A Glue Present

*Side note*

It was soooooo funny, Granny was opening her presents, and she had a little "present" from Olivia. It was a folded piece of paper, all glued shut. Granny was opening it, and she wasn't finding anything, and everyone was thinking it was a "glue present"...you know, paper and glue. Anyway, after 3 or 4 minutes of unwrapping paper and glue, she discovered a quarter and a red bead. Hahaha! Very funny...Granny was the only one who still thought after a few minutes that there was anything there, everyone else thought she was just folding up a piece of paper and glued it up. It was funny though. ;)

A Redwall Feast

Well, today was Granny's birthday (that's my dad's mom if you didn't know). Well recently us granddaughters have gotten her totally hooked on Redwall. She's been reading them for about 2 months now, and she's already on the 3rd to last one! It's pretty amazing how fast she reads. Anyway, for her birthday, we decided to give her a feast--Redwall style. So Mum and I planned a menu from my Redwall cookbook. (I bought it and had it signed by Brian Jacques himself in Berkely 4 years ago...amazing experience.) We had all my girl cousins over, so it was Annie, Becca, Olivia, and us, plus Aunt Laurie, Aunt Jenny and Auntie Bev. And Granny, of course. We had so much food here, it was a great success. Also we all donned Redwall names for the day, I was Storm Gullwhacker. For those of you who don't know Redwall, she was a mouse who lived on her own for years, and defended herself with only her Gullwhacker, which was a rope with a knot on the end. It was called Gullwhacker because her main source of annoyances were the seagulls, and she pretty much nailed them with her rope. She was amazing. And she named herself Storm. The pic is of her.

On a completely different note, I think my daddy just did something wierd with some power tools in the kitchen and it smells like something just blew up in there...and I was trying to climb over one of our baby gates and I'm really too short, but instead of being able to hop off like I planned, the gate caught on the huge hole in the bottom where my Converse wore them out, and ripped almost the whole bottom of my pants off...oops. Also now there's like a 3 inch slit going up the back of the leg...so I just messed up my favorite jeans...peachy.

Anyway, the feast was a lot of fun. The food was really good...I love food :) And I basically have nothing else to say. So now I'm done.

My Crazy Brother

"The kid can't talk, but he can speak sentences with his eyebrows."

~James

It's true, it's true! Look at him, isn't he crazy????? He takes cups out of the drawer, then climbs in. I mean, what in the world? Where does he learn this stuff? I didn't show it to him, that's for sure. ;) I guess it's cuz he's a boy. I don't understand. Anyway, it's funny. He usually stands up and turns around to get into the drawer behind him. Here's him getting in.

Isn't he funny? Now Paige has to do her homework so I'll get off.

♥ Caitie

Questions!!!!!!!

Here's a q+a that I'd never done before. Have fun with it. Three Names You Go By: 1. Caitie 2. Cait 3. Caitlin and Fish is working on "sissy" 4. Storm Gullwhacker lol Annie! Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now: 1. my "Storm Gullwhacker" nametag from the feast 2 my promise ring Two Things You Want Very Badly At The Moment: 1. the extra 5 hours of sleep I should have had this morning 2. peace Two People Who Will Fill This Out (and the First To Post it in a Comment): 1. no comment 2. I'm not sure what I would bet that no one comments on this. since no one ever comments Two Things You Did last night: 1. made Dibbun's delight. (it's redwall candy) 2. got an electric guitar. (btw, it's a black and white squire, which will look amazing with my pink and black checked strap :) but it's missing a string so I can't play it yet.bummer.) Two Things You Ate Yesterday: 1. fried chicken (soooooo good) 2. a bowl of cereal Two people you last talked to: 1. on the phone? Amy 2. in person? Auntie Bev Favorite Drinks: 1. Mountain Dew 2. java chip from starbucks LIST 2 PRAYER NEEDS; 1. to grow in Jesus and be in His word diligently 2. patience, and abiding in Christ, and learning to be silent so I can hear Him May God bless you and Keep you and make His Face to shine upon you Numbers. 6:24

An Altogether Satisfactory Week

I haven't posted in so long. I am a horrible blogger, I get on and read everyone else's blogs and then I get off and don't post myself. How lame am I. Why does this sound so much like my last post that I wrote so long ago??? Whatever...

