I CAN ONLY IMAGINE movie review

Last night I watched I Can Only Imagine at the theater with a couple friends of mine... it was such a good movie! If you haven't yet, I would definitely recommend going to watch it in theaters!

ABOUT THE MOVIE

Growing up in Greenville, Texas, Bart Millard suffers physical and emotional abuse at the hands of his father, Arthur. When Arthur becomes terminally ill, he finds redemption by embracing his faith and rediscovering his love for his son. Years later, Bart's troubled childhood and mended relationship with his dad inspires him to write the hit song "I Can Only Imagine" as singer of the Christian band MercyMe.

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MY THOUGHTS

It was such a beautiful story. It was about one young man finding out how to heal and forgive, how to find his dreams. It was about another man, finding God and letting Him transform his heart. There was pain, hurt, and sorrow, but also humor, love, and redemption! There were times the theater rippled with laughter, times when people passed the tissues. It was altogether a fully interesting and inspiring story. Loved it, and I so recommend it! <3

WATCH THE TRAILER!

I Can Only Imagine by MercyMe

HAVE YOU WATCHED IT? IF NOT, DO YOU WANT TO?

Movies I've Watched Recently Tag

I was tagged by Daminika for the Movies I've Watched Recently Tag! 

I can't really think of many movies that I've watched recently-ish for the first time. Only two? And it's hard to recall all movies I've  watched over... or if I even watched the entire thing. ;P 

But here we go anyway! ^___^

~It's a Wonderful Life~

I know I watched this again, with some siblings. I don't think it was exactly "recently" though. Oh well.

~Princess Cut~

This was a really nice movie! ^___^ I watched it back in September.

I've watched some How to Train Your Dragon stuff, I'm pretty sure. Some of the Netflix series', and probably at least parts of the movies. ;P Hiccup and Toothless are always nice. *winks*

 ~The Ultimate Legacy~ 

This actually WAS a recent watch. *winks* I enjoyed it well enough. 

I Tag: 

Shantelle @ Between the Pages of this Bookish Life

Sam @ Books and Arrows

Rule: Must be movies you've watched most recently (one month)

HAVE YOU WATCHED ANY OF THESE MOVIES? DO YOU WANT TO WATCH ANY OF THEM?

My Christmas

  Hey! How was your Christmas? Mine was great! :) Usually, once Christmas Day passes, it just feels like Christmas is over. But we actually still have a Christmas party to do with our cousins- we weren't able to do it yet because some of them were sick. And we have one in January to do with my older siblings... I still have Christmas presents to finish. ;)

  Well, I shall tell you all about my Christmas. :)

  First of all, we watched A December Bride the day before Christmas Eve.

  I really enjoyed it. :)

  Then came Christmas Eve. We had a little Christmas Eve party ourselves that night. We had little smokies, meatballs, cole-slaw, and a drink that I can't think of what it's called- juice and ginger ale or something. :)

  We were going to have buffalo wings too, but we didn't get them done in time, and had them later.

  Then we Skyped with my older siblings, grandparents, aunt and uncle, and cousins. :)

  After that we opened some presents. I'll show you some later. ;)

  And lastly, we watched a movie. My mom just found a random Christmas movie on christiancinema.com , called Miracle Maker. 

   I really enjoyed it, and recommend it! =D It was about these people in a little old-fashioned town, in need of a "miracle maker". There's a "scrooge" in the story, some funny parts, and some sweet romance as well. <3 It was pretty cute. I love that I found a movie that I really like, when I'd never heard of it before! :)

 OK, on to Christmas morning. I woke up, got dressed, took the rollers out of my hair that I'd put in the night before... and when we were all in the living room, we opened our stockings, and I gave my parents their present from me (us siblings are giving presents in January, which I've probably told you). :)

 Here's all the lovely things I got! =D

   A beautiful notebook, maker pen-sort of things, an graphite drawing pencils! :D

   Compact mirror (which I needed), beautiful ring (from this consignment shop my and my mom checked out the other day, which "thousands" of rings), a girly pink weapon ;P, a nice flashlight, eye shadow, lip gloss, and this cute flower necklace! :)

    Now for the edibles! ;) This picture pretty much explains it. Ooh, but beef jerky! :D That stuff is so good.

