Up Chuck

Merry Christmas everyone! All of my cousins are in town for Christmas and my cousin was staying over at my house. We had just fallen asleep and all of a sudden my one of my cousin, whom I am sharing my bed with, starts up chucking. It is everywhere. All over my bed which I had just put clean sheets on about 3 hours before, and all over me. It is 4 in the morning and I am going to go wake the whole house up because my room now freaks, i am covered in my cousins dinner, and so is my bed. Great. So at 5 in the morning on Christmas I was in the showering so I don't get the flu in Can Cun! Luckly she is starting to feel better! Christmas memories in the making!

I mean't to do this days ago!

I meant to post this days ago. 2 days ago I finally got a phone! My parents were smart and got unlimited texting! Plus I also got a haircut and of course I digital scrapbooked it! Have Merry CHRISTmas!

Tagged!

Meg Tagged me! Join in!

1. Post the rules on your blog.
2. Fill out the questions below
3. Tag 5-7 people at the end of your post.
4. Pass on the tag. Have FUN!!


1.Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate! I like it but nothing I am crazy for. Eggnog is ok but it is too rich for me most of the time!
2.Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Of coarse they are wrapped. What would be Christmas if they weren’t?!
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Both. Colored outside and in my room, White of the tree!
4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Nope…
5. When do you put your decorations up?
We put them up over Thanksgiving break and take them down on the new year.
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Hard one! Not necessarily a Christmas dish but it is a good one… Corn Macaroni! It is to die for!7. Favorite holiday memory as a child:
I have so many memories over Christmas. This Christmas is going to be very special because we are going to Can Cun, Mexico as a family!
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
I had always known Santa wasn’t real. I remember going to lunch in 1st grade and everyone believed in Santa and when I told a girl in my class he wasn’t real she started crying!
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Never had. I wish we did but the parents NEVER let us! They are always mean and make us wait!
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
Last year was the first year without a traditional tree. Now we have a 12 foot Martha Stuart tree and I love it!
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
I look snow but I hate cold. I would much rather head south and have sand be my snow!
12. Can you ice skate?
Yes! I am not too bad at it either!
13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
I haven’t gotten my favorite gift yet but I know it will be Can Cun!
14. What is the most important thing about the Holidays Christmas for you?
Celebrating Jesus' birth and spending time with family. For me, remembering the reason for the season is the biggest challenge and the greatest reward!
(Not going to change the way Meg worded that!)
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Pie! I love it!
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Every year we do Christmas with one side of the family on Christmas day. It rotates what side every year.
17. What tops your tree?
Ribbon!
18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving?
I would be lying if I said I just like giving because I do like getting gifts but I really enjoy thinking of others and going out of my way to make someone’s day by giving.
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?"
Christmas Shoes by Newsong,
That Baby by Steven Curtis Chapman,
All I really want for Christmas by SCC.
20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yuck, unless they are fruity.
21. What do you want for Christmas?
Can Cun! I am so Blessed. I have the best parents and brother in the world and everything I could ask for.
22. Do you attend an annual Christmas Party?
Not annual.
23. Do you dress up on Christmas or wear PJs?
Depends! But I like being in PJs!
24. Do you own a santa hat?
NOPE! I hate santa hats.
25. Who do you normally spend Christmas with?
Cousins!

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Favorite Photo Friday!

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Sick again

Last night I feel asleep very early. Around 8:00- 8:30 to be exact. I feel asleep right away and I think I had gotten an okay night sleep. But early this morning my stomach started to get a little queasy. Didn't think much about it so I just sat in the bathro*m for the longest time, went and took a shower, and tried to eat breakfast. After I made breakfast it did not look appealing to me at all and according to my mother I looked very pasty. So she made me stay home for the morning. I went back to bed and @ about 10 she called and asked me if I felt like going to school. I told her maybe and started walking around to get myself up. With in 5 minutes I had to go to the bathr*om and then got sick, obviously missing the to*let. I called my mom crying and knowing that she doesn't do pu*k very well. I felt so bad. Lucky the next 2 times I made it to the b*throom! Have a good weekend!

