Finally,

A new update!! Where have i been?? I know that's the question on all of your minds, (all three of you) No one updates their blogs much anymore.
But I decided to.
This school year has gone by so FAST! Junior year is pretty easy.. besides college classes i guess. I passed PreCal, and that's all that matters. My very first C. But I'll take it, a C is MUCHHH better than a F.

We didn't send out a Christmas card this year, I was the only one that attempted to make one... but when I did, walmart.com was having technical difficulties.. and it was like, 3 days away from Christmas anyways. too late to send them out...
but here's the pic we were gonna use...from the Polar Express.


Not much new has happened,
I got a LOT of clothes for Christmas. WAYY to many to fit in my tiny closet. I need a new one, I've been trying to talk them into letting me use the hall closet. We got a Wii (which we've been wearing out..) and i got some ed hardy perfume,, the pink kind, and some uggs!
Pretty much the only thing going on in my life is Basketball! I'm starting to like it better, since i'm improving haha, and actually getting play time on Varsity. I've actually been able to start a few times.. But personally i think I do better when i don't start, because i'm nervous or something haha. but check out these pictures from a game..


look at those up's! haha yes, i did make that shot even though i was fouled (and they didn't call it)


haha, there's me trying to rebound, even tho i was probably the smallest one on the court..


We have a tournament at CH (home) monday and tuesday... wednesday maybe? i'm not sure. I just tmro at ten is our first game.


hmm... guess that's it for now..

Love Is...

Love is a sweet smile that comes from your heart,
Love is knowing you'll never be apart.

Love is that tingly feeling you get when you know they care,
Love is knowing no matter what, they'll always be there.

Love is a friendship that lasts forever,
Love is a word that means never say never.

Love is a bond that will always last,
Love is a memory of moments in the past.

Love is sometimes hurtful but ends up great,
Love is the exact opposite of hate.

Love is patient, love is kind,
Love is something from the heart and even the mind.

Love is sometimes a bottomless pit,
Love is whatever you choose to make it.




I was unpacking some stuff from boxes and i found this poem i wrote in, i think it was, the 8th grade, I didn't add anything or edit it. And I thought it was cute and i wanted to dedicate it to all my friends and family,, because i love you!!

Fine at NINE!

WHOA! It's hard to believe that my little baby cousin is nine as of todayy!!
So this post is a tribute to my favorite little nine year old, RYLAN!
With a sweet personality and kind heart, he ALWAYS makes me laugh.
As much as i wanted to be able to make it to his party, the whole hour drive wasn't working with my volleyball schedule.
(we sent a video, hope you got it)
so, happy birthday rylan! i love ya!!!

Rainy days!

haha watch emma!

Childhood Dreams

It’s the ambition of many children to be like their favorite superhero, Wonder Woman, Superman, or maybe even Sponge Bob. My childhood dreams were simple, but probably unlike those of the stereotypical kid. I dreamed of becoming a sister, a role model, and a teacher. I was an only child for eight happy years, and I absolutely dreaded being alone. There was usually someone always by my side to keep me company. I wanted so bad to have a little brother or sister that could tag-along. After waiting eight years, I finally got my little sister, and I was so happy to not be as “alone” as I thought I was before. (And no regrets, but I actually do kind of miss the attention!) Being an older sister is a big responsibility. I had and still have many people in my life that I look up to. As I got older, and realized the impact that those role models had on my life, I decided that I want to live my life as a role model, for my sister, my little cousins, anyone that I am able to be there for like those that were there for me. Many of the decisions I make in everyday life are based on that idea that someone is looking up to me. When I think about people viewing me as a role model, it makes me want to better myself so that I am able to live up to those expectations of having an impact on someone’s life. And some of the people that have had the biggest impact in my life are teachers. As far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be an elementary teacher. I admire the influence that teachers can have on so many lives of the kids they teach, being a teacher ties in with being a role model. As I got older, I realized there are many more job opportunities available, and I’ve decided to start off at a different job that might pay more and would be fun for a younger girl. But, I still have every intention of one day being able to teach.


