Thankfulness.

Thankfulness: feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative. 


I'm thankful for my family. 
I'm thankful for my friends.
I'm thankful for life.
I'm thankful for God.
I'm thankful for moving on.
I'm thankful for giving things a second chance.
I'm thankful for forgiveness.
I'm thankful for laughter.
I'm thankful for Waynesboro.
I'm thankful for pictures.
I'm thankful for younglife.
I'm thankful for church.
I'm thankful for soccer.
I'm thankful for christmas.
I'm thankful for birthdays.
I'm thankful for being hurt.
I'm thankful for being strong.
I'm thankful for tears.
I'm thankful for moving.
I'm thankful for sweet tea.
I'm thankful for starbucks.
I'm thankful for sunshine.
I'm thankful for the beach.
I'm thankful for rainbows.
I'm thankful for pictures.
I'm thankful for memories.
I'm thankful for love.
I'm thankful for the color orange.
I'm thankful for hard work.
I'm thankful for my best friends.
I'm thankful for the bible.
I'm thankful for t-shirts.
I'm thankful for everything. 




I could go on and on for what i'm thankful for. i'm thankful for all things in my life, good and bad, big and small. 








Hal.

Marry me.

Forever can never be long enough for me 
Feel like I've had long enough with you
Forget the world now we won't let them see
But there's one thing left to do

Now that the weight has lifted
Love has surely shifted my way
Marry Me
Today and every day 
Marry Me
If I ever get the nerve to say
Hello in this cafe
Say you will
Mm-hmm
Say you will
Mm-hmm

Together can never be close enough for me
Feel like I am close enough to you
You wear white and I'll wear out the words I love you
And you're beautiful 
Now that the wait is over
And love and has finally shown her my way
Marry me
Today and every day
Marry me
If I ever get the nerve to say hello in this cafe
Say you will
Mm-hmm
Say you will
Mm-hmm

Promise me
You'll always be
Happy by my side 
I promise to
Sing to you
When all the music dies

And marry me
Today and everyday
Marry me
If I ever get the nerve to say hello in this cafe 
Say you will
Mm-hmm
Say you will
Marry me
Mm-hmm

My friend showed me this song and now i'm in love with it :) <3

Best friends.

Last weekend was declared "girls weekend" :) eeeeeppppp! it was the weekend where Paige, Kari, Katherine and i locked in all together. the original plan was to go to the beach because this was the only weekend we were all free(which is a rare thing) but...the beach was expensive. 


These girls i would say are my best friends. i tell them everything. they know everything about my life. when i'm happy. how to make me laugh. how to annoy the crap out of me. and know when all i wanna do is sleep. 


I will be the first to admit i get annoyed quickly, and this weekend i got annoyed. but 95 percent of the time i was laughing my head off. 




Paige- i love you. paige is the type of friend who says the most awkward but FUNNIEST things you will ever hear. i could sit with her and do absolutely nothing but continue to laugh till my stomach hurts. last weekend, kari and katherine fell asleep early one night and paige and i just sat laughing. and laughing. but i also go to her for guy advice. she always tends to be the one i ask when i'm confused with something about guys. haha. and she gives the most perfect advice. it always exactly what i wanna hear.


Kari- kari is my best friend. i tell her literally everything. kari is the person who is loving, caring, and funny. she always gives me the best hugs when i'm upset or just in the mood for a hug. she is also a good listener. i cannot count the amount of times that we have drove around or just sat doing noting and she has sat and listened to vent about how "crappy" i think my life is at that time. and i love that she listens, because those type of people don't come around that often. i love you.


Kathy- kathy and i, i swear we go through some of the same problems just with different people. we always have the same boy problems and sister problems. and get annoyed with the same things. i've known her the longest out of the three of them. since like elementar school i think. but recently is when i got close with her. kathy never ceases to make me smile. i can always go to her to make me laugh, smile, or just be filled with joy. i love you.


those are my friends. last weekend was something i needed. do you ever get to spend a whole weekend with your BESTfriends?! not often at all. we went through every emotion last weekend. and i love them still. 

"One's best friends is oneself"

Love, hal.

Something Beautiful.

In your ocean, I'm ankle deep
I feel the waves crashin' on my feet
It's like I know where I need to be
But I can't figure out, yeah I can't figure out

Just how much air I will need to breathe
When your tide rushes over me
There's only one way to figure out
Will you let me drown, will you let me drown?

Hey now, this is my desire
Consume me like a fire, 'cause I just want something beautiful 
To touch me, I know that I'm in reach
'Cause I am down on my knees.
I'm waiting for something beautiful
Oh, something beautiful

And the water is rising quick
And for years I was scared of it
We can't be sure when it will subside
So I won't leave your side, no I can't leave your side.

Hey now, this is my desire
Consume me like a fire, 'cause I just want something beautiful
To touch me, I know that I'm in reach
'Cause I am down on my knees.
I'm waiting for something beautiful
Oh, something beautiful

In a daydream, I couldn't live like this.
I wouldn't stop until I found something beautiful.
When I wake up, I know I will have
No, I still won't have what I need.
Something Beautiful

Hey now this is my desire
Consume me like a fire, 'cause I just want something beautiful
To touch me, I know that I'm in reach
Cause I am down on my knees
I'm waiting for something beautiful
Oh, something beautiful

Patience, kindness, and love.

Patience: the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation,annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss oftemper, irritation, or the like. That's the definition of patience. Something i struggle with, and i know that people struggle with when having a friendship or something with me. 




       For example, my parents. i love my parents. i seriously don't think i could have better ones, even though they are strict and do make me do lots of things i may hate i know that i would not be the person i am without them. and i know that i would not have the relationship with God that i do without them. But as all parents do, they get on my nerves. sometimes the only thing i wanna do is get away from them, but eventually i do realize how great they are and how much patience they have with me. 

         


          Recently i made a mistake and got in trouble for it; that's happened a million times. But this time it's different, after getting in trouble i went on a walk with my dad and he was talking to me about it  and i was seriously listening to learning. I learned that i have to give 100% in everything. My dad and i have a great relationship, i love my dad, he comes to every sports event, and every church thing and anything that i'm involved in. And my mom is the same way, i love her so much. and since she's my mom i can go to her about anything. But my mom, like most moms, also luggs me around ,and my friends, everywhere and never complains. And i'm just realizing how much patience that takes! i'm so thankful for them and patience. Without patience my parents wouldn't have effected me in the way they have, even though they and i are still working on patience it's something i'm thankful for. i've messed up so many times yet my parents still love me and they are very patient when i make mistakes.






So thank you mom and dad, for everything. i love you. 










Hal. 

Missing.

Have you ever held something in so long that one day you just feel like your going to burst?
That's me, in one sentence. Sure i'll tell people what's going on in my life but not all of it. i've never had that one person where i can just tell them EVERYTHING, every feeling, every thought, everything that has ever gone through my head. and that's why i created a blog.

 Because i feel i don't need someone to read it, i don't need someone to tell everything too, just somewhere to get my feelings out. and that's my blog. i'm new to this whole blog thing so everyone i hope gets better, maybe, maybe not. who cares. it's my blog. so if you follow, Thank you! i'm glad you take time out of your day to read about my life; all the good and terrible things i'm thinking or that happen.

But back to how it started. since i've never found that person i tell everything to i often have days i'd like to call "suckfest days." These days are the ones where i don't care what you say to me, or how annoyed you get with my attitude,  i'm in an awful mood, i don't really talk to anyone and i sulk. so if i ignored you today, sorry. but i feel i might burst. i don't know why but that's how i feel. and yeahh. i just had to get all that out.



This blog was probably reallllly annoying so i'm sorry but now you know why i blog.


Hal.

Fall Weekend.

One week ago today I and about 60 some other people from Waynesboro High School would be at Rockbridge Alum Springs. If you've ever been to a camp out in the woods you know its great! it's a weekend to be away from everything in life that drives you crazy, and a weekend to refocus with God. amazing.  


Going into Fall Weekend this year was different than last year, last year i was one of the kids that the campaigners would be loving, but this year i was the one loving girls. lets just say i was nervous. very much so. But one of my friends gave me some advice and said, " Hal they know you can do this, just go with the flow and rely on God completely." and man was she right. That's exactly what i did, and it worked. i met great girls, and started a friendship with them that i am continuing this year! it's great. Thank God i trusted on him. 


Fall weekend is amazing. Anyone who has will tell that it truly is the BEST weekend of your life. Its a weekend where everyone, in different places in their relationship with God all grow. Some people have know clue who God is, some know who he is but still have some questions, some just need some more time, and some have relationship with him already; and everyone else in between. I saw one girl need lots of questions answers, i saw one grow even more and much more.


I absolutely can't wait till camp this summer and Fall weekend nest year.
Thank you God.

-Hal.

Pumpkins and seeds.

I love fall.

 Minus Halloween, but the best part of fall is pumpkins. They are amazing. and orange (my favorite color!) But what makes them even better is pumpkin seeds, whoa. I had never had them before today but now that i've had them addicted. I'm addicted to pumpkins and their seeds. :) We had so much fun today carving our pumpkins, when we went to pick them out the common phrase was your pumpkin will simply speak to you! so true. everyone found their pumpkin or pumpkins that simply described their personalities PERFECTLY.

Mine was small and round and different with lumps, and everyones seemed to have flaws, not one was perfect. Which even though may sound bad, we all have our flaws and none of us our perfect.  and then we went back to B's apartment and started taking out the "guts"...disgusting. This was the worst part, nasty nasty nasty. at first i and others refused to stick our hands in them, but after we did it was actually kinda fun.

 And then started the carving..haha. wow. we all put our first letter or our first name on our pumpkin. it was great, because even though two girls had te same letter the letters were different. it described them. Julias was simple and Jessies was artsy which is them. and Kari put a K and a heart, i put just an H and it was a weird H i might add :) Bethany put a B, and winnie put her W and it was a cute W :) Sara put her S( talented s! ) and Danielle put her D which the middle fell out but it was still adorable! :) I'm so glad waynesboro has the type of community where there isn't much to do so you have to be creative, which causes great things :)

I love Fall, and the girls who i carved with :) 




Hal.
keep following :)

Stress.

This past week was Hell week.


 And as many of you know, i'm not in Concert Choir. But I still have hell week, mine is different though, I and everyone else has to put up with choir kids bad attitudes because of sleep depravation. Even though we all still love the choir kids, it's still irritating.


 Everything gets changed on hell week, and this week i promised myself i would not let that bother me. So this week I made it a promise that i had to ask at least one choir kid how their week was going and if choir was progressing(which normally I avoided during this week.) i fulfilled that promise :)  Normally hell week is the worst week, everyone is in bad moods and i'm just mad that everyone has attitudes, but not this week. 




This week was GREAT. 




I didn't get frustrated at all, i had a great week. My week was filled with friendships getting a second chance, getting closer with other friends, and over all just having a great time trying to love people. And now that i'm thinking about it, i'm thanking God. I talked to him 24/7 this week asking for patience and he totally came  through( as always.) I've never taken the time to look how much he does, even though my week could have been stressful...It wasn't. Stress FREE! 




Hal. 


P.S- my first blog ever, i tried. keep following!