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

Post #400 and a quick update!

YEA! This is post number 400! But I just wanted to give you a quick update on my day. I went to work this morning with Papa and we cleaned some carpet in a house. Then I came home and had lunch with dad. I stayed at home the rest of the day playing spoons with Alex and Jacob and texting. Then at 4:30 I went up to the ball field for our games. The first one at 5, I played and we won. In the second game I didn't play and our team won. In the third game I played 1/2 the time and we won. They all were good games and I'm very glad that we won. Our next games are on Thursday and those will be our last ones. I'm soooo tired! Have a good night! I'm going to bed!!!

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!!!!!

No school... SUMMER!!!

Only 4 MORE DAYS UNTIL SCHOOL IS OUT!!!!
That is the main thing that everyone in excited about. I'm getting very excited about all of my classes coming to a close... so I'll share my excitement with all of you!

• Science- We took our final test today, and tomorrow we will look over them and spend the whole rest of the week doing nothing. Which we actually won't even be in class any other days this week.
• Algebra 1- We took a last little quiz, and will be cleaning out binders and getting things cleaned out of his room. Which means basically that we will be talking all hour.
• American history- I recited the battles today, and tomorrow I will hand in my 1/2 page summaries on them.

1. Fort Sumter
2. Bull Run
3. Fort Donelson
4. Shiloh
5. Bull Run 2
6. Antietam
7. Fredricksburgh
8. Stones River
9. Chancellorsville
10. Gettysburg
11. Chickamuga
12. Wilderness
13. Spotsylvania Courthouse
14. Cold Harbor
15. Atlanta
16. Appomattox Courthouse

• Art- In art today we started our soap sculptures. I worked on mine in class today, and didn't finish so he had me take it home tonight and work on it. I finished it in seventh hour... so basically I'm done with art too. I will just have to turn in my sketchbook, and my soap tomorrow, then I'm done.
• P.E.- In P.E. today we had a substitute and we got to play dodge ball. It was really fun, and we had a good time. We won't have anything in there.
• English- In English we turned in our I-Search journals, and finished up some questions. I think that our I-Search papers may be graded by tomorrow. But I'm not sure yet. So really we don't have anything in this class either.
• Seventh hour I'm in Mom's room and help her out. So today I didn't really have much to do. I put away some books and wrote some down on our inventory list. I finished up my art project in this class. So I don't have any homework tonight, and hopefully I won't have any more until next year. Or next school year I mean.

This is what is making me SO happy. I'm actually kind of excited about our softball practice tonight. It is at 8:00, but I think Drew and Tate have games, and the 5th grade girls have a softball game too. So we are going to go and watch those, and I will have practice.

We have our very first game on the 26th, which is coming right up. I'm so ready for summer vacation, and my birthday. I'm going to be doing some work for Mom around the house, while she and Alex are at summer school. Then I will maybe be going with Alex and we will do some work at the store. So I will hopefully earn some money and go shopping.

Have a nice evening!!!!!!!!!!

Update

Just a quick update..
I've been pretty busy the last few nights, and have pictures. But not really enough time to blog. So I might look back tonight or maybe tomorrow for lots of pictures and some fun stories. This has been the CRAZIEST week. Good thing that school is almost out.
Love you, Rach.
P.S. I finished my I Search Paper, it came to a final total of 14 pages long.

1 muddy dog, 2 clean kids,3 mom and dads,4 cookies,5 actors,6 muddy boys

Hey! Sorry I'm just posting, the computer has been really mean. But I finally got it to work. I have SO many good pictures from today. I hope you don't mind if I post the good ones today and then tomorrow I will add the rest to Cool Pix. But We'll start in order... starting with this morning at church.

We went Sunday school and it was really good, then the children's choir did their musical today.
They did really well. I love this picture of Alex, it is SO FUNNY! Partially because of the look on his face, and partially because we were sitting there and then I snapped it, and the flash was really bright right in his eyes, and he jumped.

Hannah and Gabby.

Here is Jacob.... in the robe... with his face covered. He is such a good actor you can't even tell that is him.

"Mom and Dad" coming to rescue Crystal.

The whole group taking a bow.

Here is Jacob. I took a lot more pictures of him, than anyone else. He also had a very good solo.

Now After church is were all the action was. We had just finished lunch and were going to sit and talk, when the boys came down wanting to change into play clothes so they could "get dirty". So they went outside and this is what we saw out of the window. All 6 of them playing some baseball, mud game. So of course I geared up, and went to take some pictures!

Here is them deciding whether or not this person was on the base or not before they got tagged.

Alex! Showing off his extreme muddiness... if that's word?

Here is me and kitty! SMILE!

I love this picture of the boys. They were having such a good time.

Tate, deciding if he should jump in the mud head first or not.

Drew, I like this one because you can just see the mud caked on his face and hair.

More play.

Apparently, someone was safe.

This is by far, my favorite picture of today. I liked how when I said, " Can I get 1 group picture, then I'll leave?" They all said... ugh... only if you'll just leave. So I finally got them to let me take a picture. Then Alex,Eli, and Jake say, "Nobody Smile.". Then Tate pitches in, " We should smile because we are having a really good time." Nobody argues... they just all smile and act as if it was their idea to be taking the picture.

These also are some of my favorites... Drew...

Tate...

And the PROUD mothers. They were cold sitting outside, so they wore their blankets.

Nobody would let them in the house so muddy, so Dad gave them a hose down, IN COLD water.

You can tell that he is screaming... probably because of the numb and pneumonia feeling.

Here are the dad's enjoying their screams.

Easton, watching. My favorite part was when Bud walked up the stairs and he said, " No you stupid ole' puppy dog!!".

Here is Eli and Alex, skin and bones.