How Do You Be So Short?

Senior Pictures

2009-04-12T18:00:00.000-07:00

For those of you who may not know (I have no idea who that would be since I think most people have stopped reading this, but hey...), I am graduating in a little over a month! I'm pretty happy about it! Ines (a lady in our church) took pictures for me at a golf course that's close to our house. She's taking a photography class so it was good practice for her. :) Plus we had a lot of fun in the process! When I told Caleb I had posted the pictures on my myspace, he said I should put them on my blog. So once again, I am posting per Caleb's suggestion. Haha

I messed with the colors a little bit on this one. I think I set it to "fade" or something.

Ines actually went into Vegas to find that flower. (Well, she did get more than one, but we just used the one for the pictures.) Those are my favorite flowers!!

In order to help myself not feel like a complete snob, I will post some pictures of other things as well. :) Unfortunately we haven't really taken many pictures of the happenings of late, so I went through and just pulled some random ones.

Okay, so this one's not entirely random. I put it on here because it was taken roughly a year ago at Caleb's graduation, and I will probably be putting up a similar one of MY graduation soon. A little comparison, if you will. Don't we look good?!

And then there's this one. Does it even need an introduction? They look so amazing!!! And Caleb is wondering what the heck is wrong with them. It was pretty late at night, so we may have been starting to lose it... Okay, and I guess I should admit that Bean and I started it. Ahh, Kiera Knightly. What else is there to do at 12:00 AM besides go to Saddle West, eat waffles, and make hysterical faces??

And that..... is a crazy lady. Either that or a little floaty guy. Take your pick.

Just for Caleb :)

2009-02-08T19:10:00.001-08:00

I'm in Redding! Caleb has been pestering for quite some time about updating my blog so I finally decided to oblige. :) I brought my school with me and have now successfully completed a week of school at Katie and Justin's house. I'm hoping this next week will go as smoothly as the past one! It's been loads of fun chillin' with Bean and Stain and Zachary, Brenda and Em. I've gotten to hook up with a couple other friends too since I've been here. Since I can't stand to make a post with no pictures, I took Caleb's advice by taking pictures on my phone and emailing them to myself so I could post them. So yeah, that's my explanation for the poor quality pictures. But really, for a phone they're not all that bad! This first one I took when I was watching Cinderella with Emily and a couple of her friends. :) Her face looks kinda chubby... She's so great!!

And this one.... mostly I figured Caleb would appreciate seeing that I have been doing some reading. :) This is the book he got for me I might add! I finished it today actually. It was an excellent book. But I mean, what do you expect? It's Dee Henderson.

Justin just took this one for us a couple minutes ago. Katie was cleaning out a closet since they're about to move their stuff to their new condo, so we decided to try on some of her dresses. :) Good times!

I have a car!!!

2008-12-12T21:17:00.000-08:00

Crazy, I know! Isn't she great?!? Her name is Nikki and I got her last Tuesday. She is an '07 Hyundai Accent. We saw her add in the classifieds and then went into Vegas to see her that day, and ended up going for it! It was definitely the best deal we'd seen, and I've been incredibly pleased with her so far!! She's so cute!

You can see the old Jeep in the back hiding behind a tree... and no, we have not rejected him. He's just a little more shy than Nikki. I feel a little rude just referring to him as "the old Jeep" now, but since he's not mine I don't really have authority to name him. So ya know... what can ya do?

In other news... I turned 17! We drove to Riverside Monday (my birthday) and got to hang out with Caleb for the day, and part of Tuesday. We went to Red Robin, saw a movie, went shopping, and looked at some Christmas lights. Tuesday morning we ate at Ihop and got Jamba Juice. It was great!

Mostly, I just thought these elves were so cute...wait no... That's not it. Haha, but it was a good photo op. At least that's what the sign said. (Okay, that's not technically what it said, but that's what it implied!) Those guys actually freaked me out a little bit. They were moving, and I'm fairly certain they would have grabbed me had I not leaped out of the bench once the picture was taken. It was at the place we were walking around looking at Christmas lights. It was really cold! We had a great time though!

High Speed Internet!

2008-11-17T19:32:00.000-08:00

As of last Friday we have high speed internet at the house!! It's amazingly fabulous!!! I actually loaded TWO pictures in one sitting!
The long absences between posts make it difficult to think of what to tell... Things in Pahrump have been fine. Not a lot to be told, I guess, other than school. Haha! Caleb was here last weekend and we got to go into Vegas to see Quantum of Solace which was cool. We had a gift card for Red Lobster too, so we went there after the movie so it was a fun day!
Let's see...what else? Um...I've been kinda looking for a car! That's pretty exciting! We were hoping to find a Hundai Accent but so far haven't seen one that was nice and fit the price range. Guess we'll have to wait and see what happens.
These pictures are a couple weeks old, but I think Caleb wanted me to post them and I'd hate to have a post with no pictures. So here they are!

Huzzah!

2008-08-01T13:30:00.000-07:00

I got my driver's license on Wednesday!!! And it's pretty dang exciting, let me tell ya. :) Okay, so I haven't actually driven since I got it, but it's not a huge deal. The main thing is that we get to go to Redding next week!! For those of you who don't already know, Caleb and I will be joining our siblings, their spouses, and Emily for family camp over on the California coast. And since it will only be Caleb and me, my getting my license was necessary in order for us to make the ten hour drive. (I guess I could have forced it all on Caleb, but there are those who don't think that's such a great idea...) But anyway, I do have it now and Caleb and I are super stoked to see y'all!!! That's pretty much the only reason for this post, so I guess I will wrap it up. I believe y'all are already familiar with my distaste for pictureless posts, so I think I'll try to load one of Daisy and me from our last geocaching trip. :)

Dial Up

2008-07-21T11:34:00.000-07:00

Okay, okay, so we don't really have dial up internet, but it sure feels that way with the way it's been moving lately. It's pretty ridiculous- hence the lack of pictures.
Our summer has been going along swimmingly. I think we've actually taken fewer trips this year than we usually do, but it's been nice to hang out at home... ya know, chillin' with Daisy, going swimming... all that goodness. There have been a couple trips though. The most recent was a camping trip to the coast with the youth group. We went to McGrath state beach (near Oxnard) and stayed Wednesday through Sunday. (We got home a week ago yesterday.) It was a blast! I think that may have been the best ocean swimming Caleb and I have ever enjoyed! We got to do some boogie boarding, and try skim boarding, which we hadn't ever done before. Caleb was really good at it! On the second day I tripped on a skim board (when I was trying to be nice and pick it up) and would have done a face plant in the water had I not stuck my hands out to save myself. Unfortunately in doing so, I shoved my super nice digital camera into the ocean water. Brenda, if you read this, the adorable strap you gave me worked great! If only it had been a matter of dropping it... So yeah, my camera is dead. It took some doing, but I managed not to let that ruin the rest of the trip, and we had a fabulous time.
Our next trip (assuming I am able to get my license at the end of this month) will be another coastal camping trip, only this time it will be even better because we're going with family!
Can't wait to see you Emily!!! Oh yeah, or y'all Zachary, Brenda, Katie, and Justin!!!! =)

Oh, fine. I'll try to load a picture. The post just seems so boring without one.There you go. =)

Conference and Family

2008-06-17T15:57:00.001-07:00

Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure:

Chloe and me

Another group picture of Caleb and me and our conference buddies

Mark (with his back turned), Caleb, and Josh playing mini golf at the boardwalk

Caleb, Spencer, and me in the ocean at the boardwalk

Katie and me freezing in the wind at a geocache somewhere around Trinidad

I was gonna put more pictures, but I'm afraid this post isn't even gonna work because our internet has been wacky lately, so you'll just have to wait and maybe I'll get it to work later. :)

First Swim

2008-05-14T10:35:00.000-07:00

Yes indeed, we put up our pool. Our other pool was getting pretty old so we finally broke down and got a new one! Dad got one of those new fangled salt filter system thingies too. =)
I figured we needed some pictures of our first swim, although Caleb and I were probably only in there about five minutes or so. It's starting to warm up now!

The other day Daisy actually got in the pool by herself! She's not very familiar with our new cover though, and it happened to be on there when she got in. Thankfully Mom was out there to come get her untangled and help her out. Craziness!

It was pretty cold in there! =)

Ahhh, Spring Break

2008-04-12T17:25:00.000-07:00

Yes, we had a fabulous spring break this year! Actually, we kind of had two. First we went to the grandparents's house, and then to San Diego! Both were loads of fun!

This is from when we were geocaching in Phoenix. Poor crippled Dad... but he still toughed it out! :)

This is at a beach in San Diego called La Jolla. I guess that does require just a little bit of explanation, doesn't it? For those of you who don't know, Caleb and I got to fly down to San Diego to visit our pastor's kids friends. It was really awesome! No one else got in the ocean. Bunch of wimps. Wimps who live much closer to the ocean than we do! =)

Here are our friends and us outside the Murrells's house. These are the same friends who came to see us, except for the girl that I'm standing by. She didn't get to come last time, even though she was invited- so we were happy to have her this time! If any of you can name the others without going back to the other post in which I told you their names, then you get extra points!
While we were there we got to go to Knott's Berry Farm, In-N-Out (twice), ice skating, and all kinds of other good stuff. Now we're just bummed that it's over! :)

Since the end of December...

2008-02-16T16:07:00.000-08:00

Let's see. Since the end of December the main thing that happened that would interest any of my readers is the Tahoe trip. You've already heard about that from several other blogs, so I won't repeat things that have already been said. I don't think either of these pictures have already been shown, so there you go!

This was in the awesome tunnel we helped Zachary make.