Anyway, I've had quite a good week. On Tuesday we went to Taekwondo. That was a lot of fun. We sparred, and my love for sparring was reignited (I don't think that was the right word...hmm). Anyway, I liked it. I haven't had so much fun sparring since Anne and Hayden did TKD with us. I had two really exciting sessions, the ones in between them were good for resting...LOL. Also, after TKD, we had a meeting with my E.S. (that's an educational specialist. Not like a specialist for retards or anything. Just so we're clear on that.) Anyway, I had to turn in my attendance and everything, and she said she has this electric guitar sitting in her garage and did we know anyone who might want an electric guitar? and I was like 'heck yeah' and so I'm getting an electric guitar for FREE (you have to say it like for freEEEEee). And it probly won't be like a really good one or anything but at least for now I'll have it and it's FREE (key word here) and I can mess around with it. If it doesn't come with an amp we're probly gonna get one off of Craig's list or something. Anyway, that was exciting. :D And no, it's obviously not a les paul, but isn't it a cool pic?

Wednesday was really good too. We had a lot of fun at Ladies' study. For some reason, we (James, Mandy and I) laughed like A LOT during the course of that class. And omgsh there was this kid in our class, he just turned one, and he was like the fastest army crawler on the face of the earth, I'm not kidding! It was soooo funny watching him, all the sudden he just like dropped to the floor and took off like as fast as if he was running. It was pretty amazing! lol. Wed. night was good too, Danny Melendez taught for Pastor David, it was really good. It was on Ephesians 4, and I thought it was really interesting, because Pastor David taught on that passage just a month or so ago, and they touched on completely different points. So it was fun comparing where I marked in my bible from Pastor David's teaching to what Mr. Melendez was talking about. Also I had a Starbucks that night, and that always brightens an evening (am I right?).

Thursday also was good, another good Taekwondo class, and guitar. I passed a song in guitar class, which I always like doing, and so that was good. And ASL was ok, but I don't think I did very good on my test. It was really hard this week. So...hopefully I didn't do too bad...:( But altogether it was pretty good.

And I don't think I really did anything yesterday. We watched War Games last night. It's a really good movie, except it could use Clearplay for the language.

I didn't do anything today, I just played guitar and my mamma and I went to the store.

And my mom wants me to get off here, so I'll end for now.

Plethora is an Amazing Word...

So, I guess I have a *plethora* of things to say today. I haven't posted in a few days, which is because every time I get on the computer to blog I have to check everyone else's blogs first before I post on mine, and then my mom wants me to go to bed by the time I'm done, cuz I'm always on the comp at like 11:30 or 12 at night. Haha, whoops. So anyway...

On Wednesday, we had "Christmas in Paradise" at HSF. It was pretty amazing. The deal was you could dress up Hawaiian or in "some tacky Christmas paraphanalia" (*paraphanalia* also is an amazing word). Well I didn't dress up but it was fun anyway. They had inflatable palm trees everywhere (how incredibly tacky, right?) and the doorway was completely strung with flowers (like the kind that they put on the leis). Pastor David was dressed all out Hawaiian, with reigndeer antlers on top of his hat, so he was Christmas too. He was pretty close to the only one though. We played several games. One of them we had to make sculptures out of spam (which was incredibly disgusting) NO one wanted to touch it to get it out of the container, so Ashlyn finally dug it out. In the end, I had to touch it, and it was SSSOOOOOOO GROSS. We made a reigndeer. It was very fat, and it's front legs collapsed, so we said it was bowing (it was a Christian reigndeer). Actually it looked more like it's front elbows were hyper-extended backwards, but that is NOT the point. Also a boy that looked like a mailbox was sitting next to it. He was very square, with a square purple button for a face, and a straw for arms. We didn't win. Pip's group won because they yelled really loud, and Reece won rock paper scissors against Darilyn. Tawnee (who represents our group) won the hula hoop game. Then we had the white elephant. It was fun, but there wasn't as many REALLY hilarious gifts as I would have expected from our high school group. I ended up with some caution tape, which, lame as it sounds, was really cool for me because I can use it for decorative purposes. I think I'm going to put some on my bedroom door, and also I'm going to (hopefully; with my mamma's permission) criss cross some across the back wall behind my desk, and put pictures and stuff up there. (my desk is built into a wall, in the kitchen; that's why I need my mum's by-your-leave) Anyway, that was that.

