Tonight at 7:20

…..wesley comes home.

!!!!!!!!!

haha

Lauren Mae Armstrong

Tonight is Lauren’s going away party. Not sure if I will see her again after tonight. I am going to miss miss Amstrong. She has been such a sweet friend during my high school years, and i know that she will do great things in North Carolina. Lauren is an amazing singing one of the brainiest people I know, and has struggled with God and has come to know Him on a deeper level. She has been there in times of need for her friends, and always has a smile on her face. Yes, I am going  to miss her correcting my speech and such, but I know that she is on to bigger and better things. Lauren-your awesome and you are my sunshine. Shine on my dear, shine on.

lauren and me at hume…yes it is awkward. o_0

New Running Partner

I know that I fail at life again….but! I do have an update for you. Work Crew was amazing. I learned so much this year and made some many awesome amazing friends. Which I can’t wait to see. I have a few buddies down in San Diego, and some up in beautiful Santa Barbara. It was awesome, and if you are really cool you will check the facebook to see all my pictures. (I have 3 albums worth….wow)

Anyway, I have started my new work out program. Since I have not done any from of exercise what-so-ever since track was over in May I am beginning my quest to get back in shape. And who is this new running partner you may ask? Well, its my dog. She has not done to bad these first couple of times out. Like me she is out of shape and if she loves to go on walks, then I might as well make her run with me. I don’t go to far because otherwise she might pass out and die or something else terrible. So anyway, thats my new deal.

Sarah gets home tonight from her missions trip to the Philippines! I can’t wait to see her, considering that I have not seen her in 6 weeks. Holy cow. I’m sure she had an amazing time and I can’t wait to hear all about her adventures. My room has been far to quiet since she has been gone. What will it be like when I move to Colorado with out her? *gasp*

Speaking of Colorado I have one month till I move to Ravencrest. Wow. I can’t believe that college is actually happening. It’s crazy. However I can not wait for the community that I will be in. I have already met a few people on facebook that I will be going to school with. Some of them are in their 20’s but I think most of them are strait out of high school like me. It is definitely going to be a life changing experience. I wonder what I am going to learn, what will the speakers be like and what kind of mission trips will we go on? I can’t wait!

River Romp is right around the corner too. That is also going to be off the chain. Dad is going to teach me how to drive the boat, and is Melbro is feeling nice-she just might let me pull some of the high schoolers. hee-hee. Agh! I can’t wait. I love life. ^_^

“Let the little children come to me”

I know why Jesus said those words now. There are so many beautiful shinning faces here. I don’t get to see to many babies, but every once in a while I have gone out into the dinning hall during a meal and just been overwhelmed by all of the little children. They are so amazing and so beautiful. There are moms here aging from 13 to 20. wow. I can’t even imagine having a child of my own now, and I’m 18! Having a child and being 13! wow. However, even though it is not the way God intend for it to be, he still loves each and everyone of these children (mother or not) and beacons them to him. What a marvelous and loving God.

two down, two to go

Well, its the end of week two. Next week we will have over 600 people here. Thats because its young lives. Which is young life for teenage moms. Its going to be really really cool. I’m not sure how everything works exactly but I do know that there are baby sitters for the moms that come. And that we have to wash dishes three times for every meal. What I mean by that is, that there is breakfast for us, breakfast for the baby sitters, and then breakfast for the girls and their kids. few! Its is going to be one heck of a week for sure. 

The pits have a new recruit! Her name is Jill and she is from Las Vegas. She was a camper here last week, and was able to stay for the rest of the session with us. She is awesome, and has fit right in with us. Now we have a full team and so the dishes get done a lot quicker. We are having a total blast too. We have random fights with left over food, spray each other with the hoses, and of course eat almost all the left over cookie dough. I think I have gained like 5 pounds. lol.  

Anyway the week has flown by and its been amazing. I love getting to see so many kids come to know Christ and see what his love looks like in action. Last night after work crew presentation, we drop cookies and punch off in the rooms for the campers and if they want we share a quick one minute testimony. Sydney (she is a twashi [aka housekeeping]) and go to go together to a cabin of what we think were sophmore girls. They were so sweet and supper talkative. Anyway, they invited us in and we both got to share a little about our lives.