*and that is my first english paper as a junior :] ((besides summer reading stuff... that doesn't count))

Rae for prez!

Well, i wasn't gonna say anything, but now that the big news is out, here's the video.

Cabin Fever

Last thursday, Claire, Leslie, Dayna, Alyssa and I had a girl's night out sleepover at the cabin. We stayed out there by ourselves, it was so much fun! We ordered a pizza and bought lots of junk food, took them out to the cabin and we went out on the paddle boat, we sat on the porch and shared secrets and prank called :]. We spent like, two hours playing catch phrase music edition, which reminded us of so many old songs we used to love. We ended it with a movie, and actually went to sleep pretty early for a sleepover, around 2 or 3ish. We also had an unfortunate event with the toilet, so i thought I'd share this video with you, this is us trying to unclog the toilet.... Note: it was like 9:00 am (thats EARLY for us considering we went to sleep so late)
enjoy!! :]

"we are real valley girls"


**update** Kelli, emma just told me that you used a stick that looked just like that as a walking stick the other day. And if you found that "walking stick" underneath the porch, than I hate to tell ya, but that's definatley the pee stick. HAHA!

Awesome Video

photoshop phun

haha, collage of me..... can you find the hidden claires?



for claire's sweet 16 i made her a photo album filled with pics, and so i did some editing and so i made this one..


and then this one was one i made a long time ago..

Old video

here's a video i found in some old documents on the computer, had to share. lol the funny thing is, we are in the middle of el chicos, just crankin the "i like big...... and i cannot lie!" song :] haha and i gotta agree with kelli, "whose kids are these?!"

Changing more lives than you think!

the other day, i was sitting in the living room and i see emma run by with her many many webkinz in a basket, i listened into her door and heard her conversating with them. when i walked in, i saw just what i had suspected, it was MK's lifechanging bag. haha i thought it was funny so i just had to get a pic to put on here.
so this is for you MK

With a little touch of photoshop, all things are possible.

kelli, you forgot i was at the beach with yall, didn't you!!




i never get bored :]

thank ya, thank ya very much.

Since this is the first post of Summer '08, i thought i'd give a small recap of what all has been going on with me and my fam. this summer. (minus pics because i dont have enough time to put them all on here right now)

As most of you know, (well, i mean the only two ppl that read my blog.. haha) we started our summer off with a family vacation to tennessee! The first day, we left early in the morning and headed to memphis. We stopped in graceland and we got to see Elvis's house, i learned aLOT about him... considering the fact i didnt know much in the first place. It was awesome to walk through his house and think that he and his family walked in the exact place we were walking.. and then getting to see his grave was pretty cool, just thinking that you're practically standing on top of "the King" along with his mom and dad, and did you know he had a twin brother!?! i forgot his name, but he died at birth.

After Graceland, we headed on to Nashville, we made a quick stop at casey jone's railroad thing... we went inside the old country store and it was pretty cool. The hours and hours of being stuck in the car consisted of movies, reading, listening to music, being on the computer, and for some of us sleeping, and just spending quality time together. So, our first night in Nashville, we went to the Grand Ole' Opry House for a concert. It was awesome!! The only bad part about the whole thing was the drunk guys sitting behind us, they were extremely obnoxious!! But we got to see Carrie Underwood, Mongomery Gentry, Luke Bryan (my mom's became obsessed lol), and then like 7 other people i didn't really know. But we had a great time.

