Guess Who's Back!

Hey, hey, hey! I'm back! It feels great to be back in my own house, in my own bed, and in my own shower. Being an only child in a house where there is one shower for 3 people is a lot different from living with 49 "siblings" and there being 3 showers for 57 people. Though I'm happy to be home my mission trip was fun. We ended up going to Tennessee to do some tornado relief. It was an interesting experience. Here's some pics :)

Playing Game Boy on the bus

Bus fun with Rebecca and Sydney

B-b-b-Burger King!

She's special

Fun with play dough

Me and the lead singer of The Curtis Band

This is The Curtis Band

A cabin we got to stay in for like two nights

Beautiful sunset!

If you have any questions about my trip you can always e-mail me at daielyhailey@yahoo.com. I'm not exactly sure what to write about my trip so just e-mail me or comment.

     So I've decided to do a bucket list for my summer. I was thinking it would be fun to make one and then I thought I might try writing about it too. I'm thinking it might turn out to be a cool summer and I think I might actually be able to finish this story. You see I love to write but I have problems actually finishing stories. I guess I'll just have to see what happens :)

      Also this June will be Beach Boys June at the Dailey Hailey to celebrate summer! :) Happy Summer!

God Bless

The June Poll

Hear the songs of the June poll:

Rhythm of Love

1, 2, 3, 4

Hey There Delilah



You and Me



Elvis Presley Meets Luciano Pavarotti

Soooo I think this is really cool :) Yesterday I was looking at this cool little music box my aunt brought my mom back from Italy and few years ago. As I was listening to the music it sounded really familiar but I couldn't figure out how. So I looked the song up on youtube and I was listening to a man sing the song in Italian something clicked into my head. Earlier that day I had been listening to Elvis music while I was cleaning my room (I love Elvis!). So I got on my itunes and listened to the song Surrender by Elvis Presley and AHA! I got it! So listen to the songs for yourself :)

Now listen to this one, it's the song from the music box.

:)  :) :) :)
God Bless

Dingo, Drew Skywalker, Chelmo, and Brenden Bear

     So I got really bored in Journalism after finishing my paper. I had like over an hour to kill so I thought "hey! Why don't I get on photoshop!" Because for those of you that don't know I LOVE photoshop! So here is what came out of all this extra time:

My friend Denver as Ringo from the Beatles in Yellow Submarine

"Dingo"

My friend Chavis as Elmo

"Chelmo"

Drew as Luke Skywalker from Star Wars

"Drew Skywalker"

Brenden as a cute cuddly teddy bear. Isn't he cute!?

"Brenden Bear"

Hope you enjoyed my photoshoping :)

God Bless

This Is Where The Healing Begins

At my church we're doing a  series called "Life Hurts God Heals" and every Sunday morning before the sermon they play this little video that says a bunch of quotes and plays this song called "Healing Begins" by Tenth Avenue North. Well I liked the song so I went to YouTube tonight to look it up and hear the entire song, because they only play the chorus in the video on Sunday mornings. Well, while I was looking for a good video of it I stumbled across a video called "Tenth Avenue North- "Healing Begins" Video Journal" so I clicked on it cause I was curious. I actually found it had a great message so I wanted to share it with you, so here it is:

God Bless

Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da Life Goes On

Bonjour
j'écris ceci tout en français. J'ai utilisé réellement un traducteur pour toute la ceci parce que quoique j'aie pris à Français pendant deux années de rememeber d'I rien lui ! Tellement ouais, sachez ce qui est un mot d'amusement ? pétillant. Son ainsi amusement juste à dire ! Ok im allant aller de nouveau à l'anglais parlant.

