Farewell pureNRG (a pureNRG tribute)

I will never, ever forget the moments I had at my very first concert, getting my very first autograph, or my very first hug from the boy of my dreams...all from my favorite band - pureNRG.
It all started with their first album: pureNRG

I found out about them in my weekly magazines that I got. I was eleven years old. I was immediately hooked to their songs "Pray" "Summertime" "Someday," and "Footloose." I was amazed at the dances and flips that they did on tour, and at such a young age! They started their group when Carolyne, (girl on right) was only 8 years old, the other Caroline, age 10, and Jordan (the guy) at 12. They really inspired me to start my own band. I just got to thinking, "hey, if they can start their own group, so can I." Some of their songs were featured on Radio Disney. The more and more that this group got to do, the more confidence I had in starting my own band. So I immediately got to work on learning the dance moves, and perfecting my round-off backhandsprings. Here's a video of one of their first concerts. 

I will never forget my first concert. I was so excited when I left that I was shaking, then I wasn't able to sleep that night. I was twelve years old. I will never forget the feeling when I, yes I got to get a sneak peek of their sound check. I waited for the concert to start for three hours (I wanted to get front row seats.) Since I knew all the songs and dances, I just sang and danced right along with them. I felt so cool because only me and them knew the dances and lyrics. Then when I went to go and get signatures and pictures, I wanted my favorite girl, (the girl on the right in the picture), to sign my CD first. So she did, but she didn't even acknowledge the fact that I was there, because she was busy talking to somebody else. Then she smeared her own signature! Of course, I was to happy to even be remotely worried about it. So I got signatures from the others, plus a hug from Jordan. I really wanted a picture, but when they said it was five dollars for a single picture, my dad said no. Again, I was too happy to worry about that.

Then their next album came out: Here We Go Again.

These songs really got to me. The dances and lyrics were even better. Here are the vidoes of the dances that I learned from: Footloose, Here We Go Again, BFF, Like, Someday, and Dance Break. Yes,  I do have many memories with these songs and dances. I practiced them everyday, and even now occasionally I'll turn on the music and dance to them, just to bring back the memories. I remember I listened to those songs everyday, 24/7. And I never got tired of them! 

Then their next album: Christmas

I never did get to go see them at Winter Jam, because they never came to Indiana :'(, but I did end up learning the dances to their Christmas songs: Away In a Manger and Joy to the World.

Then, probably my Favorite album: The Real Thing,which came out in 2010.

And I learned these songs: Radio, All About You, and Before the Sun Goes Down.

Then I heard the tragic news that the band is coming to an end in 2011. I was like OMGHHKP! I was bawling my eyeballs out! But they decided to come out with one last album in January of 2011: pureNRG Graduation.

At the beginning of this year they decided to go to Mexico on a mission trip, to hang out the with little homeless kids there. So they published two songs about their experience: Hands and Feet and Dive. I would definately have to say that Hands and Feet is my favorite song that they published. I totally got chills the first time that I heard it, and it just made me want to go out into the world and tell about Jesus. It's such a touching song, and I think everybody should hear it.

Here are their music videos that they published:

What If: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioSRChnzMB4

Footloose: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01myDOAA4WU

Here We Go Again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DixAmMksILE

Radio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3mwo5JQW_A

Me and my friends tried to make our own music videos to these, but without a nice camera it's pretty much impossible.

I will never, ever forget my experiences with pureNRG. I went to a total of four of their concerts. It is so sad that they are ending this year. They have made such a big impact on my life! I start to get all teary-eyed everytime I think about their break-up.

This was my last concert in 2010. They are going to have a farewell concert in March, and I'm hoping to go. But the problem is, it's all the way in NASHVILLE TENESSE! OMG. And also there's this package that you can buy which includes: private pizza party with pureNRG, $80 worth of merch idems, gold circle seating at the last concert, access to private sound check, and a proffesional photo with pureNRG. All for just $99.99. I really, really, REALLY want it, but where am I gonna get that money? I won't be getting that money, and I won't get to have one on one time with them. I know this sounds a bit synical but it's true. Oh well, I did have my moments with them when I did talk to them. They were so excited that I knew their dances and songs so well! I was pretty happy to impress them like that.

Please visit their site: http://www.purenrgonline.com/

I love you pureNRG, and I will miss ya'll dearly. 

Hannah

(100% permission for picture posting. Images from purenrgonline.com and google.)

