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. :)

Busy Day #16 and 17... the storm!

Hey... I haven't got to blog in a while because we've had no power. The only big thing that has happened the last couple days was this big storm that came in on Tuesday morning at around 5:45. We were all asleep and apparently Papa called to tell dad that the sirens were going off. So we went to the basement, and I would have been getting up soon anyways. As we were going down stairs is started to hail, and it kept hailing for a really long time. When it was all over there were mounds of hail sitting everywhere. The power went out too, and we didn't get it back until this afternoon. So we have been living at Kay and Papa's house for the last two days. This is the bottom. See all the grass, how pushed down it is... well that is where the water was running through our yard. This is the front of our house.There are leaves plastered everywhere on it.
Poor Bud was scared... and we let him out to re-mark all of his territory that was destroyed.

This is me... tired from getting up so early, then falling back asleep, and then getting up and playing with a crazy muddy dog.

This is a hole that was left from one of the tees that was uprooted by our drive way.

Here is the tree, it's really cool looking but not good. Not good at all.

Here is Bud. The water here was across the road, it was just flowing right over it. Bud was being so funny. It was really windy and the leaves were just flying off the trees. Every time he would see one fall, he would run off and chase it. He was really cute.

This is the drive way, and the tree that they had to cut apart so we could get out.

This is more branches that are down around the house.

Another view of the drive.

This is a tree that fell... it is close to the bottom.

This is the leaves that I was talking about.

Bud... aw....!! Cute!

This is the big tree that snapped.

Here is our back porch. All covered in leaves.

We had no power so I was bored and took lots of pictures. This is the tree again.

This is a pretty bad picture but you can see how the top half of this tree just came right off.

This is the top of another tree that is in our front yard. It had branches all twisted in the front.

Here was our back deck and mom's fern laying in a mound of hail.

Just one more picture of the big tree. It is really bad at our house. There are trees down all over the place. I thought I would show you the reason I've had no time to blog.

Well today has been really relaxing. I went to weights this morning. Then I went to Kay's, and took a three hour nap. After my nap I watched TV and just hung around the house until Mom got home. I started doing laundry and folding and putting away clothes after we found we had power again. That's what I've been doing the whole night. Putting clothes in the washer then switching to the dryer, folding and then putting away. It isn't that hard, and actually kind of fun. Maybe just every once in a while. I wonder how many loads I've done??? 5 or 6???

Well I won't be home to blog for the next couple days and maybe more. We are going to Alex's state baseball tournament in Columbia. It is going to be a long drive. But we are staying in a hotel, and will get to swim, play and hopefully watch some good baseball games. I will take lots of pictures and make sure to post them when I get back. Have a good rest of the week!!!

Another short and Choppy, I'm Sorry Post!

Hey, So I've been SO busy with the last week of school and all. Then we've had ball games, and practices, so this is really the only time I've had to blog. Since it was getting late... I didn't actually get to blog, but I caught up on all of my reading. So tomorrow when I get home I will have LOTS of pictures. I've had a great week, and SUMMER is finally here!
Have a HAPPY Sunday!
Love- Rach

2:38 and Worth the Pain

ONLY 3 MORE DAYS UNTIL SCHOOL IS OUT!!!
I'm so excited that school is FINALLY going to be over. We have three more days and all three of them are filled. Tomorrow I'm only going to 1-3 hours then I'm going to a Springfield Cardinal's game. It is for getting perfect attendance this year. On Thursday we are going to the park to play, and have lunch. Then on Friday we are going to have an awards assembly... and it's a 1/2 day.
Here is my school day...
Science- Look over tests
Math-Look over quiz/watch video
American history-Watch video
Art-Clean out drawer and turn in all homework/class work
P.E.- Play dodge ball
English- Read/ turn in all class work
That was everything that I did. Not very much. Tomorrow I don't think we will be doing very much either. So the week is all fun from here.
After school today we had our track party. We all went to Sundae's, I got a chocolate shake. We turned in our uniforms and handed out medals. I had a total of 13. 5 GOLD, 4 SILVER, AND 4 BRONZE. I also found out that I now hold the middle school girls 800 record. I was SO excited, she even printed out a sheet that has all of the girls records for all events on it, and my name was in the 800 spot!!!!!!!! So that was the biggest thing for today.
I have something planned for the rest of this week though. Tomorrow night I will have softball, and Thursday night too. Then Friday we will have a last day of school party, and Saturday and Sunday Alex has a baseball tournament, and on Monday I'll have softball practice. On Tuesday we will have our first softball game, and on Wednesday....
It just keeps going like that. But without school...things won't be so bad. We'll have all day to play and relax before all this stuff.
I hope you have a nice evening!
Love
-Rach

A Cutie Bug... and some other random stuff that I decided to blog about!

As you can see today has been very FUN!!!After track practice me and Mom went on a walk with Bud. She took several really good pictures but I only posted a few. So here is Me and by Cutie Bug, doing what we do best!!!

Today has been very fun... starting with this morning! Instead of going to fist hour we had an assembly, where we got to see the Extreme Team show us some of the things that they will be doing at the Show next week. I think that we will possibly go....

Here is Me giving him a drink. He was so cute, and the water was so cool, and refreshing.

