All my Would-Have-Been Christmas-Related Posts Combined into one (complete with pictures!!!)

(Chronological Order)

My cousins came over and we ate awesome sandwiches.

Grilled cheese, with fancy cheese.

It. Was. Awesome.

Then we mad puff cars. Here's whatcha do: each person/team or whatever gets 4 straws, 3 paper clips, 4 mint life savers, tape, scissors, and a sheet of paper. You have to make a wind-powered car. As in you blow it. With your mouth.

Mine didn't win, but it was hilariously fun. You know, with cousins and all.

Christmas Eve.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care...

And the artificial fireplace was also turned on.

And in the morning,

Christmas puked in our living room.

And on my desk.

And now I have this!

But unless you are in my family or someone very awesome, you porobably have no idea what that is. It is my unstrung bow that won't be re-strung until tomorrow when I go over to Bree's house (someone very awesome. But don't feel bad if you didn't know what that is. You're still aweosme.). She has a bowstringer. And arrows.



Truly a nerd

I didn't know I could be so extreme.

Art class today with my awesome art teacher. We're doing color theory and color schemes. We were drawing geometric solids and coloring them with color patterns (primary, monochromatic, tetradic, triadic, complementary or analogous). I made a whole bunch of spheres. And because I am nerdy and awesome, I colored them using the binary extension of the Fibonacci numbers.

And it was awesome.

And my blog now has a tetrad color scheme.

Thinking About Pseudonyms

I really should be more careful about this. And Pseudonyms really can be quite fun. Hmmmm.

But I can still be Emma.

Awesomeness

It seems like I haven't put anything on here for awhile. Gee, I guess I haven't. Sorry folks! I should be more regular. It's been busy.

Let us start where I was going to before I wrote that part. Ahem, on I-can't-remember-which-one-it-was-it-was-kinda-long-ago-and-I'm-lazy Friday I went to a Chris Tomlin concert! It was so awesome I can't hardly explain it. I won't, actually, because I will end up making it sound less awesome than it was. See other blog.

Zoom zoom all the way to, erm, Wednesday. We cooked. All. Day. Seriously. Not. Kidding.

Thursday was delicious with so much food I wish you could see our fridge.

Then on Friday we shopped and I guess you could say we dropped. First time I've ever done that and it was pretty fun.

Phew!

Mad or Something

I hate being sick. Especially when it's just a cold and you go to the doctor because you think that it's something and you have to pay money for them to tell you to gargle with salt water and take ibuprofen even though you already knew that and they try to use big words to, I don't know, impress you or something and then you know more about it than they think you do and yeah. It stinks. Especially the snot. And I'm kinda mad because I had to miss school when I wanted to go and now I have to go to school tomorrow and I don't want to at all! It's horrible.

On the other hand, I'm very excited because Thanksgiving is going to be delicious (so is Christmas. I feel bad for people who don't know my grandma. She sure does make a kick butt ham!) and the house down the sidewalk from me is for sale and I really hope someone with kids moves in! Scratch that, someone with kids MY AGE. Kids are never my age. They're always either significantly older or significantly younger or live far away and we never will see each other but I think you get it. It would be nice.

So I'm kinda mad or something close to it, like mappy. There.

Shawnee National Forest and Stuff

So my weekend was awesome. I went to Shawnee National Forest with nine girls from my girl scout troop.

Garden of the Gods was my favorite although I've no idea why it's called that. It was beautiful but the toilets were the worst I've seen yet. There were these other old-fashioned ones at camp Cedarledge, but they did not have electricity so I could not actually see them. Ha ha!

The iron furnace was creepy. And that's exactly what it is. An iron furnace. In the middle of nowhere.

So was Dickson Springs. Kinda like a creepy old weird abandoned place that maybe people used to go there and maybe it wasn't creepy then. But it did have a very good hike.

Oh yeah there was Cave in Rock. It was a cave in a rock. But it was very cool. And the Ohio River was right there. So now I've touched the Ohio River.

Bridgett's blog has pictures.

Funniest Mad Lib Ever

One apple we were below in the cat dog on our way to edamame when the friendly ghost started to hurl ice cream. When we jumped at out karate we looked right away. Maybe that, we napped often because we were potatoes from our long quest. The next raisin, we started to unwind for breakfast and Velcro whales x-ray yellow zebras anyway. Once we were bologna, we cried back to donkey and eagerly flipped goats. The next helicopter I had to immigrate to Japan. It was a knuckle licking day. My best friend mooed and then neighed over purple quacking. It was so ridiculous! I had a something Tuesday umbrella Viking wallet xylophone your Zamboni.

Perhaps the Best Saturday EVER

Really it was.

We drove to Springfield (Illinois) and met Uncle George at Olive Garden. I had alfredo but I couldn't concentrate on how durn good it was or how funny George is because I was so freaking excited!

