Blogger Gift Exchange 2016

hiiii guysss I'm doing the Blogger Gift Exchange hosted by Jo from The Bearable Blog and Vanessa from Simply Me. fyi this idea was GENIUS. Anywho, basically your assigned a blogger and you get to give them a little gift by writing a post about them or something else.

So I got RockandMinerals4Him.

So, after I read a little about her on her blog I learned she likes reading, crafts, music, science, and knitting.

Ways we can relate are:

We're goal setters (woo hoo I always love those people ;P)

We're both weird? (wouldn't you say I'm pretty weird?)

We both like photography.

And we both the piano.

What I found interesting about her is how she loves bullet journals and adult coloring books. I enjoy the reviews she writes for certain coloring books.

Some posts I like from her blog are:

Rant: Pokémon Go

Review: Gratitude (A Prayer and Praise Coloring Journal)

and What's in my Bullet Journal

Please go and check out her blog right here.

Thanks for hosting this Vanesa and Jo!!

And thanks for reading

bouncing in to say bye,

                                 bernie

My Christmas

My Christmas Handstand ;P

Merry Christmas guys!!

On Christmas Eve we went to our grandparents house. It was different going there Christmas Eve because we usually go Christmas day, but our uncle had to work on Christmas. So we had a meal and then opened presents. It was awesome to receive stuff, but it was nice to give stuff too. All week me and Sarah were making cookies for our family. I was glad to give those cookies to them. I'm so blessed because our grandparents are so gracious to us. I got some sports slippers, jeans, leggings, pj's, a gymnastic books, and some other cool stuff. It's not all the time we spend time with EVERYONE in our family so it was very relaxing and enjoyable to spend time with them.

On Christmas day we got up, read the Christmas story, and then opened up presents from our parents. It's always a blast because we all buy presents for all our siblings and parents. I got my dad a tie and a shirt for work, my mom a calendar I made at shutterfly, my brother some pj's and a camo shirt, and Sarah a shirt that says "it is well with my soul" (I'm actually listening to that song RIGHT NOW lol). I got a gymnastics leotard, a Seahawks shirt, more gymnastics clothes, some weights, and other awesome stuff too. We also all got a Wi which we were definitely excited about. After we did that we got ready for church. It was so special to get to go to church on Christmas. When we got home we started preparing the meal. Our grandparents and great grandma came over too. It was special to see everyone there. This year we hosted Thanksgiving meal and Christmas meal which is different for us but very fun! :)

I'm just so blessed guys. I'm so thankful. And this year God taught be that even though things are different, that doesn't mean it's not going to be fun. Our holidays have been different. Thanksgiving meal we didn't spend at our aunts like usual. Our Christmas meal with our family was on Christmas Eve. But even though everything seems ruined, God helps us make new memories. Don't be discouraged when everything doesn't go like usual. Because God is good all the time.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas!! And remember that even though Christmas is over, it doesn't mean we should forget Jesus' birth. Keep celebrating it. Always be reminded of the true King, born in a manger, who came to save us all.

Have a lovely rest of the week!!

What was your favorite present?

What did you do for Christmas?

bouncing in to say bye,

                                bernie

Let us not Forget our Eternal Gift

Hey guys it's Ellie with a special (very special, loving, pretty, cool, funny, and awesome guest) guest. Well I really shouldn't even be in this post, so here she is. ;P

 4 days until Christmas and it's the first day of winter! Gifts are flooding in via the mail, trees are being brought out and dusted off, lights strung, cookies baked, and so on. But, in all the hustle and bustle of this season, what are we really celebrating?

   

   Are we celebrating tangible gifts or, God-our Savior, our Eternal Gift? Our, Wonderful Counselor, our Prince of Peace? (see Isaiah 9:6) For all that Christ has done for us, we shouldn't belittle Him and put gifts front and center. We need to worship the Lord regularly but, we need not forget Him during this season. I know with all the excitement of new items, we can get a little distracted but, we need to remember Him. Thank Him. Worship Him. Praise Him. For all He has done and, all that He will do. 

