Christmas Break

Merry Wednesday! Only 2 more days until CHRISTMAS!!! It's going to be great! I'm very excited this year for Christmas. I picked out really good gifts for my friends this year, and my family too. My friends and I every year at Christmas get gifts for each other. This year we decided to choose names. I had Bethany, and Bethany had me, so last Monday we exchanged gifts. Then I also got gifts for my 2 best friends Bree and Leona. I gave Leona her Christmas and Birthday gift this Sunday (her birthday is on New Year's eve). I will give Bree hers soon. I also have selected something really neat for Alex's Christmas present too. I can't wait to give it to him. Actually just this week he saw it wrapped and sitting under the tree in my room. So guess what he does? He walks over and puts his foot on the box and starts stepping down on it. When I screamed at him he goes... O so it's breakable. We were supposed to go shopping for Mom's Christmas present tonight but i don't know if we are going to... I don't feel well.

As you can see in the pictures above, Bud has had a good Christmas break.... making a mess out of a hay bale and using it as a bed on the porch.

This week has gone so quickly. I hope that you have a very good Christmas and that all of your Christmas shopping is done. :)

Destin Florida....

Hello... and welcome to Wheeler 411 from Destin Florida!

The Wheeler Family is on vacation this week. I'm sorry about not having time to blog about Grandma Marie's 100th birthday party, I will do that as soon as we get back. But for this week I will be trying to keep our 2009 vacation up to date. Here is how our trip has gone so far.

Monday morning we woke up bright and early and met the Gable's family in town so we could follow them to Alabama. It was a pretty long trip but we were able to watch movies on the TV and the boys played play station. We followed Kenney and Jenni back to their home where we spent the night. We had a very good time and had a good time with K.C. KC!!!Here was Alex during the car ride this afternoon to Destin! The Gulf of Mexico is in the background. We liked looking at all the palm trees and big buildings.
After we got checked in and settled into the hotel we went right to the beach. We had the best time! The sand was SO pretty and white, and the water tastes horrible. But tomorrow I will bring my goggles so that it doesn't get in my eyes.

Here is me and Alex playing in the waves!

Brother and Sister!!!!!

Letting the waves carry us back and forth.

Here is me burring him in the sand. We kept telling Alex that he couldn't breathe because it would make the sand crack. Here is him under the sand. It was really cool!

Here is me and Alex in the hotel room. Tomorrow we will be having a relaxing day at the beach. Today we collected lots of shells. I'll try to blog again and show you the pictures we get tomorrow.

Swimming......

Hey..... well today has been very fun and pretty relaxing. I got up this morning and went to work. We had a job in Bolivar, it wasn't too big. The cool thing was that I found this ring that belonged to the owner of the house and she gave me 5 dollars. After we finished we went to Grandma Billye's an d ate lunch. We headed home after that and I fell asleep. I went in the store and took an even longer nap. At 5 we came home and I got ready for softball practice. I had some chicken nuggets and then we went. After practice I wen to the pool and swam with Bree and Leona!!!!! It was really fun! Now we are home and I'm ready for BED!!!

Have a good night!! -Rach :)

Busy Day #27

Hey! Today has been so relaxing. Grandma Charlie is here and we have been looking at scapbooks, watching movies, and talking about our family reunion. I just thought I would give a quick update before I continue to help mom pick out pictures. Have a good day.

PS. These are the movies that we have been watching all week long. Today we watched Radio and The Pink Panther 2. They both are good movies.

PSS. I have a good idea for a post tomorrow. I'm going to get the pictures ready tonight. This is gonna be GOOD!!!

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

Sports, shopping, Sales, and Some more!

