Newer News :)

So I finally got some good pictures of Kitty 1 !!! Isn't he so cute, a little more serious looking than kitty 2, but still cute.

Grrr.... he's a Ferocious little thing.

This is how our afternoon has gone. We stayed after church for the fellowship dinner, then came home. (We slipped off the road and went down the lane). Then we came inside and Alex put a movie in. Now the whole family is sitting in the living room and watching Underdog.

Here is the view from Alex's room.

This is the view from my room.

This is Me today after church.

Yesterday we went to Alex's basketball tournament. It was in Halfway, they played 3 games. They won the first two and then lost the last one in the championship game against Skyline by 10. It was an interesting game.

Here they are with their second place trophy. Lisa, Royce, Dante', Grant, Ryan, Colton, Daniel, Alex, Jacob, and Eli.

This was me yesterday after the tournament. We had a long day but it was Super fun. :)

The other news is that Court warming is on February 12Th. Also I'm going to prom, I got straight A's this last quarter, and our JV team has won our last 3 games in a row. This week we also have 2 more games. One on Monday against Marionville, and another on Thursday against Strafford at home. So a slow week again, our games for yesterday were canceled so I think we will go back sometime this week to play.

Well Underdog is getting good,

Love,

Rachel

Basketball

Lots of New NEWS!

• First of all, I am the Freshman court warming candidate.



• Second of all, We lost all 4 of our JV basketball games this week.



• Third, We have lots of games coming up this next week.



• Fourth, Alex has lots of games coming up.



• Fifth, Charlie is coming to our house today for Christmas.



• Sixth, I'm texting Leona.



• Seventh, I went shopping with Leona, Bree, and Mom for a court warming dress and found a REALLY REALLY cute one, and matching shoes.



• Eighth, I slept on the couch last night.



• Ninth, I didn't want to get up this morning.



• Tenth, We had a yummy lunch.... (better than spaghetti).



• Eleventh, Charlie's stocking is sitting in the living room with gifts in it.

So that is pretty much all for now! I'll try and post again, asap!

Summer Fashion Favorites!!! Busy Day #28,29,and the last... #30!

So I'm finally getting to blog... but it's a good thing that I waited. While we were on our basketball trip I found a new bathing suit at the mall. Here is my new swim suit upgrade...This was my bathing suit before, and this is my new one. I got it at Justice, they had a lot of cute things on sale. This was the cutest one on the rack! I'm so excited to go swimming, and wear it!!

To continue my summer fashion favorites... Here is a cute outfit that I wore Sunday!!
These are my CUTE shoes that grandma Kay gave me. They didn't quite make it in the picture, and they go really well with this outfit.

Here is my cute skirt ( from who knows where) and my cute shirt from Aeropostale'. I really liked this outfit. And since I didn't tell you about Sunday since I was busy I thought I would do that now. After Sunday school, and church we came home I got Bud out and he played, while mom mowed the yard, and I washed the van. It felt SO good. It was cold and the van looks shiny. After I finished all of that It was almost time to go to youth. So we had dinner and then headed to church. Youth was SO fun because a bunch of my friends were there. We did this really cool activity. After youth it was our Sunday to have nursery. So we had Emily and Lucas. It was fun, and after church we went to the baseball field to watch Alex's practice. It was really fun because we went on a walk with Jill. As we were walking past this house a little kitten started following us, and It was SOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE! It was maybe the cutest cat I'd ever seen. It followed and followed and followed, and finally Mom let me pick it up and we carried it back up to the field. Once we were there everyone wanted to know where he came from and why I had him. Everyone petted him too. After practice Jill ran me back by the area the cat started following us and we dropped him off. I was sad, but we did the right thing I do believe. When we we came home from practice I started packing and getting ready for Drury basketball camp!

This is one of my favorite pairs of flip flops. They are from Old Navy, and are very comfortable.

I love this new purse that I got. While we were at the state tournament last weekend we went to JC Penny and I found this cute bag on sale for 20$. I was so excited!

This is another one of my favorite pairs of flip flops, they are Nike's, and they too are very very comfortable.

Here are some of my shirts that I like. This is a new one that I got a few weeks ago. It is really cute and goes with this one pair of shorts really well.

This is also a shirt that I got for my birthday. It is cool and very comfortable.