Randomness

So as the title says, this is just a completely random blog. I haven't thought anything through, and I'm just gonna say whatever comes to my mind. So beware...read at your own risk.


The first thing that comes to my mind is my bedroom. I have really been thinking about which wall quote I want to put above my bed. My favorites are quote 7, "We don't remember the days, we remember the moments," and I like quote 1 "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... it's about learning to dance in the rain." Both of these are so true and so inspiring, and are both something I would love to wake up to every morning. They just remind me to have a good time in life, and be optomistic, and focus on the good times, not the bad. So as far as my room is concerned, these are the color themes: This first one is going to be my main wall color. Now since most of my furniture is white, I wouldn't be too afraid to make one wall black. But I'm still not sure about that, because I'm not a dark type of person. The zebra print is going to be my bedding. Now I don't have a bedpost, and I really want one, but I'm on an extremely tight budget. I'm thinking I'm gonna use my amazing craftsman skills and built a set of shelves to go as my bedpost, were I can keep my books and cd's instead of a bookshelf, as to make room for my new makeup vanity. That all being said, I do have several room inspirations. But I don't have permission to post those pictures yet. So mainly the wall color is going to be the pink, and the zebra (I've always loved zebras) is going to be my comforter printing. 

On another note, I've been getting out my dirt bike everyday now, and I loveeeee it. I don't think I've ever loved flying around my neighborhood quit so much. Today I actually grabbed my iPod on my way out, and I sang the whole time I was riding around. It's so awesome because you know nobody can hear you! I just felt so free when I was out riding; the wind in my hair in going through my large Kawasaki shirt, blowing into my eyes, and making them water to death. Ah, no better feeling than that. I really do hope to get some riding done down in the field behind my neighborhood. See, my house is on just under an acre, and that doesn't leave me much room for riding. So that's why I go around the neighborhood. But then you have to worry about people pulling out of their driveways and what not, and you just have to be safe (something I haven't learned to do quite yet). And plus my dad won't even let me go into the field by myself, which I course I can understand why. I don't want to be stranded out there, half dead with nobody around. Jeez, why do I always think outside the box? I'm not gonna be half dead! But, that's not to think I wouldn't be out stranded without gas. And THAT has happened to me before. Everyone went riding ahead of me, and my bike just died, and I had to sit there, in the middle of no where, waiting for someone to come after me. I guess it wasn't for like, an hour before somebody finally realized I wasn't with them. Boy, was I feelin the love! I was actually pretty scared. I didn't know what to do! I was by myself, all alone in a cornfield. Oh great, now I'm getting all dramatic. Not to say what I'm saying isn't true...but yeah you get the idea.

So as I was saying, I love riding my dirt bike around my neighborhood, but I really want somewhere adventurous to ride. Now this problem would be quickly solved if I could drive, or if I had an older friend who would be willing to drive me somewhere. But of course I have none of those. So I'm stuck at home. And that's a problem when you've got a nice dirt bike thats longing to get it's wheel spinning in the mud. Oh well, maybe this summer things will start changing. I mean, "OPEN your EYES Hannah, you just got the darn thing out this week." Aha...yes I do tend to yell at myself sometimes, and what I'm telling myself is true. But what I'm saying totally doesn't matter in any sense, so whoever is reading this is just wasting their precious time. Well that's not to say that's considered a BAD thing....but yeah just keep reading and try to stay awake, because I think i'm almost done.

Let's get onto the topic of music. I love music sooo dearly much, and right now I'm obsessed with one artist, and one artist only. I probably don't even have to tell you who it is, because you probably already know who it is. At the moment (No Ryan, not Kenny Chesney) it's (and no, Chris, it's not George Strait) but it's Taylor Swift! I love listening to her music so much, that I have all of her songs, even her Christmas songs and unrealesed songs. You can read my blog all about her which was published a couple days ago. But I have about 236 artists on my iPod, and she is the only one that I listen to. I'm not even kidding! I don't know what it is, but I just love her songs so much. And that's what I have to say about that.

