Dodgeball tourney!

It's that time of the year where my youth group hosted the 2nd annual Dodgeball tournament! So, our grade got our BLACKOUT team together (same as last time, only one girl couldn't make it so we brought in another) and had to plan to make our "uniforms". We won best dressed last year, so we were hoping to be in the running for it this year as well! Although this time it was much messier... ;)

It was an insanely nice day, so while our shirts were drying we went for a swim...

And on to the tournament we went! Our team name is BLACKOUT (same as last time). I'm the A in the name, by the way. :)

We had alot of fun spelling words with the letters on our shirts...

GAME TIME!

Well, we got 2nd place just like last year. & best dressed, which we also won last year! We had a ton of fun and I love spending time with all these girls :)

This would be one of my favorite pictures I've ever seen. Sure, we want to win and compete, but the reason we are such great friends is because God brought us together. We live to glorify Him and thank Him daily for the friendships he has given us.

"All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize." - 1 Corinthians 9:25 NLT

Spirit Week!

Gotta love small town spirit! (AKA homecoming week)

SUPERHERO DAY:

NERD DAY:

WILD WEST DAY:

GENERATIONS DAY:

SPIRIT DAY:

BA won 52-7 last night! Go Tigers!

Dear #14:

Come back to us! Pretty please?

September update

Well, September has for sure been on of the hardest months I've had in a long time. & it's only halfway over!

Negatives:

School is...really tough. I'm only taking 2 advanced classes, instead of the 4 they offer, and even with my two regular classes I feel like I'm drowning in schoolwork. English is usually my best subject, and I have absolutely no problem with it. But this year? No. I'm getting a B right now, and that's alot of time and effort put in to getting that B! Ugh, and don't get me started on Algebra 2. I'm failing at the moment. For any of you that have known me for ANY amount of time, you know that I simply just don't fail classes. Well, I am right now. I'm borderlining a D, and if I get good grades on the past couple homework assignments, I'll get it up to a 60. It's stressing me out.

On the positive note:

Chemistry I'm doing surprisingly well in. I have an A! I thought it was going to be sososo difficult, but I actually get it! AND I got my driving permit on Tuesday! Which means I will be able to get my license on my birthday :) :) :) I passed the test by only missing one question (there's no actual driving test required to get your permit, it's a 20 question test on a computer) and it only took me about 5-10 mins. Getting the actual permit at the tag agency took longer, hah! So, I'm very happy about that, and I'm glad staying up til 11:30 the night before reading the manual paid off! :D

All I can ask is that if you could say a little prayer for me and my schoolwork, I'd really appreciate it. I didn't know sophomore year would be this hard. Hopefully things will start looking up from here. :)

Oh, and also the doctor called and said my heart monitor scans were fairly normal, and he doesn't think my heart is the problem. *sigh* I kinda wish they could just figure out what is wrong, cus this blacking out and fainting stuff gets really annoying, really fast. Frustration!

I'll post something soon, when my life doesn't revolve solely around school anymore!

-Cayley

70 more days til...

I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!

Oh, brother. (& sister)

We all were bored one night...we found my camera...& this is what happened.

Oh yeah, we know how to party.

Party Hardy

One of my best friends in the whole world, Max!, turned 16 last week and his birthday party was on Saturday. Yay for random games & food!

Birthday Boy! :)

Knockout, which I was terrible at.

Me & Kyler(:

Rivalry football = crazy fun

If you live anywhere around BA you know that our rival team is Union high school. So what happens to be the 1st high school football game of the season? You got it! Union was home this year so I made the 20 minute drive with some friends to watch the game in the visitor student section (sold out too!). BA ended up losing, but I still had a ton of fun.

Kickoff time! Who could resist?!

Down with Union!

BA til I die! :D

HAHAHA!

Update...

I went to the doctor on Monday to have my EEG test done and recieve my holter monitor. The EEG went well, nothing affected me in a weird way so I'm pretty sure my brain isn't the problem. I've been wearing my holter monitor for about 51 hours out of the 72 it records. I'm SO ready to get this dang thing off. It's held on with them extreme gauze-like tape and it itches like no other. It seems like I'm allergic to it, but probably not. It's hard to sleep at night cus of the uncomfortableness the itching causes. But, tonight will be my last night to wear it, so thank God for that :)

Thank you so much to all who have been praying, I appreciate it more than you know. I'll continue to keep this thing updated.

-Cayley