Hey ya'll!

Hey everybody!! Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I got caught up in school stuff, and then summer got me XD but I'm back! And I have a few announcements! First off, I got an iPod for birthday, so now posting will be super fast and easy! Second, there's a new segment coming to the blog. I can't tell you yet, but I have a feeling ya'll are gonna love it!! 

Well, I'm gonna log off for now, but keep a look out for some new posts!! :D

Have a great day and don't forget your camera!!

~Bekah 

Shout-out!

Just a shout-out to my German, Russian, UK, Guatemalan, South Korean, and Thailand fans. You rock (my US fans rock too. Don't get all upset on me now! ;) )! Comment below on what country you are from! :D

Have a great day and don't forget your camera!

Flower Pens!

Wow you guys... I'm REALLY bad at posting things... I'm so sorry... I'm making a new years resolution to blog more! I figure this is how it will go:
Monday through Thursday I'll blog when I can about random tidbits from my life/advice from my crazy life, and Friday will be, of course, Foto Friday! :D I've been working with Picmonkey, and honestly, it's as good as Picnik (maybe a bit better?). I've got some awesome photo tutorials up my sleeve, and I can't wait to show them to you! Saturday I probably won't post anything (but then again, I kinda lack a social life, so maybe I'll drive you guys crazy post something ;) ). Sunday will have a little spiritual post. Maybe some music, a story, just something to lift your spirits and maybe even build your testimony! Just a little way to bring the spirit into your life (and mine!)! :) So, let's hope my crazy schedule will allow me to post more! :D I have a lot to show you guys! :D

Today, we will be doing a craft! I swear, I don't have a crafting bone in my body (well, it's REALLY, REALLY tiny!!), but I can do a few things really well! And one of those is making roses out of pipe cleaners! :D

Hey there!

Hi everyone! Is it just me, or is every post a "Hi! Sorry I haven't posted!" post? I'm going to change that though. I'm going to post once a week (I'm so busy, so once a week sounds reasonable!), and then work it up to posting every day.

Life is treating me well right now. I'm super busy, and I've had some set backs, but I'm working on keeping that smile bright and working though my problems. I haven't always been the best at the latter.

Obviously, I've been busy pushing a tire. ;) More on that story later! :D

School started (I'm sure you all know that by now, haha!), and it's kept me plenty busy. I'm trying out a new online school. It's really nice. You only have to do 2 lessons a week per class. The lessons are 2-3 hours though. But it's nice. I do about a class a day. I have 5 classes, so I'm usually done by the weekend. What frustrates me right now is that the portal is really slow during the weekend and the evenings (and that's the time I can usually get on!). They are working on that though, so hopefully it will be faster. I'm also taking a few classes at the local high school. I'm taking Orchestra (no duh haha!), Seminary, and German! German is... an interesting class to take. Some days I get it, and some days I feel like my brain is fried. I love it though, and I'm starting to catch on.

Youth Symphony started as well! We had a great kick-off retreat. We made videos to promote our Youth Symphony here and here (there are more, but they haven't been put on YouTube), and we voted in new YS officers and designed our t-shirts and just got to know each other better. It was so much fun! :D

That next Thursday was our first rehearsal. We had so much fun there too! Our conductor, Mr. B, was his usual self, jumping around the room, conducting us at full speed even though we had never set eyes on some of this music. That night, however, Mr. B passed away. It was so sudden. No one saw it coming. He was a great teacher and musician and will be sorely missed. I created a commemorative video and put it on my YouTube channel here. You should all check it out when you have a minute.

**Note: This is not my photo. This photo belongs to The Post Regester of Idaho Falls, ID. No copyright infringement intended. I just wanted to put it on this post because it's such a good photo of Mr. B!

Losing Mr. B has been one of the hardest things for me. For a while, I just couldn't deal with realizing he was gone. Little by little though, I was able to come to terms with it. Creating the video helped me unleash some of that anguish and emotions. I also went to the temple about week after his passing. It really helped me put things into perspective and helped me realize that- no matter how cliche this sounds- he really is in a better place and that he is happier, because he is able to do the Lord's work. I was actually able to write a song as well (and actually put music to it. Something I will have to talk more about later). It was simply amazing though, and I have really been able to write what I hear in my head. I really think it's inspired music that I'm writing. :) My friend is helping me write the piano part. Maybe some day I'll make a video for it. :)

I'm also looking into different careers. I would love to teach an orchestra, and because I'm sure that is what everyone sees me doing when I grow up. Music is still something I'm insanely passionate about. But, I love the gospel. I love going to church, learning about the church, teaching the gospel to others, and feeling the spirit all the time. Pretty much everything about being a Mormon, I love! I also love helping people and helping them work though their problems. Well, that makes a bit of a problem for me, because now I'm thinking of either becoming a music therapist or being a seminary teacher! Orchestra teacher, music therapist, or seminary teacher... I can't decide right now. Good thing I have some time to think about it!

