Summertime

Hello lovely readers. It's been quite a few months since I posted, but here I am again.
Too many things have happened and months have passed for me to fairly blog about it all separately. So here's one giant blog post about my lovely summer. This has been one of the best ones I can remember, and now y'all can hear all about it.
(This post is really quite long. Feel free to skim.)

 

My brother graduated, and we all got to dress up fancy

and cry about him growing up.

 

I ruined an already awkward picture.

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I cut my hair for the first time in three years, and I love it.

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All of us girls went on vacation to Galveston.  

 

 Walking along the beach with Peyton.

 

Exploring in town.

 We went on a little tour boat thing, and we saw dolphins!

Our Peyton turned five. <3
 

I tried to be artsy and get a cool picture of myself. Sitting. On sand.
 

I GOT MY BRACES OFF!!!!

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My mom, Reagan, on of my good friends Jerah, and I all roadtripped to Kansas.

WE WERE HEADED TO THE OYAN SUMMER WORKSHOP! 

Where I got to spend a week with these lovely people.

Learning, critiquing, and generally having the best week ever.

 

Taking comfort the last day by... Laying on the ground.

And using each other as pillows. 

We called it the Stomach Train.

 

WE HAD A 20S NIGHT!

This is me and Delaney, her being our lovely prohibitionist. 

 Me and the beautiful Elly. I missed her so much.

We were roomates again this year, and it was so much fun. One of the best things about the week was staying up way too late and watching Newsies with her. 

I love ya, Pond.

 

KIERA! 

Hugs on the last night. <3

 

The Frodo to my Sam.

I missed her so very much.

Nori. <3

All the rawr.

 

This lovely group of people who stole my sour candy.

 Emma and Mariesa as Jack and Davey on Newsies day. 

AREN'T THEY FABULOUS!

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Lying in the grass with friends. :)

Unintional shoe matching with Carlie.
We end up dressing the same so much now it's getting creepy.

 

Carlie and me on the Fourth of July. <3

 

Watching the fireworks with these lovely people. 

Keeping cool. 

 

Jackson about to leave to Brazil for 3 weeks.

 

Katherine and I had our own lil' photo shoot.

 

All of us crammed onto a little bench to FaceTime Jackson.

Kathering competed in Nationals!

She placed really well.

And as you can all see, I'm obviously the flexible one in the family.

 

We went to the city and ate at a cute little cafe.

 

 

 I GOT MY PERMIT!

 

Here you see me trying out for the part of "Off Balance Mannequin."

 

 We attended the wedding of an old family friend.

And had quite a lot of fun with makeup and dresses.

And now you're caught up on my summer, as I'm sure you were dying to be. 

It's been excited and gruelingly hot and lots of fun. I still have a few weeks before school starts, and dare I say I'm ready for it?

I hope you've all been having an amazing summer. Keep on smiling. <3

Seven Reasons to be Happy Today

The world is a beautiful place, and I'm kinda in love with it. So here, lemme share 7 reasons to be happy this lovely Tuesday. Maybe it can cheer up your week.

1. FLOWERS! They're everywhere here, and I love it! But I love the yellow ones the most. Yellow flowers just look so incredibly cheerful. They're my favorites of all da flowers ever.


Just look how happy this lil' flower is. Now stare into the depths of it and go be happy that yellow flowers are growing everywhere.

2. The weather. Because it's been rather lovely. (Except the random tornado, but that's Texas for ya.) The days are either drizzly and grey and perfect to read on, or they're really clear and bright. Those ones make me happy, 'cause who doesn't love sunshine?

3. School is almost over! And that's an incredibly happy thing. I only have three weeks left, and then there is freedom!

4. Painting. I bought some canvases and borrowed some of my sister's paint, and painting just makes me really happy. It also makes me messy. (Very messy.)


(A picture of the Cameron Painting Process.)
Aaaaand the result of late night inspiration and messy painting.



5. There's so much to do in this big world, and so much to try and experience. And that's definitely something to be happy about. So go love life! It's beautiful.

6. Verses like these!
Psalm 46:19 "Be still and know that I am God."
Ephesians 5:8 "For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of the light."
And my favourite verses, Romans 8:38-39 "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Those verses all make me ponder (that's such a lovely word), and they make me happy.