Okay, so this one probably isn't of much interest to any of you, but I figure more pictures and less reading is good, right? This is our junior high and high school group up at camp Lee Canyon. All in all it was a pretty fun trip. We got in some really good sledding!

Oh, and if there are people reading this blog that haven't looked at all the other blogs recently, you should really go check out Caleb's!!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

2007-12-31T17:26:00.000-08:00

I thought I'd make a quick post and give you some pictures. Thanks, Zachary, for fixing the colors of the dots!! This is much cuter!

This one is of the family in the kitchen making and eating donuts on Christmas day. And it was taken with my new camera!! It's a really nice digital camera, even if I can't pronounce the brand name. :)

This one is of Daisy and me up in the snow. Isn't she cute with her little pink sweatshirt? We went up there close to the ski area last Saturday, brought a picnic lunch, and did some sledding. It was lots of fun!

Well, that's the news for now. Happy new year everyone!

Is it too much?

2007-12-12T15:32:00.000-08:00

Well, as you can see I've redone my template. I decided I was tired of looking at the black background with all those words (I don't know if it was looking that way for everybody, but for some reason our special modifications had messed it all up on our computer) so since I don't know how to fix it myself, I decided to just pick out one of the ones that I liked and go with it. I wish I could change the color of the dots in the background, but I don't know how. If you'd like to do it for me (specifically Zachary), you're quite welcome to! So here are those pictures.

This is Saturday night after we went shopping. My birthday cake was an ice cream cake that had chocolate chip ice cream and chocolate cake. It was pretty tasty! And Mom even got them to put orange frosting on it for me. :)

I got that coat from Old Navy that I wanted so bad! (Special thank yous for Caleb and Katie!) So here's a picture of it. And I got these awesome knee socks for my birthday too, so I thought it would be really funny to wear them with my gray skirt and red coat. But just in case you're worried, I didn't wear that to church! I just wore it for the picture.

Then here's a regular picture of us. We didn't actually do it intentionally, but we both ended up wearing red shoes! Which just made it all the more necessary to take the picture. And you can see Daisy over there too, eyeing my new coat and wondering how long it will be before she can jump on it and try to mess it up. :)

And lastly, a picture of us at the bowling alley. I forgot to take the camera, so this picture was taken on Mom's phone, hence the poor quality. But I thought it was still a good picture, and worthy of being put on the blog.

Ah, December

2007-12-02T14:00:00.000-08:00

Tis a good time of year. Happy birthday to Chuck, if you were ever to stumble upon reading this.:) And in less than a week, I will turn 16! And the day before I do, a friend is getting here to celebrate with me. Her name is Chloe, but I'm not sure how many of you people reading this would know her. It should be lots of fun, and I'm very much looking forward to it. Especially the shopping! If we could get the weather to act like it should, it would REALLY feel like December. It actually rained here the day before yesterday! And this morning it was like 37 degrees when we left for church, so I guess we're mostly there! Now all I need is a nice winter coat for my birthday- a red one from Old Navy to be exact.... hint hint. :D Nah, not really though. It has been a very nice winter so far, and we've already got our tree and Christmas lights up and looking nice. So all in all things are going quite well here at the Keith Walker household, and you'll have to be glad that you're getting a post out of us at all since you might not get another one for a while! That is, unless you get lucky and I really feel the need to share a couple pictures of my fun birthday weekend with you. :)

Change of Plans

2007-10-18T18:23:00.000-07:00

Well, now that I've gotten you all to be excited for us to go to Disneyland, the plan has been altered. Since the sickness likes to stick around for a while, everyone agreed that it would probably be better for us to not go on the trip to visit the college. Caleb and I were a little bummed, but a little relieved that we can save our energy for when family comes! So, sorry, I won't be eating any ice cream sandwiches for anyone, and I can't get pictures of characters...... or can I? Well, we'll see anyway. Thanks for the sympathy. :) We're still really excited to see family though!!! It will be lots of fun, and since we didn't go on the trip this weekend, I'm sure we will be completely healthy by the time everyone gets here. Can't wait to see y'all!

What's up nuggets for Uncle Randy

2007-10-14T19:31:00.000-07:00

School is going okay. I have to give an oral book review on Tuesday that I'm not looking forward to, but I am looking forward to the monologue I have to give for speech class. I'm not sure when that's due, but it should be fun.
It is good that the nights are cooling, but we haven't been doing a lot more because of it to tell the truth. Dad opens the doors often now that it's cooler! So we wear jeans and sweatshirts during school. :)
We are very excited for family to come. I mean hey, who wouldn't be? We probably won't do school while they're here! :) It really will be a lot of fun though. Six days from today they'll be here, but Caleb and I won't be. We're going to visit the Master's college in LA and won't get back until Sunday. The trip also includes Disneyland on Saturday!! It was going to be the whole youth group, but there's actually only one other girl going besides Caleb and me. It'll be fun though.
The new house is great, although it doesn't feel that new anymore, it still feels very nice and we enjoy it very much! Unfortunately Daisy seems to like to try to escape from her new yard. While our VM friends were here was the first time she did it. We got home after being gone all day, and she was outside the fence, but still close to the house. Then the next morning she actually got away and we spent most of the morning before church looking for her, but thankfully I found her. She was pretty far away from home, but happy to come get in the car with me. We thought we fixed the problem since we covered up the place where it looked like she got out, but then she was out again when we got back from town yesterday, and one of the gates was wide open. I was very relieved, however, that she once again stayed close to the house. We aren't sure, but we think that some kids that live around here may have come and opened the gate, so we'll probably get some kind of lock for it here pretty soon.
Here is a photo for you of Mom, Caleb, Daisy and me on a hike we took on Columbus day.

Hey, I guess my post got kind of long. Thanks for the questions Uncle Randy! Caleb and I actually caught some sickness yesterday. Mom and Dad had it a while back and we thought we managed to avoid it, but now we're both feeling bad today. It does give me time to update my blog though! Oh well, hopefully it will go away soon. I guess that mostly covers all the what's up nuggets!

Answers

2007-10-06T09:05:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick post to let you know the names of our friends, since I know you were all dying to find out!
Top row: Cody (Clark), Lauri, Liz (Murrell), and Nathan (Clark)
Bottom row: Josh (Murrell), Caleb :), and Caleb (Murrell)

2007-09-18T16:07:00.000-07:00

It's funny- now that I've decided to post since I have something especially good to post about, it happens to include the same people who were in my last post!
We've started school now, and it's fine. We're getting into routine, so I guess that's good. Our VM friends were here three weeks ago! Two of them (the Clarks) came from Broadbent Oregon and the other three (the Murrells) came from just outside San Diego. They stayed from Thursday (getting in the air port pretty late) to Tuesday (leaving extremely early!). It was really fun!! So that's about it. Now we're just waiting for October so we can see family! :)
Here are some pictures of us and our friends. I will give you the names, but you have to guess which name goes with which person.
Caleb, Josh, Cody, Caleb, Nathan, Liz, and Lauri

It is Time

2007-07-19T10:35:00.000-07:00

I suppose it is time to post again. I figured I could put some Ouray pictures on here along with the rest of you. We've been having a great summer! You pretty much got a summary of it from Caleb's blog, so I won't bore you by telling you all over again, but I will give you an extra picture that no one else will have!

At our Mission Springs VM conference the high schoolers and the junior highers took a hike up to this place called Eagle's Landing and we took a group picture. So there we are! Can you find Caleb and me?

This one is of Paul and Ben and me at Cascade falls. And it's really not as bad as it looks. It was a really fun hike!

This one is also at Cascade Falls, but you can't see the falls. These are the adventurers! Some of us are actually doing the Walker Adventurers sign. We hiked up to that place because it looked like a cool cave, but it really wasn't as cave-like as we thought. It was still fun though!

So anyway, all of our trips have been really fun. I hope we get to see our niece again soon! Here is an awesome picture of her that I know you've already seen, but I wanted to put it on here for good measure. :)

A Lot's going on!

2007-05-05T16:55:00.000-07:00

Yes, it's true. A lot has been going on. But, alas, our internet is slower now. However, I though I could at least give you a few highlights.

We are in our new house and we absolutely love it!! It's very spacious, and pretty.

My niece is still adorable, even though I haven't seen her in forever. Hence the lack of pictures.

School is almost over, and we leave for our summer trip to Santa Cruz and our Mission Springs conference in less than a month!

I got my very own digital camera, but I don't get to open it till we're done with school. Then I can use it to take pictures of all our summer fun!

Well, it seems like there was more, but I'm not coming up with it at the moment. I was going to post a picture of the peach pie I made (it was my very first one- and it turned out great!) but it was taking way to long, so I skipped it. Sorry! Congratulations if any of you were still checking my blog and happened to read this!

Stupid account changin' business

2007-03-21T16:51:00.000-07:00

Well, in spite of the dumb thing about changing to google that I've been avoiding, I have finally posted. (Zachary changed my account for me, in case you were wondering!) So here is my really, really cute little niece, that I'm sure you already know all about. :) But she's so great, I don't think you'll mind looking at pictures you've already seen!!

Okay, so this one isn't of Emily. It's actually of Emily's Auntie Bean and Uncle Stain being moths. Yep, you read it right, moths!!! Aren't they cute? You know, to go with the cute baby pictures? Well, funny anyway. :)

Daisy

2007-01-28T16:22:00.000-08:00

Here's my sweet baby in her new sweatshirt!!

Zachary is complaining and tends to attack people if they tickle him

2007-01-21T21:01:00.000-08:00

Here it is you whiny bag. :D I'm having fun seeing people here in Redding. It's been nice that we even get to talk to Caleb, Dad, and Daisy on skype often. It was great getting to go shopping with Kayla on Saturday. The first baby shower was fun and I'm sure the second one will be as well. It's cool to see Brenda being all pregnant and with fat feet and such. :) Hahahaha! Zachary said I could post about nonsence, but I'm just not coming up with a whole bunch to say. Plus I don't even have pictures! But anyway, it was a post at least.

