Long time, no see!!!!!

soooo im like the worst blogga eva. i haven't written in like 4 monthes. it was time to update it!!!
i am done with my first semester of 8th grade. WOOT!!!!WOOT!!!! it was good i guess it wasnt any differant from all the other ones but hey thats one more im done with!!!!
halloween has come and gone as you can see. thanksgiving has also come and gone. now we are apporching christmas time. it is the most wounderful time of the year, ya know and my like most people it's is my favorite.
As i have gotten older i have found that christmas has seemed to have "lost" it's magic. it's just not the same as it used to be. Dont get me wrong it's still a wounderful time it's just it's alot better if you focus on jesus.
im all for giving and receiving but thats not what christmas is all about though most people think that somtimes. this year i am trying to focus on just getting back to the soul and main perpouse for the seanson. my lord ans savouir jesus christ!!!!
yes i realize that he was not actully born on christmas day (actully he was born somtime in arpil) but that is just when it is celbrated. if it would have not been for christ coming into this world, you and i could not be saved. God gives so so many blessing the least we can do is give jesus a little birthday bash ehh. i feel that it is infact important to celbrate his brithday.
that being said christmas has gotten so commericalized. sadly to most people christmas is running up credit card bills, worshipping at the altar of "santa claus' and getting fat and drunk. People reley on objects to make them happy. when really all they need is jesus!!! what's why to some people this is the most depressing time of the year. Every one feels different about christmas. Just like everyone feels differantly about christ.
if only we could all just realize christmas is not all about "what i am getting for christmas" or" what i want for christmas" maybe this season would be thought of so much differanlty then it is.
we all want joy in this time of the year but we are looking in all the wrong places. the key to our hoilday hopes lies not in the gift from macy's but from the gift god sent to us wrapped in swaddling clothes and lieing in a manger over two thousand years ago. this is were we will find our hope, joy, love, forgivness, and so much more if we would just oped our hearts. it's there for the taking.
this season i chalnge you to like i will do myself to not foucus so much on the gifts but just in god and thanking him and praising him. i know i will this year.




no more lifes torn apart and wars will never start and time will heal our hearts, everyone would have a feind and right would always win and love would never end. this is my grown up christmas list!!

Forgivness!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forgivness, is a very powerful thing; it can either make up or break you in life. In the past year I have had alot alot of things happen that I have had a hard time forgiving them. Hopefully thees things will only change my life for a little while but they could change my life forever.

Let me just say this, forgivness is a very hard thing to do. Alot of times it's not hard to forgive but to release the harse feeling toward that person. As christans we believe that we need to forgive and forget just as christ did. Which is true we should forgive and forget, but it's alot harder then it sounds.

Most people think that forgiving is just the action of saying it and confessing that you have forgiven that person. "I forgive so-and-so for fin in the blank. There ok i have forgiven them." Wrong O!!!!! You may have said to yourself or to them or to the whole world dosnt mean you have forgivin them. You can say that as many times as you want but if you havnt removed thoose harse feeling and thoughts it's not going to do you any good.Confessing it is only the first step. (i'm sure you can see whats coming next) The second step is to throw it all away, Just leave it all behind. Having this bolder of unforgivness is just going to weigh you down.

The proublem with people is that we went to see justus brought to them. " They did _________ to me, so _________ should happen to them." We all think it and when nothing happens to them we get mad. When you get mad at that person you start to think bad thoughts about them. fisrt it starts with one, then one leads to two and two leads to four ect befor you know it, it's eaten you alive.But with forgivness this woun't happen. When you forgive it takes away the bolder on your shoulders. when the bolder has been lifted you will find it much easyer to worship god with all your heart mind and sould. Which in return will help you forgive. It's a win win.

Like i said in the past year i have had alot of hard times. The other night something reminded me of a person and before i know it I was steaming mad and thinking all theese bad things about them. Then i had a light bulb moment. I had unforgivness toward them. I had been lying, lying to me and my family. I had been saying it with my mouth but not with my mind or heart. So i had to take a good long look inside myself and i saw that i had become an unforgiving person. i never had really ever gotten past step one.

It was very hard but i had to throw it away. It did take some time. I just had to pray and pray and pray and pray and pray some more but i did let it go. When i did it
felt so good. I didnt realize how much i thought about that stuff untill it was gone. i can say it was worth it.

Forgiving isn't easy but it's worth it. You can choose either to soke about it and have a pitty party or just let it go and move on with your life.

