:D

ive gotten over it, i think. im still kind of hurting, but i'm as healed as healed can be! that makes me happy.
well, AND we're getting Daniela today. IM GONNA HAVE A LITTLE SISTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

comfort food!!!!

now i know why they call it that. it truly is comforting. since we've been here, ive had fruit, pizza, a hamburger, and ice cream. (well, and other foods, but those aren't my comfort foods. OH! and oreos).
we're getting Daniela tomorrow :D then we're going to Mont Serrat (Paradise) on Saturday. CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

miss you all soooo much, and i can't wait to see you again!

live.love.laugh :)<3

Leavin!!

EEEEPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!! We're leaving for Colombia today! I will, from here on out, only sometimes post on my OI. My two main focuses will be The Travels Amazing (Dorky) Vacation Hat and Adoption/Colombia Trip. Just fyi.

PIPESTEM!

Pipestem was amazing!! First of all, its GORGEOUS! It's a state park/resort in the mountains, with amazingly beautiful views everywhere.

So, anyways... we left at around 9:30 (i think) Monday morning, and we got there around 5:30-ish. There was a TON of traffice on 95 (because of construction. I was going about 15mph...) and this HUGE truck decided "I want to be OUT of this traffic, so it's O.K. if I tailgate this little itsy-bitsy car that I can only barely see in front of me, because I. WANT. OUT!!" Or something along those lines... That was stressful. But other than that, the drive went GREAT! I drove all the way there, which is normally 6 hours, but because of the traffic, it turned into 7.

When we got there, we were the third family there. The only other people there were Opa and Mama Elaine and Uncle Mike and Aunt Sue (Burns). So we procrastinated unpacking, because there was talk of a kids cabin. While we did not get the kids cabin, Mitch and I stayed with Aunt Betsy, Uncle Craig, SarahBeth, Katie, Calvin and AJ (Combs). So we kind of did have a kids cabin... Just minus the younger ones.

The cabins at Pipestem are arranged in little courts, I guess. We were in "court" C, which had two little mini courts inside of it... Not really confusing, I guess, if I could explain it right. So the Combs had cabin 17, my family and Aunt Laurie and Donna had cabin 18, the Burns had cabin 23, and Uncle Rigg and Aunt Denise and their family (Mohlers) had cabin 24. So we were in walking distance of everyone, which is another fun part of this vacation. Also, Opa and Mama Elaine had a room in the lodge, with a view overlooking the mountains. SOOOO AMAZING!

So I slept on an air mattress in Katie and SB's room, which was sooo much fun! They are probably my favorite cousins, but mostly because Katie's almost exactly a year younger than I am, and SB's about a year and a half older than me.

On Monday, we went up to the lodge to go swimming :) I love their pool there!! It's indoors, and heated, so it felt sooooo good, especially after a long drive! That was fun. We stayed probably until 9:30-ish (pm), just swimming and diving, and swimming some more. On our way back, at the entrance to the lodge, there were these two little fountains that lit up at night. SB (not me, surprisingly) decided she wanted to sit on one. So she did! It was pretty funny...

On Tuesday, we slept in, had cereal for breakfast, then left for the pool. Then we got back, invited the Mohler girls (Emmy[9], Terese [7], and Sally[5]) over to the Combs cabin, and painted each other's nails! Just a tad of girly time. After that, we made reservations for an hour-long trail ride at the stables. That was incredibly fun. SB, at one point, mentioned that she forgot to look at nature. So one of the guides (not the one up front but the other one) rode up to me, scrunched his eyes shut and said "I forgot to look at nature". Definitely making fun of her. But then he gave her a feather to put in her hair, so it was all good. After the trail ride, we ate, then Uncle Mike, Mom, Mitch, AJ, Trey and Calvin went fishing. Mitchell caught four, and AJ caught one (but his was the biggest). Nobody else caught anything, as my brother informs me. During this time, I was back at the Combs cabin, just chilling and reading my book a bit (and almost falling asleep). The girls and I then got a ride to the Canyon Rim Center and rode the tram down to the Mt. Creek Lodge. Did I ever mention that Pipestem is gorgeous? We got there when the sun was setting, but it was right behind a cloud. You know those cartoon suns, that rays sticking out of them, shaped like triangles? Well, imagine a large, blue-ish gray cloud with pink-ish orange rays coming out from behind it. Unfortunately, we did not have a camera. The height of the tram REALLY freaked Katie out, so SB and I decided to take full advantage of that by standing up, leaning against the sides, etc. It was quite entertaining.