Here are some pictures from this weekend. We went shopping yesterday and I took a pictures of some things you hadn't seen yet, but I'll have to show you my other stuff later. I wasn't going to post this picture because my room is SO messy, but I went ahead anyways. See all those blankets in the floor... that's my bed. Every night since summer has "officially" started, I've slept on this pallet of blankets on the floor. I started out using it because when me and Alex would watch movies at night, it was more convenient for us to be right by the TV. But I used it during the day too ... to just sit and use the laptop. As I was neglecting my bed, it became piled with junk and all kinds of stuff. So now you can't even see my bed, I'm too lazy to clean it off, so I just sleep on the floor. I was pretty proud of myself for going through my desk, and starting to work on my TV shelf. But I still have a mess from that sitting out on the floor. I don't know when this will get cleaned, but I can find everything and I have ALL summer to do it. No big deal.
This is what I was actually getting with the picture above. It was of my new outfit that Mom gave me for my birthday. I got some other cute things too. I wore this yesterday shopping. The pants are very comfortable, and go with anything.

This is the bag that Grandma Charlie got me for my birthday. It is big, and fits all of my stuff.

This was the other thing that I got for my birthday. It is a kit, that helps you put makeup on faces. This is the makeup and stuff.

Here is an example it gives you, and you pick the colors and put it all on the paper.

This is what my first try looked like. Ignore the extra set of lips that I drew on her chin. Oh, and ignore her crooked lips, and eye brows.

This was Coco today while me and Bud were playing in the sprinkler. Actually I was playing, and Bud was hiding, because I kept throwing buckets of water at him.

These are my new flip flops that I got last night with my birthday money. I like them a lot, very VIBRANT! They are very comfortable too.

Here is Alex! He didn't want me to take his picture, but I thought you might want to see what everyone else was doing today too.

This was Me yesterday, wearing my new clothes.

This is pretty much all I've been doing. Relaxing, playing with Bud, and getting wet. Tomorrow will be different though. I have weights, open gym, Mom and Alex have summer school, and then I have softball practice at 8:00 pm. So things will be getting very busy.

Hope you're having a happy SUNDAY!

-Rach :)

Birthday Part Two

Here is a picture of my new laptop, with my background. Also the picture above is of Bud. He was being a real pain... not wanting to kennel up. But I was trying to take a picture of his face. Every so often, when I would pull on his collar, his eyes would cross and he looked really funny. I never got a picture of that, but this one is cute too.

So here is how my Birthday went. I woke up this morning at Kay's house, very refreshed. After I had some pancakes, I laid around in my P.J.s watching TV with Alex. At around 11 o'clock mom picked us up and brought us home. I got Bud out, and we went on a walk. After that I rolled the four wheeler out, and gave it a bath. It was still covered in mud from the last time I rode it... so now you can at least tell it is red. After that Alex came out and we went on another walk. I also played with the cats, and did a lot of hanging around at the house. At 3 we had softball practice, so that was fun, and then after practice I came home and we got ready for Tate and Drew's games. But we found out on the way that the other team had forfeited. So instead of the game, I got to pick a restaurant to eat at. I chose Squeeze Inn. So mom and dad had squeeze burgers and I had hot dog art. It was really good. When we came home mom let me open my birthday gifts. I didn't post the pictures because I thought Mom might want them. I got this cool little book that helps you put makeup on different faces. It has actual makeup you put on the paper.
I also got a CUTE pair of shorts and matching shirt. Then I also got a white tank top and pink t-shirt. We just finished watching The Pink Panther, and we've just started 1776.

This has been a good birthday.

Hope you've had a good day!!!

-Rach :)

My own COMPUTER TO BLOG ON!!!!

This is me typing on my new laptop!!!!!
If you didn't already know... I got a laptop for my birthday!!
Yeah...
This is going to be fun.
I'm very excited about it.
I will post more pictures and stuff later! Bye!!!!!!

Finishing Up......

So I have some things that I started talking about... like my I Search paper on Gymnastics.

