Photography stuff.............

A few random pics I have taken recently:



our tree turning green




I really like this one of Taylor & Michael

hope your having an awesome week,

-Allyson Janell

funny billboard:

I like this Chick-fil-a billboard :) This is my favorite one yet. Sorry the picture is a little blurry- it was raining outside.




-AJ

hmmmmmm.......

Today my dad asked me if I wanted to go running with him today at memorial park. Of course I rarely say no and I have not ran since the 10k ( :D) so I was really excited about going. So I am about ready and just need to get my shoes. But they are nowhere to be found!!! I searched everywhere (my closet is a mess) and I could not find them. There is a large chance now that I might have left the some where in between the 10K and heading to the debate tournament I went to afterwards...... ?????? ............. sigh...... I can't remember because the 10k happened a month ago.



I am quite puzzled.





-AJ

Sushi!

Yesterday at HEB, I tasted some sushi for the first time. It was quite good! I think it had avocado, cream cheese and imitation crab in it- I think there was something else in it but I cannot remember what all the lady told me. It looked something like the one all the way to the left of the plate- just with out the black stuff around it:


-Allyson Janell

happenings/thoughts....

Lets see....

-I love warm weather.

-I hope to maybe plant some flowers again this year. But need to make sure I get the ones that will last and not die so soon. (I was probably doing something wrong though :) )

-God blessed me with an A on my research position paper.

-I had fun taking some pictures for Chris' graduation cards (we will probably be taking some more though- hopefully on a more cloudy day.)

-The rain has stopped and the sun is glistening on the plants.

-Algebra equations are a bit confusing, but it is interesting how many different kinds of equations their are!

-I smell dinner. ta ta for now!

~Allyson Janell

rain.

It rained today and I just had to take a few pics of our garden/yard when it stopped!

garden complete!

Yesterday mom got more dirt and planted the rest of the veggies.







A garden quote I found:

Don't count the days, make the days count.




AJ

Garden happenings...

Last week on Tuesday, we planted tomatoes and bell peppers. We will plant the squash when we get some more dirt( we did not realize how much dirt we needed!).

We saw a bloom today on the tomatoes: It will be awesome watching them grow!! I will continue to post updates on the veggies.

God's creation is amazing.

Genesis 1:11Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so.

Genesis 1:12The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

-Allyson Janell

Weird spring breaks

I thought I would post something while I print out the music for Bible study.

It is weird how my spring break (at Cyfair) is the week before almost everybody elses!

Oh well. That's the way things are! Have fun spring breakers!!


I think I will post a picture:



-AJ

Lemonheads

The other day I randomly bought some lemonheads. I can't remember the last time I had had any, but now they are on my fav. candy list now!

You should treat yourself to some. They are good.

- AJ

Happy Birthday Blog!!!!

My blog turned one today!
Exactly one year ago I posted on my blog for the first time!! Thanks everyone for reading and leaving comments!!! I love blogging and reading other's blogs! So today I am going to post pictures from our trip to Ooh La la with our friends yesterday!

my cupcake

Adrienne's cupcake
Leah and Jessica
Adrienne and Sarah
Emily, and Leah and Jessica again!

Allyson Janell

The livestock show at the Rodeo

I have been doing alot of catch-up posting today! Here is one more post.


On Thursday, we all went to the livestock show! It was neato seeing all the animals. Some friends of ours were there too.


Alison &Adrienne checking out the chicks

I think the chicks were my favorite part. They are a great reminder of God's amazing creation!

$5.00 Pizza! Yummo! (Adrienne and I's lunch :) )

Taylor and Michael's art creations:

English Class at Cyfair

English at the college is going pretty well! This week was spring break for us. My class is doing research position papers! It has been fun looking up sources and support for my paper. My paper has to do with studying Bibles in public schools, so I have been looking for sources that support Bibles in schools. It is due on Tuesday, so I am almost done. Adrienne gave me some good critique on my paper, so that is what I am working on now. I enjoy these kind of papers!!

Goodtimes!

A few Fridays ago, Jen had a teen game night! It was really awesome! We discussed a verse from the Worldliness book then played the Wii and Taboo. Here are a few pics:

Jen!!!

-AJ

Gardening beginings.....

My mom will be doing some gardening this year so earlier this week we dug up a square of our backyard. Mom will be planting tomatoes, squash, and bell pepers. We have not planted anything yet because of a cold front and rain. But we will plant early next week. Here are some pics!

Mom looking at some gardening books...

-Allyson Janell

White background pics...

Today I did some experimenting with photography:
I took some paper and propped it up like this (actually the back of some scrapbooking paper :) ).









That was fun.

-Allyson Janell

Mom's Birthday!!

On March first was my mom's Birthday! she received some great gifts including sugar free chocolate. (her favorite!) At the end of the day we sang Happy Birthday as one candle was lit atop of her healthy rendition of a 7Up cake.

I thought I would share this vintage photo: a picture of my mom with her sibilings. (My mom has her hands raised.)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!

-Allyson Janell

Race pics.... Race thoughts.....

Here is the link to a few photos from the race. They do not let you save them to your computer because they want you to buy the pictures :). http://www.brightroom.com/view_user_event.asp?EVENTID=47852&BIB=2619&S=230&PWD==

I was thinking about the race and my post about the race and I stopped and realized that in my post I explained that the knee band really helped me and how I probably could not have ran the whole race without it. I did not once mention that band or no band that God helped me finish the race. But I want to post now that :through God only are all things possible!!!! He gave me the strength to run.

Allyson Janell

The Race

The 10k race was amazing!!! It was very challenging but a great experience! My time was 1:7:59!

Chip time: 01:07:59.08
Gun time:01:12:45.56
First 5k 00:34:19
second 5k 00: 33:39
pace per mile : 00:10:56


I am really satisfied with my time knowing that my knee was not 100%. The knee band definitely helped me although it was sore afterwards. But the race course led us to a highway, so we were running upwards for a while(that was hard!)!! It was soo much fun starting the race with 10,ooo other people! The 5k and 10k split off at I think the first mile. Their were 4597 10k runners and I came in 3176th place. I do not have any pictures of me running(they will be putting some up on the website soon) but here are some pics of the day and the link to my finish line video. (the finish line time starts when the wheelchair event starts so it is off by a few minutes.) The pictures are out of order so the picture of me here was taken after the race.




waiting for the race to start

Taylor with the Texas Longhorn band

finishline video:

http://w3.conocophillips.com/rodeorunresult/Media.aspx?rn=2619( I am all the way to the right of the screen)

They should be placing pictures of mostly every runner on the website so I will try to post a link when they do.

-Allyson Janell