ShAkA lAkA liP blAkA

Well today was the big surf comp. in Hunington.  After walking around there and getting a BUNCH of free stuff, we shopped around the stores.  I Picked out a pretty sweeet sweatshirt, and my Dad bought me two shirts ( thanks daddy ).  After meeting up with everyone Michael informed me that my sweatshirt was not so sweeet, and he even said that i have "no taste in sweatshirts".  Well i hate to say it, actually its pretty cool saying Michael picked out my new sweatshirt.  And yes, compared to the one i was going to buy it makes me look like i have no taste in sweatshirts.  It is sweeeeet, with FiVE e's.  Matt, Nina, Madeline, George, Bree, Scarlett, and Juliette are in.!.  Went to the beach with them.  Soooo adorable.  Madeline loves seaweed, and is fearless of the ocean.  She'll just go running into it, no prob.  Oh, and Scarlett was with her mom and was crying for me.!. oh. and on the way off the beach every other step Madeline had to dig up a pile of sand with her shovel.  i just love those two soooo much.  Best vacation EVER.!.  Home agains.  Awe. Aunt Judy and ian are leaving. So sad.  Wed parted with some good marshmellows though.  Yumo.  Great day on Vaca.

Texas

I don't think i have ever laughed so much or for so long in my life.  Today was so much fun and awkward.  Started off by picking up Russell and Andrew from the airport.  Me and my Mom must've circled that airport at least twenty (no joke) times.  Because we couldn't park and their luggage was taking an extraordinarily long time to get unloaded.  Then we headed straight for the beach. Boogie Boarding. Yah. Well lets just say that Russell and Andrew left me in my time of need. They did.!. i know, i wouldn't have believed they would do such a thing either.  But Russell left me for a wave and Andrew left me for some lessons in boogie boarding, and there was me and some seventeen year old, in the middle of an ocean, just us two. Awkward much?  And it's not that i can't handle those kind of situations, but usually i can run away or make a very smooth exit. But when you're in the middle of an ocean the only thing you can do is catch a wave, and every wave i caught he caught too.  But anyways.  We played this charades game tonight, hahahaha Papa was so funny.  I got the best ab workout of my life.!. Ok so we were all supposed to write down eight famous people, and those would be the people that we had to explain with just words, then act out, then explain with one word.  Well Papa put down his neighbor, some guy from his baseball team, and all these other different people from his past. We couldn't stop laughing because noone would know who it was and then when the time was up he would say... OOOOh yah Spotty, he used to be on my baseball team. Maybe you had to be there.  Another good day in Calii.

On top of a Whale.

Right now i'm in California.!.  I would like to take this moment to thank my mom for all the hard work she puts into this vacation. She is so amazing.  Not only does she plan out the whole vacation from airplane tickets to the resort we stay in, she also is my personal shopper.  Somehow she always finds me the perfect bathing suites. The only bathing suites i have, she picked out for me, bought them, and when i tried them on they fit perfectly.  She is so amazing, and i love her sooooo very much.  I'm am so lucky to have such a wonderful mom who loves me.  Going to the camp this week made me realize all the more how wonderful my Mom truly is.  I could go on forever, but i wont. Today was fun fun. i was so lucky to sit by a really nice, funny, girl on the plane. We talked for four hours, straight. Today was so funny. Me, Nana, Papa, my Mom, Michael, Aunt Judy, and Ian together, is so funny.  It's like nonstop laughter. We went shopping for food, and bought soooo much stuff. I bought a mango and thought of Aunt Karen, I can't wait until she gets here and we get to eat them together. There are so many things i'm looking forward to. The sooner I get to bed, the sooner tomorrow happens. Nighty nights.

