Don't wanna forget a thing.....

Well since I haven't posted in almost 2 months..and after many complaints....I guess I should start up againn.....So here it goes...

The last couple of weeks have been crazy.....

And because they're is just so much....there's a lot of pictures....cuz pictures are worth a thousand words....:)

Basketball season is coming to an end, well the normal season I should say. the last season games are this week. But we still have another month of tournaments. Whoo hoo! I love playing basketball, I love watching basketball, I love keeping the book for the varsity boys team and I absolutely love my basketball team this year. All the girls on my team get along reallyy well, which is a change from last year...but lets not go there right now. Our record right now is 2(wins) -12(lost), even though we haven't won nearly as many games as we did last year. I wouldn't trade my team for anything!









My TOG class is doing a comedy play called "While Shakespeare Slept." It's about Shakespeare and a bunch of his women characters..Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Cleopatra, Macbeth and I'm Kate. The plays perfect for our class cuz our class is made up of 6 girls and 1 boy! haha poor Mickie...
We have been rehearsing it since before Christmas and are finally preforming it on Sunday. It's gonna be a hoot! :)






We went to the Airport to welcome home one of my bestest friends Morgan, and her mom, and her new little brother Amon, and her new little sister Amberlynn they adopted from Ethiopia. They are so cute, I could just eat them up!



A couple weeks after the Craigs (Morgan) got back. They came over to Ellie's house and all the kids played while the moms talked..it was a blast! :)









thay all attacked me...including Morgan...haha...



SNOW! It snowed here! In North Carolina! Like real snow! It was awesome... :)
we haven't had a real snow here in years! I didn't go out side and play in it a whole lot. But I just love to look outside and see everything covered in a layer of sparkly, white snow! :)


My Friends....I have the most aweomsest, amazing, sweet, loving (well most of the time:p), and hilarious friends ever! And we have a had a blast the last few weeks.....:)




















With all the fun stuff that happened in the last few weeks....there was some sad stuff as well....:(

My big brother Alex, left for Iraq this past week. He'll be gone for 1 year + how ever longer they want to keep them there...:(
I'm gonna miss him!






Stay Safe Alex!! And come home soon!

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African Childrens Choir

So I'm officially in love with the African Children's choir! We went to ACC concert this morning with the Nemitzs and the Bartons. Boy are these kids are amazing! Little bundles of energy, and boy can they bust a move :) You could tell that these kids are Praising the Lord with their song and dance. And just glorifying God the whole time. Towards the end of the concert each kids introduced him or her self and said what they wanted to be when they grew up. The last little boy to come up, his name was Joshua and he wanted to be optometrist. Man, was I ready to snatch him off that stage and take him home! (Ms. Eve, your hook idea woulda come in handy at that point ;) He was the cutest kid up there if you ask me! :)


I think this was the only time they were still......... :)

You Mean Their Not Water Proof??

Holy Guacamole, has anyone else realized that Christmas is only 16 days away! I mean wasn't like yesterday that we were all stuffing our faces with turkey? sheesh. I've been telling my self I have plenty of time to get my Christmas shopping done, well that statement is getting further and further from the truth everyday. I guess I should start, huh? And boy do I have a lot of gifts to get! I made a good chunk of money this past weekend, so I can officially hit the stores now. Ok, before I go any further I have tell you my what I did this weekend..good! and bad...

So Friday Night I went over to the Fields house with a bunch of other girls from TOG class, and we just hung out, ate pizza, played catch phrase and apples to apples, and of course TALKED. My mom went to go over school stuff with Ms. Fields, so we didn't end up leaving till around 12:30am ( get got there around 6pm)..haha whoops. But it was a blast hanging out with the girls.

Saturday was busy. The Varsity Boys had a basketball game, and I normally go to because I'm the "stat book" keeper for the team. Well this time I stayed home, cuz it was in New Burn, which is about 3 hours away. So I wasn't gonna drive all that way on a Saturday for a game that I'm not even playing in. So I sent my dad on with out me. Well since I stayed home my mom still put me to work. I only got to sleep into like 9ish. Because I had to get up and iron pillowcases. Yes, pillowcases.

