Lately I've been at school. I think it's off to a greeeeaat start. The new building is awesome. Have I written about this? The 7th and 8th grade Jr. High room is awesome. The only thing is we have to share it with aftercare and the thing about that is I'll just say sometimes it's not the neatest when we get there in the morning. One of my favorite things is when we get to school in the moring we get to start in our Jr. High room to unpack and fill out our work plans and such. My fun job is I get to write the work plan on the white board. It's fun to write on the white board.
Lately I am obsessed I guess you could say with youtube I guess. Mostly vlogbrothers (I'm mostly through 2009) and vihart. This means hexaflexagons (1), hexaflexagons (2), hexaflexagons (3). Awesome. Nerdy. You NEED to watch these videos. And vlogbrothers too, don't forget them.
Lately I fill my mind with awesomeness in general. I'm still new to and blown away by the amazingness and awesomeness and kindness of nerdfighteria. Best wishes!
Monday, October 22, 2012
My Weekend
My weekend was really awesome. On Friday I left early from school to go to Illinois with my family.
And I'll get back to that in a second but first I want to say I think I am abandoning the fake names for my family. I think I'll keep using the ones like for Bree and Fiona but it's really weird to me to call my family by names that aren't theirs. Anyway I think (and hope) that most people who read this blog know and love me and my family and wouldn't do anything bad if only they knew the actual names of my family menbers! You know what I mean especially because you probably are that person. Or you are those people. You are one of those people. You are those people?!
Anyway, we drove to Illinois to my aunt and uncle's house they just (basically) redid over the course of like 3 years. They are busy people. They have a farm. But they added a room and a porch to their house and re-did the kitchen which is reeely nice. They got the drawers that close themselves!
So anyway the reason that we were in Illinois is because the church that my aunt and uncle and cousins and grandma and pretty much everyone in the adorable small town of like 700 people go to was having a weenie roast and 'salt shaker' they're calling it.
It was really fun. (Words I really say a lot: really, anyway, awesome, like, I. That was not a complete sentence.) First there was a ginormous fire (you know, the intentional kind) and everyone had chili and hot dogs and s'mores of course. There was lots of junk food and awesome deliciousness. The best was the dark chocolate fudge brownies with peanut butter caramel icing on top. Oohhhhhh.
They had a stage set up outside with all the music equippment and everything. The band played really well and it was really good worship music. Like, really good. Then the salt shaker part, there was a guest speaker.
The pastor's son goes to the college my dad actually went to. We visisted there over the summer actually and one of his former professors and his wife welcomed us in to their adorable home and made us muffins and gave us tours of the college campus (it's a really nice place...). Anyway the pastor of the church in this college town in Illnios where the pastor of my grandma's church's son goes came to the salt shaker to speak. I think that sentence is gramatically correct and if you think really hard it might make sense if you really want it to.
Anyway the sermon was about Christians being the salt and the light of the earth. It was really good. By this point in the evening it was about I don't know how may degrees but it was cold, and it was raining. It had been raining since a little after the music started. It was cold. It was good.
The funniest part of the sermon was when it was finished and it had stopped raining and he said, "Hey, it stopped raining, didn't it? Good. That was the introduction!" It wasn't really but it was pretty funny.
After the sermon, more music. It was loud and intense and awesome. It was fun.
It was a good weekend.
And I'll get back to that in a second but first I want to say I think I am abandoning the fake names for my family. I think I'll keep using the ones like for Bree and Fiona but it's really weird to me to call my family by names that aren't theirs. Anyway I think (and hope) that most people who read this blog know and love me and my family and wouldn't do anything bad if only they knew the actual names of my family menbers! You know what I mean especially because you probably are that person. Or you are those people. You are one of those people. You are those people?!
Anyway, we drove to Illinois to my aunt and uncle's house they just (basically) redid over the course of like 3 years. They are busy people. They have a farm. But they added a room and a porch to their house and re-did the kitchen which is reeely nice. They got the drawers that close themselves!
So anyway the reason that we were in Illinois is because the church that my aunt and uncle and cousins and grandma and pretty much everyone in the adorable small town of like 700 people go to was having a weenie roast and 'salt shaker' they're calling it.
It was really fun. (Words I really say a lot: really, anyway, awesome, like, I. That was not a complete sentence.) First there was a ginormous fire (you know, the intentional kind) and everyone had chili and hot dogs and s'mores of course. There was lots of junk food and awesome deliciousness. The best was the dark chocolate fudge brownies with peanut butter caramel icing on top. Oohhhhhh.
They had a stage set up outside with all the music equippment and everything. The band played really well and it was really good worship music. Like, really good. Then the salt shaker part, there was a guest speaker.
The pastor's son goes to the college my dad actually went to. We visisted there over the summer actually and one of his former professors and his wife welcomed us in to their adorable home and made us muffins and gave us tours of the college campus (it's a really nice place...). Anyway the pastor of the church in this college town in Illnios where the pastor of my grandma's church's son goes came to the salt shaker to speak. I think that sentence is gramatically correct and if you think really hard it might make sense if you really want it to.
Anyway the sermon was about Christians being the salt and the light of the earth. It was really good. By this point in the evening it was about I don't know how may degrees but it was cold, and it was raining. It had been raining since a little after the music started. It was cold. It was good.