Well, I think that's all for now. I'll try and post more often, I promise! :) Maybe the next post will be about some of the things I did this summer! Love you all lots!

Have a great day and don't forget your camera!

CheletheCello

A new challenge!

Hi everyone! How are you all doing? I have been having a fabulous summer. It's about to end though, so you know what that means. Back to school. And knifty knitting. But this year, I'm taking on a new challenge, a new craft. Knitting. And Crocheting. I've done a little bit so far, and I've found I'm terrible... But I will not be deterred! So what my post is really about today, folks, is "What is your best 'learn-to-knit' book or website or video." :) Post it in the comments below! :D

Have a great day and don't forget your camera!

CheletheCello

Sharpie Mug!

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in forever! I'm trying to get back in the groove though. :) Today I have an awesome craft for you all! I got the idea from a pin on my Pinterest! 


Sharpie Mugs!


I know you're thinking, "What Bekah? Sharpie Mugs? What in the WORLD are you talking about??"


Well, just let me explain!

Hi everyone!

Hi everyone! I'm sorry I haven't blogged in forever! I have just been so busy and I cannot post from my kindle fire (Blogger needs to make a posting app for kindle/droid). I hope you are all doing well and I am planning on posting more often! :) Here are some updates to my life and to the blog as well:

*Piknic has closed, therefore I will need to learn a new editing app so I can get Foto Friday started up again.
*I am taking the GED this summer and I will *hopefully* be starting college this fall.
*In 2 years I will apply for BYU-I so I can start my Music Education degree.
*I'm taking Cello lessons! :D (I don't remember if I ever posted about that).
*9 more days until school gets out!! :D (Including weekends and Memorial Day).
*I'm a JCL for camp this year!! :D I will be helping with girls camp and will put some of the things that we do on here! :)
**AND my Sweet 16 is this summer!!!! ***SQUEE!!!!!*** :D I am doing a music-themed party (would you know me do to any different? lol) and I will keep you all updated and put pics up of the party about a week or two after the party (Girls camp is right after my birthday, so it will take a while to get everything up).

I can't wait to get posting again! :D

Have a great day and don't forget your camera! :D

CheletheCello

My Talk :)

So today in sacrament meeting, I was the youth speaker, along with a returned missionary and one of the members of our ward. I have a feeling that I should put my talk up on my blog, so here it is :)

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In a talk given by President Monson in the 2009 October General Conference, He recalled this story:

“A few years ago I read an article written by Jack McConnell, MD. He grew up in the hills of southwest Virginia in the United States as one of seven children of a Methodist minister and a stay-at-home mother. Their circumstances were very humble. He recounted that during his childhood, every day as the family sat around the dinner table, his father would ask each one in turn, “And what did you do for someone today?” The children were determined to do a good turn every day so they could report to their father that they had helped someone. Dr. McConnell calls this exercise his father’s most valuable legacy, for that expectation and those words inspired him and his siblings to help others throughout their lives. As they grew and matured, their motivation for providing service changed to an inner desire to help others.” Close Quote

Let me reiterate: “And what did you do to help someone today?”

In our busy lives, running to-and-fro, we often feel that we are too busy, or we think, “someone else will do it.” Now, let me say this now, I am not exempt. I too often feel “too busy” to give service to someone. But it doesn’t have to be this big service project you see us, the Young Women and the Young Men, doing. It could be as simple as saying Hi to someone and spending a few minutes talking to them, or setting a few cookies aside from your batch for a neighbor down the street. Look at Dr. McConnell's family. Those children for at least a while, gave small bits of service to others because they were very young, like holding doors and picking up something that was dropped. Being a Cellist, I appreciate it very much when a kind Youth Symphony member holds the door for me because I have my Cello in one hand and my music in the other.

One of my favorite service projects in Young Women needed little preparation. We did a pizza service project. Our leaders called a few different members and asked if we could come over Tuesday night to do a 5 minute service project in return for some pizza toppings. We were split into 2 groups and were given a list of names. We ran around the different neighborhoods doing service and collecting pizza toppings. At the end of the night, we met back at the church house and made our pizzas. For me, service (and our pizza) never tasted as good as it did that night.

My favorite hymn is "A Poor Wayfaring man of Grief," hymn number 29. I'll be reading verses 1,6, and 7.

1)A poor wayfaring Man of grief
Hath often crossed me on my way,
Who sued so humbly for relief
That I could never answer nay.
I had not power to ask his name,
Whereto he went, or whence he came;
Yet there was something in his eye
That won my love; I knew not why.