      You have no idea what I just said do you? That's right I took two years of French. Ok truth is I don't remember much french at all and I used an online translator for all that. Wanna know what it says? You'll just have to put it in a translator for yourself :)
     Ok so I have these two songs stuck in my head!!! They have been stuck in there for a few days now. I love them. The songs are Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da by The Beatles (which is also the song of the day) and Jar Of Hearts by Christina Perri . Love love Love LOVE!!!! <3 And speaking of my Song Of The Day, did you all see my song for yesterday? I loved it! and if you love The Sound Of Music you will have loved it too, and if you do not love The Sound Of Music I don't understand you at all. Just in case you didn't see it, click here. All I can say is lay ee odl lay ee odloo :)
     So last night at church Drew said he was gonna wear those glasses that he got from the 3D movie we went to on New Years Eve to school today and said I should wear something "different" as well. So I thought about it. Well ya see I always straighten my hair. I have straightened my hair pretty much everyday for over 5 years. So I figured hey I just won't straighten my hair! I forgot how much I dislike my hair natural. Its fluffy. Fluffy is generally one of my favorite adjectives along with shiny, sparkly, and pink. But fluffy is not one of my favorite adjectives when it comes to my hair. I went well enough, I guess. I got a couple compliments, a couple strange looks, and one guy saying my hair reminded him of white gold... that one was weird. Here's a pic,

Eh...

     Also today I made a new playlist for my ipod entitled A Beatles/ Elvis experience. Its all of my Beatles and Elvis songs together in one playlist. If you don't know The Beatles are my favorite band EVER and Elvis is my favorite singer that's not in a band. The playlist has 145 songs on it. It will take 6.4 hours to listen to the whole playlist continuously. I really love the Beatles and Elvis (along with Queen, ELO, Patsy Cline, Beach Boys, and others). My favorite Elvis song is Return To Sender . And just to clarify, I'm talking about Elvis Presley. I love Elvis! I spent last Sunday night at my friend Emily's house watching Elvis movies and talking about how cute he was. If Elvis was younger, not famous, and still alive (R.I.P) he would give Drew a run for his money haha. Also have you guys heard the song Gink Nus by The Beatles? If not listen to it, its trippy. It's Sun King backwards!!!! Weird stuff, man!
     I don't know about you but personally I prefer original versions of songs over remakes. And I feel some songs should just NOT be redone at all. I had this personal feeling about all Beatles songs until I saw the movie Across The Universe, bad movie in my opinion, I did not enjoy it at all, but the soundtrack is AMAZING!!! The movie's a musical and all the songs are Beatles songs and they actually do a very good job. Know I generally feel no one can do the Beatles better than the Beatles but I have a delima with that statement and this soundtrack. There are two songs from it I feel they my have done better than the Beatles, but I can't decide for sure. The two songs are I've Just Seen A Face and Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite did the Beatles do it better or did Across The Universe do a better job with I've Just Seen A Face (which I love this video BTW) and Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite ? Comment and tell me what you think :)
     With all this talk about music I thought to ask have any of you heard the song Crazy Little Thing Called Love? It's by Queen. I love that song, I remember growing up and hearing my mom playing this song. Well we are attempting to play it in my advanced orchestra class. We just got it two class periods ago. I kinda want to just sing instead of play every time we play it. Luckily my friend Emily sits right next to me and my friend Sydney sits right in front of us, so we sing a lot during class :)
     Speaking of my friend Sydney, she started a vlog (video blog) with 4 of her other friends that you guys should check out at http://www.youtube.com/user/TheYarmy :) Also you should check out http://theloudthoughtsofish.blogspot.com/ which is one of my best friends, Michelle's blog. I love Michelle and Sydney, their awesome possum :) Me and Michelle have been writing notes back and fourth addressing them to "Shelly" and "Blondie" which is out nicknames for each other. As you probably already guessed she's Shelly and I'm Blondie. Also if you didn't know there's this new word called "Miva" its a hybrid of the words "movie" and "pizza" haha. I almost accidentally wrote that instead of movie and pizza in a note today :)
     One last thing I would like to say, puppies = pure cheer! Today after school I saw a girl with this small, brown, fuzzy puppy and it was SO CUTE!!!! Every time I see a puppy I go into this sort of trance where all I can say is "look at the puppy!" "How cute" and "AWWWWW!!!!" haha I love puppies :) Well sorry for the length of today's... I kinda rambled. Well thanks for reading it all if you made it this far :)

God Bless

A Look Inside My Room

Its what you've all been waiting for!!!! A look inside the room, of the girl behind the blog!!! Oh.... So that's not what you've been waiting for? Oh... well.... here it is anyway. It doesn't match the awesomeness of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows but it may still be found interesting by some :)

Now you may be asking yourself  "what is that!?!?" Well that my friends is a cannibalistic banana. A one of a kind. Now you may be thinking I'm nuts, and I very well may be but I love my cannibalistic banana. It was made and given to me for my 15th birthday by my friend Sydney. I was a joke we came up with one day. I personally feel Sydney is awesome for making this :) Next to my cannibalistic banana is my Buzz Lightyear bear, I made him last time I went to Build-A-Bear :)

This is my piggy bank. His name is Pig as you can see by the tattoo below his ear. Not a very creative name but it suits him. As you can see Pig is orange and has purple spots all over him. He's not sick, that's just how I made him. You can also see Pig has a lips mark on his cheek, he's quite the ladies man ;)

This is Mr.Stuffy Wuffy but I call him Stuffy for short. Stuffy is one of my very best friends!!! He's also my oldest friend. I got him from the hospital I was born at. He's a little more old a worn than back then, but he still looks pretty good to me. When I first got him he was a darker shade of brown, fuzzier, and had a bright red ribbon rapped around his neck. When we first got our dog Milo he ripped off Stuffy's red ribbon and even ate part of his tag... Milo's not allowed around Stuffy anymore. I have loved Stuffy for years. For years I refused to sleep without him or I would cry all night. Over the years I've bought Stuffy clothes and accessories (skateboard, backpack, bear ipod, etc.) at Build-A-Bear. This is my favorite outfit of his: Overalls and a Cardinal's T-shirt. My family's ALL about overalls and Cardinal's baseball.



I don't know about you but I LOVE the Beatles. If your any kind of fan of them you should know the song Penny Lane. I bought this road sign at this Beatles show I went to see a while back. I have yet to actually hang it up in my room but I'm still trying to find the right spot. My rooms in the Attic of our house so my walls are kinda slanted.

This is my spoon collection! Yes that's right I collect spoons. You can find these little collectible spoons at tourist places everywhere!!! I started collecting spoons after my grandma died. She had the collection which my mom would always bring her spoons for from places we would go (my mom used to be a travel agent so we traveled a lot). When she died my mom gave her collection to me and I just started adding to it :) And yes next to it is a Rubik's cube, Tiger, an alien, and bubbles.

This is the bulletin board I have up in my room. On it I have pictures of me and my friends, stickers from places I've been to, posters from shows Ive seen, SOME of my button collection, my NFL (National Forensics League) certificate, and other little things.

This is a poster for the band VOTA. I saw them once at this thing my friend invited me to. I got the band to sign it!

This is a portion of my shoes. The rest of my shoes are all randomly spread around my house. In there I have 4 of my 5 pairs of converse. I love converse :) I have a blue pair, a gray pair, a black pair, a brown pair, and a pair of pink high tops! And yes those are posters of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Taylor Lautner, Michael Jackson, and Nathan Kress. My closet is covered in posters!

I love my pink high tops very much!

My movie collection! Full of hits such as A Hard Days Night, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Cheaper By The Dozen, Ferris Bullers Day Off, Grease, Harry Potter movies 1-6, Toy Story, and Twilight. Sadly though I do not own my favorite movie which is Pretty In Pink.

My book hall of fame! I have other books but these are my favorites. Theres the Harry Potter series, the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the Emily Windsnap series, the Twilight series (don't judge me their really good books its just the fan girls that suck), the Junie B. Jones series, Oliver Twist, Kiki Strike and the Shadow City, some Shel Silverstein books, Love That Dog, my choir tour journal, and my favorite book The Host.

This is my collection of VHS movies. I have almost every old Disney movie you can think of. With classics like Peter Pan, Cinderella, Lady and the Tramp, The Little Mermaid and others. I also have episodes from Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and some old McDonald's story's my grandma gave me :)

my stack of old albums. I like going to album shops :) This is one my mom found for me cause its my favorite movie. According to the guy working there its pretty rare. I also have Beatles Abby Road, Queens Flash, and an Electric Light Orchestra Album.

This is my ihome and my ipod. My ipod has a skin it on it of the painting Stary Night. The song I had playing was You Belong To Me by Patsy Cline. It's my favorite song :) The white ipod sitting next to it is my old ipod that likes to not work sometimes, which is why I got the new one.

Well that's a small look at my room. Hope you liked it, and if not, sorry.

God Bless



Band Aid - Do They Know its Christmas 1984

Just some videos to get you in the Christmas spirit, Merry Christmas Eve everyone!

Merry Christmas and God Bless

Alvin & the Chipmunks Christmas Don't Be Late (original TV)

Train - Shake Up Christmas

North Point's iBand - Feliz Navidad

Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You

The Most Wonderful Day of the Year (Glee Cast Version)

When Christmas Comes To Town

When Christmas Comes To Town

La, la, la, la.....

I'm wishing on a star
And trying to believe
That even though it's far
He'll find me Christmas Eve

I guess that Santa's busy
Cause he's never come around
I think of him
When Christmas Comes to Town

The best time of the year
When everyone comes home
With all this Christmas cheer
It's hard to be alone

Putting up the Christmas tree
With friends who come around
It's so much fun
When Christmas Comes to Town

Presents for the children
Wrapped in red and green
All the things I've heard about
But never really seen

No one will be sleeping on
The night of Christmas Eve
Hoping Santa's on his way

[Repeat previous two paragraphs]

When Santa's sleigh bells ring
I listen all around
The herald angels sing
I never hear a sound

When all the dreams of children
Once lost will all be found
That's all I want
When Christmas Comes to Town

That's all I want
When Christmas Comes to Town


Merry Christmas and God Bless

Christmas

I just really love this song so I thought I would post it :)


C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S by Jim Reeves

C is for the Christ Child born upon this day
H is for Herald Angels in the night
R means our redeemer
I means Israel
S is for the star that shone so bright
T is for three wise men they who travelled far
M is for the manger where he lay
A's for all he stands for
S means shepherds came
And that's why there's a Christmas day
T is for three wise men they who travelled far
M is for the manger where he lay
A's for all he stands for
S means shepards came
And that's why there's a Christmas day
And that's why there's a Christmas day


Merry Christmas and God Bless

SNOW!

Sorry, I couldn't post this last night, we got back from our debate tournament at 1 AM. Still, enjoy :)

This is one of my favorite songs from the movie White Christmas. Im hoping for snow here my town so I thought this would be appropriate :)

"Snow"
by Bing Crosby

Snow
It won't be long before we'll all be there with snow
Snow
I want to wash my hands, my face and hair with snow

Snow
I long to clear a path and lift a spade of snow
Snow
Oh, to see a great big man entirely made of snow

Where it's snowing
All winter through
That's where I want to be
Snowball throwing
That's what I'll do
How I'm longing to ski
Through the snow-oh-oh-oh-oh

Those glist'ning houses that seem to be built of snow
Snow
Oh, to see a mountain covered with a quilt of snow

What is Christmas with no snow
No white Christmas with no snow
Snow

I'll soon be there with snow
I'll wash my hair with snow
And with a spade of snow
I'll build a man that's made of snow
I'd love to stay up with you but I recommend a little shuteye
Go to sleep
And dream
Of snow

Merry Christmas and God Bless!

Same Old Christmas

I don't have much time again this morning, but I didn't want to leave you hanging like I did last time I had to post before a debate tournament so figured I would post lyrics to one of my favorite Christmas songs, "Same Old Christmas" by Hilary Duff. Many people think its boring to do the same thing every year at Christmas but I love it and think its something wonderful, and this song is about celebrating the traditions of the same old Christmas :)

"Same Old Christmas"(feat. Haylie Duff)

[verse one]
rows of angels in the snow
hugs and kisses by the mistletoe
sugarplum fairies everywhere,must be that time of year
stars that shine on christmas trees
smoke that curls from chimineys
rednose reindeer taking flight and choir singing
O Holy Night

[chorus]
its the same old,same old christmas eve
its the same old christmas day
its the same old,same old christmas
but I like it, I like it that way

[verse two]
Another snowman with a button nose
presents all wrapped up in bows
friends and neighbors knockin at my door
like every christmas thats come before

[chorus]
its the same old,same old christmas eve
its the same old christmas day
its the same old, same old christmas
but I like it, I like it that way

[bridge]
seasons keep on changin, the snow will melt away
but everything will be the same again, next year on christmas day
and I like it, I like it that way

[last verse]
rows of angels in the snow
hugs and kisses by the mistletoe
friends and neighbors knockin at my door
like every christmas thats come before

[chorus until music fades and ends]

Merry Christmas and God Bless!