An update

2007-01-06T16:03:00.000-08:00

Just for the record, it seems that when there is a lot of stuff to say, I tend to just not say much of anything, but I'll try to at least cover some of it this time. It especially happens a lot in scrapbooking. When I have tons of it that I should do, I don't do any of it, but if there's not much then I don't mind doing it. All that to say, we had a great Christmas!! We went to Dallas the day after Christmas and after a while at Nanny's we went to San Antonio to visit Katie and Justin, as evidenced by the picture. (In which Katie is nice and tall!) :D I'd tell you the most exciting thing we did there, but I don't want to steal Caleb's thunder and I think he might be telling you all soon, so make sure you read his blog! We're home again now and have had to do school which stinks, but today is Saturday! It's been a nice relaxing Saturday and I think we'll get to end it with some Oscar Myer All Beef Franks on the grill. :)

Snow in Pahrump!

2006-12-20T15:21:00.000-08:00

Yeah, so I'm kinda late posting about it. It happened on Sunday morning, and quit before sunday school even started, but it was still stinkin' awesome when it happened! We had to go to first service anyway, so we were already up. We hung out and tried to catch snowflakes on our Bibles. :) It was pretty fun stuff. And even though you can't see the snow very well, here are some pictures!

The pumpkin is on the stump so we can shoot it with airsoft guns!

Can you tell what Caleb wrote on this?

Don't we look nice in all our red? We were dressed in red and black for our Christmas musical that Mom led. Actually, the choir could choose either red or green shirts, but most people chose the red anyway. We even got to perform while it was snowing! And no, Daisy didn't get to sing with us, but I figured she should still be in the picture! (Dad was actually the one who suggested that Daisy join the picture!) Oh, and the musical went very well. Way to go Mom!

It was great!

2006-12-10T18:47:00.000-08:00

I had a wonderful birthday. It started with a little sleeping in, but I couldn't sleep very well since I was pretty excited. When I came in the kitchen there was a huge pile of presents on the table! Katie, Justin and Caleb got me a new bedspread! I have provided pictures below.

Isn't it great how it matches my walls?? I just love it!! It's so cute!

And check it out. It's reversible! I almost like the stripes more, but I thought I should save them for a while. :)

The bottom picture is kind of fuzzy, so that's why I have two of them. But I needed the fuzzy one because in that one you can see all of the pants. The sweater and the corduroy pants are both from Mom and Dad. (We got them at Kohl's!) And then the cute brown purse is from Kayla. (I thought it needed to be in the picture because it matched!)

Just to clarify, I got tons of other awesome stuff too (mostly clothes!) but I haven't taken pictures of anything else yet. Well, I guess that's all for this post. Merry Christmas!

It's tomorrow!

2006-12-07T16:04:00.000-08:00

Well, I'm pretty stoked that my birthday is tomorrow. It's gonna be great! Last Saturday I took two girls into Las Vegas to shop at the Galleria mall with me. We had a lot of fun, and I got some nice new clothes!
The day after Thanksgiving Aunt Kathie took me shopping at a mall in Phoenix and I found this adorable little outfit, and Aunt Kathie told me that I should put a picture of it on my blog, so now I'm finally getting around to it! Won't Emily look great in it? :) I'm so excited about Emily!!!!
School is going just fine. I still hate English and I still like sewing. Unfortunately the shirt that I made ended up to big, so that's a bummer. But I made it a little smaller, and even though it's still too big, at least I may be able to wear it now. I think that it's not quite like I was expecting when I started it, but it's still pretty cool.
Anyway, maybe since tomorrow's my birthday I'll update and let you know about all the cool things I got!

How about it?

2006-11-20T17:51:00.000-08:00

Well, for anyone who doesn't know, my birthday is in less than a month! I thought I would make it easy on you, and let you all go together and just get one big present for my family and me! I've provided you with a picture to help you know just what I want.

It kinda makes me think of the house on the Sound of Music. How about you?

Okay, so you don't really have to get us a house, but I'm still pretty stoked about my birthday! I also know of someone who's birthday is even sooner than mine! Can anyone guess? It's someone who hasn't updated in a very, very, very long time, and he never tells anyone what he really wants for his birthday. That's right... Chuck! So, if you even happen to read this, what do you want for your birthday Chuck?
Well, we're leaving for Phoenix on Wednesday and we're pretty excited about that too! So maybe I'll update again when we get back. :)

Okay

2006-11-12T17:39:00.000-08:00

Due to the requests of my adoring fans, I am updating. And due to the lack of pictures with which to update, I am providing you with a photo of my adorable dog from when she was but a wee puppy! You may comment as much as you'd like about how cute she is, I get that all the time. :) I will allow it. (Add goofy hand motion.)
Things are going well here, school and all the other regular activities are continuing. Dad had to go to the VM board meetings this last week, but we went to pick him up last night. We did just a little bit of shopping before we went to get him at the airport so that was fun. For anyone who's interested, I got a new shirt! (From Kohl's!)
Just in case anyone may have already forgotten, or is not thinking about it at this particular moment, let me remind you: I'm gonna have a niece!! Aren't these little booties great? You could probably find some cuter baby shoes, but I just figured I should at least put some kind of baby item on here so you can see it. (Plus I think they're cute!) There are so many things I want to buy for Z&B's sweet, little, precious Emily! However, she may have to change clothes three, four, or maybe even five times a day so that she can get all her little clothes worn (bought by all her adoring relatives) before she gets too big for them. :) And in case you're wondering, I found these on oldnavy.com!

Not a whole lot to say this time. Maybe next time I'll try to update a little sooner!

Fun times!

2006-10-30T14:27:00.000-08:00

Well, we had a blast with Zachary and Brenda this past week. Sadly they had to leave this morning, and it's always sad to see family leave, but we're so thankful that they got to be here and that we had so much fun! Not to mention that we got to see Grandmom and Granddad and Uncle Randy and Aunt Kathy (along with Zachary and Brenda) all in the same week! Like I said, we had a lot of fun. :) We got to go to the Mt. Charleston cabins again, hear the Walker quintet, go to the famous Chinese eating place, play games such as catch phrase, enjoy a whole day of shopping (one of my personal favorites), and do much, much more! Speaking of the shopping, the pink v-neck shirt I'm wearing in the picture is one I got on the shopping day. It's from Old Navy. Well, there is likely lots more to say, but unfortunately, I think it's time to get back to a little bit of school work. On the bright side, our only spanish homework today was memorizing a spanish verse! Anyway, maybe I'll have more to say later.

Oh yeah, enjoy the exciting new blog look! (Complements of Zachary and Brenda!)

Here's the picture

2006-10-16T20:09:00.000-07:00

Just make sure you read the other post! That's the one I actually wrote in.

Chuck is here!

2006-10-16T12:17:00.000-07:00

Well, right now we're taking a little break from school, so I thought I'd post. And when I say we're taking a break, that actually means that we're waiting to check our Spanish homework and then we'll move on to the next lesson.
So, yeah, Chuck is here! He's been here since Wednesday I think, and he has to leave tomorrow. But we're really glad he got to come! I'm pretty sure we're planning to eat out at a Mexican food place today, so that should be fun. I wanted to take a picture of us with him doing something, but then I realized that we probably would never get around to taking the picture and then I would never get around to posting, so I figured it would be best to just go ahead and post. We did get to take him to our night time geocache, which was pretty sweet. (For those of you who don't know, that means you follow the reflective tacks until you get to the cache.)
Well, I should probably go and help Mom make us some lunch. Until next time! (And hopefully next time I'll have pictures!)

Jackets, skirts and other things

2006-10-09T17:09:00.000-07:00

Well, this first picture is of the adorable little doggie jacket I bought for Daisy. Unfortunately, it was too small. First I got the small, and wasn't really thinking about size. Then I got the medium thinking it would work, and when I tried to put it on her, I couldn't fit her other leg through the hole, because it wouldn't fit around her back! The really sad part was that they had no larges. So, alas, Daisy won't have a cute little doggie jacket to wear when it gets cold. Not that she would have actually worn it, but it still would've been a lot of fun until she chewed it up!
Second comes my new skirt. I made it! It was for my sewing class, and I thought it turned out quite well. Even the zipper
worked! I didn't do it exactly right, because I was supposed to
put in a button, and that didn't work out, but I still like how it turned out. You can't really see the material in the picture, but
it feels like suede and it has kind of little zig-zag patterns with the threads going through it. Kind of hard to explain. Anyway, all is well in sewing class and I am about to be starting my "blouse". (It's in quotes just because I always think it's funny to call it a "blouse" instead of a "shirt".)
We had a blast in Phoenix! It was so fun to see all the family there. We even got to play Balderdash on Friday night! Not to mention the tasty Fuddruckers we got to have. :) Bella is really cute and looks like she'll be crawling around any day now. Charley is pretty cute too, but I must say, I'm partial to my little Daisy Lou. Tee hee! Thanks for all the fun Grandmom and Granddad!

2006-09-24T19:27:00.000-07:00

Well, this was Leigh's suggestion. And actually, this one was taken earlier than the one where it was curly. The first thing I did after the hair cut was shower, dry it, and then curl it. (okay, that's not entirely true, first we went to Wal-Mart.) At first I left it all down and curled it out, but that looked a little weird because I've been growing out the sides of my bangs, and it just didn't quite look right, as you can see to the right.
But the picture below shows you that it looks much better with the top half pulled back. I think I like it that way better.

