Waiting For Summer

Hello all you beautiful people. I hope you've had a wonderful Christmas. I know that I have. And now, we wait until summer. This summer I get the opportunity to go to San Antonio, Texas. I will be going with my church youth group for a whole week. It's going to be hot since it's in July. But the reason I am telling all of you this is because were collecting money. I know I hate to ask but you don't have to donate anything, every dollar helps. For all the information click the following link.

http://www.marathoneventmarketing.com/mem_participant.cml?u=TheJohnFamily

Thanks so much! Um well copy and paste the link, haha sorry.

Thank You

I didn't actually think that people would read this, I'm sort of using it as an online diary that everyone can read so this is great. I mean almost 100 views. I think that's pretty cool. I didn't think anyone cared about what I say because I'm a teenage girl. But cool deal. So I just wanted to thank you all for viewing my blog, whether you read it or not. THANKS A BUNCH!

Pinterest Fail and Win

So, I decided to try making these chocolate chip cookies with Reese's and brownie batter on top. They turned out shitty. They were as hard as rocks. Seriously. So I threw them out. I had some extra batter and cookie dough so I tried it using Oreo's and with a different recipe, they, fortunately turned out to be a little bite of Heaven. So I encourage all of you to make them if you have the time!

Oreo Brownie Chocolate Chip Cookies

Watcha need:

Cookie dough (pre-made of hand made)
Brownie Batter
Oreo's or Reese's or both
Cupcake tin or baking pan

Watcha Gotta do:

PREHEAT you oven to 350
1. Make the dough and batter
2. Put enough cookie dough in the bottom of the pan to cover it, if your using the pre made dough use about 1 square or half of a slice if it's the roll kind.
3. Place an Oreo or a Reese on top of the cookie dough
4. Put brownie batter on top until cupcake well or pan is 3/4 full.
5. Bake in oven for approximately 18 minutes, I did 16...




notice, mine didn't look as nice but they're just as delicious!

Hope you have a very merry Christmas, and a happy new year!

A Bit of Cheer

Here's some of my favorite things I've found to do for the Christmas season to brighten the mood.

 If you like to do your nails.

 These are chocolate covered Oreo's. I must try to do these.

A German tradition. On Christmas Eve, you lay out the pickle ornament in front of the tree with the milk and cookies for Santa. Then, Santa hides the pickle ornament. In the morning, the first person to find the pickle ornament receives an extra present from Santa.

Time To Be Thankful

Hello! I know, it's been a while since I last posted, but I'm an incredibly busy girl. Finals start this week and I am so nervous. But I feel like since it is the season, I will talk about thankfulness.

Being thankful can mean so many things. You can be thankful for your life, your friends, your family, the material possessions, and so many other things. With the recent tragedy in Connecticut involving the death of 20 elementary school children everyone has decided to be thankful. You shouldn't just be thankful when what you have is at risk, but you should be every day of your life.

What if tomorrow, all you had was what you thanked God for today?

Some Good Reads

I may be a 16 year old girl, but I LOVE books. Seriously, why can't I just live in one? I thought I would share some of my favorite authors and books for your interest.

So my first pick is John Green.
Right off the bat, he lives in Indianapolis so that makes his amazing because I could completely stalk him and be a fangirl, but that would be really creepy. But his books are AMAZING! I've read a lot of them, my all time favorite from his works is The Fault In Our Stars. I absolutely cherish that book, I've read it more than once, it's that good. I've done numerous English projects over it... :) I mean this book takes you through every emotion possible, and it is so easy to relate to. Ah that book, I just can't simply explain it, so go buy a copy and read it, or go to the library. Whatever floats your boat.
But the other books I've read by John Green are Paper Towns and Looking For Alaska. Both of which I highly recommend. I have yet to read An Abundance of Katherines or Will Grayson Will Grayson.

Some series I recommend for the avid reader, most of you probably have read these but I will suggest them anyway.
The Hunger Games Series By: Suzanne Collins (3 books)
The Harry Potter Series By: JK Rowling (7 Books)
The Uglies Series By: Scott Westerfield (4 books)
The Delirium Series By: Lauren Oliver (3 books, the third one comes out in February 2013 I think)
and...
The Beautiful Creatures Series By: Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (4 books)

Gosh, they're are so many good books out there, and it makes it so hard to believe that people don't like to read.

My last suggestions for a good book, they make good presents ya know, are by Stephen King.
I've only read 1 completely and that was The Shining. It scared me, but that's the point. I've seen most of the movies and I have most of the books, I just haven't read them yet. But I bring him up because I am currently reading one of his books Under The Dome. I have 320 pages left (I'm on page 752) and I have loved every page of it. It really makes you think. I just need to find the time to finish it.

Got any book suggestions?


Go read!

Urban Outfitters

So I know I haven't bloggd in forever, I promise I will but I am uber busy this week. But I just want to share this link because I want to win a $2,500 gift card to urban outfitters because I love them. So join Spotify because it is way better than Pandora. http://spotify.extole.com/a/clk/2kTQ2H