The rest of that vacation was spent shopping and hanging out at the hotel and we also went to former president Andrew Jackson's house, it was pretty neat learning abot the history there. Pretty much the only thing we remembered from that pit stop was our tour guide on the horse ride. Her english needed a bit up to date.. she kept using double negatives we found it hilarious. She would be like, "then they learned that they was literate" haha that's just one example. One day, when my mom and dad went to the mall there, me and emma stayed at the hotel. We went swimming and then we went back up to the hotel room and got ready for lunch. There were a lot of resturants inside the hotel and emma and i searched for a kid-friendly one and finally found "stax" a build-your-own-burger resturant. It wasn't as exciting as it sounds, you go, and they give you buns with meat and cheese and a box with tomatoes and lettuce. So then we took our food to the table and then in a few minutes a guy about my age and his 8-year old bro. came and set at the table right next to us. and i guess it was the older boy's way of flirting, but he threw a piece of ice at our table. so then emma rips a chunk of her hamburger off and throws it back at them. haha! so we ran outta there.. lol. suprisingly, emma and i did not fight at all! the whole vacation!! and emma only almost threw one fit... and that's the whole vacation, not one fit a day.. so that's good! :] we had a good time.

G.N.O!

GNO-Girls Night Out! This weekend we had the long overdue sleepover at claire's with claire, dayna, leslie, alyssa, and me. First we kicked it off by going to the movies. We decided that we should have a "theme" and dress up. So... we decided to dress like nerds for the movies. We thought it would be funny to tell Claire that we were dressing differently... so we made her think we were going to wear our halloween costume to the movies. Dayna and Leslie REALLY got into the whole nerd thing.... i wasn't sure how anyone would dress... so i decided collar shirt, hair in pigtails, and plaid shorts would be enough. If i had time, i probably would've worn something better... but me and alyssa had the bright idea of going to goodwill to buy some clothes to wear, and when we got there, there was NOTHING there. so i had to go home, take a bath, plan what to wear and get ready for the movie all within a 20-30 minute time span. So by the time i got everything ready... i had no clue what to wear so i just pulled on some quick clothes. Claire on the other hand, pulled up to my house to pick me up.... and OMG, she was WAYYY into the halloween thing! She was dressed like a devil/vampire thing.. lol here's a picture......

i'm sure you're seeing this picture thinking, oh NO she didn't. But yes, she did.

And here's dayna and claire
Leslie didn't have to dress like a dork to look like one in this next pic! haha!

And this is the nerdy-ist i could get...

The sleepover was fun and the movie was good. We saw What Happens in Vegas which was funny and we also watched 27 dresses which was such a cute movie!

That's about it for this weekend. Emma has a game tonight.. we went and ate subway earlier, and i drove :] haha i actually like to drive now! i think i do alot better when im by myself!

Photo Update

Since that last post was mainly about my birthday, I haven't really posted about anything going on in my life other than sweet sixteen! Which, if you saw the pictures on MK's blog, then you will know how much fun we had over our weekend! We went to dallas and the spa and shopping and that life's a beach resturant, and if you didn't read her blog you need to now.. because that pretty much explains it all. It was really a fun time tho!!

Well, to start off with... i'm gonna post some pictures that we took one day that we spent at the cabin that were specifically for my blog.. but i never got around to posting any of them. So here's a few from a fun family day with madison and garrett! (i promised you guys i'd put these on here :] )

I'll start with some photography.

<-i really liked this picture..

Here's some snaps of us throughout the day.. We had boat rides and picnics... classic.

And speaking of G-man and Maddie.... I wanna tell you both THANKS for thinking of me on my bday and getting me the keychain, and of course the mini scrapbook madison made for me... i loved it! i caught the key chain in this pic... it says "clear the road, im 16!" lol it made me laugh because, it's the truth! (note: this picture was taken after a softball game and i had no makeup on and as you can tell, i was very tired. haha) But speaking of key chains, I actually got to drive by myself.. to mcdonalds! haha, i know that might not seem like a very large accomplishment.. but it was for me! (even tho i took all the back roads lol) but then I got to drive emma to mcdonalds, and apparently i am old enough to be driving her around because the lady in the drive thru asked me if she was my daughter!! haha, I was like, "No! That's my sister!" A sixteen year old teen with an 8 year old kid? idk if that's possible!

And here's just a pic of me and maddie!