And 7. NOTEBOOKS AND JOURNALS! They make me so happy. And I have way too many.
And they're so fun to do things with. Are you gonna paint in 'em, or journal deep thoughts, or doodle, or write? They're pretty wonderful, huh?

(Hahah that's just some of them.)

So,what makes you happy on this beautiful day?

Snow Days

I deemed snow blog worthy because this is Texas, and I don't think I've seen this much freezing since I was 8.
Anyhow, it's snowed and iced and frozen over and over in the past two weeks. It's like Texas has an annual snow day that only happens in February. But it forgot that February is over.
Don't get me wrong, I really love snow. Just not when it ruins traveling plans almost two weeks in a row. But all's well that ends well. I still got to see Houston, and I'll be heading to Oklahoma to see my sister in her college Spring Sing this weekend.

Now because I'm rather boring right now, have some pictures.


This is my new favorite picture. Peyton and me out for a walk on a snowy morning. Funny how everything seems magical when it's dusted with snow.


Katherine, Peyton, Reagan, and Emelyn running ahead of me to see the world. Because it's a rather different world when it's frozen.
(This doesn't look like a lot of snow, but that was only the start.)


Not a snow picture, but I love it. Adrienne and me reunited after she was at a Stock Show for a few days. We'll never admit it, but we really do miss each other.


Apparently blowing snow everywhere is really fun. You should all try it.


Aaand one last picture. Reagan and me taking a lovely sister-selfie (is that a thing?) in our snow covered front yard.

And that about wraps up this post. Have a lovely weekend. And stay warm. <3

15 Facts You Totally Want to Know About Me

So, I'm officially 15 now. Which isn't very old, but it's older than last week.
Anyhow, I keep ditching my blog, but I really do enjoy blogging, so here's a blog post that makes more sense than most of them do.

Since I'm fifteen now and this is a blog mostly about my life, why not so fifteen random facts about Cameron?
Soooo, here we go.

1: I love the simple things in life. Like glimpses of stars through branches, or little words that mean big things, or random hugs.

2: I'm the third child out of eight. When I was younger that kinda defined me. Like, hello, I'm Cameron and I'm the third out of eight, and that is all there is to me. But now I'm becoming more my own person, and having seven sibling just shows me how unique I am.

3: I consider piggy-back rides to be literally one of the best things ever. Because why wouldn't you love those?

4: Cheesecake is my favorite food. Not just dessert. I mean food. It's the best out of everything.

5: I love hugs, and hugging people.






(Hugging Peyton yesterday. My mom was being mom-ish and taking pictures of things. And I kinda love this.)

6: I've got this weird thing for umbrellas. They're just awkward and adorable and so much fun, and I kinda love them. ALSO! My birthday happens to be on... Dun dun dunnnn: National Umbrella Day. Which made me really happy.

7: I love words so much.

8: Old things make me happy. Like pieces of history. I love museums for that reason. Because things are so old, and they're still here. I don't even have some touching reason I like things like that. They just intrigue me, and amaze me too.

9: Laughing is one of the things I do best.

10: I love making people happy, almost more than anything else.

11: I adore piano music, and playing the piano.

12: I have this not-so-secret desire to play guitar.

13: I want to go on a plane so badly it's not even funny. But I am patient. I can wait. *sneaks away before The Hobbit reference is noticed*

14: I'm kinda a nerd, if you haven't noticed. Or maybe it's a geek? Not quite sure. But I'm in quite a few fandoms.

15: I love life, and adventuring to live it to the fullest extent that I can, and being happy.

So, now you know fifteen more things about me than you did when you started. Or maybe you're a stalker and you already knew all of this. Anyhow, have a great day. Or night. Because it's night. Ta ta for now. Thanks for reading.

Side note: if you look back at that picture, you'll notice a large furry body in the back. It's not Bigfoot. That is a somewhere around five foot tall teddy bear that my loving family got me for my birthday. And as a mature fifteen year old, of course it's not my favorite gift, and I'm so not hugging it as I type this out. That would be ridiculous.

... Then again, I've always been a bit ridiculous.