Wednesday was our last day, unfortunately. We didn't really have time to do anything except eat (blueberry pancakes at the Mohlers!!!!) and go and visit Opa and Mama at their suite in the lodge. That was when I was bestowed with the vacation hat to take to Colombia with me. I felt so special! We then had yet another 7 hour drive, through much more traffic (construction AND an accident) and really really heavy rain. Not fun. But we're home safely, and that is all that matters, correct?

So that was the extent of my wonderful crazy awesome beautiful totally fun family vacation. I miss my family already!!

live.love.laugh :)♥

busy as a bee!

so i have no time. again. lol

i made a blog about opa's vacation hat... vacation-hat.blogspot.com !! should be interesting.

pipestem was AMAZING!! might talk more about it later... idk.

one full day home, then leaving around noon-ish on friday for the airport. sooooooooo excited!!!

got an email from daniela :D i love her!

off to bed. night!!!!!

live.love.laugh :)♥

Father's Day :)

well, we...
went to church/Bible Force. i got to ride on my moms motorcycle! :D
watched Valkyrie--a movie about German soldiers trying to assassinate Hitler and take down the Nazi regime from the inside. SO GOOD. some language, but not that much, surprisingly...
ate tacos for dinner
and half a death-by-chocolate cake for dessert (triple layer chocolate cake with chocolate icing and chocolate chips. YUMMY!!!!!!!)

leaving for Pipestem tommorow morning around 8-ish. i will be driving the whole way *gulp* which is a 6 hour drive. coming home on thursday evening some time, i believe, then leaving for our flight out of dulles at 1 on friday. BUSYBUSYBUSY!!!!!!

live.love.laugh :)♥

OH NO!!

anyways! lol...

i went to the hospital (kent general hospital, or something like that) yesterday. Grandpa, apparently, is doing 1000x better than he was, and he is being moved to Silver Lake rehab center today! :)
we have our plane tickets for colombia all bought and together and everything :) we dont have to leave until 1-ish on friday for our flight. :D so psyched!
i talked with ian yesterday :) we are totally over the short-term effects of our major blowout, which is really good. im still having some... issues, but i hope that ill get over them in time to not completely push him away.
leaving for pipestem tomorrow! im going to drive, A LOT, and hopefully get closer to my 40 hours i need for my license. currently, i have 15. exactly. not too bad, considering driving with mom can stress me out sometimes. :)

so, this will be my last regular post. i will try to update as soon as possible, and start watching my colombia blog!

live.love.laugh. :)♥

museums and laughter :)

soooo i went around and visited hte museums today, all except for steppingstone. quite frankly, the two im looking forward to the most are the lockhouse and the skipjack martha lewis (which is a sloop-rigged sailboat. would a tellup care to explain what a ketch-rigged boat is? or anyone else who knows... lol).

after that, i came home and had an emotional breakdown (sorry to those mimers who missed me!!) :(
BUT i talked it out with mom, and we prayed, and then i talked with dad. and then i talked with ian, and laughed so hard i had to get on the floor so i wouldn't fall over and hurt myself. laughter truly is the best medicine :)

live.love.laugh :)♥

AWESOMENESS!!!!

soooo.... yeah. autumn slept over last night. SO. FUN!
we stayed up until like 12:30. amazingness! and we confused the heck out of ian. always entertaining.
then her mom picked us up from my house, and we went to the pool on base with her sister cerene, then we walked from there to the commissary where she bought us lunchables, a 1liter bottle of mountain dew to share, and got cerene a bottle of fanta. i bought a box of zebra cakes! yummy.

then we went from the pool to her house, where we hung out outside and ate the zebra cakes and enjoyed the mountain dew :) then we went to her youth group! it was SO MUCH FUN. they are insane. and they talk a lot. just like me. :D

live.love.laugh. :)♥

SHOPPING!!!!

i went shopping today!!! :D we wnt to...
walgreen's
target
kohl's
and 5 below

i got a toe ring for myself and matching rings for daniela and i that say sisters. :)

here at school, bored.

sooooooooo yeah. lol.