After that we hurriedly drove to the Whatever-It-Was place and quickly found our seats as the lights lowered and 10TH AVENUE NORTH (the band) started to play! Omigod I almost peed my pants it was so fantastic! Loud, but fantastic. I never knew I could scream so loud.

Then the intermission came and uncle George bought us awesome T-Shirts and my dad bought a 10th Avenue North cd while he earned a free Third Day cd.

Now you're probably wondering what the heck Third Day is. Well, it's only the BEST BAND EVER! (Besides 10th avenue north! [They played in the concert together. {I'm such a nerd I use brackets!}]) And it was so so good. No, it was more than that.

About halfway through I was thinking to myself, is this what heaven in like? except forever? well, no! i'd know all the words and my feet won't hurt!

Notice how I don't think in capital letters.

Anyway, yeah. definitely my best saturday ever.

The song they played for their encore!!! It was amazing.

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Oh Yeah i have a blog!

Sorry guys. I can't come up with anything good! I can feel a goog long, funny post building up in by brain and sooooooooooon it will have to be typed...

In the meanwhile I'm going to go sing in the shower

ha

Where does a general keep his armies?

































In his sleevies!

20 Seconds of Glory

(I just remembered that i hadn't posted this yet. [Or maybe i did. I don't remember. I'll just post it again anyway.] Sorry, it's been a LONG time since this happened. It was last school year in the spring I think. Totally awesome.)

Well, maybe more like 30. 

Ya know how I told you our school was going to a Cardinals game and singing Take Me Out to the Ball Game?  It was so totally fantastical!  I can't even express in words how cool it was, really.  It is kinda funny because Mr. Teacher kinda directs like he's directing an orchestra instead of preschoolers and kindergartners, and 1-3rd graders with a few 4,5, and 6th graders sprinkled in there.  Really, he does.

                                                                            



Girl Scouts

Our first meeting for this year is tomorrow. I am so excited!

AND we have a camping trip next weekend! Excitinger! Both the Bridget/tt s are coming! Yay!

Okay, I think you get it. I'm EXCITED!

Cooking

On Friday at school we cooked our own lunch! Apparently our new PE teacher is also a chef... a really healthy chef.  Healthy as in no meat and veggie everything!

I normally stick to broccoli and peas and corn and that sort of stuff. Not really a big fan of beans or squash or tomatoes, especially not all nixed together! But I tried something new and I'm glad I did even though I didn't particularly care for it.

At least it was fun.  And dessert was good!

School

I have the same teachers as last year but we moved to a new room to accommodate our now larger class.  Homework- reading and writing with the addition of Khan Academy, a math website.  Out classroom is HOT but not as hot as outside!

I'm happy because we don't have to share our bathroom with the little kids! It's so much cleaner! And it doesn't smell horrible (yet). 

We have a new PE teacher whose friend goes to my church and she is really nice (both of them).

And I LOVE MY ART TEACHER!!!

Highlights of Summer

June: I made a new blog, I left for a while, it was sad.
July: I went to vacation bible school by my grandma's house, my blog reached it's 100th post, I turned 12!, we played bananagrams.

August: it got HOTTER, it finally rained.

Now summer has 5 days remaining until school starts. So sad.

Such a dork

How many people do you know that would stare at a clock for 4 minutes untill the time was the same up-side down as it was right-side up? And then 3 minutes after that to see the time be a palindrome? Well, now you know one. Label me a dork, I don't care.

Just guess what time it was.

Finally!

It rained! Phew.

And that thunder? Didn't sound angry so much as it did a sigh of relief, like the whole world was sucking it in. Ahhh.

Going Crazy

I licked the needle instead of the thread and put my cream-cheesed bagel on top of the cream cheese container instead of the lid.

Not only that, but it's so hot (100 DEGREES without the heat index!) the hose water is warm and going to the pool isn't fun. Now I can't wait for fall.

Happy Birthday

Because it's always someone's birthday, right? God made you and you should celebrate the day that you were born and that you know God is going to use you to touch outher people's lives if you give your life to him. Just sayin'.

I guess I have some filling-in to do...

So I just turned 12! On my birthday I:

Had breakfase in bed. Crepes! With marscepone, raspberries, fresh fresh peaches, and chocolate sauce.

Opened presents, in bed! From parents, 'My Neighbor Totoro,' a new watch; from Abigail, earrings; from grandma Judy, a PHONE!; from grandma Linny, notebooks and money; from aunt Julie, fingernail polish and giftcards; from the other Hodges, a Swiss Army Knife and Swiss Army Flashlight (I almost blinded myself!); from the Mumfords, bananagrams; from aunt Pam, a bag and a book; from Paige a KLUTZ book (I love those!). 

The reason I do that is because people always ask me what I got for my birthday, and I really don't like answering that question.

THEN we went to P. F. Changs for dinner.  I had Crispy Honey Chicken, mom and Abigail shared some kind of shrimp, and my dad ate whatever nobody else did.  It was awesome!

I had a kickbutt birthday and I wanna thank you all.  :)