I have the bestest friends in the whole wide world.....

I can't even begin to express how blessed I am to have the friends that God has placed in my life. I love them to death!

I've known Ellie aka "Ellers" since I was like 2, and we are still best friends, and I hope that never changes. She's hilarious, caring, has an enormous heart for orphans, and can always make me laugh. I think I spend more time at her house then I think I do at mine!:) haha you know your friends when you have no problem just walking in to their kitchen, open the fridge and get your self something to eat haha....I don't know what I would do with out ellie! she's my other half hahah...

Emily, I'm pretty sure she's been at every single one of my birthday parties since we were like 5 :) She is super sweet, shy, caring, and Smart. I know I can always call her when I need help with any kind of school work!haha and we have had MANY good times together in class, just hanging, and at New life camp during the summer!
A lot of my childhood memories have Emily and Ellie in it. They just make me memories even more better!!

Erica aka Erkle...oh man where can I begin with this girl..haha...I only just met her two years ago at Lighthouse basketball tryouts. She was trying out and I was working the registration table. I wasn't gonna play, but then when the team needed another girl to have a full roster, I volunteered. And boy an I happy I did!!! But I've gotten to know erica really well this past year. We were on the same team again this past year (we were the only returning Jv players) and we were in Geometry class together. I spent around 5-6 days a week with Erkle between class, basketball games and practices and just hanging out, and we never got sick of each other! haha...but now that basketball season is over, that only leaves one scheduled time..Geometry...but that's ok cuz it just forces us to get together more often for fun!:)
Erica is super crazy, hilarious, caring, and can always make me laugh!

Me and Morgans aka Mo Mo story is kind of funny. I've know Morgan for a couple years. We were in choir together, and our brothers were on the same baseball team together. But I had no clue at the time that she would be come one of my bestest friends! I hadn't seen her in a while, but then me, ellie, and morgan were volunteers at a Steven Curtis Chapman concert, and that was the start of an awesome friendship! Mo Mo lives like 45 minutes away, so we can't get together as much as we would like, but when we do it's a BLAST. Mo Mo is superr funny, nice, loving, crazy, has a great sense of stylee, and I know when I have a crummy day I can always call mo mo and she'll make it all better! haha.

I am soooooo blessed that God has put these ladies in my life. We have the absolute greatest times!! and have gone through so much together! They are my bestest friends in the whole wide world, and I love each and every one of them to death. I don't know what I would do with out any one of them!!


Me and Ellers


gangsta Erkle and ellers haha


Mo Mo, Erkle, Ellie and I....Love themmmmm


Me and Mo Mo...:)


ellie is just a little shorter then erica haha


Emily and Ellie.....FABULOUS


Me and Erkle...haha the ceiling was kinda low


moveis with Morgan!


YAY! :) MoMo, Ellers, Manda


Me, Morgan, Ellie and Morgans adorable little sister Amber :)

Here is a little adventure we all went on during a basketball tournament...they all came to watch me and erica and then they all slept over at my house! :)

My mosaic

I really like this! it's so me!! :) and sorry for not posting in forever... I'll try to post a real post as soon as possible!


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2. What is your favorite food?
3. What is your favorite color?
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5. Dream vacation?
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7. What you want to be/do when you grow up?
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One Heart Beat... One Team

We went to the State Homeschool Basketball Tournament a couple of weekends ago in Greensboro, and my team came home as the JV Girls State champions! WHOO HOO! So not only did we come in 1st at the Eastern Regionals the weekend before, but then managed to win state as well! We played a team from Surry county, and then played Fayetteville again.
Funny story......So we beat Fayetteville for the Regional title after they had beat us twice during the season. So my DAD (being the funny guy that he is :p haha) goes and tells coach Kyle, to tell us, that he heard that the Fayetteville coach said that we didn't even deserve to be on the same court as them, and we were just lucky to have won at regionals. So needless to say when coach told us this, boy, did it tick us off. We already didn't really like Fayetteville, they didn't have very good attitudes on the floor and were snobby....to say the least :/ So it didn't surprise us that the coach could of said that. Anyways we came into that game ready to kick some butt :) and man did we! Well after the game, on the way to the car dad tells me that he made that whole story up and it was just to get us motivated! haha, well it worked! But then we kinda felt bad for being kinda cold to their coach at the end of the game. I'm just glad we didn't do anything we would of regretted! :/ haha but that was a great way to end an awesome season!


this one is a tad bit blurry but you get the idea...haha...


Victory taste oh so sweet! :)


yeah, we're crazy....and I love every single one of them!!

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We all go together like two weeks ago and made tee-shirts. :)


trying to stop long enough to get them done! lol


uh-oh....watch out...:)


It was a blast! :)


the back of my shirt in progress.....we put our nick names on the backs of them...then our number on one sleeve....and team name on the other.