The funniest part of the sermon was when it was finished and it had stopped raining and he said, "Hey, it stopped raining, didn't it? Good. That was the introduction!" It wasn't really but it was pretty funny.
After the sermon, more music. It was loud and intense and awesome. It was fun.
It was a good weekend.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Bizzy
I'm proud to say that I'm almost genuinely busy. I've never really meant the true meaning before, and I'm sure I'll be thinking the same thing in High School when I have about three more hours of homework than I do now, have a million clubs, and still want to sleep sometimes.
But I'm happy I'm doing stuff besides school. Piano, youth group, and hopefully soon acapella if that ever gets organized. I liked doing that last year.
I'm excited for art class to maybe start soon. I really hope they make the obvious descion. I really hope they actually choose a teacher.
This is much funner than homework. Even though it is homework. Mrs. W. said I could do this instead of journal. It seems less like an assigned thing that way. It's much faster than writing too.
I really like all my teachers. I always have. There was only one year (second grade) I had a really bad teacher. I hope she's not still teaching becaue she slapped kids and called them stupid, told them to shut up, called them retarded, and even pushed a kid down the stairs once. Uhh. I'm so glad my teachers aren't like that. They're so nice!
I like Ms. A. a lot. And Ms. K, and Ms. W, and all of them! I like it because I feel like I'm being pushed harder already. Which is a really good thing. Instead of the yeah, your kid is learning montessori grades (which I have nothing against for elementary classes), they're doing actual letter grades and percents this year. I think that's really good for me, to see it in numbers and precents instead of 'yes, you did your best' or 'yeah you tried' check marks. But smiley faces and checks and good jobs are still happily accepted and devoured, just so you know.
But yeah.
I'm not sure what to say next. How about some jokes. I've got some good ones. In my opinion anyway. You will most likely think they're stupid.
What do you get when you drop a piano down a mine shaft?
A flat miner.
When do you get when you drop a piano over a military base?
A flat major.
What kind of pants do the Mario brothers wear?
denimdenimdenim.
Why can't Hellen Keller drive?
Because she's DEAD!
What do you get when you throw a grenade in a French bathroom?
Linoleum Blownapart.
What did one snowman say to the other?
Ahh, smells like carrots.
What's blackandwhiteandblackandwhiteandblackandwhiteandblackandwhite?
A penguin rolling down a hill.
What's black and white laughing?
The little penguin who pushed him.
Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?
Because he was DEAD!
Why did the second monkey fall out of the tree?
He was laughing at the first monkey.
Why did the third monkey fall out of the tree?
Peer pressure.
Okay that's enough. For now.
But I'm happy I'm doing stuff besides school. Piano, youth group, and hopefully soon acapella if that ever gets organized. I liked doing that last year.
I'm excited for art class to maybe start soon. I really hope they make the obvious descion. I really hope they actually choose a teacher.
This is much funner than homework. Even though it is homework. Mrs. W. said I could do this instead of journal. It seems less like an assigned thing that way. It's much faster than writing too.
I really like all my teachers. I always have. There was only one year (second grade) I had a really bad teacher. I hope she's not still teaching becaue she slapped kids and called them stupid, told them to shut up, called them retarded, and even pushed a kid down the stairs once. Uhh. I'm so glad my teachers aren't like that. They're so nice!
I like Ms. A. a lot. And Ms. K, and Ms. W, and all of them! I like it because I feel like I'm being pushed harder already. Which is a really good thing. Instead of the yeah, your kid is learning montessori grades (which I have nothing against for elementary classes), they're doing actual letter grades and percents this year. I think that's really good for me, to see it in numbers and precents instead of 'yes, you did your best' or 'yeah you tried' check marks. But smiley faces and checks and good jobs are still happily accepted and devoured, just so you know.
But yeah.
I'm not sure what to say next. How about some jokes. I've got some good ones. In my opinion anyway. You will most likely think they're stupid.
What do you get when you drop a piano down a mine shaft?
A flat miner.
When do you get when you drop a piano over a military base?
A flat major.
What kind of pants do the Mario brothers wear?
denimdenimdenim.
Why can't Hellen Keller drive?
Because she's DEAD!
What do you get when you throw a grenade in a French bathroom?
Linoleum Blownapart.
What did one snowman say to the other?
Ahh, smells like carrots.
What's blackandwhiteandblackandwhiteandblackandwhiteandblackandwhite?
A penguin rolling down a hill.
What's black and white laughing?
The little penguin who pushed him.
Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?
Because he was DEAD!
Why did the second monkey fall out of the tree?
He was laughing at the first monkey.
Why did the third monkey fall out of the tree?
Peer pressure.
Okay that's enough. For now.
Camping
A while ago now I went camping with girl scouts. It was like two weeks ago. I know, I'm so bad. Sorry.
Anyway it was really good. We stayed in the A-Frames at Cedarledge. I always thought it would be fun to name the different sites at girl scout camp with the fake indian names and such. Kiamecia. Tanda. Ahwenasa.
We did horses and got a tour of the barn and learned how to groom a very pretty horse named Phoenix. All the wranglers are really nice. Fun. The horses are so old and used to the trails you barely have to direct them. Seriously. It was still a really nice time.