So I would encourage you to take a look at your self. Ask yourself. " i'm i __________ __________ __________ a unforgiving person and/or do i have unforgivness in my life.

school

i officaly only have one week of summer left. BUMMER. i'm so sad but i'll just have to make the best of whats left.

Life!!!!

life this week has been CRAZY as it tends to be when you have 2 tolders running around the house. Let me tell you what that takes some getting used to. It's feels really funny.


if you dont get it by now then let me just tell you. My nieces have been here all week. they got here on saturday and we are taking them on saturday. we have had alot of fun. we all have laughed alot and some of us have cried alot but either way we still made memories. here is how our week went:


Saturday: Me mom and dad got up got moveing and got on the road. We met jasmin at D.Q ate lunch and then off to texas again with the girls.we got home and just relaxed the let the girls play all the rest of the day.

Sunday: got up, got ready for church. went to church went to eat lunch then off to mimi and papa's house. we got home put them to bed and that was sunday

Monday: got up, played, went to go eat luch with poppy. then off to pet o' ramma got home eat dinner, then off to bed and that was monday

Tuseday: got up, played, almost went to the play place, ate lunch, took a nap, amost went to the play place again but found that they had shut down. then we went to kid to kid. went to the bounce house place as a replacement for the play place and found that they also shut down, so we found another one as a replacement for the replacemenet and we played and played and playeed and played finaly when we couldnt play any more we went home. ate dinner and then bed time.

Wenseday: got up, played, spent all day at the zoo, came home ate dinner, then bed time

Today: got up, played, played played and played some more.

i dont know what we will be doing tommorrow but whatever it is i know we can all enjoy it.

then saturday we have to get drive them back up to arkansas just in time for jaycee's birthday party. i hope we can make it but i'm sure we will.

i will have more on the rest of this week and the party later.

peace and love Y'all

4th of july.

The 4th of july was o.k this year. we didn't do much. we didn't go to see firworks which was fine with me cause i'm just not that big into fire works unless i'm whatchin them from beside to cindrella castle. All we did was get up and go to church and do our regular sunday things. maybe next year we'll do something.

Vay-Bay-Ess!!!

what can i say, this week has been crazy!First,we are trying to get a new couch and all that stuff that goes with it in a living room. Second, we have been trying to figure out what is wrong with our computer. Third, i have had v.b.s all week long but i made it. V.B.S was the bomb.com this year. i would say it was defantaly the best we have ever had and we have had some pretty darn good ones. this years theem was eygtysion theemed. i'm sure you have seen it advertised almost ever church i saw was doing it. it was the story of joseph and how he went from prison to palace hance the name: joseph:prison to palace.
ohh yeah we found out what was wrong with our computer. the moniter went out on it. which i kapt telling mom and dad that thats all it was but they didn't belive me untill a profesinal told them. so all we had to do was go and get a new moniter. which we did and i am loving it.

sorry again everyone. our home computer is still not working. which has really been a pain but we finally know whats been going on and all we need to do is get a new screen. hopefully we can get a new one short

Yes i'm still here!!!!!

Yes I'm still here!!!! Sorry i have been really busy and havn't really had a chance to update this thing. I was at camp for one whole week so i couldn't really update then, no internet you know how that goes then when i got home our computer got a virus on it so it been down for the past week as well. so today was my first chance but thats not what i wanted to talk (or blog) about. the subject today: camp !!!!!

i love going to camp but who dosn't. Camp is the only week in the year where i can really forget all about all the junk of the world and my life and just focus on god and what he has to say.

I will admit that this year i was kinnda not really looking forward to camp but i just had to keep telling my self that is was going to be fun. which took bit (o.k ALOT) of conversion with my self to convivnce me. if you know what i am saying and yes i do talk to my self if that makes me weird then im very weird. Anyway, i figured it was just because i was home sick because i hadn't been home for 2 weeks. i had been with my awesome aunt,uncle and cousins. i hardly ever get to see them so that was really nice to see them for a week then my brother came and picked me up and i spent the next week with them and i threw my mother a suprise birthday party (see below about that). so i get home and i get to spend one night at home if you want to call that. i had to up pack do laundy and re-pack up and try to chatch up on sleep. lucky for me by the next moring my mind did this cool 180 thing and i was ready to go and pumped up.

i also love road-trips!!!! the car is a good place to think. so i'm sitting there in the car thinking back on the past 2 weeks and the past camp memories and the freinds i made from camp and the up coming week that was ahead of me and i felt suck a feeling of comfort and peace and thats when i knew this week is going to be the bomb.com. the rest of the car ride was fun like usual. we laughed, sang song, shared memories ect...

