Wow. I completely forgot that I had a blog. I'm going to try to keep this thing up and running.  We'll see how it goes :)   Today I am going to do a Good New Club at Longstreth Elementary with my mom, sister, and friend. This is our third year bringing a club to Longstreth. It is so much fun to watch the kids take an interest in the gospel and see all the hands up in the air when asked a question about the bible lesson. So far the number of kids has been growing, yay!  We are half way through the club. After today we will only have one club left. It is my hope and prayer that more kids will come at be exposed to the gospel and that they will accept Christ as there God and Savoir. 

Just Catching Up

I haven't written in FOREVER, but i don't think that anyone has noticed because i don't think that anyone reads this.. any how, I have been very busy with school and music, and just got over a stomach flu. Last weekend I went tubing with my cousins and had allot of fun. It was cut short a little because one of my cousins wanted to get home to insure that he would get some more of my Aunts coveted creme cheese pie. I am the only member on both sides of my family that does not like creme cheese pie. Sometimes I wonder if my mom dropped me when I was a baby.. any how, life over all has been good to me, and I have a few activities that I enjoy. I do mothers helping for a lady at our church a few times a month, and enjoy it allot. She teaches me that basics with her baby like bathing, changing, giving them a bottle, ect. I also do orchestra which I don't enjoy a lot because every one there goes to the same school, and talks about people at there school, being home schooled I can't join in.. So next this summer i am going to stop orchestra and do drama again! I did it once or twice and I enjoyed it allot both times.. anyway, I don't have anything  really interesting to write about so I will stop now.. 

Black Friday!!

ugh. Black Friday. Tired. Sick. Broke (jk). Happy. That pretty much sums it up. But for the sake of my none existent readers, I will elaborate.  We started off with Kohl's. Go  figure, If you know me well enough and ask me were I get my clothes, 99.9 % of the time I will say Kohl's. I got a $36 skirt for $7, and two sweaters for $18. We then went to Walmart where I got my game. By then  I wasn't feeling too well.. Maria decided to look for a dress for her winter ball at her school. We traveled the 20 min commute to the Montgomery Mall. We started out a JC Penny, and no luck, we then went to Macy's where Maria bought a dress, but still wanted to look around for something better. By now I was dragging my feet, begging for a drink, and sneezing every five minuets. Not Pleasant! After that we went to Forever 21.  We were in there less then a minuet. We then went to look for the car. We came out of the wrong exit and had to walk to the other parking lot. By then I had fully developed blisters. We got to the car. My Aunt and sister went back to Macy's to return the dress and re-buy it with there coupon. I got to stay in the car! And that is my story. Somehow I feel that it is no where close to how bad my dad feels. He left at 11:30 Thanksgiving Day to start shopping. Oh well. what can I say??? My family LOVES to save money!! 

Thanksgiving Day.... !

Hey, I haven't posted in FOREVER!! Happy Thanksgiving peoples who never read my blog... gobble gobble. Let me start with.. IT SNOWED ON THANKSGIVING!!! Today I ate one and a half plates of food. Mostly starches like stuffing, corn pudding, and mashed potatoes. I lay down on the couch and dozed of. It is like my Dads mom (my grandma that lives in Africa) always said, there is a string that attaches the upper eyelids to the stomach, the heavier the stomach becomes, the further the eyelids get pulled down. I woke up to rolling off the couch, landing right on our hard wood floors. Comfy. I was overjoyed to have to choices in entertainment. Watching more football that involved two teams that I don't care about, or watching my cousins play monopoly. I have spent about 20 mins watching football, and an hour and a half of watching a boring monopoly game. Then the fun part came. I got to play SOCCER!! I played my dad, and beat him two times. Then I played me 26 year old cousin and beat her.. Shockingly it wasn't to challenging.. *chuckle chuckle*..  All in all I am stuffed, tired, (It is 11 o'clock and my cousins left.. :(... ) and I can not wait for the Black Friday shopping tomorrow!! Khol's is having an absolute BLOW OUT sale, and I am the BIGGEST Kohl's shopper EVA!! As you have probably noticed by all the caps, I am VERY HIPPER from all the cups of like PURE caffeine I drank.. ah.. I can't wait till Christmas...

A Party, a Horse, and a Newspaper... How Do They Connect? THEY DON'T!

I am throwing a swim party for the 5-8 graders at Grace Academy. Grace is a group of home schoolers, we all meet, and do extra curricular classes together, such as art, cooking, gym, music and ministry, scrap booking, photography, and pooling weeds. (Don't ask) It took me a day to send out the invitations, I asked everyone to R.S.V.P. 5 people out of about 20 have responded. I am kinda stressing out because the party is tomorrow, so I am hoping that all of them will respond today. Maybe I am being a little over ambitious, considering what time it is...    

