A Good Weekend

 Had a sleepover on Friday with Fiona and Bree after choir/a cappella (which were both awesome). We had pasta for dinner and donuts for breakfast. Now I still have the many mumbling mice song stuck in my head and it is getting really annoying.
On Sunday we went to church. On Sunday afternoons, our neighbor's granddaughter (we'll call them Alice, Isaac, and Petunia) Petunia comes over and likes to play with Cassie. So we had a bubble party.

I took pictures of trees...

The sky was especially blue, don't you think?
I even got to wear my favorite shoes.

And the weather was beautiful. Perfect.

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Today it was back to school. It was about an hour too long, which says something. I must have been bored or something. The people at my table are crazy. 

Out of it

Out of blogging I mean, among other things. I was sick with strep throat all last week but I'm better now. I'm so excited about lots of things! For one, I'm excited about being back at school this week! I'm also really excited about friday, cause you know Friday is always good. I think I'm having a sleepover with Fiona and Bree. If that turss out it is really going to be lots of fun!!! I haven't heard back from Bree yet though so I hope she can come! I'm also excited to go back to Youth Group tomorrow. It is always so fun to see everyone there and just hang out and enjoy eachother's company. Buy what I'm REALLY excited about is my girl scout trip to the smokies this summer. I hope I don't explode with excitement before June comes around. Because you know then, I wouldn't be able to go because i would be exploded already.It's going to be so awesome!!! Not exploding, I mean the trip.

Better than Cable

I can't remember if I've said this here yet, but I often say that life at my school is better than cable. Us kids are hilarious.

Today we were washing hands in the kitchen before lunch, like we always do. One of the teachers is heating up his lunch. David is standing behind me and I hear him say, "Hey everyone, Mr. John told me his mom calls him Johnny boy."

Mr John replies playfully, "Hey, man, you said you wouldn't tell them."

"Okay, Johnny boy."

Girl Scouts

I just realized I haven't really written about this.

This summer we (Cadettes and Fiona) are going on a Big Trip to the Smokies. We have planned a lot of it at our last meeting and I am SO excited!!! Although it's a 10-hour drive, I still think even that part should be fun. We're camping in tents. We're going hiking, rafting, eeeee! it's going to be so much awesome. I absoulutely can't wait.

But right now, before that, right now, we sell cookies. And sell cookies. Does anybody want cookies?

AND today is Cassie's birthday. I can't believe she is THREE already!!!

I'd say it was a pretty awesome weekend

A long one. And a fun one.

Bree came over on Sunday. We played spoons all day. And we laughed all day. I seriously think it might be the most I've laughed at one time. It was so much fun.

When it probably would have been time for us to take her home, we called her parents and asked if she could stay. And sometimes, things just work out. It seems like those are the times that always turn out the best with and those are the times you remember. Like that one time when a pipe broke at school, we had a snow day without the snow, and since we were taking Ruth to school anyway, we just 'stole' her for the morning. Then we went over to her house (within walking distance literally around the corner) for the whole rest of the day. Anyway, to prove my point, that was last school year and I still remember it, which means something.

Anyway, we drove Bree over to her house to get her pajamas and items nessecary for a sleepover. When we got back to my house we made our own pasta (Gnocchi) from scratch for dinner. It was surprisingly easy and surprisingly tasty.

I guess in terms of sleepovers, it was pretty perfect. I love it when you just call, Zelda says, yes, she can come over, and then she ends up staying all day. And then all night. And we giggle untill we're all giggled out and get the hiccups and then because we have the hiccups, and hiccups are funny, we continue to giggle despite the fact that our sides hurt and Cassie is taking a nap and we might wake her up. The best.

Delayed Archery Post

I have no excuse for this one. I'll be honest, I've just been lazy. (sorry)

But, I did very well shooting left-handed, which I didn't think would turn out well.

Delayed Etc.

This should have been posted a few days ago but some how the draft got deleted. Arrg.

So, happy New Year! 7 days late, of course, but still. I haven't posted anything on here since last year! My year is going super so far, and I hope everyones is too.

As far as pseudonyms go, I have them all ready and will tell you now I guess. My two younger sisters are now Abilene and Cassie, listed from oldest to youngest. My parents are Chelsea and Carl. I'm still Emma, of course. So yeah.

As far as resolutions go, being a new year and all, I am going to try and read my bible every day this year, and to read the whole thing. Simple, but yet so complex, if you know what I mean. Ask me about it in 2013.

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!