So then we went canoeing. It drizzled. Bree (who has her own blog now but I like her fake name so much I'm keeping it) and I basically just paddled out into the middle of the lake and watched the rain fall and make circles because it was really really amazingly beautiful. And not that wet either.
We were supposed to have archery Saturday too but Kiamecia missed their time at one so they stole our time. Everything worked out okay; we got to do it the next morning instead. But. That was not really very nice or fair of them to do that. I was a lot better this time, though. I popped like seven balloons! I also figured out that I shoot better left handed. Which make total sense since I'm left-eyed. Duh.
Overall it was really good. Besides the rude people at Luckystone right across from us and the archery mix-up, it was nearly perfect. The weather, the people (I like the people that were in my cabin; it turned out good), there were like no bugs.
(Bridgett and Bree both wrote about this too, about two weeks ago)
Anyway it was really good. We stayed in the A-Frames at Cedarledge. I always thought it would be fun to name the different sites at girl scout camp with the fake indian names and such. Kiamecia. Tanda. Ahwenasa.
We did horses and got a tour of the barn and learned how to groom a very pretty horse named Phoenix. All the wranglers are really nice. Fun. The horses are so old and used to the trails you barely have to direct them. Seriously. It was still a really nice time.
So then we went canoeing. It drizzled. Bree (who has her own blog now but I like her fake name so much I'm keeping it) and I basically just paddled out into the middle of the lake and watched the rain fall and make circles because it was really really amazingly beautiful. And not that wet either.
We were supposed to have archery Saturday too but Kiamecia missed their time at one so they stole our time. Everything worked out okay; we got to do it the next morning instead. But. That was not really very nice or fair of them to do that. I was a lot better this time, though. I popped like seven balloons! I also figured out that I shoot better left handed. Which make total sense since I'm left-eyed. Duh.
Overall it was really good. Besides the rude people at Luckystone right across from us and the archery mix-up, it was nearly perfect. The weather, the people (I like the people that were in my cabin; it turned out good), there were like no bugs.
(Bridgett and Bree both wrote about this too, about two weeks ago)
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Lots of Stuff
It's the end of the summer. Already. Wha? I'm not so sure how that happened or how I feel about that.
I've been very kinda busy lately. I really do keep meaning to put stuff on here, promise. The first thing I have been meaning to put on here is our trip to Minnesota. It was really awesome. We stayed at my aunt and uncle's house. The weather couldn't have been perfecter. Boating and tubing on the Mississippi & St. Croix rivers was quite nice. The water was really clean and there wasn't much of a current. There was a nice little island with sand and cool rocks where we stopped for awhile. After leaving their house, we stopped at grandma Pat's in Wisconsin and stayed a few days there. The fun thing about that was that we went to Circus World, the awesomest circus I have ever been to. It's got a really great circus and also several museumy things, the coolest being the circus wagon one. It has like 70 old and really beautiful circus wagons from when there were like travelling circuses and stuff.
Something you may not know is that my family lived in Minnesota for like three years. It was very nice to see old friends and tour the neighborhood where we used to live.
The day after we got home we decided that it would be a good idea to move my bedroom on the second floor to the basement. This turned out to be a really good idea and it is quite awesome now. Like, really. Awesome. It was a lot of work though.
Okay, so the day that we moved my room my aunt and cousin came to our house and spent the night and the next day I went back with my aunt to have a very nice weekend with her.
AND THEN when I got back I did more work on my new room.
AND THEN this week there were some awesome things at school, although we still havent gotten back to school yet, that starts on monday. The first one was an open house thing where we got to meet our new teachers and that was very awesome and it got me very excited to go to school becaue the classroom is really awesome and I think I am really going to like my new teacher. My teachers this year are, well, here's the thing, it's very difficult to explain things somethimes when you're using pseudonyms becasue then if people reading actually know the person to whom you are referring things might become rather confusing and I'm kind of starting to really dislike using pseudonyms so here. Sometimes I'm going to use them, sometimes not, sometimes I'll use an initial. If you have a pseudonym on here you likely know who you are anyway to I will probably keep using that, for instance Bree, Fiona, Abeliene. Okay? Okay. Okay, now. Ms. Eileen and Ms. Amy are my teachers this year. I'm still not totally sure how all of this is going to work out because I think Mr. Rouse is doing social studies and yeah. I'm really excite for math, which Ms. Amy is teaching so I hope I don't miss Mr. Rouse too much because he used to be my math teacher and I really liked him.
So the next day after that there was a ribbon cutting ceremony thing at the awesome new building of our school since it's new and awesome. That was fun.
But yeah. This summer was filled with a lot of awesome and I'm sad to see it go so soon.
But yeah. I'm also glad school is staring monday because I think that if this summer was much longer I would get very bored very fast.
I've been very kinda busy lately. I really do keep meaning to put stuff on here, promise. The first thing I have been meaning to put on here is our trip to Minnesota. It was really awesome. We stayed at my aunt and uncle's house. The weather couldn't have been perfecter. Boating and tubing on the Mississippi & St. Croix rivers was quite nice. The water was really clean and there wasn't much of a current. There was a nice little island with sand and cool rocks where we stopped for awhile. After leaving their house, we stopped at grandma Pat's in Wisconsin and stayed a few days there. The fun thing about that was that we went to Circus World, the awesomest circus I have ever been to. It's got a really great circus and also several museumy things, the coolest being the circus wagon one. It has like 70 old and really beautiful circus wagons from when there were like travelling circuses and stuff.
