View From A Lens

i decided to straighten my hair in this picture. i havent done that for a while and thought it would be fun. please excuse my tired look... i was very tired. it takes me a while to fall asleep while here sometimes, and at this point i had had quite a few long days and nights;)

lainey#1

lainey#2


during this time i had been babysitting lainey for three days straight. dad and lori gave the nanny the week off, which was nice, so i could watch her. usually she is here and it is hard to spend time with lainey. i mean she has to do her job and all, i being a big distraction. you know i recall this one time where i was in my room playing guitar and lainey came in the room to sit with me. the nanny came in, took her out and closed my door. ya, i think i get in the way of her job=) SO it was really nice to take care of her msyself. both dad and lori were at work, leaving lainey and i alone from about 9 a.m. to 6 or 7 p.m.

EarthQuake

okay i really really dont like earthquakes. the last one, a few years ago, was horrible. i dont remember the rating, as far as how big it was, was. i do know that it was big and felt like it lasted forever.

i was up in the kitchen, making lainey lunch and then it starts. at first i didnt know what was going on. i then thought that maybe someone was pounding on the deck doors. so i ran over to lainey and looked at the doors, nothing was there. then i realized. i got a little light headed and almost cried. oh man. that scared me so bad. i had to take a second afterwards to breathe in deeply.

i guess that the earthquake originated in chino. we havent felt any after math. the first one was a 5.4 and the ones after were 3.8 i dont know why i am typing all that. i am sure that you all have a tv and can watch the news. lol! my brain is still recovering.

my phone isnt really working. ill get a text and then can relpy... sometimes i can reply. only two texts went through though.

Basics

church was good today. i am really glad that i was able to go. the pastor and his family were really nice people.

noelle is sick at home. i feel bad for her. but i guess her temp is down. so that is good. say a prayer for her? please?

my dad left to the station this morning. which is a bumber. i had no one to drink coffee with=) he wont be home until wednesday. he said that he was prolly going to get next week off. i am glad for that. i always worry about him....

laineys nanny is taking the week off. so i will be watching her while lori and dad are gone at work. so, until wednesday it will just be lainey and i.

this is all mindless chatter... for the most part.

Joint Suffering

so i thought i had the strum pattern down on that song. i was wrong. it sounds like i have to reverse the pattern. i wish there was an easier way to get the strum pattern than just listening to the song. oh well. it is the way it is.

my mom talked to our pastor and got the name of a church for me to go to this sunday. it turns out that the pastor at the church down here and the pastor at my church back home are friends. i thought that was awesome. i am so glad that i can go to church while i am down here. it makes me sad to miss church.

geeze my pinkie is so sore from playing!!! seriously. its the joint that hurts. it is worth it though. soon it wont hurt and i (hopefully) will be better on the guitar.

i think that i am going to go in the pool.

Black and White

so there wont be too much going on today. dad, lainey, and i may put together this digital picture frame for my grandpa and mail it. other than that nothing much is going on. maybe ill spend sometime in the pool today. im sure we all will.

last night the news says that we are going to have a hot and sticky weekend. course that had to happen when i came. usually when i come, dad says i bring the rain. for a while when i came down it would rain almost everytime. thats a good sign huh? lol!

i talked to our pastors wife more about the photography idea before i left. she has two slr cameras... she would let me borrow one of them to work with. id only be able to use it while i was with her learning all the technical stuff. i still think thats pretty cool. i dont know how serious she is, but could become her apprentice. at least her and my mom have mentioned it. again i dont know hwo serious she is...

so i think we might be redecorating my room while i am here. i want to say what it would look like... but- if we do it, id rather take a picture and post it=) it would be really awesome if we did.

South Bound Train

well, i am in socal now. that was a long train ride. i think that it was seven hours. im not sure. i wasnt keeping track. i was too tired to have to think. i almost couldnt even read. i mostly just used my ipod and looked out the window. i made a few valant atepmts at sleep. that didnt work. i cant sleep during the day. there have been only a few times that i have been able to. (im usually sick when that happens). it was funny. i was on the train listening to south bound train- jon foreman, and the conductor says,"enjoy your trip on this south bound train to san diego" at the same time as the song. i thought that was funny/cool.

i miss home already. my mom, dean and the sibs. as soon as i got on the train i missed them and wanted to be home. i do that a lot. pretty much anytime that i leave for a longish time.

wow. i am having diffuculty. i havent used a key board seprate from the computer (or laptop) since tennessee. it is weird.

i am at my grandmas house. my dad is coming to pick me up in the late morning of tomorrow. yay! i get to sleep in:-)

i have been working on playing she doesnt get it- the format. it is so fun! i almost have it. i am so glad that i was bale to bring the guitar with me... it feels good to accomplish a song on the piano or guitar. i cant even explain it.

i am dying to know what happens on alias. uh! i have a season and a half left to go before i finish it. ill be glad when i dont have an addiction (which it is). it is not an obsessive thing... i just really want to know what happens!

just pointless, meaningless ramble. thats all this is really.

