Brittanys Brilliance

ehh heee not sure

2007-04-08T16:59:00.000-07:00

uhm, im not sure why i am posting this, i guess its because i have let this usually high energy blog go bored for about 2 months... ehhh, well i also really love facebook ;) and i guess its partially because i dont have much to post about. ya know? i mean, my life is going great and i am having a blast with all my friends, and God blesses me from day to day with simple things like a funny joke told by one of my friends or even just a smile in the hallway from someone i hardly know. either way, theres not much conflict in my life, or really even anything to drag me down. even the whole church to church thing isn't so bad right now. which, let me tell you is a huge burden off my chest. i do have one thing to say though:

today is easter and i was forced (you know, out of my own will) to go to the easter service at OLV, elt me tell you, it was not very exciting. you know? i mean i felt sooo overdressed it wasn't even funny. most of the people for EASTER just wore jeans and a nice shirt, like the thing you would wear to school. now is taht what they see Church as? the same as school. wow. they couldnt even find it in themselves to look nicer than usual for 1 day? nonetheless the day that magnifys the basis of Christianity. the day that our Lord Jesus rose from the day and conquered hell. i sat in church wondering, if this is how they see church, how do they see God? is he like the Principal to them? i hope not, because most people i know dont like their principals. i know that from what i saw and realized in OLV today i want to strive towards giving my best and my all to my Lord, for all He has done for me. i want to make sure that i am not looking towards God and seeing him as only an authority figure, not a best friend. i want to make sure that when i think of the Lord i think of Him as a best friend, a support system, the author of my life and most importanty, my savior.

i hope you all had a wonderful easter!!!!!

MUCH LOVE
-Brittany

give me a WOOHOO for...

2007-02-14T06:11:00.000-08:00

FERRIS WHEEL DAY

valentines day= grr hiss boo growl

hehe hehe hehe... ferris wheels are soo much better

WOOOT WOOOT can i get a HOO RAH?

2007-02-13T04:22:00.000-08:00

i think i can muster a hoo rah from you guys! AHHH BEAUTIOUS SNOW... GORGEOUS WONDERFUL HEAVEN SENT SNOW... AMAZING POWERFUL SNOW THAT CAUSES US TO NOT HAVE SCHOOL!

haha i'm a bit excited! my mom got a call as i was about to go outside and wait for the bus and i was like "YES let me call leann" ahhh i am glad.

the only problem in this picture is that well, you see, uhh i already had my caffeine for the day and so i am pathetically unable to return to my bed like most kids do when tehy hear this news. instead of being nestled away in my bed i am sitting at my computer typing this... oh wow... i just got incredibly tired... BUT NOT TIRED ENOUGH I AM ETERNALLY ALERT AND AWAKE :) haha wowwww i think i might have put too much hazelnut creamer in my COFFEE this morning.
well i'll leave to let you go and well... ya know... SLEEP LIKE MOST NORMAL PEOPLE DO AT 7:28 AM... BUT NTO ME NOOO I HAD COFFEEE THIS MORNING

- B R I T T A N Y

i bet you've never seen AUDIO ADRENALINE like this before

2007-02-06T13:10:00.000-08:00

... in their band uniforms

flexing their muscles ...

or looking INCREDIBLY 90's...

yeahhhh those guys know how to have fun!

hehe

now just when you think i'm done... I HAVE ONE MORE FOR YOU :) enjoy!

how many men do you know do that?

-- B R I T T A N Y--

PETER PIPER PICKED A PECK OF PICKLED PEPPERS

2007-02-02T15:01:00.000-08:00

we've got no FOOD

we've got no JOBS

OUR PETS HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!!!!!!!!

IM NOT ALRIGHT

2007-01-30T16:09:00.000-08:00

Winter Jam on saturday was amazing out the wazoo!!! ahhh we should have a Youth Group trip next year because its 10 dollars to get in and tahts amazing if you ask me :) well the shows were great (even if my favorites only played about 6 songs) the adrenaline rush i got was cool and the praise and worship was out of this world... but NOTHING beats Alive. worshipping the Lord under open skies wen you raise your eyes to look toward heaven its like you're talking directly to him instead of some lights or rafters. Rosie, Leann and I were walking arond and it was to our pleasant surprise that we ran into Chris from Sanctus Real along with Dan (another guy from Sanctus Real)and they were lost... imagine that in an arena that was in the shape of a circle... how you get lost in there is beyond me BUT later on as we were discussing said band members and their God given appearances here comes Chris just walking past and he says "i'm lost again" HAHAHAHAHA we laughed pretty hard.

Leann got the great idea to write a letter to the guys in Hawk Nelson though the only paper we could find was a NAPKIN from the Britt Nicole booth and so we found these ladies and she borrowed a marker from them and began to write a letter to Hawk Nelson on a NAPKIN beginning with "Je Taime" which means I Love You in french (the guys speak french) so they deemed me bold enough to go up to one of the guys at the Hawk Nelson booth and ask him to deliver our letter when the guys come to sign autographs sooo i head up and ask the guy to do it and luckily (this guy is young like our age) and agrees to it and says he will. so we are pretty pumped... i have no idea if he gave the letter to the guys or not but i hope he did well i will leave you all now and go shower

much love!!
b r i t t a n y

so i had a bad day...

2007-01-26T14:46:00.000-08:00

well well well today started off bad... i was running late this morning in hopes to get to FCA on time. so i ran out the door while forgetting 2 things.... one that was hygiene related (deoderant) and the other that i will mention later. i got to FCA on time and (this is where the day gets better) and Beckie saved my hygene issue... i ran across the school at a pretty good speed and became powder fresh then ran back to the LBC to hear our speaker which happened to be none other than BSBC's own Clint Adams!!! hehe Clint spoke well and it was cool to see him speak somewere other than a youth group setting. GOOD JOB CLINT. well about halfway through Clints speech i realized that i didnt have muy purse with me and again Beckie saved my school career by lending me the nicest mechanical pencil ever!!!! thanks! so i proceeded through my first class, science with ease and then got to geometry... this was my falling point.

well this morning while realizing i had forgotten my purse i had also failed to realize that we had a test scheduled for today. and in my purse were my calculator, protractor, compass and Gnabah (guh nah buh) money. Gnabah is my teacher and since i was stuck with out my weapons of Math Instruction i could have "bought" a calculator and protractor from him with the little yello pieces of card stock that we in room 703 like to call Gnabah money. ahh so i was in a rut. i attempted to attack the test with just my pencil and a blank piece of graoh paper to work out the problems... yeah that didnt go over too well since Gnabah likes to use really extremely random wierd decimal numbers like 10.25 x 3.67 yeahh you do that on graph paper without a calculator and tell me how east it is. so i did my best and inevitable i know i have failed this test. (aww man and that was the first one of the class too)

so the day pressed on and dragged me helplessly behind it i got through the French test with ease and i am prety sure i passed it with an A. then i moved on to history with my funny little teacher who is old... and shorter than Kristen Adams (i didnt mean that in a mean way) and we took yet another test in there over Evita... which reminds me why i am actually on this computer in the first place.... to look up pictures of Eva "Evita" Peron. well i think i will go and actually get some start on my project due monday a tout a l'heure!

b r i t t a n y

Camp Christopher

2007-01-22T14:36:00.000-08:00

well basically all in all the weekend turned out great and i had more fun than should have been legal. i am still tired though and i am pretty sure that most of you have heard what all went down at the retreat and if not then just call me and i will explain rather than sit and type this all out. but if you are just dying for a blog post about what went on i would advise you to do as follows:
go to my sidebar on the right
scroll down until you see teh name "rosie"
click on the name
and read her post about the retreat ... its accurate and i agree

OR
type this url into the url box on your computer:
www.beginagain413.blogspot.com

well enjoy!

i'll poasta again later

B R I T T A N Y

2007-01-19T12:21:00.000-08:00

i dont have much time to post today because i have a busy weekend up ahead of me. in about 2 1/2 hours we (Rosie, Dan, Gary, Kyle, Me and other assorted people) will be leaving to go to the Camp Christopher Retreat for OLV. as you all probably know this weekend will require lots of trust in the Lord and the ability to hold back some first instincts. it will also require good judgement and the ability to be free of all hindrances when it comes to sharing the gospel. thank you all for your support and your prayer (will you keep praying until this thing is OVER?) you have all been so supportive and helpful. thanks a million!

well i should be going. I still have the three s' i am Sick, Scared, and Stressed. lol

B R I T T A N Y

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

2007-01-11T09:45:00.000-08:00

10 random things about ME!!

10. Sometimes i fake playing guitar with a tennis racquet
9. I get slap happy really easy
8. Right now i am listening to... AUDIO ADRENALINE
7. Je peux parler francais (i can speak french)
6. Jesus is the One who saved me
5. I have a strange obsession with bright nail polish
4. I used to pretend to be a spy when i was little... leann did it with me
3. I am a BAD essay writer lol
2. I didn't even finish the essay for my final in english
1. I LOVE my friends!

9 ways to win my heart

9. Love God
8. make me smile
7. be able to just go crazy
6. have a passion for music (namely Audio A... lol)
5. be a STRONG Christian
4. be able to listen to me
3. be someone who is a friend to me
2. make me laugh, be able to laugh yourself
1. be able to put up with my amazing/ psycho friends

8 things i want to do before i die

8. meet a french canadian
7. lead at least 5 people to the Lord
6. write a GREAT essay for mr. Obney (lol)
5. go to italy or paris
4.read through the whole bible
3. be able to defend my faith effectively
2. become truly fearless for God
1. learn to blay the bass- well

7 things that annoy me

7. hypocrites
6. said people at OLV
5. repetitive sounds (click, click, click, click, click)
4. my sister 98% of the time
3. people who judge
2. AMY GRANT... grr
1. D-R-A-M-A whats that spell? Drama! boo

6 things I believe in

6. that we were meant to live for so much more =)
5. a crazy little thing called Love!
4.a hope that carries on
3.love is the answer
2. i dont have any more songs to quote =( i believe in life after death and taxes (lol)
1. JESUS CHRIST

5 things I am afraid of

5. Satan
4. hell... good thing i'm not going there =)
3. the three s' snakes, spiders, sharks
2. not being forvigen
1. being persecuted

4 of my favorite things

4. starbucks
3. Audio Adrenaline
2. Alive Festival
1. Camp Patmos

3 things I do every day

3. take a shower
2. pray
1. listen to music

2 things i want to do right now

2. fake playing the guitar on a tennis raquet... lol
1. go ice skating... =)

1 person I want to see right now

1. I think you ALL know who that is.

comments?????? LOVE YOU ALL

B R I T T A N Y

je sais oui? (i know, right?)