Lights

This year I decided to decorate my bed w/ lights for Christmas. I think it will be up all year around though! Have a good day since I am iced inside!

Another Illusion

This is so wierd

You may have gotten this in an email forward that has been going around. They are all weird illusions but this one is really weird! I found it works best if the light is not on. Try it... You will love it!

Thank You, Mai!

2 days ago I got a package in the mail that Mai had sent me full of goodies and stuff! There was LOTS of candy.,Seventeen Magazine in Japanese, a ipod speaker that is a lego (Personal fave),and some notes from some of my friends. I am planning to get a package full of goodies to her on Friday. Thank You so much Mai!

Our Christmas Tree

On Thanksgiving my family put up the Christmas tree. It is 12 feet talk. This is our second year with the Martha Stuart style tree. Last year we put the traditional tree in our basement but we found it was a lot of work for the amount we saw it. So this year we (I) decided to put the Traditional ordaiments going up the stairway. I would say it looks very good! Pictures of that later.

Thank You, Mr. President

We may not all like George W. Bush, but that doesn't mean we can't thank him. I can't imagaine how much stess it would take to run a country. Steven Curtis Chapman wrote a song thanking him and if you want to listen to it, you will want to do that right away because it will only be playing of a few days.

~Happy Thanksgiving~

Have a Happy Thankgiving. We have so much to be Thankful for!

My View

All you hear about on the news is about how the economy is going down hill and it is not good. I know it is not the best it has been in awhile but I am tired of people complaining about it. So we don't has much money as an economy at the moment and maybe you will have to cut back on the Christmas presents this year. I believe that is not the economy that is bad, it is our poor spending choices. We have been spoiled in the past and we don't understand that we already have more than most countries. We are just used to higher standards so when it isn't as good as before we go crazy. I was watching House hunter's the other night and my dad was guessing what house they were going to pick. And of coarse it was the one out of there price range. And his point was that most Americans haven't been good investments. Does anyone feel the way I do about this?

MonKEYchain

Yesterday I went to watch my cousin and my old cross country coach run and I bought this really cute monkey keychain in the gift shop and I thought it would be really cute to scrapbook but it did not turn out the way I wanted it to. Oh well, Next monkey might work better!

Favorite Photo Friday!

This is a picture of my brother on Christmas day last year. What a cutie! (Most of the time!)

5 More things

1. I am in band. (But I want to quit)


2. My favorite state is Colorado.


3. I have stayed home from school when I wasn't sick.


4. I have built so really awesome snow forts!


5. I have gone dolphin watching.

Happy Birthday Mickey Mouse!

Today is Mickey Mouse's birthday! I have no clue how old he is but I am guess really old!

Happy Birthday, Mom

Happy birthday, Mom! You are the best mom out there! Hope you have a great day and I love you more than you can imagine.

Joan

Nerds

Everytime I go to the store with my grandma I sometimes come up with a reason I need candy. And like most grandmas I am guess, she always for the most part gets it for me. About 2 months ago I went to the store with her over lunch after a doctors appointment and she bought me nerds for my trapper at school. Half of the box I left at home and the rest I put in a baggie and brought them to school. This is all the nerds I have left and it has been almost 2 or 3 months. And I eat them all the time!

5 More things

1. I am in two advanced classes. (Math, Art)


2. I am the oldest in my grade by two days.


3. I have now lost my retainer twice and only lucky once by finding it.


4. We used to have a pop-up camper.


5. I am going to Mexico twice this year.

Digital Scrapbook Mag.

For my birthday last year I got a gift card for $20 to the scrapbooking store. So on Saturday I took my mom so we could get supplies for upcoming pages. The first thing I looked at was the digital scrapbooking magazines. There were 4 different kinds. I picked up all for and deciding I really like these two, I look at the price of them and know wonder I liked it so much! one was $20 and the other was $30. So I put them back since I didn't want to spend my gift card on 1 magazine. Instead I got two of the cheaper ones. They are OK but nothing like the other ones. Maybe next time I go I will get one of them. They were so great! They had many good tips.