I also like this pink shirt from American Eagle. Bree gave me this for my birthday last year.

Here is another outfit that I just pieced together last week. I have been looking for a shirt to go with these Bermudas and this tank top goes good. It too is very comfortable and flexible.

I LOVE this outfit, I got these shorts from JC Penny last summer and I wear them alot. I think I got this shirt from Bree too.

This was me Sunday night before youth. So now I guess I should tell you about our Drury basketball camp! We had a really good time... we won 4 and lost 3. Monday we played a game early in the morning against Glendale and lost. Then we had another game shortly after, against Central and won. We had a lunch break after game #2 at Subway. Then we had another game around 1 o'clock and lost against Central's varsity. They were good and had some big girls. Then in the fourth game we played at 3 something and lost against Republic. They were really good too, and we were really tired. After we finished our fourth game we went to the hotel that we were staying at.... Lamplighter Inn, settled in then went swimming.

It was SO hot and the pool felt SOOO good. This is Kelsie, Josie, Bree, Gina and Me. We had a good time swimming and then relaxing in the hot tub. We came back to the room and got changed up, and headed out to dinner. We chose Mexican villa, and it was yummy! But I got a really bad stomach ache afterwards. It cleared up though after we went to the mall. While we were at the mall is where I found my bathing suit. We did a lot of just looking around and browsing. After the mall we went to Cold Stone Creamery and got ice cream. It was really good and felt nice to be outside. After we finished up with the ice cream we went to Wal-Mart. While we were there we did some fun stuff while the adults shopped. When we finally finished up there we went back to the hotel to clean up and go to bed.

This morning we got up and went to breakfast were I had a waffle. We got all packed up and ready to go, then had a group picture before we left. This is our team. From L to R : Allie, Gina, Kelsi, me, Bree, Josie, Ashley, Coach, and Garret.

I don't have any idea what any of these pictures are of, but I thought I would post them anyways. In our first game against Rogersville we won by 6. Our game was at 10:50.

Then we had a long break until 3:50. So we went back to the mall and had lunch at Chick-fil-a. After lunch we went around the mall some more. I bought ring and a gumball with my leftover change. We met back up with the adults later and we went back to Drury. Our second game we played against Nixa 2, and won by several points. We played Nixa 1 in the third game, and also won by several points. There was only one game between game#2 and game#3.

After the game we headed out and went to Wal-Mart again, except this time it was just Mom, Me, Tracey, and Bree. While Mom was looking at curtain stuff Bree and I decided to sit and rest in some rocker chairs. They were really comfortable and let us have a place to sit and relax.

Now one more thing that I thought I would show you... as it is one of my favorite summertime things. Is my bath and body works body spray. This is the best smell too. Pink Grapefruit. I love it and after stinking so bad from all this sweat. It smelled really good.

So here is a re-cap of my last few days and then my Summertime Fashion Favorites! Have a great Day!! You should share your summertime fashion favorites too!!!!!

Busy Day #14 and 15

This is our basketball team after we won the championship.

At this point I really don't remember Sunday and Monday. But I wanted to show you a picture of our team.

Busy day #13

Hey! Today has been SO good already. If you didn't already know we won the championship. We were undefeated this week. We got a plaque for winning, and then we all got a shirt that says champions on the back. It was a really fun four days but I'm tired! So for the rest of today I'm going to just hang around the house until Alex's baseball game tonight. So... I don't have the pictures downloaded yet. If I find some time and energy I will post them. Have a good day! I'll report back later. -Rach :)

Day #11 and 12... I think!

So as you know I have been at S.B.U. team camp Wednesday through Saturday. I'm getting my days SO mixed up. It seems like no time has passed and I've been living in the lobby of a college.

Our team has been doing really good. We are undefeated, and if we win tomorrow morning then we will be in the championship game. Which whatever team we play would have to beat us twice. I think we should be able to win tomorrow, we are playing this team from Dixon. They are supposedly all middle school kids. But they are really good. They only lost to us by like 5. So we are definitely going to have to play good tomorrow morning to make it to the championship, and we may even play Dixon again if they come up through the losers bracket. I will definitely post to tell you what happened tomorrow.
If you're wondering what this picture above is, well it's me this morning before we left for camp. I was really tired, and you can't tell in any of these pictures, but my eye (under it) is swollen and is blue and purple. I was some how behind a big post girl and she came back really hard and hit me in the face. So now I have a nice sore spot under my eye. It's my right one, you can tell it is puffier.