2007-01-05T12:15:00.001-08:00

well this first week back has been... hectic. i had 2 tests in one class (right in a row) and i had a pop quiz in math... WHICH I ACED :) lol but anyway i had some problems with an english assignment and i couldnt get it all to school electronically so i ended up asking the teacher what i should do and he is just gonna let me pring everything off here at home and let me turn that in.... God has definately been looking out for me this week. lol. next week are finals and i am scared out of my mind of what to expect. i have never been tested on what i have learned throughout a whole semester... ahhh i am scared. but anyway on a brighter note i am sooooooo pumped for the Winter Jam concert on the 27th!!! woohoo it is going to be amazing (10 dollars at the door) Hawk Nelson*Sanctus Real*Jeremy Camp*Steven Curtis Chapman (who looks like a monkey... remember that kristen?)*and some girl names Britt Nicole... which i think is the coolest thing ever since that my name!!!! lol

so yeah basically i am looking forward to the 27th

peace!! Brittany

Jason and Matt

2006-12-28T10:03:00.000-08:00

well well well, this last week has been crazy. I'm sure you have all heard about the letter from OLV so I will just leave that as a given down point. the kids at OLV did ask the right question and we did give them the right answer but i dont know if they will listen to us or ellen. BUT MOVING ONNN

last night i had the girls over and we had a blast of course we missed Kristen and Elizabeth but maybe the next time we have one they can come. OH I HOPE. the attendees were:
(in order of arrival)
Leann
Tyleasha
Ashley
Rosie
Emily
Beckie
Melissa

hehe was had sooo much fun. we had chocolate fondue (yes it was crunchy but thats not the point) we TORE UP THE GAME APPLES TO APPLES and we were probably the loudest bunch of people while playing Foosball. we also all tried to watch Hoodwinked but since it was like 1 and we were all hap slappy none of us had the attention span for that. once we all settled down a bit we just sat in my basement playing a harmless game of truth or... well truth. lol after a few truths gone way wrong we just settled to telling stories and talking about pretty much anything hah... we all had a lot of fun.

my Christmas was great and i had a good day visiting with everyone in my family. i was lucky and got a lot of the items on the list and let me just tell you, i am having a blast with them. the foosball table was kind of a late Christmas present to everyone lol... we bought it yesterday and it is a NICE table.

well i am going to let you all levae my blooooog and i hope you have a GREAT NEW YEARS

love you!!!

B R I T T A N Y

ohh by the way, since Leann had come over to my house early yesterday we decided it would be fun to use guys names for everyone I was Matt (Sanctus Real) and she was Jason (Hawk Nelson)hah we had fun.

poopsie

2006-12-20T08:11:00.000-08:00

this week has benn eventful like no other! whew... sunday i think you all know what was up with me and my family. but either way thats pretty much worked out now, thanks for your prayers, its amazing what God does!
sunday Kristen Keys was supposed to come over and spend the night at my house but since my parents were fighting and in bad moods i didnt want to put her through being there so Mrs. Keys and Kristen Adams decided it would be better for me to go over to Kristen's house. so i ended up being there. Kristen and I made mints and the pretzel things with chocolate on top! YUM YUM. hehe the mint making process was gross though.
i eventually came home and i was here for no longer than 10 minutes before Leann asked me to come over early for her Christmas sleepover so i did. that was probably the funnest time ever!... and then i found five dollars... Emily, Rosie, Me and Hannah all went to Leann's house and we played 13 dead end drive!!! (i see the next years summer movie) yeah that was fun, we spent like 10 minutes just catapulting the cat off the stairs, into te fire, making theknight fall on it, the staircase fall on the cat and making the chandelier drop! (okay just for the record that was a plastic cat and those things were in the game we didn/t really torture Leanns cats. I'M A CAT, I'M A KITTY CAT AND I DANCE DANCE DANCE AND I DANCE DANCE DANCE, I'M A CAT I'M A KITTY CAT AND I MEOW MEOW MEOW AND I MEOW MEOW.... oh never mind... then i found 5 dolars.

but needless to say monday and tuesday were tons of fun! today i get to look forward to going to Millersburg again (passing through the most amish places i have ever seen) to go pick up a little cuddly furry cream colored puppy who we will name....

BUDDY... if any of you knew my first dog, before he died his name was Buddy and my dad loved him. i am excited for this new puppy to come!!!!

well i must be going!
love you all!
B R I T T A N Y

well well well

2006-12-12T12:41:00.000-08:00

THERE IS A LIGHT AT THE END OF THIS TUNNEL... *hehe Third Day*

i see the light!!!

i am drawing near to it!!!!

its there, at the end of this tunnel!

theres a light at the end of this tunnel, theres a light at the end of this tunnel for me!!!

okay, for those of you who are wondering "what in the world is she talking about" i am talking about the light at the end of this tunnel!!! the last day of school befor Christmas break, the endless days that i find myself freezing to death in cold hard classroom desks are coming to a two week break starting this friday!!!! yesssssssssssss. lol well i just thought i would share that with you...

oh, by the way, the whole "theres a light at the end of this tunnel" thing, that is a song by Third Day, a pretty good one too, you should check it out! Along with MOUNTAIN OF GOD... hehe emily!

okay well have a great day!

-B r i t t a n y-

CLOSER- Sanctus Real

2006-12-04T14:06:00.000-08:00

I'm not satisfied in this lifetime

I'm following you to the other side

There's nothing that can change my mind

You're all I need

You're the only tie that binds my heart

Away from you I'm falling apart

We need to be closer than we are

You're all I need

So what can I do to get closer?

I know there is more my heart can bear

I give you control 'cause I need you

To take me there

Like a bird flying south

I'm seeking you out

And there's no rope that can tie me down

I'm running home, I'm a slave set free

You're all I need

I am waiting

Draw me closer

I am waiting

Make me stronger

This song is by Sanctus Real and I love it! I guess I chose to post lyrics from this song today because I feel like I could be Closer to the Lord than I am right now. I feel like there is so much more that I could be doing to live for Him, more effort and time I could put into my devotions and more thought I could put into Him. Also the hardest thing for me, that I could be a better witness for Him and that I could willingly testify to people the truth. It is hard for me especially in english class when I write things about God, like a poem or a song or currently an essay about the Da Vinci Code. I feel like I could be so much closer to Him.
The last line of the song says "make me stronger" and that sums up my current plea.

"Lord make me stronger"

B R I T T A N Y

my break comes to a close

2006-11-25T08:54:00.000-08:00

SCHNECK!!! that thanksgiving break went way too fast!!! wednesday i went shopping, thursday i ate turkey, and friday rosie came over and we basically had more fun than should have been legal... lol. we dressed up in manly-ish clothes and we were going to film a music video for an old Audio Adrenaline song called "My God" but my video camera was not working...
why do i feel that was for the best?
basically this week was fun. yesterday i got a package in the mail from the NSLC (National Student Leadership Confrence) i apparently was nominated to go by one or two of my teachers... wow i feel honored. it looks like a great experience but i know i'll never make it there because of the price (2,915 buckaroos) whewwww. i never thought that i would get nominated for something like that, i'm not in any advanced classes nor do i excel in any of my classes, save for english. i mean i'm just me, oh well the thought of the confrence is great but i wont get there so i should not dewll on it right?
i think i'll i'll just focus on what God wants for me now, like possibly volunteering at the childrens hospital if the volunteer coordinator is nicer (haha Kristen Keys).

♥--Brittany--♥

2006-11-20T12:32:00.000-08:00

WOOT WOOT can you just finish this for me?

OH--

woot woot we won!!!!! we beat Michigan!

GO O S U

now i will back off of you few michigan fans out there and stop boasting.

♥B R I T T A N Y♥

why cant we seem to keep it together?

2006-11-12T09:04:00.000-08:00

i am not feeling too well right now... my mom and dad think i have the flu... and that wouldnt surprise me because i have been waiting for the mid november flu to come this year. arghhhh and now its here. last night you probably saw how iw asnt feeling too well and hat would just go to show you taht itw as the early stages. argh i dont like being sick. especially knowing that i have responsibilities to fulfill at school and i have work to do and places to go today and i dont like this being sick at all. plus its kind of hard to type a report for english from your bed when the computer is on the other side of the room. well i am online making sure my info is accurate and i am sore i dont like this.

prayers please?

on a brighter not the youth rally was fun and i had a great day yesterday shopping and my birthday on friday was great! at least the sickness held off until most of teh fun was over with

love you all

♥ Brittany ♥

OH! Gravity

2006-10-29T13:38:00.000-08:00

I had a good week, i guess. I started it out sick with a sore throat but that is close to being over now. I still cough on occasion *coughs, hacks wheezes, coughs, cough* yes, only *cough* on occa *cough* sion. occasion. haha. camp burton was a TON OF FUN. yes even though it was cold it was more fun that you could imagine. we had then sweetest cabvins ever and I loved them. yesterday was Leann's Birthday and my dearest friend turned 15. WOOHOO *sings happy birthday* last night her praise team (Soverign Departure) had a concert and rosie and i were the only two in attendance but HOLY MOLEY she is an AMAZING SINGER! go ahead and listen to the song "Never Alone" by Barlow Girl, thats the song she sang. she sounded almost identical to the way they sound and wow i was so amazed, i have known her roughly 8-9 years and i never knew she could sing the way she did last night. I could officially say "I'M WITH THE BAND" and wow i was just amazed she definatly blew us all away. well welll well... what else to say? i guess nothing so...

LOVE Y'ALL

♥Brittany ♥

michigan is NOT NOT NOT the best

2006-10-16T17:48:00.000-07:00

just though i would throw that out there... ;)

OHIO STATE IS THE BEST... any objections? cause they are which number?

ohhh right.... #1

okay i'm finished for now...

Hey There!

2006-10-07T16:14:00.001-07:00

so... hows life for all of y'all? ...wow i just said "y'all" haha my week has been great. saturday at liz's quince was amazing and sooo much fun, hard to believe taht it was only a week ago... it feels longer. sunday was cool, relaxing, not much was dont and that was fine by me. monday marked the beginning of a nother long and grueling week of school but oh well, that all over now and i have SPIRIT WEEK to look forward to. hah it should be fun. today i went to the soccer games of Kristen and Bobby, my report for that was kristen was tied in her game and bobby's team won their game. GOOD JOB GUYS. lol. after the games my Daddy took me to lunch, that was nice it gave me chance to warm up after my toes going numb from the cold. i am looking forward to this week, spirit week...
Monday: Cowpeople day, Cowboys/ Cowgirls... i dont have anything remotely cowgirlish, maybe i will borrow a hat from my aunt.
Tuesday: Camo day... i will most likely not dress up for that since i PROUDLY won NOTHING camo and i honestly dont really want anythuing camo.
Wednesday: college day and you can probably all guss which college i will happily don the colors of .... OHIO STATEEEEEEEEE like probably half of THS i will be wearing OSU. yay! that makes me smile... hehe :)
THURSDAY: Tallmadge SPIRIT DAY... i will definately wear Blue and Gold with TALLMADGE printed on it... not to confuse the colors with some OTHER team. Thursday morning i start the day off with FCA... a personal fave, then i move on to SHORTENED CLASSES for a pep assembly, after school emily and kacie are at my house then we head on up to cleveland for the most amazing experience of my life.... AUDIO ADRENALINE CONCERT!!!! WOOT WOOT I AM SOOOO EXCITEDDDDDDDD WAAAAAAA HOOOOOO lol can you tell i'm excited? okay well love y'all... hah i said it again... bye now

♥ Brittany ♥

hey my

2006-10-07T16:14:00.000-07:00

Beckie, Emily, Kristen K, Liz, Ty, and Kristen A

2006-10-01T11:18:00.000-07:00

Proverbs 17:17: a friend loves at all times

you girls have given me nothing but love ever since i cam eto BSBC, Christian Love. i am grateful that we have grown closer this past year, i honestly believe that you demonstrate Gods definition of a friend better than anyone else i have ever known.