Something you may not know is that my family lived in Minnesota for like three years. It was very nice to see old friends and tour the neighborhood where we used to live.
The day after we got home we decided that it would be a good idea to move my bedroom on the second floor to the basement. This turned out to be a really good idea and it is quite awesome now. Like, really. Awesome. It was a lot of work though.
Okay, so the day that we moved my room my aunt and cousin came to our house and spent the night and the next day I went back with my aunt to have a very nice weekend with her.
AND THEN when I got back I did more work on my new room.
AND THEN this week there were some awesome things at school, although we still havent gotten back to school yet, that starts on monday. The first one was an open house thing where we got to meet our new teachers and that was very awesome and it got me very excited to go to school becaue the classroom is really awesome and I think I am really going to like my new teacher. My teachers this year are, well, here's the thing, it's very difficult to explain things somethimes when you're using pseudonyms becasue then if people reading actually know the person to whom you are referring things might become rather confusing and I'm kind of starting to really dislike using pseudonyms so here. Sometimes I'm going to use them, sometimes not, sometimes I'll use an initial. If you have a pseudonym on here you likely know who you are anyway to I will probably keep using that, for instance Bree, Fiona, Abeliene. Okay? Okay. Okay, now. Ms. Eileen and Ms. Amy are my teachers this year. I'm still not totally sure how all of this is going to work out because I think Mr. Rouse is doing social studies and yeah. I'm really excite for math, which Ms. Amy is teaching so I hope I don't miss Mr. Rouse too much because he used to be my math teacher and I really liked him.
So the next day after that there was a ribbon cutting ceremony thing at the awesome new building of our school since it's new and awesome. That was fun.
But yeah. This summer was filled with a lot of awesome and I'm sad to see it go so soon.
But yeah. I'm also glad school is staring monday because I think that if this summer was much longer I would get very bored very fast.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
HOT
It is so hot here the birds don't even sing in the morning. Really, they don't sing that much at all lately. I don't blame them.
It is so hot here that neighbors don't sit outside in the evening and chat. We don't go to the park very often. I don't blame us.
It hasn't rained very much. The only reason I don't say "it hasn't rained" is because it did rain this morning. But it's just not enough. It's being classified as extreme drought and my uncle (a farmer) says it's the worst drought in our area since the weather people started keeping record like 90 years ago. Everything is brown and the leaves on some trees are literally turning brown and falling off. It looks like fall already. Only it doesn't feel like fall. It. Is. So. Hot. Bleh.
So we sit. And watch the Olympics and eat ice cream.
It is so hot here that neighbors don't sit outside in the evening and chat. We don't go to the park very often. I don't blame us.
It hasn't rained very much. The only reason I don't say "it hasn't rained" is because it did rain this morning. But it's just not enough. It's being classified as extreme drought and my uncle (a farmer) says it's the worst drought in our area since the weather people started keeping record like 90 years ago. Everything is brown and the leaves on some trees are literally turning brown and falling off. It looks like fall already. Only it doesn't feel like fall. It. Is. So. Hot. Bleh.
So we sit. And watch the Olympics and eat ice cream.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Perplexus
It's this game. It is extremely addicting because once you pick it up and start playing you really want to finish it and then once you beat it you just start over because it is so fun.I beat it today.
It's kind of like a maze only there's just one path. The goal is to get that little silver ball to the 100th obstacle, but you can't touch the ball. So you tilt the game sphere thingamadooblydoomahooseymacallit to move the ball around.
If you buy it you will regret it at first until you finish it and then you will thank yourself because it is one of the best games ever invented.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Some Stuff
So, as you may know...
I'm 13 NOW!!! I really can't believe it. But it was seriously really THE BEST birthday I've ever had. My aunt and uncle were very very nice and generous and let me have the party at their house and shoot my bow in their yard. There was tubing and boat rides and pizza and awesome.
Among some of the many awesome things I was given, I recieved an archery target (which is also nerf-gun-dart-compatible!), some chocolate, some awesome stuff, and some very very VERY nice cards, notably the one from Bree which was so sweet it made me cry. All of them were very nice. and all of EVERYTHING and all of the awesome that happened.
There were loads of pictures (many of them very good) taken which I will try to get somehow on here soon.
*****
Other than that there's one thing I would like to share. Actually probably more because I keep on thinking! I don't know why it's like somebody put a brain IN MY HEAD!
Okay so I just finished this book awhile ago. The Fault in Our Stars. Omigosh it was the best book that I've read in awhile. (NO SPOILERS, I promise.) It might probably not interest you since the majority of people who read my blog are like, not my age. And a fair warning: there is some profanity. Anyway, it's about Hazel, a girl who has cancer and she meets Augustus Waters, with whom she promptly falls in love and she worries that she is a grenade. Augustus uses his 'Wish' he got from when he had cancer to take Hazel on a trip to Amsterdam. The ending of the book is perfect. The middle is perfect. The beginning is perfect. It's funny. It's a good book.
