Life is Good.

Well :) We're in the States and it's wonderful. We just got the internet hooked up in the trailer. First time I think the trailer has ever had internet in it. Poor old thing. It's home to me though. I love it. We got to see most of our family already but not a lot of friends. We've only been here 2 days though. We have 10 weeks to see all these people. The 10 weeks will fly by. Bummer. Anyways, We met our neighbors today. We had them last time we were in but we never got to actually meet them. They were nice and had the cutest puppies EVER. The one I was holding liked my hands, jacket, and face a little too much but he was so so cute. Our neighbor makes the most beautiful saddles I've ever seen. They were gorgeous and he makes them with no electricity. Amazing right? (For those who don't know what neighbors I have they are Amish.) They are having bake sales every Saturday and my mom is so excited about that. Lol. There are 8 children, I think. We met 7 of them today. Of course I don't remember their names. They have 2 sets of twins, which I thought was pretty cool. I would put a picture up here of them but ya know they're Amish. No no to pictures. I'm not gonna sneak one either. It goes against their beliefs and I feel it's wrong. It would be wonderful to have a picture. Amazing photography you could have there. Anyways, they were nice folks. Yes, We have gone to Walmart. One of the best places on the face of this earth. :) Some people don't know how lucky they are to have a Walmart. I've had Mountain Dew and REAL Doritos. I have Patches back. I have no phone, but that's cool. The Plane ride in was so aggravating. Last time we flew in, it was empty and everyone that wanted one could have a whole row of seats to themselves. This time we could barely have our own seat to ourselves. The plane was packed like sardines. I had a ginormous pain in my side from not wanting to touch the man beside me, not that he was gross or anything, I just didn't want to bother him. There were no good movies on, nothing. Just tv shows. Which were pretty good but still. Annoying. Agh! But now it's all over and worth it. I have me some Doritos, some MD Code Red, Patches, NCIS, and TN back. Life is good.

I Wish I Could Teleport

Well tomorrow I start my journey to the States. I can't wait. It's gonna be so awesome. Tomorrow, we'll wake up real early (for me atleast) and drive five hours to Quito. In Quito, We'll just hang out with some friends and chill. At eight we're gonna go to a someones house and visit with them. At 10, we'll head to the airport and go through all the annoying airport stuff. :P Around 12 something we'll board our first plane to Atlanta. I'll be so tired but I can never sleep on planes. The airline we're flying with has little personal tvs..so Itll make the ride a little bit better. We'll board another plane in Atlanta around 5..maybe. Then we'll arrive in Memphis around 8. After that I'll be a little over excited and not really know whats happening. We'll get picked up by one my dad's friends. His name is Brian Rainey. He's pretty cool. Ha! Then we'll head home!! Agh! I can't wait!!! All this horrible packing will be worth it. Haha. I still have some packing to do and all. I have to get everything perfect and make sure I've got everything I need. I'm really ready to get some good hamburgers and fish and all that yummy stuff. Oh how I've missed that. AND I get to see all of my friends and family. I've missed them more than food. :) I wish I could teleport. I wouldn't be right here right now. ;) Lol.

Carnaval

This weekend was called Carnaval. It's considered a "Christian" holiday, but it's really not. On Carnaval weekend most people have waterballoon fights and spray people with water. It's actually really fun. Me and Eli got on the roof and threw waterballoons at people. It's the only weekend that it's not illegal. :) The little kids just laugh and laugh. I never got hit with a waterballoon. On Friday I went walking around town when all the water fights started, but I never got hit. My mom says it's because they don't know how we'll react yet. Hehe. So I got lucky. Another thing about Carnaval is they don't only throw water. They will smash eggs on your head, throw ink on you, flour, foam and anything they can find. It can get really gross. Here in Alausi they had a 3 hour long parade. My parents went to it and took pictures, but I was asleep through the whole thing. Teehee. So the whole meaning of Carnaval, or so says this man we know, is you cleanse yourself and wash yourself and if you have eggs and flour on, you'll go home and wash yourself and if people throw water at you it's washing you. I really don't get it. I'm not the smart person in this situation. I wasn't really paying attention. Sorry guys. My parents probably have a way better explanation on what it signifies on their blog. It's pratherfamily.wordpress.com. I think my dad is writing a blog on it as I write. So I hope he explains it. I probably have everything wrong. Don't listen to what I said. Lol. I'll be Stateside in 10 days, guys! Love y'all! and thanks for being the tiny amount of people who read my blog. :) You're special.

LET'S DO THIS THING!