   So, as each minute passes, let us strive to keep God in mind and, as we open our gifts, remember, "Why do we celebrate this holiday anyway?"

Isaiah 7:14 "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." 

                              Merry Christmas, y'all!! 

I love you guys,

Anya

2 Corinthians 5:17

   

My Christmas-y Thoughts

Well guys, it's funny how Sarah (my sister) looks SOO much like my dad and I look just like my mom. Although she looks like dad, she's not like him. I inherit most of his personality. Basically, two words to describe me and dad are....

ORGANIZED PLANNERS

I'm so proud of what I got done with Christmas season. Mostly what I ordered. In the couple of weeks, I got 50 prints free on Shutterfly because of a coupon I got like THREE YEARS AGO. Literally. I ordered our Christmas cards for friends and family and got those 50% off which gave a HUGE discount on our order. I also ordered a free calendar on Shutterfly because I recently signed up. That was AWESOME. AHH, that moment when you just relax and praise yourself for doing some great stuff. AND may I mention, last Saturday I went to JCPenny looking for a Christmas present. ANOTHER TREMENDOUS DEAL I GOT THERE. I'm feel so....ACOMPLISHED.

Next up, I'm planning a whole big gift (for some of my favorite friends ;P). I'm so excited to send it. By the way, isn't it awesome to bless someone? To just make them happy. It fills my heart with joy.

Then, we also have Christmas cookies going on. Every year our family makes Christmas cookies for our relatives. I've kinda been taking charge of the cookies these past couple years so that's exciting yet frustrating at the same time. I consider myself a good baker, but I mess up a lot. It's actually one of my hobbies, but I'm usually a mess cooking.

And then there's Christmas plays were watching, Christmas lights were driving to see, Christmas shopping were doing, Christmas parties were going to, Christmas movies we need to watch, and it's just awesome. I LOVE THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. I'm so busy, and it's awesome.

 But then we just lay down and we just sit down and read the Bible. Man, trust me, I love the busyness. But, it's just so perfect when you can relax and be reminded about what Christmas is all about. What Jesus did for us.

I really hope you have a great time buying gifts, making cookies, and all the stuff. But most of all I hope you take time to read the Bible.

Take time out of all this busyness and spend time in the Word.

bouncing in to say bye,
                                   bernie

Photography Contest Week 4

Hey guys. 6 dayssss :D Today I have my photography contest Week 4 (and the final week) Christmas entries. All of these are beautiful. So enjoy :)

Mandi's Entries

Anya's Entry

Simi's Entry

Paige's Entry



So the winner this week is...
MANDI


I loved Mandi's picture because her sister is adorable and she really did good with including some Christmas-y props.


Congrats Mandi!


So for all of you that won, if you want to you can guest post on my blog!
Just contact me, if you do, and we'll set it up.


This contest was extremely fun so me. I loved getting to see all your pictures and deciding who's was the best. Every week it was hard. So CONGRATS everyone!!


Thanks for reading!!


bouncing in to say bye
                                 bernie

Photography Contest Week 3

Heyy guys 10 days until Christmas. AHHH. I'm not totally ready yet. But really guys...it's REALLY beginning to look a lot like Christmas. I LOVE IT.

Anywho, this is wayyy overdue, but here are the entries for week 3 of my photography contest.

The topic for this week is the weather you're having.

Paige's Entry

 Sophia's Entry

 

 Anya's Entry

Simi's Entries

 So the winner of this week is....

PAIGE

CONGRATS PAIGE

I love this picture because the picture is kinda dark, but there's also a pretty nice piece of grass (is it a piece of grass?) that kinda makes it look not so dark and sad.

Next weeks topic is CHRISTMAS.

Please enter! I love seeing your lovely pictures!!

