I am seriously having a hard time grasping that it is the year 2009. Anyone else? 2008 was a very short year, yet it was full of beginnings, endings, hurt, joy, and everything else! God was definitely working and moving in my life and I am thankful for 2008 and everything I learned, did, grew in, everything! Both the good and bad because God was right there with me!

I *try* to keep a record of special things that happen throughout the year and I put it in my left sidebar, and had to update that stuff now that 2008 is over! I redid my bookshelf list, goals list, and happenings list.

So its a new year now *eyes pop out* and I thought I would do a Happenings of 2008 to reflect on and share with you! So here is SuperAngel’s 2008 Year In Review

*January 6th Moved SuperAngelsblog.com to our server.

*January 10-11th Suarez’s Visit

*January 11th Deleted SuperAngelsblog.com

*January 29th Great Grandma Dixon Died

*February 1st Growing In Grace Published!

*February 5th Brielle’s 18th Birthday

*February 4th-6th Fearlessly Feminine Challenge 1

*February 7th-9th Fearlessly Feminine Challenge 2

*February 11th Carnival of Principled Government: Presidential Birthdays Edition

*February 14th Levi’s 14th Birthday

*February 25th The Homesteading Carnival #38: My Girls Edition

*February 26th Carnival of Homeschooling: Political Parties of Our Government Edition

*February 26th Girls are Sold

*February 27th-March 6th Sick with the Flu

*March 1st Growing In Grace Magazine 2nd Publication

*March 10th Auntie’s Birthday

*March 12th Lunch with the Suarez’s

*March 18th 2 year Blogoversary

*March 21st-23rd Paulie’s 18th Birthday

*April 1st Growing In Grace Magazine 3rd Publication

*April 7th LucyLillie is ONE!

*April 7th met vintagegirl and BreezyTulip

*April 14th-21st Sick again!

*April 27th-28th Met Sprittibee and Family!

*May 1st Growing In Grace Magazine 4th Publication

*May 5th Graduated from Dixon Homestead Academy

*May 7th Ordered my Dell Vostro 1500 laptop

*May 8th Grandma and Aunt Jen surprise us with a visit!

*May 9th Jocelyn’s 17th birthday

*May 10 Jocelyn’s Big Bash

*May 10th Saw EXPELLED:No Intelligence Allowed!

*May 11th Mother’s Day

*May 12th Got my Vostro laptop

*May 12th The Homesteading Carnival #49: My Mama Edition

*May 16th Saw Caspian

*May 19th Met Joy and family

*May 30th Cracked my Vostro screen

*June 1st Growing In Grace Magazine 5th Publication

*June 1st Eric’s 11th Birthday

*June 4th Vostro screen FIXED!

*June 6th-22nd On Vacation

*June 6th Met the C’s.

*June 7th Met Brooke and Family and the Lirettes

*June 8th-10th At Aunt Barbara’s

*June 10th-11th At Sprittibee’s

*June 12th-19th In Las Cruces

*June 18th Caleb’s Birthday

*June 19th-20th At Aunt Jen’s

*June 20th Dad’s Birthday

*June 20th-22nd Driving home

*June 30th The Homesteading Carnival #56: LET FREEDOM RING!

*July 1st Growing In Grace Magazine 6th Publication

*July 8th Carnival of Homeschooling #132: Let’s Go To The Ice Cream Parlor!

*July 17th Sarah’s 18th Birthday

*July 23rd My Blonde’s Birthday

*July 28th Feelin’ Feminine Launched!

*July 30th Vostro AC Adapter died!

*July 31st Vostro AC Adapter replaced!

*August 1st Growing In Grace Magazine 7th Publication

*August 4th Interview With Mr. Chris Walley

*August 6th The Infinite Day Giveaway and Review

*August 13th The Infinite Day Winner

*August 26th Christian “Dozer” Drews went to be with Jesus

*August 27th 2008-2009 College Agenda

*August 28th Mama’s 40th Birthday

*August 31st Mama’s Surprise Party

*September 1st Growing In Grace Magazine 8th Publication

*September 2nd Homeschool College started

*September 2nd 2008-2009 College Routine

*September 6th Met Mrs. Wolf

*September 11th The Blue Eggs came over

*September 17th-25th Constitution Week Projects

*September 23rd Visited Great Grandparents

*September 25th US Constitution Week Projects

*September 26th FIREPROOF Premieres!

*September 28th Saw FIREPROOF!

*October 1st Growing In Grace Magazine 9th Publication

*October 3rd Grandma Starr moved in with us!