Oh, No... Not again

The title explains it all! I never set retainer on my tray at school. Instead I always set it on my trapper. I hadn't worn it to school lately so I forgot about it and when I picked up my stuff I must of knocked it off and not realized it. I didn't realize it was missing until 10:00 that night when I was trying to find it. Right away i realized what I did and decided to go to bed and worry about finding it tomorrow. So the next day at school I got and see if anyone has turned it in and no one had, they checked w/ the janiter to see if he found it while cleaning, he hadn't. Sigh, so I am a frustarted at myself for doing this but what can I do about it now? So I tell my mom and she was really calm about it considering it was the second time I lost it but the 1st time I did not find it. I have an appointment Monday to get a new one. Now my pocketbook is going to be lighter that is for sure!

What in the heck is going on?

This morning I woke up to this.... Last Friday it was in the 70' CRAZY!!

Friends

I found a picture of some of my friends that was taken last March and of course I scrapbooked it! I tried putting 2 scrapbook pages together using pictures from the 1st day of school and it looks awesome I think! But notice my grammer error, Not a big one if you know read it! But I love it anyway! When I have nothing else to do I will go back and fix it!

Coming soon!

As you know, I talk about Mai a lot! I have said this before that talk almost everyday! We have both told each other some things that we went from either Japan or the US. Mai asked me to send her Skittles, Starbursts, Orange Tic Tacs, and Trident Strawberry fusion gum (Which I haven't bought yet, because I can't find it in the stores yet. I am hoping they haven't discontinued it.), I would get another thing to surprise her. I know what she is sending me but I am not going to tell you until I get it! I am so grateful for my friends in Japan. If you don't have friends that are from a different country you don't know what I am talking about... But I encourage you if you have the opportunity to, to make friends from different countries. It is one of the best experience I have ever had.

Happy Halloween!

Not much to say because I am not doing holloween this year. Well I take that back, I am doing light the night at a friends house. I might have some pictures of that. Today we got out of school early and when I got home my dad had the ATV's on the trailer and we were off to go riding for the afternoon. The river was down so we got to drive through it! But we all got stuck! I will post pictures of today later. For favorite photo friday... This is a picture of how we used to ride our bike as a family! People would stop to take our picture. What 10 years can do to your fashion!

CRAZY

This morning I had to wake up at 5:30 to give a presentation on our Japan trip to a club of old people and I left my house when it was dark. It was so depressing! I just got back from drum lessons and I am zonked out. Tomorrow I have a half day of school (Thank goodness!) so today felt like a Friday. Tomorrow I start drivers ed at 7 am so I have to leave my house by 6:30. That is until 10 then I am quickly have to dart over to someones house to babysit until 5-5:15ish. After that I am going straight to another family's house to babysit until 10. Sunday then I have church, sunday school, drivers ad, a drama group at church and worshop band practice. Is it just me or is this week going insane? It is now 8:04 PM and I going to QUICKLY hop in the shower and then finally go to bed. I will try to post some things tomorrow since I will have some time. (Maybe)

That's Huge!

Since I have a sinus infection I have been put on a medication and the pills are huge! I have to have a huge meal before since they said that I have to have a very full stomach when take it! Here are some pictures!

I've Been Tagged

I have gotten tagged by Ashton .

So here are 7 weird things about me:

1. When I was about 10 years old my dad came up to wake me up to tell me that he and my mom were going to go on a run (It was 10:00 by the way) and when he woke me up I sat up and said, " Daddy, look at me, I'm naked." of coarse I was still asleep and I WAS NOT naked!
2. I am a organizer but messy. My room is always a mess but very organized! I have all my favorite underwear in a curtain order in my dresser! TMI!
3. I don't like "brown" sodas except for root beer. But I love sprite!
4. My name was about to be Jordyn. But instead they named me after the person who she lived with in college. I have the person I am named after as a teacher this year. It is really weird! Speciously because it is health class!
5. I am a big perfectionist! Except for keeping my room clean!
6. I have broken five bones.

