Dove Dry Spray.

So my first VoxBox included Dove Dry Spray. 

This stuff is actually pretty amazing.

It's not an ordinary deodorant. 

Once you spray it on, it dries instantly, therefore you don't have to worry about getting any on your clothing. 

Out of habit, I apply this spray every morning, however the advertisement is correct in saying it can last up to 48 hours!

Each morning I can still smell the freshness of the spray, even after doing strenuous work that would normally make a deodorant wear off. 

One morning I was getting ready, and all I had applied so far was the Dove Dry Spray.

My brothers girl friend looks at me and says, "Wow, you smell so good! What are you wearing?"

I answered, "So far just deodorant." 

This is the first time someone has said I smell good with just deodorant on. 

I will definitely buy this product when mine runs out. 

I received these products complimentary from Influenster for testing purposes

Influenster

So my friend Kayla asked me to pick up a package for her at the post office a few weeks ago.
Upon obtaining the package, I noticed immediately that this was not a normal package.
It was a red box that said Influenster, decorated with cute little images that caught my eye.
I snapped a picture of it to her and asked what it was.
She then introduced me the Influenster.
I signed up, filled out my profile and began searching the iphone app, as well as the website.
Let me tell you, this organization is awesome!
Every once in a while you will qualify for a VoxBox.
These VoxBoxes are filled with samples of products for you to review on your social media sites.
I know I haven't blogged in a while, but this seems like a great way to start again!
I will be reviewing products on my blog as I receive more VoxBoxes, and I hope these reviews help you when deciding upon what to purchase.

Also, SIGN UP FOR INFLUENSTER!
It's amazing. 

True Friends.

   So lately I've been mulling over the phrase "true friend" in my mind, and have been trying to find out what that phrase really means. What does it mean to be a "true friend" to someone? Do I have any "true friends"?
   God has blessed me with an abundance of friends, all who I care deeply for and feel that the feeling is mutual on their side. These people are ones who I might talk to every once in awhile, grab at bite to eat with, or have a good conversation with maybe once or twice a week. Then I have a smaller but not minuscule amount of best friends. These people are there for me every day, and I also try to be there for them. To be considered one of my best friends, you have to prove that you are trustworthy, that you actually care about what I have to say, and that you are there for me if I should ever need you. In my life, that is what I would consider a best friend. But what takes it to that next step? What is a "true friend"?
   When I think of an example of a "true friend" my mind always goes to my long time friend Jimmy. I've known Jimmy for several years, but we've gotten closer in the more recent years. Jimmy is always there for me. No time is too late to call, no text goes unanswered, and he's always there if I need him. On numerous occasions, Jimmy has drove miles just to talk to me about a problem or just to check up on me. Jimmy refuses to lie to me, instead he always graces me with the cold, hard, sometimes brutal truth in every situation. He never lets me win at games, and puts up with my sometimes horrid attitude when I lose. He doesn't care to act crazy, listen to ridiculous dance music, go for a coffee run at 3am, or play pokemon monopoly in McDonalds. I would bet all the money I have that if I called him right now, he'd be here within the hour. Because Jimmy cares, he's never to busy to lend an ear, and he truly loves me unconditionally. A true friendship however, goes both ways. I try my best to always be there for Jimmy, day or night. I've listened to him talk about his problems, and I refuse to lie to him. If he calls me, I'm there. Someone who doesn't care that we haven't talked in weeks, and someone who if I haven't seen him in a few days, feels like years of separation, that's Jimmy, he's a "true friend".
   I can think of several others who I would count as "true friends", God has seriously blessed me. So again, what is a "true friend"? Someone who is never off limits, and who you are never off limits to. No subject goes untouched, and someone who you lay everything out on the floor for. Someone who accepts your flaws, loves them, and shows you theres in return. Someone who you can talk to about God and who's open to your opinions.
   If you can find people like that, you are blessed, they are "true friends."

Summer has begun.