Whatever you do if you want to read it, DO NOT read the Wikipedia article. It WILL SPOIL THE WHOLE THING. Trust me, I know, because I DID read the Wikipedia article and I wish I hadn't.
Anyway: good book, don't read the wikipedia article; awesome birthday; and my penpal Isabel from England would like for me to mention her on my blog. Hey, Isabel!
I'm 13 NOW!!! I really can't believe it. But it was seriously really THE BEST birthday I've ever had. My aunt and uncle were very very nice and generous and let me have the party at their house and shoot my bow in their yard. There was tubing and boat rides and pizza and awesome.
Among some of the many awesome things I was given, I recieved an archery target (which is also nerf-gun-dart-compatible!), some chocolate, some awesome stuff, and some very very VERY nice cards, notably the one from Bree which was so sweet it made me cry. All of them were very nice. and all of EVERYTHING and all of the awesome that happened.
There were loads of pictures (many of them very good) taken which I will try to get somehow on here soon.
*****
Other than that there's one thing I would like to share. Actually probably more because I keep on thinking! I don't know why it's like somebody put a brain IN MY HEAD!
Okay so I just finished this book awhile ago. The Fault in Our Stars. Omigosh it was the best book that I've read in awhile. (NO SPOILERS, I promise.) It might probably not interest you since the majority of people who read my blog are like, not my age. And a fair warning: there is some profanity. Anyway, it's about Hazel, a girl who has cancer and she meets Augustus Waters, with whom she promptly falls in love and she worries that she is a grenade. Augustus uses his 'Wish' he got from when he had cancer to take Hazel on a trip to Amsterdam. The ending of the book is perfect. The middle is perfect. The beginning is perfect. It's funny. It's a good book.
Whatever you do if you want to read it, DO NOT read the Wikipedia article. It WILL SPOIL THE WHOLE THING. Trust me, I know, because I DID read the Wikipedia article and I wish I hadn't.
Anyway: good book, don't read the wikipedia article; awesome birthday; and my penpal Isabel from England would like for me to mention her on my blog. Hey, Isabel!
Monday, July 16, 2012
A Weird Dream
This is the weirdest dream I've had in awhile.
We were at a park and I saw John Green who was on a jog and I asked if I could have his autograph. He said sure and and so we ran to the park's bookstore where I bought a copy of TFiOS (The Fault in Our Stars, his latest book, not that I have actually read it) while he ran circles around the store. Then he (John Green!!) signed it with red sharpie.
It was really bizarre.
It made me happy though because this must mean that I have officially become a nerdfighter. Nerdfighters do not fight nerds, they're clearly pro-nerd. A nerdfighter is someone who, instead of being made of skin and bones and tissue like humans, are made entirely of awesome. Like me.
If you are interested in becoming a nerdfighter you don't have to do anything. If you want to be a nerdfighter, you are one. But you might want to watch this video.
We were at a park and I saw John Green who was on a jog and I asked if I could have his autograph. He said sure and and so we ran to the park's bookstore where I bought a copy of TFiOS (The Fault in Our Stars, his latest book, not that I have actually read it) while he ran circles around the store. Then he (John Green!!) signed it with red sharpie.
It was really bizarre.
It made me happy though because this must mean that I have officially become a nerdfighter. Nerdfighters do not fight nerds, they're clearly pro-nerd. A nerdfighter is someone who, instead of being made of skin and bones and tissue like humans, are made entirely of awesome. Like me.
If you are interested in becoming a nerdfighter you don't have to do anything. If you want to be a nerdfighter, you are one. But you might want to watch this video.
Sunday, July 15, 2012
And some other things
It's been kind of lazy arould here.
It's been kind of hot around here.
It's almost my birthday. Wheee!!!
Mom, I found the dark chocolate covered edamame. Yeha!
Wha was thaaa? Sorry I couldn't hear you because I was crunching on salty-chocolate-crunch-ness.
It's been kind of hot around here.
It's almost my birthday. Wheee!!!
Mom, I found the dark chocolate covered edamame. Yeha!
Wha was thaaa? Sorry I couldn't hear you because I was crunching on salty-chocolate-crunch-ness.
there's this one too
Monday, July 9, 2012
I think it's mandatory that you watch these
these are just beautiful (especially the phi one)
What Phi Sounds Like
What Tau Sounds Like
What Pi Sounds Like
this one i find hilarious
Wau
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Camping!
Finally! I know, right? This is the post you have been waiting for all of your life.
Or maybe not and you've just been thinking, "Hey, I wonder if Emma has said anything lately. Oooh, she went camping in the Smoky Mountains!"
Anyway, I just got back from camping in the Great Smoky Mountains. There were just five girls and all of their moms so it was a really nice mother daughter trip. We stayed at the Cosby campsite. The bathrooms were really really nice with flush toilets. Although no hot water and no showers. There was a bathroom lady who cleaned it everyday!!! Which was nice because the bugs were really attracted to the light at night and the millipedes crawled in through the drain and vents.
There was a nature trail right by us and also an amphitheatre where Ranger Richard led a talk about the history of the park.
But the food had to be packed back into the car every stinking night (bears).
We went rafting, not whitewater but just more of a float trip. We didn't even paddle. That was the chosen special thing that cost extra money.I think we chose well. Extremely fun.