This is me this afternoon when we got home from our last game. Well I took a shower before this picture.

Here is my eye up close. I just zoomed in on the picture above.

Our schedule today was really crazy. We had our first game at 9 o'clock, and we were going to play again at 1. But we had a by for that game so we sat for 5 hours waiting for our next game. It was at 3:30, and was against South Callaway. During our down time we all went with Tracey on a quick trip to Maurice's, and then back to campus for lunch. The lunch today was pretty good. I had a sandwich, chips and salsa, and some ice cream. It was all very delicious. Yesterday was very hectic too, except we played a ton more. Yesterday we had 5 games. WOW I know! We had one in the morning, then we sat one played one, then we had lunch. When we came back we played two back to back. Then we had a long 3 hour break and played again at like 7:45. I'm really tired, even though we didn't hardly even play today.

Have a nice evening. I'm going to a baby shower.

-Rach :)

Busy Day #5

Busy day #5 has actually been pretty relaxing. I've been just been at home. I've worked on my room a Little but it's not done yet. So look for pictures later. I'm going to basketball camp soon.

So today has been very laid back compared to the last four days. We don't have weights on Friday's apparently... so I got to sleep in this morning. I think I didn't get up until around nine o'clock, and had a donut for breakfast. After that Alex, and Me got started on the chores that Mom had left for us to do before she got home from school. So we put some clothes in the dryer, folded several loads.Alex decided to skip summer school today since they were only going to the zoo, and stay home, rst and get some sleep.Then put them all away. We also watched a movie, a good movie always makes folding laundry more fun. Then we picked up our things from downstairs, cleaned up our rooms a little, and headed out for a walk. We got Bud out and took a nice walk to the neighbor's house. Steph and David's. We met up with the boys and had a nice little chat. In the end we wound up taking Bud home, feeding him, I made some Roman noodles, taquitos, and a burrito, we ate, changed, and then went up to Steph and David's to play in the water. They actually had a cool little baseball, slide game going on. I didn't really want to play but I volunteered to hold the hose, and spray them with water. So I was able to cool off and not get soaked at the same time. After this we came home and just hung around the house for a while. Mom got home at around 3, and she dropped me off at the store later. Dad took me to basketball camp... and Mom went to Wal-Mart, and Alex is at a friend's. Dad picked me up after camp and brought me home. He had been working on some yard stuff, so I watched him do that for a while, then decided to come in and call Mom. She showed up at the house shortly after. So she made us some YUMMY dinner, and then we watched an episode of Psych online. We had seen it before but I wanted to watch something. Now I'm sitting in bed, and will be going to sleep shortly after I finish this post. So I guess I will see you in the morning. I still have not finished cleaning my room, so It will not be until tomorrow afternoon that I show you pictures of my complete clean room, that will hopefully stay clean for a long long long long long long long TIME!!! So have a nice Day!

-Rach :)

Busy Day #2 and 3

This is what I've done today...
Lift weights, and have basketball. Actually I had softball too.
So the last few days have been REALLY busy. Yesterday I had weights in the morning, then went to work. After we cleaned I went to the carpet store and hung out for the rest of the afternoon. Yesterday night I had two softball games. We lost the first game but 8 runs I think, and we won the second one by 1. It went into extra innings. We didn't get home til late, and then I woke up this morning and lifted weights and had open gym. After open gym, papa took me over to their house, and I took a LONG nap. At 2 I had to go home and get my stuff before going to softball practice and basketball camp. At 3 we had softball practice, and then I went with Bree strait to basketball camp. Basketball camp was okay. I'm really tired, we did a lot of running. Alex had two baseball games tonight. So I'm really sore and tired. Have a nice evening.
-Rach

Busy Day #1

I have been working all day long! First of all, I woke up at 6 o'clock in order to get ready for weights. We lifted, did some agility's, and then did a run. After that we had open gym for basketball. We did a lot of shooting,and did some other drills. Then we had to shoot 50 free throws. We counted how many we made out of the last ten and I was 5 for 10, 50 50. When open gym was over Papa came and picked me up. We went out to the store and went out to clean carpet. We did two little apartments in town, then went back to the store. We were done at around noon. So then we had some lunch, Sonic, and I did some cleaning and organizing at the store. Mom and Alex had their first day of summer school. So when they got done, then they came and picked me up. We came right home, and I thought I better get a post in just in case I didn't have time to do it tonight.

