It's Been A While I Know

     I have an apology to make to all my followers. I know it has been a very long time since I blogged. I know some of you out there may be like most of my teachers, accepting no excuses but for those of you that would accept my excuse I think I might have a pretty good one. My junior year has been crazy so far. Crazy but wonderful. Other than school and all my classes I have been busy with my school magazine. I am graphics editor but I also write and design and take pictures. The news season for my church's youth group has also started with the new school year. I love youth and I'm happy to be back in it. I also really like my new small group now that I have moved up to the Junior and Senior girls group. I have also started taking violin lessons from a new teacher who is much more strict. Lastly and most of all I have made my schools fall musical. Nothing huge but I made it into the chorus. It is so much fun but it takes a lot of commitnment. I have rehersal almost every night until at least six.
     As for those little moments of freedom I have recieved I have discoverd some new things I would really like to share. First off have any of you heard of a website called tumblr? I love it :) tumblr.com. Secondly I have been reading... a lot. If you are a fan of the Percy Jackson serires you should check out the Cane Chronicles and the Heros of Olympus series both also by Rick Riordan and jsut fyi the second book of the Heros of Olympus sereis: Son of Neptune comes out TOMORROW AND I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!! I also just finished the 4th book in the Kingdom Keepers serires this weeked, and I also highly recommend that book.
     I am sorry this is kind of a boring post, its mostly a recap of whats been up. Hopefully I'll be able to post more soon. But before I end this post I would like to tell you one thing. Remember my boyfriend Drew? I talked about him quite a bit. Well last Tuesday was me and Drew's one year anniversary :)

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Slip and Sliding Fourth of July!

     For the fourth of July me and Drew and my parents went to my aunt and uncles house to celebrate with my family. After we ate my uncle got out the slip and slide. Yes, the slip and slide. But it wasn't one of those store bought slip and slides, it was homemade. My uncle got out this big tarp and a sprinkler and some dish soap and me and my cousins got to slipping and sliding. It was so much fun!

       If you have any spare tarp and dish soap I highly recommend this! But warning you will be sore the next day. I woke up this morning with really sore abs and arms and a giant bruise on my knee, but it was worth it!

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BTW

BTW!!!!

Congrats to the winners of the May poll of Who Is Your Favorite Dailey Hailey Person, Emily and my mom!

AND congrats to the runners up Drew, Rebecca, and Michelle who all tied for second place.

I love all you guys!

School, Shopping, Theatre, And A Happy Book

     I hate this end of school, dragging on, slower that a slug pulling a 20 pound weight along sand period. My school gets out June third so I'm down to 8 school days!!! It feels like forever though. Its like in those movies where someones dreaming or something and their running down a hallway but it never gets any shorter. Doors are rushing past you but you never seem to make it any farther down the hall. If I'm that person running I am starting to lose my stamina and I'm about to pass out! Most of my teachers aren't too bad. Keeping it simple, not too much homework, and what-not. The only problem is my English teacher/ class. Somehow she thinks we are going to finish the book The Chosen in 8 days. We were supposed to read the first four chapters by today and from everyone I talked to, I'm pretty sure I'm one of two of the people who actually read the chapters. I'm also pretty sure I'm the only person who did the worksheets. We had four chapters and 3 worksheets due today plus I had an Algebra test this morning, ugh! so basically I was up until midnight and still didn't get all the work finished. I did finish the work this morning but I'm now sleep deprived and worn out. This was not my first late nighter from English in the last two weeks either. Last week the band Third Eye Blind was having a concert in my town. Considering no one cool ever comes to my town I had to go. I bought two tickets (one for me and one for my cousin Marissa) the day they went on sale. I was SO excited! Then my English teacher assigned a project on Wednesday that was to be due Friday and the concert was Thursday. Crap. So what did I do? Blow off the project like most teenager coming home from a concert at 10:30 PM tired and with a stomach ache? Nope. That annoying little goody-two-shoes inside of me was screaming "NO! You must finish your project! You can't turn it in late! NO!" So, I stayed up until 2 AM that night and still did not finish the stupid project. AND I had already worked on it for 5 hours before I even went to the concert. So I worked on it all day in any free time I could possibly scrounge up during the school day. Then after 10 hours of works, sleep derivation and my hand looking like a bag of skittles from the magic markers I used, I was finally done with the project. So to sum up all this rambling and ranting I just did: English sucks, I'm an extreme goody-two-shoes, and school cannot end fast enough! Phew sorry about that, I needed to let that go before my brain exploded like a grape being sat on by the worlds largest (and heaviest) teddy bear.
     Now that I'm back to a normal brain functioning state, I can tell you about my weekend. I had a great weekend!!!! Friday night me, my mom, my dad, and Drew watched Tangled. Have you seen that movie!? I love that movie!!! IT was the third time I've seen it and I still laughed out loud! **SPOILER ALERT! IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN TANGLED DO NOT READ THE SECTION IN ITALICS** So I feel the need to share my favorite parts of this movie with you. So favorite song? I've Got A Dream. My favorite scene? When Rapunzel and Flinn are in the boat and they are completely surrounded by the floating lights! So cool! I decided after that, that my wedding will have a ton of lights! So many lights you may say there are too many lights!!! (If you haven't already guessed I love lights.) You know I think I'm going to write a blog post about my dream wedding someday but for now back to Tangled. The funniest part in my opinion? When they go into the Snuggily Duckling (I love snuggily ducklings.) and she meets all the thugs and they sing about what their dreams are. My favorite thug? It's a tie between the one who collects unicorns and the one who wants to be a mime. Favorite character? Pascel the camelion, I love him. Favorite quote? "Is that blood in your mustache sir? Look at this Blondie, look at all the blood in this mans mustache. That is a lot of blood." said by Flinn. Ok I'm done now. Back to my weekend. That Saturday I was woken up at 7 AM (ugh!) and me, my mom, my aunt, and my cousin Marissa headed off to this city a few hours away from my town. The entire way there my mom and aunt were singing oldies. Most teenagers and young adults would be completely embarrassed and be driven out of their minds by this but me and my cousin loved it. We were singing right along with them. Songs by the Carpenters, The Four Seasons, George Harrison, and many others. Once we finally made it to our destination we went shopping. The enjoyable pass time of many girls around the world. We shopped and shopped and shopped. I got to go to Urban Outfitters. Have you been to that store? I love that store! I wish we had one in my town. Finally we had to leave so we headed to our hotel to change and then met my aunts two friends to go eat then we went to see.... *Drum roll* Jersey Boys!!! If you don't know what that is, I'm sorry. I loved that show! It's now tied for my second favorite musical with The Music Man after Legally Blonde the Musical. If you know me and my love for musicals that is a very high honor. The show was amazing!!!! Great music, great story great acting! If you haven't heard of it here is an informational video. Watch it and be informed:

