We Are Back!!!!

Yes, we are back!!!! You guys who might of thought that we(Kara, Maddie, and I) would stop posting, think again!!! There is NOTHING that would keep us from doing it!!!!!!!

Maddie put some pics up on her blog. They are really cute, cool, pretty, the whole shebang. As you can see by some of the pics, it is snowing!!!!!! It has been all day!!!

Today, we girls watched The Nativity Story. It was an OK movie.

Our new little 2nd cousin is a doll!!! I rocked him to sleep, which was a bad idea. He is heavy!!!!! I had held him for about 30 minutes BEFORE he fell asleep. He was asleep for about 15 minutes, then he woke up and we played for an additional 15 minutes. I then handed him over to Kara. My arm hurt for the rest of the night. And well into the next day or two.

Cool Stuff, Shopping Spree, And other stuff

Orchestra was fun Friday. In Bel Canto, Mrs. S. mixed up the guys and girls. It sounded really cool!! In Concert Choir, the people in the back two rows had to stand on their chairs. I was one of them! It was scary!!!!! But singing with the Orchestra was SO awesome!!!!!!!!!!! It was my first time to do that, with all of the rest of the choir singing. It was worth standing on my chair. Even though I felt like I was going to fall over forward on top of the people in front of me. It was fun all the same.

Saturday, Kara, my mom, Maddie, Mrs. P., and her daughter Kara, and I, all went shopping for Kara's Birthday. I got a shirt for Christmas performances that are coming up, a pair of jeans, two Camis, since the one I had was too small, and a long-sleeved shirt. I also got a new purse and wallet. This is probably the first time that I have gone shopping and not come back with any jewelry.

This week is Thanksgiving week. Hope you all have fun eating turkey!! I'll see about posting about my Thanksgiving. If there is anything that would interest any of you. Talk to you all later.

The Recital

He wasn't shorter that I am. :( But he was my height. So I'm good. The music was good. I didn't recognize any of the music, so it was a new experience. Listening wise. At the reception, he had donuts. But it was a good evening altogether.

Recitals, Cool Choir Pieces, Crazy Boys

Tonight Emi and Gabe's Viola teacher is having a recital. So we are going to it. They say that he is really short. That is one of the reasons that I'm going. Not that I don't want to listen to the music, It's just that I'm not that tall, so if he is shorter than me, I will be sooooooo happy. 'Cause I don't know any guys that are my age or older that are shorter than I am.

Kara has some choir pieces that she wants to do on her blog. They are really cool.

Yesterday in church, we had potluck. It was fun. When Kara, Luke, and I were leaving. Or should I say attempting to gather the kids up to leave. Well, Luke was at the blue van, saw me coming, and ran in the parking-lot. When he has been told many times that he was not supposed to do that. One of my friends, Micah, saw it too. He asked me: "Want me to go get him?" So, being the non-athletic person that I am, I didn't refuse the offer. He striped his coat off, while running towards the area that Luke had run off in, turned to me, and through his coat at me. It landed on the ground, he turned back around and ran off after Luke. I then hear his mom yelling his name. She then asked me to pick it up, and beat him up for doing that. So I picked up his coat, and walked towards the area where the boys were. When I got there, Micah had Luke in the cruke of his arm and was walking towards me. I then took the boy, and handed Micah his coat. As I was handing it to him, I told him: "Your Mom wanted me to beat you up for droping your coat." He smiled, and said: "Just smack my cheek right here, like this." He imitated what I was to do. I did it.

I am SOOOOOOOOO Excited!!!!

I finally got to go to orchestra yesterday!!!!!!!!! I was SO excited! I actually got to sing the two songs (the Hallelujah chorus and For the Glory) with the orchestra. It was awesome!!!!! Although it was only five sopranos, three to four altos, three tenors, and, I think, four basses. So we were a little unbalanced. We were also a little spread out in the loft, so it was hard to hear the other parts. Not to mention that we only had one conductor for both the orchestra and choir. It will be easier next week when we have two.

Have you ever have moments that you suddenly remember something from your past? Things that really haven't ever left you? I had one of them the other day. I was walking around the house, and a blast from the past suddenly came upon me. I then had the idea to wright them all down, as much as I could remember that is. It's still a work-in-progress, but it is getting there. I don't have much, I haven't even worked on it since Thursday, but with orchestra and other stuff yesterday, I really couldn't think. Even if I had found the time to do any of it, I wouldn't have had anything to wright down.

Dentist, Music Breakdown

Today, before lessons the three oldest ones had dentist. It was a typical dentist appointment. Really nothing interesting to talk about that.

