in that ONE small town. How much bigger of a difference can WE make in this whole WORLD!!!!! If all of us stood up for WHAT WE BELIEVED IN, and TRUSTED IN THE ONE LIVING GOD TO MAKE A CHANGE!!!!! I don't know about you, but I think it's time for a change. I hope y'all go see it too, cause it was an awesome movie!
- Taylor*
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age."
-Mathew 28:18,19
Monday
hair dye school barbies and other things
ok you are all wondering why i have a very interesting title. So first thing on the title is HAIR DYE so ya i re did my hair and people tell me it looks good so lets hope they are telling the truth.. umm.. yes i am going to the "artsy' school my mom says that if after the first semester if i dont like it then i can switch back to public school. when i was little i adored barbies i loved barbies i wanted to look just like them they were like the perfect person. I used to think that if i looked like barbie i would get a free convertible and wardrobe i mean when your five its not really hard to get you to believe things. Look at her she is gorgeous! but now as i think about it im more pretty then barbie because god made my instead of a machine making our friend barbie. beause i am a piece of art instead of plastic and my maker loves me. I dont think that whoever made barbie machine or man loved her so any one who is readong this girls in particular. Dont let anyone tear you down and say that you arent beautiful because you are no one can do anything to make god think you are ugly, and besides and doesnt matter what other people say cause DUH! we are pathetic humans who think about ourselves so next time says you are insignificant or that you arent beautiful say "I Am the crown of gods creation and he is the only one who defines me" That ought to scare them off. Well enough of my ramblings bye and as always <3>
Weekly Ramblings
Good Morning everyone, wow, we weren't very exciting this week, were we?
Last Week's Requests:
School decisions for us
Direction - Band wise and personal
Hispanic friends - healing from surgery and safe travel*update* Praise! Home now, healing and recovering. Doing very well! Thank you for prayer.
This week's Requests:
Our youth group needs an actual 'Youth Leader'- that God would bring the right person forward
Our friends sister - visiting - praise for safe travel
Hispanic friend - doing very well, still healing
Unspoken for Casey and Taylor's friend
Unspoken for Tori's friends
OK, that was all the requests for this week, thank you for continued prayer!
So last night was our associational youth rally thing where (in theory) all of the youth groups in our baptist association get together and have like a worship service and hang out and eat food and stuff, Anyway, so that was pretty cool, literally. On the way up there it was raining, then it turned into snow and it snowed the whole time, so there was like 3 inches by the time we left to go 50 miles back home! It was crazy, especially seeings how it's been like 70-80's all week! I actually got a really bad sunburn on Saturday watching my siblings play soccer. Still hurts. Yeah, well, anyway back to the point. It was a really good service too, they have like a youth band thing and they did really good, but I personally think they need drums, but that's just me cause I think everything needs drums! The message was good, they guy was talking about how in our relationships with God, we are the ones that move away, not Him, and he tied it in with the man (apparently Mark) who ran away from Jesus in Mark 14:51-52. Anyway, I better get going.
Tori<><
Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the maidens. Song of Songs 2:2
Happy Monday!
Tori<><
Weeky Prayer Post
Hello Everyone, Time for my weekly prayer update.
Last weeks requests:
- School decisions for us
- Direction - Band wise and personal
- Hispanic friends - healing from surgery and safe travel*update* Praise! Home now, healing and recovering. Doing very well! Thank you for prayer.
- Continued for direction - Personal and Band wise
- Unspoken
- For some friends of mine - financial and spiritual
- Praise - Beautiful weather here! Lot's of Sunshine
- Beth Moore Bible study at our church, almost over - which to do next
Again, please feel free to post your prayer requests, but please refrain from using whole names or specific details. Thanks!