Yesterday we had Snow Day at my dad's work. He works for a big company in San Jose, and they have their own snow blowing and fog making equiptment, that they use once every year to make a "Winter Wonderland" of sorts in their parking lot. They build a big ramp, and have disks and tires and small sled things available to everyone's use, and you can slide down the ramp. Lots of fun for the children. I helped Ainsley build a snowman. This is us.

The first one is me and Ainsley as I was building her snowman (which she promptly squashed as soon as I had finished). She is holding the arms, which had not yet been attached.

The second one is Fish in the snow (it was his first time, he was pretay psyched).

The third and fourth ones are the girls sliding down the ramp.

The fourth one is proof that my Daddy did slide down. Actually he was forced to because once Paige got Ainsley to the top she decided she didn't want to get on, was holding up the whole line, throwing a fit, you get the picture. Talk about embarrassing. Anyway, Daddy had to rescue her (i.e. put her on the tube and shove it down the hill), but then was forced to slide down as well.

The fifth one is the fog machine. You could slide through that too. It was pretty cool.

And this last one is me with the half-finished snowman. It got a lot bigger, but the overall appearance didn't change much. It was a pretty ugly snowman, actually. Not something to be proud of.

♥Side Note♥

I wrote this a long time ago and never posted it and I just found it as a draft in my posts and decided to put it up. So here it is. (And obviously the times are off since it's been a month or so)

BOREDOM...♫♫♫♥♥♥♫☼§

I have to go to bed now, so no post til tomorrow...:)♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♥♥♥♥♥♥ (I love those!!!)

Atheist Holiday

FLORIDA COURT SETS ATHEIST HOLIDAY

In Florida , an atheist created a case against the upcoming Easter and Passover holidays. He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination case against Christians, Jews and observances of their holy days. The argument was that it was unfair that atheists had no such recognized days. The case was brought before a judge.

After listening to the passionate presentation by the lawyer, the judge banged his gavel declaring,"Case dismissed!"

The lawyer immediately stood objecting to the ruling saying, "Your honor, how can you possibly dismiss this case? The Christians have Christmas, Easter and others. The Jews have Passover, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah, yet my client and all other atheists have no such holidays."

The judge leaned forward in his chair saying, "But you do. Your client, counsel, is woefully ignorant."

The lawyer said, "Your Honor, we are unaware of any special observance or holiday for atheists."

The judge said, "The calendar says April 1st is April Fools Day. Psalm 14:1 states, 'The fool says in his heart, there is no God.' Thus, it is the opinion of this court, that if your client says there is no God,then he is a fool. Therefore, April 1st is his day. Court is adjourned."

Wasn't that funny?!?! I got that in an email, and it was really funny so I thought I'd post it. Anyway, today looks like it's going to be a pretty boring Saturday...I don't have much to do, or say.

Last night we played Rock Band at Uncle Jeremy's and Aunt Jenny's again. It was fun. We stayed till sometime around 10:30. Anne and Hayden's family left about an hour before we did, so at the end we got Mamma to play too. She did good but she was really embarrassed and didn't want to do it. Anyway......I think that's all.

Nothing to Say........

This is gonna be a short post, since I have basically nothing to say.