The front of our shirts.....One Heart Beat, One team was like our team logo this year, compliments of coach kyle. :)

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This is something that I wrote after the season that I think fully sums up this season up.

Some say team mates........but I say FAMILY
Others say coach.......but I say MENTOR
Some say losing........but I PAST
Others say Win......but I say NOW
Some say one team.....but I say ONE HEART BEAT
Others say the the most Amazing, Loving, Funny, Talented, Hardworking, Determined team in the whole world......... and I say......
LIGHTHOUSE EAGLES JV GIRLS........NCHEAC East Regional Champions...........NCHEAC State Champions.....
....but to me?........ BEST IN THE WORLD! :)
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Can't wait for next season!!! :)

More Snowwww!

We got more snow! That's twice in one winter!! what's this world coming too! lol We never get snow, and no we've had two good "snows" of about 3-4 inches. That's big here! The roads didn't get to bad, I actually went over to Ellie's house to do geometry homework. But the snow is beautiful! and COLD! That's the one thing I could do with out the freezingness. Like I don't mind cold, just not freezing! I don't like to feel like I'm frozen, no thank you, not for me. But I do LOVE snow. Yes, I know I may sound like I confused. But everything looks so peaceful when it snows! well everything in the yard that it, not so much when you try to drive in it. lol

While Shakespeare Slept

I posted earlier about rehearsals for the play "While Shakespeare Slept" that my TOG class is performing. We preformed it about a week ago, for our whole TOG co-op and their families.

I was "Kate the Shrew" from Shakespeares play "Taming of the Shrew". Yes, I was a shrew. I kept getting told that I didn't even have to act! haha gosh, thanks guys :p lol But everyones character fit them so well, it was almost like the play was writen for us!
We all had a blast, and can't wait for the next play! :)

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Now that's what I call a great weekend!

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS MY FRIENDDD.....AND WE'LL KEEP ON FIGHTING TILL THE END.....DUN Dun dun....WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS....WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

Well the East Regional tournament is over. And my team (the JV girls) in case you didn't notice are the Champions!! We took home the trophy baby! YAY!! :)

The picture is a little blurry, but you get the idea. lol

We only had play one game to take the trophy....now, I know what you are thinking....."Oh one game, big whoop!" BUT, this was a BIG game for us. We were playing Fayetteville (the other homeschool team from the east coast). Fayetteville, lets just say they're are "arch rival." We had played them twice in the season, losing to them both times by 2 points. Yes, 2 stinkin points! So we were DETERMINED to beet them in the tournament. At half time, they were beating us by about 6 points. Well after a pep talk from Coach Kyle, we came back and won the game, beating them by 8 points! :) Boy were we happy! Now on to the State tournament this weekend in Greensboro. Where one of our games will be vs. Fayetteville again. All I got to say is...Watch out for the JV Girls Lighthouse Eagles!

Now coming away from the game. This weekend was fun! :) Ellie, Morgan, Erica, and Emily all came on Saturday to hang out at the gym with me and watch Mice and erica's game. It was funnn! and they all slept over on Saturday night ( we didn't get home from the gym till around midnight.). they came to my church Sunday morning and then we all went and saw "The Confessions of a Shopaholic" at the movies. The movie was really cute! It reminded me a LOT of 27 dresses....one of my favorite movies :) But it was an a awesome weekend with some of the most bestest, super duperest, most amazing friends in the whole wide world! :)

Valentines Day

8am basketball practice. That's how I started my Valentines Day. We have a big basketball tournament this weekend and then the weekend after that. So my coach is going all crazy and adding a whole bunch more practices for the next two weeks. Including 8am last Sat morning. I hate getting up early on Saturdays....Scratch that...I hate getting up early period. Never less getting up early to go to basketball practice! Oh well... that was our last one early morning practice...I hope. But ya, so had basketball practice from 8am-10am. Then I came home and worked on the dreaded program. The dreaded program would be for the basketball tournament this weekend, which my dad is running. So I got drafted to create the program again (I did it last year). And I know what your thinking, oh a program that's not difficult, why is she complaining???. Well people this program includes 50 different teams being listed along with there entire roster, Jersey numbers, positions, and height, a whole bunch of advertisements from businesses. Brackets and schedules for the tournaments, contacts for all the teams, and letters from the NCHEAC board. So far I am at 38 pages, and I'm not done yet. Yes, so I sat down at the computer on Saturday at 10:30am and didn't get up till 5:30pm. Only because, Jason and I went to the Nemitz's house while Mr. Ryan and Mrs. Eve went out with parents for dinner. So that was definitely a nice break! We got home from the Nemitz's around 11pm and I sat down at the computer for another 3 hours. I finally got into bed around 2am....still not done with the program. Anyways that was my valentines day! Hope you guys had a better one then me! :P
Well I gotta go work on the program! haha....

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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