Beckie: you are one of my best friends and i am so glad taht we can talk about literally everything. you're so honest, trustworthy, and loving. i cant help but smile when i think of our friendship. you're so fun and accepting and devoted to God. you're the big sister i never had. I LOVE YOU!

Emily: wow, God has used you so much in my life. He used you to bring me to Him. you're always there for me, like last year you were always the one in the hallway with me when i cried. you're so caring. i dont think i have ever had a friend that is nicer than you, you're so funny and you're always happy, god has blessed you amazingly! I LOVE YOU

Kristen K: i really have enjoyed gettng to know you better this past year you are so fun to hang out with. especially at camp i am glad we became closer friends. you're so kind and loving and... goofy? hah... you accepted me from the beginning, thanks! I LOVE YOU!

Elizabeth: what to say? haha you're so funny and energetic! where do you keep all the energy? i love getting to know you better youre always open to talk to, you're so confident in your christian life and you are a great example for Him. you're always so nice to everyone and you're always striving to do things to make other people happy. I LOVE YOU!

Tyleasha: okay i dont even know if you will be reading this... Ty, you are so fun and amazing, i am so glad we met, you are a great friend and although i dont know you as well as the others what i do know I LOVE!

Kristen A: Kristen, i am so incredibly grateful that God brought you into my life, i love our chats you're so helpful and you're so tolerant of me, How do you do it? i cant even begin to describe how great you have been to me. i am in awe of how God has used you in my life, someone to listen to me and build me up in Him. you've helped me so much, once again, thank you. you're a very special friend! I LOVE YOU!

**i would add stuff about rosie but then the post would span wayyyyyy tooooo longgggggg lol so i will just post about her later on... haha dont worry i still love you rosie! lol

I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!
-Brittany

happy birthday to my SOUL

2006-09-24T10:39:00.000-07:00

today is my spirit's birthday! i have been a Christian for one year! praise God, YAY. the time has flown but thats because all of you people are awesome and made the year great and worthwhile! one thing i have learned this past year is that no matter what happnes or wht i'm going through, place it at His throne and it all gets better, because God loves me and you and Jesus is awesome! okay well i just wanted to say...
Happy Birthday To Me
Happy Birthday To Me
Happy Birthday to Brittany's soul
Happy Birthday To Me!!!!!!!!

Hallelujah! wahoooo!!!!!!!! my soul is a year old and i am proud to say that i was reborn last year on this day at Camp Patmos! woot woot.

*Looking foreard to another great yar walking with Jesus**

♥ Brittany ♥

Free Ride

2006-09-19T14:42:00.001-07:00

okay so yeah since no one ever reads my blog or comments... which makes me sad, i am not gonna post the answers to the cheesy "jokes" instead i am gonna post the lyrics to a song by Audio Adrenaline called "free Ride" i do believe though that it is a remake of an old song... but i'm not sure... yes thats right... i, Brittany Rhodes do not know something about Audio Adrenaline. okay well here are those lyrics...

"Free Ride"- Audio Adrenaline

The mountains are high

The valleys are low

And you're confused on which way to go

I know there's someone who'll give you a hand

And lead you into the promised land

Come on and take a free ride

Come on and get by my side

Come on and take a free ride

All over the country I've seen it the same.

Nobody's winning at this type of game

They got to do better they got to take aim

All of the answers are coming from Him

Come on and take a free ride

Come on and get by my side

Come on and take a free ride

Come on

Come on and take a free ride

Come on and get by my side

Come on and take a free ride

Come on and take a free ride (8x)

okay well that is off of their 1996 album, Bloom and yeah i like it alot. so yes please comment... dude since no one ever comments me i bet that i i were to ask for 30 random comments like Liz did i probably wouldnt get them as quick as she did, but i'm not asking for 30 comments... i'm just asking for some comments because my comment box is awfully LONELY... so please comment.. the only person who has commented me lately has been Bobby... thanks... but everyone else too please comment!!!!!!!! hehe it can be random i dont really care just fill my comment box with love... hehe please?

-Brittany-

HAHA TIME TO GET HEALTHIER

2006-09-14T17:09:00.000-07:00

we get little worksheets in math with REALLY CHEESY JOKES and they are soo funny they're cheesy... er... so cheesy they're funny. haha

why did the little girl paint spots on the staircase?

what do you call a 36-inch two by four?

whom should you see at the bank if you need to borrow money?

why does a poor man drink coffee?

why did gyro go into the bakery?

why did the cow want a divorce?

what did the ape think of the grapes house?

why does croquet need rules?

okay so heres the deal you try and figure the answers out so while coming up with your answers but EMILY is NOT allowed to answer because she has the worksheets and DO NOT ASK HER. i will post the answers later! okay well good luck and like i said some of them are soo cheesy you just have to laugh!!!!

-Brittany-

SEPTEMBER 11... This is a serious post

2006-09-11T17:26:00.000-07:00

I is hard to believe that 5 years has passed since the 9/11 attacks. I mean wow I can remember the day like it was yesterday. I was just a meek little 9 year old in fourth grade at Munroe. It was recess and we were all clueless, although I had heard bits and pieces of conversations about airplanes. We came back in the classroom and my teacher, Ms. Breon was talking to Mrs. House, the psycho teacher beside our room. Ms. Breon came in the room and said "come sit down here I have something important to tell you all." so we all gathered in the carpet and she asked us "do any of you know what the Twin Towers are?" and I think maybe only like 2 or 3 people knew what they were and she said "well some bad people from another country flew airplanes into them this morning and they fell down" okay, well I don't think that's exactly how she worded it but it was along those lines. Ididn't really comprehend what had happened because as a fourth grader New York seems like worlds away. That night when I got home from school my mom explained to me again what had happened and I saw the on the news the towers falling down and thinking "wow that's horrible" I was still not completely comprehending what had happened but when I found out that all those people had died I was so sad for them and I started to cry. Later on that day Leann and I were outside in our backyards on her swing set talking about it and she knew more about it than me and understood it better so she explained it a little more to me. I will never forget that day. Time has flown by since then and I am surprised I can remember that day so vividly. Well that's all for now...
comment and let me know your thought on the attacks, I want to know where you were when it happened.

well I'll post again later, hopefully with a happier topic.

♥ Brittany ♥

HEHE...HAHA...HOHO...TEE HEE HEE

2006-09-08T12:29:00.000-07:00

Did you know that laughing is good for your health? Its proven to send feel good chemicals to some place in your body and it makes you healthier! And apparently, your body doesn't know if you're faking it... So apparently you can fake laughter and it will still make you healthier!

man... Am I glad I laugh a lot!

♥ Brittany ♥
yes i am aware that i sound like a science book... haha i got that from "dateable" by Justin lookado and Haley DiMarco.

Cold, Wet and NO MORE PASTA

2006-09-03T19:05:00.000-07:00

Task 1:
get from point A to point B. for me and Kristen, point a was the Adams' house and point B was Kristen Adams' car on dallas Ave. we were pretty good at finding it we did although run into one mishap... we went in a circle on accident and it turns out that if we wouldnt have turned onto marigold we wouuld have been at the car sooner. once we did get there we found these things out: team members: Kristen, me, Jen, Andy Taxi driver: Kristen Adams The Taxi: The Adams' van
Task 2:
the one person challenge! the one person? ME yes me! haha well the clue was to search several blocks in the area and i was so scared since i had never been there before in my life so i was freaking out. there was no way i was going to walk around by myself... but when we got to the actual task i was relieved to see the wood blocks lying in the grass. wow yes i finished that one quickly and i was proud of myself, i normally am not good at fining things like that.
Task 3:
NO. MORE. PASTA. case closed... Parassons... surely by nwo you have heard about this challenge and if you havent then you're probably better off not knowing, it was sickly, i ate like half my body weight in pasta... sure it was parassons and yummy and all but EW.we were so sick after that challenge but Pastor came through and provided TUMS... haha no refreshments!
OVERNIGHTER AT THE KEYS' HOUSE
that was possibly the funnest thing ever, aside from the whole collective race. our team had to leave the house at 9:08 am and actually i was surprised about how easy that was... but hey what can i say? i was with my favorite people in the world! THE BSBC YOUTH GROUP!!!!!
Task 4:
McKinley Memorial... steps...106...geese...lost...1 hour...canton..gas station... losers! yeah we got up the steps easily and itw as alright but the isssue was after that,,, we were lost and driving around for an hour looking for the doughboy...
WHO KNEW THE DOUGHBOY WAS A SOLDIER? i was looking for a pillsbury shop! our youth leaders are very educated people!
Task 5:
dough boy... not much to say... we got there.. took the picture... and precede to task 6.
Task 6:
we arrived at the hike as one other group was fiinishing it... yeah we were pretty far behind. The hike was deadly... oh man it was painful but OH SO MUCH FUN. wow the hike would have been really beautiful if i would have been able to stop and enjoy Gods creation, but because we were in a race we had to hurry up and get through it... needless to say my legs felt like jellybut hey, ya know, it was worth it... thw hole time i was telling myself "if you finish this you will get to go up on stage during Audio Adrenaline" and do you know what? ... IT WASNT WORTH IT...yes you eard me correctly, it WAS NOT WORTH IT. haha but, oui, it was fun!
Task 7:
yes the MALL hah we looked like a bunch of hobos walking into the mall all muddy and wet, but it was funny to see people look at us all wierd! the picture both was small... so small.
Task 8:
HAPPY DAYS, HAPPY DAYS, HAPPY DALE... never mind. so yeah you all know the task... a hike that really didnt need to be a hike.... oh man but we did the hike, let me tell you Beckie and i were not happy youth groupers while enduring that hike, Vlint was getting screamed at the whole time although he couldnt hear us... "if two youth groupers are yelling at the youth leader but he didnt hear then did they really yell?"-- Clint. the answer is YES. so yeah we found carl and spet 25 minutes decipheringt the bible verse. then headed off down the WRONG trail and ended up in the octagon parking lot, LOST. i had hurt my ankle but luckily it is better now. we were walking down a road to nowhere hen we met up with another team and we kept on walking down the road until james and Bobby came to our rescue in the church van, thank goodness! i dont think my feet would endure that much more walking.
finish line:
we came in last place... we were cold, wet, injured (to an extent), tired and i was sad.
McDonalds:
Thanks to a cappuccino and a warm, dry donation by Bobby i became warm in the fast food restaurant best known for grease... MCDONALDS, haha yes, we were cold so we stopped at McDonalds to warm up and eat because we were all hungry too.
HOME-SLEEP-CHURCH PICNIC
i came home, took a bath, relaxed, watched Hangman's Curse with my bestest friend... LEANN GRACE! then talked to people and slept!

wow the church picnic was so much fun! the baseball game was fun even though i was awful, watermelon speed sitting contest... haha...was fun i didnt get one single seed in my cup... GO ME! the bubble gum blowing contest made me laugh like no other... i was terrible. the pie eating i gladly did not take part in ! haha wow just too much happened and it was way too much fun! and that is why...