But again, my eyes look kinda weird in this one. :)

Caleb and I are both sick right now so that's a bummer. I think we're getting better, but we're really hoping that Mom and Dad don't catch it. Hopefully school won't be too hard, and we'll be able to think enough to do our work tomorrow.
Well, Mom and Dad just got back from their prayer meeting thing, so that's all for now!

Two in one

2006-09-12T16:26:00.000-07:00

I cut my hair! I kind of wish that I hadn't now, (I really miss it being long) but I decided that I might as well make the most of what I did, so I tried it in curlers. I think it worked out pretty well! I couldn't believe how short it ended up looking. Actually, the girl at the hair cut place cut it shorter than I asked her to anyway, so it's kind of a bummer, but oh well. Since the curls were so poofy beside my face Mom helped me put some little clips in it. One on either side and then in the back. (Well, two in the back since just one wouldn't really hold it all in place.)

Isn't Daisy cute? But I guess I always think she is. Today she slept in my lap while I read Silas Marner for school. I thought it was very thoughtful of her. :) It made the reading far more enjoyable.
Oh, and not only do these pictures cover my hair and Daisy, they also show you my new shirt! It's one of the two I told you about.... um, two posts ago I think. I got it at Mervyn's and it works nicely to wear whatever color I want to under it because it matches pretty much everything! I like it. But not as much as Daisy. :D

Holy Moly!!!!

2006-09-10T17:51:00.000-07:00

Zachary and Brenda are HERE!!!! We've been having a blast with them so far. Yesterday we went into Las Vegas ( I won't tell you all about it, but we had to go to a Star Trek thing because we got free tickets......) and Zachary told us to call him when we finished doing the Star Trek thing, but we forgot. And then he ended up calling us instead, and told us that they were in Las Vegas! At first I don't think any of us really believed him, but once he convinced us we couldn't contain our excitement! It was an awesome surprise! We were pretty stoked to say the least. They came with us to church this morning and we've pretty much just hung out around here. Oh, I take that back. We did go to Wal-Mart and stuff. We get to go swimming with them today. I think they have to leave tomorrow, which I always hate, but I guess it'll be okay. So anyway, that's our exciting news. School is still going on and all the other weekly church things. This Wednesday will be our first AWANA thingy for the highschoolers, and it's gonna be at our house, so that's cool. School still stinks, but I'm liking the sewing class! I learned how to put in a zipper a few days ago, which was exciting. Okay, I guess that's all. I would have put a picture on here, but I think that we still haven't figured out how to load the pictures from the camera on to our new compy, so I decided not to try it. Until next time!

I am still here

2006-08-30T19:44:00.000-07:00

It has been quite some time hasn't it? Well, we started school. Bla. But it's going okay really. And I get to take sewing/cooking (Home ec.) this year! That's pretty much the only one I like. I mean, it gets me new clothes, and they're required!
We did get to go shopping yesterday when we went to the Awana thing that you all hopefully read about on Caleb's blog. I even got some new shirts when we went to Mervyn's! I really like them.
Well, I don't have much to say, but maybe I'll post again when I have some good pictures to post about.

It's a first

2006-08-20T08:48:00.000-07:00

Okay, it was August of last year that Zachary and Brenda brought me my wonderful, joyful, jumping little pup and yesterday was the first time since we've had her that she has ever been truly exhausted. On Friday she hiked with us on several geo caches and with me all around the campground. Friday night she slept in my tent right beside my mattress covered up with towels and my sweatshirt but without her cabin! (for those of you who might not know, that means her dog cage.) That was also a first. She hasn't ever slept the whole night without her cabin as far as I know. And I was so excited that she slept in my tent with me! That's the closest I've ever slept to her and it's almost like she was allowed to roam all around in the house, only it was a tent! Anyway, then the next morning she took about a thirty minute hike with Mom and me before breakfast, and did all kinds of crazy hikes with us (some minus Mom and me) for geo caches Saturday afternoon. Usually when she gets back in the car, it's only so she can pace from window to window waiting for the next cache. This time, she would get back in the car and basically collapse. On one of the hikes she just sat by Caleb while he looked inside a geo cache contanister because she was too tired to go play around. And then we even took her leash off of her on the way back and she did just fine. Mostly only sidetracking so she could sit in some shade. Just in case you're wondering, that pretty much never happens! Then when we got home all she wanted to do was nap. She just laid down in the shade and watched us unload the car as opposed to trying to escape every time we opened the gate. This morning she's still just sleeping in her chair, and apparently has no intentions of getting up anytime soon. Pretty funny stuff, I'll tell you what. So we're glad to have finally worn her out and that we have her kind of mellow for a day. :)

For Clarification

2006-08-04T15:58:00.000-07:00

The significance of October is this: We'll get to find out if it's a boy or a girl!! Then we will be able to shop intelligently (for pink or blue). Is that correct Brenda? I hope so. I wouldn't want to tell everyone that and then be mistaken. So if I am mistaken, then leave a comment and say so. :) Caleb thinks I should say what I'm rooting for (boy or girl) but I thought I should tell everyone that I don't particularly care!! I just want to hold the cute little bundle of joy and buy it adorable little baby shoes. And clothes. Not much to say, but I was afraid that if I tried to explain just in a comment why I was looking forward to October, then not everyone would see it. And I didn't want anyone to miss out on that exciting bit of info. If it was even right.
Um, well I got a new book from the library today! It's called The Truth Seeker. It's the next one in the series by Dee Henderson. I just finished The Guardian and would highly recommend it to anyone who likes romances/mysteries. Here is a picture of it. I'm not quite sure why it also loaded the part that says "search inside" but I guess it doesn't matter. I tried to load a picture of these really cute baby shoes from oldnavy.com, but it wouldn't work which is a bummer, but oh well.

Here We Are!

2006-08-02T12:30:00.001-07:00

Okay, so here's what's been going on:
This guy in our church (his name is Paul Crane) invited us to come visit him while he was staying at his brother's house, which is in Holly Wood! (We never really got a good view of the sign though.) His brother wasn't actually even there, but we got to swim in his pool! The house was a little weird, but it was fine. Caleb and I can't quite understand why rich people have such an interest for strange-looking art that doesn't really make sense. Oh well! The exciting part was when we got to go to Knott's Berry Farm! I had a lot of fun there. They have some good rides! I think my favorite was the Xcelerator. You start by going from zero to 80 miles per hour in 2 seconds! I also really like the Perilous Plunge. Or at least I think that's what it's called. It's kind of like the Monsoon falls that's at Six Flags Marine World, only taller and scarier! (Which is a very good thing in case you're wondering!) Then the next day we went to a museum that had old cars and stuff. As you can tell, the museum was much better than Knott's Berry Farm......... only not really. The museum was kind of cool I guess, just not half as much fun as the day before had been. So, that's pretty much all that's been happening lately. Of course we did go pick Daisy up today, which is always good. I don't know where the camera is right now, but I'll try to put pictures on the next post.
Oh, and I won't let this post slip by without saying something about the upcoming niece/nephew! I found a few things that I wanted to get for it at Knott's Berry Farm, but Dad said it would be way too long before the kid would be big enough to wear it. Bummer. Oh well, we still have lots of time to buy it cute things before it gets here. If only October could come, without the bother of school and all. :)

I'm back now

2006-07-27T10:06:00.000-07:00

We just got back from California yesterday, so I thought I'd post and tell you that I had a great time! Unfortunately, I had no camera, so I don't have any pictures to post. But Kayla is going to send me some, so that I can scrapbook them!
I had a really great time being there with Kayla and Zachary and Brenda and everybody. Kayla and I even set up camp by ourselves! We probably put up that tent in record time. :) We also met a really funny guy named Jim. His buddy's name is Bill. hahaha! Yeah.... good times! Good times.

In other news..... I CAN'T BELIEVE BRENDA AND ZACHARY ARE GONNA HAVE A KID!!!!!!!! I am so totally stoked that I'm actually gonna be an aunt. It's so great!! I wish I could be there all the time to see it. :( sniff, sniff But there is always pictures, and hopefully we'll get to visit a LOT. :) This is the most exciting thing I've heard all year! Brenda, we're praying that you'll get over the morning (or should I say "all day") sickness really soon. Oh, and one other thing concerning this subject: Katie and Justin, get with the program! Tee hee! Okay, so I guess I can wait since I have one niece/nephew to look forward to. Yay!!!

You're probably all wondering, "is she actually glad to be home in the desert?" Well the desert no, not really. But home, yes! It's good to be with Mom, Dad, Caleb, and Daisy again. I'm really thankful that God has helped me to adjust, and start to get over the move. God is good!

I'm at Kayla's!!

2006-07-19T22:03:00.000-07:00

After getting up at four thirty-ish yesterday and driving from Phoenix back to Pahrump, we left again at eight this morning to drive to Redding!! So, I am now sitting at Kayla's compy and taking ridiculous pictures. Kayla would like everyone to know that the picture on the bottom is not that great, and her neck doesn't really stick out that far, and that her head doesn't really float around in mid-air. Just to clarify. Anyway, we will be leaving for Family Camp at about eleven tomorrow, and will be setting up camp all by our little lonesomes. So, for now, you can enjoy these great pictures and anxiously await the ones from Family Camp. They won't be on here though, because I'm not bringing a digital camera, so you'll just have to bug Kayla about it if you want to see them.

Tomorrow!

2006-07-18T17:37:00.000-07:00

I know, I don't have any pictures. I only have time for a few quick sentences and then we're going to go swim.
We just got back from the grandparents' house today. We had so much fun! I loved seeing everybody, the swimming, the pool playing, the big house, and the eating out. It was all great! I might even have time to post pictures of some of those things after I get back.
Tomorrow I'm leaving for family camp! I'm feeling a little worn out from the constant activities, but I know it'll be a blast. I can't wait to see you Kayla!