So tonight is a school night, and I have tons of homework to do, including math which I can say right now I'm definately not going to get done, because I don't know how to do it and I need someone to help me :'( But no one apparently cares. Oh well, i'll be graduating in three years and then I won't have that problem anymore. So TTFN :)

Hannah

Throughout the Years - First and Second Grades/Dirt Bike Fun

WARNING: EXTREMELY    LONG                    BLOG

Yes, that's what it says ^^^ if there's one thing that I love, then it's riding dirt bikes. I started riding when I was in first grade. My first bike was a little Honda 50, four stroke. But I was only on that for a short amount of time before I switched over to the 70, which I liked a lot better. I always thought I was "better" than my sister because I was on such a bigger, faster bike than hers. Haha well that's a joke. Anyways, I've been riding ever since, and now I alternate the bikes I ride between a Kawasaki 300 4 stroke, 150 Honda, and a 100. It just depends on the kind of riding that I'm doing. I don't have recent pictures of me riding, but I do have several from when I was little. You can look at those at the end of the blog.
So in first grade, my parents decided to finally start going to church. They chose a big church, (Indian Creek) and we went there for seven years. This led them to the idea of "homeschooling" children, for fear of a social influence they would pick up in the modern-day schools. So of course, being new-ish parents, decided to immediately pull me out of that school and put me at home. I remember being so upset because I wouldn't get to be with my best buds. But now I can really understand the situation. My mom was driving me there and back, that's an hour in the car every day, plus paying thousands of dollars a year, just for me to learn some ABC'S. So yes, they pulled me out. And my mom went all out and got us a big school room in our house, decorated the walls with posters of the alphabet and numbers and such, and got a couple little tables with chairs that had on the back of them me and my sister's names. So, yes it was a fun experience. I could go on and tell about the rest of my school experiences throughout life, but then I wouldn't have much to blog about in the future.
As you can see, I pulled first and second grades together. The reason is because, second grade is just considered a "there" year for me. When I say that, I mean the year was just "there." Nothing terribly special happened, and first and second grades kind of tie together in a way. There are a couple of years of my life that I would consider "there" years, meaning just nothing much happened in those years.
So when I was in first grade, I not only started riding dirt bikes, I decided to join dance and gymnastics. I do have several pictures of each, but I can't find my gymnastics pictures. I just remember loving it so much. Even to this day I am still dancing and tumbling. But now I am more into volleyball and basketball. That was a major turning point in my life (8th grade) which I will throughly explain, when I get to that part of my life. But, yes, I joined dance and gymnastics. I also did tap dancing for one year but my mom decided she didn't want me tapping around to "fru fru" music. Haha, whatever that means. But I loved ballet, and I don't know why I didn't keep doing it. I did it for a couple of years, and just continued gymnastics. There was a point when I was going to join the team (the "team" for gymnastics is just the point that you get to when your so good that you can travel around and compete with a certain team) but my mom wouldn't let me because I was going to be at practice every week for ten hours. And it would be a lot of money and time, so naturally I didn't join. But I chose to just go, once a week, to gymnastics practice, and enjoyed it.
This is also the year that I got to ride my very first horse. In fact, I loved it so much, that I joined a riding class. Down the street from my house there is a nearby horse farm that we could rent horses and have classes. I picked one horse, a brown one named Candy. We went down there almost everyday and rode. I remember I was always too scared to go anything beyond a trot. I saw the horses throw my dad and another person, and I didn't want to be thrown or anything. But it was a fun experience, and I kept riding for years after that.
Most kids at this age believe in Santa Clause. I didn't. My parents didn't think it was fair to lie to me for years, then turn around and say it wasn't true. Of course, I did  have my turn in sitting on Santa's lap (and I still do to this day!) but that was when I was one or two years old, and I didn't really know much better. So yeah you just grasped a piece of my life that you will probably never put to use. What a waste, right? Haha just kidding. Well here are the pictures: Here is me, for some odd reason, well actually it's not really that odd, but i'm making a face at the camera. I swear, I have had the most difficult time finding pictures for this blog because I am always making some kind of weird face at the camera. But yes, this is me right before my big dance recital. 
 Here is me, my first time ever riding my dirt bike. It was down at my grandma and grandpa's field. Then there's me and my mom at my first field trip to the apple orchard. Then is me trail riding my best friend. Last is me at my first wedding -- my aunt's 3rd wedding. 

Books For 2011 #2

The next book on my list for '11 is "Mockingjay" and is part of the Hunger Game series. Here's a description: "Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what's worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss's family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins's groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year."


I'm really excited about reading it, because a lot of my friends have recommended it to me and said how good it was. Everybody have a great week :)


Hannah