I LOVE BROWN STREET BAPTIST CHURCH AND THE PEOPLE THERE!!!!!!!!

thanks for reading, i know it was long but i had a fun weekend!

♥ Brittany ♥

Leann is sore... This is completely irrelevant

2006-08-30T16:25:00.000-07:00

okay so yeah this week at school so far has been pretty crazy. Monday I accidentally fell asleep in English class for like 2 minutes and was rudely awoken by Mr. Obney's musical obsession. And on the same day since I was REALLY TIRED (to whom it may concern: I think you understand what I'm saying) also in English class, my purse has audio adrenaline pins on it, I was looking at one of the pins and I accidentally said out loud "I like them" at the same time that Mr. Obney was talking about and Antagonist... He said "what was that" and I was like "what? Did I say something?" and he was like "yeah, you just said I like them" and I said "oh sorry I didn't know" man I was embarrassed so yes I guess that proves this statement: "Brittany + not much sleep= o boy"--Bobby.

Yes that will be the last time I doze off during English class... Yet in the same class Mr. Obney said "Brittany does a great job of paying attention in class and participating" .... Yeah thanks but you do realize that I fell asleep yesterday? haha oh well.

My science class decided to basically tell me that I was wrong for believing in creation by God. The topic of this week is how the universe came into being... Yeah a touchy subject for me and my teacher doesn't like me because I always seem to contradict what he says about the Big Bang and Evolution.

Speaking of teachers that don't really like me why not mention the French teacher? She doesn't seem to comprehend that when my hand is raised I KNOW the answer to a question and when it's not I DON'T know "Je Ne Sais Pas" SHE TAUGHT ME THAT why can't she comprehend that I don't know the answer when my hand is not raised?????? Yes, she got mad at me today when she called on me and I didn't know the answer she said "be more responsible and study more next time" okay yeah the reason I didn't know was because I didn't know how to pronounce the word and my work packet was in my English folder! arghhhhhhhhh

I really like math... I'm good at it and the teacher likes me... And he's a really good teacher

oh well I guess I'll go now and leave you all alone without my pathetic ramblings bye now!

♥ Brittany ♥

school

2006-08-26T18:47:00.000-07:00

so yeah we started school on monday and i am liking high school more than i thought i would...its awesome so i went to the football game last night at Cuyahoga Falls and Tallmadge won, our band was awful, compared to theirs and they were too quiet but overall it was a fun time! then today we had my grandma's birthday party and i spent that with Matt and Chris playing soccer in my grandparents' HUGE backyard... like no joke its gimungous! haha... i came home and i decided that i wanted to watch Cinderella, yep i love that movie! theres just nothing like the classic disney animated films on VHS woot woot! yeah hehe well i am done posting for now! love you all!
-Brittany

ACCELLENT!

2006-08-17T10:43:00.001-07:00

so yeah last night Rosie and I accompanied by leann went to OLV and lead youth group there we used interpretation of an... surprise! AUDIO ADRENALINE song called "Mighty Good leader" so it went pretty well. it went better than we thought it would. then afterwards, Leann, Rosie, and Emily spent the night in my "new" basement. hah... yeah and we were pretty crazy... i know that Emily was scared to flush the toilet upstairs because she thought she was going to wake up my mom so she flushed the toilet, we heard a thid and she like ran downstars... needless to say leann rosie and i were in hysterics! haha! well i can barely remember a lot of what happened last night other than our trip upstairs at like 3:00 and the coat rack looking like a man... haha! i was like walking as close to the wall as possible haha. we had lots of serious conversations last night bue somehow... someonw would have made us laugh again. well i'm gonna let you guysg o because i am probably boring you all to death with my uneventful stories about sleepovers! haha so yeah... bye

i'll post again when i have apoint!

oh and the missions week is amazing!

love, --> Brittany

I do believe its that time again!

2006-08-06T09:56:00.000-07:00

Well its been a while since i posted some lovely AUDIO ADRENALINE lyrics up here... so after long thought (two minutes) and many options (like 74) i have decided to use lyrics from the song...
Get Down basically because the music video for this one is so amazing... and i love the song so much... i will feature a picture of....

funny thing= even when it saus "He lifts me up," they still look depressed... hah

"Get Down" by Audio Adrenaline off of the 1999 release "Underdog"

Lavishly our lives are wasted

humbleness is left untasted

we cant live our lives to please ourselves, yeah

thats a tip from my mistakes

exactly what it doesnt take

to win you've got to come in last place

to live your life you've got to lose it

and all the losers get a crown

i get down and He lifts me up

I get down

all i need's another day

where i can't seem to get away

from the many things that drag me down, yeah

i'm sure you've had a day like me

where nothing seems to set you free

from the burdens you cant carry all alone

in your weakness He is stronger

in your darkness He shines through

when you're crying He's your comfort

when you're all alone, He's carrying you

**EMILY: your confusion over this song... the answer: it can have multiple meanings.... but if you want you can ask it again... lol

Where did it go?

2006-07-28T14:05:00.000-07:00

WOW it seems like just yesterday i was walking into TMS with my shoulder sling bookbag and tommy hilfiger tank top thinking i was the coolest 6th grader ever. The last three years have gone by in literally a flash. wow. i still vividly remember the anticipation i harbored inside me on the first day of school last year. 8th grade went by so fast which i can say that at times that was a good thing. but hey i guess as we get older we have a better idea of time and how fast or slow it goes by.
its hard to believe that in less than a month i will be walking through the doors of THS as a STUDENT not a visitor or for a basket ball game. it seems like he last 14 years of my life have gone by in the blink of an eye.
my mind is spinning thinking that Middle school went by so fast and had so much heartache and drama. then epople always have told me that High School goes by faster and that there is more drama and heart ache than Middle school, like Middle school is like preheating the oven and highschool is the full on cooker! AGH i am scared for the next for years of my life, i'm not ready for high school, i dont know if i can handle it.

--> please comment <--

♥ Brittany

the Patmos Post

2006-07-26T09:33:00.000-07:00

Last week at camp was so incredibly amazing i can hardly describe it. in one word i would say it was "Moving" each day i looked forward to the chapel services. the speaker PD was amazing and e had a really unique and great way of keeping me attentive and pulled in. he was funny but his messages were powerful and meaningful. each chapel service had me walking away with so much more than i had come with. this year at camp i didnt make any HUGE decisions like i had last year at banished but it was still powerful and meaningful, if not more than it was at banished. over the last year as some of you might know i have had some doubts of salvation and i was never completely able to relax and think "i'm okay" but after thursday's talk about GUBA i can take a breather and praise God for my salvation! well i'm going to cut it short. Leann got back from france last night and today we have a "Catching up" session.
Much Love
♥ Brittany

PS: Please Pray for my grandma, while we were at camp her shoulder got dislocated, but they fixed it but then yesterday she fell again and it popped back out, she'd not doind real well. thanks again.

I POST AGAIN

2006-07-16T14:29:00.000-07:00

Wednsday: I went to youth group and then after wards Rosie and I spent the night at Emily's house and we found out that Five Iron Frenxy werent wearing their own pants.... "These are not my pants... whose pants are they anyway? are they... tylers or marks or will's or bens?" ROSIE AND EMILY I LOVE YOU TWO! we watched the Audio Adrenaline Concert DVD from Alive 2003, one year before i went. then we had story time with Beckie... hah i will never forget that... SURFER DUDE! lol wow. after that we watched Hangman's Curse while eating basically half of the box of Ice pops. hah. "yea, though i walk through the McDonalds drive through i will fear no fry, for these are not my pants" wow wow wow. hahahaha. finally we went to bed around 4:00 am, which would mean that i should technically put this under "thursday"
Thursday: we woke up and we ate lemon poppyseed muffins, at 10:31 haha i am a bad daughter, lol. i went to my grandma's house and spent the day there with her and then also the night, it was nice to get to spend time with my grandma and grandpa. one time though that night ty called over there and asked to talk to me and my grandpa said "uhm, she's hanging from the ceiling by her feet" and i think she believed him, Grandpa is a reall goofball. i slept in their library thing and it was full of crazy old books that smelled like something off of a farm, it was nasty but the books were like classics and i attempted to read one but, hah it smelled so bad from age that i couldnt finish a page.
Friday: well, i woke up and spent more time with my grandma and grandpa then came home for an hour, talked to rosie on the phone then headed to ty's birthday party with Emily, Beckie and Rosie. NO I AM NOT GOING TO LOCK AUDIO ADRENALINE IN CAGES IN MY BASEMENT WITH THEIR WIVES. dont ask... its a long story. Ty's party was a blast! we had a crazy water balloon toss that laster only about 5 minutes then we went inside and then back outside again to play flashlight tag. we got soaked to the core when it started raining so we made the best of it and went into the church parking lot beside ty's house and we sang camp songs in the rain and just had a great time getting completely soaked, it was so much fun... "All God's children singing glory, glory, hallelujah, he RAINS" haha BeckyGohlke was my partner for flashlight tag and we were crazy insane. we went inside and got dried off and for the most part settled down... until about 11:00 when we reached extreme heights of slap hapiness, "H" lmnop, grass, "ashley, your face is so scary" i have found a hilarious hero, ASHLEY BLASDEL! haha. woow!
Saturday: well i went home from ty's and then i packed my bags for camp, took a shower and headed to OLV for church with my family. there was a missionary speaker from uganda and he had a crazy sounding accent and the whole audience was stifling laughs while he spoke because he was rambling on and every so often he would say "UGANDA" really loudly and the church would like laugh, it was amusing. then i relived my childhood when i got home by watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory (the original version) while eating Gobstoppers and nerds, Wonks candy. it was fun!
Sunday: possibly the hottest day i have ever lived. lol except possibly Switchfoot day last year at Alive. i got up this morning and went to church with Emily and i saw everyone there and it was funny. ATTN: BECKIE KOZY "Kind Of" that was amazing! after church was over i went to my cousin birthday party at Wingfoot park. that was not really my idea of complete fun. the one girl wo is my age is not very friendly to me and the most we said to each other was "hi" and we talked a little bit about where we bought clothes at. her little sister Caitlin who is only 6 was sitting alone while every one was having a water gun and she looked so sad and lonely i went over and talked to her. she was afraid of the water guns so i asked her what she wanted to do and she had wanted to got mini golfing so i was going to take her to do taht but her mom was going to take the whole family later on, so i went over to a play ground with her, not exactly my first choice of fun but it was nice to see her having fun and not looking so sad and lonely. in the car my mom and i got into an argument and that turned my day rotten, then when i got home i came back to a nice message left by kristen Adams (thanks, so much it made my day better to know that you took time to call) and that made my day. well now i have been hanging around here just getting completely pumped for camp.

i am 100 percent completely psyched for camp this week!

well i'll post again when i get back from camp.

♥ Brittany

ROSIE: look here!

2006-07-15T13:08:00.000-07:00

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES MARK AS THE ANTICHRIST IS COMING TO GET YOU! LOL THIS IS mark from audio a... he looks like the antichrist, or just evil, hah.