New and Improved Hair Layers!

2006-07-07T15:45:00.000-07:00

Okay, okay, sorry it took me so long to update. The picture didn't turn out too bad, but my eyes look a little funny, and my bangs are pretty long. Yeah, I know, I'll probably get comments like, "your eyes always look funny" or other various sayings from relatives such as Caleb or Uncle Randy, but I will endure it.
So anyway, I got a shorter layer like two days after I got it cut firstly. I think I like it better this way.

I figured it was good measure to stick a picture
of the cute little Daisy on here along with the other, I mean, how often don't I do that?

Daisy's Birthday!

2006-06-27T20:54:00.000-07:00

This first picture is of her on her birthday morning! I think I was far more excited about it
than sh was. :)

Oh, the anticipation! You gotta love her party hat!

We had so much fun. I got her some special treats, a brush for her fur, the party hats, and a pool float. But she couldn't stand on it very well. :) It was sure fun though!

I was trying to brush her in this one, but she wanted to eat the brush. She thoroughly enjoyed chewing up the hat!

Today I go my hair cut, and got layers! What do you think? After we went swimming and I showered, I put my pjs on, but since I had extra time I went ahead and dried and curled my hair. So that's why I'm wearing my Air Force shirt in the picture. I think I like how it turned out!

Pictures!

2006-06-26T10:15:00.000-07:00

Here is part of the fam at a park right close to where Nanny lives. Aren't we cute?

And now here we are dancing back from the park. Even better!

Here's the one of my new outfit that I told you I'd put on here. I got to wear it yesterday! Shirt: Target; Skirt: Ross

And here is the precious puppy sitting in the pool! She has decided now that she likes the pool. But when she wants to get in, she doesn't try to climb the ladder, but instead leaps up and gets her front paws over the side and then struggles for a minute or so to get the rest of herself in. It's so cute! And she's figured out how to get out (by herself) using the ladder now. But then when she does get out, she goes and rolls in the dirt, and looks so gross! But cute at the same time. :) I love her!

Back Again

2006-06-21T11:44:00.000-07:00

Well, we're back now. But we haven't downloaded the pictures from our Dallas trip yet, so you'll just have to wait for those ones. I figured it was probably time for an update though, even if I don't have new pictures. I thought you might enjoy this one however. So there it is, in all it's glory. :) They were both such fun trips! I wanted to put some of the pictures that we took at the Mac store on here, but I can't make them work on blogger. Maybe Zachary will help me with that later. We had so much fun seeing family in Texas!! It was great. I even got to go shopping while we were there, and found a few things. I got some new khaki shorts from Target and a skirt from Ross. Then we went to Target again and I found a brown shirt that matches the skirt nicely. If you want, I'll take a picture of the new outfit and put in on here. I'm pretty excited about it. Can you believe I've managed to save it for this long? I haven't even worn it yet!!! I don't know how much longer that will last though. :) I guess that'll be all, until we get those pictures onto the compy.

Home Again

2006-06-12T16:09:00.000-07:00

We had a fabulous trip! The only sad part is not
being there anymore. It was so much fun though.
This is Caleb and I playing at a beach. I'm not sure which one though. Don't you like all my little cup castles? The water was great too. I just loooove the beach!

I think my favorite beach for actually being in the water was the boardwalk at Santa Cruz.

This is us at Taco Bell with some of our friends from conference. Here are the names from left to right: Lauri (oh, Walker, in case you forgot), Liz Murrell, Caleb Murrell, Josh Murrell, and (I always forget this one, uuuuumm, oh yeah,) Caleb Walker. :) We were celebrating his 16th birthday!!!! Anyway, it was tons and tons of fun!

And I shan't forget to mention the reason I'm happy to be back: My Daisy. Isn't she sweet? We're setting up the pool, and should be able to go swimming with her by tomorrow! (That's why she's wet, we've already been in, even though it's not very deep!) haha :)

One More Day!

2006-05-30T10:18:00.000-07:00

We are leaving for the coast tomorrow!! I'm so excited. It's gonna be so much fun! I'll try to be prompt in my posting of pictures when we get back, which won't be until June 10th. I just can't wait to be on the beach! I'll admit, I'm going to miss Daisy a lot, but I'm sure she'll have fun. I just hope she'll want to come back to me when we get here. This picture is of her using her "Amazing Daising Ears" to fly up to her stump. Pretty cool huh? I like it. :)

So long!

2006-05-21T14:26:00.000-07:00

I know it's been so long since I posted! I keep trying to wait until I have some cool new picture to post, but nothin's happenin' so far. (Picture-wise that is.)
Here's my big news: It's only 10 more days till we leave for the coast!!!! We made a countdown calendar a while back. I'm so excited! Not about the countdown calendar, but about the trip. We're gonna drive over there on the thirty-first and then stay in a cool motel which is right by the beach, and the next day we will see the Grandparents! I'm not exactly sure of the plans for things we'll do with them, but I do know that we will be going to the Monterey Bay Aquarium! That should be really fun. And then on Monday we will go to Santa Cruz for our VM conference at Mission Springs! Caleb and I really look forward to that because we get to see our friends there. Plus we almost always get to go to the Board Walk over there with our group on the Thursday we're there. And then we leave on Friday, which is Caleb's birthday! So we'll be celebrating that day, but I won't tell how, you'll have to tell Caleb to post about that. :)
So anyway, that's pretty much all that's going on. I mean Daisy is still wonderful, but I don't have a new picture for you, I don't think!

My Daisy and Me

2006-05-08T16:17:00.000-07:00

I recently found this fabric at Wal-Mart that I really liked. So I found a fitting pattern, bought the fabric, and made a skirt! Then, we got to go shopping last Saturday, and I found a great white shirt that went with it. (I also got some other great deals, including another skirt, a shirt and a jacket.... all at Kohls!) So here is a picture of the skirt that I made, with the white shirt I got.
Yeah, so the picture isn't great. No one else was around to take it for me, so I was putting it on timer and then trying to stand so that it was centered, and I couldn't seem to take a good on. But hey, I'm no photographer!
A while back we bought one of those little cheap pools, because I thought it would be really fun to let Daisy play in it with us! She had a fun time, and I think we've used it like three times now. It's pretty fun stuff!
And then here she is all warm and dry. Isn't she sweet?? :)

2006-05-05T16:43:00.000-07:00

Well, we're back from Disneyland, and I know I've been a slacker and haven't posted, but I'm finally getting around to it! However, everything has mostly been told by other members of WEBNET so I'll keep it short. (Once again, because of my laziness.) Here we are, I think on Tom Sawyer Island.

Dad and I had a fun time on this ride, and hardly had to wait in line at all! And aren't you glad we got those little girls in the picture? They screamed really loudly, but then again, so did I! :)

Isn't this the coolest pretzel you've ever seen?? It was fabulous!
And, here we have my favorite ride: California Screamin'! I loved everything, but I think this was probably my favorite. Mom and I rode it several times, because it kind of made the others sick! But I LOVED it!!!!!

Isn't it just like me? Everything is all about the food....... okay, so maybe that's not true of Disneyland, but I thought their little snack vendors were awesome. I think the reason I'm not smiling very much is because I had chocolate on my teeth, and I didn't want it to show! :) I got a really soft sandwich, and loved it, so then Caleb went and got one, and his was hard as a rock. Pretty crazy huh? It was so great though!!!

I really loved the Indiana Jones Ride too. I had such a fabulous time! Thanks again for taking us along Gmom and Gdad! I can't say enough how much fun we had!!!!

DISNEY LAND!!!!!!!

2006-04-21T16:50:00.000-07:00

This is how excited Caleb and I are about going to Disney Land. Actually, I don't know if it quite shows the excitement enough... we can't wait!! And, as it turns out, we get to leave on Monday instead of Tuesday, so we'll be spending 3 whole days there! Granddad was the one who decided to make it longer. He didn't think we had enough time to see everything, and we are totally okay with being there for an extra day. :) It's gonna be great. I must admit, I will miss Daisy, but I know she will be happy with the lady that will be keeping her. So, it's just gonna work out great. Disney Land, here we come!

Yay!

2006-04-11T19:31:00.000-07:00

Dad fixed the thingy that you put the camera card in so that I can upload pictures again! (Like all my technical terms?)
This over here on the left was when we were playing with Daisy with bubbles. She's really funny. She loves to jump up and try to eat them! I put it on here mostly to show what the tree looked like before they cut the rest of it down.
And then after they cut it to a stump, we thought it would be funny to teach Daisy to jump up on it, so that's the next picture. It's not that great, but it'll do. :) I mean, Daisy is always cute, but it's not the best picture of me.

(And just for whoever is interested, that purple shirt I'm wearing there is new!)

I'm out of cool titles, or did I ever have any?

2006-04-03T16:44:00.000-07:00

Well, I was going to wait and update once I had some pictures to post. We just took some a little bit ago, and I was planning on putting them on here, but now I can't get the compy to upload them! I guess you'll just have to wait.
Mom went to Dallas again so that she could attend the Valwood (Mom and Dad's old church) 50th reunion thingy. Or whatever you call it. :) We were happy for her, but we missed her. She left on Thursday and we picked her up at the airport today! Hooray! Now we don't have to sit around feeling incompetent without her.
For anyone who's interested, I've actually read a couple of books lately. Oh, but here's the catchy part: nobody told me to!! Mostly just some Janette Oke books. But I also read the last book of the Chronicles of Narnia series- The Last Battle. It was good. The bummer is, I have to give an oral book report on it. Yeah, I know, just ruin a good book why don't ya!! Anyway, I think it's due tomorrow or something. Hopefully I'll do okay.
I know my posts aren't too cool without pictures, but I'm thankful for those of you who took the time to read it and comment! Thanks!!