Like I said, I loved it! Then after the show we were parked next to the stage door and when we were walking to our car we saw the guys leaving and I got all four of their autographs!!!! It was awesome! Just FYI the guys in the video are not the ones I saw. I saw a different cast but I loved the cast I saw. The next day all we did the next day was again shopping. We went to a different mall and shopped and shopped and shopped. It was awesome. I ended up buying this thing called The Happy Book. Its full of all kinds of prompts for you to write about what makes you happy. I decided to share a couple of the prompts with all of you when I find one I really like so you can all do it with me! I will also share some of my answers to the prompt :) Well I've written a lot and if you've made it this far I thank you! and congrats on being a Dailey Hailey super fan! I'll end with my first Happy Book prompt :)

The Happy Book by Rachel Kempster and Meg Leder:
Make a list of things that make you happy- anything and everything that makes you happy- small, big, profound, simple.

My Answer:
-Nachos and Frozen Lemonade at a baseball game.
-A new pack of Crayola Crayons (They have to be crayola.)
-That bubbly, happy feeling I get when someone gives me flowers.
-That feeling you get when you swing too high.
-Disney World
-Puppies
-When I get compliments on what I'm wearing
-Dressy Events
-Long talks about anything, nothing, and everything.
-Old movies
-Theatre
-Christmas Lights
-Pinkie Promises
-Just Dance with friends
-Blue Raspberry Dum-Dums
-The Nanny


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New Poll!

Well I know its a tad late but there is a new poll! Vote for your favorite Dailey Hailey person! Here are your choices and why you should vote for them:

Michelle:

Why should you win?: "Cause I'm me."

Rebecca:

Why should you win?: "Because I can spell Fez, because Fez's are cool"

Drew:

Why should you win?: "I shouldn't."

Emily:

Why should you win?: "Because I'm very lovable and cooler than Michelle."

My Mom:

Well you see the thing is I never actually asked my mom what she wanted to be or why she should win so... Ill just make her into Audrey Hepburn and tell you why I think she should win. She should win because she it the BEST mom ever! She is funny, cool, and just plain awesome. 

Vote! :)

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Shrek Is Friends With Disney Princesses

Hey! I know, I know I haven't posted in a long time! I've been either a busy busy bee or a very lazy bee. But no worries nothing real exciting has happend to tell you about. Well April's poll has a tie for its winner. Apparently you guys want to hear more about both school and church in my life. I'll try my best to provide that. For this post I don't really have much but I do have some new photoshop photos :) Enjoy!

Me and my friends as the cast of Shrek

Donkey: Drew

Princess Fiona: Michelle

King: King

Queen: Emily

Fairy Godmother: Sydney

Prince Charming: Charming

Puss In Boots: Me

Ginger Bread Man: Chavis

Shrek: Jake 

Disney Princesses!