     Lastly, my mom made me a CAMERA pillow case! Eep, it's so awesome! =D Look at all those retro cameras! I should have taken this picture from the other side, 'cause I think it's even better. ;) But anyhow. This even matches my other decoration pillows, because it's black and white. :) I also got the rest of the fabric in my stocking, so I can make something else from it. 

  This is the family gift my mom got us, which we opened Christmas Eve! The Peter Pan puzzle is so magical-looking! :D I'm glad we have another puzzle to do. We used to get puzzles in MN from people, and those memories of making them are good ones. :) 

   And it'll be fun to learn this game! :D

      Here's a few things me and my siblings got from cousins. Those beans! I can't wait to do it with my cousins here.  ;D 


     OK, back to telling of Christmas. After opening stockings, we ate breakfast (well, I didn't. I just ate some things from my stocking. ;P) and got ready for church. 

    This is what I wore. :) My curls had fallen out quite a bit before we got home and I have my five-year old sister take these pictures. I had even used lots of hairspray... but no. They kinda like to fall out. ;P

These were before church... maybe my curls were more curly here. ;) I quite like my outfit, and how my hair actually looked nice (can be so hard to style it! "The front looks nice" *looks at the back* "Ugh!" ;P). But I do kind of wonder if my dress was too short, especially with heels? Ooh, did you see my heels? I got those not too long ago at Goodwill, and they're SO cute! ;)

  Late that day, we went to our friend's house for dinner. We had Italian food, and it was SO good. That lasagna... AND, my mom made tiramisu! 

  I've been wanting to try that ever since I did a report about Italy one year, and yesterday I finally got to. =D It was really good! If you like coffee, REALLY light cake, and whipped cream, you'll probably like this. ;)

  Yea, so I had a fun time there. We played some games, and had some laughs. ;) That's always fun. 


  Well, tell me about your Christmas! =D

p.s. what do you think of my changed header? ;)

September Highlights

  September is over already! Fall is on the way as well- I'm enjoying the cool weather. :) 

  I had thought I might do a summer highlights post... but I don't think I will. 

   Here are my September highlights. :)

\\SEPTEMBER EVENTS

I helped in my cousin's wedding... 

...And I turned 16 that same day! :)

I returned home after over a month on vacation(s). 

Had my 16th birthday party. :)

My home school group co-op started. I'm taking three classes: essay writing, a trivia class, and art. :) Guess which is my favorite? Art, of course. ;) I've been painting, charcoal drawing (for the first time in my life, I believe), and all that. :)

Went to hang out with youth from my home school group and played "gaga ball". It was actually fun. :D

 Oh, started school. :P Fun, right? I'm currently in 11th grade. Yikes, I'm "almost" graduated already! Only one more year after this. Do you ever feel like yourself is growing up extremely fast? :P One day you wake up and realize your childhood is over. *sniff*

Fall came! :) At least for now. It's been blessedly cool lately. And some rain. I love the nights where you're hanging out outside and it's cool... like enough to make your hands cold. :) Just from experience the other night.

I'm on my way to getting a driver's permit... sort of. I'm reading the driver's manual, which takes a long time because it just isn't very interesting. :P I JUST NEED TO FINISH IT SO I CAN START DRIVING!! Er- take the test and start driving IF I pass. Let it be so. ;P 

  I had a dream the other night that I was driving... probably in a parking lot. And then I think I pushed the gas pedal instead of the brake and lurched toward the parked cars! Maybe I woke up after that. :P But that actually happened to me- I pushed the gas instead of the brake! Eek, scary! :P At least I was only practice driving and not on the road.

\\BOUGHT IN SEPTEMBER

  I thought I was pretty rich this month, and bought a lot of stuff. ;P

On the far right is the one thing I colored

  First of all, I got this lovely Godey's Fashions coloring book! I found it on ebay for like, maybe around three dollars? With free shipping, too. :) Click here to to see one for $3.49 plus free shipping, if you're interested in something to do while you're curled up by the fireplace with a cup of hot cider during the nearing cold days. :D Doesn't it look great, though?

    My Walmart has had lots of sales lately. I found this lovely scarf there for $3. :) The color is like mint green- my love. ;D This picture dulled the color, for some reason.