RUN RUN, i tell you, RUN!
... just kidding, no one will get this except rosie. hah.

how do i say this?

2006-07-12T10:07:00.000-07:00

this car is probably one of the ugliest yet coolest cars ever, it has no AC (air condition) and no FM (radio) and also... NO REGRETS! hah. if you dont know why i am posting about a 1977 chevette then you need to go look at the Audio Adrenaline Website and listen to the song called "Chevette" and then i think you will know.

well to put it easily... here is what the song says.
"CHEVETTE" by audio a, off of "Some Kind Of Zombie" 1997
twenty years ago i watched in awe as my dad drove up teh driveway
more than proud to have a brand new family car
thirty miles to the Gallon and, 0 to 60 sometimes.
i remember putting down the back seat and lying in the hatchback
looking at the sky watching trees go by
i was the son of a preacher and he was a rich, poor man.

No AC
No FM
and No Regrets
in my Chevette
yeah,
in my Chevette

the winter cracked the highway and we tried to dodge the potholes
he never promised us it would be a gentle ride
he never had a problem though, keeping it on the narrow road.

yeah, so as the lead singer said ...that the car symbolized one thing, the fact that his family was poor in the things of this world but they were rich in the things that mattered, tey were rich in the things of God. **

**that was a take off of what Mark said in the DVD. woo well i have decided that because i like Audio A so much that each week (Lord Willing) i will make one post with lyrics from one of their songs. i hope you dont care too much.

♥ Brittany

do this... please

2006-07-09T10:33:00.000-07:00

go to...

www.beginagain413.blogspot.com

and PRAY FOR ROSIE'S FAMILY, please,
Rosie you rock, God is with you.

PLEASE READ THIS...

2006-07-06T08:53:00.000-07:00

so once again i find myself bored at home with nothing to do all day. oh fun i am going to complain here for a few sentences okay? well i have nowhere to go, nothing to do, no one to hang out with and nothing to watch or do. i'm bored out of my mind!!!!!!!!! lol so if you have any idea of how to get me out of this wonderful boredom let me know, comment or call me, please. never mind if you dont know my number then comment me please i am bored out of my mind!!!!!!!!!!!!
♥ Brittany

happy fourth of the seventh!

2006-07-04T14:19:00.000-07:00

wooooo well today i was in the stow parade with Jackie and jessica on the float for their church... wow it was fun! haha we got to throw candy at the little kids, awww they were sooo cute! wooo haha we were lucky and it didnt rain. yeah well Elizabeth was over at my house last week and we were a little crazy... we went on a walk and found a cereal box and... out came....
JULIO!!!!!!!!!!! Julio the traveling cereal box here are just some of the pictures... lol if i did all of them this post would be unbelieveably long. hah. wow hah. lol well much love until my next post.
-Brittany

I AM ALIVE IN 2006!

2006-06-25T19:30:00.000-07:00

well, to say the least, ALIVE WAS.. okay rosie, i'm gonna say it, AMAZING!!!! woooooooooooo

Tuesday we had a great Kick-Off concert with Third Day and the former Backstreet boy Biran Littrell! woo haha he did a medley of Backstreet songs and it was sad that i knew every word to the songs.. hey everyone liked the Backstreet boys at one point right?

Wednesday i had fun watching Matt Redman and my dad was drawn down to the mud pit during Bethany Dillon and Rebecca St. James, wow, i laughed at that But Rebecca St. James was a great performer,i cant really say that about Bethany Dillon but she's still got great music. during Kutless the people around me started moshing and i freaked out and started crying and i bolted out of that pit, only to see that they decided to do my favorite songs right after i left, but hey i was scared of the moshing. Leann, Rosie and I went to wait in line for Kutless' autographs and right as were were out of the tent they all jumped out of their seats and screamed "aaghhhhhh" at the top of their lungs. oh my goodness it was so scary.

Thursday was a very interesting day, it began beautiful in the morning, got a mini storm while we were at the festival grounds, got sunny again then stormed once again. the first storm un four girls seeked shelter under the melody barn. during the second one something crazy happened. leann and i were still sitting on our chair atop the hill while rosie and kassie had gone to buy a tee-shirt from sanctus real and get autographs. just after they had gone some guy came on stage and told everyone that in about 15 minutes there was going to be a storm twice as big as the one earlier and there were possible tornadoes. well leann and i put the chairs away and gathered everything up in record time and ran as fast as possible toward the barn. meanwhile we assumed that Kassie and Rosie had enough sense to just stay underneath one of the tents. about 5 minutes later kassie walks up t us and says that she csant find rosie. apparently they had seen people running and rosie had said "something isn't right" and went to find us and then we werent on the hill and thats when Kassie lost her. so kassie and leann were freaking out and getting scared and i was like dude, its going to be alright. i tried to get scared but it was like God was telling me, no it'll be okay Brittany, he gave me a sense of calmness that just washed over me and i was comepletely secure and not scared. our camp site had flooded so we just packed up and came home. we missed Tobymac and Jeremy camp and that made me sad, but theres always next year.

Friday was awesome we say a fuinny speaker by the name of Justin Lookadoo and he cracked us up! the pit was nothing but a mud bowl, it rained all morning but cleared up by the afternoon for the concerts. Chris Tomlin did the best worship that i have ever experienced! he was soooooo good! wow then to close up the night there was Relient K, fresh off of 3 hours of sleep, and 19 hours of traveling i'm pretty sure they were pretty jet lagged, or car lagged. their drummer had just woken up 7 minutes before tey began the show. haha but they did a great job anyway! i had fun getting muddy up to my knees and screaming the words to the songs at the top of my lungs but that pretty much took away my vocal cords for saturday.

Saturday the day that will go down in Alive Festival history, and brittany rhodes history as well. somehow i managed to get front row for Audio Adrenaline's last time at alive and i tell you, tey didnt let me down. i got some great pictures of the stage and i saw Hawk Nelson up front! they were great! Audio Adrenaline's concert reduced me to tears and i seriously think that there was a puddle in front of where i was standing from me crying so hard. it was their last time to ever perform at the Alive Festival because they are calling it quits at the end of this year as you should all know by now. i was seriously in hysterics from crying and jumping and screaming all at the same time. according to Bill Graening (the coordinator of Alive) they have been coming to Alive for 12 years, that is the most times that any band has ever been there. for a long time they have been named the "House band of alive" by the staff, festival goers, and themselves. it is going to be hard to be at alive without the house band there but i will make it through. casting crowns followed them up and as the lead singer from Casting crowns said last night "no one should have to follow up after Audio Adrenaline, they are too good" i said "AMEN" to that. i agree, and i have nothing against Casting crowns, i love them as much as the next person but seriously, after getting hyped up and excited they kind of had no chance to even win the crowd because they were a soft band. they were kind of setting themselves up for a bored crowd just because they arent as high energy as Audio Adrenaline. the lead singer of Casting crowns was a funny guy and they sounded great in concertbut hey ya gotta admit (if you've seen Audio Adrenaline in concert) NO ONE CAN FOLLOW THEM UP!!!!!!!! i'm not bitter just very opinionated towards AUDIO A i love them!!!!!!!!!!! who else does it for 15 years straight and still is able to get everyone in the entire aphitheater arrea on their feet and screaming????? thats right no one except them!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**TUESDAY**
Third day

**WEDNESDAY**
Kutless

**THURSDAY**
Tobymac

**FRIDAY**
Relient K

**SATURDAY**
Audio Adrenaline

Audio Adrenaline: Alive Will not be the same without them... *tear sniffle sob cry* WAHHHHHHH

♥ Brittany

2006-06-19T10:16:00.000-07:00

okay so yeah alive is 2morrow and i am excited! yay! this is going to be fun! i am defff really excited to be going and i get to see...
AUDIO A, RELIENT K, HAWK NELSON, THIRD DAY, TOBYMAC, CHRIS TOMLIN, AND DAVID NASSER!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOO I LOVE ALIVE!

**Kristen and Clint i hope to see you there at one point, hopefully friday! you will enjoy it tremendously!

LEANN RAMBLES ON AND ON AND ON... lol

2006-06-19T09:42:00.000-07:00

HEYYYYYY!!!! sooooooo XCITED about alive!!! Relient K is my hero lol Brittnay and i were at the library and a funny thing happened: i started mentioning all the people and bands who were to be at Alive and at the mention of DAVID NASSER brittnay started screaming her head off saying ' I LOOOOVE HIM!!' (as she so discreetly did at the concert a few months ago lol). Then in the midst of her screams nice men in white coats came over and took brittnay away. lol

ROSIE: I'll never be as punk and your tatoo! lol brittany told me about the extra track on the switchfoot cd. she was going to write this big long, long, detailed, heartfelt post. But she left it in the car. lol so now she can't post it. She was going to put somehting about the punk tatoo in it so i did it for her lol.

BRITTANY: GIBERISH!! lol can't wait untill OVER THE HAWK, o! btw; we have to go c the altime best movie that comes out on July 7th lol

ALLL DONE !!!!

A freind of mine (his name is confidental for bisneus's sake) is a whore....(he told me to tell the world so here it goes) lol

A man whore preferably...if he ever reads this he knows who he is lol c u at ALIVE!!

much xtremeness!

Leann

@ the North Carolina Library

2006-06-13T12:00:00.000-07:00

well i am going to leave the details of teh trip for when i am actually home and do not have a limit of how long i can use the computer! i am at the Library on Emerald Isle, )which really isnt emerald at all) i miss everyone immensely. Hurricane Alberto seems to be heading our way and that makes the thoughts of a sunny vacation seem well, cloudy. it has been cold and raint since monday, which gave me 3 hours on saturday and all day sunday to actually be in the ocean. but i probably sound like a cynical pessimist but that probably because i have not had that much fun. i was hoping to go to the aquarium today but it was soooooo packed, it seemed like the whole state of NC was there. well the waves were vicious but we still had a lot of fun out thereswimming in them. i caught minnows for my uncle to fish with and he caught like three sand sharks with my little fishies! but hey i will be letting you all go now because i dont want to drone on for too long, i'll save that for later!

