Photo/Writing Challenge Day 4

Alright moving right along with this thing;-)

Today's picture..."What I Wore" and I actually have a picture of what I wore yesterday that I took for another purpose.

One of my favorite gray and white striped sweaters, and my Fresh Modesty denim skirt that is kinda hard to actually see the shape because it was windy outside, and my gray TOMS.  

Here is an indoor picture where it's not quite so windy.

And for the writing part of today..."The Meaning Behind Your Tumblr Name."

Well I don't actually have Tumblr, but I do have Instagram and my username is Stringbreaker321.  String breaker because I'm a string player and I have broken a string or two in the past and 321 because I needed a number in there that I could remember. 

There you have it:)

Hope y'all have a great day!

Picture/Writing Challenge Day 3

Hey Y'all!

Today's writing challenge, "Your Day in Great Detail."
 And since it's morning, I'll describe yesterday.  In great detail.

Okay so slept in to a whoppin' 7:30 because Tata was going to be in Las Vegas all day on a work trip, so  our mornings aren't quite as scheduled as they normally are.  Got up, went downstairs to the couch I read my Bible on every morning, and read me some 1 Samuel. 

After that I got some rice cooking for rice pudding to have for breakfast.  After it was cooked i put it in a pot with some evaporated milk and brown sugar, put the lid on and went to go play on Pinterest for 10 minutes.  Then I heard it boiling out of the pan and sizzling on the stove, I ran over pulled the lid off and smelled it burning.  This has just been the week of burning food for me, something I don't normally do.  I pulled a bowl out of the cabinet and dumped the rice into it and tasted it.  A miracle, it didn't taste burned.  Just the rice at the bottom of the pan was.  So I put it back into another pan, added some dried cranberries, orange zest and almond extract and let it continue to cook.  Then we ate it, and boy was it yummy. 

Me and my sister did the dishes after breakfast, and while I was scrubbing away at this burned pan my Mom told me to put a few drops of lemon essential oil in it and let it sit for a few minutes.  Did that, and it definitely helped with the scrubbing process. 

So then I went upstairs and threw on one of my favorite outfits, a pink paisley skirt I made last year that has somewhat shrunk so I don't really wear it out if the house anymore, and my Beaver Dam Creek T Shirt.  I love that shirt.  I got dressed, happy that my hair was still curly from the day before so I didn't really do anything with it. 

Went downstairs, and found my sister already doing school on Lauren's Personal Studying Couch aka the family living room couch that everyone uses.  So I plopped down on the loveseat that she usually does school on.  So for the next few hours I worked on Logic and Science and The Odyssey etc.  Alternating studies with instrument practice periods. 

Heated up some leftover pasta for lunch, and it was just as good as the night before. 

Now I will mention that this day was The Day.  The day that Downton Abbey Season 3 becomes available on Amazon.  And if you pre-order it...it usually comes that day.  So 1 o clock.  I checked the mail.  Empty.  I then decided I would check it at 2, and if our mail still wasn't there, then every half our after that.  2 pm rolled around and I got my sister to go to the mailbox with me and as I inserted the key and opened the box like I was opening the Ark of the Covenant, I saw the glorious key sitting there, the key for which you receive when you have a package that doesn't fit in your mailbox and they put it in a bigger one.  I threw it to my sister, she opened it and squealed that it was an Amazon package.  I pulled it out and shook it, yup sounds like a DVD. 

We ran back home and ran to Mom who was also hoped that Downton would come today.  We gave it to her and as she opened it she said, remember I've also ordered some winter hats for our trip this weekend, so keep that in mind.  But no, these were no beanie hats.  Out came Downton Abbey, and it practically threw itself into the DVD player. 

By this time me and Gabrielle were almost done with school/practicing but not yet, so Mom told us to forget the whole studying thing and go practice for 15 minutes then we could watch it.  So.  15 min later we were sitting down to that amazing theme song and the very first part of the introduction were Lord Grantham and his dog Isis are walking out on the lawn, and we all started squealing and clapping cause we were so darn excited.  Watched the first episode.  It was really good. 

Then we had to stop because I had to teach a lesson from 4 to 4:45, so I did that, then we worked on the menu planning and grocery list for the next day, started dinner and started the glorious episode 2.  Then 3 and 4 and 5.  (Yes this is what my family does when new seasons of TV shows enter the house on DVD) at this point it's about 9 and I'm thinking, alright good time to go to bed, busy day tomorrow etc.  But no we watched one more.  Then I showered and went to bed and stayed up for another 30 minutes thinking about episode 5.  And being depressed.  Because of episode 5.  So that was my day yesterday, rice pudding, school and Downton Abbey.  Good day.

