Liebester Blog Award

Olivia at Epiphanies was so gracious as to grant me with the Lebester Blog award

The rules of being awarded are as follows:

1. You must post 11 facts about yourself.
2. You must also answer the 11 questions that the nominator has given you, and make 11 questions for the people you're going to tag
3. Tag 11 more bloggers
4. Notify the nominees that you've awarded them.
5. No tagging back
6. The people that you tag must have less than 200 followers

11 facts about me:  (this is awkward)

1. I'm home schooled
2. I'm writing a novel
3. My favorite author is Joel C. Rosenberg
4. I have nine other siblings
5. I don't read books, I gobble them up
6. I have 15 pen pals
7. Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Eric Liddell are my heroes.
8. I'm part of the One Year Adventure Novel forum
9. I'm fascinated with the WWII era
10. I love Roy Rogers
11. I find CIA and FBI undercover agent books absolutely thrilling!

11 Questions

1. What is your favorite poem? 
Who Am I by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
2. Would you rather go sky diving or scuba diving?
    Sky diving!!
3. If you could have one of your five senses enhanced, which would it be?
    Probably my hearing.
4. What is something you feel very strongly about?
    My faith
5. If you had to describe yourself in five words, which five words would you use?
   Social butterfly, Christian, shy, and laughter. (yes I know  having social butterfly and shy in the same sentence is an oxymoron... but it's true...)
6. When you were younger, what did you want to be when you grew up?
    A baker. I wanted to own a bakery.
7. If you could have one day to do absolutely anything you wanted with absolutely anyone you chose, what would you do and who would you do it with?
 I would gather all of the OYANers and go to a park or someplace and just hang out and talk. :P Only a few of you will get that. lol
8. Would you ever hold a tarantula?
   Never in all my life.
9. What's the weirdest thing you've ever done?
   Uh...jumped off the side of a boat in a friend's pond with no extra change of clothes. Just 1, 2, 3, and me and my sister Emily flung ourselves over the side of boat and plunged into the cool water.
10. Summer or Winter?
      Summer!!!!!!!
11. What is your favorite word? 
     Usually it depends on what mood I'm in. Right now it's, fiddlesticks. :P

My 11 Nominees!!
1. Rachelle at Random Thoughts of a Seventh Born
2. Leah at Optimistic Worldview
3. Julia at Ribbon and Lace and Receiving His Grace
4. Cindy at Life as a Young Christian
5. Gabrielle at The Ink Stained Parchment 
6. Cecilie at Dancing on Rainy Dragons While Dreaming
7. Joel at Joel the Immerser
8. Lauren at Virtuous Daughter
9. Katie at Writer's Ramblings
10. Cheryl at Treasures From a Shoebox
11. Jdg50 at Founding Internets

My 11 questions to my nominees

1. Who is your favorite author?
2. Who is/are your heroes?
3. When did you first start blogging?
4. What did you and your family do for the fourth?
5. Would you ever hold a scorpion?
6. What's the silliest thing you've ever done?
7. Autobiographies or fiction?
8. Where do you see yourself in five years?
9. Why did you start a blog?
10. What is your favorite period in world history?
11. When did you accept Christ as your Savior?

Thank you guys for participating!!!

Prayer

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Hi all!
I haven't written a blog post in two weeks, so I thought it was high time I wrote one! :D
I don't really have anything particular to write about, but I have a few things in mind that I'd like to share with you all.

 I have collected a lot of prayer requests for several different people.
Jackie: she is a young adult and has developed Lymphoma. She needs a lot of prayer to have the strength to get through this.

Elliot Ray: he is having surgery on Tuesday to go have some gallstones removed, and if I'm correct his gallbladder as well. So I can imagine that he needs some serious prayer!

Lauren: She is having some joint problems and such. She is in a lot of pain all the time, but she is a strong minded girl and doesn't hardly ever let her friends know that she is in pain. And she has what sounds like Bronchitis. :(

Aiden: He has Leukemia. He is four-years-old and his mom is only twenty-four. They are having a particular hard time.

Rachelle: my best friend has, well, nobody really knows what. She has been sick since this past Wednesday and she needs prayer.

Last, but not least, myself. I honestly don't know what is wrong with me. My doctors are still trying to figure it out. Basically, for all of you who don't know, I started out back in July of 2011 with my right hip swelling. It was just ever so slight, but then my leg started to swell. Then I began to have leg pains quite frequently. I had a couple of bone scans, x-rays, and CT scans. All of which revealed that nothing was wrong with my bones. I went to a few specialists, and was diagnosed with Bursitis. I was then assigned physical therapy, and an anti-inflammatory drug. This was all just a trial run to see if the Bursitis had developed on it's own or if there was an underlying problem. The medicine and physical therapy did nothing, except cause me to have bad side effects and irritate my leg. Just this past week I have been having terrible leg pains and slight seizures. I am scheduled to have an MRI on Tuesday. I'm nervous about the whole thing, as I have never had one before and I'm also nervous as to what the doctors might find. So, if you all could just pray that I would have total peace with resting in Jesus' arms and giving Him the whole situation to do with as he pleases, that would be super!! And don't forget the afore said people. :D