LOVIN' Summer:)

Well, So much has happened since the last time that I told you about my summer! I have been to a couple basketball camps, played in a few softball games, gone to the beach swimming with my friends, setting up a batting cage, driving, going to church, and youth, this week I'm helping out with our Church's vacation bible school. Next week we have softball camp all week, the following week we have Alex's USSSA 12u World Series, and the week after that I'm going to Church camp, and our family is going to on a "vacation", camping for a few days.

In the past couple days we have had so much fun spending time with family, and celebrating Independence Day. Also we have several birthdays coming up this month, so we will be spending more time together.

Lovin' Summer:)
~Rachel

HOME AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello! It has been a while since I've done an actual post. So here it goes...

Today we were supposed to have a softball game... but as you can tell by the pictures below it didn't happen.

It rained and rained, and rained some more... and is still raining and is supposed to all week. Bud wanted out so bad but it was pouring at this point. The game we were going to play was against Morrisville at home... the field was so far under water that we aren't even having practice either. The rest of my day was pretty good though... first hour in geometry we are starting chapter 2 and learning about patterns and stuff like that. I had some homework but got it done in advisory. Second hour in Biology we watched a movie that was pretty good... on the jungle. We are learning the parts of cells and DNA and weird wacky stuff. Third hour was American Government which we are studying for our BIG constitution test that is tomorrow. It is required by the state that we have to pass it, or retake the course. So I'm hoping I do well... it's not really hard information. Fourth hour is Spanish (which is SO confusing) and we had a quiz that was pretty hard. I don't know how well I did.... (ooops) but that's ok. Next was lunch and advisory where I got brownies from Bree and tomorrow we are getting candy bars from our advisory teacher. Fifth hour was P.E. where we played ping pong. It was pretty fun... then sixth hour in English we finished watching " Brother Where Art Thou" which was a really good and funny movie. In Seventh hour art we found out that the game was canceled and that there would be no practice. We had a sub that hour too so we just messed around the whole hour. After school it was SO nice to just go to my moms room and go right home. It is rainy and cold outside so im under the warm cover's blogging. I'm texting Leona... listening to music and taking short breaks and reading out of my book. It is SO nice. I have one more thing to say before I leave...

Happy BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!! We LOVE YOU!!! (THANKS FOR LETTING ME USE YOUR BIRTHDAY GIFT) (HINT HINT.... I WANT ONE TOO)

IT'S RAINING IT'S POURING!!
It has been a great day to just sit inside and relax. Me and Alex made an awsome sports video this afternoon, and I have been "cleaning" my room. It hasn't got much work done on it yet. But I will keep "working". Just thought I would blog real fast and then leave. I'll try and blog tonight.

Family Reunion!

Friday was a fun day full of site seeing and being with family. Here are some pictures of our day.This is the cemetery that we went to where grandma Charlie's grandma and grandpa are buried.
I don't know who this is but it was a cute little grave.

This is a grave to a civil war person.

This is her grandparents grave.

We drove past Camp Wakonda on our way to the cemetery.

When we got to the grand parents house dad found a Caterpillar. Isn't it cute.

This is the old barn that Charlie said she used to play in.

This is the house that she stayed in during the summer with her grandparents.

Grandma Charlie!!!

I love this picture... I took of some wild flowers we saw.

This is a grave of one of my relatives, and guess what?!The mother's name is Mary Ellen Clark. So my Great Great grandma's name is Mary Ellen Clark, and Jacob, Drew, and Tate's Great grandma's name is Mary Ellen Clark. Weird huh?

This is the grave of a relative who was in the navy for 3 wars. WW 2, Korea, and Vietnam.

For dinner yesterday we went to a restaurant called Red Barn. Here is Sydney and me waiting for our food.

Here is Sam and Alex. We had a good time.

This is Sydney and Me again at the fireworks show that they had down at the park. We walked down to the park and sat and watched some really pretty fireworks.

Alex of course had to play baseball sometime.

More relatives talking and having a good time.

The fireworks were really pretty. I couldn't get very good pictures but here were the best ones I did get.

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 #10 - Busy hasn't happened yet.

We got home from our basketball game just a while ago. We won our game 19 to 9. I made two points at the end of the game. We got to play on the full court... the college court. It was a lot bigger than our little court. It was pretty fun, in the middle right before the second half we had to all leave and go to the hallway because they were under a tornado warning. So we had an extra long half time. The power went out and everything. After the game we stopped and I got a Snickers. Then we came home, I played with Bud, and then took a shower. Now I'm blogging and will eat soon and then go to bed. I will have to get up pretty early in the morning because our first game is at 9. I'm not sure how many games we play but I'm sure it will be somewhere around 4 or 5. So there will be no post tomorrow I would believe. Have a nice evening!!