After the AWESOME show we went to second hour, Algebra 1. We went over homework, which was FOIL and stuff like that. 3,4,5 hours consisted of talking, drawing, and playing Frisbee. In 6Th hour English we had a readers workshop... I am reading the fifth book in the Princess Diaries Series... "Princess in Pink". She is wanting to go to prom really BAD but her boyfriend Micheal thinks prom is a waste of money-and would rather go bowling. In the midst of all this, her best friend Lilly gets a new boyfriend in front of her old one... and in return (Boris- Lilly's ex boyfriend)Boris tries to commit suicide, by dropping a globe on his head.Obviously this plan didn't work... he only punctured his head, and had to have two stitches. Mia though is the one that kept him from bleeding to death. Later she gets in a fight with Lilly about how rude of her it was to get another boyfriend before she dumped the old one. Later she finds out that her mother is in the hospital because she passed out at the grocery store. So they spend the whole afternoon in the ER. This is far as I read...

There is this one place in the creek that is has lots of rapids, and it is my favorite place to go and stand in. So this is what we are doing.

Seventh hour I went to Mom's room, and we had our last practice after school. It was SO hot and we had to do quite a bit of running. I'm very excited for the weekend. I think tomorrow I'm going to ride my four wheeler, and go for a swim in the creek. Well... maybe just a really deep wade... it's all the same. Bud will like having someone to play with...

Here, I was giving him a big HUG! I love that little kid... even if he is a really big pain sometimes.

Right now I'm just sitting here at home blogging, listening to some new music. (By Your Side-by Tenth Avenue North). I don't know how but I'm going to try and get a link or something to were I can put this song by Francesca Battestelli on here. By the way... THANK YOU for your song requests. I still would like some suggestions, but I thought of another question too...

This is one of my VERY favorites! I love it how it looks like he's smiling.

Question: Where is your favorite place to eat at? You can leave me a comment...

This could be anywhere!! I would have to say Apple Bees! Here's the best song ever...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNEhKLrsUfo. If you go here I think that the song should start playing. But any way... hope you have a nice evening... Alex is away at Steph and David's so it should be fairly quiet tonight!

Hustle and Bustle

The BABY we've all been waiting to SEE!! Aliya!! Last night after youth we went over to the Edington's along with several other people to see her. She is so adorable, and has lots of hair.

Rachel, and Riley holding her.


Aw..

Me holding her!

Here is a short preview of yesterday's madness!

This is Me after I fell in and Alex wanted to take my picture.

Here is the proof, that Spring is near! I saw lots of these pretty little flowers everywhere.

Me! Before I fell in of course.

This was what the boys found the most interesting, and I found the nastiest. A dead frog, that had no arms or legs. Just a limbless slimy frog body.

Here were the two explorers in action.

So, today was very relaxing. I had no actual homework, but I do have to study for two big tests tomorrow. I have done a little, but not enough! So I'm going to do that, but here is how my day went! First hour in science me,Aubree,and Annie were in a group to take the performance event test. I think we did okay. Second hour in Algebra 1 we graded some papers from when he was gone. Third hour in American history we finished grading, read a chapter, and then I finished the review questions in class. Fourth hour in FACS we did some more sewing activities, and I now have to study for out test tomorrow. Fifth hour in P.E. we played basketball. Sixth hour in English we watched Hamlet, which was really good! Seventh hour in Mom's room I put away a book, and then relaxed with Mom. After school, we went to track practice!!! Yea, the first practice of the year! So we did our stretches, then went on a short run. Then we were rushing around picking up and dropping off people here and there. Then I came home, and got the dog out to play with. We went all over, and I studied a little outside. Mom came home a little bit ago and we had "dinner". Now I'm blogging, and getting ready to clean my room, study, and help mom out. Oh, and I need to shower, I smell like sweat, and Bud.

Nothing much

Hey! I'm sorry I didn't share yesterday with you, just I didn't have time and nothing really exciting happened so I just skipped it if you might say. Today was a little more interesting, but this may be a short post. First hour in science we graded papers from this week, and then took some notes.Second hour in Algebra 1 we went over compound sentences again, but harder and a little different stuff. We had some homework, but I finished in class. Third hour in American history we handed in our scores from yesterdays assignment. Then we assigned parts and started to read a script of a court scene. We had an attorney, clerk, and all of those people. I was the classroom teacher, who only had one line and that was, Clerk would please call the court to order. So that was not too fun.Fourth hour in facs we are making dinner for the board meeting tonight. Me and Taylor were making rolls, but since it was a short day we didn't have time to finish and had to leave it. Fifth hour in P.E. we had counselor, and watched a movie. Sixth hour in English we read another scene from Hamlet, that was pretty interesting. He is starting to pretend to be insane. I will share with you my last two journal entries...
1/4/1580
I have been very busy lately. But how I am frightened. Hamlet anon will be completely insane. He keeps talking about the ghost, and it scares me, don't even know him anymore. Why me? Our relationship will be ruined if he doesn't get out of this slump. Affect, Ophelia

1/11/1580
Doth everything have to go wrong? My only love has gone mad. So much woe. Would, would, would, that I could be with Hamlet. Why must I be so obedient and not choose to be with Hamlet. I could help him, but NO, I must do what Polonius says to. I will not make this mistake next time.Affect, Ophelia.

That is the only exciting thing. Seventh hour I went to Mom's room and helped her cut out some stuff. After school Kay picked me up and brought me to her house. So here we are, and will be going home later to have a good time!!! RELAXING!!! The best of all.

Oops

Oops I accidentally put this picture on here. It is a good picture but I didn't know I was putting on the blog.

This is a picture of one of the women at our church and her baby Elijah.