Snow White: Tinsley

Ariel: Amy

Sleeping Beauty: Rebecca

Bell: Michelle

Jasmine: Emily

Cinderella: Me

My Friends As The Cast Of Friends The TV Show 

Phoebe: Rebecca

Joey: Brenden

Monica: Michelle

Ross: Drew

Rachel: Me

Chandler: Chavis

God Bless

Easter Weekend

HE HAS RISEN!!!
     This past weekend was Easter weekend for all of you that were not aware. Easter is a big deal to me. It didn't used to be, until I got into the youth program at my church. That's when the whole idea and my way of viewing Easter changed. Each year my church has an Easter vigil. A vigil is "wakefulness maintained for any reason during the normal hours for sleeping," according to dictionary.com. Each year on Easter weekend we all show up at the church Friday night (Good Friday.) That night we have a "Good Friday Service of Darkness" which the youth runs. This year we sang some songs and showed some videos. During the last song 12 different youth members got to go blow out 12 of the candles on the alter (I being one of the chosen youth members) until there was only one candle left. From that candle we lit a torch that we took outside to a fire pit in this big grassy area in front of the church in sight of the road. We lit a fire there, our goal for the weekend was to keep the fire burning for the rest of the weekend until Easter morning. For those of you not familiar with the story of Easter, Jesus was crucified on Good Friday and died. He was dead for three days, and rose from the dead on the third day which is the day we celebrate Easter. (Just FYI that's a very watered-down, short, not very good, explanation. I highly recommend you read the actual story in the Bible.) So the point of it all is we are "waiting for Jesus." Its an interesting experience, we all stay at the church, sleep on the couches in the youth room, and everyone sign up for a shift out by the fire. There is always someone out by the fire unless there was a storm warning (which we did have a few of those.) It was lots of fun! Here's some pictures from it:

Drew on Saturday morning

Rebecca and her new camera

Drew makes a face

The fire

The fire and the cross

Drew playing his mandolin

Real life Chelmo

Mandolin Playin'

Hat hair :)

     It was a lot of fun and me, Drew, and Chavis stayed the whole weekend except for a few hours on Saturday night me and Drew left. Me and Drew went to my grandmas house where my dads side of the family was celebrating Easter. Yep, Drew met my family. And I'm happy that Drew still likes me even after meeting my insane family. Over all the weekend was really good, and defiantly an Easter to remember. How was your Easter? What did you do? I'd love to hear from you.

God Bless

Dingo, Drew Skywalker, Chelmo, and Brenden Bear

     So I got really bored in Journalism after finishing my paper. I had like over an hour to kill so I thought "hey! Why don't I get on photoshop!" Because for those of you that don't know I LOVE photoshop! So here is what came out of all this extra time:

My friend Denver as Ringo from the Beatles in Yellow Submarine

"Dingo"

My friend Chavis as Elmo

"Chelmo"

Drew as Luke Skywalker from Star Wars

"Drew Skywalker"

Brenden as a cute cuddly teddy bear. Isn't he cute!?

"Brenden Bear"

Hope you enjoyed my photoshoping :)

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Jedi Connection Pictures



The Team

Team Captain: Drew

Brenden

Chavis

Katie

Rebecca

Denver

Chavis

Drew

Playing

I love this team :)

The poster I made for the team

Team roster :)

Down Time

Failing at lifting up Denver

Better

Here are pictures from the dodge ball tournament of Jedi Connection :)

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I love Jedi Connection!

So last night I went to a dodge ball tournament to cheer on my favorite dodge ball team the Jedi Connection! Why are they my favorite you may ask, well because the team is filled with my favorite people! The team consists of the captain: Drew, the MVP: Denver, Rebecca, Katie, Brenden, and Chavis. The whole team dressed in black and wore purple headbands. They even gave me a purple headband. It was so fun. The team didn't win the tournament but they defiantly won the award of being awesome in my opinion! The team even had one of there members make it to the all-star team; Denver. Denver = Awesome as does all the team. I have pictures coming soon :)

My Attempts At Editing Pictures

Here are some pictures I took today after school that I tired editing. Tell me what you think :)

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Here are some others I played with:

Me and my friend Marissa at an '80s themed dance in 8th grade.

Me, Rebecca, and Drew. "Like a duck" is a saying we use.

My favorite set of brothers: Drew and his little brother Denver.

Me and Drew

Me and Emily at a football game

Me and Michelle

Me and Rebecca

Me and my mom

We like mustaches

Me and my cousin Tinsley as Nacho (Tinsley) and Quesadilla (me)

Me and Drew. September 27, 2010 is when we started dating.

Now I have one last picture, with a story. This week has been spirit week at my school. Today was "Teacher Tuesday" where you were supposed to dress like your favorite teacher. So me and Rebecca dressed as our journalism teacher Nurnberg, who is also the soccer coach. So I borrowd some athletic Adidas sweat pants and a soccer jacket from my friend Marissa who's on the soccer team and carried around a coffee cup :)

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I'd love to hear what you guys think! Comment or E-mail me at daileyhailey@yahoo.com :)

Oh! And one last thing, I would like to formally announce that Paul McCartnety wond the March poll (take that Michelle).

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