Prom Dress Shopping!

Seems like this wkend was all about me and the hunt for my prom dress!

So my overly-excited-about-disney prom group wants to do disney(princess) theme color dresses.. so this is what we're looking for! (haha)

I'd either be Belle or Aurora(sleeping beauty)!

Friday:
Madi,Ashley&I went to the Woodlands mall to look, didn't even find anything, you'd think that mall would have it all -.- so that was a fail, except we got ashley to go into victoria's secret for the 1st time!

So Saturday:
Brittni,Breann,Amanda,&I went to Deerbrooke (kinda worried about the variety at 1st). We went into EVERY store that could possibly have any kind of dress! Tried on tons and liked most.. but for me to buy one, I gotta love it!
We went into Dillards and happened to see Taylor Omenson and Katie Bailey doing a prom dress fashion show, so we stayed and watched (free chocolate and perfume samples! heck yeah!)
We went into 'Icings' for breann and ended up seeing jackie&jeremy getting theirs ears pierced!

And then, we come out with these!...

In the end, we picked out two dresses for me, a yellow and a pink... I just can't decide!? It's a tough decision! I'll be sure to let y'all know as soon as I decide!

I had an amazing wkend! Lots of fun, lots of laughing!

I love my friends!

So here's what happened...

*Fair warning, kinda long! But if you care, you'll read it(;

Tuesday night I posted this status...

My plan in life is to grow old and play my flute til the day I die. I told my mom I want to be buried with it (may be odd... oh well). I decided that I want to double major in criminal justice, and music performance (and become famous one day -of course!)

I applied to UH's Moores School of Music and had an audition there, it went pretty well actually, I did mess up once to be honest, but nothing all that terrible. I was told that MoS accepts from about 50-60% of all woodwinds... I got hyped! I mean, how could I NOT get in?!

Two weeks later (this past Tuesday) I received a letter from UH...

 I cried, and cried... and cried some more. It was a tragic moment. Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life, and now it seems as if that will just be impossible.
For 7 years, I've been 1st or 2nd chair in the top bands of middle and high school. For 7 years, I've gotten a 1st division ranking on my solo and my ensemble. And for 7 years have people been telling me that I'm gonna get real far with my music, and I'm gonna be offered tons of scholarships, and that I'm amazing and that no one can turn me down.

But now... it all kinda just seems like a lie...

I have never felt such a pain in my life. It was nothing compared to my past break ups, nothing compared to failing a test, not even as bad as all the pain I had when I broke my tailbone and the surgery on top of it. This was the worst...

I feel disappointed in myself, ashamed, like I let people down, and embarrassed most of all.

It took me four days to finally accept it. I'm not better and I'm not treating it like it never happened, but I'm looking at it as an opportunity! I will practice and I will better improve what I already am. I will not give up my dreams to play in a symphony one day and to hopefully go to Northwestern University, because one day, I will make it BIG. And, I WILL audition again next semester for the Spring because I will pursue my dreams!

So there you have it. This is what happened to me on Tuesday. Hiding behind the screen because if I do it in person, I promise I will cry.

NOTHING WILL STOP ME

Everything is for the better...

"To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven." -Ecclesiastes 3:1 

Today I encountered a pitch fork and it stabbed me pretty hard. 

There's nothing I can to do change what has happened. I worked my butt off for 7 years, and unfortunately it seems to just not be enough. 

I've cried and vented to my best friend, and have had people encourage me to not become discouraged. And here is what I've gotten and have learned to accept...

Everything happens for a reason. God, does things in his very strange ways to help us grow stronger. Bad must happen before good. And one door closes, so another can open. 

God has me in His arms and isn't letting me go, something is planned for me, something bigger and better. Unfortunately, now is just not the time... so I'll wait!

Stay positive, because everything happens for a reason, and it's all for the better.

New to this!

1st time blogging! pretty darn excited if I may say so myself! sooo what do I do on this thing anywayss?! lol(: