mariah clair

Im Back!

2011-12-20T00:27:00.000-08:00

it has been years! literally. i am finally going to try and start keeping up with my blog especially since i will be leaving for a mission and this will be a great way to keep everyone posted on how im doing but it will probably just be weekly if i get time :) so here is just a quick recap of what has happened in the past few years: I did two years of college at Southern Virginia University playing soccer and some basketball both years, I met the love of my life during preseason of my second year and we started dating a week after we met and now it has been a year and a half almost!

He is currently in the MTC preparing to speak Cambodian as he serves in Cambodia for 2 years, I had some nanny jobs in tennesee that just didnt work out so i just moved to Utah about a month ago and im living with my aunt nancy, i have two nanny jobs out here so i am working 24//7...no joke, i just turned in my mission papers last wednesday so im just waiting now to get my call, and im leaving this wednesday to finally go home for christmas! i miss my family so much and i miss joshua decker! im definitely waiting for him just so none of you guys aren't aware haha. Well i guess thats about it for now. i will definitely have details soon about my mission call and hopefully a video of me opening it :)
Well have a great week everyone!
With lots of love,
mariah clair <3

college soccer

2009-08-12T19:14:00.000-07:00

so after our first game in south carolina, we got to go to the beach the next day! this was at Folly beach and it was beautiful!!

i loved this pier!! it was soo cool and i also love these girls to death!

this is some of us soccer girls before we all headed for the water!

and this is me getting ready for our first practice with our legit team shirts :]

so im in college now!! who would have ever thought this would happen lol so i am at Southern Virginia University, SVU, and i absolutely love it! its only been two days that ive been here but right now its soccer preseason so we started off easy with 3 a days!! total exaggeration there by the way ha so the first practice is before the sun is even up! 6 AM!! then we have breakfast, another practice at 10:30, then lunch, then usually a nap and then our last practice is at 4 and after that its dinner and after that we have our daily team meeting/devotional, then usually a shower and by this time we are all so exhausted that we just lay around or go to bed. it doesnt sound like it could be fun at all but right now i think is the most fun ive ever had! im sore as all get out but im loving every minute of it...but if im not in the best shape of my life after this i dont think there is any hope for me! ha but this team is amazing! i love them to death already, they are so encouraging and funny :] ha ...ninjas rolling down the halls,, mashed potatoes,, and super sweet rainy days :] its a blast,, well for now it is cause we arent in classes but i bet it will still be just as fun :] i really do love this team. its so cool to be playin with mormons! we have prayer before every meal, practice and everything, we have team devotionals and coach relates a lot of soccer to the gospel. i love it! like our team motto is 11-for-1. there is so many different things for this but the analogy that i liked best was 11 players for one purpose,, that one purpose for us is to win nationals. they won it last year, and actually in the past 10 years that this school has had a soccer team they have won nationals 5 times! this is goin to be the sixth :]] im so excited for this season.

Graduating Senior 2009

2009-05-12T09:11:00.000-07:00

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.And you know what you know. You are the [girl] who'll decide where to go.”

Ive finally decided what im doing now that high school is over! its time for me to start a new chapter in life and finish up the old one sealed with good memories. i am going to Southern Virginia University with an academic scholarship! i finished high school with a 3.97 and i was in the top 10% of the class. im also going to play on the Knights soccer team in college as a goalie! i have worked on many scholarships and grants and i am only a few dollars short of getting my entire expenses paid for! i will continue my education majoring in business. i look forward to going to school but not too excited about leaving my family. i love them so much but i know that in order for me to become independent i must first take a leap of faith. For me this takes a lot of faith and trust in the Lord that he is going to help me make it through my schooling and sports an excell in both. i will be leaving early in august but i will for sure be home for the breaks!

Indians

2009-01-23T09:56:00.000-08:00

For homecoming spirit week, one of the dress up days was indian day since we are the indians. so me molly and mandy decided that we would be real indians and ride our horses to school bare back. it was a really cool idea until it turned out to be only like 16 degrees outside! we were frozen but we made it to school and paraded around for a bit. it was so much fun. i even won the best dressed indian from the school :]

Me Molly & Mandy

My costume baby-sleeps with doves- :]]

Mandy and me, she does look like a man, its kinda scary lol

me and sandy

riding to school

Montgomery Central Indians

our little tribe

ridin the road

sandy all painted up

indian day

My Heroes

2009-01-16T09:59:00.000-08:00

My Granny!!
My grandmother is like a superhero to me :] she has been to everyone of my sports games ever since i started. she has even been the only fan for us sometimes. but she is always there. i can always count on her for a good talk or a hug :] she is always honest, sometimes a little too much so, but thats what i need most of the time. she helps me get through problems and never worries about how far she is going to have to go to be at one of my games. i will always love her, for eternity! i love her with all of my heart <3>