we finally get there and get all up packed and everthing have dinner and go along with the camp activites, have our night service. we get done with that and we go back to our dorms change go back to try to play our night games and a tornado hits the camp. so that night we didn't get to play our games instead we had to take cover.

the next morning we wake and find out that the dorms below us got flooded.(luckly i had a upstares dorm.) so we didn't get to play any games that day eaither because it was to muddy and wet. but the day went well

The 3rd day, wenseday was the best day of the week. we got to go our regular schedule and play our games and my body was used to that food that seemed to go right threw you but the best part of the day was the night service. wenseday night is always holy ghost night and we worship all night long. that was an amazing night. god really spoke to me and i had a few people give me a word and that was pretty cool.

thruseday was good too. truseday night was sad and awesome all at the same time. thurseday is when they let poeple tell threre tesamonies i really like hearing what god did for them. it's sad becasue it your last night there and you only have half a day with your friend the next day and all that stuff.

friday was sad. you have to leave the camp world behind and go back to everyday life but you will always have the memories of that week.
so we get home and we went swimming and then we all went to go see toy story 3 because it opned that night.

i really didn't like toy story 3. it was the most predickable movie a have ever seen. not to sound mean or any thing but i really wanted to see them fall into the fire pit and burn. i am so sick of movies with happy endings just once i would really LOVE to see a movie where the guy dosn't get the girl, the toys don't make it home,the super donsen't save the world and we all die. that would tottly make my day.

Anyway camp was the bomb.com and i didnt like toy story.

Suprise!!!

Today my sister and me threw my mother a suprise birthday party. It was so awesome. She had no clue that that was coming. every one had a really ngood time. it was alot harded then i thought it would be keeoing it a scercet but i did. I was so worried the my niece was gong top tell her but luckly she didn't.

Good Day!!!

Today was a good day. I had lots of fun!!! Today was jaycee's first gymastics practice and let me tell you what she was SO good. I am very proud of her. She was the best out there i thought. Then i found out that i get to go to a magic show on thurday night. I love magic shows. I really like how things that look so impossible and changing to pull off have to simplest explamtions. I hope it is eally good. Then tommorow i have am having lunch with my aunt sandra. I hope we can go to subway!!! I love subway. Hopefully everything gose as planned tommorow and the rest of the week.

Good Day!!!!!

i think i am going to give up blogging. i guess i am just a really boring person so no boddy wants to read. bummer!!!!!!!!

All about me- Part 4: Hobbies

i'm a pretty average peson i eat, sleep, put my pants on one leg at a time and every boddy has spare time but it's what you do in my sapce time that makes you differant; as i like to say. I will be the first one to tell you i am not in to what other guys my age are into but whatever we all have things that we like to do that i don't.
In my spare time i have a lot of things that i like to do. I love to sing!!!!! Poeple who know me really well know that i NEVER stop singing i am always singing a song to my self or humming or somthing of that sort.
I chinese juggle which i love very very much. It's alot harder then it looks but i try to practice at least an hour a day but some thimes life happens and i don't get to. What i was really suprised to find out about chinnese jugling is that it really buldes up the musscels in the hand and in your wrist. yes i know sounds weird but it's true.
I love acting. i am always in some community theater or in skits in chruch and stuff like that. Last year i got the chance to be n the off broadway hit "Oz the musical" written by Todrick Hall. Yes !!!!The Todrick Hall that was on american idol this year. oz the musical stared Diana Degrarmo also from american idol it came down between her and fanshia and as you know fanshia won.
This last one may sound a little weird but i really like fashion desing. I have this big jounal at home with all my desings in it. I don't show it to poeple very offten but when i do they always tell me i'm really good. Somtimes i wonder if they really mean it or if they tell me that because they don't have to heart to tell me they are really bad desinges
Since i have weird hobbies i have had lots of poeple make fun of me but they can just bak off because thats how i am and i'm not changing that.

Sleep

I thought that lastnight i would try to stay up all night. I only made it till 6:30, i just couldn't take it any more. I was so tired, i just had to have sleep. Swo i finaly went to sleep but man did i ever pay for it. I just got up, didn't mean to sleep that long it just happened.
It's been really hard for me to go to sleep because i am a night owl and i usally stay up late. All this week i have been at my aunts house and i have been having at blast. My cousin is also a night owl like me so her and I have been staying up but even later then what i am used to. Now my body is kinnda stuck on that sleep schedule . Maybe i should try going to sleep earlier or not !

kids cartooon shows!!!