In lessons, my teacher, Mrs. J., was getting the piano music out for one of our pieces. She flipped through the pages, and stopped at the one we were doing. She asked which measure number we were starting at for the new part that we were doing. I said that we were starting at the pick-ups to 71. She went there, looked at it, looked at my music, and after a few times of this asks: "Is this the right spot?" I look at my music, looked at her music, and I noticed why she was having trouble. "The music that we're playing at the moment is in the key of C, the music you have opened is in the key of G." She looked at it again with new insight, "You're right, no wonder the music wasn't matching up!" The rest of the lesson went on without incident.

A Day Of Fun

I didn't go to orchestra yesterday. I was still coughing, it felt like at times I was going to cough my insides out. Not that when I had all of the congestion I wasn't blowing my brains out. So with what was left of my brains and insides I stayed home, with my two youngest siblings.

It was an OK day. Most of it was spent in front of the TV, but oh well. That's how you keep kids from making you go crazy. Stick a movie in, give them candy/popcorn, sit back, and enjoy. So when the (or your) parents get home, they can deal with the sugar crazy kids.

When we weren't in front of the TV, we were ether: dressing up as a movie character, eating lunch, dancing to music, or playing computer.

Luke was SO funny when we were dressing up. I told him to go dress up as Indiana Jones. He was so exited about that. After about two minutes, he came to me and said: "I don't have any white shirts to wear! Cause Indiana has a white shirt." So I told him that he didn't have to look exactly like Jones. All I got from that was a angry sigh and a angry walk back to his room. He then came out with a brown shirt on, saying: "I'm wearing this because Indiana has a brown coat, so this is the coat. Now I have to go get my hat." Saying the later as he was running down the hallway excitedly.

Then Megan came up to me with a complaint. I told her to be ether Princess Leah or Queen Amidala. She said: " I can't find any white shirts! Because I'm going to be Amidala in the clone wars when she is fighting the thing and gets scratched on the back." So I just told her that she doesn't have to have a plain white shirt, she could wear one that is white with something on it, but inside out. She really didn't like that idea, but in the end she ended up doing just that.

Still Here

I am feeling better now. I still have a little congestion, a cough, and headaches every now and again. But other than that I am as close to being myself as I can be. Now whether I am well enough to go to Orchestra on Friday or not is to be seen.

About 30 min. to an hour ago, I was thinking that we might have been rid of "our dog". Just at that moment I just so happen to look outside and see Gabe trying to shoo the same dog away with two sticks. So apparently he is still around.

She is Back!!!!!

Kara is back home again!! Now I don't have to be the oldest anymore!!!! *YEAH* She slept in really late this morning. But we will have to give her a few days to recuperate, get back into the swing of things.

I'm not the only one who has a cold in the house. My mom, and Kara at least have a cold. My mom had it before I did. That may be how I caught it. Sorry mom, I'm not blaming you.

I finished the Lord of the Rings. I finished the Two Towers Saturday afternoon, and Return of the King yesterday. I got to stay home from church. That's how I was able to watch all 4 hours. Kara thinks that I am weird. I told her that Yesterday I got to relax and watch a movie while everyone else was at church. When I told her which movie I was watching, she sighed, rolled her eyes, and said: "Relaxing watching Lord of the Rings!" But, she would rather watch a Jane Austin or some other chick-flick movie that involves crying. I can do that, but I felt like Lord of the Rings. Don't know how to categorize it, but you all can help me out with that.

I really don't fell like doing ANY school today. But, it has to be done. Might as well do it now instead of having to do several days worth of it later.

This has to be the longest post that I have put out there in a good while. Hopefully I will have something interesting to post about soon.

Colds Are Not Fun

I have a cold. :( It is not fun, anyone knows that. I got it Thursday, but it didn't spike until last night after I got home from Orchestra. Thank goodness.

While I'm on the subject of Orchestra, something happened. It wasn't weird or anything, just to let you know. In concert choir one of our songs is O Holy Night. It has an African feel to it, which is really cool. Well, we were all having trouble with it. Everyone was either sick or just not paying attention. So Mrs. S. said this: "I'm going to do something that will put some of you out of your comfort zones." Then she points to two basses, tenors, altos, and sopranos. I was one of the sopranos. I would not have gone up of my own free will if she had just asked for two volunteers from each part. But I think I did an OK job of it. All except the high G at the end, I cracked at that note. But I had the starting of a cold, so it was forgivable, I think. The reason that she did that was to have everyone hear what the whole thing would sound like. I still don't know why she chose me as one of the sopranos. Other than that the day went by without anything else weird happening.