And today's photo challenge is...Your Favorite Color...and I think you can tell what mine is:-)

TTYL- Lauren

Photo/Picture Challenge Day 2

Day 2 Picture Challenge, Clouds!  Cloudy here at the moment...

Writing Challenge, 10 likes and dislikes.

OK, likes first.

1.  Eos Chapstick

2.  Strawberries and mangoes

3.  Jesus!

4.  Gregory Wilber Hymns

5.  Black Converse and Gray Toms

6.  Football 

7.  Tennessee

8.  Violas!

9.  Go-Carting

10.  Iced tea

Dislikes-

1. 120 degree AZ summers

2.  Those hair ties with the rubber sticky goo on them.

3.  Shrimp

4.  Baseball

5.  Melodic Minor Scales

6.  Scorpions

7.  Eggplant

8.  People who cut you off on the road.

9.  Smoothies

10.  Hot Dogs

Ta Ta for now.

Lauren

Picture for the Last Post!

Here is the picture that didn't upload in my last post:-). Hope it works now.

30 Day Photo/Writing Challenge Day 1

Hey Y'all!
So I decided to do one of those 30 day photo challenge, and also one of those 30 day "write a bit about yourself" challenge at the same time too.  So hopefully I'll keep up everyday:-)

So...


Photo Day 1- A Self Portrait

Yup, a picture I took of myself after I successfully curled my hair with one of those wand curling irons.  I love those btw.



And for the other thing...

Writing Day 1- Write a bit about yourself.

Hmm, well that's easy.  I'm Lauren Harris.  16.  I'm 5' 5".  I have a birth mark on my forehead that looks like a bruise.  I play viola and violin.  teach both.  I'm in 2 orchestras.  My favorite color is orange and pink.  My favorite book is A Light to My Path.  Ohh I love that book.  My favorite book in the Bible is...the whole thing.  I also love movies.  An absolute fav...North and South.  Plus like a zillion more.  I love skirts! They're so pretty.  The shoes I wear the most are my gray Toms.  They're comfy.  I'm a one handed driver.  Leaves the other hand for eating.  Nom nom.  At this moment in history, my hair is almost as long as its ever been, that's pretty awesome:-). I like to go go carting, and inner tubing. I like to shoot.  Guns mostly.  Especially the pink ones.  Actually I've never shot a pink gun.  I know, sad.  I like cold weather waaayy better then hot.  I love In N Out.  Best place Eva!  Culvers is pretty yummo too.  One day I'm going to go to the store and buy deli Mac and cheese, coffee ice cream, cherry twizzler ropes, taquitos, chocolate pudding and cherry Dr. pepper and hide in my room watching movies and eat it all.  Oh and I love Pinterest.  We have now come to the end of the epic (or not so much) saga of Lauren.

Till tomorrow!
-Lauren

Hey Look! It's a Post!

So I decided to try this whole blogging thing again:) This time I'll try to keep it up-to-date, and post a little (or a lot) more often.  So...

This last weekend our Pastor from our parent church in Modesto came down with most of his family.  It was SO nice to have a "live" pastor for church, and I'm so thankful they were able to come.   We had a great time with them, I was sad when Sunday night was over, and we all had to go home.  I'm also trying to get better at taking pictures of everything, so I have a few from this weekend to share:-)

Tradition when we had fellowship meals and gatherings at our house...we go to the park:-)   And although it was freezing outside we had loads of fun. 

  

We lost Z--- for a little while, while playing tag, then saw him run into the dark and scary (Well, i thought it was scary)tunnel down in the wash.  While standing just a few feet inside yelling/echoing "Z---" we then heard him mimicking the ever creepy "My...Precious."  Come to find out one of the Walker boys, C----- was perfect at the Smeagol voice:)

So while we're yelling at Z--- down one side of the tunnel (It's technically two tunnels) he jumps out the other side and scares us (me).  Then we went down the tunnel a ways using camera flashes to see, and found there was an opening into the other side. 

Later we went into the tunnel on the other side of the wash that was really short and we hung out for a while and had a fun time chatting with the Walker boys...seeing as how we just met them.

Then we came back, ate some dessert and played a rather fun game of Apples to Apples.

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The next day after church we had a fellowship meal over at the B-------'s.  My sister Gabrielle and E---.

Talking:)

Ok, the pic before this one comes first, so scroll down...Five pictures later... you get a few smiles.

You ask 3 dudes to smile while you take a picture and this happens.  Ok, now the pic above:)

Although it was pretty cold outside, the kiddos had fun running around and playing.

Food.  One of my favorite parts, next to the people of course.  We had this yummy creamy chicken pasta, caprese salad, fruit salad, and rolls with garlic butter. And birthday cake for dessert!

 

 

That's it for the pictures...for now.  I'll try to post again soon!  Happy January!

-Lauren