Count Your Blessings, Instead Of Sheep

For my post tonight, im going to post the lyrics to the song Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep) by Bing Crosby. I was just wastching White Christmas and I thought posting the lyrics would be good becuase its such good advice.



Cout Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep) By Bing Crosby

When I'm worried and I can't sleep
I count my blessings instead of sheep
And I fall asleep counting my blessings
When my bankroll is getting small
I think of when I had none at all
And I fall asleep counting my blessings

I think about a nursery and I picture curly heads
And one by one I count them as they slumber in their beds
If you're worried and you can't sleep
Just count your blessings instead of sheep
And you'll fall asleep counting your blessings

I think about a nursery and I picture curly heads
And one by one I count them as they slumber in their beds
If you're worried and you can't sleep
Just count your blessings instead of sheep
And you'll fall asleep counting your blessings




Merry Christmas all and God bless!

CHRISTMAS! CHRISTMAS! CHRISTMAS!

      I am so EXCITED!!!! My favorite holiday ever, is Christmas!!! I love everything about it. The reason we celebrate, which is ofcourse the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! The music! I refuse to listen to anything other than Christmas music during the month of December before the 25th. The movies! I love love love Christmas movies!!! The decorations! Lights, holly, red, green, and gold everywhere! And just the feeling of good cheer and charity and love floating around at this time of the year. Now I know not everyone feels the same way about Christmas as me but to me its a magical time of the year. I just feel happier during this time. And if you know me thats crazy that I could be happier! When my friend Emily first met me she was creeped out by me cause she didn't think it was possible for one person to be so happy :)
     My moms favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. With that and my own fond feelings of the holiday, I refuse to celebrate Christmas in any way until after Thanksgiving. Every Thanksgiving I watch the Macy's Thanksgving Day Parade with my mom and ofcourse at the end of the parade is Santa. And the commitaters on TV always say that the arival of Santa in the parade means the beggining of the Christmas season! So I go by that. As soon as I see Santa in the parade on TV I can let myself celebrate. Before that time I must restrain myslef. And it is HARD!!!!!
     Well as all of you that watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade know, Santa has been seen and I am now officailly allowed to celebrate this wonderous hoilday! And as my mother put it im in "full force". My radio is set to the Christmas station, my 161 Christmas song playlist has been uploaded to my ipod, which has been plugged into my ihome. and my room has been decorated.
     My room is the biggest in our whole house! Its actually our attic, redone. My dad redid the whole thing for me and few years ago. After my parents put the lights up on the outside of our house I took the left over lights (2 strands). I wrapped them around the chimney that runs through the middle of my room and the railing that goes around my stair case. Plus I dug out my small sivler sparkily tree and decorated it with the ornaments my grandma gives me every year and the Christmas Carol ornaments I got from my grandparents when they passed away. For the rest of my room I used this set of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer movie figures I have, and a singing plush snow man. And a set of three bears the play the bells. Plus various blankets and other Christmasy things. My room is currently the most Christmasy room in our house :)
     As I mentioned, I love Chirstmas music! LOVE it! In my opinion the best Christmas singers are Jim Reeves, Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and Ella Fitzgerald. I also love Christmas music from the Peanuts soundtrack and all the little Christmas movies like Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, and Santa Claus is Coming to Town. I also enjoy Christmas musci sang by Hilary Duff, The Beach Boys, Aly and Aj, and many others. I love so many Christmas songs its so hard to chose a favorite one. My moms favorite is Mary Did You Know? but im not so sure... Some of my favorites are White Christmas by Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters, Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me) by Elvis Presley,  Its the Same Old Christmas by Hilary Duff, We're A couple Of Misfits by Billie Richards and Paul Soles, and I Heard Santa on the Raido by Hilary Duff.
     I also metioned I love Christmas movies!!! My favorite is a tie between the wonderful amazing classic White Christmas and the always hilarious Elf. But I also enjoy classics such as Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Polar Express, Home Alone 1 and 2, Holiday in Handcuffs, Santa Claus, Unaccopanied Minors, The Grinch (the human version), and many others :) Well i've rambled on for probably too long on here. Merry Christmas all!!! I will try and post a bit more often :)