I love you all and i miss you guys so much!
♥ Brttany ♥

2006-06-09T09:36:00.000-07:00

we're leaving for vacation in about 30 minutes! i'll miss everyone so much! i'll be back around midnight on the 17th and i'll see evryone at church on sunday then on tuesday we will leave to go to ALIVE 2006! i am so excited! well gotta run! love you all! the beach is calling!
xoxo ♥ Brittany

kay so yeah

2006-06-03T09:15:00.000-07:00

okay guys to my internet just happened to get struck by lightening last thursday so every since hen at home i have not been able to post. but yeah right now i'm at the library and posting here. well so much has happened thsi last week. well, not really mainly just yesterday (friday) well friday i went to school and had Gym Class, then i went to badn and we get on the busses and headed to Geauga Lake for the whole day! well you see i am a Roller Coaster Junkie and i had a blast! my friend Jackie and i headed over to the superman (Steel Venom) ride, which is the one that is red and goes straight up on one side and then into a corkscrew on the other. we got to that ride and there was a lady there who said "right now we are about to film a commercial for this ride but you have to be 18 or older to sign the release form or you need to have a parent or guardian sign for you" well me and jackie we alone so we were thinking "okay well then that wont work" but right as we were about to walk away Jody and her mom came over and since her mom was one of the chaperones she signed for us so probably around next year while watching Geauga Lake commericials look for yours truly, me! that made my day. we rode that ride probably about 7 times total! then we headed over to the batman (the dominator) the big blue one that is the longest floorless roller coaster in the world. that is my favorite ride ever! i think we rode that one close to 8 times! woooooooo it was fun! later on in the day we went overto X Flight, which scared the pee out of me (i felt like i was falling out of the ride) and my face was classic, i'll make the face again and take a picture and i'll post it on here later. then i mustered the courage to ride it again and i actually had a ton of fun! well hen we got home at 6:15 ish anwent to the formal at like 8:00 my friends all looked beautiful, as for me i wasnt feeling all that pretty. the formal was fun and after wards we went to eat at Applebees. yum? lol Emily and i were tired and wanted to go home but thanks to Brittany H she cheered us up and made us laugh "just say it'll be okay, i want cheesecake" hehe that made me laugh. at the dance my favorite part was making up modest dance moves with Emily! yessssssssssss woot woot! but anyway this post is probably droning on so i'll end it!
♥
-Brittany

high school...

2006-05-22T15:15:00.000-07:00

okay so today at school we got our scheduling stuff for the high school! wow it is quite overwhelming and i have decided that i am absolutely not under any circumstances going to coordinate schedules with any of my friends. i am going to schedule according to how i can have a year with as minimal amount of stress as possible! just looking at the classes and knowing that we are in each one for a freaking 83 minutes is mind boggling. right now i have trouble with an hour per class. yeah i'm pretty nervous but i am handling it and taking scheduling one step at a ime. it is quite stressful. it is kind of wierd to wake up in the morning and think, "wow, its finally here the time of my life i have been waiting for all these years, i'm almost a high schooler" while i grew up i would watch my older cousins go through their high school careers and graduate and i would dream of the day that i could call myself a freshman. and now may of eighth grade its almost here. i am just now realizing how fast life goes by and how one minute a special moment is here and the next its not. wow crazy stuff to think about. my best friends and i will soon embark on a four year journey that will hopefully be so much better than middle school. well i am excited for this fall when i can call myself a freshman at THS and proudly take classes day in and day out on a school with (hopefully) matching floor tiles! haha just kidding about most of that last sentence its really not that exciting but i do get to get out of the dump called TMS!
♥ Brittany

ahhh sweet sleepyness

2006-05-21T19:06:00.000-07:00

okay so in light of my recent thrill of emotions and tiredness from the retreat that i just led i have come to the realization that with all the emotions that fill me up i have been able to ask God to fill me with peace and optimism and He will! because He did! i am amazed, after the retreat i am definately full of emotions for the kids that were there and otherthings that had happened and i am thankful that God is there for me to comfort me when i feel low! well sorry i have to cut it short but i have to go sleep!

riddle..

2006-05-18T15:59:00.000-07:00

have you ever passed by a forrest of paper? comment!

Iam Crazy.. enough said!

2006-05-12T19:33:00.000-07:00

well these last few days were pretty boring but not as deathly boring as I had expected. After looking back I realized that this sort of mini vacation was just what I had needed. I did not end up going to my grandparents' house last night, I stayed here and just sort of chilled out all day, I did end up going out for a run on Wednesday and yesterday, but today was a rainy day and I didn't feel like running. Well tonight at the all daughters banquet I had lots of fun! Ha Becky and I got way too much amusement from a little change purse, that's really pathetic, she's 20 and I'm almost 15... Wow! We named the change purse "Iam Crazy" ha again, that should not have been that funny! I think my mom got something out of coming tonight. She looked bitter during the part in the church, but then again she also mentioned that she was cold. I haven't really got much of a reaction out of her as to how she liked the service because every time I mentioned it she would change the subject to my cousin Drew.
Drew was at baseball practice and the ball got hit right into his side, I guess it ruptured his spleen and he was in great pain, they took him to the hospital and they couldn't stop the bleeding, so he was life flighted to another hospital somewhere in PA and while he was there they got the bleeding stopped and I don't think he had to go through surgery. All I know was that while I heard of his injury I was praying just as hard as I was during the banquet. Drew will have to spend like 3 days in the hospital but at least I know now that he is pretty much better.

when we got home I talked with my dad and he asked how mom responded to the service, I said that she didn't really. He agreed that she needs God a lot because she really doesn't have him, I am praying for her, that God draws her to Him, after hearing part of the Gospel tonight I pray that she will be drawn to God and that she would find him and accept Christ into her life, and get saved. Please be praying for my mom.

on an ending note:
Brittany Rhodes
Becky Gohlke
+ a rubber change purse
Iam Crazy and a whole lot of laughs during the "concert"

♥ Brittany

"DONT YOU FORGET ABOUT ME"

2006-05-09T19:33:00.000-07:00

so, tomorrow many of my fellow eigth graders at Tallmadge Middle will embark on a three day long trip to the one and the only Washington D.C. i however, will be staying home. my parents had decided early on this year that they would not feel safe letting me go to Washington DC so for the next three days i can look forward to basicallygoing to school and completeing worthless worksheets and assignments specially designed and ceated for the people who stay back from big school trips. now these papers are made with great care and they make them super long and super pointless. so i am definately not looking forward to attending school tomorrow, thursday and friday.

see my parents are those of consideration and also of the profession of teaching, so therefore they have taken mercy on me and are not making me go to school the next three days. that is a big relief to me! so tonight as i sit home and wonder what i will do with myself for the next three days i have decided to watch the movie from the 1980's called... THE BREAKFAST CLUB. see despite the fact that this movie has numerous innuendos and also a few quite frequent swear words it is still pretty much a good movie.

haha i find this movie to be quite ammusing, it has a popular girl, a "nerd" from the chess club, a wierd girl who is basically a thief, a drug addict and a jock! it makes me laugh!
"... if he gets up, we'll all get up, it'll be anarchy"--- hahaha funniest line in the entire movie, well almost.

i am afraid that for the next three days i will be bored, but apparently on thursday i will be going to my grandma's house and spending the night with her! that makes me incredibly excited!

whoa! seeing as how the first/last time is aw this movie, i guess i didnt catch all the innuendo and drug use! wow thats terrible yet sickeningly funny. haha
over the weekend i was incredibly excited to return to camp patmos with the BSBC youth group! Emily, Ty, Kristen and I had a ton of fun making a mulch path with a piece of mulch that was incredibly huge!!!!!!!!!!! the pool was cool to see progress throughout the day, it smelled basically like human waste which made me so grateful that i ddnt have to do the pool. i enjoyed playing in cement, haha just ask Kristen K about that one! and if you had seen my pants on saturday you would probably be nothing less than shocked to know that somehow all that cement came off my pants!

well i think i'll finish watching the movie because i am afraid that this "post" is basically a novel.
hahaha "can you hear this? do you want me to turn it up" ohh man that was an awful part but again it somehow made me laugh, sickeningly.

basically i ♥ audio adrenaline... haha i dont even know where that came from.
much ♥ until my next post.
-Brittany Nicole

shooooooo whats up?

2006-05-01T12:39:00.001-07:00

okay so, today during school we were in the library and we had to have a book to read and i didnt have a book to read, the only thing i had at school was The Message Remix in my locker. so i ended up reading the bible during language arts instead of some book about a princess... (my other option). I was flipping through the pages and i saw a blue high lighted area. That surprised me because i dont have a blue high lighter and i didnt recognize the passage, i figured that it must have been something my dad had high lighted while reading. so i opened the bible, while some people were seriously staring at me, holding that thick Pink bible in my hands. the passage was in the book of Job.

Still, if you set your heart on God
and reach out to Him,
If you scrub your hands of sin
and refuse to entertain evil in your home,
You'll be able to face the world unashamed
and keep a firn grip on life, guiltless and fearless.
You'll forget your troubles;
they'll be like old, faded photographs.
Your world will be washed in sunshine,
every shadow dispersed by dayspring.
Full of hope, you'll relax, confident again;
you'll look around, sit back, and take it easy.
Expansive, without a care in the world,
you'll be hunted out by many for your blessing.
But the wicked will see none of this.
They're headed down a dead end road
with nothing to look forward to- nothing.

--Job 11:13-20

when i read that passage it really just kind of weighed down on me that with the grace of God i will be able to live in this world guiltless of sin. GUILTLESS i can barely even imagine me without guilt. my guilt weighs me down. to forget my troubles and just sink back into the peace brought through Christ would be amazing. it is amazing what our Lord can do! but i have to cut it short this time, Lord willing i will add on to this post later.

♥ Brittany Nicole

Hello

2006-04-27T05:31:00.001-07:00

SO as some of you may know, these last few weeks have been hard on me but I recently have come to the conclusion (with the help of some great people) that God will never leave me, and with reference from Becky Gohlke I have found out that "the devil ensnares you when he feels that we are weak in our faith and falling away from God" I found that to be so true. After my week or so of problems I have surrendered my all (once again) before His throne and let him deal with the guilt of sin that has been attached to my conscience. Once again I have come to the realization that the Lord is my only hope and that when I try to live without Him in my every decision my life falls apart. And thanks to that Lovely Switchfoot song called only hope I have again realized that He is my only hope, the idea of taking something away that He has so willingly given me is horrid, thank you Kristen, Clint, Emily, Beckie and Mrs. Kozy! I am healing slowly but glad to know that people love me and care about me!
♥ Britt

uhmm... bored

2006-04-08T15:59:00.000-07:00

i'm really bored... i think i'll make it a post about well idk... nothing really... haha i need something to post about...
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i will make it a post about the wednesday night meeting at OLV that Emily Rosie and i lead...
well it overal went pretty well!!!!!!!! there were 11 people there and 10/11 of them we think got saved... the angels were most definately singing! it was cool to see God work through us and to feel his presence so heavily in the room. we had our dear friend Rick McMullen was playing the guitar for us during the prayer.
but hey i gotta go sooooo bye!
much love
BRiTTANY

audio adrenaline

2006-04-02T20:39:00.000-07:00

i decided about 5 seconds ago that i would make this post all about Audio Adrenaline because they Rock! first of all they have had 8 Cd's throughout the course of 15 years! isnt that amazing?
Audio Adrenaline- 1991 ♥
Dont Censor Me- 1993 ♥
Bloom- 1995 ♥
Some Kind Of Zombie-1997 ♥
Underdog- 1999 ♥♥
Lift- 2001 ♥♥♥
Worldwide-2003 ♥♥♥
Until My Heart Caves In-2005 ♥♥♥♥♥
yeah they have had a great career and the guys have had so many different people in the band... Mark and Will seem to be the only two that have been in the band for all 15 years! did you know that on their first CD they had aversion of the Song DC-10 then re did it on Underdog! wow it is awesome! the band members are or at one time were:♥
Mark Stuart♥
Will McGinniss♥
Ben Cissel♥
Tyler Burkum♥
Barry Blair♥
Bob Herdman♥
Brian♥

pretty cool huh?

haha thats them! from left to right: Ben, Mark, Tyler, Will.
woo woo thats the bestest band ever!!!!!!!!!! go audio adrenaline!!!!!!!!!
i ♥ audio adrenaline

any way as much as i love audio adrenaline and cant wait for June 24 2006 when i get to see them in concert again i have to leave you with that and a link to their website!!!

http://www.audioa.com

♥Brittany♥

Crazy Bobby (B-O-B-B-Y) boBBy

2006-03-27T19:22:00.000-08:00

hahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa look its bobby... Bo BBy!!!!!!!!!!!!

hunger center: best kick off for spring break!