But anyway, life have been pretty hectic these last few weeks, like at our farm (yes we have a farm and 2 horses) Scout, (my horse) isn't being very good, I give him a D RING SNAFFLE BIT, which has no leverage, meening that if he throws his head up, I have NO control, and I can't get it back down. So I changed to a REGULAR SNAFFLE BIT. It gives me much more leverage. But even then, Scout didn't like the bit and still would throw his head up, shake his head, and snort. I walked around the big pasture on him with someone leading me, it went fine. Later that day, I rode him with out a lead, and in the small pasture. He was not very good, He would dance around, and throw his head, and spook. So we are thinking about getting another horse that is older, and has its manners hammered into its head. Because we really don't want to have to re-teach scout his manners every time we go up there, because we are not up there enough or long enough. I am sure we could teach Scout, but we rather not... 

Maria has been chosen as one of the writer for the teen section in the local newspaper! She is so exited! We are all very proud of her. She had been working on her article that she would send in to try to be on of the selected writers. She sent in one of her 2 articles "I don't like the Jonas Brothers" and "Face Book Etiquette" I don't know which one she actually sent in, but either way, they liked it! She then wrote an article titled "Back to School" Her editor liked it, and said that he would put it in this week. What is really nice about this, is that there are about 60 writers for the same section, so when they find inspiration, they write, send it in, and get it published. So there is no demand as to how much or how often they have to write. So, congrats Maria!

Bow Hunting II

I have been to my violin teachers house twice. This is how it went the first time I went to his house. I showed up with the bows. He took one look at the black bow, announced that it was carbon fiber (not at all pernambuco wood which is the best wood to make bows with) and that It would most likely sound like crap. What did I say in reply? "Crap!" I played the bows for him. He decided that the one from Fred's shop that is not the fat one was the best. I agreed.  We decided to look a while longer, but still hold onto it

 About a month later, we had gone to Elizabeth's and Fred's shop again. I picked out 3 bows at Elizabeth's shop. One was made of a wood that she had no idea what it was. It had a very pretty ringing tone, and was very loud. One was made of pernambuco wood, grown in Brazil. The very best wood you can get. It had a very pretty melodramatic sound on the lower strings, and an energetic sounds on the higher strings. It rung allot on the lower strings, but not very much on the higher strings. The third bow was one that Elizabeth made herself. It was made to sound and act like a $30,000 bow that some really famous bow maker made. It was my favorite. It had a beautiful ringing sound on every string, and was very nimble. I also picked out 1 more at Fred's shop. It have a creamy sound to it, but didn't ring very much.

  

     My mother called my teacher and told him about each bow. From the sound of it, he said not to get the bow Elizabeth made. She is not well known enough to price her bows that high, plus it didn't even have her frog on it, which she said she would make for us for another $2,000. We didn't care about the frog. It is just valuable on the artistic side of bows.  It does not change the sound at all. But it does take away from its value. My teacher also said not to get the bow that we don't know what kind of wood its made from. He said that she is a bow maker, she should know what kind of wood it is, and the fact that she doesn't is a really bad sign. So all that was left was that pretty bow. 

    Here is a link to a diagram of a bow to help you out! Click   HERE.

 We went to my teachers house, and I played all the bows for him. He said  that he wasn't impressed with any of them, that they where all run of the mill, and not to buy them. He know has some of his friends looking around for me. So all in all we are back to square one.     :(

Anniversary Chmanniversary...HIBACHI!!!

Happy Anniversary!! Today Is my parents Anniversary. Our well pump is broken, so we are currently out of water. My dad wanted to take us out to eat, so we went to the Y to shower. I felt very uncomfortable showering there.. when ever somebody walks by, the shower curtain blows up.. when we got back, my dad had flowers for mother, and was ready to go to a HIBACHI GRILL!!! So while Daniel, Papa, and I where waiting for Maria and Mama to put on there makeup and stuff, I went into the laundry room, and saw a cake that said "Happy Birthday Kathleen." I went to papa and said...

"Why did you get a birthday cake for mama? Is it her Birthday?"

He said "No. It's our Anniversary."

"So why does the cake say "Happy Birthday?..."

"Does It? Oh shoot.."

He then tried to scrape off the words, but that didn't work, so the cake now said "Happy Birthda Kathleen!" While he was trying to scrape off the letters, papa sent me upstairs to get mama's Mothers Day cards that he had lost....

The Hibachi Grill was sooo much fun!! The cheff would flick the extras at us, and we would try to catch it in our mouths. Maria caught EVERYTHING the guy flew at her.. any way... thats all!