Packing Blues

i detest packing. seriously. finding stuff to match, wondering if you are going to have to fight with the space in the suitcase, trying to decide if you really need "this" or not, not wanting to look retarded with a bunch of bags so you condense more (only later to wish that you hadnt)... i do not enjoy it at all. i am leaving tomorrow morning. geeze. i just want to sit down and watch alias.

i currently have clothes hanging all around my room air drying. most of my clothes i cant dry in the dryer. however... that is better than shrinking your clothes. my room is a laugh right now. i even wonder at how much ill bring of whats hanging up..???

well, i shouldnt be on here. i have a lot to do. i just dont want to to it.

i bought some awesome clothes today and new shoes. (target) who doesnt love target!?

peace

A Rock to the Face

well it looks like i may be going to visit my padre this next week. i havent seen him since christmas. there is a reason though... whats cool is, i may be taking a train down there. i have never ridden on a train. i am pretty excited. i am actually certain that i will be going on a train. so not might but am taking a train down:-)

i really want to bring the guitar down with me. i have in the past. i have a lot of free time there... i could spend quite a bit of time learning a few songs that i have wanted to learn. by the way, that is going good. there a few of us, from church, that are going to meet at our pastors house to practice guitar. our pastor is really good on the guitar. he came over yesterday to change my strings and file the nut down so the action isnt so far from the neckboard. it is so much nicer!!! it almost feels like and electric guitar.

so ya. the last time i went surfing i biffed it and smashed my face into the wet sand (while in the water). you know how the sand compacts when you hit it if its wet? well, it feels like a rock. the scabs have finally come off my forehead and nose. (yes i did bleed) i do have a little bit left on my nose. im sure it will be gone soon. my nose is still totally sore. that was fun. massive headache.

Refreshment

i had a wonderful day at the beach. it was so amazing to be out there, past the break scanning for waves. it was so refreshing! i tried a new board out today. it was a stewart long board. it was the longest board i have ever ridden. it took a while for me to get used to it. once i did, it was a sweet ride.

my grandma, jake, carter and myself went to see journey to the center of the earth. it was pretty good. i laughed a lot. though i dont think that it was all that funny. i think i was just really tired. like i laughed at the stupidest possible parts. like when they were about to die. i dont know what to say for myself. i was tired. i havent surfed for a week or two so it took the energy out of me!!!

i am so tired that i am dizzy. i think that i will turn in for the night.

peace

The Color Green

okay so i saw the coolest thing today!!! i saw a praying mantis for he first time! it was so awesome! it was dead. but still!

i pretty much just wanted to share that with you...

joanna is here. she spent the night and i think that we might go to michaels. not too sure=)

Opportunity Calls

well our pastors wife came over yesterday and gave me some guitar music to work on for church. im so excited!! i really hope that i can do this. im not like amazing at guitar or anything. though, i havent been practicing either. so that doesnt help. hopefully ill be good at playing soon. she also told me that they may use me on the piano. so AWESOME!!! they are trying to make a list of people who can play an instrument and asking if they are at all interested in playing for church service. all the people who are interested would switch off playing for service...

also, our pastors wife is a good photographer and has been thinking of training an apprentice (or find one...). SO she offered to teach me the techical stuff. I think she is wanting to have a little photography business. at least both she and my mom were hinting at me as a possible apprentice. again, AWESOME!!! that would be such a cool job type thing... oh yes. i cant remember what the name of the camera she would lend me to use is... it is a name i have never heard. i do know that she has two of them and so she would lend me one.

i have had a lot going on and yet not. it is weird sounding. it almost doesnt make sense. i havent really gone anywhere. it is just a lot in my personal activities and then these two opportunities^ just last night i thought of another plot for a story. again this one will need a little bit of historical research. not too much though. i know a bit about the era.

today i am going over to a friends house to watch some movies and chill. so that is exciting as well. i am leaving at 2 which means i have a lot to do between now and then.

Blueberry Muffins, Stories, and Mr. Darcy

well, hello.

i finally felt like writing. i am better mostly. giving the exeption of a headache and a stuffy nose.

there is not much going on at the moment. i am talking with jordie, exchanging story ideas and plots and with a few old friends of mine on aim. it is very nice! i havent talked to those girls (ashley and cassie) for so long!! and talking with jordie is always amazing.

my parents are going to this homeschool thing called chea. i am staying home with carter and jacob. noelle is going to go with them. i am not sure of the things we will do while they are gone. im sure carter will want to go to the park a few times. other than that, we will be home. there is a good chance that my grandma will be coming to stay with us. i think she most likely will so we will have a little more freedom in going places=)

i went to starbucks for a few hours today. i just read my book, had an iced, soy, classically sweetened, coffee and blueberry muffin that was only 75 cents!!! it was epic. i had a good time. even though i was alone.

there really isnt much to say. except that i am reading a awesome book! it is pride and prejudice from mr darcy's perspective. i love it! there are three books in the series.

so anyways... i am done. and very tired.

sorry for the not so exciting post.

Independence Day!

happy 4th of july everyone!!!

i hope you all have a red, white and blue sorta day=)

i am sick today... it is not fun. i had an interesting night....