2006-03-25T15:38:00.000-08:00

wooo i am glad! i had the ebst kick off to spring break! i got to go back to the hunger center with Danny Enos and two other people from OLV who i dont really get along with but hey thats okay! it was amazing! we beat thenumber of people who were there last time! tpday 215 people were lined up for meals! wow! Dan had a solid bet for 200, then 213 wow thats a lot of people! oh my goodness! on march 12 i saw a Tobymac, Hawk Nelson, ZOEgirl, and Newsboys concert and guess who just happened to be the speaker!!!!!!

DAVID NASSER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3333333333

WHO LOVES HIS WIFE!!!!!!!! haha... Kristen that was so long ago! and TOBYMAC who knows how to holla and if he does that too much he'll loose his voice! HAHA i am now anticipating the alive festival more and more!

well much love until my next post!

blah.... haha SPRING BREAK

2006-03-24T23:18:00.000-08:00

haha guess who doesnt have anything to write about!!!!!!!!!! yep! me! oh never mind..... i have to say that tomorrow i am going to the hunger center! again and i'm excited! wooooooooo i'm helping the less fortunate and it makes me feel so great! today was our last day of school and now we kick off spring break! i'm not going anywhere so i'll be here for the next week all day long doing what spring break is meant for: relaxing and relieving myself of the stress of school! last saturday our DI team... "it seemed like a good idea at the time" won first place in the regional competition! and we are moving ahead to the state competition on april 22!!!!!!!!! please be praying for us in that while we preapre for the performance we will be able to focis and concentrate on the challenge! thanks bunches and i dont really have anythiing else to say other than::::::::::::: i <3333>

"Faith" a strong word

2006-03-04T20:14:00.000-08:00

something i have noticed recently is how some people, especially the teens at OLV seem to fake their faith, they go to sunday school or youth group and act like they are completely into their faith but then i see them outside of church and how they act, how they talk and it is definately not how they act in sunday school. i dont think any of them realize just how important it is to be true to their faith because faking it isnt going to get them anywhere with God. then again most of them are lost and i feel that it is my part as a saved born again christian to go and tell them the truth and be a witness to their sinful way of life. some people have tried to tell me that its not my place to witness to the people at OLV but i strongly feel that it is and no matter what that person or anyone else telle me i will be a witness to the people, they are lost and i care about them and i dont want to sit around and wait for someone else to do it when i am there and i am perfectly capable of witnessing.
on a higher not today i went to an akron universtity basket ball game, they played against Kent State and guess what they won!!!!!! it was a great game Akron started off strong then fell behind and pulled back ahead in the second half then went neck and neck for most of the second half then right in the last 2 minutes pulled ahead and won!!!!! woo FEAR THE ROO ... roo who? fear this... pfft FEAR THE ROO!!!!!!! after wards my family and i went to BW3's for lunch and guess who was siting behind us... Charlie Frye, Braylon Edwards, and Kellan Winslow. wow me and my cousin were excited! it was cool! even though i dont realy follow pro football t was still really cool to have football players sitting behind us and at the game we saw LeBron James, that was awesome! i do follow pro basketball! go cavs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
last saturday i had the most amazingt time at the hunger center at grace united church in akron... i was at first not realy wanting to go because i had to go with people from OLV who i realy dont get along with at all. but while i was there we were all able to put aside our differences and not fight or anything like that. there were i think about 170 people lined up for free meals. wow as the people filed in the social hall to get their hot meal it brought tears to my eyes to see so many people who were so less fortunate than i am. as they would leave we would hand them a bag lunch with a sandwich, candy bar and an apple. one man as he was leaving he said "an apple a day just isnt enough these days" that really got to me i found it so saddening to me to know that something i take for granted like an apple or a hot meal is something that these people only get once in a while. yet at the same time it brought joy to my heart to think that even though these people suffer there are people like us who can help them. i realized at the end of that day that God had sent me to the hunger center without friends so that i could really take in the image and the poverty that is right here in akron ohio. wow! God works in amazing ways!

well much love until my next post.

random lyrics to a realy good song

2006-02-18T04:24:00.000-08:00

~**let us love and sing and wonder**~Jars of clay

let us love and sing ad wonder, let us praise the saviors name
he has hushed the laws loud thunder he has quenched mt. sinais flame
let us love the Lord who bought us pitied us when enemies
called us by his grace and taught us gave us ears and gave us eyes
he has washed us with his blood
he presents our sould to God
let us wonder grace and Justice join and point to mercys store
when through grace in Christ our trust is justice smiles and asks no more
he who washed us with his blood
has secured our way to God
let us praise and join the chorus of the saints enthroned on high
here they trusted him before us now their praises fill the sky
he has washed uss eith his blood
he will bring us home to God

whooooo! i love the lyrics to that song. i highlt recommend going out to the word and buying redemption songs by Jars of clay i think its a great CD and you should go buy it! by the way i was watching the alive DVD from 2004 and David Nasser ( an amazing and captivating speaker) made a great point! "indeed you are saved by works, but by the works of Christ"-- David Nasser
think about that... does it make as much sense to you as it does to me?

i know who defines me...

2006-02-11T08:54:00.000-08:00

last night TMS had our Valentines Day Dance and i had a lot of fun yet i nticed how provocative the dancing was and i stayed out of it. two of my friends danced with people and i did too but i wont mntion who it was because itwas just because my mom said that we each had to dance with someone once, so i did. i wore a nice outfit and got fake nails on and the nails are killing me because i can barelydo anything but i'm getting used to it. by the way: yesterday Kristen Keys turned 14 soo.... as i sang to her on the phone: Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday dear Kristen, Happy Birthday to you! well i dont see how people go to the dances and dance so terribly, it sickens me to go to the dances and hear all this terrible secular music that worsihps sex and impurity and then see the impure dancing to go along with it, its terrible and it was hard to be there without someone who shares my views like, Emily. Jackie and jessica were there but i couldnt talk to them the way i talk to Emily because they were caught up in thinking about who they could dance with. well thats all for now, comment please! much love until my next post.

~Brittany~

good news/ bad news

2006-01-21T21:51:00.000-08:00

BAD NEWS FIRST!!!!!!
if anyone reading this happens to be a diehard audio adrenaline fan you might wanna grab a box of tissues! are you ready to hear this? okay well due to 15 years of strenuous usage of Marcus Alan Stuart's voice as the front man Of Audio Adrenaline and giving it his all on stage his vocal cords have taken quite a beating and because of that his voice has gotten raspy and gone bad. at the end of this year Audio Adrenaline will be splitting up. i find this news terribly sad and upsetting to me since i have been a HUGE fan for quite a long time and i love Mark Tyler Will and Ben so much it is hard for me to hear this news but i guess that it is for the est i wouldnt want Mark to loose his voice, that would be terrible. when i first heard this news within about 5 second i started bawling my eyes out! through out 2006 they will put out a "adios" DVD... i dont know about you all but i plan on buying it.

GOOD NEWS NEXT!
the alive festival has posted some amazing and great news on their message board... the headlineing band at the kickoff concert will be.........

THIRD DAY

last year their concert at alive was awesome and i cant wat for this years! i LOVE THIRD DAY!!! i am like literally in love with the lead singers voice!!!!!!!! well i have to go now so i'll leave you all alone for now!
much love until my next post.

psalm 51... God be merciful to me

2006-01-19T15:41:00.000-08:00

this is what i want you to do.... go and read Psalm 51 in your bible... its good and this song on the Jars of Clay CD is based off of it, its called "God be merciful to me" here are the awesome lyrics to it...

God be merciful to me, on thy grace i rest my plea
plentious in compassion now
blot out my transgressions now
wash me make me pure within
cleanse oh cleanse me from my sin
my transgressions i confess
grief and guilt my soul oppress
i have sinned against thy grace
and provoked thee to thy face
i confess thy judgment just
speechless, i thy mercy trust
i am evil born in sin
thou desirest truth within
thou alone my saviour art
teach thy wisdom to my heart
make me pure thy grace bestow
make me whiter than the snow
gracious God my heart renew
make my spirit right and true
thy salvations joy impart
steadfast make my willing heart
steadfast make my willing heart
broken humbled to the dust
by thy wrath and judgment just
let my contrite heart rejoice
and in gladness hear thy voice
from my sins oh hide thy face
blot them out in boundless grace

that is a great song....i listen to it every morning (or i have at least since monday) and it always makes me feel better, i dont know why, but it does.
if you read the psalm you will see that it sounds like aprayer that is how i see it and that is what makes psalm 51 so beautiful. i'm telling you, psalm 51 is a beautiful psalm and you should read it. well i have to go, much love until my next post!

*~!~*Brittany*~!~*

i haven posted in a while...

2006-01-16T20:59:00.000-08:00

so yeah todays verse is:

All this also comes from the LORD Almighty, wonderful in counsel and magnificent in wisdom.
~ Isaiah...

can you tell me what the verse is? i gave you the book and i'll give you a clue the chapter number begins with a "2" and so does the verse number!!!!!! happy verse searching! LOL comment me if u think you found the verse!!!!!!! i'll let you know what the correct verse was soon!

as the time for our leadership of the OLV youth group draws nearer i get more and more nervous yet i find that the closer we get the more knowledge and wosdom God is giving us. sunday night while Rosie, Emily, and I were brainstorming what we will talk about we found God pouring down ideas and bible passages to us. we felt his power washing over us and drenching us with the truth it was amazing! while praying during "Love Song" by Third Day i found myself weeping with the Joy of the Lord and the immense beauty of his Grace! i believe that after sunday my eyes have become more open to God's love and the beauty of his Grace and the beauty of my salvation! i have been praying for each kid at the OLV youth group by name for the lonest time and i really believe that if Gods will is for Kids to come to know Christ through our meeting then i will happen, maybe not right there at the meeting but maybe we could make an impact on them and they could do it on their own time. well thats all i have to say for now... so much love until my next post!

*~!~*Brittany*~!~*

back...................................................................