Thanks for reading!

bouncing in to say bye,

                                bernie

What I Like About the Song Offering

The sun cannot compare to the glory of Your love
There is no shadow in Your presence
No mortal man would dare to stand before Your throne
Before the Holy One of heaven

It's only by Your blood
And it's only through Your mercy
Lord, I come

I bring an offering
Of worship to my King
No one on earth deserves
The praises that I sing

Jesus, may You receive
The honor that You're due
O Lord, I bring an offering to You
I bring an offering to You

I love this song because of the verse "No one on earth deserves the praises that I sing."

I love that verse because it's so true.

NO ONE

deserves

NO ONE

is worthy

of the praise that I sing

to my

AMAZING

Father.

This songs sings about how

HOLY

ALMIGHTY

POWERFUL

AND GREAT

he is.

I pray that we will go to Jesus today and thank him.

And praise him.

For all he has done for us.

bouncing in to say bye,

                                Bernie

November Highlights

Wow this is sooooo late.
It's December like whaaaat? 

I feel like this year started out pretty slow and then BAM July through November went by so fast. 

I can't believe that my freshman year is almost half way done. 

So far..all that I wanted to do this freshman year has gone pretty well. 

I'm just not ready for the 2nd semester yet. 

OKAY WE DONT HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THAT lol 

November Highlights 

Hunting with my bro

It was very fun. My second time going out there. I learned that hunting with Danny and Dad is WAY more exciting than hunting with just Danny. See Danny is very serious about this. It's his first year of hunting so he's ready to kill a good one. Dad is serious to, but he brings his sense of humor with him in the stand. 

Hiking 

It's finally hiking season we went hiking in the woods that Dad was going to hunt in and we discovered a cliff. AMAZING. We also discovered a cave with tracings of people camping out there. 

Shooting our movie with friends 

We're currently filming the prequel to our first movie, "An Amateur's First Case." We're also starting our Christmas movie, a reenactment of "A Christmas Carol." I get to be Tiny Timmy. BTW, comment below if you'd like me to explain the plot of the movies we've been making in a post sometime. They're pretty cool.

Finishing my first semester of biology

This is a BIG highlight. Although the test was hard, I got it done. Ugh she just hasn't sent me the grade yet. I know I didn't do the greatest because it's one of the hardest tests. So far, my overall grade is a 96% so I'm just so eager to see what my test score is. Anywho, it's great to be done with biology for the rest of the year. No more having to get up at 7 to get ready for a 10oclock class.  No more stressing about possibly being late. It's down for the year!!

Thanksgiving

My Thanksgiving for glorious. This was my first year my family made all the food. Every sibling got to decide what dish they wanted to make so that was fun. I made a pie!! And deviled eggs. ;P *insert cool face* I really enjoyed giving my great grandma company this Thanksgiving. I could see she was happy and that's what made me happy!! :)

Thanksgiving break

You know it. It was the best. We got to put up the Christmas tree, go out to eat, and just rest. So that was a blast. It was nice because after Thanksgiving all of us were tired of cooking so we just ate out. Lol that was also verryyyy nice.

OH YEAH.

And my monthly highlight...

Gymnastics

This month for gymnastics wasn't the best. I feel like last time I gave my little update I was learning new things and everything. This month I felt like I kinda lost some of that, but that's okay. It's still a highlight to go there every week doing what I love. This past week was awesome because I thought I really got back into the rhythm. I hadn't done a GOOD roundoff backhandspring in a long time, but I almost did it by myself. The only thing REALLY bad about that class was our conditioning. IT WAS BAD GUYS. The only thing that kept me from doing everything my coach said to do was my pride. It was hard. But it's all over now. AHH.

December Goals

Buy an ugly Christmas sweater (or just some Christmas shirt)

Buy my friends Christmas gifts. (I'm a little low on money.

HAVE A HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS.

Get to see some old friends.

Make Christmas cookies.

And get my backhandspring. All my myself, totally straight, and not bent.

Week 2 Photography Contest Results

19 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS GUYSSSSS

well today is week 2 results for my photography contest. this was another very hard one.

So the topic was Thanksgiving, but we kinda changed it to fall.

ANYWHO, here are the results.

Mic's Entry

I love this picture because who doesn't love her adorable bunny?!

