Eternal Life

When your young, life seems long. But you'll soon find out once you're out of school for five, ten, twenty years that life is short and you'll know what the Bible means when it says that life is "a mist that appears for a little while then vanishes." (James 4:14 NIV)We can be thankful that this is not he end of the story. God has promised us eternal life to those who give their earthly lives to him. That is a great trade!

"Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on him the Father, God, has sent his zeal." JOHN 6:27 NASB

"The world is passing away, and also it lusts; but the one who does the will of the Lord will live forever. 1 JOHN 2:17 NASB

"For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens."
2 CORINTHIANS 5:1 NKJV

"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has eternal life."
JOHN 6:47 NASB

When you were born, you cried while everyone was happy.
The only question that matters is this:
When you die,
will you be happy when everyone else is crying?
~Tony Campolo

This was my devotion this morning from the book Light My Path For Teens. This will be my last post for a while. I am going on a vacation for seventeen days! I will be going to Seattle, Washington for a few days, then go to one of the islands off of the state. The island we will be on is called Lopez Island. Also if you could be praying for my grandma, she just got in a car accident about twenty minutes ago. It was not her fault, though. She was going to drive through a green light when a man decided to make a left hand turn in front of her. My grandma is okay, but the man was hurt. I don't know how serously he was injured. She had to call a tow truck to come and get her van, so I guess it is pretty beat up. This is Vivian H. signing off for two and a half weeks. BEACH HERE I COME!

Girls Lock- in!!!

Yep, girls Lock In!!! We had a blast! These pictures are only a portion of what I got.

I made pancakes...



This one of the only pictures I got of Elisabeth...

WE were showing off our awesome moves in the bounce house... (That is me. I know, Quite a beautiful picture.)

Then we decieded to deflate or melt (LOL Elisabeth :) the bounce house...

...and get on top of it... that was interesting. I got trapped in it more than once...


This is one of those times...


Yep, that is Elisabeth's mom in the bounce house...

Anna and I look like hobos or something...



This is my beautiful mother...

Thanks for putting up with us, Mom. And for being so gracious about the fire alarm going off...


Monday was Kelsey's birthday so we got her a birthday cake...

This is the only front picture I got of Elisabeth...

Hi Sadie

The people with musical abilities brought their instruments to church and we messed around with the sound system. That is were I was the whole time, just in case you were wondering...


Hi Anna!!


Thanks to all who were able to come and thanks for bringing loads and loads of food.
Emily S, I'm really sorry you weren't able to come. We really missed you. Get Better Soon!!

Babysitting

Yesterday I babysat some friends of ours. And boy are they cute!
Look at that face! His name is Christopher.

Of course, the two older ones, Andrew and my brother Christian did not want their pictures taken...





This is their cat, Chloe

The boy in the superman shirt is Matthew, and the smudge of a person in the back in Andrew...



Chris was the most photogenic of the three...



Are they not SO CUTE! I had a great time. They are very well behaved kids and I know that their favorite part of the whole day was playing a game they like to call "Kill Vivian". Need I say more... :)

Funny babies

For some reason my computer will not let me load on a video so I will just do this: Click here.

Whoa! look at all those birds. No not really. I made that picture. I copied a bunch of birds and put them on there... Ha ha ha. *sigh*