 

i took my chorus final!!! yayz. so simple.

 

BUT before i left for school, i played TWO HOURS of burnout revenge. TWO HOURS. lol. that was crazy fun.

 

anyways, only about half an hour of chorus left, then my english final. no clue what to expect.........  *sigh*

--
"And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance...I hope you dance"

"I love this crazy tragic, sometimes almost magic, awful, beautiful life"  <3

:D

ONE MORE HALF DAY UNTIL SCHOOL'S OUT FOR THE SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sooooo can't wait!

anyways, today i had my FOT and drama finals.
FOT was easy as all get out. i finished somewhere around 20 minutes before lunch (and we had 25 minutes after lunch) and proceeded to get the ABC song stuck in my head... *shoots self* BUT we had pizza. that was soooooo good.
and my drama final was... NONEXISTENT!! yayz. he had told us that we were gonna have to write an essay comparing and contrasting The Blind Side and Invincible, but we DIDNT. instead we watched Bourne Identity. good movie. :D

i ♥ mimes

they are so awesome and fun and silly and loud and crazy and just AWESOME! :D

so this morning was the performance at camp chapel UMC. that was...interesting. the stage was oddly shaped. yeah, it was rectuangular, which is normal. but whats NOT normal is for the longer length to be the depth, and the shorter to be the width. that definitely exercised our beginners in the "ya gotta work with whatcha got" category... lol!

so my new exclamatory phrase is "oh, futterwacken" THANK YOU SANDY!! lol.

working on homework today, probably. idk what else im gonna do.

the concert was freakishly awesome!

lol. sorry.

ok, so the concert was sooooooooo much funn!!!!!! i love mime concerts. probably better than i like musicals, which is saying something. lol.
after the concert i went to coldstone with christine, erin, hannah, lindsey (spelling?), danielle, olivia, maria, mitchell, michael, ben, johnathan, mark, jerry, blake, and a whole bunch of other people i either didn't know or didn't see. including adults. bascially, we took over coldstone.
and we sang happy birthday to four people, then a little girl walked by and said "happy birthday!" just completely randomly. that was pretty funny.

anyways, last night, i finally got my heart in the right spot, and then he came close to screwing it up. again. *sigh* oh well! its still where it needs to be, thank goodness. im glad i finally got that straight. AND i did it without ruining my white face!!!! :D

off to sandy's party soon (running errands first.) SOOOOO PSYCHED!!!!

live, love, laugh ♪♥:)

OH NO!

i can't believe i FORGOT!!! :( now im sad.
anyways, last night was totally awesome!!! i love you mimes (and non-mimes) a LOT! you guys make everything funn!!! lol.

GUESSWHATGUESSWHATGUESSWHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i had my last spanish class today.
and my teacher had to give us 35% of the answers (33 out of 95) on our final. so that was easy peasy lemon squeezy. :D

mime concert tonight!!!! Tminus 4 hours and 38 minutes and counting. :)

spanish

well, our final is next class. :D
AND i have an 89.5. so, as long as she doesn't put any more grades in the grade book, i pass with an A!!!!!!!!!!!
i am soooo happy to get out of her class. she's awful.

p.s. ian made it to hawaii safely. theyre enjoying their time. this is the last update you will get.

sun warmth :)

we went outside today in biology. :D that was amazing. i was wearing my maroon warriors sweats, my black innovo t-shirt and my black jacket. i was the perfect temperature :)

an update on ians trip:
so far, theyve had an AWFUL start to their vacation.
they missed their connecting flight out of san francisco, and his mom lost her driver's license in the airport. so, if you could pray for them and for safe travels, that would be great.

peace<3music>

p.s. he just told me his mom found her driver's license :D yay! oh, the power of prayer.

Finding Nemo

We got to watch Finding Nemo in chorus today!!! :D I love that movie.

HERSHEY!!!

today was insanely awesome.

nick is a GREAT coaster buddy.
farenheit was NO. PROBLEM. even to me, who has the very special ability to psych herself out to over the top panic mode the second i see something that makes me nervous.

there is only one word to sum up this day.
Epic.

peace<3music

experiments

SO, Christine slept over last night :D That was fun.

