Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Georgetown!!!
I know I haven't posted since May. It's been a busy summer. An absolutely amazing one!! But busy.
I spent the majority of my time at Aldersgate! (surprise, surprise) I was there four weeks again this summer. I went as a camper to Leisure Ministries again, my favorite camp of all time, then I counseled three other weeks. So many good, funny, happy memories, and many many stories. It was so great.
And now I'm at college!!! We moved in Thursday and had orientation all weekend. One day my orientation group went to the nursing home as our service project and played Bingo with the residents, and some of us girls painted the ladies nails and stuff. It was cute. Also one of the ladies there turned 100 yrs old that day!!! So we sang her happy birthday :)
The best part of orientation was the hypnotist. I was skeptical, but one of my friends who did it said it actually worked. It was hilarious, and they were doing some crazy things. But no worries, the hypnotist said he couldn't make them do anything that would be against their ethics.
Then we started classes yesterday and they went really well. And I've been meeting so many new people and making so many new friends!!! So I'm soooo super excited about this first wk of school, and this semester, and these four years, and my life!!! I'm just loving this!!!
Well, I may try to keep up, but you know how it is. I'll probably write in another three months.(Or five.)
I LOVE GEORGETOWN!!!!!!! :D
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Month of May
Well spring is here and I just love it! The month of May is half over, and it's going exceptionally well. See, I decided since I had one month left of high school, I'd make every day productive and full of fun stuff, because when your days are full, they seem longer, and I want my days to seem long (if it's fun stuff), because life is pretty short.
Well, for one thing, these past couple weekends have been soo much fun. Since it's the month of graduation and all, and we have three graduates in our family (just on one side), and there's another on the other side, we've been getting to spend so much time with family and it's been wonderful!!
Last weekend on Mother's Day we all went over to Mimi and Papaw's and celebrated and had a great day, and today was my cousin Chelsey's graduation. Then after that we all went to Mimi and Papaw's again and had Papaw a birthday party. And next week is Chelsey's birthday party, and the next week is my cousin Leanndra's and my graduations, plus idk how many family parties we're havin that weekend. But it's all gonna be great, and I'm really really excited.
Also, I really should post about our Nashville trip like almost a month ago, but as usual, I haven't been able to get around to it. But hopefully I will eventually, because it was so much fun.
So right now Mom and I are in her room doing graduation stuff. Two weeks!!
So anyway, I'll try to get on here again sometime soon. Life's just busy
(but with fun stuff, so it's ok, remember).
I love my life :)
Friday, April 16, 2010
Senior Trip!!!
Then yay! We're off! We met our teacher Mrs. Fields and her husband, Jim, and we were on our way. I slept. And slept. And slept. Besides the few times we stopped and got out of the car, I slept til we got to Georgia. But we stopped at a rest area in South Carolina and had a picnic. It was so fun! We sat at this picnic table under these trees with huge pink flowers on them and the petals would blow all around us and it was so pretty!
Then we went in, had a continental breakfast then went out on the beach the rest of the morning. Some of Jim and Mrs. Fields' friends live down there, so that afternoon we went and ate at a seafood restaurant called Aunt Catfish's. I had bay scallops, I think, and they were really good! And we saw dolphins! While we were waiting on our food, Brandi and I went out on the dock and watched them. I don't think I've ever seen any before at the beach. It was so cool!
Another night walk on the beach, then bed (although I don't think we reached that point til about 3 or so, and we were getting up at 5. But it was ok, because even though the next morning came early, we slept the hr from Daytona to Orlando. And we went to Disney World!!
Neither Brandi or I had ever been to Disney before, and we had soo much fun! That first day we got there it was rainy, but then it cleared up by late morning and it acually turned out to be a pretty day! We went to Epcot and had a really great time. We visited all the little "countries" and saw the final show in the evening.
....And this is us at Italy with Lady and the Tramp.
This is the final show at Epcot that evening. It's all about celebrating everyone all over the world. And in the last picture, Brandi and I were freezing, so Jim got us some hot chocolate.
Us with Mary Poppins' umbrella!....And these are our feet next to Shaquille O'Neal's shoes at Planet Hollywood!