The reason I might not have time is because I have softball practice at 5 and then I think we are going to watch Jacob play tonight.

The whole getting up early and working all day isn't so bad! So I'll get used to it. Hope you have a nice night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Rach

Basketball!

So I finally changed my blog, and I think it looks pretty good!

So today North Carolina is playing!! We are very excited, and I'm really hoping they win because I picked them to go ALL the way! They are playing LSU. Guess who has guessed the most games correct so far, GRANDMA RIE!! She has 26 right from the first round, and me and Kay both had 25, next is Mom and Alex with 23 right. The second round games might hurt me a lot though.

This morning I woke up at around 9:30 and got ready for track practice at 11:30. So I went and we warmed up, then ran a mile. It wasn't timed though, so we were able to go as fast or slow as we wanted. After that we got to get our uniforms, finding a small in the jerseys and shorts wasn't too bad, but getting a small in the hoodies was tricky. I went through all of the boxes and FINALLY found one. I heard that our team shirts were really cool, I'm excited to get them. Now I am at Kay's house again, we are watching some more BASKETBALL! Now we are watching UCLA and Villanova, and Villinova is winning. Later I'll show some of the NC game.

Basketball!

So I still haven't changed my background and I don't want to blog! This is very rare, but every once in a while it happens.

This week has been SO HECTIC!!! I kinda like it though, there is less time to sit in front of the computer,or watch movies,and sit around. I am constantly thinking about the next hour,day,week and trying to remember all of the instructions I'm given. (Which I have HORRIBLE memory so this is a large task) I Actually think I have been through 2 note pads within the last few weeks. I Always am trying to remember socks,shoes, deodorant,homework,phone,practices,what trip or were it's at, what to make up, how much money, what jewelry,when are the morning practices, time, sleep,cupcakes,brownies, and muffins. (I really want some chocolate).

I have been staying with so many people lately, Bree,Kay,Josie,Stephanie, Alex is away I'm here and it is so hard to find time with the family. The last few nights I have felt more relaxed though, Alex had two ball games so I stayed with Stephanie,Drew,and Tate. We had a good time, we watched the movie Enchanted and I really liked it.

Then tonight we are staying at Kay's to watch some TOURNAMENT BASKETBALL!!! Yea! This was a very big thing in our Algebra class. Gina was about to punch the boys for picking Marquette to win over Mizzou, and most of the people in our class came down to Kansas,North Carolina,Pittsburgh,and Mizzou to be the teams to beat. I managed to listen to this conversation and get my homework done at the same time. My pick was NORTH CAROLINA to win it all! At our house the person who gets the most games right wins a candy bar and soda.

So I the family is at Grandma Kay's for some good ole' TV watching and relaxing. Tomorrow will be just as busy as the rest of the week. I have to go to Softball practice, and will have to leave early to get over to the track to make up a mile that I missed for the Jeff City Trip. We also will be getting our uniforms. Have a nice evening!!!

A weeks worth of Randomness

Random!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was my favorite thing that I accomplished this weekend. I hung this up for my jewelry.
Here is my ROOM MAKEOVER!! This is my favorite part of the room, it is so cute and cozy.
The TV, and all my scrapbooks, and other junk.

This is my computer desk.

Here is my dresser.

This is Bud, and the HUGE mess that he has made in our yard, from trash that was left under our porch from last summer.

Alex in bounding the ball.

This is Tate and Drew watching Jacob's game.
These are Bree, and Kaylee's Feet, at track practice the other day they had on the same pair of tennis shoes, so I took a picture of all 4 feet.

Hello! I haven't posted lately because there isn't really anything to talk about. I just thought I would let you know I'm OK. What I have been doing the last two days is cleaning,moving furniture,going to basket all games,and talking to Bree, Leona, and Courtnee. My room is now dust free, and rearranged. Alex has played in a tournament, 4 games, and they got 5Th and 7Th due to some complications. I also have been less lonely, talking to my friends, this long weekend really makes me miss my friends. I am sitting here, and I don't know what to type... so I guess this is it. Here are some pictures for you to look at it is just random from over the weekend.