• I fell out of bed when I was 4. My brother was only a month old. That was the first 2 breaks and were the worst ones. That was the left arm!
• My babysitters granddaughter was moving in w/ her and it was her first day there. She was on her bike I was was racing her w/ an untied shoelace when I fell and got ran over by the bike. That break was my right arm!
• In 4th grade I was on my rollarblades in hit the steps and fell and broke my left arm again. That was # 4.
• A month after getting out of that cast, I failed to put my glove up to catch a softball. The other teams coach was a facal dr. so he was a big help! Then they read the cat scan wrong and told me it wasn't out of place even though it was. That was #5.

7. When I went over to Japan I lost my retainer on the flight and had to search through the carts to find it. That can be a long story for another day. Maybe I will get to that tomorrow.

Now the 7 people I am going to tag...

Mai

Meg

Emily

Taylor

Courtney

Sam

Gracie

5 More things

Last night I got about an hour of sleep because I was up all night with the ugly cough. So my mom took me to the doctor and I have a sinus infection and said not to go to school today (which I wasn't planning to do because of lack of sleep) or tomorrow. Great... Sigh... I going to be bored to death! Wasn't much of a problem today because all I did was sleep! Here are 5 more things about me!

1. I spend most Friday nights babysitting!

2. My bff is Ashtyn!

3.I HATE band.

4. I have had gum graph surgery.

5. I got my tonsils and adenoids taken out when I was in 3rd grade.

Skype

I absolutely LOVE skype. If you don't know what skype is it is a program you can download on to your computer and call people on the internet! The reason I got this in the first place was for church so our youth group can have meetings that way. I thought is was really cool so I told my friend, Mai, who lives in Japan about it and so she downloaded it and we had a coversation! Her computer had a webcam and my computer didn't. So I got to see her but she couldn't see me:( So she told me I better get a webcam. Of coarse by now my mom is right at the computer because this was so cool that I was talking to Mai! So the next day (Today) I went to get a webcam! Now she can see my face! It is awesome talking to you, Mai!

This is a picture of me on the webcam!

Favorite Photo Friday

This is a picture of a tree that was in the campground when we were camping a few weeks ago. It cracks me up! Have a good weekend! Tomorrow I have state cross country so I will have pictures of that!

Happy Birthday, Dad

Today is my Dad's birthday. He in now an oldf*rt! Just Joking. I love my dad very much and his is such an inspiration to me. Today is also my grandma's birthday. She died a long battle of cancer a few years ago.

Have a good birthday, Dad.

I love you a lot!

Joan

Welcome Home John!

Yesterday was a very busy and exciting day! My friend, Ashtyn, has been in the adoption process for quite some time and they finally got united as a family! Now there are 6 kids in the family and 5 of them are girls! Poor John! I got invited to go pick up her parents and John at the airport. I was of coarse taking pictures! There flight was scheduled to come in around 8 last night but they were going to try to get an earlier flight if they could so they told us to have my mom write me a note saying if there Grandpa calls school that I would have permission to leave. But that was only if they called. So they didn't get an earlier flight so I just went to Cross Country practice after school! My mom must of not put two and two together even though we went over this many many times, but she forgot to pick me up from Cross Country! So I use another kids cell phone since I don't have one to call my mom. She answered and she was eating dinner in another town. She felt so bad and my ride was going to be at my house to pick me up in 15 minutes. So she calls my grandma to come get me and then my grandma took me to Ashtyn's house. I quickly put on some new clothes and some more deo! I was such an honor to be at the airport and join there family for this event! We love you, John! Welcome Home!

Ouch!

I was straighting my hair this morning and when I was going to pick it up after it has been plugged in for a few minutes I oviously wasn't paying much attention to what I was picking it up with. I picked it up on the side that is 450 degrees! I dropped it right away luckly as it then landed in the drawer I had open. So it did not land on my toes. Now I have a blister on both sides of my finger. It did not hurt right away but it did 1 and 2 period at school. Next time I will look where I am putting my fingers when using hot objects!

a first

today i had another cross country meet and right now i am on the bus on my way home. my dad came as he a
ways does but as he was leaving he asked me if i wanted his phone for the bus ride home. i thought he was joking so i smartly said of coarse. when i told me that he was serious i was stunned. so of course i desided to blog on the was home. i didn't have a very good run today because i am getting my cough back.