I said that I was going to show you my very cool pen collection. So here it is. This first row has the biggest ones on it. There is a yellow one, a St. Patrick's day, a curly purple one, a road runner one, and a star one.

This row of pens has two pens that look a like but are different colors, then a crown pen, another purple and then a mickey mouse pen.

There are some pencil and some pens. The first one is in the shape of a squirrel, then next pencil has lips, a fiesta pen that is a maraca, the next pen is a flash light pen, and the last one is a pen that looks like a tube of lip stick.

This is my whole collection!

So If you are wondering what I did today.... well nothing. I slept in, and then I watched some Psych re-runs online. Then I have been messing around on the computer for a while. I will be getting ready to go to my basketball game at SBU later. So nothing big yet. I will post the conclusion of my day later. Well maybe not later tonight... but sometime when I have a chance. I'm sure that tomorrow will be very full of games. So I'm going to be very tired and won't have any time to post.

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 :)

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 :)

Here's a post really FAST..........

K here is a fast little post. I haven't done anything today... and right now I'm trying to squeeze in a quick post before I leave and go to bible study, then youth, then softball practice, then Bree's until Mom can pick me up and bring me home.

So today I didn't really do too much. Just sat around the house catching up on some rest. I had planned on going shopping but didn't go. Then I had plans to go swimming... and it rained.

Right now I'm sitting here IN MY ROOM just blogging, cause I can. Anyway... I'm in my room blogging, listening to My Paper Heart by Francesca Battistelli.

Besides all of the relaxing stuff today... I went to bible study, and then youth, and after that I went to softball practice. As you can imagine... we were all muddy, wet, and cold. But it was fun anyways. I laughed at everyone falling and getting dirty. Until I went to catch a ball, landing in the splits. Ouch...

After practice I went home with Bree. I actually didn't ask how the boys did tonight. But I hope they won... they sounded pretty excited. So you'll have to ask someone else about how they did.

I'll add some pictures just so it isn't so blah...

5 days left... and GLAD about IT!!

I don't have any new pictures... but I do have a picture here that I have done in Paint. I thought It was really cool... my favorite color is Orange and SO is Leona's. I emailed it to her... but she might get this first.
So here is what happened today. First of all, we spent most of last evening sitting in the basement because the sirens went off. The fun part of all that was that we got to bring the cats in and Coco was hilarious. He would sit on my lap for a while, the walk across Mom's lap or Alex's head. It was funny seeing him... looking in amazement at "Indoors".
The next thing is that today was our day to go to S.B.U.. While we were there we got to play in the gym and then go swimming in the pool. It was very fun and we only had to go to two hours of school. Tomorrow will be similar. We will go to first hour and part of second... then go to a play thing in the morning, then come back for lunch, then go back to the high school and do the M.A.P. carnival. This weekend we are going to be busy and I have quite a bit of homework. But Next week is the last week of school. Monday and Tuesday will be our last days to take quizzes and go over homework. But on Wednesday... since I have perfect attendance I am going to be going to a Springfield Cardinal's game for the day. I don't know the plans yet... but we will get out of class to go to the game. It starts at 12:00 and doesn't get over until around 3:00. We won't get home until way after school's over... but it is going to be really fun. So it does pay off to go to school everyday. Then on Thursday we will go to the park, and on Friday we have 1/2 a day and we just have awards assembly. So it is going to be pretty relaxing. We do have a performance event test in science, a quiz in math, and an American history project and memorization thing due. But It shouldn't be too bad. I hope you're having a wonderful 2nd to the last week of school week!!! -Love Rach

Running Fish

Hey, Today has been WONDERFUL!!!!!

First of all, our track meet for tonight was canceled.

Second of all, I didn't have any homework. I do have a sketchbook that is due on Thursday, but I just have to color it so I thought I would do that this afternoon. I have a cough that is hurting my throat, and my nose keeps running. So I am going to just relax and get some sleep. Today after school, I went to track practice. It was SO COLD AND WINDY!!! We ran our events like we would in an actual track meet. So I really don't feel like blogging, BYE!!

P.S. the picture above is of me, with one of the three fish that I caught!