Man. FIRST DAY OF SEPTEMBER?!?!?! :-o
Summer went by way too fast. I'm not sure if that's good or bad....
Pros and cons...
*No more water park - CON
*Moderate temperatures for taking walks outside - PRO
*Crunchy leaves to walk all over- PRO
*It's closer to when Zach has go to back to Texas - CON. CON. CON!!!
*School - CON
*Teen Bible study starts again- PRRRROOOO!!!
*Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas are all the sooner - PRO
*The Fair is coming, which = extra spending money - PRO
*And it gets me all the closer to graduating......That I am unsure of the pro/con status of. I guess I'll find that out when I get there. But it thus far looks like I will be the only girl in my graduating class, which I think will be awesome because I can choose a completely different color of robe than everybody and get away with it =D haha!
So how are you?
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Part 1 of the 2nd best summer :)
Camp Hope 2010?
Absolutely awesome.
The forest, Clover Field, old friends, new friends, silly songs, and skits... Super-Mario Dodge Ball, the "Mud Puddle"/pool, playing Spoons, and snack time... Deep conversations with girl friends, good laughs with guy friends, and inside jokes with my brother-- "BOOLAH! It saves chickens!" & "You just got hammed!" hahaha. Yes, definitely good times.
This year I knew would be different...But in a good kinda way. From the start I made up my mind it would, if nothing else, definitely top camp of '09. To be honest though, it kind of HAD to- I mean, last year I had heat exhaustion, some sort of flu-like thing going on, and a blister on my foot that was about an inch long (thanks to some foot doctor who lied to me :-P ). I figure it can't get too much worse than that, so things were likely to be quite a bit better. Plus, this year I was bringing my brother! In the past I would not have seen myself saying that with such enthusiasm, but as he's gotten farther into his teen years we've gotten to be practically inseparable, so I was happy to have him along for the trip.
So, it all started out Tuesday morning with getting up at 5:45 to get ready, eat breakfast, and wait for Dexter. Yes- this year Dexter Jones was our ride to Ruben's place in Pullman. That entire experience was most interesting, and possibly one of the most memorable experiences of my teen years. When he first showed up, my first thought was "Hi Dexter!" quickly followed by "We are seriously all riding with ALL our luggage in THAT??" when I saw his tiny little car. The trunk appeared half full already with his and Laurel's luggage. We were seriously going to fit Nathaniel and I's suitcases, pillows, sleeping bags, backpacks, lunches, AND my guitar in that thing? I was 95% sure at that point the guitar was staying home. Shockingly though, Dexter made everything (even my guitar!) fit. It was amazing- both the packing job and the fact that his trunk didn't explode or something.
As if all that wouldn't have been memorable on it's own, we then headed out on the hour-long drive to Pullman. Now THAT was an adventure! For both us and the guy behind us too, probably. Partway there, Dexter demonstrated for us the advantages of having two easily accessible horn buttons (you don't have to take a break in between each honk!). Then after that he did Brian Regan's comedy about having a short in the horn... with real-life sound effects. *HONK!* "GO! Go my favorite spots team!!" *HONK! HONK!* "They scored another goal-unit!" *HONNNNNKKK!!* "Beat the opponent soundly!"
Once we got to Ruben’s place, we transferred our luggage into his (thankfully, much larger) van and headed out yet again; this time for 6 hours to Camp Hope! One of the first things done on that trip was describing to Ruben our recent drive. Being a police officer, Ruben then informed Dexter that it is illegal to honk his car horn just for fun and amusement. Fail.
Later as we were nearing Spokane, we ended up behind a familiar-looking blue van that Nathaniel and I decided looked incredibly similar to the one belonging to our friend David’s family. We followed it for about half an hour, and I spent the entire time staring at it, becoming more and more positive that it really could be the Sewards. Finally, Ruben passed it up, and guess what? It actually WAS the Sewards! In fact, David was the one driving. We managed to get his attention, and afterwards Laurel and I spent quite a while laughing over the incredibly shocked expression on his face when he saw that it was us. Who’d have thought you’d run into friends in the middle of nowhere?! It was hilarious.
Absolutely awesome.
The forest, Clover Field, old friends, new friends, silly songs, and skits... Super-Mario Dodge Ball, the "Mud Puddle"/pool, playing Spoons, and snack time... Deep conversations with girl friends, good laughs with guy friends, and inside jokes with my brother-- "BOOLAH! It saves chickens!" & "You just got hammed!" hahaha. Yes, definitely good times.
