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Hey everyone! Wow, its been a while since I have updated. I have been sick, like, I ran out of a store and...uhh, how do I say this....lost my lunch on the cement kind of sick. I am still running a temperature, but making progress because now I can sit up and not feel dizzy! I had intended to take Christmas Eve and Christmas day off from blogging, and I did that, but I didn't intend to get sick, which is what extended my little break.

Anyways, I am back and currently feeling much better. So if any of you were wondering what happened, now you know! :)

I was thrilled when I recieved an e-mail the other day that said I could be the next Pioneer Woman with all of my funny stories and sence of humor. I actually re-read the e-mail to make sure I hadn't read it wrong or something, because thats not what I would call something I would read every day.

The reader (who shall remain nameless) meant Pioneer Woman as in Ree Drummond. Hilarious, Pioneer wife, wonderful photographer, butter lover, made the #1 spot on the New York Best Sellers list, Pioneer Woman.

It made my day reading the e-mail. She mentioned that I could be the Pioneer Woman when I was an adult...the only deal, I don't live in the country. So how would that be possible?

I thought for a little bit on that one, then I thought of the name that I originally wanted to name Behind the Teen Scene, it was genus. (and FYI, I hadn't even known the Pioneer Woman exsisted when I thought of the name.) The name, which I will not include because it will be a surprise you can wait for...for ooh, the next 10 or 15 years when I open my adult blog. :) I know, long time to wait, but its worth it, and gives me plenty of time to practice my photography, cuz yikes, it needs a little improvement.

So, through all of my blabbering, can't you tell I am sick? Or do I blabber this much when I do a normal post. I hope not!

More updates later! (as I plan to catch up with the posts I missed posting while being very sick) Expect another post later this afternoon.

Until then, bye!

My Thrill of the Day!

Let me make this clear to all of you, I do not live in the country. I live in the city.

Today we went to my grandparents house and they do live in the country.
I looked outside and saw wild turkeys less than ten feet away from me.

This isn't something you would see in the city. Actually, I have never seen wild turkeys this close before. Me and my mom might spot one in a small feild on the way to dance, but only one. Not 5 that are less than 1o feet away from you.

My grandma explained that they climb through or fly over the fence then run to the food. It was hilarious watching them run, because you don't think they can run very fast then they just take off.

It takes very little to thrill me, and this is all it took. One good, close up experience with God's amazing creation.

Why am I talking in such sort, condenced sentences isn't really the problem right now, because I don't even know the answer to that. What I do want to know is, what is the problem with twelve year old boys and the simple words, "brush your hair." It's like they don't even know what you are talking about.Aside from my brother and his hair brush issues, isn't this cool? I am jealous of all of you who see this everyday.Until next time little fellows! Maybe next time, my camera's flash won't spook you.

That sweet little puppy of mine...

Isn't Gunney cute? He was asleep and now he is playing possum.

He opened his eyes and saw me holding the camera then put his head back down and pretended to still be asleep. I think this puppy likes being in front of the camera. Maybe that's Gunney's calling, the camera.

Or maybe his calling is just being cute, I will have to get back to you on that one.

This is Gunney's current "art project". We looked outside and he had broken the flower pots then started barking at the pieces lying on the ground. Gunney is seriously OCD and when something isn't where it is supposed to be he starts barking wildly at it, I will record it when it happens next for proof.

And there is part of the garden hose. It was nicely placed on a holder and now there are bits and pieces of it all over the yard. Ahh, the adventures of teething.

Ok, so we gave him a new blue bed, and he ripped it.*Notice the green fluff* And the bucket took place of his water bowl because in the bucket water won't freeze as easily. You can't see it very well, but Gunney sorta ruined the edges of the bucket.

This picture could have it's own post. Where he got the wooden stick, the world may never know. I fixed his brown bed by sewing it back together...but now it looks like that won't happen again.

Obviously, being such a busy little guy wears him out. But he is pretty cute! Gunney has the personality where he is always up to something. What a little trouble maker. Yes, we spend lots and lots of time with him, he is laying on my lap right now. :) As I said, its all personality.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Hey everyone! Have a Merry Christmas! I pray that all of you are safe in your travels, weither it's one mile or one thousand miles. I am also keeping all of you in my prayers who have all of the snow and ice right now.
And through all of the presents, gifts, and amazing food, be sure to remember the true reason for the season, Jesus Christ.

Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; He is Christ the Lord.

Luke 2:11

In the zone....

Yesterday...I was in the zone. The dance zone that is...I love performing. It's like my calling. I love being on stage. Some girls talk about how nervous they are, I talk about how my heart is pounding because of being so excited.Random stage fact: You know how when you read the cartoons in the newpaper or watch a cartoon on TV and if they show an audience in the cartoon how you can just see a white cream color outline of a person and maybe just one facial feature, thats really what it looks like. I will have to see what I can do to get a good picture of it...

I love the gracefulness of dance. You feel so free and magical, I can't really explain it.Maybe this picture explains it better. I am the one on the far right.....you know, the one who needs to turn her heel in and has her spaggettis sticking out. Yep, thats me. Spagettis are what we call the ties on your ballet shoes and I had a quick change and they didn't get tucked in, oops.