Well, today in the life of Olivia nothing happened. Except school and guitar. It was one of THE most boring days in my entire life. I made cookies though. :) Chocolate Chip and they are SOOOO good. Like seriously. If we had some decent milk it would be paradise, but our milk tastes nasty. Atleast to me it does. I really want to go to the beach. I found this amazing bathing suit on Victoria Secret's website and I'm dying to have it, but I really don't think you guys want to hear about that. COME TO THE BEACH WITH ME! I BEG OF YOU. It's no fun if it's just you and your family. I want the beach. Not the ocean. The Beach. I hate the ocean. It's creepy and scary. What I have is called, Thalassophobia.(maybe that's how you spell it) Fear of the ocean. Why can't you copy and paste on here????? I've tried it like 300 times and it won't work. That's retarded. I've watched the Superbowl commercials now. They are down right hilarious. I love the Megan Fox one and the Doritos one. My faves so far. I haven't watched every single one of the commercials, but I'm getting close. I BOUGHT THE RASCAL FLATTS NEWEST CD LAST NIGHT. The cd is like a year old, but it's one of my faves out of all of their cds and I BOUGHT IT, on iTunes. So guess what I've been doing today!!! GUESS!! Learning the songs on the guitarrrrrr. If that was your guess, then you guessed right. They are a lot easier than the other songs they have. It made me happy! My fingers hurt really bad and my thumbs are killing me. One from me cheating on bar chords and the other from strumming. I really don't know why the strumming one hurts so bad, but it does. Oh well, No pain no gain. So here's the deal. I buy that cute swimsuit, we go to the beach, we play some Rascal Flatts, we have awesome bible studies on the beach, we walk the beach at night, and we sleep in late. Sound good? It sure does to me. LET'S DO THIS THING!

You've Got Me and Jesus

Today I learned a lot. Most of us, girls, teenage girls, throw our lives away over guys. We let them break our hearts into little shreds and we cry ourselves to sleep at night because we think we could never love another guy and no one will ever love you. BIGGEST LIE. God loves you. We have a, kinda, saying and you finish a sentence with "to death." Ya know it? For example, I love you to death. Well, God does. He died for you on the cross. He, the Lord of Lords, the King of Kings, thinks YOU are to die for. How does THAT make you feel?

God has given me life. Every morning He lets me wake up. I have had trouble in the past, almost everyone has. I started down the wrong path more than once, but I try to get on the right one. I have lived my life the way I wanted to and that got me nowhere. I was living like an idiot, not appreciating life at all. It was just another random thing combined with all my earthly materials. I've lived that life and I turn to God, then I stray away again. What I have feared is that if I turn to God, I won't be able to have fun anymore. Wrongo. What a stupid thought. I need to trust in Him, with all my heart. Psalms 46:1-3 is my favorite verse. I love Psalms. David was not only an amazing writer, but he went through so much like we do. Go read that verse. It's amazing. I want to be able to trust God with my whole entire heart, soul, mind, strength, every part of me. Because He layed down HIS life for me. He forgives me each and everyday. He loves me. He wants me to know that too. God wants to teach us so much and we need to listen. If we don't He'll try other methods. Those methods are not that much fun. I'm currently going through one. God, I believe, is trying to teach me that I don't need all these friends here, all I need is HIM. Him alone. One by one my friends are slipping away. Now, It may just be me. :) I really hope not, I try and be a good friend, but I really think God is trying to teach me something. God loves you and He will never put you through something He knows you can't pull through. So if God is putting me through this, I'm going to try my hardest to pull through it. I pray that I learn from this lesson. "Trust in Him and He will direct your paths straight." TRUST HIM and pray that I may trust him too. Because I need Him. I know I do. Without Him I would be nothing. Pray for me as I am going through all these changes. Life is a wonderful and amazing gift but it is also complicated and hard. Life will throw you curves and you've gotta learn to swerve, but don't go too far of the race track. You'll hit a wall or spin out on the grass.

Always remember one thing, You've got me and Jesus! :) Love y'all!

Big Loss

I'm doing this in blue in honor of the Colts death. We lost tonight. Sad day. VERY sad. I would love to say we played a good game, but that'd be lying. I was very disappointed in Austin Collie and Peyton Manning. They will have to regain my respect NEXT SEASON. THERE IS ALWAYS NEXT SEASON. Never give up hope people. EVER. Anyways, I will congratulate the Saints on their very first Superbowl. Congratulations. I'm glad (not) that you won. Enjoy the pride and joy that comes with that trophy. Until next season, goodbye. I still hate you. I will NOT tell you the ending score. I will cry. No just kidding. It's just sad. I still love me some Colts though. MUAH!

Superbowl Sunday

Well It's Superbowl Sunday and guess what I'm doing! WATCHING THE SUPERBOWL!! yes...We don't get the awesome commercials like most of ya'll do in the states..but yea..atleast we get the football game instead of some stupid soccer game. I hate soccer. Anyways..GO COLTS!!!! We kinda just scored...I'll tell ya how it ends if you'd like for me to..or you could be awesome and watch it youselves. :) Today has been an amazing day! My mom made bbq and we had these off brand Doritos...it was as close to a Superbowl meal we could get and it was amazing! I am also having sweet tea and nibbling on some left over Doritos. I'm surprised Eli ain't gobbled 'em all up yet. So I totally think the Colts are gonna win because they have pretty much smokin' Austin Collie on their team as a WR. :) AND they have Manning as their QB...so it's pretty much over. Ha...Carrie Underwood did an AMAZING job on the National Anthem I think and she was wearing some GORGEOUS shoes!! Carrie...can I steal those shoes from you sometime? PLEASE!! Queen Latifah just kinda killed her song. Sorry. Buttt I'm gonna go and watch the rest of the game. I'll write later..and I'm gonna finish this off with a GO COLTS!!!

Who dat?? Well that'd be Mr Austin Collie right there runnin' down the field for a TOUCHDOWN!! :)

(that's Austin Collie up there (^^^) :) he's a beast)