I don't know if this ever happens to you but Sometimes i can be flippin threw the channals on the t.v and run into a kids cartoon and you might sit here a minute and whatch and have not a clue why but the voices sound so familar to you but you just can't figure it out well if it dose i can help you on that. i decided to look up some of the voices on kinds cartoon show!
Bob in "bob the builder"............................................................... Greg Proops (aalso of whoose line?)
Handy Manny.................................................................................Wilmar Valderrama
Mermaid Man in spongebob.........................................................Ernest Borgnine
Barnicel Boy in spongebob.............................................................Tim Conway
Thomas the tank train has been narrrated by the likes of .... Alec Baldwin, Ringo Star, and George Carlin

sadness

I feel sad!I feel very sad.! No one is reading my blog. So, if your out there reading my blog please commet so i know that i havn't put all this time into nothin and to prove myself wrong so about no one reading. Thank you that would make me feel better!

All about me! Part 3- more family

Sorry!!! I didn't get to finish my last post. So i will just start right were i left off. So
my in-laws!!!!
Yes!!!! I know what your thinking!! yes, yes i do have in-laws because both of my siblings are narried.
Jasmin (married to my brother): Let me first start off by saying she has lupus; for thoose of you who don't know what t that is. It's complex and i don't want to have to write this big long story so just google it. It will make it much easyer on both you and me. She is so great! I love jasmin so much she is my best freind. We always talk every night in facebook we give each other advice and stuff like that ,that best freinds do. I always know what i can count on her and she better know by now that she can always count on me.
Dustin(married to my sister): Well to tell you the truth i don't really know him all that well i never really have. we never have really talked to each other but then again my sister and i never have eaither. I guess that kinnda gose hand and hand. So far as i can tell he's a pretty cool guy and a really good basket ball player that's for sure i wish i could play like that but i never will bumer.
There now you know about my in-laws. What's funny about them is i can't really ever not having in-laws . I personaly don't get why every one is always talking about dreading seeing there in-'laws. I feel the opisite but that's just me.

All about me. part 2- my family.

I have a normal size family. It's not to small and it's not to big. it's just Dad, Mom, my brother(justin), my sister(missy) and me. There is kind of an age gap between both of my siblings. between justin and i there is 13 year age gap and between my sister and i there is a 9 year age gap. Some times i don't really like the age gap but somtimes i love it. When i was younger there always seemed to be an akwardness in the air but as i have gotton older that has gone away with every passing day. Since there is an age gap there both my siblings never lived at home. So i kinnda have the best if both worlds. I really hate that preety much at every time of the year beause there is no one to talk to. It's always all me all the time becuase since i home school and both my parents work (yes i do get work done) i'm always at home by my self all the time which i really don't like. But i love having the spot light at christmas time and my birthday but other then that i really don't like it. If you are wondering why there is such an age gap between my siblings is because : o.k so my mother got marrried at 18 and had justin right off the bat.To make a long storie short the marriage didn't work out. Meanwhile the same thing happened to my dad. He got married had my sister and the marriage didn't work out either. Then my mother met my dad threw work and they dated and got married and they waited a while(six years) then had me. So since they both had had kids from other spouses they they had to share them with the other spouse that lived in a another state. So thats why. If you were wondering.
All of my family both from my mothers side and my dads side live in arkansas and oklahoma. having family living in other states is very hard and if you don't have family who lives out of state then it's really hard to understand what i mean. We are always traveling out of state to see our family. We try to see our family at least once a month or more. Which i guess in a way i prouble see my family more then having living in the town. well the computer is running on jucies so i will have more on my family later.
JESUS LOVES YOU!!!!! NEVER TEXT AND DRIVE!!!!!!

All about me. part 1: my name.

hey everyone!!!
I'm sure as you have saw my name is Michael Chase Showen. The name Michael come from my dad. My dads name is Michael too so my parents decided that my first name would be michael. My middle name came from my mother. She got the name chase from a novel she had read and the guys name was chase ans she really like that name so she wanted my name to by chase. When you put the too toghter that makes Michale Chase now all thats left is to put the last name on. When you put it all togther it makes Michel Chase Showen. When i was young i hater the name chase but i hated michael even more so i choose chase and plus thats what my parents wanted to call me so thats what stayed. As i get older i find that there are not as many people named chase as there are poeple named michael so that has made me like chase. I would rather have a not very common name because people are going to rember it more but then again who could ever forget me.

HEY
I' m chase.
you figure out the rest