Mandy & Molly

My family is AMAZING!! haha so me, mandy, and molly.. we are more like best friends than sisters. haha we are pretty much together all the time. we have never had a dull moment together. --barkin out the car windows lol and singin & dancing around the house!! lol we love takin crazy random pics and just having fun. i love my sisters. they are definitely my heroes too :]

i love photography

2009-01-16T09:21:00.001-08:00

so recently i have started to love photography. i love being able to travel to places and take breathtaking pics of scenery. these are just some of the recent ones i have taken.

grandcanyon of yellowstone

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.

yellowstone

-above it all-

"He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, The only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star"

tetons,, my future back yard :]

"Horses lend us the wings we lack"

More Flakey Bunch Business

2009-01-09T11:07:00.000-08:00

our first complete family picture in a long time lol

so there are 9 girls and 3 boys,, haha girls rule our house! now though its beginning to get a little quieter around here with everyone gettin married off and starting their own families, melissa and jacob now have 3 kids and michele and bastian have sydney with a little boy, bryce, on the way and James and Tammy also have a little boy on the way! meagan is still on her mission so that leaves only like 8 kids left! but we have everyone over at least once a week so we get to see each other enough!

so i figured since i really dont have all that much happening in my life right now im going to turn my blog more towards what my family is doing. so now i can keep all yall updated on my family and all the crazy stuff we do toghether.

right now all we are up to is workin on the house and school. all us girls are in the middle of our basketball seasons so that takes up a lot of my moms time running us around everywhere. im just glad i have a car now :] lol but molly is right behind me, she will be gettin her license in february!! watch out yall! lol jk dad and his crew are gettin a lot done with the house so mom is really happy about that.

Flake Family

Jaden and Landon

life as a senior

2008-12-17T09:33:00.000-08:00

i have to say its not too shabby! lol my classes are extremely easy, half of the day im at the elementary school workin with kids from kindergarten. i absolutely love those kids! i have never felt so loved, everytime i walk in there they all jump up and give me a hug! :]] the other half of my day is made up of gym and sleeping--which i love lol--and my two required classes. but time goes by way too fast. im already done with a semester. wow after the next one it will be time for me to grow up! lol right now im just tryin to have fun and not get caught up in all of the high school drama haha

soccer has ended but i had some great memories, those last bus rides with the taco bell packets!! lol fun times. some things have changed since then. now basketball season is different than it has been in the past. its different because im one of the leaders. there are some problems but im trying to just finish out and not let people get to me. we definitely try to have fun during practice and in the locker room. its just important to realize that some people will change but you cant change who you are because of them. i have finally learned that being myself is so much better than tryin to worry about what other people think :] but its also just as important to embrace what God gives you. i have met some of the most amazing people in the last month and i will never forget anything i have gone through with them. i absolutely love them :] whatever comes after this im just going to keep praying and i know it will work out!

Flakey Bunch

2008-12-17T09:07:00.000-08:00

one of our favorite things to do as a whole family is hiking. Awhile back we all decided to go to fall creek falls and hike and see all of the beautiful leaves and the falls. well the leaves were beautiful but we were in kind of a drought so there was only a trickle of water falling from all of the falls.

these are just some random photos from the hike.

Molly and Mandy were being dare devils and they decided to get into the crack between the two rocks, there was nothing at the end of that crack either, just the ground a long way down.

Me, Mo, & Man on the edge of buzzards roost.

Molly and Nolan

Jaden, Sydney and Mallory throwing rocks into the little water that there was.

so this is normally where the big falls are supposed to be going over, well since the drought it was completely dry right here.

Its almost CHRISTMAS!!

2008-12-17T07:55:00.000-08:00

so this is my absolute favorite holiday and not just because of the presents. :] i love the way when the weather gets cold,, everyone's hearts seem to warm up. lol i love sittin barefoot by the fire just enjoying the warmth. i wish it would snow sometime in Tennessee but i still love it here. i also love the lights and the riverwalk. Layering on some coats and walkin the lights with my family is a blast! Especially when your family is crazy like mine! lol The season is truly magical and enjoy looking back on the year and seeing what you have actually done. i love bein able to just relax,, i love listening to the original christmas songs. i love talking to cetain people about life and all my boring days and knowing that they truly do care ;] i just love Christmas!!
I also love to remember Christ and everything he has done for me, reading about his birth and life renews my love for him and his gospel.