The name of the creek right across from our campsite was Cosby Creek I think. We did a creek walk up that which was fun and refreshing. Except for the Great Laurels, with their branches all spread out and low right through the path. There was also a swimming hole which was FREEEEEZZINNG.
One day we hiked 4 miles round trip to Grotto Falls, very beautiful. That one was cool because the path actually goes behind the waterfall. It was beautiful. The hike wasn't too tough either and not even that long. Also at the top of the mountain it was much cooler than at the bottom probably by like 15 degrees.
The rest of that day was spent at the Cades Cove auto tour loop but trust me, we weren't the people there who just drove around loops and never got out of the car. When we stopped at the Sugarlands Visitor's Center (air conditioned!!!) my mom got me a GSMNP t-shirt, a GSMNP pin that I put on my Girl Scout sash and some things for my sisters.
On the loop it was cool but also sad to see the cemeteries at the old churches. There were lots of babies and young people buried there. The saddest one was twins, I can't remember the names, one lived to be old and one died the day she was born. There were lots of Olivers buried there and there were also some very new additions to the cemetery like in 2011. You could really tell who was poor because the headstones were very home-made.
Also on the road by our campsite was Gunther Cemetery. It was reeeely ooooolld. Most of the headstones you couldn't even read but the ones that you could were from like the early-mid 1800s. Old.
Also something sad was all of the dying Hemlock trees. Stupid foreign bugs that are bad for them. The only way to save a tree once it has them is to either inject it's roots with tree medicine(too expensive to do every tree so they only use it on the really old ones) or cover every single needle of the tree with dish soap to smother the bugs, only for small saplings.
One night there were barred owls. They say who-cooks-for-you and its sooo freaking annoying at 2 in the morning. They don't even sound real. Then the crows came and were almost equally annoying at 6 am.
Then it rained alllllll night one night and stormend and stormed. Our tent was collapsing and leaking and thank goodness my clothes didn't get wet because I would have been so mad. Poor Clarity and K who moved to the bathroom floor and then to the truck. My mom and I moved to the van at 3a. Uhh in the morning everything was wet. I'm glad that I didn't go on the 10-mile hike that day with Bridgett, Fiona, Zelda and Bree. I didn't sleep at all the night before so Ann, Trudi, Clarity, K and my mom and I all stayed behind and hung everything out to dry. Everyone on the hike was pooped when they got back. I can't even imagine hiking up a "three mile staircase."
Clarity read Anne of Avonlea to K almost every night. It was adorable because she was making different voices for all of the characters and it was just really really cute.
Even through the rain and no sleep, the trip was still really fun and I can't wait to go again to another national park. Thanks to my wonderful troop leaders, all the moms, and everyone who bought cookies and helped to fund the trip. It was really awesome.
Or maybe not and you've just been thinking, "Hey, I wonder if Emma has said anything lately. Oooh, she went camping in the Smoky Mountains!"
Anyway, I just got back from camping in the Great Smoky Mountains. There were just five girls and all of their moms so it was a really nice mother daughter trip. We stayed at the Cosby campsite. The bathrooms were really really nice with flush toilets. Although no hot water and no showers. There was a bathroom lady who cleaned it everyday!!! Which was nice because the bugs were really attracted to the light at night and the millipedes crawled in through the drain and vents.
There was a nature trail right by us and also an amphitheatre where Ranger Richard led a talk about the history of the park.
But the food had to be packed back into the car every stinking night (bears).
We went rafting, not whitewater but just more of a float trip. We didn't even paddle. That was the chosen special thing that cost extra money.I think we chose well. Extremely fun.
The name of the creek right across from our campsite was Cosby Creek I think. We did a creek walk up that which was fun and refreshing. Except for the Great Laurels, with their branches all spread out and low right through the path. There was also a swimming hole which was FREEEEEZZINNG.
One day we hiked 4 miles round trip to Grotto Falls, very beautiful. That one was cool because the path actually goes behind the waterfall. It was beautiful. The hike wasn't too tough either and not even that long. Also at the top of the mountain it was much cooler than at the bottom probably by like 15 degrees.
The rest of that day was spent at the Cades Cove auto tour loop but trust me, we weren't the people there who just drove around loops and never got out of the car. When we stopped at the Sugarlands Visitor's Center (air conditioned!!!) my mom got me a GSMNP t-shirt, a GSMNP pin that I put on my Girl Scout sash and some things for my sisters.
On the loop it was cool but also sad to see the cemeteries at the old churches. There were lots of babies and young people buried there. The saddest one was twins, I can't remember the names, one lived to be old and one died the day she was born. There were lots of Olivers buried there and there were also some very new additions to the cemetery like in 2011. You could really tell who was poor because the headstones were very home-made.
Also on the road by our campsite was Gunther Cemetery. It was reeeely ooooolld. Most of the headstones you couldn't even read but the ones that you could were from like the early-mid 1800s. Old.
Also something sad was all of the dying Hemlock trees. Stupid foreign bugs that are bad for them. The only way to save a tree once it has them is to either inject it's roots with tree medicine(too expensive to do every tree so they only use it on the really old ones) or cover every single needle of the tree with dish soap to smother the bugs, only for small saplings.
One night there were barred owls. They say who-cooks-for-you and its sooo freaking annoying at 2 in the morning. They don't even sound real. Then the crows came and were almost equally annoying at 6 am.