Luv in Him, Tori<><
I love you O Lord, My strength Psalm 18:1
Saturday
boby-franky-sue-mop
Must Have Done Something Right
Hey Everyone, more useless information that you will probably never use from the strange mind of me. So we (My siblings and I) are enrolled in an online school that is technically through the public school system but we do it at home, and we have to do testing every year. This year I had to take the Iowa state tests. Also, next year I am going to take an online virtual high school so they have been sending a lot of stuff to "The Parents/Guardians of Tori..." from the Utah state school district. So this morning I when I went to get the mail, there's this Manila envelope from the school to my parents. Well, I figure, "It has my name on it!" So I opened it. You know what was in it? Of coarse you don't, so I'll tell you. It was a "Certificate of Outstanding Performance in the Iowa state testing" I guess I scored in the top 10% nationally! My "Areas of outstanding Performance" are Reading and Social Studies. Anyway, I just wanted to say that!Really not trying to brag or anything, just really excited!
Tori<><
I'm Thanking Him^
P.S. All of the quotes are from the actual 'certificate'
Friday
My Frozen Brain
Hey! So we went to the Kersten's house last night and we had a ball jammin' with their instruments and stuff. I guess I was the first one that Taylor let play her foot pedal. It's WAY FAR OUT AWESOME!!!!! It was alot of fun. So their mom's birthday was a few weeks ago and they made an ice cream cake for her. Well their freezer is REALLY cold so while I was eating it I got a really bad brain freeze and said, "My Brain hurts!!!" and so Sherlyn (their mom) said, "So don't use it anymore!" So now if I do something stupid like I'm not thinking, I have an excuse!Well Gotta go!
Tori<><
I'm Luvin' Him^
Wednesday
oh what a week!!(and its only wednesday!!!)
hey everybody i changed the picture back because i think it looks better and its more profound. anyways this week has been very stressful even though its only wednesday. ON tuesday i was late for school and for bible study, and in science we had to take test UGH! oh and then in science there is this certain person that i like and so he asked me for a piece of paper so i said sure here is some palerqua? and he looked at me weird laughed and said hah aha ha you make me laugh ashalee and so ya then i felt like a total lozer anyways enough of my normal teenage stories for some odd reasons i wanted to show you this lovely picture of one of my persnal crazy-cool ninja heros yes i know they are fictional! anyways i im gonna go now before i start to but some other random pic on here bye!
Do YOU want to be a ninja?
Hey everyone, I just added a poll. it's right under the blog archive setting which is right under the bios on the right sidebar. This week's question is "Do you want to be a ninja?" Go try it out! I'll change it every week
Tori<><
I'm Luvin' Him ^
Saturday
wow...100!
ok so i have been working really really hard with our playlist and i think i have finally done it i have filled our playlist up! 100 fabulous songs are now officially on our blog. YAY!!!! and they are all awesome!!! one problem! i didn't get to put all the songs i wanted on the playlist!!!! as you can tell we have a highly extensive list of bands that we like love so enjoy our tunes we have for you!
Don't eat yellow snow!- who really made this up?
Happy St. Pattie's Day
Well since it's like Monday and stuff, I thought it would be a good day to start doing a weekly thing. So I'm sitting here thinking, "What could we do as a weekly post?" Then it hit me! We could make a weekly prayer request post. We can add our prayer requests for the week and you guys can comment and add yours so we can pray for you and you can pray for us! Sometimes I amaze myself! Just kidding, I just have smart moments!
Requests:
School decisions for us
Direction - Band wise and personal
Hispanic friends - healing from surgery and safe travel
I think that's all for now, I'll update if I think of anything else. If you do post, please keep it kind of vague on details, for your and your requests security and safety. Thank you so much!
Tori<><
Romans 12:2
P.S. Happy St. Patrick's Day to all of my fellow Irishmen and women, and to everyone else!
Have fun!
Hehe
So our Youth Group is going to get some tee shirts made to wear, and WE (the youth group) get to make the designs. Then we get to vote on which ones we like best and stuff. It's pretty cool.