Anya's Entry

I love this picture because it's very fall-y :D

Paige's Entry

I love this picture because it's like a AWESOME FALL OVERLOAD.

Maddy's Entry

I love this picture because it's a cute tiny pumpkin. I love the lighting too.

Mikayla's Entry

 I like this picture because the handwriting is very beautiful.

Simi's Entry

I love this picture because I love sunsets and this picture is gorgeous!!

SO, after a lot of looking at these pictures I decided my winner.

The winner is....

SIMI

I just loved Simi's picture. I LOVE SUNSETS. And it's just a calming picture.

CONGRATS SIMI!!

Next week topic is weather you're having.

AND IF YOU'RE HAVING SNOW RIGHT NOW...

IM SO JEALOUS :(

Hope you enjoyed these pictures as much as I did.

Thanks for reading!!

bouncing in to say bye,

                                bernie

A Blogger Christmas // Christmas/Winter Go2's

 

 HEYY IT'S DECEMBER

*confetti* LETS PARTYYY GUYS *even more confetti*

Since it's December now me and some friends are doing a cool series called...

A BLOGGER CHRISTMAS

So, today we are posting our Christmas/Winter go2's.

Christmas Décor

Lights, Christmas trees, stockings, garland, and just says CHRISTMAS. Above our some pictures of some of my Christmas decorations. We have Christmas lights outside, Christmas lights in almost every room, garland over our doors, and stockings.

Socks

Preferably Christmas socks.

Sweaters

While it's freezing cold out you can snuggle up in a sweater and relax. AH I LOVE IT.

Hot Drinks

It's weird because even though a hot apple cider sounds so good right now, if someone asked me if I wanted some hot water for hot cider I'd be like, "NAH." Does that make any sense? It sounds so dumb it really doesn't make any sense. But seriously it's true.

Christmas Clothes

Unfortunately I don't have much Christmas Clothes, but my pajama pants are Christmas-y. Right?! Fun Fact: I wear those pajama pants so much (because they're so comfy) that they're VERY worn out.

 

And finally a Camera

Because when I see this perfect moment *me on the couch watching football with my comfy pj's and sweater* I HAVE TO TAKE A PICTURE OF IT.

Whelp that's it kiddos.

I hope you likeee.

If you'd like to join this amazing Christmas series, YOU CAN.

Talk to me or go on ahead to Kiley's blog and drop her a comment about it.

And also, visit these blogs pleaseee

P.S. They're doing a Blogger Christmas too ;)

Kiley from Hazel Eyed Blonde

Nabila from Hot Town Cool Girl

and Shelby from Every Bit of Lovely


ALSO, Morning is doing this GENIUS blogger yearbook. So you should check out her blog here.

Comment below your Christmas/Winter go 2.

bouncing in to say bye,

                                         bernie

Photography Contest // Week 1

hey guys...I'm gonna make this a simple intro because really I've already wrote most of this post, but my blogger is working and the drafts will not load so I can't work on them. thanks blogger! Has anybody else been having problems with the new update. ugh.

Anywho, I'm posting the results to my photography contest.

Everyone who entered, THANK YOU.

And if you didn't...it's not to late. Next week you can just jump right in.

The link to the form you need to take to enter is righttt here.

So here are the entries.

This first topic was leaves.

Anya's Entries

Paige's Entry

Mikayla's Entry

Simi's Entry

Maddy's Entry

Aren't all these pictures beautiful?!

Firstly, I want to say good job to every girl who entered!

So, the winner that I chose for this week is......

ANYA

I really like this picture because it shows the leaves color changing.

Congrats Anya!!

Thanks for entering guys!!

Next week (the 4th of December) is Thanksgiving.

If you don't have a picture of your Thanksgiving, you can always just post like a pumpkin or something fally.

Also, I'm going to make a new rule that you can't edit you picture.

thanks for reading!

bouncing in to say bye,

                                 bernie

Thankfulness Thursday

Welcome to my last post of the series Thankfulness Thursday.