Texas

2006-03-25T19:02:00.000-08:00

Well, the four of us caught kind of a last minute flight from Las Vegas to Dallas so that we could be there for our Aunt Mae's funeral. That part was a bummer, but we made up for it yesterday by doing some fun things.

We got to walk to the park with our "second cousins" Maddie and Andie. (They are the kids of our cousin Jenifer) There's a creek just down the way from the park, so we went down there too.

Dad found a crawdad (how do you spell that?) so we played with it for a while. And when I say, "we" I mean that they played while I watched from a safe distance. :)

Here is Uncle Gary with his grandson, Andie, on the slide that Caleb and I used to think was really huge. Andie was trying to bat a little soft nerf ball that Dad threw, and he hit it!! Oh wait, when I say, "hit" I mean, missed. tee hee.

Fun with spools at Nanny's!!

And don't forget that when we came back we got to see Daisy!! I had to take this picture really quick for this post, so it's not that great but it'll do to show you how great she is. I love her!!!

Here they are!!

2006-03-17T15:29:00.000-08:00

Here are the color choices!!

And here are some before and after pictures: Before

After!!!

And, yes, as you might have noticed, I did a little rearranging.

I haven't put stuff back on the walls yet. I don't know how much I will put back.

Doesn't the window look tons better??!? I put up the bamboo blinds Katie got me
a while back, and I love the palm tree curtains. (We really needed them, since you can see through the blinds if they aren't there!) The blinds also let in quite a bit of light, which is a good thing. :)

Bummer

2006-03-13T18:48:00.000-08:00

Pretty much all day yesterday my throat kind of hurt. This morning when I woke up I felt awful. I've had a fever all day and my nose is all messed up. I was doing so bad, that I couldn't really get any school done. I pretty much just slept all day. I'm hoping that I'll feel better by tomorrow.
On a happier note, we had a really good time in Redding. We were so happy to finally see Zachary and Brenda's cute house! Zachary even took us golfing. (We didn't play all the holes though, because it was sort of sprinkling and we were freezing.) I was really happy to see every one. Kayla and I got to go shopping on Saturday!!! We went to the ceramic place too. I painted a bowl, and she did a plate, but she's going to have to bring it to me some time (hint hint) since it doesn't get done for a few days.
Well, I should probably go sleep some more. :) It's kind of funny because I don't seem to be getting less tired. I just keep sleeping, and sleeping, and sleeping! Anyway, I guess that's all for now.

So Sorry

2006-03-08T14:59:00.000-08:00

Well, Dad took the digital camera with him to Haiti, so I can't take pictures of my room until he gets back! We did take some video of it, and we even took some pictures with the cell phone, but I don't know how to put those on here. So, once again, I am sorry. I guess you'll just have to wait. It looks really good though! The colors are pink (actual name- "flame creeper") orange ("mondragon") and tan ("toasted coconut"). I'm very pleased with how it worked. Now we just have to get every thing back in place. :) But for now, I can't wait to see you people in Redding!!! Jamba Juice.... here we come!!!!!

No Pictures

2006-03-05T09:06:00.000-08:00

Sorry! I like to have pictures, but this isn't really a "picture-kind-of-post". (Get it? It's kind of like "you-have-a-friend-in-the-valley"!) Anyway, this post was mostly to say that we took Dad to the air port this morning. He will be flying into Dallas, then to somewhere in Florida, then I think they said something about stopping for gas in the Bahamas?, and then they will arrive in Haiti. I think that's the schedule. Correct me if I'm wrong. (That only applies to people who do know though.) :) He'll be teaching some Haitian (is that how you spell it?) pastors and just doing that kind of missions work..... I think. So while he's there, we will be painting my room! That I will have pictures of. But not yet. We plan to buy the paint today and paint on Monday and Tuesday. I'm excited!! But not quite as excited as I am to see everybody when we go to Redding! We are leaving on Thursday for Redding and coming back on Sunday. It doesn't feel like long enough to get everything done, but it will still be fun. Well, I guess that's it for now.
Stay tuned to see before and after pictures of my room!!!!

Mt. Charleston

2006-02-28T15:44:00.000-08:00

On Sunday, after the pot-luck and Dad's meeting and stuff, we got to drive up to a lodge in
Mt. Charleston! It was really, really nice. On our way there we even got to eat at Quiznos! When we got there we played back alley bridge. (I think that' s what it's called. ) It's kind of like Spaids, just a lot harder. We did a lot of just messin' around and on Monday we got to do some Geo Cacheing and then came back for lunch. We got back here in the afternoon and picked up Daisy. A lady named Miss Jacquie kept her this time. She's very nice. It seemed to work out well. Here are some pictures for your enjoyment!

I couldn't believe how tall the beds were! They were king size too. :) Sweet.

Lunch. Possibly my favorite time of day!

Can you believe this awesome bath tub??!? I took two, just to make sure we got our moneys worth. :) (Is that how you spell it?) It was so much fun! They even have those little jets too. It was like a hot tub. I know this picture isn't great, but at least you kind of get the idea.

This one's just so you can see the outside. It's actually from the back. It was hard to get a good picture, so Dad took one down the road. You can almost see the balcony that was on the back. The furniture that was out there was nicer than our house furniture!! (maybe) We went out there once or twice so that we could be cold enough to drink our coa-coa. Actually, we could see some snow down below the balcony too! It was lots of fun.

Tree Climbing

2006-02-22T17:57:00.000-08:00

Okay, so that's probably not the most exciting thing we've done since the last post, but at least I have pictures of it! I don't know if all of you know or not, but we had to cut down our willow tree, because it had a disease, it stunk really bad in the summer, and it collected huge, nasty green bugs. Gross huh? They were so big, Caleb and Chuck shot them down with a BB gun and there were so many, the grass kind of crunched as we walked over it. So anyway, we had to cut it down, but we can climb it now! So there's me, being victorious! I was too scared to be up there while Daisy was there. I was afraid she would scratch me too much, and like, leap off or something. So I let Caleb do that. It was pretty funny.

Aren't they cute?

Saturday

2006-02-20T15:47:00.000-08:00

I love Saturdays. Sadly I don't have any pictures to post of it, but last Saturday was a great one. First off, we got to sleep in. (It seems that the past few Saturdays, we have had to wake up early for one reason or another-- not so much fun) Then, when I finally did get out of bed, Mom said she would take me to McDonald's for breakfast!!! I don't know why, but I love eating there for breakfast, even though I hate it for other meals. (Their french fries are good though) So then after I had a really great breakfast, we got to go into a town that is basically part of Las Vegas, but I think it's called Summerlin. (You can correct me if I'm wrong Caleb.) I think Summerlin sounds a lot nicer than Las Vegas, don't you? So, in Summerlin there's a little center (or centre) thingy that's called Boca Park. In Boca Park there is a Target, Bath & Bodyworks, Ross, and Payless! We went to Target first, sadly enough I didn't find anything. But then we went to Ross, and I finally found some jeans that fit!!! I mean, of course they're too long, but that's to be expected. Then we went to Payless and I didn't find anything, but I didn't really "need" any shoes anyway. Then we got to eat at Quiznos! (Otherwise known as Quinceys.) I got a Turkey Ranch and Swiss minus onions and tomato. Mmmmmm, mmm! I'm sure some of you are wondering, "didn't they get to go to Bath & Bodyworks?" and the answer is, "no". I would have been happy to, but there were more important things to get to before we had to leave. What could be more important you ask? Well, Old Navy could! So even though we had to drive a ways away to get there, it was worth it. I got a white and a red tank top (2 for $12) and Mom had a $10 off coupon!!!! Can you believe it? Oh, and the jeans cost *less* than $10. Amazing isn't it?
Well, that was my great day. I just love shopping. :)

My Daisy, with some daisys

2006-02-17T17:12:00.000-08:00

"Here you go little Daisy!"

"Gee, thanks!"

<< I put one in her collar..... tee hee

Woa! She just found it.

Almost got it......

Ha! Now it won't ever get away! She seems to think flowers are really tasty, but then she eats anything and everything, so it probably doesn't make any difference. But she sure is cute.

Awwwwwww, don't you just want to hug the cute little thing? The flowers of course. Oh, just kidding.
I love Daisy!

Tacky Day!

2006-02-15T16:11:00.000-08:00

Oh yeah. Don't you love spirit week? On our videos, this week was spirit week, and I wanted to participate! So, Monday was Hawaiian day, and yesterday we didn't really have a theme, but we were supposed to wear pink or red since it was Valentines Day. And then today was tacky day. Please note the hideous shoe-wear choices. Very appropriate for tacky day, don't you think? Yes Chuck, you wear tacky foot-wear everyday! Because we told Caleb he could wear socks and sandals, he was willing to participate. Mom and I couldn't stand it for very long though, so we chickened out, and didn't wear it for the whole day. I'm not really sure what we're going to do for a theme for the rest of the week though. If you have a good suggestion, let me know. :) Well, that is the exciting news around here. Try not to get too wound up about it!
Go team? That's the other thing, we don't have a big ball game to finish it off, but maybe we'll play bocce or something.

Here it is

2006-02-12T13:54:00.000-08:00

Isn't it cute? Well, I though so, and Dad said it would be good to have me in the picture (who knows why) :) but then I thought you could see the little heart better in the other one, so I put both on. Anyway, not much else to say about it so I guess that's all for now.
(Aren't you glad it was so short? I bet all of you took the time to finish this one!)

Home Alone?