It’s been a great week and everyday has new adventures. We are all getting closer and a there is a rumor that a trip to the grand canyon is being planned. Sweet!! However, Taylor does not really care that much considering she lives in Williams. “I’ve been like 10 times.” she said. That would be so weird to me. Living so close to something so…grand. haha, but yea. The rest of us are excited. 

Time to stop being a sneak!!

Sneeking on the computer

Right now I am at Lost Canyon for work crew. We are not really supposed to go online, but one of the girls has a computer so I thought I would jump on and update the blog. Since it has been a while.

So far work crew has been a total blast I am having so much fun meeting new people for the first time.Today is Saturday so our first week of campers are going to be leaving around 2 today. The week has flown by. Last night I was givin the opportunity to share my testimony with the campers durrung club. It was so cool. At frist I was not sure what I was going to share about, but God just gave me the words to say. I am so glad that I was givin that chance and I hope that I touched someone. At least one person.

Working in the pits has been really fun. Natalie my fellow it girl and I are getting pretty close. Working with 4 other boys kinda gets a little crazy, so its nice to have a girl around. Even thought that its lots of hard work, we are having a great time and really getting to know each other. My boss-Scott- is really cool. He makes up random cheers for us to do. Time for lunch!!

–miss molly.

Fathers Day

First off, happy fathers day dad. You’re great. I don’t think that I can write what you mean to me, so I guess I’ll have to leave it at that. If I had enough words, this would be the longest post in the world. Seriously, out of all the blogs across the world wide web, this post would be the longest. But I don’t the time nor the words to write how great you are. You are still awesome. lol.

Well, I’m done with high school. Graduation was last Wednesday and it was one of the funnest days ever. I thought that it was going to be quiet and some what somber the whole time, but when we came around the corner and down the out door theater I was blown away. It was so loud and everyone was standing and cheering. My face hurt from laughing and smiling so much. It was so amazing. SK let us take time to thank a teacher and a bunch of people screamed out to the teachers that they were most appreciative of. I yelled for Mr. Ryan.

After some more speeches that I don’t really remember, SK began to talk about the principals medallion, which is a big award that they give out at graduation along with a 500 dollar schoolarship. I laughed to myself as he read off some of the qualifications of the award thinking “hey I do some of those things, that would be crazy if I won.” As soon as I finish this thought I hear the phrase “This years principals medallion goes to Molly Norton.” I could not breath. No way. I won? Seriously? Holy crap. Slowly I made my way up to the strange as SK read off a list of things that I have been apart of though out my high school career. My hands were shaking on stange I I could not feel my fingers. Latter Wes told me that it looked liked I was going to faint. I have never been or felt so honored in my entire life.

Grad night was a force to be reckoned with. Disneyland was sooo much fun. Sadly I was not able to pull the seat belt trick on Tower of Terror because the mean man caught me sitting on all the extra slack. :/ Dang…But other than that it was a great night. I hung out with Carina, Paul, Kevin, and Mel for the night. Robert hung out with us while we were in CA Adventure, but then vanished once we got into D-land. We got some clam chowder at 3 in the morning along with some really really bad coffee to help keep us alive. Our buses were very late in the morning which was rather annoying considering that we were very cranky. I wanted to punch someone. When we finally got back to OHS I was greeted with the sight of my egged car. >_< Stupid class of ‘09 thinks they are very funny. I hate all of them. After I dropped Paul off at his house, and he helped me wash my car I came home at 7:30 and slept till 11:30. I got up to go shopping with mom at the billabong store.

The rest of the week has been a blur. I have done tons of stuff and tons of nothing I can’t really remember much of what happened. The senior dinner was crazy last night. Lots of drama. End of story. After that though I headed up to a big ol party for foothill people and danced till 12:00. It was crazy. This house was huge. I wanted to just walk around and get a tour of the estate. Anyway that was fun.

And now it is Sunday evening, and I’m hanging out at the Torok’s house for fathers day. Tomorrow EC and Lolo are coming over to hang out and plan Mexico. We leave on Friday!!! yay!!! Foothill graduation on Wednesday! yay!!!

One Week Left

Sorry that I have not been around for a while. It has been kind of crazy around here. I only have one week of school left. And only one day of actual class. Its really crazy. To think that I have been thinking about this my whole life and now that it is actually happening is crazy to the max. Tonight is my last of high school EDL and it is going to be kind of sad. I am really going to miss the high school group. It has been so much fun being apart of that for the last four years. I really feel at home there.

