Happy Thanksgiving!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I'm so thankful to God for providing me, A family who loves me, The bestest friends in the whole entire world, A warm house, clothes, food and water, And soooooooo much more! But above all I'm thankful for Jesus Christ my Savior for dying on the cross for our sins. And for that I will be eternally grateful.

F for FAILURE

So I think I officially get an F for FAIL at this whole blogging thing... twice a month is kinda sad on my part. sorry. Ok lets get caught up here....
Basketball is going good. My team has only had one game so far, and we lost by like 10 points, but it was a really good game and we played good. We run, run, run, OH! and run some more at practices. We got a new coach this year, wayyyy better then last years coach is so many ways. This coach is really whipping us into shape, and we have already learned a lot, even those of us who have played for a couple years. It's been a pretty good season so far.
School is going pretty well, still in the process of writing a ten page research paper on "Famous Artists of the Renaissance." My writing got stopped for a little while due to a broken computer. Our house computer went down along with my research! talk about major UGH! that was like two weeks ago, but our new computer finally came today! YAY! I am officially no longer cut of from the world! haha. We had my dad's work lap top at night, but then me and mom were competing for that, and she always won.haha But now we finally have a new computer that works! :)
Sarah and Eric are home from college for Thanksgiving break. Alex comes home tomorrow from Texas! Excited about everyone being home again! Hopefully will be a good weekend. :/ Call me a little kid, but I'm super excited about watching the Thanksgiving day parades! Especially the Macy's Parade! hehe.. spend the morning watching parades on TV, then spend the afternoon eating SUPER yummy food and playing football, and then spend the evening sitting on the couch watching a movie complaining on eating to much. haha ...gotta love Thanksgiving!
Well that was a little bit...I'l try to write more as soon as I can! And see if I can do better then twice and month!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

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National Adoption Day

Happy National Adoption Day!!!!


also....CONGRATS to Morgan and the rest of the Craigs for Passing Court for their adoption this week!!! Can't wait for you to bring them home! So Excited for You!!! :)

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Much Ado About Nothing....

So business has taken over my life. :-p I basically never have a day that I don't have something. Volleyball season ended a couple weeks ago, but basketball started before v-ball ended. So no brake from sports! We practice for 2 hours on Tuesday and Thursday. And since we only get to practice twice a week, when schools practice everyday, our coach makes us work harddd. Like can't walk after practice hard..lol. We're trying to get ready for our first game in a week and a half, which mean we run, run, run, oh and run some more. Yuck. My dad is also once again the coach for the Varsity Boys team, which I keep the "books" for. Their season starts this weekend, so I'll be going to all there games, on top of mine. But I love keeping the books, so I'm definitely not complaining on that subject. :-)
School is...well school. I love my geometry class! Geometry is Soooo much better then Algebra...which I'm STILL doing from last year by the way. I'll be lucky if I get it done before I graduate! haha :-p We're still doing TOG (Tapestry of Grace) co-op. Class is fun, but there is a LOT of work. In the process of writing a 10 page research paper on famous artists of the Renaissance..fun stuff :p. In case you didn't notice we're learning about the Italian Renaissance, Shakespeare, Leonardo De Vinci, ect. ect. ect. We just finished reading Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"...it's was alright..bunch of gibberish if you ask me. :-)
Chemistry is total BLAH, the end. Can't remember what else I'm doing at this moment...I guess none of it is to bad, if I can't remember them on the top of my head! lol
Still doing choir. It's fun, I like it :-) And we're getting ready for our Christmas concert, so we're doing Christmas songs! who would a thought! I love Christmas songs! Christmas songs are my favorite! lol. No but I seriously can't wait for CHRISTmas! It's my favorite time of the year! <3 :-) Though personally I think it's just wrong that they already have a bunch of Christmas stuff in the stores, and it's we haven't even had Thanksgiving yet! No Joke, I went into a Craft store a couple of days ago and they were playing Christmas music! sheesh. :p
Oh, my foot is still all messed up. Basically feels like there is a huge knife jabbed into my foot when I run, jump, slide, basically anything athletic! I'm going to physical therapy twice a week to "strengthen" it. So I get on the stationary bike, elliptical, do all this funky balancing things standing on all these funky boards, balls, and tubes. haha some are fun, others not so much. haha normally when I leave P.T. my legs feel like jello, and I'm gonna fall over just walking to the car! :0 I think it's helping, honestly I can't tell the difference, but the physical therapist said it is. I just went and got orthotics to put in my basketball shoes, they're helping, pain isn't as bad with them. Going to another foot doctor (there's a special name for it that's like a mile long, and takes a whole breath to say, haha) in a couple weeks. Lets see the first doctor told me it was broken, then he sent me to another doctor who said it wasn't broken, but that I had "tendinitis" (a fancy word for "I don't know what exactly is wrong, so it must be ______ :p), then I went to another doctor who said I don't have tendinitis but have "Metatarsalgia". Now it took me about a month to even be able to say it. But apparently that's what I have....Metatarsalgia. He also recommended I stop playing sports for a while. HA!
hmmm...I wonder what fancy word this new Doctor will come up with....
Ales is coming home from Texas this weekend!!! YAY!! haven't seen him since the beginning of Aug! Sarah and Eric are also coming this weekend from Appalachian. Double YAY! So the whole Family is gonna be home this weekend! Whoa! When was the last time that happened?? Looking forward to it!