2006-02-07T17:10:00.000-08:00

Well, Mom and Dad left for their mini-conference this morning. Caleb and I will be staying at the house mostly, but at nights we're going to be sleeping at the Sutton's house. Most of you probably don't know them though. We went to Death Valley with them a while back, you might remember that, but I'm not sure if I put it on here. However, I'm glad that we get to be here with Daisy for most of the time. And since they work at a school anyway, they will bring us to the house plenty early enough to start school. (And feed Daisy of course!)
I don't know that we're planning on doing anything really big for valentines Day, but I think the thing we got today was part of it!! Mom and Dad bought me a really cute little bamboo plant. I love it!! (And yes, they did get something for Caleb too, not just me, but I thought he might want to tell you.) I wanted to take a picture of it, but Dad took the camera with them so I couldn't. I guess I can just try to remember to take a picture when they get back. Oh, and they are coming back on Friday. Anyway, even though it isn't very descriptive, the bamboo is in the shape of a heart, for valentines Day! It's so cute. Thanks Mom and Dad!

Gotta Love the Puppy

2006-01-30T15:06:00.000-08:00

Because I am quite sure that none of you can ever get enough of Daisy, I have provided you with another great picture of this cute, lovable dog. It's so funny when she puts her leg up there like that, I just had to take a picture. It's true that she is a fair bit bigger than she used to be, but I still think she's great. We haven't figured out how to teach her to "come" yet. She just really can't grasp that concept. Occasionally she will "stay" when she's told, and she's pretty good at "sit", but the come? Nope. Not unless you have a treat in your hand, and she saw it. In that case, she comes before you call. :) Okay, okay, so y'all probably aren't all that wild about hearing of her. So I guess I'll quite babbling on about all that she does. Thank you for those of you who were willing to read all about her though!
Thank you Aunt Niecy!!!!!!!

Oops

2006-01-28T15:40:00.000-08:00

Sorry it's taken me so long to update. I don't really have a good excuse! Today we got to go to Crystal Reservoir (which is the closest thing to a normal "lake" around here) and go in the canoe. It is a lake, but it's incredibly small compared to Whiskeytown Lake, and there aren't any trees around it. Daisy got to come too, but not in the canoe. We figured that would be a little much for her! :) She did a lot of hiking with us though, and Caleb said we found a total of 6 geocaches! It was pretty fun. I would put pictures on here, but we just got back, and so they aren't on the compy yet, and I was to lazy to do it. Anyway, I guess that's all for now, and I'll try to post sooner than last time.

ATTENTION!

2006-01-23T12:18:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody, Chuck has a blog!!!!!!!!!! He was very quick in his posting, so I couldn't get this ready fast enough! Anyway, he has posted now, so you should all check it out as soon as possible. Thanks Chuck!! You're the man!

I was tagged, but I'm not sure how to do this!

2006-01-18T16:12:00.000-08:00

I'm not quite sure how to format all this, but here it goes anyway!

4 Jobs that I have had in my life:

Well, I've only had one real job.
That was playing the piano for a Preschool

6 Movies I could watch over and over:

The Music Man
The Sound of Music
You've Got Mail
Hitch
Two Weeks Notice
Man's Favorite Sport
that list could go on and on. (that's not a movie though!)

4 Places I've lived:

Worthing, South Dakota (Till I was six)
Happy Valley, California (My favorite)
Pahrump, Nevada (I'm embarrassed to even write that one!)

4 TV shows I love to watch:

I Love Lucy
Gilligan's Island
Who's Line is it Anyway
I'd like to watch "What Not to Wear" more often, but Caleb hates it!

4 Places I've been on Vacation:

London, England (plus several of other places in Europe that I don't know the names of)
Ouray, Colorado
A few places on the California coast, including San Diego (one of my favorites)
Mt. Bachelor, in Oregon

4 Websites I visit daily:

Well, besides blogs, I don't really visit any websites "daily",
but I visit a lot of family blogs!

4 of my favorite foods:

Quizno's Turkey Ranch and Swiss (minus onions and tomatoes)
Mom's homade (or is it "home made"?) pita bread
Mom and Dad's home made ham pizza
Mom and Dad's home made hamburgers
(that didn't include drinks, right?)

4 places I would rather be right now:

Pretty much anywhere with some extended family
On the beach, especially with family.... and Daisy!
Camping somewhere cool
Skiing, maybe at Mt. Bachelor, or Shasta, but again,
it's all better with family!

7 people that I am tagging:
Yeah right!! I don't have nearly 7 people, but I think I will nominate, I mean, uh, tag ....... -the suspense is killing everyone, right? And the winner is...... COG!! (Grandmom) :)

Well, that took a lot longer than I was expecting! I've got to say that the toughest question was the movie one. I have a lot, and I do mean a LOT, of movies that I love. Several more come to mind, such as Finding Nemo, The Emperor's New Groove, Milo and Otis, Alex and Emma, White Christmas.......... You get the picture. I just really like movies I guess! Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed it. :)

Another Random Photo Op

2006-01-17T15:26:00.000-08:00

What can I say? I just think any post is more fun to read if there's a picture. And since there weren't any recent pictures that I felt like putting on here, I just grabbed an old one that I really liked. (And do like.) So I guess what I should say, is that that is where I wish I was. Aaaaaahh, to be on the beach. For those of you who don't know, the beach is pretty much my favorite place to be. It's just that it's more favorite if there is extra family there. (Or close friends.) Well, I guess I've sufficiently rambled on about random things for long enough, don't you think?
Today was pretty much the same. Except for a new boring algebra concept that takes forever. School was long. We had left over pizza for lunch. We played with Daisy. But pretty soon we're going to Wal-Mart! Yes, we do that very often, but we haven't gone in a couple of days! Can you believe it? Well, that's mostly it for today. Oh, I will add that I got to talk to Katie, which is always good. If someone else feels like calling us, that would just add to the excitement!! :)

New Clothes

2006-01-15T14:21:00.000-08:00

Now, I understand that many of you do not share the same love for new clothes. In that case, you are not required to read the rest. As for the rest of you....... no just kidding. If you don't want to you're off the hook. I wanted to put this picture on here mainly because I told Katie and Kayla that I wanted to show the skirt to them.
Anyway, I was particularly excited about this skirt, because I have another one very much like it, which is my favorite skirt. The problem with that one, is that Daisy put several holes in it! That's why I was so excited to find another one. Actually, the only thing similar was the style, the colors are nothing alike. I thought it was pretty cute though, and today was my first day to wear it!

Little Daisy

2006-01-12T14:56:00.000-08:00

I know, my smile is kind of cheesy in this picture, but I needed a close-up picture to put on here, and this was my favorite of the ones we took. Isn't she great?!? Last time we took her to the vet, he was telling us that dogs pretty much quit growing after they are six months old. It's such great news!! She turned six months old on December 27th, so she's basically maximum size!!!!! It's like I got a miniature beagle. I just love her so much. She's still bad about biting my ankles, especially when I wear my slippers. Mostly she only does that when I'm running with her though. And yes, I do trip over her. It makes it rather hard to run around the yard with her. She doesn't bark during meal times quite as much as she used to so that's good. I'm so glad to be with her. DOGS ARE THE GREATEST!

-If anyone can't think of what to say in their comment, feel free to tell me about your dog, I just love them.- :)

More pictures!

2006-01-08T15:33:00.000-08:00

This one was taken when we went geocacheing with Patrick and Maddie and Andy. (Our cousin, and second cousins.) It was a geocache that you have to find at night because that's the only way you can find it. See, they put these reflective tacks on some trees, and you have to find them and then follow them. They lead you all the way back to where you parked, but the cache is in the middle. So we had a really fun 1 mile hike, but we couldn't figure out where the middle was so we didn't find the cache. The hike was a little long for Maddie and Andy (as you can see) so my
arms were a little sore the next day!!

This one was taken when we went to see the Alamo. It turned out pretty good I'd say. We had a really fun time being there with Katie and Justin. I was going to put a picture on here, where Katie and I were pretending to be Coach Z, but it was kind of far away, and I wasn't sure if anyone else would appreciate it like we did. Anyway, the Alamo was pretty cool (and crowded) and San Antonio was awesome. So there you go!! That's all I've got for today. :)

Sorry about the layout, it never looks quite right, but I can't ever figure it out either!

We're Back

2006-01-06T10:31:00.000-08:00

Well, there were so many good pictures from our trip to choose from, that it was a difficult decision as to which ones should go on here. Maybe I'll put some of the other ones on here later but for now, this is what I've got. (Oh, and don't worry. I'll post pictures of Daisy soon enough!)

Please notice how Caleb (in the picture to the right) is levitating! Actually he was throwing that stick up into the air so that he could knock the frisbee out of the tree. Pretty funny huh?

In this one, we just decided to have some fun and jump off the sign. We took a couple, but I thought this one turned out the best. We look awesome don't we?

These pictures were taken when we went to the park that is close to our gramma's (Nanny's) house! We even bought two new frisbees (actually they've been telling me that they are called "aerobies") to play with when we went. It was a lot of fun. They go really really far too!

Phoenix

2006-01-04T07:50:00.000-08:00

Right now I'm sitting at Granddad's compy and I decided that as long as I have some spare time I might as well update. Especially seeing as how it's been entirely too long since that last one. Well, we had a really fun time in Dallas. We got to see Nanny, play with Maddie and Andy, and see everybody else too! It was really great to see Katie and Justin's new house. The pictures really don't do it justice, it's even better than that!!! Caleb and I decided that we would be willing to spend summers with them in San Antonio. :) But you've probably already heard about most of that trip from Katie's blog.
Well, as always I'd love to have a picture on here, but I don't have our iPhoto handy so y'all will just have to wait till we get home. I can't wait to see my Daisy!!!!!!!

iPod!!!!!!