I wasn't in this dance, but I was watching it. It was really cute! Since its almost Christmas and their costumes aren't in yet, they used those skirts. Very cute!

They did an amazing job of staying together even though there dance is very fast.This is my third company dance...and we wear tap high heels. When you are used to the ones that barely have a heal than you switch to these babies, you don't get along very well. I have the icepack on my foot right now to prove it too.I am the one in the middle. That pose is the "I have long arms and my goal is to not smack anyone in the face" pose. Fairly...uhh, interesting isn't it.

And that look on my face is the "these heals are killing me, but I love performing so I am trying to shake it off look." Ahh, what we do for our love of dance.

Even though there are seriously mornings where I can't lean up in bed because I am so sore, I love dance!

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A Couple of Quick Updates!

Here are a couple of quick updates. I wanted to save them for the weekend because sometimes updates aren't the most exciting thing to read about. But being Maggie, I will see what I can do to throw in some funny things to add a little entertainment while I am at it. :)


1. My blog button was fixed! Hooray! A huge thanks to Laney and her beautiful design skills for fixing it for me. So now, a picture will appear instead of the error message. Please switch to this newly fixed button if you have the button that has the error message on it.


2. Behind the Teen Scene now has a social networking site. Yep, you heard me right. While I was creating it I was cracking up at some comments from a recent post and my brother walked by my room and asked why I was laughing. I explained that it was because of some comments I had received on my blog from a recent funny post. My brother looked at me, "Wait...they think you, Maggie, are funny...like as in you making them laugh...really?"

Here's a picture of the main page of the Behind the Teen Scene social networking site. I created it for Christian girls to be able to connect with their friends and to meet other Christian girls. Right now it is fairly small with seven or eight members and there's not activity on it. I would love if you would sign up and tell your friends about it. I have to approve your account before you can log on and if you have any questions about the social networking site, and I will answer them next Saturday or Sunday in a post so then all of the questions are answered.

If you want to check out the site, please click here.

3. Behind the Teen Scene now has a Facebook group. Click here to see it. On the Facebook page I will be posting when there are blog updates, what's going on behind the scenes of the blog, a couple of Gunney pictures here and there (that haven't been posted on the blog), verses, updates, and much more. Be sure to check it out and become a fan today!

Have an amazing weekend. Girls 4 Jesus Christ will be posted tomorrow. Sorry that it has not been posted for the past few weeks, this weekend I was studying for finals and the weekend before I was working on a huge paper and book report due for school.

Random Stories

Ok, so these random stories of mine have a little more "fame" than I thought they would. I was very surprised when I had girls tell me they couldn't wait for the next week's random stories. So here are the two I selected for this week.

Just a month or two ago I was in girl's Bible class. I was in the class room with 3 other girls because the other girls had chapel band practice. The Bible teacher had said we could have a work time since over half of our class was at the chapel practice. So all four of us made ourselves cozy in the four fuzzy chairs in the back of the room and started quizzing each other for a quiz and talking. All the sudden, that back corner of the room started to smell like there was a fire or something was burning. Me, being a little over dramatic jumped out of the chair and yelled, "Somethings burning or on fire!!!" The teacher then hopped out of her chair and unplugged all of the lights and the candle warmer and then moved the four fuzzy chairs away from the wall because that was were the burnt smell was and there are outlets behind the chairs. Then the burnt smell got stronger and the room got hot. The teacher looked at us and said she was going to the office to get the secretary and that if we saw smoke or fire to pull the fire alarm in the hall way. By the time the teacher was back from the office with the secretary I was running around the room, "Its getting hotter! The burnt smell is worse! This is horrible!" The secretary laughed and said, "Ladies, we turned on the heating system for the first time today. The burnt smell is burnt dust and the heat is from the heating ducts in the ceiling." Immediately I froze were I was, "Seriously? Its the heater?"

The second story happened a couple weeks ago in the Bible room. If you know me well enough through reading my blog for a while, you will be cracking up by the end of this story, I promise. You will enjoy this story too. :) (although...I didn't care for it so much when it happened)

We were sitting in Bible class taking prayer requests. One of the girls was saying her request when I spotted a hairy, jumping wolf spider jump out from behind the teachers desk and make its way across the wall where the carpet and the trim meet. "Spider!!!!!" I yell with wide eyes. I promise every girl in the class rolled their eyes when I said that, even the teacher because I am so afraid of spiders that even if it is a centimeter big I freak out. So the teacher tried to continue with class and I pointed again, "It's big, getting closer to me AND it had HAIR!" So the teacher sighed and went over to her desk and grabbed a clip board. By now I had pulled my legs up onto my desk and was prepared to jump out of my desk if the spider decided to climb up it. The teacher takes the clipboard and bends over and starts guiding the spider over to the window so she can put it out side. As she was doing this she was talking to the spider saying, "Ok little guy, just let me flick you outside!", "You're getting closer, no don't go behind the bookcase!", "Uhh, this is frustrating....hurry up." While I was sitting there I was thinking, ok, put me out of my misery and squish it...please! So once the spider was safely outside and we had had our laughs over my freak out and the teachers reaction, the bell rang. As we were walking to our next class a couple of the ninth graders who had been in the room next to us for English came up to us and asked who had screamed because they had heard it next door. Oops. :)