Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!
I'm grateful for all my friends and family in my life. Most of all I'm grateful to my loving Savior, who was born in a lowly stable, lived a blameless life, and died a horrible death, that I might be set free. Now I have the freedom to love and worship Him forever; whether it be here on earth, or in Heaven when He calls me home!
I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and will have a wonderful New Year's Eve/Day as we move into the new year of 2010!
To Him alone belongs the highest praise.
--Abigail Elizabeth
Last Sunday we had our Resurgence Christmas party. We held it at our neighborhood's clubhouse, which is pretty nice =] First, we ate dinner (Zaxby's and veggies) then we bundled up and prepared ourselves to run around for the theme "Amazing Race." After we got back to the clubhouse, we all ate dessert, which was many different kinds of cookies! It was a very fun and enjoyable night :)
Here are a couple pictures. The last ones are some that I Photoshopped haha.
This picture is totally unrelated, but I just love our "mountain" =]
Here are a couple pictures. The last ones are some that I Photoshopped haha.
This picture is totally unrelated, but I just love our "mountain" =]
The grand prize was $60.00 to whichever team won the "Amazing Race."
All of our delicious cookies!
Hot chocolate yum!
Pretty decorations.
Random pictures of people.
Window reflections!
Creepy hand from the other side of the window...
hehe my "project."
Elle's un-finished house
My un-finished house
My special kit :)
The frosting
The candy!
The finished back of my house
The finished front
Elle's walkway for her house
Elle's finished house
First of all, I can't believe how fast November went by! It's already the first week into December, crazy! Here are things I can recap:
~My half-marathon: It went so well! I'm so thankful to God for helping me finish :) The running view was great since we ran through downtown Atlanta during sunrise. The weather was perfect, no rain, and not too hot. (It was a little cold at first). But the part I'm grateful for the most is my running time. I put on my registration papers I would run the race around 2 hours and 45 min. But, I'm happy to say that I ran it in 2 hours and 12 min! I ran so much faster than I expected that my mom missed seeing me finish because she thought she had another 20 minutes at least! hehe. My dad also finished his marathon within the time he wanted to finish. He finished around 3 hours and 28 minutes! I'm so proud of my dad for running and finishing his marathon :) I'm relieved that my training is finally over, but I'm grateful that I was able to fulfill my goal and finish a half-marathon. I could not have done any of it without my parents and of course without God!
~Thanksgiving: We spent Thanksgiving day much differently than how we usually spend it. That morning my dad and I ran our races, then we hopped in the car straight from the finish line and started driving the 9.5 hour drive to VA Beach, VA! The next day we went shopping for a little while, then had a really relaxing low-key Thanksgiving dinner at the W's. I'm thankful we got to be in VB even just for the weekend!
~Elle's birthday: Elle's 14th birthday was the day after Thanksgiving, November 27th, 2009. We actually ended up celebrating it the 25th, however, because of us being out of town. We all went to Stevie B's, and Elle opened her presents there. Happy Birthday Elle! You can't be 14 already, stinker! :)
Well I think that's all the updating for now. I might do some more posts as we get closer to Christmas and New Year's. I hope everybody had a great and relaxing Thanksgiving, as we all pondered on God's wonderful blessings in our lives!