So School is now over, and I have to say I am happy it is. After the choir tour we found out that Dr.D's contract had ran out, and the school had decided not to bring him back to KCU. After weeks of tears, anger, and prayer school finally ended. Nevertheless the choir tour was one of the most amazing experiences so far in my life. After my juries (btw I got straight A's for the first time in my juries =] ) one of my teachers asked me to come sing at his church. Which is what I did today, or technically yesterday. It was my first official singing "gig". I sang Jerusalem and then sang a solo with his choir, We Fall Down by Chris Tomlin. The people there were wonderful and I truly enjoyed myself. On to news totally NOT related to school, the kind of news that I would rather talk about. =D Disney is only 11 days away =D This year we are taking one of my brother and my best friends Austin Muncy. The story of how he ended up going with us is a crazy one! My brother and I were not suppose to know we were going to go to Disney this year, in fact dad had kept it a secret from all of us, except family friends who were going at the same time. So at a tennis match one of our family friends spilled the beans. Well Austin was with Dad, Matt, and I at Walmart doing some late night shopping, when the topic of Disney came up. We said "Austin if you could get the money we would totally take you to Disney!" This being a joke of course. He texts his mom and says "can I have $5,000 to go to Disney with Matt and Allison." She responds with, "I'll give you $500." Needless to say he only needed $1,000. So he is now going with us to Disney for his birthday! While all of this is going on, mom has no clue! So on the friday before mothers day, dad gets a box and fills it with balloons and attached two pieces of paper that together said, "On June 24, we will be going to Walt Disney World." Love Allison, Bill, Matt, and Austin. Of course when the balloons popped out of the box and she read the papers, she was hysterical. You'd think that we had never been to Disney World when you see how excited we get when we find out we are going. But this will be our 7th trip, 8th if you count the cruise. We absolutely love it there, and cannot wait to share the experience of Austin's first trip and his birthday trip with him this year. =D On to some more news, but this is the kind that I would rather not talk about, but that bothers me so bad that it is unavoidable when documenting life. The week before I went on my choir tour, our assistant pastor Shane was made the pastor at a different church. Of course I was upset at first, but I would trust him to make the best decision for him and his family, one that was inspired by God. The only thing is, is that he truly was the only "elder" I felt comfortable talking to about specific topics. Maybe it was because he was younger, I really don't know. Regardless, nearly half the church left with him. This may sound like a large number of people left and went with him, but our church is very small and so half isn't that large of a number at all. This is not the doing of Shane or his family, and I do not blame them for it, but it is hard for me to believe that people we decided to leave really had the time that Shane and his family had to pray about this decision. A week is not long enough to get an answer from God. If he gave you the answer in a week then he did but it is hard for me to believe that such a big decision, like one that could change everything for your family, could be decided in one week. It hurts. And now the youth group is suffering. I was so excited about our youth program. Brent had just let me start teaching the intermediate class, and now I have maybe two kids in my class. It makes me feel like I'm not good enough. Like the church I was raised in is not good enough. I've been in this church my entire life. I have been a christian for nearly 16 years, and a member of the Belles Chapel Freewill Baptist Church all 16 of those years. By the way I'm only 20. And yes, I go there because of my family, I do not have any other choice. But I LOVE that church and the people in that church. We are a family. It hurts when members of that church family decide to leave. It also hurts when people try to blame the decline of the church on my family, the Hayes family. We run everything, yes that is true, but it's only because we have no one else stepping up to help out, except for the other families who have been there since before I was born, you know who you are, and I am grateful you have stuck with our church through everything, all of the crap we've gone through. My family has given up numerous opportunities and things that are very important to us, to stay at the church and keep it alive. So this feels like a knife in my heart. This is not a jab at anyone reading this who left, you are choosing to read this and it is an online diary. I still love each and every one of you, and that is why it hurts so bad. What happens if I get married and move away? And so does my brother and little cousins. Who will be the next generation? We need to bring people in. Our church feels like it is dying. I do not want our church to die! I do not know what to do. No one really listens to me, though I should be considered an elder of the church. But enough of that. I had to get that out. It has been in my heart and clawing at me for weeks now. We should not take the work of God lightly. We should pray to God for every little thing, give our lives over to God as an offering, a sacrifice for him. Jesus died for us. And he hasn't came back yet, so he obviously still has a plan for each one of us! I pray that God puts off his coming. We need to go out and get people saved! We need to stop sitting in our churches, in our pews, with our nice clothing on. We need to get down and dirty! Go out and feed the hungry, help heal the sick, cloth the naked, and save the lost! What are we doing now that is profiting the kingdom of God?

First IPhone post :)

So hey!
It's been a little while since I posted last.
I haven't been doing much lately.
Mainly going to school, studying, and going to church.
That's my life lol.
Thank God it's spring break :)
Before I forget, Lawrence county had its first Legit tornado.
It was crazy!
My car got damaged pretty bad, it destroyed and badly damaged some homes, and even took the lives of 2 members of the community.
Nothing like this had ever happened to our town before.
It was humbling to see how amazing our community showed its support for those affected.

My life has been very confusing lately.
It feels like my head has been swimming since the tornado.
I'm not really sure if it really had anything to do with the storm itself, but that seems to be the time I can pinpoint that it started.
My life is very important to me.
As is my future plans.
I really hate it when others think they have my future planned out for me.
And it's not my parents who are making me feel this way.
It's others, people who don't even know me.
Sometimes I just want to scream.

I'm not going to settle for something less than myself.

But I don't know.
Just felt like I needed to blog :P

Later...
Allison

Oh man.