This year I knew would be different...But in a good kinda way. From the start I made up my mind it would, if nothing else, definitely top camp of '09. To be honest though, it kind of HAD to- I mean, last year I had heat exhaustion, some sort of flu-like thing going on, and a blister on my foot that was about an inch long (thanks to some foot doctor who lied to me :-P ). I figure it can't get too much worse than that, so things were likely to be quite a bit better. Plus, this year I was bringing my brother! In the past I would not have seen myself saying that with such enthusiasm, but as he's gotten farther into his teen years we've gotten to be practically inseparable, so I was happy to have him along for the trip.
So, it all started out Tuesday morning with getting up at 5:45 to get ready, eat breakfast, and wait for Dexter. Yes- this year Dexter Jones was our ride to Ruben's place in Pullman. That entire experience was most interesting, and possibly one of the most memorable experiences of my teen years. When he first showed up, my first thought was "Hi Dexter!" quickly followed by "We are seriously all riding with ALL our luggage in THAT??" when I saw his tiny little car. The trunk appeared half full already with his and Laurel's luggage. We were seriously going to fit Nathaniel and I's suitcases, pillows, sleeping bags, backpacks, lunches, AND my guitar in that thing? I was 95% sure at that point the guitar was staying home. Shockingly though, Dexter made everything (even my guitar!) fit. It was amazing- both the packing job and the fact that his trunk didn't explode or something.
As if all that wouldn't have been memorable on it's own, we then headed out on the hour-long drive to Pullman. Now THAT was an adventure! For both us and the guy behind us too, probably. Partway there, Dexter demonstrated for us the advantages of having two easily accessible horn buttons (you don't have to take a break in between each honk!). Then after that he did Brian Regan's comedy about having a short in the horn... with real-life sound effects. *HONK!* "GO! Go my favorite spots team!!" *HONK! HONK!* "They scored another goal-unit!" *HONNNNNKKK!!* "Beat the opponent soundly!"
Once we got to Ruben’s place, we transferred our luggage into his (thankfully, much larger) van and headed out yet again; this time for 6 hours to Camp Hope! One of the first things done on that trip was describing to Ruben our recent drive. Being a police officer, Ruben then informed Dexter that it is illegal to honk his car horn just for fun and amusement. Fail.
Later as we were nearing Spokane, we ended up behind a familiar-looking blue van that Nathaniel and I decided looked incredibly similar to the one belonging to our friend David’s family. We followed it for about half an hour, and I spent the entire time staring at it, becoming more and more positive that it really could be the Sewards. Finally, Ruben passed it up, and guess what? It actually WAS the Sewards! In fact, David was the one driving. We managed to get his attention, and afterwards Laurel and I spent quite a while laughing over the incredibly shocked expression on his face when he saw that it was us. Who’d have thought you’d run into friends in the middle of nowhere?! It was hilarious.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now.
Heyyyyyy.... everybody. Or Katie. Whoever gets on here any more XD
Can you believe it's less than two weeks now until Camp Hope!?!? I'm finally feeling excited for it... yeah, yeah, took me long enough :-P I can hardly wait to go back- out in a foresty area with a whole ton of great people, great sermons, sports, and in general fun! And away from all my home town stress. That'll be nice. I've been cramming trying to get bazillions of things done before then, which is kinda hard in between having Zach over, library volunteering, and a 5-day trip to Spokane with Laurel and her family starting this Friday. Whew. Plus anything else that comes up, like trying to get together with my friend Karen before she goes away to Whitworth. But except for the stress, it's all good.
My big goal lately? Get everything done and NOT be sick or injured at camp for once. That would be nice. Cause last year I had that ginormous blister on my foot and then I got all sick cause I didn't eat and sleep enough.... bleh. And the year before that I had a cold (which actually wasn't TOO bad...a nuisance to some extent, but I loved that I was loosing my voice on skit night cause when I shouted "NOOOOOOO!!!!" it sounded absolutely hilarious :) ). So yes... I hope I can actually have a week here at camp where I am in good health.
I also have some big exciting news...but I'm not telling you guys ;) Yet anyways. I'm going to wait until I know a little more to be sure this big news is really going to come about fully. But as of right now it looks likely.