Rambling Facts and Details

i dont know how i do it... somehow i always get massive bruises from surfing. i have some really good ones right now. from my hips to my knees...

jake and i are going to work on a movie. well, we are working on writing (in a way) a short movie, filmed from my laptop. we are going to have a little fun with the sound effects in imovie. not too much fun though because then it would be over powered with that stuff and be dumb. there are so many sound effects we dont know what route to take.

there is nothing really going on. im thinking i might paint today after i get some other things done. i made the sketch for the painting yesterday. i am pretty excited about it. i am also starting a new story. i have to do a little research for this one. not much. im not done with my other story still.... i got a little burnt out on it. i will finish it though. then there are a few school type things i need to do later in the evening.

there was a swell coming in from a storm in the atlantic, now there isnt much of a swell. the water was so clear and teal too!! it was beautiful. after the weather being so warm and the swell as good as it was, the ocean looks poor. its all good though. i can still have fun out there. ( i actually dont mind the weather cooling down. im not big into hot weather). there is this place called the ranch. we are going to try and go there. i have an uncle in SB who goes there. you need some kind of permission though. i guess it is literally on a guys ranch. hence, the name. the waves are sweet down at the ranch. they arent like big or anything. but the shape is gewd. you have to take a boat to get there. im not big on boats... i think i can stomach through it for those waves. i graduated!! by the way. i can surf normal! i dont surf the white water anymore. except for when i ride in. SO i am excited about that.

another one of our cats has gotten hurt. it looks like the bone in his leg is broken completely in half. it is so sad. it makes me nauseated to watch him walk. his leg almost folds in half. i cant handle that stuff. seriously. that kind of stuff makes me throw up. i made the mistake of looking out the sliding glass door as he walked by, with my breakfast in my hand. ya. didnt think that one through. i didnt throw up though. i really felt like it.... but- i didnt.

eventually i am going to make paper. i really really want to. it is so awesome!!! i only need a few things from home depot... i am excited. there are some amazing that i can make once i get the paper down. EPIC!!! i would list the things but that would be a long list. i got the book from costco.

well, i am going to get going. this is a really large post. those of you who read it all the way through are true friends:-)

Civil War Dance

mike and i... i literally danced out of my shoes doing the polka with him^^



okay mike and are polkaing in the upper right hand corner...^^^^








hello! and good morning.

the dance last night was fun! i forgot how fun those are. i got to polka with mike. he is so much fun to polka with! he is the only guy who really knows how to polka... we were going so fast... oh man. it started at 6:30 and went until 10. i didnt get home until 12:10 and then didnt go to bed until 2:00... my mom and i were talking for two hours before i went to bed:-)

after the dance some of us went to starbucks. i got an iced americano with soy and carmel flavor. ya. it was very good. you know caffiene doesnt really affect me at night if i am already really tired. i think that is cool. haha! mike was so funny. and there was this other guy that i dont remember his name, he was pretty funny too. all i remeber of him was that he was from frezno and staying in lompoc for a while. also that he is learning to surf...

okay i totally did not know that brittany was in japan!! i asked mike where she was and when he told me that... i had no clue!!! i guess that explains why she didnt return my text a few weeks ago...

today i will just be cleaning and going to michaels... i dont know... i wanted to get together with a friend of mine... i just am not sure how that will go with all that we have to do today=(

well, thats all ive got.

Oil Paint and Vintage Dresses

well, i am in a pretty good mood right now. i started a painting last night and finished it today. it didnt turn out half bad. i have another idea for a painting. i need to go back to michaels again today. i had to go late last night to get paint thinner. i have have some really cool discounts for there. i get 40% off one item and 25% off the over all price. i am pretty excited about that.

well, the civil war dance is tonight and i think we are going. i did decide to wear my purple dress from decades. it brings back memories.... that dress is awesome. it is vintage 50's.... i still remember the day i got it. it was a good day. i had soem pics of it, but somehow they got deleted. sadly.

i have a lot to do... i dont know if i will post again later or not.

The Happenings

okay, so about a half an hour ago i ate an apple. as i get a little closer to the core of the apple, there is a rotten part. nice. however, i hadnt seen it. so i take a nice big bite into the apple. after the taste hits my tongue, ya. so now i have a stomach ache and am making tea and going to eat saltine crackers.

also, my mom picked up papa murphys pizza and dropped it off on her way to the store. so- i figured the pizza wasnt spose to be cooked on the white,paper plate it comes on. just to make sure i called papa murphys. turned out it was spose to be cooked on there! you all know my accident prone-ness (specially with being burnt), i didnt want to set a fire in our oven. im pretty sure i would have burned myself if i had. i just had to make sure. i felt dumb calling. but! the cooking instructions werent clear about that. i partly blame the cooking instructions. plus, it makes me feel less dumb.

the kids, two of noelles friends, and myself went to go see a free movie at the theater today. we saw firehouse dog. i thought it was going to be a cartoon. i am glad that it was a normal one. it was pretty cute. it make me think of my dad the whole time though. kinda freaked me out a little bit. it is fire season right now. it started kind of early this year.