6)In pris’n I saw him next, condemned
To meet a traitor’s doom at morn.
The tide of lying tongues I stemmed,
And honored him ’mid shame and scorn.
My friendship’s utmost zeal to try,
He asked if I for him would die.
The flesh was weak; my blood ran chill,
But my free spirit cried, “I will!”

7)Then in a moment to my view

The stranger started from disguise.
The tokens in His hands I knew;
The Savior stood before mine eyes.
He spake, and my poor name He named,
“Of Me thou hast not been ashamed.
These deeds shall thy memorial be;

Fear not, thou didst them unto Me.”

This hymn is related to two scriptures, the first one being Matthew 25: 31-40. In Matthew it says:

"31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

 39 Or when saw we thee asick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

It goes on to say that those who did not give service to others were punished. A verse that is closely related to it is Mosiah 2:17 (it also happens to be the second scripture reference to the hymn). It says there: 

"...when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God."

Serving others is a blessing! To me, it feels like I'm the one receiving service. Yesterday I had the oppertunity to serve and to be served. In the morning, I helped clean out the basement with other ushers at the Idaho Falls Symphony Office. When we were done, it looked so much cleaner and we all felt really good about it. Later that day, some of the bretheren in our ward came and helped us move some of the bigger items out of our apartment and into our new apartment. It was such a blessing for my family because we did not have the equipment ourselves to move them. Thank you to those brethren.

I now ask you what have you done to help someone today? Even in our busy, hectic lives, we can all stop for a few moments to help someone in need. Hope you keep that question in our heart always, as I will now do. 

I'd like to bear my testimony. I know the church is true, and that without it, I don't know where I would be. The Church is so important in my life. I know that the scriptures are true and that Jesus Christ really did atone for our sins and that though Him we can return to live with our Heavenly Father again.

Amen.

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Have a great day and don't forget your camera! :D

Moses and the children of Israel and our Spiritual Journey

Today in Seminary we talked about Moses and the children of Israel. We just did a overview today. The rest of the week we will be studying more in-depth. :D Studying the old testament has been such an awesome experience!

We decided that we wanted to take a picture of the board because Brother Russell wrote it so nicely **coughcoughprojectorcoughcough** haha ;) We compared their journey to our spiritual journey. You all should read what the boards say! :D

Have a great day and don't forget your camera!

CheletheCello

Sorry!

I'm so sorry! I have missed the past few days and even missed Foto Friday! I have just been so busy! We're getting ready to move and I still have school and seminary and taking care of Beth and chores and AHH!!! So yeah, you can kinda see why I haven't blogged in the past few days. For now, I'll just leave a few photos. :)

My Spunky sister Beth :)

My sisters in Spirit at the Temple :D

The Idaho Falls Temple (A.K.A. My Temple) :D

Above 3 photos from here

I colored these photos, but they belong to Green Jello and Carrots! 

Have a great day and Don't forget your Camera!

Fall!

Fall is here in my little city (winter has even hit a few times)! I love the different things that fall brings. I love Halloween and Thanksgiving, and the warm comfort foods and... ahh I just love it ALLL :D Of course, I got a few different camera shots that I think you will like. :)

A bit edited, but it's cool :D

Life is too short to be "normal"!

So, you know, capturing the little things in life is important.

Sunrise, Sunset!

I know it's 12:30 am, but because I haven't gone to bed yet, I still think it's saturday. :) Here is my photo today. I took it a few years back. I found it today and did a bit of editing to it. :)

"Don't be fooled into thinking that a
sunrise is really a sunset!"
~Me (just now) :)

We were driving back from Utah. This was probably around Pocatello area. :) It was actually a sunset just so you know. :) Don't forget your camera!

CheletheCello

Eagle Rock Junior High and Skyline Highschool Orchestra Concert! (Oct. 13, 2011)

I just realized that I didn't post last night! :O I remember what I was going to post about, but I guess I never posted it...

Well, last night, the Eagle Rock Junior High and Skyline Highschool Orchestras had their first concert! :D Unfortunately, I was not apart of it... Things just didn't work out with online school this year. :/ I did go to the concert though, and they all did GREAT! :D My camera decided to be a pain last night though... I got a few different photos, but I only video taped 2 of the songs. My camera wanted me to reformat my card like 5 times... and then the battery over-heated... then it needed to be reformatted again... I swear that whenever I want to video tape a orchestra concert, it goes on the fritz! xP Gah! Well, anyway, I want to show you a cool photo I got and then edited once I got home.

The Skyline Orchestra!