                

  The other thing I bought there on sale is this skirt, for $5. Isn't it pretty? I think it's kind of country-style, which I like. :)

   Here are a bunch of little things I've bought (from top-left): red lipstick (I should dress up 1940's, right? :D), green eye-shadow, and pink nail polish. The rest of the things, besides the feather ring, were all together for $2. They were on sale. Extremely on sale, because I think they were originally $11 or something. :P Who would pay that much?   

   And I bought The Inheritance (plus it has three other movies on it) for $5 at K-Mart. K-Mart had so many movies for only five dollars, and they weren't all junk (like at Walmart :P).

   I found this awesome mini pan at Goodwill ($1.59). I've cooked eggs on it. :D

  These last things are things that I just got... I didn't buy them. 

                     

    A wonderful birthday present from my sister! :) They are The Messenger by Siri Mitchell (my review is on my Book Reviews page :) ), a pretty journal, and this lovely photo album! I need to order some pictures from all my summer "travels" to put in it. :D

  I'm taking an art class in my homeschool group co-op, and I got this AWESOME sketch book! :) That drawing is my still-life drawing (what I had to do for home work). :P

\\CAKES OF SEPTEMBER

                                   

  I decorated my birthday cake, which many of you probably already knew. :)

  I made a cake with only wheat flour (because I couldn't find any white :P). Then I made a glaze for it. It was good, but you could definitely taste the wheat flour.

                                   

Then I made this cake, and decorated it. :) Good practice.

(the inside ;) )

       

      I also helped my little sister put together\decorate this cake. ;) (she made it.)

     Yea, lots of cake stuff this month. Oh yea, I helped with cakes at my cousin's wedding, which was this month (on my birthday), as well. I got lots of practice. One thing I've learned is that my hands are going to get full of frosting while decorating cakes. :P Probably just my messy-ness. 

\\WATCHED IN SEPTEMBER

It's a Wonderful Life

  

  I may not have watched this in September, but it was probably pretty close. :) Good movie.

                            

                                  

   The Inheritance

I watched this by myself on my dad's laptop, and I enjoyed it. :D

  Re-watched one or two other movies. :)

 \\READ IN SEPTEMBER 

  The only book I read this month was King, by R. J. Larson! It was really good! Read my review here.

  And now, I am currently reading The Captive Maiden, by Melanie Dickerson. :)

\\SEPTEMBER PHOTOGRAPHY ACCOMPLISHMENT 

    Star photography! :) See this post for the "details".

\\SEPTEMBER POSTS

 Here are the posts I've done this month:

Last Days of Summer, Stars, Spiders, and Bubbles

Book Review: King

My Trip to the West Coast, part 4: Lava Canyon

My Trip to West Coast, part 3: Mountain Hike

Sweet Sixteen

My Trip to the West Coast, part 2: The Reunion

Currently in April

 I decided to do a currently post on what I've been doing in April. :) So... Enjoy taking a little peak into my current springtime life! :D

CURRENTLY READING:

  Samara's Peril, book 3 in the Ilyon Chronicles Series by Jaye L. Knight

I'm advanced reading this, and it has been a great book! Of course... ;) 

 To see my reviews of the other books in the series, go to my "Book Reviews" page. 

CURRENTLY WATCHING:

When Calls the Heart, season 3 

 I love this show! :) We've been buying it, and we have two episodes left... Ah, something adorable happened in the one we watched last night! <3

CURRENTLY EATING:

    Frozen Yogurt Waffle Sandwiches

 I had this idea to take leftover waffles and freeze yogurt in between two. My and my little sister tried it, and it was good! :) I made a banana one yesterday, and a peach one today. I think they'd taste good for an easy breakfast. ;)

I'll put some recipes for this one here sometime, so yea... :)

                                      

                                    CURRENTLY DOING:

                                          Garage sale-ing! :)

 By this, I mean what I did recently. We went to a bunch of garage sales in a "rich" subdivision on Saturday, and I got a lot of new clothes and a couple pairs of shoes... and a free purse. :D It was pretty good. 

 I'D ENJOY HEARING WHAT YOU'VE BEEN READING, WATCHING, EATING, DOING... WHATEVER. :D