after the movie we went over to michaels. they are having this 40% off sale all week... i think we will be going back again tomorrow. i bought some new paints beacuse, the last time i used the ones i already had, half of them were dried up. so- i decided, time for new paints. i think i might get some more canvases tomorrow... im not sure.

this weekend we might go to a civil war dance. we havent been to one of those in so long! it should be fun. i know there are some of you who might be laughing... it is fun though! last time i didnt wear my civil war dress. i prolly wont this time either. it would take as much work fixing it as making a whole new one, if i were to wear it. also, i dont have time between now and this weekend to fix it or make a new one. i am pretty much looking forward to that. i might wear my dress from decades. i havent worn that for a long while.

okay, second pizza in without burning myself...

as my friend, marian, in florida says," goodbye is forever, tootles is see/talk to you later."

so tootles

Waz Good?

hello all,

i have been just hanging around the house today. it is nice. just doing the things that i need to do, and want to do. i created a pianofiles account. i am stoked about that! it is a sight where pianists exchange music files. so i emailed a bunch of people on there for some of their songs. i requested some good ones: more mae, jack johnson, paramore, eisley.... ya. i am pretty stoked. hopefully i will get a few songs by tomorrow. that would be epic. though, it may take a few days.

so i started to crochet a few days ago. i like it. it is entertaining. i cant explain it. like it doesnt look fun, but it is. lol! i am currently making a throw(which is pretty much a fancy term for a blanket). it is kind of amazing. i cant wait until it is done.

mackenzie left today. its sad. i think she is on her plane right now. but- i think she might be coming out again in august. it is not official though. we had some pretty good times! ill have to keep up with email, calling, and texting with her.

i decided that i wanted to learn as many cool art type craft stuff. that way, when i am older and have my own home and family, i can use (or build) a room as my art studio. i could even have a business that way! i am working on that. it kind of just came to me a few days ago. errgo- my learning to crochet (how do you spell that, " errgo?" ergo, errggo, erggo???? no clue. you all get it).

i hope my dad does come this summer. he said that he would let me know when his vacation time was. (he is a fireman... so- ya). i really want him too. pretty hardcorely.

other than all that, there is nothing much else to say.

Late Night Ahead

i am currently babysitting. my little charge, jackson, is asleep. so- i am not slacking. he is awesome by the way.

well, yesterday, when we were surfing, i was just coming up from being underwater and this huge wave slaps me right on the side of my face. i so wasnt ready for that one. usually, i like to jump up on top of the wave. you know, like normal... that didnt happen. it slapped me at just the right angle causing my ear to first hear no sound then to ring. today, i have swimmers ear. it is kinda driving me nuts. my mom put alcohol in it. i guess it helps to break down the salt water... dean explained it all scientific... however, it hasnt gone away. maybe it will drain while i am sleeping.

i am babysitting until 12or 1a.m. so i have a while...

i am wondering whether or not jordie went to summer hume....???

okay. it was 105 today. it was so hot! since we live on the coast, the houses dont include air conditioning. so we have all been sweating to death. the other day it was 108!!! oh my word. i cant wait until monday. it will be cooled down by then.

and i think that yesterday was an even better surfing day than the day before it... it makes me happy:-)

Sizzle up

today it was 95 degrees! psh. it was very warm. and unexpected. i forgot to check the weather all this week, so i had no idea. i guess there is a cold front coming this weekend. nice. it will be even better after this hot weather:-) the breeze is finally kicking in....

the beach was epic today! i think today was my best day surfing. no joke. i graduated:-) also, my wet suit tan is extremely ridiculous now.

tomorrow i have babysitting for like nine hours. ya. it will be good though. i am still trying to find my home occupation. working on it. so babysitting is very okay. it is only one little boy, who, is good!

also, i think we have someone coming for dinner tomorrow. which is kinda sad since i wont be there.

mackenzie is leaving in a few days=(=(=(

Holding the Line

okay the moon tuesday night was awesome. it was so bright!! all the lights in the house were off and my room was so bright!! with the blinds closed too! i ended up going to the living room and looking out the big windows. simply beautiful.

today we went surfing. it was so warm today! i have to say, my wet suit tan is ridiculous. seriously. it is so bad. there is literally nothing i can do about it. no matter the amount of sunblock i put on or dont put on. lol! i guess that just comes with the package.

well, i am wiped. so i will post tomorrow. maybe.

i am going surfing tomorrow morning again:-)

Catching Up

does a rose, by any other name, still smell as sweet?

under the pismo pier

wow. that is all i can say. it just hit me this morning. there is so much that has to be finished up and figured out in the coming the last year of high school. a lot of big decisions.

as some of you may or may not know. my permit expired in february while i was away in tennessee. i was pretty bummed about that. really. so the options are, do the whole thing over again or wait until i am 18. my mom prefers me to have practice before i drive... so i think that we might be taking the "do it all over again" route.