Then it rained alllllll night one night and stormend and stormed. Our tent was collapsing and leaking and thank goodness my clothes didn't get wet because I would have been so mad. Poor Clarity and K who moved to the bathroom floor and then to the truck. My mom and I moved to the van at 3a. Uhh in the morning everything was wet. I'm glad that I didn't go on the 10-mile hike that day with Bridgett, Fiona, Zelda and Bree. I didn't sleep at all the night before so Ann, Trudi, Clarity, K and my mom and I all stayed behind and hung everything out to dry. Everyone on the hike was pooped when they got back. I can't even imagine hiking up a "three mile staircase."
Clarity read Anne of Avonlea to K almost every night. It was adorable because she was making different voices for all of the characters and it was just really really cute.
Even through the rain and no sleep, the trip was still really fun and I can't wait to go again to another national park. Thanks to my wonderful troop leaders, all the moms, and everyone who bought cookies and helped to fund the trip. It was really awesome.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Random: thoughts, writing, etc. & miscellaneous
Very excited about going camping to the Smoky Mountains! We're having a final planning meeting on monday and leaving friday! It really snuck up on me! I know to some this may sound crazy, but i can't wait to pack. I love packing and getting everything tucked in with room to spare, especially, and getting everything organized. It really makes me happy.
The pride fest in the park by us is this weekend. Ughhhhhhh.
One of my best friends ever ever ever, Katherine, is moving to New Mexico. While I am really really really sad sad sad, I am excited excited excited to have one last sleepover this week. It will be fun fun fun. The good thing is, they're moving back to St. Louis in 3 years! What a relief! Maybe we can go to high school together. Yeah, this could work.
Piano lessons.
Pool.
Visiting Aunt R & Uncle D's new house on the lake.
I have a tan line from my watch.
Glow in the dark nail polish.
Smushed fireflies.
Summery.
The pride fest in the park by us is this weekend. Ughhhhhhh.
One of my best friends ever ever ever, Katherine, is moving to New Mexico. While I am really really really sad sad sad, I am excited excited excited to have one last sleepover this week. It will be fun fun fun. The good thing is, they're moving back to St. Louis in 3 years! What a relief! Maybe we can go to high school together. Yeah, this could work.
Piano lessons.
Pool.
Visiting Aunt R & Uncle D's new house on the lake.
I have a tan line from my watch.
Glow in the dark nail polish.
Smushed fireflies.
Summery.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Definitons of Summer 2
Bare feet run through sprinklers. And bare feet run outside. And we swing.
We go to aunt's house and play outside. And uncle takes us for boat rides on the lake RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE! We love their new house!
We go to the library and check out comic books. Comic books that maybe have anything to do with the Avengers. Which is like all of them. The movie was awesome!!! Really super duper really awesome fantastic really. Like I would go watch it right now. I would be up until 11:30 but who cares? I don't care who you are, if you like superheroes, are opposed to violence or have anything against movies, GO SEE IT RIGHT NOW. Seriously, it was that awesome.
Neighbors come out when they hear us outside. And the grown ups chat, the kids swing and kick their shoes off into the bushes or whatever, and the mosquitoes nearly eat us alive but it is almost always worth it.
The pool is frequently visited and friends almost always come with. And we have sleepovers and gee, I love this:
SUMMER! Mmmm, I drink in every second of cookouts and swimming and friends and family and ahh I love it.
AND Next week, we finally get to go on that camping trip to the smoky mountains! I am really excited for that. Anyway I could go on like this for quite some time but its getting late anddd.....
We go to aunt's house and play outside. And uncle takes us for boat rides on the lake RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE! We love their new house!
We go to the library and check out comic books. Comic books that maybe have anything to do with the Avengers. Which is like all of them. The movie was awesome!!! Really super duper really awesome fantastic really. Like I would go watch it right now. I would be up until 11:30 but who cares? I don't care who you are, if you like superheroes, are opposed to violence or have anything against movies, GO SEE IT RIGHT NOW. Seriously, it was that awesome.
Neighbors come out when they hear us outside. And the grown ups chat, the kids swing and kick their shoes off into the bushes or whatever, and the mosquitoes nearly eat us alive but it is almost always worth it.
The pool is frequently visited and friends almost always come with. And we have sleepovers and gee, I love this:
SUMMER! Mmmm, I drink in every second of cookouts and swimming and friends and family and ahh I love it.
AND Next week, we finally get to go on that camping trip to the smoky mountains! I am really excited for that. Anyway I could go on like this for quite some time but its getting late anddd.....
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Definitons of Summer
sum-mer [suhm-er]
noun
noun
1.
the season between spring and autumn, in the Northern Hemisphere from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, and in the Southern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox.
2.
the period comprising the months of June, July, and August in the U.S., and from the middle of May to the middle of August in Great Britain.
3.
a period of hot, usually sunny weather
Summer means that there are frequent trips to everywhere: grandma's, the pool, the store, the swingset, the freezer (for ice cream)...
Summer means the Virginia Barbecue, which it not really a barbecue, it's more of a fair. There are rides, vendors of "antiques," jewelry, you name it and they probably have it. There's typical carnival food: corn dogs (mmm), funnel cake, curly fries, and lemon shake-ups. I'm not really sure if the lemon shake-ups are specific to the VBBQ, but they are awesome ($$)!