The next day we went to Downtown Disney for the first half, then to Animal Kingdom the second. At Downtown Disney we just walked around and looked in all the different shops and stuff. It was really cool. At Animal Kingdom we did some rides too....Oh, and I almost lost my phone on a roller coaster the day before at Hollywood Studios. We rode the Rockin' Roller Coaster, I think it was called, and apparently my phone came out of my pocket when I was in the seat. When we got out and were walking, I felt my pockets and realized it wasn't there. So I told the lady working the roller coaster, so she said we'd check the next time it came around. So Brandi kept callin my phone the whole time it was in there, hoping that someone would see it. And they did, because when the next people got off the ride, this guy was carrying a phone just lookin at it, and the guy workin there asked if it was his and the other guy was like, yeah, I think it's my phone. But it really was mine, and I was glad the worker got it for me and that it wasn't lost. It was an inside roller coaster and it was dark in there, and there were a couple loops and stuff so I'm really glad it didn't fall out of the seat. That was a huge relief. But anyway, back to Animal Kingdom....We did a safari ride which was cool. Then we ate at the Rainforest Cafe for dinner. It was soo yummy too. We got a volcano for dessert. It's this brownie, ice cream, whipped cream, very very chololatey dessert. I'd head it was big, but it was huge! It took all four of us to eat it, and we still didn't quite finish it. Brandi and I had to take the rest with us in a box.
This is at Downtown Disney. I'm not exactly sure who that man was, but he must've been someone pretty important to have a statue made of him. Then there's a picture of me next to my new corvette and my new Harley. Well.....yeah, ok. It's ok to pretend though, right?
hehehe :)
The parade that afternoon was really cool, and here's a picture of Pater Pan, because he was one of my favorites when I was little :).......And the fireworks! That was the final show at Magic Kingdom that evening.
Oh, and Mrs. Fields got Brandi and me both Mickey ears that said Class of 2010 with our names on the back!! :)
So it was an amazingly fun senior trip, we made such happy memories, the beach reminds me of our awesome, magnificent Creator, and Disney reminds me to always be a kid at heart :)
Spring!
At the beginning of this semester Jacqui and I decided we wanted to start taking dance and karate classes. So...that's what we did! Well, we only got to do karate like less than two months then they changed the night of the wk to the night we have dance. But it's ok because we're busy with other fun things too. Here's a brief overview of my schedule each wk:
Sun: Church, family dinner and afternoon together (Jacqui and I decided to start goin hiking on Sun afternoons after we had a picnic at my uncle's old farm and took a walk there with Dad and Gabriel last wk), then choir practice (although I think it's about over for the summer now that the Easter cantata's done) and youth group.
Mon: We don't have school on Mondays! (except for the last one each month) So every other wk I work at my Mimi and Papaw's, then Mon evening Jacqui and I have dance. We go to jazz, then go eat during our free hr. bewteen classes, then have ballet. We love it! :)
Tues: (besides school, of course) I have my piano lesson, then we eat at our Mimi and Papaw's, and we try to jog or ride bikes or something over at their house those evenings.
Wed: I teach two piano lessons after school, then we have youth.
Thurs: After school I have archery, then I'm home for the evening! (the only night of the wk! lol)
Fri: Praise band practice after school, then basketball practice (during season, of course), but that just ended a few wks ago, so now we go home and do different stuff. Sometimes I teach a piano lesson to my little cousin. Last wk we went to a concert with our other cousins (I'll have to tell about that later because it was AMAZING! :) ) and tonight we had an open house/registration/dedication of the new playground at school (and let me tell ya, that playground is sooo much fun. Our high school class is reeaally enjoying it! lol)
Sat: !? Um, actually idk what we do on Saturdays lol. Clean? Usually some. A couple wks ago I was on my senior trip (which I am also going to tell about, but it will take a whole separate post!). Mom, Jacqui, and I went to the mall a couple Saturdays ago to shop for Easter, and last Saturday Jacqui and I went to the mall to look for a dress for our Nashville trip which is next wk, but we didn't find any so we're going again tomorrow......
See why I never have time to blog! lol :)
But things are definitely fun and wonderful, just busy and sometimes slightly crazy. But I love my life; it's wonderful. So are my family and my friends and my Jesus. So I'll be blogging again hopefully soon (actually I'm going to start working on it right now) about my senior trip. I'm going to try to keep it brief, but I have a feeling it's going to be a long one. lol :)
P.S. I'm absolutely LOVING this weather! It's gorgeous outside!!! :)
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Ho Ho Ho! (He He He) =)
And usually on Christmas Day after we have Christmas at our house, all the family goes to Mimi and Papaw's, but this year our family in England moved back to the US and they flew in on Christmas Day!!! So that day Dad made a really great Christmas dinner at our house which was really really good.
So this has been a really fantastic Christmas break. We made special family memories like stringing popcorn for the tree, watching many Hallmark Christmas movies, painting the kitchen cabinets white on New Year's Eve (that was mainly Mom's idea lol), pulling up the carpet in our living room to reveal the pretty hardwood underneath (another one of mom's house projects. But it all looks good! lol), driving back and forth to Winchester a couple days in a row delivering loads of our family's belongings from one house to their other, and making New Year's resolutions together in the living room while we watched the ball drop. So it was really a super great break.