el oo vee ee

We want to believe there is love in this world, but with all the hate and war going on we think that love is too hard to find. However that is not the truth. We just over look it because it isn't something we expect to find or we write it off to be something other then what it really is, LOVE!

Take friends for example. They are always there for us even when the weight of the world gets to heavy to carry. They're there to take a piece off our shoulders and put it onto theirs. At times of trouble however we forget to remember this. We don't think about this act of love. Instead we focus on the bad, the hate. We focus on the stuff we lack rather then the stuff we have. It is only then that hate and war come to be. So if love is what we want, then believe in it. Hate and war won't exists then and all the stuff in our lives( which is good) will come forth. It is at this moment that you will realize life over all is filled with love.

Yes life will get you down and it may seem like nothing is going right but you can't dwell on that feeling. You have to move past that feeling, past all the evil and move to the good. If you just look around, you will see that love never leaves you, whether it be visible love, emotional love or spiritual love. LOVE IS ALWAYS THERE

BELIEVE IN LOVE

junior at last

In one week, next Monday, I'll finally be a junior in high school. Yay me! Since the beginning of august all i could think about is high school; Friday night football games, FFA, managing the wrestling team, having my day planned out, my friends, all of it has me bouncing off the walls. I'm even excited for my classes. And there is only one(!) class I'm not looking forward to. Out of ten, i deserve one class to hate. What kind of teenager would i be if there wasn't one thing i hated about school. That one class, er, is biology. I have never liked science. Not even in elementary school when we had to put colored paper outside and see if the sun changed the colors. It did. Not interesting. And changing the name from science to biology isn't going to change that, no. But other then that, i am excited. I'd have to say the thing I'm most excited for would be FFA(Future Farmers of America). Now I'm not some Wyoming country redneck. Matter of fact no one in my chapter is like that. FFA is just a normal club. However that normal club is a HUGE part in my life. I've been in it for 4 years now, i started as an 8th grade. My grandfather got me into it. When he died he held an honerary membership in the piantrock chapter. FFA does a lot for me too. I can get tons of scholarships through it, it helps with public speaking and it teaches me a lot. So yeah FFA is the thing I'm most excited for this year. I'm even the 2nd vice president of my chapter.

The 2o08-09 school year for Sheridan, Wyoming starts in one week, and i just can't wait!

My stepmom!

On Feburary 18th, 2006, my dad gave me the best gift he has ever given me.(Besides life anyways; thanks Dad.) What was the gift? Well it was none other then a stepmom and three(!) stepbrother.





And now my family looks like that(Mind you this picture was taken alittle over two years ago.)



So, why am I writing about something that happened about two and a half years ago? Well because if it wasn't for that woman I'm holding hands with, I won't be blogging. Have you ever heard of Snow White? Well, she had a stepmom. And one day her and I compared stepmoms(oh yes me and Snow White are best of friends lolz) Her stepmom was evil. She thought beating Snow White was everything. So much that she tried killing Snow White. Now i felt bad for Snow White, I really did because you see my stepmom is nothing like that. She simply adores me. I doubt my dad or Kira or anyone really excepted Kira and I to become friends, best friends! But thats what we did. It took sometime though, and i didn't want to accept it at first. I felt out of place sometimes, like I didn't belong in that family. Afterall I had a whole different family back in Wyoming. For 14 years it had been just my mom's huge family and me. I was a Vigil, not a Martin. I didn't want to be a Martin. Sure my dad's family was in my life, but only sometimes. The Vigils they were there always. And now that I've said it, i see how foulish I was. So you see Kira has brought so much into my life. If it wasn't for her I wouldn't have what she calls a " nearly adult" sence of graciousness and joy, I wouldn't have the relationship I now have with my dad, and I probably won't have the dream to become a journalist. But most of all I wouldn't be able to understand that I have ONE family. Its a huge one mind you but its mine. Half is Vigil and half is Martin, but you add it together it eguals one.

Thank you Kira, I love you