i really wanted to get that done with before my dad came this summer (if indeed he is really coming here to visit me). that way i would be able to drive them around... take them to cool places. i guess being co-pilot isnt that big of a difference. it is just easier driving than giving directions.

then there are the college discussions and choices.

plus i need to figure out a way to earn money. that sounds so- i dunno, greedy in a way. i dont mean it like that at all. i cant really call it earning a living... cuz im not on my own. so i rally dont know what else to call it. i am going to putting together a list... i need to figure that out as soon as possible. i have quite a few ideas. it is just the choosing of an avenue that is the hard part. where to go..?? yes, i need to make the list. i kind of wanted to have my own business of sorts.

my parents are going to take me on a trip out of country for my graduation. it is time to do my research and figure out where i would want to go.

so there is a lot to think about:-)

we went surfing yesterday... it was nice! the weather was good. the wind kicked in at one point... so the waves blew out a bit. though, by that time we were done surfing. haha!!! while we were out surfing there was this seal and he was hanging out where we were. mackenzie was totally freaked out. i was too. i cant lie. i mean what if we made it mad at us... ya. we both screamed. it was very funny. then mackenzie got attacked by a crab. lol! i wasnt there for that one. but- i did laugh when i heard the story.

today is grandmas last day before she goes home. we all wanted her to get a summer job up here.... sadly that didnt happen=(

today, i believe, i will just be doing laundry and chores. which is very fine. i am very sore and tired from this week and a half of surfing, boarding, tag, hiking on the beach... so the hanging around the house is nice. i did hear something about the craft store. im not sure though, if anyone goes there i will for sure go.

that is all i have for now. i say that like this is a short post. lol:-)

so long

Front Page

we went surfing today. it was amazing. the weather was perfect and the waves were pretty good. i am still pretty stoked about it... it was a lot of fun.

mackenzie came back this tuesday and is staying for two weeks. so that is pretty cool. we have had some good times already.

the other day we boarded to starbucks, chilled there for a while, then went to the 99cent store, and last to target. when we got home, we watched princess bride and ate pb&j (i really love pb&j). then mom and elle went to run an errand while the rest of us got ready to go to a baseball game. it was my first baseball game. it was pretty fun. though, most the time i didnt understand the game. like id ask if the last hit was a good one cuz it went straight out to the field... and it wasnt( i sitll dont know why it wasnt). lol! i mean i could tell if they werent good hits if they went off to the side or straight up... so that was fun to go with the family=)

not sure what tomorrow will hold...

i found out that my stepmom is pregnant too. so i will get two new siblings at the end of this year. one in november and the other in december. though it is possible that they could both be in december... it will be amazing either way! also!! my mom is having a girl!!! i knew it was gonna be:-):-) i think my stepmom and dads baby will be a girl too... lainey thinks so too:-)

Shell Beach

The Sun and The Moon, by: Mae

dairy should be dead

i did something very dumb. i wanted cheese so badly, that i had some. and now, i suffer. that and the possibility that i may be getting a stomach flu from my mom.... i dont know if its one or the other or both. but for now- i will blame it entirely on the cheese. it is so painful... it stinks cuz i wont be able to eat for 24hrs if it is cheese. literally. no lie.

im going to bed to sleep away the pain...

Time and Day

so beautiful:


today i printed two mae songs that i found online. im so excited! it took forever to find them. i have three total: we're so far away, prologue, and the sun and the moon. the last two are the ones i found this morning. i can play them, though there are a few areas that need smoothing. i was so stoked!!! my excitement level was intense. i think i could have sat at the piano all day today.

we just finished watching singin' in the rain. that movie is epic!! its so amazing to think that back then actors and actresses werent just actors and actresses. they could sing and dance(ballet, jazz, swing, tap, ballroom)... they had to! a lot of them were comedians as well as regular acting. maybe they still do now... the difference, i think, is that most actor (esses) learn those sort of things when they have to do a movie that requires it. then, it was just the thing to do.

geeze, every time i go out surfing, i get bruises. i dont understand how. mostly on my hip bones and knees. i dont force my weight with all my strength on the board... i just have no idea...

tomorrow, i think that we will be getting ready for the kids to come. you know, grocery shopping, cleaning, arranging.... all the normal stuff you do when company comes.

Title

hello,

i havent done much lately. ive just been home doing school... all that good stuff.

its weird.... lately, im almost excited to go to bed. i dont know why. i even almost like going to bed as soon as i deem it not tooooo early. ive never gone to bed before nine. still, for some strange reason i like going to bed right now. it can be a little hard in the mornings to get up. however, i get up because i know i should and mom my prefers me to get up somewhat early. getting up early, though, ensures that ill be tired sooner! yesss=) i dont know why i am so retarded.

i really have nothing to talk about.

though, soon julia, kyle, devin, mackenzie and emily will be here! im excited for that. it is so fun to be all together again. with a few additions=) its fun to look back on all the times we had when we were all little kids. the crazy things we did, the things we said, the places we went, embarassing moments we shared. kyle, i think, is almost clueless of the life we had before the kids moved to utah. we tell stories all the time and he sits there in a... i almost cant describe his facial expression. he does laugh a lot though.

well, since i am just rambling i will get off before i get too boring.