I turned in my paper on Monday and it was 14 pages long. I had all kinds of information, about Shawn Johnson and several other gymnasts, along with basic facts and principels. I also have been stressing in this calss to get my A.R. points. I currently have exactly 24 points and the goal is 25. So today after school I took about 20 minutes to sit down and read a 55 page book that is meant for second graders. It was pretty cute and worth 1 point. So I hopefull will be able to test on that tomorrow and get my goal. The deadline is Friday and I have been scrambling to get points. I've read so many books, like Princess in Pink, Skeleton Creek, Yellow Star, A Long Way from Chicago, Because of Winn Dixie, and today I finished it up with Horrible Harry In Room 2B. So hopefully I will get that test done tomorrow sometime and get all my points OVER with for the year.

Here is some pictures of the CRAZY rain that we got on Friday. This was a Kay's house. Amazing isn't it???!!!

Some other school related things that I've mentioned but not finished...

My tests. I finished my E.O.C. test last week. We still don't know what we got... but they should be done soon. Now we are learning how to F.O.I.L. backwards.

Then today in science we took our multiple choice test and I got an eighty seven percent. Which is better than what I usually get. We will have another test on Monday.

In English we had a test over reading stratagies.

In American history we have a big Civil War memorization and summary project due. So that will be a big project to tackle over the weekend.

In P.E. we finished up our frisbee packets, and form weight lifting.

In Mom's room I'm very excited that I finally finished their book inventory. I wrote down every title of every book that they have. I also checked to make sure that every one of them was there.

In art we turned in our 2nd to last sketchbok today, and we finished up our self portraits today too. On Monday we will start our soap carvings and have to have those done in a couple days because... WE ONLY HAVE 4 days of school LEFT!!!!

After today we have 6 but the next two days we are going on trips. We have a reward trip to S.B.U. tomorrow... and on Friday we are going to the high school for M.A.P. carnival. There are games and stuff for us to play and do during the day. Then we will have 3 days of school next week... then the 2nd to last day we'll go to the park and play all day long... then the last day of school is a short day, all we'll do is have an awards assembly and clean out our lockers. So lots going on but its not anything real exciting. It's going to weird this summer not having school or anything to talk about. I will just have pictures and stories from swimming, playing ball, riding four wheelers, and playing with the cats and Bud.

Another exciting thing coming up is MY BIRTHDAY!! Coco's birthday is coming up too.. it is on the 25th. So I'm VERY excited.

I don't think I have anything else to finish up... except that tonight I'm going to Pizza Hut to weight tables. We are doing this as a fundraiser to earn money for our basketball camp this summer. I'm not quite sure how this is going to go... but I'm excited because Bree and Gina will be there with me.

Have a nice evening!!! Love -Rach

Ughh... Technology!

Okay... I finally got the computer to work. I have a ton of pictures so BEWARE! Also I will be adding "SOME", (A LOT) of pictures to Cool Pix tonight. So check it out.
Here is ME!

Mom and Alex after school. Her cute little classroom.

Here are some pictures from Mother's Day!

Tate getting tickled.

Stephanie,Drew, and Tate.

Steph, and Tate.

ME, getting to play with Charlie's camera. It was so much FUN and I took some good shots. Can't you just see me doing this as a job! It would be SO fun!!!

Dad and Alex. For mother's Day we got Mom two peonia plants.

Here is the incredible rain on Friday. I couldn't even take pictures it was coming down so hard.

I went outside to take pictures, and it was either... have cool pictures, or dry school clothes. After 30 seconds of pictures I chose school clothes, so I went inside and gave up.

This was the back porch.

Here is Alex's baseball game. He's the one behind the plate catching.

This is one of my favorite pictures because of the big lights on the field, and you can see everything!

Here is my Cutie Bug!

I love this picture because all three of my pets were sitting on the back deck at the same time. Bud was just minding his own bisiness, and Coco is watching him like a hawk. You can't see Skit because he has pushd him way in the corner.

I don't rememer when this was... but whenever we had the Gables over for dinner.

The computer is being dumb. So I will have to post later... man it has seemed like ages since I last posted. Well I have lots of pictures and videos to come.
Love-Rach
technology

Here is A video of Alex at his baseball game... umm... sometime.

I really like this one though because it was an AWESOME play.