5 More things

1. I have a 14% curvature in my back.

2. I love taking pictures of flowers.

3. I am not a morning person by a long shot!

4. I have every Steven Curtis Chapman CD.

5. I have been to 3 SCC concerts.

New Carpet!

This tells you how long it has been since I have gotten on the computer. My brother is out of the house at paino, and my mom and dad are out to eat. I have the whole house to myself for the first time in a long time! Last weekend we got new carpet. They desided to come replace it for free since it was a "Bad batch of carpet"! But what a pain having to pretty much move since we had to move everything. The new carpet looks nice and the house is finaly put back together(Except my room)!

Plus this week I found this awesome website that you can use to digital scrapbook! It is working great but you can't save it to your computer. That is the only downside. I recomend trying it.

ScrapBlog

Weekend with Chloe

I thought this year would be a hard year at school because all of my friends have gone up to the high school but at Cross Country I meet a girl that I knew only a little bit. She has the friendship I have been longing for! We have so much in common! Friday night we had lots of fun putting on random things and attemping to dance! What a scene! Then on Saturday we went to her house to hangout and her and I drove all over the farm and took many "Farm Photos" as we call them!

Waiting for a miracle

I found this family and they need a miracle desperately. It is time to go get on our knees for this family. Susannah is almost 3 years old and up to this point has lived in Kunming, China. She has a heart condition and has become very sick. Her family actually met her for the first time in a hospital (on 9/16) This little girl needs a miracle to make it home to Tennessee. We serve a mighty God and know that he can provide this miracle. Please join me and so many others in PRAYING SUSANNAH HOME! To add this button to your blog, right click the picture, save it, and add it to your sidebar. I know this family so appreciates any prayers, thoughts, and encouragement you can send them.

Weekend fun!

Last weekend was my last softball tournament. I was disappointed but I am looking forward to playing at the high school! We were supposed to play on Saturday and the plan was we would camp. It started rainning at 2:00 on Friday and rainned all through the night so we stayed home instead and only camped Saturday night. My first game was supposed to be at and 8 Am and got moved to 2 pm then 3 pm then cancelled. What a bummer! So we just called all my cousins to come hangout by the fire instead. We played on sunday and had a lot of fun! It was so cold though.

Cross Country meet!

As I said this morning, today was my first Cross Country meet. It was our first meet at home for middle school! It was very hilly so we had the advantage of practicing on the hills! Overall I didn't do too bad. I of coarse wish i did better but did better than I did my first meet last year! Plus we have only had 9 practices so far. One funny (wasn't funny at the time) that happened or I learned was that I need to go to the bathroom before running even if I don't need to go. Lets just leave it at that. I think you know what happens next! Now I am showered, smell better and ready to go to bed!

9-11

I can't believe that 7 years ago today we got attacked at the world trade center and the pentagon. I was in 1st grade at the time. I don't know if any of you saw the thing about the attack on Discover Channel on Sunday about it. It was really good and it talked more on the high jacked planes that attacked on the pentagon and and some where in pennsylvana. I pray for all of the families that losted a love one seven years ago today. I also want to mention I have my first cross country meet today and I am sorta freaking about it and I need some prayers to calm me down! Have a good day.

5 more things about me!

1. I can never make up my mind on what my blog should look like. If you want any help or have any advice it was be greatly appreciated.
2. I use Microsoft Digital Image Suites Anniversary Edition.
3. I love Shirley temples!
4. I have A.D.D. (attention deficit disorder)
5. I enjoy playing the drums at church.

What's Up?

What is up with this cold weather. It is only September and the high today is in the 60's. That is what it is supposed to be all week. Everywhere else it is still in the 90's. I have a feeling that this winter is going to be a cold one! When I graduate I think I am going to go to a collage down south! Meg, i will trade you and you can come live up here and I can live in Forida! Have a nice warm day! Now off to school!

Labor Day weekend fun!

This weekend I went camping with some friends. It was fun except for the part that we had to sleep in tents! We only sent one person to the er! Poor Ellyn, She spilt hot chocolate down her leg the day before her birthday 11th and got a 2nd degree burn:( We did a lot of boating an got some great waves for jumps! Everyone forgot their camera so I was a photo freak! Like usual!