And what would a good sleepover be without some kind of baking/cooking experiment? So we tried to make cookie dough. Should be easy, right? WRONG.
We mistook the confectioners sugar for flour, and put almost 2.5 cups in our cookie dough before we realized it... Oops!
So we tasted it... EW!
Then we added flour to see if it would be any better. It wasn't.
So we decided to try and bake it/microwave it/freeze it.
Baking--
The first batch, we weren't sure if there was enough baking soda. So, instead of waiting like we should have, we decided to dump a LOT more in. Needless to say, we didn't need it. So the second batch rose a lot. The only thing is... they both sunk. And caramelized. On the pan. That was hard to clean up.
Microwave--
Christine decided to microwave the "dough". Fail. Epically. It caramelized as well, except it was a little more disgusting than the "cookies".
Freezer--
Finally, we decided to try and freeze part of the "cookies". By the time we remembered that we put it in the freezer (after we had fully cleaned up) we were way beyond grossed out. So, that went in the trash can.

We had a piece of bread and chips for dinner, because anything else would have made us sick. We're still not hungry, still feeling sick, and have decided to post pictures soon.

peace<3music
P.S. This was our worst experimental fail, ever.

mime :D

mime was pretty funn. :)
we started working on our statues. my statue for Wisdom is HARD! i have to work on that a lot. and it hurts my back.
BUT, erin and i got to create our mourning statue for Lazarus. IM SO PSYCHED THAT MR.J IS DOING LAZARUS!!!!!!!! :D

anyways, when i got home i talked to autumn, outside, sitting on the wet grass. i had to go change shorts... :(
then i started talking with christine
and ian.
and playing solitaire.

probably gonna go to bed soon.
PRINCE OF PERSIA TOMORROW!!!! soo psyched! <3

peace<3music

*sheepish grin*

ok, so i realize i didn't post yesterday. but i have a slightly legitimate excuse.

i was waiting to post until after graduation, because my day before that wasn't all that great, but my stomach hurt so bad when i got home i just went upstairs, took ibuprofen and went to bed.

SO, graduation last night was...
wonderful,
sad,
happy,
and HOT. it was like 1000 degrees in the gym for the reception!!! :/

BUT i didn't cry while we were singing, and i got to watch all of the seniors walk :)
afterwards, we went to the gym for refreshments, and TONS of pictures. i took of my shoes and walked around barefoot :D that was really nice
then after refreshments/pictures, we stayed at the school so ians family could give him his graduation presents. afterwards, we walked to HdG UMC to return the wheelchair ian's uncle had borrowed.
by the time we got to his house, my dad was gonna be there in about 5 minutes to pick me up. but he decided he was gonna try and teach me to play pool. which didn't really work, because my stomach started hurting REALLY bad. like, cramps bad. so all i ended up doing was sitting on the sofa until my dad got there. then i walked out to the car really quickly and curled up on the front seat.

so then i got home and collapsed into bed.

today was... okay. at best. but i will have more to say about that later (*coughcough*mime*coughcough*) lol.

peace<3music

short classes

so today was the senior awards assembly, which was sad.
BUT the bonus was that most of my classes were only a little over half an hour long :D
and i finished my paper last night and turned it in today. :D
and im going over to ians house tomorrow night after graduation to celebrate with his family. i cant believe hes going to HAWAII. jealous. lol

GOOD NIGHT ALL!!!

peace.

papers and research and rain and driving.

so i didn't post again yesterday. bad me.

ANWAYS
yesterday=goofing and getting distracted from my paper, dancing in the rain, sleeping in the car, then driving for three hours--into and out of a storm while listening to Praise You in this Storm by Casting Crowns :D so cool.

today:
school :( i now have an extra 7-ish inches to my left whenever i go to my locker.
got home, had a foregin coke, then settled in to finish my paper.
at 4:30-ish, i took a 20 minute break to bounce on the trampoline with my brother... IN THE RAIN :D that was amazingly awesome. (will post pics once i get them on my computer... lol)
finished my paper around 10 after 6, and am now chillin'.
GLEE tonight! YAYZZ!!!!!!

peace out, all!

(later) sooo... i was just checkin' my dashboard, and realized...
THIS IS MY 100TH POST!!!! :D and i posted it on June 1. how perfect :D