Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Update on the Bucket List!

     Hey guys! Sorry It's taken me so long to post. My summer has been super busy with work and stuff and my summer has actually turned out to be pretty rough. But I'm posting now and I've actually accomplished some of the things on my bucket list!

16. See Brave in theatres:
      Me and my friend Sarah both LOVE Disney movies so we got together and saw Brave at the midnight premiere! Here is us with one of the triplets, they were my favorite characters! I would definitely suggest seeing this movie. I loved it and was actually super impressed and not at all disappointed.

18. Go to a baseball game:
     So my whole family loves the St. Louis Cardinals and my dad got some tickets to a game! It was a lot of fun and I got some great pics while I was there.
Great seats and fun with temporary tattoos!

I love my mom

Gotta love Busch stadium

Freadbird!

Fireworks at the game!



20. Get gelato:
     Me and my friend Sarah went to get gelato downtown. I have loved strawberry gelato since I went to Eurpoe last summer.


22. Do senior pictrures:
     I got my senior pictures done! The shoot was so fun and I love all my pictures. I ca't post any quite yet but I hopefully will soon. I took photos at my church, the photoraphers studio, an antique shop downtown, and a really neat park where I even got into a fountain for a couple pictures.


23. Clean out my closet:
     I finally got around to celaning out all the clothes that either didn't fit or I just didn't wear anymore. After I finished I had 4 full trashbags of clothes and shoes that I plan to sell later at a garage sale.


24. Make my own popsicles:
     With the help of some of my friends I made my own popsicles out of orange juice and black cherry koolaid. They were so good!
Ingredients

Before

After. Yum!



26. Go shopping downtown:
     Me and my mom went downtown to check out the shops. I got this awesome Great Gatsby shirt at one of the shops.



Still working on the list. I have about a month left before I start my senior year. Wish me luck! I'll need it.


Tuesday, July 5, 2011

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!

God Bless

Friday, July 1, 2011

Sunday, June 26, 2011

We Zip Line In High Tops :)

     A few weeks ago while I was on my mission trip to Tennessee my dad experienced the big five-O, over the hill, his 50th birthday. I called him that day and my mom gave him his card and present from me but I still wanted to be able to actually celebrate with him. I mean you only turn 50 once. So as his present he was given the opportunity for the two of us to go zip lining! Yesterday we did :)

Me and my dad

We both wore our high tops

My dad

Me


Getting on the platform


This ones my favorite


It was sooo much fun! I highly recommend doing it if your ever around a facility that offers it. And word of warning, wear sunscreen.

God Bless

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

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


God Bless

Friday, January 21, 2011

Now Everybody Put Your Hands In The Air, I Say Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

     Have you ever had one of those days where your at school and your so tired and bored that the only thing keeping you awake is the song stuck in your head? I had one of those days today. It was all that kept me conscious and paying attention until my last class of the day, English, where we actually talked about something I found interesting. The song stuck in my head has been Yeah 3x by Chris Brown it's a catchy up beat song :)
     My morning started off slow. My alarm kept scaring me every time it went off (and it went off more than once because I kept pushing my snooze button). Yesterday we had a snow day, so I just kept pushing the snooze button waiting for my mom to yell up my stairs that there was no school. She never did so after a while I had to drag myself out of bed and get ready for school. Thank goodness I didn't have to talk the walk of death into school today. Ya see since the beginning of this year my friend Marissa's grandma has been taking the two of us to school in the mornings (and my mom takes us home after school.) Well Marissa got her license in November and ever since she has been driving the two us to school which is fun and cool but there is one down side, the walk of death. Well that's what I call it at least. Ya see the student parking lot at school is really far away from the school and then once you actually reach the school you have to walk all the way around to the other side before you can reach a door that's not locked. The walk takes around ten minutes, and its extremely not fun to walk when its freezing cold out! This morning when I asked my mom if she thought they will have shoveled the walk of death my dad said "death is death what does it matter if it's shoveled?" lol. Me and Marissa have this plan that the school should build a tunnel from the student parking lot into the school that's heated in the winter and air conditioned in the summer. That would be very helpful! Well this morning Marissa's grandma took us because Marissa's mom doesn't want her driving in snow. Her grandma dropped us of at a close door that took us less than a minute to reach from car, yay! :)
     My first class of the day today was Algebra. I hate math, ill just let you all know that now. I HATE MATH!!!! I'm not bad at math, I just hate it. Right now I'm in Algebra II and it's really not that bad. Much easier than Geometry, but I hate factoring. Factoring is evil, pure pure evil! Its like someone took Angelica from Rugrats, Voldemort, and the crazy Twilight fan girls and mixed them all together and made it a math subject! Oh wait no that's proofs in geometry, but factoring in algebra is a close second. On the bright side of the class today I got Laffy Taffy for turning my homework in early :)
     my second class of the day was World History honors, but that's basically just a blur in my memory. I do remember though something about the draft and the Ming dynasty... I don't know. My third class of the day was Biology. That's always a joy (NOT!).  Biology is the only class I'm taking that's not an honors class. Science isn't really my thing. And I swear they just keep teaching us the same things every year just no one cares enough to pay attention until college or weighted classes! Biology is always the class that seems to take the longest for me, one because it's my least favorite subject and two because its the class right before lunch.
     My last class of the day was English II honors. I love this class for three reasons. One, I just like English! Two, My teacher is hilarious!!!! and Three, I love the people in there, one of my best friends Michelle is hilarious in there, and then my friends Cheryl and Sydney are in that class, plus my boyfriend Drew. Today we were talking about the American dream. We just finished reading Of Mice And Men and so now she's having us write an essay on the American dream. We have to ask our parents questions for homework and think it's fun when teachers give parents homework for once, lol. Here's some funny quotes from her today: "What do you think the American dream would be today? *Alex and Michelle raise their hands* I'm gonna call on Alex first because I don't know whats gonna come out of Michelle's mouth." and "I was watching, I hate to say it.... Oprah." haha :)
     Today after school I made some bagel bites for a snack. Just so ya know bagel bites are much better done in the oven. Bagel bites + oven = YUM!!!! Bagel bites + microwave = Eh. Then I vacuumed the floors for my moms birthday party. Then I got Taco Bell for dinner, yum! My grandparents showed up around 6:30, we watched Wheel Of Fortune. Watching Wheel Of Fortune with my dad and grandparents, good times, good times! haha. Later my aunt and uncle and two of my cousin's showed up and we ate cupcakes my dad made. Then me, my mom, and my aunt played Michael Jackson the Experience, which is AWESOME! So fun, and a good work-out. We even got my dad and uncle to play. And we got through the whole night with only one injury. While my uncle was playing, my little cousin Claire walked up behind him and he accidentally hit her in the face as he was dancing, ouch, but she was ok, no worries! All in all it was a fun night! I love my family.
     Well I'm worn out as I always am after family gatherings. I'm excited to get on that train to Sleepy Town. I don't know about you, but I love Sleepy Town. It's one of my favorite vacation spots! Goodnight everyone :)

God Bless

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Oldies But Goodies

These are some old photos I found that I thought you might enjoy seeing:
Me and my dad at a pumpkin patch

My first Halloween. I was a cow

My very first best friends, Hannah and Callie

Snow day! I love my dad's glasses!

Party!

Me and my cousin Tinsley

My family

Ice cream on the 4th of July

4th of July

Me and my grandparents

My 6th Birthday

I think I made a pretty good princess

Sock hop!

And just a quick reminder you can still vote for me and Rebecca's Secret Project Of Awesomeness. You can vote until the end of January. 

God Bless