Mrs. Buttrey asked us to write an essay reflecting on our years in high school. I really liked my essay. And because I liked it so much, I thought I would share it with the world wide web.
Abandoned, alone, and on the outside. I was at a new school, with only a few familiar face. Freshman year is not something I really remember. Perhaps I tried to forget all of it, or perhaps I was to naive to see the things that went on around me. My best friend vanished half way into the year, and I was left wandering around at lunch by my self; pretending I had somewhere to go. I have always been an optimistic person every day I would try to clinging to the idea of having somewhere to belong. I moved around to various groups of friends, at one point some of the older girls on my volleyball team “adopted” me. I went through day-by-day trying to get used to the big monster called high school. I came from a small middle school where I had close friends and knew everyone. I was desperate to find a place to belong. And toward the end of freshman year I thought I found it.
Sophomore year was the year of bros and the quad. I had made friends with a few of the “bros” from class and they seemed to like me so I just hung out with them. They were nice to me, and accepted me for who I was: a blonde, goody-to-shoes, who went to church (can you believe it) every Sunday. And they were ok with it. I began to be comfortable in who I was. I developed more of a personality. I was able to break out of my shell a little. I enjoyed having somewhere to go, and feeling like I belonged somewhere. I also was making friends in my classes. I finally knew people’s names, and not just their faces. I made varsity soccer that year and ran varsity track. I felt like my life was going somewhere. Like “hey I can do high school, this is not that hard.”
My junior year can be described in one word: boyfriend. I almost feel as if I don’t need to say anything else. But looking back on my junior year I realize that it was a time of my life where I grew a lot as a person. I got to be a key player on the volleyball team and the soccer team and I won my league championships in track that year. I was able to experience a healthy, and very fun relationship with my boyfriend (who I am happy to say is still a good friend of mine) and I grew close with my group of friends at church.
And then summer came. I call it the best summer of my life. I was going into my senior year of high school and I had my license, and everything was perfect. I got to spend three amazing weeks at a Young Life camp working in the dinning hall and making many amazing new friends and serve other people. I went to summer camp with my church for a week and the whole dynamic of my small group changed. Conversations of everything from rape to cutting to anorexia brought us together in ways none of us could have imagined. Those 3 am talks gave me a new perspective on how even though I knew most of these girls my whole life I barley knew anything about them. We were able to come alongside each other in love and help each other deal with family issues, self esteem issues and spiritual struggles. That summer my friendships deepened and even though I had to let go of a lot of things that mattered to me, I was changed and into a different person.
I did not want that summer to end. I was scared to death to start school. Who would I be friends with? Can you believe it? A senior not knowing who she would hang out with. I was in the same place that I was my freshman year. All my close friends went to different schools and I as I stood in the quad on that first day of school I wanted to die.
But here I am. It’s the end of the year, and after four years I can call this place home. I have made some real friends here and found a place that I belong. It’s been hard, and I have made many mistakes along the way. However just as Orange High starts to fit like a glove I have to leave. Maybe that’s why it is time to leave. I love this place and I am sick to this place. Maybe that is what this year is all about anyway; just getting used to it and packing our things to leave and go see what the world has for us. I’ve gone from a silly blonde freshman to a…well, a something. Maybe I’m just a silly blonde senior with a little more perspective on life.

grrr….

I hate shopping for bathing suits. I’m in a bad mood. I’m going to go read. I’ll come back in an hour or so. So take that world.

Another random Tuesday night

Well, here is another random Tuesday. I just got back from some baby sitting at the Vanderwalls. Don’t really have any homework tonight. So now I’m kinda bored. I wish that I had a good book to read or something, because then I would have something a little more stimulating.

Tomorrow, I have 5th period for 3 hours in the morning. Its going to be really exciting. lol. I’m going to work on my editorial and then play some Simpson’s Monopoly. That is for sure going to be fun for hours and hours. haha. Well, maybe I will go start reading The Chonicals of Narnia or something. Speaking of which, Prince Caspian comes our in 16 days!

–mm

ps-Prom is on Saturday. Its going to be amazing!