Painter

Well today was fun. Exciting because me and Michael are leaving for camp tomorrow.  Nothing really in the AM. Tennis with the fam until it started raining, me and Dad beat my Mom and Michael. So funny. Then we went and ate at Golden Chopsticks, this amazing chinese restaurant.  I know horoscopes are bad, but i just think its funny that they classified me as a monkey.  then went and painted at Jesse's. Not that you could tell by looking at me... haha. jk. yah, i'm pretty much covered in white paint. It was so much fun spending time with my cousins (Jesse and Bethany), my future cousins (Amber and Mike), and my family (Dad, Mom, and Michael).  Now Tristin is over. Fact. He spent 250 dollars on gas to get from Myrtle Beach to, well, my house. Wowza. Packing now for camp.!. Wooohooo. kind of last minute, but better late then never. 

Fire

Well church was pretty amazing tonight... it packed science, humor, and an awesome message into two short hours. Lori, i don't know how you do it. :) . Well when i went home, God gave me some words that went along with the message, and a melody to go along, so i geuss i have a song, that i absolutely love... I titled it fire because it's about our message from tonight.

Lord, let your fire burn
burn inside of me
fill me with your love
fill me with your peace
let your fire spread
spread to all i see
let your fire spread
starting out with me

your fire spreads to anyone
who accepts it, who will let it
once they have it inside of them
will they keep it, or extinguish it

no pit can hold me in
no water slow me down
now that you're inside of me
i can't even stop myself

...work in progress.

Smiles

Ok. Well i should probably start off by typing about last night, because that's were the fun began. After tennis lessons, my wonderful friend Victoria came over. Since it was too late to go to Russell's soccer game, we decided to invite Cedes over to watch Wipeout and " I Survived a Japenese Game Show". Two completely different kinds of funnies. Wipeout is just funny, because people are getting wacked by huge donuts, and trying to find poles (hahaha), and the japenese show is funny because the audience is CRAZY. After watching that we decided to watch "Pride and Prejudice", which happens to be my new favorite movie. Why? you might ask. Welll for two reasons.
1. There are so many different twists and turns throughout the movie.
2. The whole time i'm watching the movie there is a huge smile on my face, and i'll start laughing when the movie gets awkward. . . like in this pic. =)

It may sound like we're a bunch of bums, but it was a tuesday after all. Tor spent the night... yay. Ok so today was so much fun. I got to go to the zoo with some of my favorite people. Aunt Judy, Madeline, Michael, Mom, and Nina. It was so much fun, Madeline was so cute.!. As usual.

Started off by looking at the monkeys.

Sooooo Cute.!.

Relaxing

Smooching the wall.!.?.

Chow timE

Another break

Smiles

Madeline walked all the way up to the statue just to bonk it on the head

Beautiful

There's my Mom.!.

Me by the Bathrooms... ha.

What a wonderful day,., full of smiles.

Whirlyball... YO.!.

Wowza. This weekend had to be one of thee funnest weekends of my life. Fourth of July (Independence Day) is my new favorite holiday, officially. On the actual fourth of july i went to my Aunt Karen's house. The food was soooo good i don't think i ever stopped eating. We also flew kites which was so much fun and soo funny. Ha. The things people will do in order to get a kite into the air. Eventually all of our kites were up in the air, and we even had time to pause and go sing happy birthday to Amber and Christa. The fireworks were so amazing this year. Saturday was my "day after independence day" party. We played whirlyball, cards, and even a little basketball. Oh and we chowed down on all of our doritos. Ha, what a huge mixup. i thought stephanie was bringing the doritos in the red bag, and julie thought she was bringing the doritos in the blue bag, soooo i bought a bag of blue, and julie brought a bag of red, and stephanie brought two bags of red and one of blue... So we ended up with fOUR bags of doritos. Yumi.