Summer means there are also frequent sleepovers and friends come over often. And family, and cousins (which I happen to have a lot of). And there are weddings and graduations and sometimes funerals (although those aren't specific to summer).
Our family gets to go to church and worship God together.
And summer can be hot.
It's not that miserably hot here yet, thankfully. It has been nice enough to be outside in the evenings and run through sprinklers and the bugs aren't that bad either. We can still go on bike rides and not shrivel up. The walk from car to pool isn't miserable yet. And while I keep thinking how it is going to get so hot, I enjoy every moment of right now: summer.
Summer is when things happen. Best friends move away and everyone makes plans for next year: school. I'm blessed enough to not have to move, or to not have to switch schools again before high school.
Babies are born and, for the most part, everything is happy.
And that also means that I sometimes don't get a chance to post anything here. Sorry. I'm trying, and sometimes I even think of things that would be really good to put on here, but just don't have the time. It can be busy, and God is busy too;
And that also means that I sometimes don't get a chance to post anything here. Sorry. I'm trying, and sometimes I even think of things that would be really good to put on here, but just don't have the time. It can be busy, and God is busy too;
God is good, and He is still at work in the summer.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Whewee
Wow, I can't believe that it is almost summer already!! Sorry I rally haven't been posting much, I guess you could say that I've been busy.
Busy going places and finishing up 6th grade. Last weekend we went to the farm for mother's day (btw happy mother's day) and it was a really good time. We got to have strawberries!!! They were SO GOOOOD!!! I forgot what a real strawberry tasted like.
On the way home from that, Cassie said something really funny. "Weeell, Jesus can not tell people things because he does not have an ipod, inbestead he does not have a phone either." It was really cute.
Now she's been saying that she wants a brother. Mom said no. Cassie asked " Welll, can I have a sister?"
"You already have two sisters."
"Yeah, well, a different one. Can we buy one?"
"No, you can't just buy a sister or brother, the have to be born."
"Well, we could go to the park and take one!"
Busy going places and finishing up 6th grade. Last weekend we went to the farm for mother's day (btw happy mother's day) and it was a really good time. We got to have strawberries!!! They were SO GOOOOD!!! I forgot what a real strawberry tasted like.
On the way home from that, Cassie said something really funny. "Weeell, Jesus can not tell people things because he does not have an ipod, inbestead he does not have a phone either." It was really cute.
Now she's been saying that she wants a brother. Mom said no. Cassie asked " Welll, can I have a sister?"
"You already have two sisters."
"Yeah, well, a different one. Can we buy one?"
"No, you can't just buy a sister or brother, the have to be born."
"Well, we could go to the park and take one!"
Monday, April 30, 2012
Dnekeew a Tahw
It was a bckwards one. Well, kind of. I really just wanted to have a funny title.
I also realize I haven't posted here for a long time and I apologize. Not that you would particularly care, but even so.
This weekend my family went to Springfield for a funeral which was a lot funner than I thought it would be. We stayed at the Xock family's house for two nights; I slept on the couch. The visitation and funeral were pretty good. My dad, uncle, and Grandpa all gave speeches, and all succeded at making me cry. After the service everyone (literally, everyone) went over to my aunt's house and kind of had a party, which was good because it seemed to really cheer everyone up, especially my aunt. Cassie didn't come to the party thing afterwards because, no pun intended, it was a death party. There were peanuts, oysters, shrimp, fish, and every allergen imaginable there. That covered all of hers, so that's why she wasn't there. Especially because she just had an allergic reaction to a pancake made with eggs last last weekend, my parents decided it would be best that she didn't come to that part.
Anyway it was fun.
The Xocks were fun and very nice to let us stay at their house and eat their food. We all had a great time there.
Then when we got back on Sunday, I went to a Girl Scout babysitting class and so now I'm a pro. :{ )
So, If you need a babysitter, ask me!!
Also I learned how to make a new smiley face. :{) He has a moustache and it is awesome!!!
I also realize I haven't posted here for a long time and I apologize. Not that you would particularly care, but even so.
This weekend my family went to Springfield for a funeral which was a lot funner than I thought it would be. We stayed at the Xock family's house for two nights; I slept on the couch. The visitation and funeral were pretty good. My dad, uncle, and Grandpa all gave speeches, and all succeded at making me cry. After the service everyone (literally, everyone) went over to my aunt's house and kind of had a party, which was good because it seemed to really cheer everyone up, especially my aunt. Cassie didn't come to the party thing afterwards because, no pun intended, it was a death party. There were peanuts, oysters, shrimp, fish, and every allergen imaginable there. That covered all of hers, so that's why she wasn't there. Especially because she just had an allergic reaction to a pancake made with eggs last last weekend, my parents decided it would be best that she didn't come to that part.
Anyway it was fun.
The Xocks were fun and very nice to let us stay at their house and eat their food. We all had a great time there.
Then when we got back on Sunday, I went to a Girl Scout babysitting class and so now I'm a pro. :{ )
So, If you need a babysitter, ask me!!
Also I learned how to make a new smiley face. :{) He has a moustache and it is awesome!!!
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