Strawberry Festival

Im making up for my not posting today.







the strawberry festival was fun. i think we got there at around noon. haha! the first thing mom wanted to do was eat=P so we got four funnel cakes and ate them on the lawn across from the stand where we bought them. i have to say, i love funnel cake. however, too much makes me feel sick. to help that, i just had a bite of everyone elses. that way no one got sick! =) we spent the rest of the time walking around. i didnt get anything at the festival itself, but i did go into one of the shops in a.g. and got something there: two shells and a hankie. yup. i think they are pretty amazing. Noelle got her face painted, mom got a hat, dean got a bottle of wine, carter got a rubber band gun, and jake got a soda... thats all i think. i cant remember if grandma got anything. besides the funnel cake.

i saw a bunch of people i knew there! katie, two of the doody kids and mr doody, joanna, adam d. and his sister, sydney, a couple from church, and like three or four other people from the grace bible youth group that i dont remember their names. sad.

overall, it was a great time! i love those festivals...


Drive In:

on sunday we went to the drive in with the ways. we saw indiana jones and ironman. i think ironman was the better of the two. though neither really were all that great. indiana jones turned into this alien movie! psh. i did fall asleep during ironman.... so i dont even know how it ended. zoei, riss, noelle, and i fell asleep during ironman. on the floor, outside, in the cold. we had blankets but it was still cold. everyone else stayed in the cars. mr and mrs way had zachary quarantined in the car... he was sick=(

while i was laying outside, right before i fell asleep i looked up, and i could see the clouds moving. it was amazing!! they were moving so fast! there were pretty much only clouds and a few faint stars, then it was clear! it was amazing... i wish i could fall asleep to that every night.

Pismo:





yesterday we went to pismo with grandma... it was sad, mom had a lot to do at home as well as dean. soo, they were going to stay home and we were going to have fun. we loaded up the burban abd headed towards pismo. as soon as we turned the corner on wadsworth i saw the anders car. once i found a spot ( which took a while) and parked, i called them up. carrisa told us where they were and we met up. jake and i ran over to panchos to get noelle, carter, and him a wetsuit. even though the waves werent all that great i went out surfing. i caught a couple... it was way too flat. i had fun though! oOokay... i was out there and i am walking right... right, and i step on something very squishy and slimey. i screamed so badly and jumped up on my board. (the board was backwards by the way). for some reason, when i really wanted to stay on the board i kept almost falling off (i couldnt find my blance while i was in a panic). all the while i was screaming. after that, i was done. i got out and spent the rest of the time out of the water. carrisa, nathan and i went up to the pier for a while. i got a splinter in my heel. i go up on the pier all the time without shoes after ive been surfing! i guess that was just a lucky day. i had to get it out... i sat down and prolly looked really dumb, and got it out. soon after that we left.

as soon as i got home, dean asked me to trim the bushes out front. i really dont mind doing that! its not so bad. i get to be a perfectionist. its great. i still have a few more i need to do. i really wanted to finish them today... but... my hands are so sore and stiff that mom said i should wait a few days. it is pretty bad. i cant grip or squeeze anything... oh well. we have these hand clippers that are prolly older than i am... so they were hard to use... hopefully we get a new pair. hey! maybe thats what ill get dean for fathers day!

Today:

grandma just left and mom and dean went to the gym together.

i made coffee and am really enjoying it. since sunday coffee tastes extra good to me. i dunno why... but it does.

well thats all for today.

He Loves Me

i finished my school a little early today. so since then ive been cleaning. no i feel burnt out on cleaning. lol! i dont know what to do. i wanted to paint... however, im thinking its not a good idea. my grandma is coming again today, so the last thing i need to be doing is painting. i still have some things i could do around the house. im just lagging. psh. i need to wake up. woah! dinner! i forgot about that.

the strawberry festival is tomorrow. im soOo excited!! funnel cake=) mmmmMmmmm fun fun...

laters

The Smell of Coffee

last night i babysat for the first time in a long time. i babysat for this new couple in church. they are both really nice. they have just moved here, so their house had no furnature. lol! i sat on the floor and watched movies all night. the little boy, jackson, was asleep even before i got there. i was there from 9:10p.m.-1:10a.m. they had gone out to see Prince Caspian.

so, this morning i am making a bigger pot of coffee than usual. i was able to sleep in a bit too=) if i go to bed late and sleep in, its weird, but i think it makes me more tired. i dunno. maybe im just imagining it.

a walk to remember

oh my word.

there are few movies that ive cried during and even fewer books... come to think of it, i dont think ive ever cried while reading a book. i did today though. i read a walk to remember in two days. i finished the last part today, crying.

it was such a sad book and the ending is so unclear. its also kind of happy, in a weird way. well, a sad happy. if that makes sense.

i just felt like letting you know that.

