Reflecting On 2015...

   Happy New Year! We are on the verge of beginning 2016! 
 So, thought I'd do a post to reflect back on 2015.      


                        SOME THINGS WE DID THIS YEAR  

   Uh, yea, so we don't do much around here. (And it isn't my doing... Sometimes when I want to go to town, I have to drag people out the door to bring me! Not really, but, you know. :D )

 But we did do some things. I think we took only one vacation this year, to see family. That was in the spring, I believe.
  
    This summer we swam a few times at the YMCA pool... Uh, went to the lake a little bit. Me and my mom helped organize a mission house. :) Oh, of course I took lots of pictures, too. ;) We went to a car museum also.
 
    This fall, (which we recently came out of), some family came out and we went to some cool caves, as you may have seen in one of my posts. I videod my siblings reenacting some scenes from Beyond the Mask for a contest, but we missed it. :( But it was fun. One of them, we walked out into a field to this big... what do you call it? pond\puddle of water. Fun-ness. :D
 
   And so far this winter,  made a gingerbread house, cleaned at my dad's spec house and took some things from the dumpster there, which was fun... I even used a board from that dumpster as a Christmas present. I painted a flower over the whole thing, and covered it with mod podge. :D Junk is sometimes treasure, especially to me. We also had Christmas this winter, obviously.

  It was a good year, but hopefully this coming year, we DO MORE! Please. I need some excitement and adventure! :)

                                    2015... READING

  I nearly completed my Goodreads goal of 30 books in 2015. :) (uh, counting a couple juvenile animal books I read for school.) But I really got back into reading, and read some great books this year. A few are:


        RESISTACE, THE KING'S SCROLLS, and HALFBLOOD, by Jaye L. Knight

THE REMEDY, by Serena Chases

CINDERELLA'S DRESS, by Shonna Slayton

THE MESSENGER, by Siri Mitchel

LETTER PERFECT, by Cathy Marie Hake

ROSES FOR MAMA and WHEN CALLS THE HEART, by Janet Oke

THE WORD CHANGERS, by Ashlee Willis

ASHBURN, by Julia Erickson

 for my review of some of these books, click here

2015... MOVIES

WHEN CALLS THE HEART, seasons 1&2

        and the When Calls the Heart NEW YEAR'S WISH! Which I watched the other day. This show is the best! Me and my siblings might all pitch in to buy each episode of season 3 off iTunes when it starts... in February I think.  

CINDERELLA, 2015

I watched it in theaters with 3 of my sisters. :) It's a lovely movie.

BEYOND THE MASK

This is a pretty cool movie.

THE HOBBIT: BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

also watched in theaters with some of my siblings.

SOME OF MY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 2015

 This year has seriously been a wonderful year of photography! I had my first photo session, and I'm thinking I probably learned a lot... The camera got wrecked, so I guess, though that's a bad thing, I'm getting a break from the stress of trying to capture everything? But... I may be getting an Nikon DSLR camera sort of soon! :)  :) :) You know, more of a professional one, that can change lenses and all. :D 

 So, I got some of my favorite pictures of this year... don't count on these being my absolute best pictures- since its hard to narrow it down. ;) I have a ton of pictures.

  
        (I have these first three large, because I haven't posted them. [from Thanksgiving, BTW] )

             ( If you happen to want to see these pictures up close, just click on them  )

                            

                         
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                                               A few of my recipes from this year... 

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2015... ART

                                           

                                                         Just a bit of art from 2015...

  MY SORT-OF NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION FOR 2016

To get on a school- day schedule... although I'm not very good at resolution-izing. X-) Hopefully I can pull it off.

                                        
                                        HOPES FOR 2016

     Here are some things I'd like to happen in the coming year.

*A trip to the beach. I haven't been to the beach in a LoNg time.
*A trip to Washington. :) That would be fun!
*Get a camera. :)
*Driver's training and getting my license. I can't get my permit until I'm 16, otherwise we might have looked into driver's training already.


                       Again, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

                    COMMENT AND SHARE YOUR HOPES FOR 2016!