Tori<><
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father... Matthew 13:43
MY TOTALLY COOL NEW GUITAR PEDAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It has 70 different effects, that can be twisted 9 different ways!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had alot of fun jamming with it in the livingroom the other day (my dad said to turn it up). Now my electric guitar sounds like one. I'm so excited :-D. Anyways, had to try out this blog thing. SEE YAHH!!!!!!
-Taylor* Charm is deceitful and beauty is fleeting, but a woman
who fears the LORD will be praised. - Proverbs 31:30
we all posted!!!
Ok so i think this is the tiniest bit weird because casey just posted not to long ago but i was on here first cause i was making changes to our blog making it pretty and such any ways. Tori your hair is beautiful! i think im going to re-do mine soon so the red stands out more. any ways have you guys ever noticed that apple juice tastes better in a juice box? and that when you go to the store to buy cupcakes they have way to much frosting?anyways did you know that the blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue and that Mozart wrote the music for the song 'Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star,' when he was only five years old and that the word 'dreamt' is the only word in the English language that ends in 'mt'how cool would it be to be a ninja? that my friend would be sooooo cool! i think it is kinda weird that this side ---> is like the black abyss of nothing well technically the blue abyss of nothing. i feel so left out you guys took all the good verses thats ok there are plenty more! ok bye!!
Ashalee <3
Don't eat yellow snow!!!!-who really made this up?
Random Post by Casey
Hello Everybody!!!!!!!!!!! This is Casey's random post..............hmmmm..........uh................hi.......... I don't know what to say..............Taylor is being really annoying..........I probably shouldn't say that when she is right next to me....................I gotta go Taylor says so.....................I LIKE CHEESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Casey<><
James 1:19 "Take note of this my brothers: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry."
Friday
Yeayah!
Much needed update
Wow! It's been a long time since we've posted! Lots going on. So we are finishing up with the play, The Frog Prince. Originally it was Casey Ashalee and Tori acting, Taylor was the stage manager and Bethany was doing tech, but Ashalee had to drop out and Taylor is filling in for her. It's going really well. The next thing on our summer schedule is our church camp next Monday! It's up in the mountains, which gives us a break from the heat! It's usually about 10-15 degrees cooler up there. This is Taylor and Bethany's I think third year at teen camp, but the first time for Casey, Ashalee and I (Tori). I'm really excited about it, and I assume the same for the rest of them. Right after she gets home, Bethany has to leave to go out of town for almost the rest of the summer with her family to their summer home, in places much cooler than here! Good for her. Well, I better get going, sorry about the wait!
Tori, Wannabegarageband <><
Thursday
Cool Little pet guys!
Lol, so when Casey was at my house, we went and looked at Ashalee's personal blog, and saw that she had these cool little animal guys, so we went and got some, one for each of us as you can see. They're pretty cool. You can play with them and feed them. Have fun!
Tori<><
Wannabe Bios
Hey Every one, this is Tori here, oh wait, Casey is here too. So we decided to post our blog, this is our first one, so, well, uh, yeah. We thought we might post who's who, cuz like their talking about so-&-so but you don't know who that so-&-so is anyway, here it is:
See side bar-> Got it fixed there so it won't take so much room here.
Tori<><
Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind...
ok sorry we have not been posting we had some technical difficulties, but its all good now.
ok so we are celabrating right know because...... TAYLOR GOT A GUITAR PEDAL THAT IS REALLY REALLY REALLY COOL. it has like 45 effects and she loves it and props to ashalee who told her about it so anyways we will try to keep in touch!
Saturday
umm.. hi!!!!!
ok so this is our first officail post.... and this is how this wonder blog came to be... Taylor was sleeping over at my house and we deciced to make our own email adress for our wannabegarageband and then i said hey lets make a blog and taylor said ok so basically we are going to keep up as much as we can and post and put really cool things on our blog so yeah kay..... Bye!!!!
-AShalee<3