That afternoon My mom was helped put on a Christmas craft fair. Where they had tables set up with crafts for kids to do, tables for people to sell home made gifts, and a gingerbread house contest. Mom had me sit at a table and sell pillowcases (which Sarah made a couple years ago to sell, these were the left overs), calligraphy (framed verses and quotes mom made), and home made chocolate and gingerbread biscotti. I ended up selling like 6 pillowcases! which is more then the zero I was thinkin. So that was $60 in my pocket.... cha-ching :)

The Ginger bread house contest was put on by mom. There were only four entries, and everyone at the fair could vote for their favorite house for 25 cents a ticket. All the proceeds are going to the AHOPE Orphanage in Ethiopia. Well we ended up raising around $60 just from ticket sales and house entry fee's being 5 bucks! And then a lady donated $25 from her craft table. So we raised almost $100 for the orphanage! There was also a table set up for kids to make Christmas cards for the children in the orphanage. And we ended up getting like 30 cards made! pretty cool for a little homeschool craft fair. :)

Saturday night I babysat for a family in out homeschool group. These kids are Super cute! I LOVE babysitting them, They've got a 8 yr old, 5yr old, 2yr old, and a 7 month old. The parent took the baby this time, But I love playing with kids. And Bed time goes pretty smoothly! always a plus :) haha. Well That was another $32 in the pocket..I think I hear another cha-ching on it's way :) So I made almost $100 by sitting at a table for two hours and playing with kids for 4 hr's. Now that made me happy! :) lol

Well...this is where the bad news starts to creep in.....
After I got home from babysitting, I threw a bunch of clothes in the washing machine so I would have clean clothes for church in the morning. Everything was going like a normal Sat night for me, I checked my facebook and email, watched some TV, did some "tidying up" Well I went to go move my clothes to the Dryer. I went and opened the washing machine lid, and there laying on top of all the clothes was .....DUN Dun dun......My mom's Cell phone!!!!! AHHH!!
yes I washed my mothers new cell phone in the washing machine. I mean now looking back at it, I think it's kinda funny. But boy didn't think so when I opened that lid! I screamed...not like a high pitch screech...more like a AHHHhh! lol. I called my mom over and apparently she thought I died or something by the look on her face when she ran over. haha, but I showed her the phone, and I was like at the point of tears. I just didn't want to get drilled. haha. We took the battery out and laid it all out to dry over night and see what the verdict was in the morning. But I mean I wasn't really planning on it working after taking a bath in laundry detergent and water. Well I was right. Anyways we showed my dad and he called the Verizon people, because you see, we only bought this phone like 2 weeks ago, so he called to see how many days you had after you buy a phone to buy insurance on it. Well it was 15 days, guess what! We were on day 14!! Boy did I luck out! If we had waited one more day to call them it would have been to late! Well since you could still buy insurance on it which is like $5 a month, I'm gonna have to pay like nothing compared to what I was gonna have to pay to buy a brand new phone! can you say SCORE!! especially since I was gonna have to use all the money I just earned that day! lool Yea, so that was the excitement of the weekend. Normally this would be something Eric would do :p, but I guess it was my turn....But now my turn is over, and I don't want another one! :)

Now I'm in the middle of a super hectic, busy, stresfull week, between my team and the Varsity Boys, I've got basketball everyday this week including Sat, except for Wed. I've gotta get my rough draft for my research paper done by Friday night, and a module of Chemistry. Plus a geometry mid term, and all the other normal school I gotta get done. My choir sang at the mall this week, and got rehersal tomorow(getting ready for out concert) and me, mom and J are going to an African Childrens Choir concert! which I'm super excited about! I can't remember what else I got to do this week, and I don't really wanna think about it. :p Wish Me luck!

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?! :-)