This weekend Mallory is accomplishing this task on the list. She was asked to do the halftime devotional for Upwards Basketball & Cheerleading. She is the gym manager for Pinelake during the season, so she has been able to see every practice and game and seen the children grow with Christ. So with that, she took on the task to speak to all of the family and friends of the players. She spoke about STRESS because this past week she has had alot of stress on her, considering she was crazy and took three AP classes her Junior year. Her devotional was from:
Psalm 31:1-5
For the director of music. A psalm of David.
1 In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
deliver me in your righteousness.
2 Turn your ear to me,
come quickly to my rescue;
be my rock of refuge,
a strong fortress to save me.
3 Since you are my rock and my fortress,
for the sake of your name lead and guide me.
4 Free me from the trap that is set for me,
for you are my refuge.
5 Into your hands I commit my spirit;
redeem me, O LORD, the God of truth.
The author of this passage was stressed out. His enemies were after him. He clearly understood that God was his help, God was his refuge, his deliverer, his rescuer, his strength, his strong hold, his fortress, his leader, his truth.
The same God that the author of this passage turned to in a time of stress or worry, is the same God that loves and cares for us in the same way. We need to internalize these characteristics of God. God has our backs and can handle any of our problems if we just ask him to. He will not put you to it, if He cannot get you through it.
So with this in mind, Mallory ended with this.
Psalm 31:24
24 Be strong and take heart,
all you who hope in the LORD.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
#87 Face a fear
So, last night Februray 24, 2010, Mallory was able to cross "face a fear" off of the list. She spoke to all of the parents for a half time devotional for the Upward basketball and cheerleading games. Her devotional was short but sweet. It was only about 2 minutes long. On the plus side, she gets the chance to give this devotional a total of 6 times to all of the parents who have children taking part the Upwards program at Pinelake Baptist church. This item was actually crossed off the list a while back by Claire, but we did not get a pictures or video of it! :( She spoke in front of all of her peers at our high school's FCA huddle on a Friday morning. She did great, and all of the girls wished we would have gotten video or pictures of her. The day she spoke, there were many more students at the huddle than there had been in the past few weeks. These two events were very exciting for Claire and Mallory. So now two things have been officially crossed off the list.
Monday, January 18, 2010
The Buried Life
The television show that inspired our list of 100 things to do before graduation, premiers tonight on MTV at 10/9 central. Most of us have our DVRs set to record the show because we just happen to busy during the premier! oh well, we will all catch it later!
Sunday, January 17, 2010
#23 Swim with dolphins or manatees
We are excited to announce that we have only 99 more things to do on the list!!! Bryce had the opprotunity through Girl Scouts to swim with manatees in Florida today. We all want to do this activity, but she beat us to the punch. Maybe later on in the year the rest of the group will get to go to Florida and have this experience. Bryce took many pictures or so she said. ;) When she gets home from Florida, pictures will be posted to the blog. Also, when she gets home we can start on working one other thing off the list which is #99 create a scrapbook of our adventures. The fun has now begun for all of us. All that's left for us to do is come to a consensus for our name for our group as a whole, we do have several in mind, we just have to pick one! :)
Bryce swimming with the manatees
This is a picture of the sign where Bryce went swimming
This is a picture of most of the girls who went on the trip with Bryce
According to Bryce, the manatees love belly rubs and to be tickled!
Here's another picture of Bryce swimming with the sea cows!
And another picture of Bryce with the sea cows. mooooo!
Burrrr. Bryce went swimming at the beginning of January. She said it was freezing!!!
Bryce being a goof! :)
We need some fundraising ideas for our group to complete the "bigger" items on our list. I guess we didn't really anticipate coming up with things such as riding the country's tallest rollercoaster or the swimming with dolphins or going to major concerts/sporting events or all the traveling we would have to do. So does anyone have any ideas for us?!
Friday, January 15, 2010
The Lunchbox List in its entirety
The Lunchbox List
Mallory Cadenhead, Kelsey Thomasson, Claire Bolen, Katie Kimbrell, Taylor Giles, and Bryce Maier
16 months. 6 girls. 100 things to do before graduation.
1. Get on the six o clock news
2. Skydive
3. Start a random protest
4. Work the drive through at McDonald’s
5. Chase down the ice cream truck
6.
7. Road trip it to the beach for a day
8. Start a dance in a public place
9. Donate money to charity
10. Attend a major sporting event
11. Get a YouTube video to blow up on the internet
12. Find all the geocaches in Brandon area
13. Pay for a strangers groceries
14. Learn to ball room dance
15. Learn to play an instrument
16. Smash a guitar after perform on a street corner in Jackson with it
17.
18. Ride the highest roller coaster in the country-Kingda Ka in New Jersey
19. Drive a convertible with the top down and the music blaring
20. Learn to make a gourmet meal
21. White water rafting
22. A day of silence
23.
24. Make the front page of the newspaper
25.
26. Host a lemonade stand
27. Create a waterslide and tube down it
28. Camp outside
29. Road trip to most small cities in Mississippi
30. Host a radio show
31. Roll an entire street of houses
32. Trick or treat in April
33. Go to a poetry club a recite poetry (snap, snap)
34. Accomplish 333 ways to get kicked out of Wal-Mart
35. Help someone with house work
36. Play at pump it up
38. Sonic happy hour for one week straight
40. Stay out all night
41.
42. Walk/run/bike a half or full marathon
43. Skip school
44.
45. See something that takes your breath away
46.
47. Watch an extremely stupid movie
48. Laugh until you cry
49. Prank three cars, three nights in a row
50. Rap the McDonald’s rap in a public place with lots of people or in McDonalds
52. Temporary hair highlights (pink, green, blue, etc.)
53. Eat a really, really, really, really big burger
54. Start a huge wave
55. Get a tattoo (henna)
56. Scream at the top of your lungs from the top of the Empire State Building
57. Donate blood
58. Plant a tree
59. Get a professional massage
60. Bike ride the entire Northshore biking/walking/running trail
61. Have a homerun derby at the 471 fields
62. Go to Memphis in May
63. Spend an entire day at the park
65. Dance in the rain or snow if we happen to get some this year
66. Play “The Floor is Lava”
67. Do something for homeless
68. Huge garage sale
69. Have a Wii Sports tournament
70. Pull an all nighter at home
71. Have a Disney classic marathon
72. Have a Disney character costume party
74. See how many pictures we can get of ourselves in the yearbook
75. All day shopping day
76. Play Frisbee golf
77. See how far Lakeland/25 goes
78. Get REALLY tan
79. Road trip to New Orleans
80. Sing karaoke
81.
82. Chocolate slide (for Claire)
83. Sock sliding contest
84. TOMS shoe party
85. Prom senior year together
86. Eat a new, random food
87.
88. Ride every ride at the fair
89. Go to the rodeo
90. Stand on an elevator backwards and see who follows
91. Christmas carols in July
93. Random Act of Kindness day
94. Go visit a senior citizen home
95. Take 100 pictures of all 6 of us- all different, all of us have to be in each picture
96. Gaze at the stars
97. Paint pottery at Fat Cat or Harry the Potter
98. Volunteer at ARF shelter on Hollybush Rd
99. Scrapbook our adventure
100. Graduate High School
100 Things
Our list of 100 things is finally complete and we can start working on crossing all of them off!!! Woo hoo!!! We still need to come up with a name for the group itself, but we actually have several in mind! :)
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