Well, since it is now officially 2009, my dearest mamma has gone into "turning-over-a-new-leaf" mode. We have redone school and chore schedules, thoroughly cleaned out desks, bookshelves, closets, under the beds...you get the picture. It's not that bad, I don't have too much to do. But it's a lot different from vacation, that's for sure!!!! I actually had to get up at 7:30 this morning, can you believe it? jk. So yeah, I did a LOT of chores and homework today. I also played my Supernova DDR for almost an hour. (If you're ever cold, DDR is a good way to get warm again ;-]....♥)

Last night we had church. It was pretty good. It was WAAAAAYYYY less crazy than last week. For some reason, those kids listen to Annie way better than they listen to me. Maybe it's because the tallest of them are only about a 1/2 inch shorter than me...........Annie said it was because they were scared of her and they liked me. But I don't think they really like me that much. I think I just need to get the 'high pitch' ringtone, and play it whenever they start acting up. I told my mum that and she said that it's a hoax and wouldn't work, but it does! Anyway, that's it. ♥

ROCK BAND IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

Well, as you know, my lovely Best cousins were here visiting sunny California last week. We saw them on the 1st at Ainsley's/Fisher's party, but we were all bummed cuz we couldn't make our 1800's-line-dancing-fun movie. So we really wanted to see them again on Thursday, and so by a round-about route involving playing phone tag with various persons all afternoon, it was arranged for us to go to my uncle Jeremy and aunt Jenny's house to play Rock Band with them and Anne's family, and the Bests. It was soooooo incredibly entertaining!!!!!! I played guitar all the time, except once I played bass. But I did better at guitar. We had an all-out battle of the bands--boys(Hayden (drums) Jared (bass) David (guitar) and Eric (vocals...very funny :0) vs. girls (me (guitar) Paige (drums) and Anne and Aunt Jenny who switched off between bass and vocals) vs. men (my Daddy (vocals and bass once or twice) Uncle Dave (drums) Uncle Jeremy (vocals, guitar) Uncle Brent (guitar, bass). It was amazing!!!!!!! I now really want to buy a Wii and then buy Rock Band so I can have a big party and play Rock Band all night long!!!!!! That would be so amazing, amen? So here's some pics of the guys rocking out. No pics of us cuz Aunt Jenny took the pics, and she played with us every time, lol! Maybe next time...

Anyway, yeah, it was a lot of fun, and now that Annie has it I'll probably find ways to be at both her's and Becca's houses more often than of late...haha.

In any case, I really have nothing else to say, I just really want to blog. I'm really bored right now, like, everyone's gone at Detour, and no one was at church this morning, which is entirely depressing. Except Maci and Annie and Hayden (were at church, I mean). And there was no youth group which was lame, and I almost fell asleep during service. Anyway...I can't wait for Wednesday night!!!!!!! And I can see everyone again!!!!! And I am rambling about basically nothing so I'll just stop......♥

New Year's and Birthday Parties...

Well, last night we went to the Ney's house. It was a lot of fun. Shelbie and I played a bunch of games, and we talked and stuff. Also we laughed a lot. Actually, at one point, I was on Shelbie's bedroom floor bawling, I was laughing so hard. It was pretty funny. I haven't laughed that hard in a LOOOONG time...and what Shelbie said wasn't even funny...girls laugh at the randomest things. And Shelbie, Shyloh and I all danced around randomly in the kitchen (actually, it was mostly Shelbie and Shyloh, and mostly I watched, and joined in at a couple of choice moments :)....) It was fun.

Since today is Fisher's 1st birthday, and the 6th is Ainsley's 4th birthday, we had a party for the two of them this afternoon. We had a bunch of family over. We pulled the dancepads out and Annie and I had a lot of fun trying to outdo each other on Mario. It was fun (NO! not "fun" again!!!!!! Allow me to rephrase that: It was tremendously amusing. How's that?) So dancing with Annie was tremendously amusing (we were both really hiper, and were jumping around like crazy, and we danced a song on a level below what we were perfectly capable of doing, just so we could jump all the way around in a circle, and turn all the way around--it was amazing)...and we wanted to make a movie that would take place in the 1800's and would involve line dancing, but we didn't get that accomplished before everyone had to leave. We'll do it soon though, I'm sure. Hopefully before the Best boys leave. (We should arrange that, Annie.)

And, after everyone left, I didn't do anything much. I layed around listening to my iPod for a while, and I made some pizza (which we're going to eat in a minute) and a no-bake cheesecake out of a box that my daddy and I picked up at the store earlier. And my dad tried to download Photoshop like 3 times on our computer and it didn't work...and that's all.

Here's a pic of Ainsley and Alexander that was really cute so I decided to put it on here.