Well hopefully this rather long post will "satisfy" some of you for a while :-)

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Solja Boy..

So we made a scare crow , using one of Alex's old camo army uniforms and boots. haha mom has named him her "solja boy". He's super cute :-) He sits in our front yard, next to the road greeting anyone driving past. He looks like a real person when looking from behind, so when we first put him out there, Ranger (our dog) sat at the window barking his head off at it..it was really funny. It still catches him off guard when we walks by the window and starts growling...haha...

How Cute is He?! :-)

Champions Once Again...

About a week ago we went to Winston Salem; Wake Forest University, for the weekend for my volleyball tournament. My volleyball team this year went 16(w)-2(l) during the season, which is a HUGE differance from the past years where we've been around 9-9. This was an Awesome season! And I love all the girls on my team to death!! :-) Well needless to say we went into the tournament very confident. And well...We Won the Whole thing! For the 4th year in a row we are the -NCHEAC JV Volleyball State Champions!- Whoo Hoo! Andddd the Varisty won too!! We're both took home the first place trophey! YAY!

We played 4 games totall in two days. The first game we crushed the other team, then the second game was VERY close, tough game, bu we came out on top, the third game was also a VERY close, hard, tough game, but again we came out on top! and then for the Championship game we ended up playing the team weplayed in the second game, but this time we CRUSHED them for our 4th state title in a row! I also got tournament MVP! YAY! haha something I've wanted for the last 4 years and now I finally got it! lol

:-) It was a very fun weekend and playing volleyball, hanging in the hotel, hanging and eating with the team, being crazy with my friends...ya know, the usual :-p

haha playing in the stairwell waiting for our next game..


CAPTAINS! :-)

Katie has been on the team years leading up to this one but she went to school this year. :-(

LOVE HER TO DEATH! <3

GO EAGLES!!!

Photography

I don't have a fancy expensive camara...but I still love taking pictures!

These are my favorite! =

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Choir

I'm in the Raleigh Homeschool Girls Choir again this year...some of m friends are also apart of it, and it's a lot of fun and we learn a lot. This is my 5th semester I've been in it I believe. We have done music ranging from songs from "Les miserables" and "Wicked", the traditionals like "all things bright and beautiful" and "Come thou Fount", to ones from poems like "Winken, Blinken and Nod" and "I'm nobody who are you?", and last semester we did a song in Spanish, and another one in Latin! This semester we have only have like 9 songs, a lot of them being christmas music. We have a Christmas concert in Dec. and then a spring concert usually in May. I love singing and really enjoy this choir. Our directer is super nice and was homeschooled when she was young as well!
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