Can you believe it's less than two weeks now until Camp Hope!?!? I'm finally feeling excited for it... yeah, yeah, took me long enough :-P I can hardly wait to go back- out in a foresty area with a whole ton of great people, great sermons, sports, and in general fun! And away from all my home town stress. That'll be nice. I've been cramming trying to get bazillions of things done before then, which is kinda hard in between having Zach over, library volunteering, and a 5-day trip to Spokane with Laurel and her family starting this Friday. Whew. Plus anything else that comes up, like trying to get together with my friend Karen before she goes away to Whitworth. But except for the stress, it's all good.
My big goal lately? Get everything done and NOT be sick or injured at camp for once. That would be nice. Cause last year I had that ginormous blister on my foot and then I got all sick cause I didn't eat and sleep enough.... bleh. And the year before that I had a cold (which actually wasn't TOO bad...a nuisance to some extent, but I loved that I was loosing my voice on skit night cause when I shouted "NOOOOOOO!!!!" it sounded absolutely hilarious :) ). So yes... I hope I can actually have a week here at camp where I am in good health.
I also have some big exciting news...but I'm not telling you guys ;) Yet anyways. I'm going to wait until I know a little more to be sure this big news is really going to come about fully. But as of right now it looks likely.
Friday, July 9, 2010
So I guess I'm no non-conformist
Well, I might as well cause it seems to be spreading through all the camp hopies on blogger, lol....
My favorite things of lately in no particular order:
* Playing/singing Owl City's "Fireflies" with my guitar
* Fashion blogs (I blame you, Anna)
* The water park
* Being able to see all my fave TV shows on Netflix instant watch on my Wii- who needs cable!?
* S'mores
* DeJaVu - Sitting atop my youth leader's swing set with David, just like 2 years ago... Being surprised at church by the Hodgins (my old pastor & his family) whom I've not seen in 5 years... Camping with my family. Yeah, DeJaVu has been fun :)
* Telling my brother all about camp and getting him excited for next month :)
* My alter ego, Misty Bolavard.
* My friends... when are they not favorites?
And.....
*When people actually comment on my blog ;) *nudge, nudge*
My favorite things of lately in no particular order:
* Playing/singing Owl City's "Fireflies" with my guitar
* Fashion blogs (I blame you, Anna)
* The water park
* Being able to see all my fave TV shows on Netflix instant watch on my Wii- who needs cable!?
* S'mores
* DeJaVu - Sitting atop my youth leader's swing set with David, just like 2 years ago... Being surprised at church by the Hodgins (my old pastor & his family) whom I've not seen in 5 years... Camping with my family. Yeah, DeJaVu has been fun :)
* Telling my brother all about camp and getting him excited for next month :)
* My alter ego, Misty Bolavard.
* My friends... when are they not favorites?
And.....
*When people actually comment on my blog ;) *nudge, nudge*
Monday, June 28, 2010
Weekend!
Been quite a weekend, I'd say.
Kicked it off by 1, getting the overly friendly guy named Robbie to stop hitting on me. Ever since he asked me to be his girlfriend and I told him I was taken, he hasn't spoken to me. This makes life much easier, since I don't have to think of reasons why we can't hang out every time he asks me =P
Second thing was by staying up till midnight on Friday IMing Bo, which doesn't happen all too often and was rather fun, even though my chat was being really trippy cause of my lame internet connection that I was stealing off the neighbors XD In a way that was probably very stupid though... the next day we went to my grandparent's house and stayed 2 nights, and grandma wakes everybody up at 7 every morning. Ack. I hate the lack of sleep that always comes with staying at my grandparent's house.
The weekend at gma & gpa's was ok... not overly eventful. But we had lots of chocolate cake cause it was my gpa's 80th birthday, so that's cool :) We went to church with them, which was a weird experience since I'm so used to the deep teachings at my Reformed Baptist church. Their teen sunday school class I found to be really cheezy. It felt like I should have been 10 again. The regular church part was ok mostly. Some stuff I totally agreed with and other parts I was like "Uhh? no, not quite."
The most exciting part of the trip though? Dad let me drive his Impala =D very much fun! Its the same sort of car they use for the police so it can acellerate very fast!
Kicked it off by 1, getting the overly friendly guy named Robbie to stop hitting on me. Ever since he asked me to be his girlfriend and I told him I was taken, he hasn't spoken to me. This makes life much easier, since I don't have to think of reasons why we can't hang out every time he asks me =P
Second thing was by staying up till midnight on Friday IMing Bo, which doesn't happen all too often and was rather fun, even though my chat was being really trippy cause of my lame internet connection that I was stealing off the neighbors XD In a way that was probably very stupid though... the next day we went to my grandparent's house and stayed 2 nights, and grandma wakes everybody up at 7 every morning. Ack. I hate the lack of sleep that always comes with staying at my grandparent's house.