Fun Day

Today was such a fun day i am typing this in yellow. Even though yellow isn't one of my favorite colors, it always reminds me of bright sunny days and today was one of those days. Jewels came over, and we went and played tennis with Steph and my mooma. Then Danny got dropped off at the courts and we went to sleven, which always sounds like a good idea at the time, but afterwards I always wish that i would've gotten a water instead. Not because of the calories or anything like that.. just because sometimes water is the only thing that can quench my thirst. Then we all went back to the homestead and planned for the BiG "day after fourth of july" party. ha. It's going to be awesome. After steph left =( we ate =) and then picked up cedes, and went to Russell's soccer game, which they won.!.

I met the cutest little girl named Lauren.

On the way home we got some Krispy Kreme donuts. Delish. The ultimate donut for me would be chocolate iced glaze. If you want you can let me know what your favorite donut is. And if you need any ideas here is a website giving you a picture and the name of some Krispy Kremers . Did some other stuff including: three water balloon fights, watched " i survived a Japanese game show", and caught a spider for Victoria's project.!. yes i did it woohooo.

PlUNGE

So. plunge was tonight. And rj wrote this song especially for plunge.!. It is so amazing, and so powerful,  i absolutely love it.!. It's so good that i don't care that it is stuck in my head,  and probably will be stuck there for the a while. Here are the lyrics.

I've come to find

this God of mine

you've shown your mercy

I come in thirsty

I'm here to learn

I'm here to burn 

I'm here I'm desperate

I'm coming separate

This is your moment

this is your hour

hence forth

Even in a dungeon

I just want to plunge in

To your word

I've come to find out

how you'll consume me 

From the inside out

I'm here cause I love you

You come from above

to quench my thirst

I no longer thirst

for the worlds price

you now come first

It ain't rolling the dice

and then back to the chorus again. And when Rj plays it on the guitar it sounds so awesome. It is officially my new favorite song.

Jewels.!.

julie did my makeup. ha. it's not exactly how i usually do it. But it did look nice.
BeforEDurinG

AfteR

US

Just a little side note.
The pin on julie is jesse's
baby picture.we helped clean
russell's room, and took a
few things, including the
five shirts that i was
wearing.

ducky

.Now this is one lucky ducky.

Spidersss....

Victoria came over today,., after trying to finish writing all our letters, and doing some yoga, we went to Cedes to watch Iron Giant. Best movie Ever.!. well at least one of the best movies. Then we got dropped off back at our house. And we decided to go outside and check the weather out... That's when we saw it... a HUGE spider,,, ok maybe a medium sized spider... it was still pretty big. We decided to try and catch it, because tor needs some whole spiders, butterflies, ect for her project. ( so if you have any just let me know,., hahaha) . After three futile tries, we decided that our failure was because of the lack of a theme song. So we bought the James bond theme song. And tried a few more times to catch four of the many spiders. Victoria's job was to keep the flashlight on the spider, but each time i would hit the spider out of the web, and she would lose the spider, then we would run, thinking it was going to attack us, bolt the door, run into my room, and calm ourselves down. Let's just say we still need those spiders.

Tornado

Well yesterday was exciting.!. After waking up from the four hours of sleep i got, i went to church (thanks lori for driving me). It was spread the fire in the main. Woohoo.!. it was so much fun, i didn't mess up, didn't get nervous, and didn't have no fun.. which basically means i did have fun, i was trying to go along with the whole didn't thing. Daniel's graduation was after that. it was so much fun. awkward. fun. after dinner and eating about three ice creams, i heard Aunt Karen say, boy i thought it was going to rain, immediately after that, literally, it started pouring. Then someone said there was a tornado heading this was, so we all ran inside. ha. After the worst was over me and Jeanette decided to investigate the scene. We heard there was someone at the party that actually saw the tornado rip of the person across the streets house. So we hunted him down to get the actual facts. it was our very own Michael G. After hearing his story we ran around the whole,., WHOlE, neighborhood twice, taking pic's and talking to other neighbors that we didn't know. Then we walked back and forth to a huge tree that was knocked down. four separate times with four different people. I love tornadoes, and thunderstorms, lightning... i think they make everything a little more exciting,., and interesting.