And, on a different note, tonight was the kickoff to softball play-offs! my team ended up finishing first in district and we only lost one district game (but we won't discuss that game... it was terrible!) But, here's a picture of our team playoff shirt.... idk why the colors are pink and blue.. but for some reason, that's what the seniors picked out. and they ended up cuter than i thought! My friend Manda did the drawing on it and they put it on the shirt... each one of our personalities are somewhat portrayed in the drawing.. haha..

I'm the smallest one on the bottom right with the cell phone! lol it's kind of an insider between the team because i got in trouble for being on my phone instead of focusing on softball a few times. Claire is the one at the top left with the headband and alyssa is beside her listening to her music and singing..

The moms of the team also got some shirts... i had to get me one like it they were cute!! heres a pic...

The first one's the front and the second pic is of the back.

I don't know if you caught on as fast as others did... but it says diamonds are a girls best friend because a softball field is in the shape of a diamond! and i just figured that out.. lol. The shirts also have a little softball with my number in it.. (well i mean mine and my mom's do..) they're really cute.

But anyways, today was our first playoff game, and we won! We are playing best two out of three so we play at C.H. tmro at 3.. and if we win, we advance to the next round in the playoffs. Today was a very nerve-racking game!! (is that a word?) But anyways, we started off in the lead but in the 5th inning they came back and were leading by two points and then we caught up in the last inning and went into extra innings and we ended up winning by one point! Idk if i've ever been that nervous! I made a double play tho, my first ever! haha so other than one strike out, i did well.

And, here's my final pictures for this post.. just some of me and my two best friends at softball practice :]

Liscensed to Drive

Listen to the song, it explains it ALL.


Today is the start of my driving years, big ole' sweet SIXTEEN! That is so weird the way time flies, it really does! I mean, it feels like just yesterday i was jumping on the trampoline talking about how excited i was about turning thirteen, oh how times have changed since then!



I had to create a whole playlist just so i could put this song on here today, because i remember countless hours spent with Claire in her "shop" listening to this song and saying how we could not wait to drive and that when we did, we were gonna play this song.. and that was like five years ago, that is SO hard to believe!


Sure, im a year older but it does not feel like it! Today was such a great birthday!! I could hardly sleep last night.. i was excited and nervous about actually being old. But then today, we hardly did anything at school.. and then, i thought we were going to laura's cheesecake for lunch.. but when i went to my mom's classroom, i was greeted by "SUPRISE!" and flashing of cameras... i had no clue what was going on! my mom and dad planned a little suprise lunch-party for me with the help of alyssa. Then i got a new phone!! :]


Then i left school and got my liscense!!! YESS!! Even though i still am not allowed to drive by myself... i'm not quite that good enough just yett.... but oh well, i still have my liscense (and my CAR) and im ready to hit the road! Then mimi, papa, and mama came to town and we ate at el chicos!! and not to mention, SATURDAY MK is taking (and brandon of course is helpin out with the pay :] thank you :]) me and alyssa to dallas for a girls day at the spa and this really cool resturant... i'll blog more about it after. im excitedddd:]


I remember back in the day when i was about three years old.. and i was very tired, i would cry myself to sleep thinking about how bad i didn't want to grow up. I wanted to be young FOREVER. It is kinda sad that time has gone by so fast... but i love living life as it's thrown at me. Everything is going so great, and i am so thankful each day to be so very blessed!!


I wanna take this post to THANK the people that have been there for me all of these short 16 years. My friends and family are so good to me, and i couldn't ask for anything more!! I'll grow old, and times will change, but please remember that i will love each and every one of you for EVER. and, even if i dont show it on the outside, i will always be the happy little curly-headed kid that i once was and always have been.