='(

A Daisy

well, there isnt too much to say for today... cept fpr a few things.

after church our family (minus dean, again) went to the wrights for a going away party for hannah. she is going to be gone in nepal until sept. 2 ( i think it was). ill miss you hannah<3

after that, we went over to the ways house so zoei could get somethings so she could spend the night. we just finished watching "kate and leopold." after i get off here, i am going to put some music on her ipod from my itunes.

then tomorrow morning we are all going surfing. its zoeis first time. i hope i can be kind of helpful. im not like crazy good, as you know. it should be fun though.

later tomorrow evening, we will take her home.

other than that, not much.

im slowly getting a lot of glass bottles for my room. im going to fill them with sand, shells, and rocks. i had already had a few bottles filled. after i went to visit jordie, i got inspired to fill more=) i think i even have buttons in one bottle.

thats all can think to say. im super tired and my brain isnt working right.

night

my heart beat so hard, i think i cracked a rib

wow. i literaly just woke up (7:34am). i had a scary dream. ive never had a dream like this before.

i woke up and my heart felt like it was pounding against my rib cage (and for a few mintutes, that was the only sound i could her) and i was breathing fast and deep... took me a minute to calm down. even then my heart was still going crazy.

the beginning of my dream was really sad. i cried a lot. so did a few other people. it was horrible. i was crying because i felt like a horrible person!. the others were cryng because of me. all i wanted to do was fix it and make it better. i felt like i had no power to do so.

the next section of my dream everything was happy. everyone was happy. things seemed better for the most part.

after things were getting better, we went to meet some people at the beach. something happened though... my mom and i were driving seprate cars, i was in the volvo with jake, noelle, and carter. mom was in one of our other two cars, alone. i think her car broke down (or disappeared). we were driving on opposite sides of the freeway. one of those crazy bridges that lift you, what feels like, 3hundred thousdand feet from the gravel floor. we were on one of those. except different ones. so we were like half a mile apart on one of those things. so i was stopped on the other side, and she on the other.

a huge black guy in a scratchy, wool sweater and jeans was dropped off right infront of my car. all the kids had gotten out and i had been trying to keep them from getting run over and back in the car again. the guy came up to me and grabbed me. i screamed, asking him what he was doing and why. he told me it was very important. i then asked him what he wanted. all he said was he wanted a red bag. however, i didnt have a red bag. i had no idea what he wanting to do now that i had told him that. either he didnt believe me, or he didnt care. he slammed me to the gravel floor. all my sibs stood helpless. cept for jake who was kicking the man halfheartedly with an odd expression on his face. the whole time this was going i kept thinking, this cant be happening. i told myself to pull together and kick him or punch him in the throat (like i had been taught). in the end i found that i couldnt. he had a hold on me that felt like i had no way to defend myself. an arm came loose and i would swing at him. my mom was helpless on the other side. i figured she was calling the cops. in the end i woke up and never found out if i made it. its wierd, kind of remember a red bag in the beginning or middle of my dream...

hope i didnt bore you...

talk to you all later. i have to get ready to go to the beach....

laters

before and after

Before:


AFTER!




nevermind my face. its still funny. but my hair is way way better!

Mother's Day and Such...

im so tired today. ive been tired a lot. i havent been sleeping all that well. i slept better last night but then i went to bed too late and got up too early. alas, im still tired. i slept so hard last night too!!! geeze. w/e

i got to see jordie friday and saturday... i went over to their house for maddies birthday party, then she came over to my house to spend the night. it was so amazing to see her! its been like forever and a day since i last saw her. i think it was at the nutcracker performance. and even then i only saw her for a short time. it was fun=)

so yesterday, from like 10:30a.m. i was at pismo. we went surfing in the morning and then we walked around for a while. the waves were really blown out... still, we had fun. for a while dean and i paddled out past the break and just sat out there. jake tried to get out there, however, he ended up just messing around on his board. hehe=) short legs, short arms, short... well, just short=P i dont think that we are going tomorrow. we usually go on mondays but, i dont know if we will. maybe later in the week.

mothers day was pretty good. well, i had fun. my grandma drove up. its awesome to have her here. she went to the beach with us yesterday too. she was gonna try to surf wit htme but then chickened out. haha! it was so lame. ill get her out next time. er, well, she said that she would next time. who knows if she really will. she is afraid that a shark is going to get her. ( never mind that is too shallow where we surf.... way to shallow. she is convinced). anyway, off subject. grandma and i took the volvo to church so that we could go pick up a few things for my mom. after church, i drove her around town... starbucks, the mall, albertsons.... then home for an amazing dinner. i think that both my mom and grandma had a good mothers day. i hope they did!

im so excited!! im going to go get my hair fixed on tuesday! its way to grown out and looks horrible. i really am gonna keep it short for a while. maybe al ong while. i was thinking evem a new style. i just dont know what style. ill prolly just keep the same style...

good night

Saturday's Surfing Pics

noobie

okay, i am seriously excited right now. call me a noobie. i know i am. and i love it! i caught quite a few waves today. stood up and all. yup. im pretty happy with that right now. i think ill go again this weekend. maybe, during the week. who knows. i need to check the weather. my arm dislocated twice. oh man. the shock and pain. i wish that could be fixed. im sure there is a way. like quite using it for a while. psh ya. thas gonna happen. the same thing happened the other ten times. im always doing something that massivly involves my arms: ballet, surfing, falling on it in soccer (even though i dont do that anymore), vaccuming, other cleaning stuff. lol! okay its not that much. it feels like it though. its gonna be so sore tomorrow.

