Exciting New Blog Update

 

 

 

Small blog updates

I finally decided to change my "profile" picture and "my brothers and sisters" picture, and I'm thinking about getting a new background.
My profile picture was three years old, and since then I've been through a few different changes, so I thought a new picture would be nice. Some of them were, getting  contacts nearly two years ago, got braces, got them off last year (yay) , and went through a variety of hair cuts and styles.
The brothers and sisters picture was old enough that I was regularly correcting the ages, so I put up one we took just a few weeks ago. It's kinda neat I have enough siblings to wear a whole package of socks at once! :) (If you're confused at that statement, just scroll down and look at the picture)
Sometime soon I'll post some pictures that we took for our Christmas card, they're really cute. We took them at Nagshead in October, while we were there with our Granddad.
I'm going to get to the second part of my post soon, which will include pictures from that vacation.
I saw a neat hairstyle on   Rachel Heffington's blog the otherday, so I tried it out. It was very easy to do. Here is the video tutorial. I try to not use curling irons, since they're so bad on your hair, so I put my hair up in pin curls, and it turned out well.

I hope everyone was able to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather today!
Have a blessed week,
Kelsey

 

Fun songs post

Hi guys! I'm sorry I haven't been a faithful poster recently, it just isn't one of my top priorities.
I've had so many posts in my head for a while, so hopefully I'll finally be able to put some of them on the blog.

   I have had so many songs stuck in my head recently. Basically at the point where I'm tired of singing the same song over and over, and Kendal stops playing it on the piano, I find a new one. :)
Here is a list of some of my favorite songs, and the ones are most often stuck in my head.
*note* Most of these songs are not Christian songs. I appreciate most of them for their beat, not necessarily for their words. :)

 "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz

"Somewhere Over The Rainbow" Taylor Mathew's version

"When You Believe" Sung by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey

"The Call" by Ragina Spektor


"City On Our Knees" by Toby Mac

"Something That I Want" from "Tangled"

Obviously I don't sound like Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey when singing "When you Believe" because I'm not African American. But I still love the song, and have since I first heard it when the "Prince of Egypt" came out. I love the first two songs because they have such a catchy tune. Tim Hawkins did a parody on "I'm Yours," and we liked the tune so much we looked for the original.
Before hearing "City On Our Knees," I thought I didn't like any of Toby Mac's songs. After hearing it in "The Grace Card" I changed my mind. :)  Even though the words are really silly in "Something That I Want" I think it's so catchy.

Yesterday we got to see Chris Tomlin at Busch Gardens, which was so neat! I took some videos and pictures, so I'll try to post them soon. 

Have a blessed week, 

Kelsey

Farewell! (by Kendal)

Y'all are likely wondering about the blog title. As most of you probably guessed, I am handing the blog over to Kelsey. (Who, BTW, happens to be rather better than me at expressing thoughts with the written word.) However, my main reason for quitting the blog is just a matter of priorities. The blog, as y'all may have guessed, due to my lack of posting, never was very high on my priorities list. It has mostly been merely a fun way to communicate with friends, especially those that I rarely see. I have often thought that I should be more "serious" about my blogging, but then when I did blog I never had time for truly thoughtful posts. [Coming up with the proper way to express exactly what I'm thinking through the blog takes me FOREVER. Maybe that explains the {long} time it takes for me to write a good paper.:) ]
Well, anyway, I wasn't making time for worthwhile posts.
Since school, next to work at The Chicken, is what is taking the most of my time, I'm thinking that after I graduate I might find myself with some extra time on my hands, and so I may start a new blog then. We'll see!
In the meantime, I hope that y'all will enjoy Kelsey's blog! I might write a "guest post" once in awhile, but don't count on it. :) I'll still read and comment on y'all's blogs, of course.

Well, au revoir!
~Kendal Marie Butler

By Kendal (imagine that!)

Well, I'm back to blogging! I need to head off to bed, but I wanted to let y'all know that I haven't given up blogging, I just haven't made time for it. I've sometimes found myself wishing that we had more hours in a day!
Well, I'd better go! I'll try to catch up on y'all's blogs tomorrow, and maybe do a real post, but we'll see!

Kendal


P.S. By the way, Kelsey, I thought your posts were great!
I know, it's sad when you haven't even read your own blog! :)

Random by Kelsey

It's amazing how well you can get to know someone by just reading their blog. That is one of the reasons why we got rid of all of our old posts, with an exception of those made by Mama. We want people to be blessed when they read what we wrote, and not just think that this is a fun blog. We have a live traffic feed, and we usually have no clue as to who most of those people are, so we want to be a good testimony to them, especially since most of them will probably only get on our blog once. Also since this is pretty much the only way to communicate with our friends whom we don't see much, we want our character to be "above reproach." Our mother has always told us that while we are young we are developing our character, and also an opinion of other people's character. And so other people are developing a opinion of us as well. For example I will always think of Meredith from Striving To Serve At Home as a wise, faithful person, and who continues to use her life to serve the Lord and her family to the best of her ability. Of course that doesn't mean that she is perfect, but she is so humble and always uses her mistakes as a learning opportunity for herself and others. I have been greatly blessed by reading her blog. I am also very grateful that she took the time each day to write about things in her life, just to bless other people. I can't wait until she returns to blogging!

I realized recently that all of the people who own my favorite blogs seem to have a purpose in what they do. They just write about what they are doing and don't do certain things with their families just to make a interesting blog post. Those blogs always seem so put on and silly. I challenge you to be yourself, but make sure you are conducting yourself in a godly manner! I say that in a humble way, because I haven't always been mature in my blogging myself. :)
I just now did the above paragraph but the one above it was done nearly two months ago! It's good to be back!

I can hardly believe summer is nearly over! We have really been enjoying swimming at the Y and playing on our new trampoline! When I was really little until I was about twelve I'd always had an extreme fascination with two things: trampolines and jack in the boxes. I never got the jack in the box and don't want one anymore, but Daddy got us the trampoline! I'll post some pictures in a bit. ~Kelsey

A Fresh Start

Kelsey and I have decided that we should be more purposeful in our blogging, and therefore have decided to "refresh" our blog. (All of our old posts have been deleted, except for those written by Mom before 2010- those are now located on her blog.) I guess you could say that we are rededicating the blog- we want it to be honoring to God, a blessing and an encouragement to those who read it, and a godly testimony. Kelsey wants me to clarify that this dosn't mean that we won't be posting on fun things that we've been doing and such, because we will, but now we will be posting with these purposes in mind. We hope you enjoy our "new" blog!
~Kendal and Kelsey