*October 4th Spent the day with The Brown’s

*October 10th Designed Mrs. Michelle’s site

*October 15th Photoshoot 2008

*October 17th Why I’m Voting for Baldwin

*October 23rd Why I’m Voting for Baldwin 2

*October 26th My 19th Birthday

*October 30th Why I’m Voting for Baldwin 3

*November 1st Growing In Grace Magazine 10th Publication

*November 5th Rachel’s 15th Birthday!

*November 10th Designed Mrs. Chasity’s site

*November 12th Got a Perm!

*November 15th Bloggers Together Time

*November 19th My Home School Blog Awards Nominations

*November 27th A Thankful Heart I have

*November 30th The Daily Planet gets a NEW DESIGN!

*December 1st Growing In Grace Magazine 11th Publication

*December 4th Learned the Hebrew Aleph Bet

*December 8th The Homesteading Carnival #73: Building Mr. Perfect

*December 9th Carnival of Homeschooling #154: Anniversary Gifts

*December 10th Two Decades Together

*December 11th Received my Poor Girl Hat from England!

*December 16th La Bella Vita USA Organics Review

*December 18th Hanner’s 9th Birthday!

*December 19th Ice Storm and No Electricity

*December 21st-22nd No Internet!

*December 21st-29th Celebrated Hanukkah

*December 24th Made a 2009 goals list

*December 31st Launched Gleaning The Harvest Ministry

*December 31st Saw the last sunset of 2008

*December 31st Stayed up all night!

WOW! what a year! While it is sad to me that yet another year has passed, I am so excited about 2009! I am really looking forward to filling up the Happenings of 2009! I have a feeling that God is going to some AMAZING AWESOME things in my life! I cannot wait! Living life with God is so great!

So what about you? What things happened in your life; both the good and bad? When you post about the Happenings, link yourself up in the linky!

Love, Prayers and Blessings,

Thanks for stopping by “Daily” at the “Planet”!!
©AmandaDixon2009

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Things have been really busy around here! Loads and loads to do! I can’t believe its Saturday again! :O I thought I would give you a little look into the daily life of SuperAngel and share some things that have happened lately!

We are purging, dejunking and cleaning out everything because we are moving. Although we have NO idea where we are moving besides the area of the West. Family wants to move to Texas… I don’t. I just can’t see the big pull to Texas. I have been there plenty of times and have not found it to my liking. We are just praying and discussing a lot right now.
I even cleaned out my room, well not room more like drawers of things, closet, etc… I got rid of as much as I could that was not completely necessary to keep due to sentimental reasons! Jocelyn, the GET RID OF THAT girl, helped me to throw out and get rid of some stuff. Thanks, Jocelyn… I think!

I took Jocelyn’s computer to the computer store yesterday. We should be getting it today. If you don’t know what I am talking about, you will after you know why Jocelyn asked, Can I Just Cry? Poor Girly!
Mama’s AC Adapter got here yesterday for her laptop! *everyone shouts YAY!* Finally we have 2 fast computers again. We were doing ok til Jocelyn’s died, then we were down to my Vostro and the old dinosaur that runs at like -60mph! haha! Seriously that computer is slower than slow! So we were all very glad that the AC Adapter came yesterday!
Oh! I don’t think I got to blog about this, but the day after Mama’s AC Adapter went out, mine went out too! :O We were really freaking! I called Dell and ordered a replacement and they told me I should get it Friday. This was a Wednesday nite. I was a little upset that I wouldn’t have a computer for that long, but it was only 2 days. Well imagine my surprise when DHL shows up the next afternoon with my AC Adapter! I was so thrilled! Dell is absolutely tremendous when it comes to service. If you are going to buy a computer, go with Dell! They are the best!

I finally got my Voice of the Martyrs Prayer Band. yeah! It is pretty coolie! Funny that I got it the day the Olympics started. Hmm… that was probably intentional!

Spent yesterday and today listening to Mrs. Rushton’s Back-To-School-Blast conferences. They are really good and I have thoroughly enjoyed them! A lot of good information.

You have 4 days to enter in my The Infinite Day Review and Giveaway. I am really excited about this and hope you will enter! This series will really change you!

Speaking of books… I am pretty excited about the next HSB Literary Club book discussion. You really should join us. We will be starting soon… be sure to check the blog frequently, so you know what’s going on! We really want to get this kicking with the new school year and we are really looking forward to the next book we are reading: Enoch Roden’s Training by Hesba Stretton.

Also, be sure to go to HSBA for a chance to win The Schoolhouse Planner!