we ate at longboards today after surfing. it was so gewd! i like it better than splash. i think i got the hawaiian burger... so good.

man the kittens are getting so big! pretty soon, they will be going to homes=( i wish they didnt have too. they are all so cute! (arent they always though....) if i looked at it that way, we would be infested with cats.

other than that not much. school and chores. then piano and guitar. yuppers, thats it.

went surfing

well, i went surfing for the first time since like 9th or 8th grade. it was awesome! i really hope i dont suck for long and will be able to ride soon. man! just sitting on the board without putting your hands on it to steady yourself, is kinna hard. the waves were really flat so- it wasnt easy to catch a wave. there werent many other surfers out. the ones that were out, werent catching waves either. still, i had a lot of fun and am really tired. haha! i seriously lack the upper body strength. i got my feet on the board once, then fell. all the other times, my arms wouldnt paddle strong or hard enough to catch another one. that and the waves werent really good anyway.

thats pretty much all that we did today.

everyone else was up on the beach chillin. once, nathan and i got really far over, so my mom and dean walked over to where we were and waited there till we noticed. i think cilla and jake were in the water most of the time too. i think we are all going again this next week. so that will be fosheezy.

ill talk to you all laters.

peace

a look into another day in time

hello all,

we are home from socal now. we have been for a few days. a lot has gone on and yet, not that much has gone on.

lets see... yesterday we went to prissys 10th birthday party. we hung out there for a bit. while we were there, nathan and i planned a surfing trip... i think we are going this saturday. he is gonna teach me to surf. its my goal to learn before we move. so if we ever come and visit, or are anywhere there is surf, i can=)i wanted to learn a long time ago.. but somehow- that never panned out.

our cousin brea was coming up to stay with us for a few days (starting yesterday). so by the time we were done with prissys birthday party, she was at our house. she had planned to stay for a few days but had to leave, unexpectedly, today.

now is where today comes into type. today was moms day to teach jakes science co-op. so for a while in the morning we cleaned house and got ready for guests. the co-op started and ended. i even did the experiment. haha! i have a 13 1/2 (i think they measured it in cups?? not sure) lung capacity. woop woop for me=P i dont know where that is on the normal lung capacity rate, er level... something like that.

pretty much as soon as the co-op was over, brea left. it was sad. only a 24 hr stay. we didnt even get to do anything fun!

i finished up school for the day... after i had finished that, i had planned on reading the book i borrowed from nathan, 'House,' but- i havent yet. the book is really good so far. totally something i have never read before. it was written by frank peretti and ted decker. usually not my style of book. however, it is gewd.

currently, my uncle chris just got here like 30 an hour ago. he has some work in pismo tomorrow. so hes gonna stay with us for the night (as far as i know). he might be staying longer. i havent totally been downloaded yet=)

singin' the song

i love this picture! i took it on the way home from my grandmas house. its where Avila and Shell beach meet.

this is a weird barn style gas station, again, on the way home from my grandmas. i think in Kettleman city.


we are here in socal right now. just visiting family and friends. we even brought mommy cat and the kittens with us, cuz we would be gone so long... no clue when we are going home. haha!

i have a few things that need prayer for... my uncle is having a hard time. really really hard time. my mom is pregnant, and we would all love to have prayer for her! as all my friends know our history in that area, please pray for her and baby. they are both doing fine right now! which is a blessing... and if you all could pray for me personally... i would be so thankful to you all!

home post

this is my first offical post from home. even though i have been home for almost a full month. yes, time and life have kept me busy. there was some fun in the middle=)
ive just been home mostly. working on school, helping around the house (entailing: cooking, cleaning, babysitting... and other house works), and spent some time with some friends this last weekend. it was pretty awesomely fun. we just hung out together. at one point carrisa and i went to starbucks and the moms and three of the kids went to the homeschool book fair. a little later, carissa, nathan, and myself went to the homeschool fair to see what was going on with our family there. there was a lot of procrastination getting that far in decisions of what to do=) while we were there i got see carl and a few other friends! so that was pretty cool. in the end, we all (thirteen al together) ended up at the Anders having dinner and talking for a long while! nathan and i messed around on the guitars a bit then a few of us sat on the pourch talking. haha! it was eleven at night before we went home! it didnt even feel like eleven at night. it was so weird.

other than that, i havent been busy with much. i have, however, been working on writing more songs. i eventually want to record them... but that might take a while. i have finished two song on the piano. they need lyrics and guitar added still. annddd there are two still in the works, on the piano.

oh! i was so excited about this! jon foreman has three of his new single albums out: spring, fall, and winter. summer will be coming out at some point. the songs are amazing! music and lyrics!

well, just wanted to give a shout out to everyone!

talk to you all later

in His love,