Home

Here's my latest english paper. i thought anyone who knew me and knew the old house i lived in might like it. [and this gives me something to write about]

Home
The comfy house on the corner of Walnut Street was where I had lived for seven and a half years of my life. That house did not contain just furniture, but it also held memories. Every birthday party, every Christmas, every play date and family get-together had taken place in this house. As far back as my memories take me this house had been a part of my life. My eyes filled with tears as I took one last journey through the back yard. An array of emotions overflowed my head as I reminisced through my small, fenced-in magical world. I looked around at the swing set and remembered the numerous hours spent playing on those very swings. The old shed/playhouse made me smile through my tears and as I walked to the back of it, I saw the gravesite of my once-living rabbit, Snuggles. I said my goodbyes to all of my other memories on my play grounds and I walked over to a special spot in the yard. In this spot, there was a tree, it was called the “Raegan Tree” and it was planted when I was only a small baby. The tree started out as just a little stick and it was growing to be big and strong. As I looked at the plant and saw its growth over time, it reminded me of my own growth; the tree encouraged me to stand tall and firm just as it does and it actually gave me strength.
It saddened me to have to think about leaving this place. I had spent my whole life in this home, and I knew nothing other than the safety of Walnut Street. It’s where I learned to ride my bike with and without training wheels, and I remember sitting on the curb of this street in the mornings, waving to people as they drove by on their way to work. Every room and every corner of the inside of the house contained some type of thought or memory that I would hold in my heart forever. My room reminded me of the countless tea parties I had shared with neighbors, and the constant imagining always taking place in my play in this room. On the wall was a measure of how tall I had grown each year of my life. And being only 4 feet tall, I still loved watching how much I grew. I cried in knowing that within less than a few days that memory would be carelessly painted over by the people who were coming to fix the house up to be rented. Although I was young, I realized the value in my memories and how special they were to me. It wasn’t fair and it made no sense to me that I had to leave my home.
My parents told me that our new house would be bigger and have more room for the new baby that was soon to come. They said it would have a pool and an even a larger back yard, but I didn’t care. They took me to see the new house that had just been built and as soon as I got there, I went inside and looked around and saw nothing. It was just as I had expected. Empty. How could they make me live here? This was not a home, it was a house. It was only an empty space for us to keep our stuff in and to sleep in; it contained absolutely no memories and nothing that was of any interest to me. This sudden change that was taking place in my life felt like it was destroying me. Day by day our furniture and other things from the home on Walnut Street began occupying the empty house on Silver Lake Circle. We were completely moved into our new house within two weeks.
The first night in my new room was lonely, the feeling of emptiness haunted me in my sleep, and I felt so out of place. As I laid sleepless in bed, I thought about everything that was to come. The birth of a baby brother or sister is what I had always wanted, but with all the recent change, I was nervous about my new sibling. I hadn’t been coping well with the move from the other house and the thought of another major change began to scare me. About four months had passed and it was getting closer to the due date of the baby’s delivery. On the morning of April 3rd, 2000, I was going about a normal day of second grade when my grandmother arrived and picked me up early from school. I was smart for a second grader and I had a pretty good idea of what was about to happen, she then explained to me that my mother was going into labor. After nine long months of waiting, feelings of excitement, anticipation and nervousness rushed in all at once. It was the best feeling of my life and although I was still scared, I knew that this was going to be probably bigger and better than any other change that had ever taken place in my almost eight years of life.
Hours passed as I waited with my family in the waiting room of the hospital. I could hardly hold myself together and I can remember constantly repeating the question “When is mommy gonna have her?” I spent what seemed like hours in the gift shop trying to make time pass quicker, I picked out matching “I’m the Big Sis” and “I’m the Little Sis” t-shirts and I was able to get some candy and teddy bears for the new member of the family. (But because of the unfortunate lack of teeth in the baby, I was able to eat the candy) FINALLY, after three and a half hours, my baby sister was born. I sprinted through the halls to the room my mom was in and when I walked in, I caught sight of the cutest baby I had ever seen in my entire life. I was the first to hold her and I hardly allowed anyone else to take her from me. This little baby was MY sister, and this was the best thing that had ever happened to me. I have to admit that no other big sister could be prouder than I was that day.
Three days later, we were able to take baby Emma Katherine and my mom back to our house. Still, in the back of my mind I wished we could’ve taken her to our home on Walnut Street, and lived happily ever after there. But when we got to Silver Lake Circle, everything fell perfectly into place. My dad said to me, “Raegan, you are always going to remember this day, when we brought your little sister to our home.” As he said this I thought to myself, this really is going to be a memory I’m going to hold with me forever, and it was my first favorite memory of this new house, and I understood that this house could also be made into a home. All of a sudden, I began to think about the “Raegan Tree”, I wondered if it had grown as I felt I had grown over this short period of time. And sometimes today, when I pass the small house on the corner of Walnut Street, I keep an eye out for the tree; and indeed the “Raegan Tree” is there, and it is bigger than ever, it’s so big that the first time a few years ago when I saw it, I hardly recognized it. Today, I think back when my mom, dad, sister and I were together in our new home for the first time as a family, and I realize that home is not where the house is. No, home is where the heart is.