Whoops

Well today was interesting. . . well it was to me at least. Russell has allergies, so i was looking up some different home remedies to help. I looked it up on google, yahoo, and a mom's website. So the best home remedy for allergies, i couldn't do because i didn't have all the ingredients, i also couldn't do the second best, third best, fourth best, ect. What i did do was give him some benadryl with a glass of water. Then took the one idea that i actually had all the ingredients for and made it. Very simple. Just boil water and add alot of salt, then inhale it until it stops steaming. I have no clue if it worked.

The pictures are of Andrew, and the huge mess he made. He was a little hungry ( like he usually is when he comes over) and after complaining for a while about how we have nothing to eat (which is very true) he decided to pull out a watermelon. Then he put the watermelon over my mom's head and said "look i have a watermelon on my head", and next thing yah know, the watermelon was smashed on the ground next to andrew who was also laying on the ground...

Let's go fly a kite...

Today was a wonderful day... It started with me going to my work out class with mom and aunt judy,., which i do every saturday... actually it started at like two in the morning with me and michael whooping some people from Japan in mario kart. Then, six hours later i went to the work out class. Uncle Gary and me went out to get some Jimmy Jons. The subs were made so fast i freaked.!. Kite flying next, it was really bright out, and russell tangled mine and amandas kite, so for like a half hour we were untangling rope, and somehow it all ended up around me,., but it was still fun. Oh. here's a little something funny that i said on the way back from shopping. "alright lets play a game. we can't say anything negative until we get home. I bet none of us can do it."

graduations

Legacy Graduations were tonight.!.
We had alot of fun eating the delicious cake and cupcakes, but some people had a little trouble getting it in their mouths.. haha. party in their tummy.

Happy graduation Janelle, Ryan, and Tor. I'm so excited that you'll finally be in my class. Three of my best friends.!. And happy birthday Ryan, i know me and cedes got you thee best present ever,., not the shirt ha the other thing with the thing.

Julie PanPan

Today me and Rachel um. what did we do.... hahaha. well. we uh. hung out and we played in the rain, played basketball in the rain with Michael, Danny and Tony. . . No doubt hahaha we won. Anyways... nonono. And we ate Mrs. Grass, with Andrew and Mrs. P.. Then watched Pinochio at Nanas. and went to the Macomb Mall with Rachel, Papa, Michael and Danny. And had a spectacular time... Michael likes bugs ( boys ) ( well at least better then julie , < ---- comment from rachel) . hahahaha. love you michael, alot. Julie. Well that's julie's definition of our day together,., if it doesn't make sense don't blame me, because i just typed it.

One of my Fav's

This is proberly one of my absolute favorite poems, the last two lines are my favorite part, but if you don't read the whole thing the last two lines will probably not make sense, so read it, all.

Dusting, Julia Alvarez

Each morning I wrote my name
On the dusty cabinet, then crossed
The dining table in script, scrawled
In capitals on the backs of chairs,
Practicing signatures like scales
While mother followed, squirting
Linseed from a burping can
Into a crumpled-up flannel.

She erased my fingerprints
From the bookshelf and rocker,
Polished mirrors on the desk
Scribbled with my alphabets.
My name was swallowed in the towel
With which she jewelled the table tops.
The grain surfaced in the oak
And the pine grew luminous.
But I refused with every mark
To be like her, anonymous.

babysitting

After going to my workout class with my Mom and Aunt Judy, victoria came over. Then we went to my dad's work with danny and michael. i think Victoria finally got the concept of "no tag backs"... kind of. Then we had the honor of going and babysitting isaac and madeline. They are so stinking cute, and they are so much fun to babysit because they are so cute together. The highlight of the night was a tie between my amazing bedtime stories, and isaac getting hit in the head twenty times by madeline. It was only fair because he stole her book.

Yumi.!.

What a delish meal.!. Turkey burgers greek style... Yumi.!.