Oh, AND HAPPY THANKSIGIVING YA'LL.

I'm thankful for....

God.

He's so good to me. He gives me so much I do not deserve. 

My family.

I love laughing with them. They're the best. 

My siblings.

I'm so glad I can have a good relationship with my siblings. Even when I'm mad at them, it only lasts for about 5 minutes because I'm so sad without them. 

My friendzies.

I'm so thankful for friends to play games with. To do school with. Seriously, every Thursday after church history all my friends bolt outside, get the football out, and start playing. It's so fun to have friends to play with and tell funny stories with. 

My internet friends.

It's so awesome to have friends all over the world who love Jesus. It's so awesome to get encouragement from friends all around the world. Everyone needs a blog guys. 

My ability to be active.

Just a couple days ago I was watching a movie about someone who loved football (and was famous for it) but soon later he got cancer in his leg and had to amputate it. After watching that movie I just thanked God for my body. For the ability to run. For the ability to be breathing without even thinking about it. Some people don't have two legs like I do. I can't even imagine what that'd be like. So, I'm so thankful for my healthy body. 

My camera.

It's really made me realize how awesome my God is. 

My clothes.

I'm also thankful for clothes. I realize that whenever I'm cold, I simply get a sweater on. Whenever I need a nicer outfit for church, I walk in my room and find plenty of nice clothes. Not a lot of people have that. Some people are cold because they have nothing but a dirty shirt.

My church. 

I've realized that in the past year we've been at my church, we've done so much with them. We see about three times a week. I've went to a summer camp with them. A mission trip with them. I've done a Sunday service with them. It's awesome to have these godly people in my life. And especially my pastors. They've taught be so much. 

Good books.

Not only am I thankful for the Bible, but also other books too. After summer, I suddenly just had a lose of interest for fiction. I'm sure I read it again, but right now I'm just reading Christian books. It's awesome to get book recommendations from my pastor and get to read them. And then of course I'm thankful for the Bible because it encourages me every day!!   

Of course there's so much more. 

THANK YOU

For reading. 

For commenting. 

For being friend with me. 

bouncing in to say bye,

                                 bernie

Photography Contest Changes // Currently

HIIIII GUYS

First, before I say anything I want to say that my first week of photography contest did not go very well. I'm going to extend my first week to one more week which means your entry of leaves will be due on the 27th. Also, I've heard a lot of you guys say you just don't have time. Well if you don't...that's okay!! You can enter a photo you took a long time ago. That's fine!! :) It'd mean so much if you entered, even if you don't have much experience!!

Also, I have a little prize for the winners too. If you win, you can guest post on my blog!! And stay tuned, I also might think of another exciting, but easy prize for you winners. If you have any suggestions drop me one in the comment box.

So now, I'm going to do a currently post.

CURRENTLY

Dreaming... of the day after Thanksgiving where we'll all put up our Christmas tree, listen to Christmas music, put up the Christmas lights, and start the Christmas season!!

Thinking...of Christmas presents. They just keep coming guys. It's a bigggg list.

Ordering... a free 8x11 calendar from Shutterfly. I'm so happy guys, I got a free calendar. I got to make my own photos for every month. It was defiantly a great project to do!!

Reading... God is the Gospel by John Piper. So far, it's a REALLY good book.

Loving... how it's so cold. I can finally wear warm boot, warm jackets, warm sweaters, everything FALLY. I'm in love with the cold guys!!

Listening... to football sport commentators. I'm a big football fan. Seahawks all the way!! Anywho, me and Danny had a big fight last night about who's the football goo roo in the family. I think I proved myself to be the one. BUT STILL. I'm listening and learning. Being a sports commentator is my dream :P

Getting... excited about Thanksgiving. This year we're making all the food and bringing it over to our great Grandma's house. I'm so excited. Every one is making two special dishes. I'm making pumpkin pie and rolls :)

So that's my currently post for you.

Wow I haven't done of those in a while.

bouncing in to say bye,

                               Bernie

Can you relate to any of these?

What's one of your dream jobs?