Tagged!

Well, I was tagged by MK to write 7 random things about myself.. i don't know how random I can be but i'll give it a try.

1. I have two shirts that are my favorite to sleep in. One is a shirt that Mama Newman gave me to wear one day at her house because i was cold. I ALWAYS wear it when im sick and sometimes when i just feel like bein comfy. The other one is a shirt that MK gave me that was brandon's frat. shirt haha i like it because it's big and comfy!

2. The celebrity I would most like to meet is Oprah Winfrey, and although I'm Oprah-deprived because of practice every day after school, I record her show every day and I watch it sometimes on the weekends. She also kinda helped out in inspiring my dream job, which is something like a child psychiatrist or liscensed counselor.. something in that area.

3. When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a child's poetry writer, like Shel Silverstein, i love him! I still think it would be so cool to actually write a book like that and get it published one day.

4. I like alot of music, but my LEAST favorite type is screamo. I can't stand to hear it... and it really gets on my nerves. Most of all, it's just flat out scary!!

5. [I'm running out of randomness!] I like eating cracker-stackers.. those little lunchable things? lol, random?

6. My favorite drink is sprite and I don't go a day without it. I don't drink water much even though i know i should!

7. I get olsars in my mouth aLOT. and they are extremely painful. I once lost 5 pounds because I couldn't eat because of a huge olsar. And when I get one, i have to get other ones. And i hate putting that medicine that feels like wax on it because it makes me drool everywhere. haha

that's it for now,
anyone who is reading this-- you've just been tagged!

Softball-ready.

Today was our first softball game. We had a tourney in Texarkana that started today, and will continue tomorrow.
Even the 38 degrees didn't stop us, we beat Maud but lost to Atlanta by 2. We decided not to play the third game because it's really just a practice tourney, and we were freezing and sore. so coach gave us a break because we absolutely have to be ready for the district game on tuesday.
It's weird this year because last year, i played half the game, and i only played outfield. left field usually.. and i hardly ever got to hit. but THIS year, i play second base anndd im leadoff hitter. it makes me nervous having to start off the game buttt.. lol i have to get up bright and early tmro morning to go play... i just realllyy hope that it's not cold. today was practically miserable.
it's been a while since i have written and i have hardly anything to write about. i've been so busy lately i can't even remember anything.
i'm pretty sure im just tired tho, its midnight and i have to get up early, of course.
believe it or not, i haven't slept-in in months, that's like, my specialty.
i'm going to think about something important i need to write about then come back and write tommorow.

Hot Hearts!