Don't they look awesome? It's because they are! They are amazing and they did so great at the concert last night! :D Makes me really really REALLY sad that I'm not with them this year... :/ If they had a party to celebrate, they all totally deserve it :D (And Orch Dorks always have an orchestra party after a successful concert! It's tradition!) :)

Well, hopefully I can get the 2 videos up soon for all of you to see. :) Maybe I'll put a second post up later tonight. Well, I gotta run! Have a great day and don't forget your camera! :)

CheletheCello

Hey I remembered! :D

Well, I must be doing good if I remembered to post the 2nd day in a row! :) Not much went on today, so I'll just post a pic or two from summer vacation that you might like. :D

The first 4 photos were taken at West Piney Girls Camp. We were up there for ward campout. (Mom didn't let me take the camera to girl's camp this year. Boo-hoo!)

Hey there!

I just realized that I have neglected my blog for a few months and left you guys on a few cliff hangers! I know I'm a terrible person and I am SO sorry! I'm sure you will forgive me though. :) I have just been so dang-crazy-busy lately, you know? School, seminary, taking care of Beth, eat, sleep, and repeat (and much more in between!)! I'm just going to put a few photos up and resolve one of the cliff hangers today though, because today is another busy day!

Now, to resolve the cliff hanger of what Beth wore to her baptism:

Hey there!

Hi there everyone! I just thought I would let you know that I was still alive. :) I'm writing a kinda-long blog post, so that is why I haven't blogged in a while... I have gotten some awesome photos though! I think you will like them! :D

Before and after!

rainbow!! :D

Yesterday we had a rainstorm, and afterwords, there was this stunning rainbow! :D Of course, you can tell it was edited... but it still looks pretty cool! :D

I've started to use the Picnik photo editor as well as Befunky. Fotoflexer seems to be down though. :/ They all have their strengths and weaknesses.

I hope you like how I re-did the blog as well. I really didn't like the way it looked. I really like it now, and I hope you like it too! (Especially because I figured out how to create more than one page! :D yay!)

School is almost out!!

The school year is almost over (Can you believe it??? I know I can't!)!!!!!! I'm sad too! I become a secluded hermit over the summer! I'm going to miss my friends, and seminary, and orchestra, and and and... :'O It makes me depressed! (you can tell I'm a bit of a social person... hehe) I don't do alot over the summer! Where I live, you can't get a job till you are 15 (like restaurants and stuff like that). I don't turn 15 till the summer is half way over! Many people aren't willing to hire either :P In the past summers, I've ridden my bike all over the place and went to girls camp (oh and last year we had a dance festival). Sometimes we travel too.

Well, this blog is about my life, through a lens, so I will give you some photos!

This one is our orchestra group. (which, BTW, you can follow here) I'm totally going to miss these guys once summer starts! They are amazing! Annnnnddddd next year 1/2 of us will be at Skyline! (well, maybe not half, more like 12 out of 15!) (and just so you know, I'm the 4th in from the left on the back row). These guys are like my 2nd family! Did I already say that they were amazing?

So, I LOOOOOVVVVVEEEEE Cherry Blossom trees! They are so beautiful! Lots have been blooming here, so I have been in heaven for a while.I carry my camera pretty much everywhere, so while going to school the other day, I took some photos! :D I edit them with a photo editor called befunky. It's not too bad, though if you don't have a premium membership, it has 3-4 ads (that change every 2-3 minutes) and you can't use the cool stuff... But it is pretty nice!

(same photo, different style!)

Well, that is all for now. I need to get some sleep! lol! :D See you all later!

♫Bekah

Busy busy life!

I haven't been on here in a while! Wow! Life has had me running around in circles! yeesh!

I have some very sad news though...

MY CAMERA IS BROKEN!! NOOOOOOO!!!

I'm very sad. It looks like we can't fix it, and the warranty expired a while ago...

Soooooo I will be posting random photos that I have taken the past few months! Enjoy!

This is my gingerbread house that I brought to a gingerbread competition. I arrived after the judges left, so I didn't win anything. :/

This is me! We had a Christmas formal for our December stake dance last year, so I bought this really pretty dress! :D It was an awesome dance! I had alot of fun! (If you also notice, I cut mah hair!)

We had another Orchestra BBQ the saturday before school started. We were able to get alot more people to come! It was a blast!

This is the amazing Brother Kory Kunz! He is my seminary teacher! This was at our Seminary Pizza party! Because we got all of our papers turned in for next year, our class, along with all the other classes, got to have a pizza party at the seminary building during lunch! Brother Kunz had ordered SO many pizzas, that when we stacked them up, they were taller than him! Brother Kunz is AWESOME!

Well, that's all for now! See you later!