I have some more reviews I would like to write. I also have a really good post that I have written up, I just don’t think its the right time right now to publish it though! God’s time is the best time! That has become my motto. Such a reminder that God is omnipotent and things work out for the better when we follow His time, not our own!

We had a really bad storm earlier this week. We had seen some lightening, so we shut down our system and were talking, when I went outside to take a look. What I saw was really freaky. There was like black clouds coming down in funnel shapes. I ran in the house and told Mama and she came outside and saw it too in the lightening. Then we went in woke up Dad and made everyone go to the basement. A couple of the kids were freaking out. anyway, we ended up in the basement for like an hour to an hour and half. We were checking upstairs every once in awhile. Finally it had calmed down and we came up. When we came up, it was still lightening, so I got the camera and started getting some videos of the lightening. It was so awesome. The way the sky would just light up was absolutely amazing! I am working on editing the video, because a lot of it is just blackness, but it was so neat!

We are still planning and getting ready my college courses set and ready to go. Looking forward to it!

I have been doing quite a bit of running lately, and I absolutely LOVE it! I used to run ALOT when I was younger, and hadn’t done it for awhile, but now I am in track mode! Caleb even races me! He shares my love of running too! It is great fun and teaches great endurance!

Well, that seems about all for this week. We are just so busy and so lacking in computers right now that I hardly have time to write. I need to start on my September GGM articles too! Speaking of GGM, I finally wrote another Saints Gone Before. Yeah, its been forever, I know!

I hope you all have a great Saturday! Thanks for your support of The Daily Planet! I really appreciate you all!
Love, Prayers and Blessings,

Thanks for stopping by “Daily” at the “Planet”!!
©AmandaDixon2008

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I am still working on writing about vacation. I just can’t believe how much we did. I hope I can get it done soon. So while you are waiting for those, I have a few other reads you can read about.

You know, I told you I graduated last month and I didn’t have a party or anything, but I did receive some perfect gifts I am so excited about. They are perfect because they are totally me!

First was my Dell Vostro 1500! Man, this thing is amazing! It is has been so wonderful to have my own laptop. I am able to accomplish so much now! I love my Vostro! Mama and Dad, thank you so much for getting it for me!

Second was vacation! That was so great. Meeting my online friends in real life was so special and amazing. That is something I will never forget!

Third was an old book! Now if you have read any of my Book and Literature Articles, you know how much I adore old books! This particular book came from my Grandma. I got it when we went down to see her on vacation. She has a whole bookcase full of old books and I was able to look through some of them WOW! That was so great. The specific book she gave me is called “Adventures In American Literature“. I haven’t been able to read through hardly anything in it except for the index, but I simply cannot wait to dive into it. Some of the contents are:

The Short Story which includes stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, Edgar Allen Poe, Jack London, Washington Irving, among others.
The Essay which includes works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Washington Irving, and many more.
Biography and Autobiography with works by Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Roosevelt, and others.
Historic Milestones with works by Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, James Monroe and others.
Folk Literature includes songs by different genres.
Poetry has so many poems by many popular authors.
Early Northern Poetry with poems by Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Riley, and much more!
Twentieth Century Poetry
Humorous Poetry
Drama
and finally
History of American Literature: A Review and Reinterpretation with some truly amazing articles!
It even has lists of novels to read and biographies of many authors of the different centuries.

Doesn’t it sound just awesome? I am so excited to read it! I also found some papers in it. There is one that has writing from my Great Grandpa Duvall. It’s about John Greenleaf Whittier and what he thought about the author. It is really neat to read. I really don’t know much about my Great Grandpa, and this little piece of paper is him. It’s my heritage and it is so special!

Another book I am just dying to read is the new Chris Walley book from his The Lamb Among Stars Series! The Infinite Day came out on June 1st and with all the hussle and bussle of vacation, I wasn’t able to get it. I hope to be able to get it in the next few days though with some money I got from quietcajun for graduation. I am really excited to read it!Funny that I am talking about literature and books, because that is the topic I chose for Saturday Poetry and Literature: Summer Reading today at HSBA. You should check it out!

I finished all my GGM! I am so happy! It’s such a great feeling to know that I am finished and our July issue will be out soon! Now I can write exclusively about vacation!

For some encouragement on this Saturday, head over to Walking Therein for Saturday Psalm & Praise! It is back this Saturday and is in full swing! Look, its even got a awesome new icon you can use!

Well I hope you have a awesome day! It is beautiful out here and if it weren’t for the mosquitoes, I would go outside.
Love, Blessings and Prayers As Always,

Thanks for stopping by “Daily” at the “Planet”!!
©AmandaDixon2008

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