Well, it's been a while.

but then again, not many people read my blog anyways and for those of you that do, sorry! (thats what like, 3 people? lol)

but anywayyyyss! the other weekend we went to a church thing called hot hearts in texarkana. They had a really good speaker and the band Leeland [which i didnt get to see because they were only there the first night] and they had a magician guy who waas really funny.. it was fun! we got there late because of a basketball game [our last one, sadly] and so we missed the first night. but we got to the hotel in time for room assignments! me and leslie got a room to ourselves, it was fun! the room was huge, two beds and a tv :] we watched halloween 5 but we got to tired to continue at about 3:oo. we also took lots of pictures, of course.

so here's a few i thought i'd share!

im superwoman :]

.... and spiderwoman...

haha so is leslie

day 2: refreshed. well, besides the fact that my hair is sticking up haha

That's it for now. I was really just writing this in attempt to procrastinate from starting a research paper. but i guess i need to go get to work on that! [its over the negative effects of TV if anyone just happens to have some info on that!]

Where'd it go?

My hair! its like.... gone!

i got a new do yesterday!

.....AND a new layout!!

here we go:

The Little Molemaid!!

Hey, chemistry is so easy, a SEVEN year old can do it! No, literally! I was working on my project today which consisted of making a mole (the animal) and making it into something creative... for example: Moldy Locks, Namoleon Dynamite, you get the point. Emma decided that she was going to help me and as i hotglued my mole together and stuffed it, she pulled out her ariel doll and took off the dress or whatever it was wearing.. and it fit perfectly!! so, thanks to emma, i now have my chemistry project: The Little Molemaid!! here's some pics

(yes, i know... the hot glue looks tacky but give me a break, i cant sew!! and anyways we dont have any needles/threads/or sewing machines around the house.)

Emma with her masterpiece!

funFILLED weekend!

This weekend has been VERY busy, and there's still more to come!


It has mainly consisted of.....





Homecoming Friday. That's Rex with me in the first pic.. that's who i went with. Too bad you can't really see the mum... i need to take a pic of it and put it on here later... it was big! The only thing about it is they forgot to put Rex's name on it! Idk how they could forget that.. but oh well. Well, for those of you who don't know, my school doesnt HAVE football, so basketball is our sport, we have a basketball homecoming. Same thing pretty much. The second pic is of me and leslie right before the homecoming peprally, we were trying to get in the spirit! It was weird going to a peprally and not being a cheerleader!! But, cheer at our school is different than cheer at other schools [the whole non-football thing has a lot to do with that]









Then after the game i went straight to Disciple Now at First Baptist. It was FUN! The top picture is Alyssa, Dayna, me, Claire, and Leslie with our leader Meagan! The other one is of all the people in our house we were staying at, it was 10th and Eleventh girls. We were holding up #1 signs because our house won the scavenger hunt! We stayed up until 4 both friday and saturday night and here's the only thing that kept us going:

and there was this other energy thing that kept us up all night!

it was fun, but.. thats it for now, im going to a lock-in at church tonight,

im running on no sleep!

check out tha new RIDE!

Well,

it's almost that time in my life, sweet sixteen. Although i have 4 months left until my actual sweet sixteen i pretty much got my present a bit early. Its a CAR! A used ford explorer '04 model i think? the inside is reeeeeealllyy nice for a used car, and im likin the look of it to! I admit the colors not my favorite but it's perfect for a first car and i am so excited!!! (See Brandon I told you i was excited) Only a few months and i'll be out on the roads!!

so, here's me and my car, i'm gonna have to think of a name for it. And, if your wondering what to get me for my bday, how bout some stuff for my car! (MY car, yeah, sounds weird)

This weekend has been relaxing because exams are OVER and NO HOMEWORKK!! that is a first.

Today me and zac went with jana to eat at laura's and i hung out with him alot today. I babysat him this morning and this is how MK found me when she got home....

If you can't see my situation, my hands and my feet are handcuffed together and there is a cord tied from my feet to my hands. There is also a belt around my mouth. I was held hostage!! lol me and zac were just playing a nice little game of..... "bad guy" and as you can see, i was the bad guy.

Here's a pic from our lunch date

This has been an exciting day and i need sleep, i have to get up bright and early so i can go all the way to sulpher springs so i can actually learn how to drive my car. (my car, haha i still cant get over that one.) Sorry for the delay between posts