The weekend at gma & gpa's was ok... not overly eventful. But we had lots of chocolate cake cause it was my gpa's 80th birthday, so that's cool :) We went to church with them, which was a weird experience since I'm so used to the deep teachings at my Reformed Baptist church. Their teen sunday school class I found to be really cheezy. It felt like I should have been 10 again. The regular church part was ok mostly. Some stuff I totally agreed with and other parts I was like "Uhh? no, not quite."
The most exciting part of the trip though? Dad let me drive his Impala =D very much fun! Its the same sort of car they use for the police so it can acellerate very fast!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Yay :)
So guess what?
I FINALLY GOT MY DRIVER"S PERMIT!
So now I can actually learn how to drive this summer. This makes me quite happy :-)
Especially since I passed the test to get it on the first try *big grin* I really didn't think I would.
Yay!
I FINALLY GOT MY DRIVER"S PERMIT!
So now I can actually learn how to drive this summer. This makes me quite happy :-)
Especially since I passed the test to get it on the first try *big grin* I really didn't think I would.
Yay!
Monday, June 7, 2010
A Title Goes in This Box.
So, what's up?
On my life and times, a lot. School, hanging with friends (excitedly anticipating hanging with my favorite Texan, who recently got in town again!), trying to force myself to be an early-bird so that mom will stop complaining at me that I never get my chores done.... yeah.
And sudden jolts of reality, too.
My bro jokingly said mom should just have David over for the week while we're gone to camp so that she can still have a goofy, quirky teen in the house to keep life interesting for her. "Nuh uh! He'd probably drive me nuts!" was her response. I always cringe whenever Nathaniel says something about David cause half the time it always ends in mom once again voicing how weird she thinks he is. Which naturally, grates on my nerves. I really wish my family would like and accept him as much as his family does me. Or at least have mom realize that there's a lot more to him than the dork she usually sees.
As I was pondering that this evening, a sudden thought struck me: am I really trusting God here? To be honest, I realized I hadn't been. If David really is the guy God has for me, my parents will accept him at some point. I just need to wait. And if not? Then I just wait longer until the right guy does come around.
It's funny how just when we think we're doing so great God will knock us off our pedestal. For a while I began thinking how good I was doing, reading my Bible faithfully every day. But I realized today there's more to being a good Christian than that. We need to be in action as well as the Word. I usually read my Bible right before I get out of bed...this morning I dragged myself out at 7 to do chores, thinking "Yeah. So I have to do all this stupid work when I could be doing important reading?" and then that verse about obeying your parents popped into mind. And also that verse about a godly woman getting up early to work around the house. Suddenly I thought, "Perhaps this really is where I should be and what I should be doing to please the Lord."
My jumbled and semi-profoundish thoughts of the day. Now, it's time for bed.
On my life and times, a lot. School, hanging with friends (excitedly anticipating hanging with my favorite Texan, who recently got in town again!), trying to force myself to be an early-bird so that mom will stop complaining at me that I never get my chores done.... yeah.
And sudden jolts of reality, too.
My bro jokingly said mom should just have David over for the week while we're gone to camp so that she can still have a goofy, quirky teen in the house to keep life interesting for her. "Nuh uh! He'd probably drive me nuts!" was her response. I always cringe whenever Nathaniel says something about David cause half the time it always ends in mom once again voicing how weird she thinks he is. Which naturally, grates on my nerves. I really wish my family would like and accept him as much as his family does me. Or at least have mom realize that there's a lot more to him than the dork she usually sees.
As I was pondering that this evening, a sudden thought struck me: am I really trusting God here? To be honest, I realized I hadn't been. If David really is the guy God has for me, my parents will accept him at some point. I just need to wait. And if not? Then I just wait longer until the right guy does come around.
It's funny how just when we think we're doing so great God will knock us off our pedestal. For a while I began thinking how good I was doing, reading my Bible faithfully every day. But I realized today there's more to being a good Christian than that. We need to be in action as well as the Word. I usually read my Bible right before I get out of bed...this morning I dragged myself out at 7 to do chores, thinking "Yeah. So I have to do all this stupid work when I could be doing important reading?" and then that verse about obeying your parents popped into mind. And also that verse about a godly woman getting up early to work around the house. Suddenly I thought, "Perhaps this really is where I should be and what I should be doing to please the Lord."
My jumbled and semi-profoundish thoughts of the day. Now, it's time for bed.
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