Hey guys,
I just realized that it feels like forever (because it is quite literally) since I last posted.
A lot has happened since then, so I will try my best to remember and catch you up =D
So this semester was hectic.
I had a biology teacher who in essence is a good man, and very smart, but not a very good teacher.
He was one of those that seriously did not believe in text books or multiple choice.
It was a class based on notes, and it took place at 8 o'clock every morning.
I ended up pulling a solid B out of his class, and that was good enough for me!
I landed my first solo in the KCU choir for our christmas concert.
It was a very small solo, but it was exactly what I wanted.
A solo that wasn't life consuming, that I could practice a few times and have it down.
I don't think I am mentally ready for an entire song. The singers there still make me nervous.
The choir also got to sing with the Gaithers again in Huntington, WV. Of course that was amazing because David Phelps was there this year. We got to sing background vocals for him on the dolly parton song, "He's alive."
It definitely goes on my "top 5 things I have done in my life so far" list.
I also had the pleasure of getting to set up the christmas decorations for the KCU concert. It was time consuming but fun none the less.
Private voice was scary.
Master Bell had me singing 2 handel songs. But I got them down. The bad thing was we had to fill out a practice log and practice for an hour every day for 4 days. In essence that doesn't sound too bad, but with everything else you have to do, it did get kind of rough to squeeze everything into one week at a time.
Some how I figured that out as well haha.
I now work in the KCU cafeteria.
At first it scared the living daily lights out of me! It was high paced and it felt like we just got thrown out there to a bunch of hungry lions.
But before long I got the hang of things and let me tell you, it is the best job ever!
I love the staff I work with. They are some of the most caring and funny people I have ever met in my life! And it didn't hurt that I got to work with one of my best friends as well.
Matt and the Lawrence County Marching Band made it to state semi-finals this year.
Matt even won 2nd place field commander in class 2A in a west virginia competition. So we were really proud of him.
It was really nice because for the first time I had a band companion, matt's ex girlfriend's mom Jenni. It was really cool to actually have someone to talk to at all of the competitions. After marching season, we started having Just Dance parties. It was really fun and helped me lose a couple pounds. *insert thumbs up here*
In the area of Love and relationships, I am still single and searching.
Enough said, moving on.
It's christmas break, but I still feel mentally and physically drained from this semester.
I just hope the next is not as strenuous.
In Recent News:
Austin's step dad died the day after christmas.
Last night was his viewing and today is his funeral.
It really sucks to see him so down, he's one of those people who never lets you see his emotions. Well if they are sad at least.
I just keep praying for their family and hoping something good would come of this tragic situation.
God has a reason for everything he does. So I have faith her will help their family and send a blessing to them beyond compare.
My family has to sing at the New Years Eve service this year.
We sing at it every year but for some reason this year everyone decided we needed to practice.
I don't know how well this is going to turn out, but all I can do is pray it goes well.
Speaking of my family, Cayla and Alan finally got engaged.
I'm her maid of honor, so we are super excited to kick this off in the new year and start planning her wedding. I'm guessing that is what we will be doing all year this year, or at least until the big day.
In the New Year I'm hoping to become a better person, a better christian, lose some weight (obviously), and find a boyfriend. Those things seem to be good things to hope for =D
Oh and one more thing, I got John Lasseters autograph in the mail =D
I wrote a 3 page letter to him about how he was an inspiration to me, told him my favorite Pixar film was toy story, and told him I expected nothing in return.
It says on fan sites to send an envelope with cardboard in it if you want a pictures signed and autographed. Instead of sending it to that mailing address, I sent my letter straight to him at Pixar. Since I sent the letter in October and I hadn't received anything I didn't give it a second thought. But the day before Christmas I got a envelope in the mail from Pixar. Dad freaked out because I hadn't told anyone I even sent him a letter, and dad was like Umm...im so confused but you got a letter from pixar.
It made my day I have to tell you! =D
It's on a picture of Woody and Buzz and it's totally legit!
I thought it was a stamp until dad and I saw the smudging from the sharpie on the back of the paper.
Another "things to add to the list of the top five things that have happened in my life so far."
Anyways, I'll post a picture of it later.
Sorry I haven't updated in a while.
I hope to do it more often if this next semester is slower.

Blessings and Love,
Allison

Blogapaloza=D

So hiddy =D
I'm really bored, and it's really late.
So I'm just going to blog.
Well tonight was suppose to be the peak of the Meteor Shower.
Sadly the clouds have overtaken my skies >_<
But I did get to see a few shooting stars, and on a good night I can see normal ones anytime.
So I'm not complaining.
One really cool thing: I was singing "When You Wish Upon A Star" and all of the sudden this beautiful shooting star streaks across the sky.
It was really neat and it make me laugh for awhile.

So if you were wondering, my obsession with Grey's Anatomy has gotten worse.
lol.
I'm now on season 3.
I CANNOT STOP WATCHING 0.o

For my brothers birthday dad took my brothers friends and I to see a DCI competition that was being broadcasted to the Huntington Mall Movie Theater.
It was really neat.
The Cadets had an awesome Angels Vs. Demons show where the band was split in to two halves and one side had white uniforms while the other had red.
It was super cool.
I had never seen a band with two different colored uniforms.
The Cavilers were really good as well.
They had quad players who played upside down, a drum major who conducted upside down, and several trumpet players who played upside down.
It was really neat.

But yeah.
Now IDk what to say.
So I think I'm going to go see if the clouds are gone.
If so I'll watch more stars.
If not I am going to bed =D
Good night
and
I Love You =D
Allison