2006-01-14T08:28:00.000-08:00

so yeah i havent posted in a while so i think i'll post now... i've been meaning to post on this topic for a while so i will...

as we have gone back to schoolsince christmas break i have noticed how sinful the people act... there is so much swearing that people use and so many people use sexual jokes and its all extremely dirty! it sickens me every time i hear someone say a cuss word. i cant get through one bus ride without hearing at least 20 swear words come out of the moiths of the people on my bus and sadly enough thats only in the morning... its terrible. people will use my faith against me and mock me for it, i know that 2 timothy 3:12 says "yes, and all who desire to live Godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution" but it still is hard. the people on my bus will use swear words against me if i even so much as bring up the words "youth group" and since i listen to my christian music i get ridiculed for that too, i am the only person on my bus who is saved (other than my sister) and no one will listen to me. i have no back up for God and i am looked upon as weak and pathetic because i dont get my strength from SATAN and his band of DEMONS like everyone else... some people even say "go to h---" because i dont join in and make fun of people or say that because they're not virgins anymore tey're cool, i quietly sit in my seat listening to FFH and i silently say a prayer everyday for them, actually everytime i hear a swear word come out of their mouth i say a prayer for that person who said it. i feel useless to God because i feel like i am failing him by not speaking up more and backing up my opinion more often.

but the good thing that has happened is that the youth director at OLV (my catholic church) has given Emily, Rosie and i permission to lead a meeting on January 25 on death and i feel so special i see that God as opened a door when i felt that i was failing him. on the day that i found out about the opportunity the daily verse was colossians 3:16 "let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other in hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord" after reading that we decided to add some music into our meeting that we will be leading. please be praying for us as we take on this challenge and also for me with my school situation.

please comment if you will offer prayers, just so i can know that i will have prayer support! thanks

MUCH love until my next post!

okay so i'm one day late...

2006-01-02T10:09:00.000-08:00

okay, so to start off with one of those songs that i said i was going to put on my blog every day.... i think i will start off with *drumroll please*

IT IS YOU from......... NEWSBOYS (newsgirls)

as we lift up our hands, will you meet us here?

as we call on your name will you meet us here?

we have come to this place to worship you

God of mercy and Grace,

it is you, we adore

it is you praises are for

Only you

the heavens declare

it is you, it is you

holy, holy, is our God almighty

Holy, Holy is his name alone

holy, holy is our God almighty

Holy holy is his name alone

listening to that song gave me chills down my spine. i was having a thought back to the alive festival when rosie and i were standing at the top of the hill during their encore holding our chairs getting ready to go back to our campsite and turn in for the night. we were standing at the top of the hill with my parents and rosie and i were standing beside each other singing out loud and proud and my parents were being quiet but by the end when Peter had the audience sing i looked over and saw my mom and dad singing quietly. it was an amazing moment. and of course the version of the song that i have is the live version. oh well this is a wonderful worship song and as i listen to the song i can not help but pray and sing aloud in worship and praise to our God.

you never know...

2005-12-31T12:11:00.000-08:00

i never really full realized how short life really is. i had no idea how quickly God could take it away from you. up tragic news about what had happened to a young woman at our church i realized just how quickly life can be taken away from you. life is short and you should cherish your life while you still have it. when hearing about someone like Tiffany Tilenni get killed it makes me think how lucky we are to have our lives i barely knew her but meeting her once had touched my life and i was sad i can barely even begin to think how her family must feel. please be praying for them. i feel terrible that she had to get killed because she was such a wondrful person. its sad. in the song "we live" by superchick (superchico) it says "we live, we love, we forgiv and never give up becuase the days we are living are gifts from above" wow how amazingly tru each day is a gft from God and we should cherish is just like we cherish any other gift we get from God, like our salvation. hearing about Tiffany's death has made me thankful for my life. it makes me very sad to know that when i walk into OLV for mass on saturdays i will no longer see her sitting in the row in front of me with her family, i will just see her mom, dad, and brother. i pray that she died with peace and happiness and that she didnt have to go through extreme pain and suffering before dying. i dont know enough about her to know if she is in heaven but i hope that she is. please keep the tilenni family in your prayers.

the odd actions of OREO

2005-12-29T14:22:00.000-08:00

i got an idea today from Kristen Adams.. actually she didnt tell me this but i got the idea from what she did during the month of december except instead of posting everyday about a person i will post everyday about a song that i like so i will start that on New years day. yeah i am really bored today and i have nothing to do except be bored! i think i'm rambling so i would advise you to read the last post that i have put up and not ask questions unless it is in the form of commenting. wow... that was random i was listening to music and them the music stopped and i heard my sister singing "open the eyes of my heart lord" from the living room but now she is calling for my dog... and little does she know he's actualy laying on my bed watching me... that was quite wierd because oreo never even comes into my room, Becca wants to brush his teeth but for some odd reason whenever she gets him out of my room he like runs back in and jumps onto my bed and will not leave, oh well he is a cute lil puppy. oh well now she got him out for more than two minutes and he is out eating treats. goodbye for now! MUCH love until my next post!

this is what happens when you die your hair blonde!... warning: this may be kind of wierd

2005-12-28T18:08:00.000-08:00

EMILY: i'm such an imbocile
BRITTANY: huh? whats an imbocile... thats words too big it has too many numbers, it like makes my foot hurt.
EMILY: Can someone please pass me an atlas?
BRITTANY:I have an Atlas at home but i dont think you'll find imbicile in there, try the almanac
EMILY: i dont think you'll fing Imbicile in the almanac.... those are for like antonyms and cinnamons! Every one knows that!
BRITTANY: oh... what about the encyclopedia.. isnt that like the one with words? i dont know that one has too many numbers too!
EMILY: man i need to be jellin, my foot hurts from all this thinking!
BRITTANY: yeah me too, my foot is like going dead!
EMILY: i tried the dictionary but there were like way too many words...and i couldnt find it... i looked under "E" but it like wasnt there... i dont think the dictionary gives definitions anyway...i mean c'mon everyone knows that the dictionaries are for like spelling only. and they cant even spell imbocile!... man my foot is hurting me really bad, i'm going to ask my mom to take me to the orthodontist!
BRITTANY: no the orthodontist is for like babies, the chiropractior is for foots, duh!
EMILY: no the chiropractor is for like brains! if anything we should go to the dermotologist.
BRITTANY:Oh! i think you're right. OW that hurt my foot really bad!
EMILY: okay, but lets get a snack first.
BRITTANY:okay, what do you want?
EMILY: coca cola and n&n's, or is it M&M's i can never remember
BRITTANY: i dont know i like Jack and acks, or is it mike and ikes?
EMILY: i think its like ike and mikes, M&M's
BRITTANY: yeah that sounds right.
EMILY: i cant find any ike and mikes so i guess i'll just have mike and ikes
BRITTANY: huh? there are mike and ikes too?
EMILY: i think so but my foot fell asleep and it cant wake up i tried putting my alarm clock next to it but it just wont wake up! so i cant think straight... or is it curvy?
BRITTANY: i dont know, i thought it was spiraly! i have to go like make my bed or was it the dishwasher?
EMILY: i think you empty the dishwashe.. it dont know what you do with the bed
BRITTANY: you make the dishwasher and you empty the bed, i would know i do it every day
EMILY: wow, this coke is like.. really bubbly... it says carbonated, does that mean it has lots of carbs? i've been watching my figure you know... i've only been to mcdonalds for one meal!
BRITTANY: I dont know, i though carbonated was like cardboard...
EMILY: no, cause then the drink would be like crunchy... OW THE PAIN!
BRITTANY: *cry*sniffle* ouch?! i stepped on the wall...
EMILY: yeah i hate when i do that i also hate when i trip going upastairs... it really hurts...
BRITTANY: yeah... i did that today, stairs are like that things that like go up and down, like at like Coughmans...
EMILY: thats at the mall... isnt it... i love the mall!
BRITTANY: there was like this big sale at like aropostale.
EMILY: yeah i know, i bought like 100$ of stuff... but i keep seeing a butterfly on the clothes... i cant figure out how to get rid of it...it keeps like flying to different shirts and stuff... it changes colors too... its like.. its like, a camoflauge small buterfly that is out to get me...
BRITTANY: yeah i saw that little butterfly too...
EMILY: and like american eagle has like a little bird
BRITTANY: so does like hollister.... its confusing!
EMILY: and i've like seen off brands with like hippos and owls.. i'm really scared.. we sgould like alert authorities.. like the president!
BRITTANY: dont they know that animals are meant for outside? not clothes except for like flowers.. is w one of those things at the theater where there was this big box and it like had people in it... and they were like taling and like walking

soo yeah we came up with the beginning to that in the car on our way back from youth night and yeah we built on it now!!!!!!!!!!!!! amazing things can come from BRITTANY and EMILY.... gotta love Emily Kozy and Brittany Rhodes' brilliance!
MUCH love

Christian Tipping

2005-12-27T18:57:00.000-08:00

CHRISTIAN
TIPPING

ever heard of cow tipping? you go in a field of cows and tip them over, well christian tipping... you walk in a christian church and tip over the people!!!!!!! CHRISTIAN TIPPING.

HAHAHAHA!!! ROSIE and KASSIE.
comment if you like it!

OCD... hehe... KUTLESS

2005-12-27T10:36:00.000-08:00

wow, i am sooooooooo in love with Kutless, you have no idea! wow they are amazing and the more i listen to their CD the more i am liking them. i have grown a liking for almost every song on their CD other than... Better is One Day, even if it is by Kutless i still think it is helplessly annoying. i really like the song called "Jesus Lord of heaven"

Jesus Lord of heaven i did not deserve

the grace that you have given and the promise of your word

Lord i stand in wonder of the sacrifice you made

with mercy beyond measure my debt you freely paid.

your love is deeper than the oceans higher than the heavens

reaches beyond the stars in the sky

Jesus, your love has no bound

wow that one is amazing too, i hope ya'll like worship music because from now on i will probably posting lots of lyrics to these worship songs from the Kutless album. well i will have other posts but be ready for more Lyrics. comment me and tell me what you think of the songs. thanks!

MUCH love,

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Gotta Love Kutless

2005-12-27T02:59:00.000-08:00

on their new CD Strong Tower Kutless has proven amazing talent, far from ther previous releases this CD has a softer sound, not as heavy rock as their self titled CD but taking a turn like their first CD. a straight up worship album it is amazing! My Aunt bought me Strong Tower for a Christmas present and i have listened to it more than my WOW2006 and Relient K Apathetic CD's which i also got for christmas.
this CD has Songs titled... *we fall down*finding who we are*take me in*ready for you*draw me close*all who are thirsty*Better is one day*All of the words* Strong Tower*Jesus Lord of Heaven*i lift my eyes up*word of God speak*arms of love.
if you like worship songs then i highly recommend this CD for you.
my favorite Lyrics from the cd are:

Ready for you

Lord, you take my heart away with your love

and i, am wiling to put on my faith in your plan

come and take my life make my soul refreshed in truth now

i am ready for you, take my heart and make me new now

i am ready for you to come and take my soul

cleanse all of my mind that is not of you

break me teaching me how to find rest in your hands

whatever it takes i'm needing to make your will be done

and i'm letting go of my control for i see what you've done in me

i heard that song and i fell in love with it, mainly the beauty and truth of the lyrics and how much it connected ith how i feel when i think about my salvation. written my the lead singer in Kutless Jon Micah Sumrall, i am grateful that i was priveaged to get their autographs at alive 2005. i'm greatly anticipating seeing them there this year. I LOVE KUTLESS!!!

hey guys i got a new blog

2005-12-26T12:12:00.001-08:00

i deleted my other blog because it wouldnt let me access it anymore so this is my new one..... anyway i have nothing better to post right now so i'l stop.