2005-12-24T09:37:00.000-08:00

Well, we got our doughnuts this morning! We also got to open presents! (Oh, we read the Christmas story too.) :) And last night we watched the traditional "You've Got Mail". Even though it's not really Christmas-y we always watch it on Christmas eve. So that was good.
My big present was an iPod shuffle!!! I got some "skins" for it too. I put the pink one on for now. It'll be good because I can listen to it all the way to Dallas! Don't you love it?

Last School Day

2005-12-23T16:37:00.000-08:00

Thankfully today was our last day of school for the year! We got to go out to Subway for lunch. That was sort of our celebration.
Today is kind of our Christmas eve. Since we're going to be driving on Christmas, we will probably do our normal "Christmas Morning Rituals" tomorrow. I'm so excited that we get to have doughnuts like always!!! It will be kind of hard though. Usually Caleb and I open our presents from each other after the Christmas eve candle light service (and everyone else opens one too). Then since all the family is at our house anyway, Mom breaks out one of those snack trays with summer sausage and cheese ball and crackers and everything else on it. It was always so much fun. *sigh* I miss Redding so much. I try not to dwell on that too much though. It will still be fun I guess. Caleb and I sort of got a little burst of energy now that there are lots of presents under the tree! :)

I thought this picture of Daisy and me was cute. For some reason, she walked into the laundry room and looked at us, but wasn't jumpy or barky or anything. So I went and picked her up, and then she just kind of went limp and as soon as we sat down, she went to sleep! For those of you who don't know her, this is very unusual for the middle of the day. Anyway, I decided we should take advantage of her sleepiness and take a picture! :)
Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Daisy!!

2005-12-22T13:58:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we got to give Daisy her Christmas present! We had to make sure that she had plenty of time to use it before we leave. I put a treat under the wrapping paper so that she would want to unwrap it, and it worked! She really wanted the treat, but after she got it, she wasn't in a hurry to unwrap the rest. It was pretty funny.

I'm gonna miss her when we have to leave. It's really very sad that we have to leave her with someone else on her very first Christmas, but I guess I'll survive. It will still be fun to see everyone in Texas though! I think we might do a few of the traditions on Christmas eve instead of Christmas, but we aren't exactly sure how it will all work out yet. Hopefully next year will be better.
Well, I guess that's all for today. Unfortunately my posting streak will have to end pretty soon since we'll be gone. Just giving you a warning. :)

Hunks

2005-12-21T19:15:00.000-08:00

Yep!! Dad told me I needed to make a post about the hunks. Apparently that's what them old codgers used to call "Jello Jigglers". And they made them into balls and bounced them up against the wall, but they still ate them. Yuck. :)
Once again I don't have too much to say, but tomorrow I'll try to give you a longer one.

(plus it's really hard to think of things to say while the TV is going!) And this one really IS short, but I really will try to make a longer one soon.

Hurry

2005-12-20T15:53:00.000-08:00

I'm kind of in a hurry right now. Of course, I couldn't let today get by without posting, but Mom needs some help so it will have to be short. We're having some company over tonight. The mom and dad are like around 30 I think, and they have two kids. One of them is preschool age I think, and the other one is slightly younger than that. So Mom made some of that kind of Jello that you can cut out into shapes, so we get to do that with their kids. I'm not sure what else we'll do, but little kids are cool to play with, so it's all good. Anyway, all that to say that we have to get some chores done (as well as a meal fixed) before they get here! And that's the reason that there are no pictures today. I guess that wraps it up. Sorry it's so short.

LET THE POSTING CONTINUE!!!!

Cool Game

2005-12-19T14:23:00.000-08:00

FARMING GAME!!

How many of you reading this have played the farming game? Isn't it one of the coolest games ever? Well, we think so anyway. We got to play it yesterday and had a fun time. I actually won!! That hardly ever happens. A lot of the time Mom wins. (Or so it seems) I was Harrah Harry-- the brown guy. I had fruit, grain, corn, cows..... all that good stuff. I like getting cows. They're cool. But it's not cool when they tell you to slaughter all the cows you own. Luckily I didn't have to do that yesterday.

Today Mom and Dad went into Las Vegas to do some Christmas shopping. Consequently, Caleb and I did not oppose their doing so. Normally we would want to go with them though, seeing as how there are hardly any good stores here besides Wal-Mart. But, we had school, and they needed to go without us, so it was all fine. We are finished with school now so I just decided to make another post. Everyone else..... Keep on posting!!! That means you Zachary!!

2005-12-18T12:07:00.000-08:00

I was going to take an up-to-date picture to put on today's post, but I can't seem to find the camera. Oh well. I guess you'll just have to do with this non picture kind.
Who can guess what today is? I guess it's a lot of things, but the thing I was going for, is that it's Granddad's birthday! Happy birthday Granddad (if you're even reading this)!! But today is also one week until Christmas. Pretty exciting. We got Daisy a present, but I haven't given it to her yet. I'd like to, but Caleb says we should wait. :) When we do, I'll probably take a picture and put it on here!
Well, I don't have much to say today so,...... Merry Christmas!!!

No, it's not snowing

2005-12-17T15:28:00.000-08:00

Actually, it's not even raining! And that picture didn't even happen in the past week or anything. It's just that we went geocacheing and didn't really take any pictures, so I had to find one that I liked. The reason I picked this one is because it was so stinkin' cold up there!!! So it felt like we *should* have been making snow men, even though there was no snow. (This picture was taken in Ouray, in case anyone was wondering.)
The cacheing was fun even though it was cold. When we stopped to eat, Caleb took his watch off and set it outside so we could find out the temperature and it said that it was only 38 degrees. We're pretty sure that if you take into consideration the wind and everything it felt more like 20. To give you an idea how cold it actually was, I'll just tell you that even Dad said it was cold. Then you know it was bad!!!
Well, this makes 6 days in a row now I think!

Not much

2005-12-16T16:40:00.000-08:00

Well, not too much has been going on here, but I couldn't go with no picture, so I put up this one of our Preschool performance. What do you think? There are some pretty cute kids there.

Last night Mom directed the musical that she was working on with the school kids. To say the least, there were quite a few kids on the stage. :) I think it might be slightly more accurate to say that you couldn't see any floor. It was crazy! But they (and especially Mom) did a really great job. It really makes me miss being in the kids choir at Cloverdale. It was enjoyable though.
Today we went to a casino and ate lunch with all the school staff. There were probably about 30 people there! And, Caleb and I are also considered staff, so that was kind of cool.
I guess I was wrong, there is stuff going on here. Once I get going I just don't know when to stop! Okay, I guess that's enough for now. :)

Howd ya, what's yr seeeecret?

2005-12-15T15:38:00.000-08:00

I just thought everyone should have an opportunity to see my coolest teacher. I mean, can those glasses get any better? And the hair to!! Man. I just hope one day I will look as awesome as her. :) I know the picture is kind of funny, but it's hard to take pictures of the TV. You probably all already know, but just in case you didn't, Caleb and I watch all of our classes by DVD. ( It's still the A Beka though) And this is my biology teacher: Miss Stancel. To say the least, she's pretty weird. But hey, I had to put a picture of something on today's post! :)
Even if it doesn't make me look as stinkin' awesome as Miss Stancel, I was thinking about cutting my hair just to my shoulders again. So if anyone has anything *nice* (or valuable) to say about that, you can let me know. :) Thanks!

I'm on a roll!

2005-12-14T15:13:00.000-08:00

I figured since I've already posted 2 days in a row, I might as well make it three! I actually don't have that much to say though.
Last night and the night before I had the preschool Christmas concert that I was playing piano for. They both went very well. Tonight will be our last performance! I hope it goes well too. All the teachers are very nice. I've really enjoyed working there.
We bought that little hat for Daisy from Ross. She always goes crazy when we put it on her, but then once Caleb put his on, she was more interested in it than hers. So we got a few good pictures there! Well, thank you for all the comments I've been getting lately, it's good stuff!! :)

A Good Time

2005-12-13T11:21:00.000-08:00

Kayla and I had a really fun time spending our birthdays together. This picture is us in the Galleria mall. For those of you who new I was looking (Katie) I found a brown v-neck shirt!! I found a really cute swe atshirt with snoopy on it too. Also, please notice the cute purse. :) I love it.

OOOOOOOH Johnny!! Did you like my new song? Caleb and I heard it on one of those music channels one time and *LOVED* it. And........-can you believe it- it was on the new Chronicles of Narnia movie!!! Apparently Kayla has been waiting for that for 5 years. It was really really good. We thoroughly enjoyed it. We actually found a theatre in Las Vegas that wasn't a casino! (I think Kayla was a little disappointed) We even got to see it on opening day, the first showing, and it was hardly even crowded! I would highly recommend it to anyone who was
considering seeing it. :)

This is the awesome gingerbread house that we got to make. It was an early Christmas present. There is actually a little orange orchard that we made in the back yard. It turned out quite nice. THANKS FOR COMING KAYLA!

Finaly, Real Christmas Cheer

2005-12-12T13:37:00.000-08:00

Well, Kayla left today, so I guess I'll post the Christmas tree decorating day pictures first, and then I can do the ones of us. Anyway, we're thoroughly enjoying the Christmas tree and lights that we put up. :) Enjoy the pictures!

Christmas Cheer

2005-12-07T16:40:00.000-08:00

Well, this post was supposed to be about Christmas cheer, but now I can't seem to make my pictures load. So, I guess you will all just have to wait for the real post. (Because you obviously can't have Christmas cheer without pictures) But, good news. My birthday is tomorrow! I can't wait. Kayla is getting here!!!! WOO HOOOOOO! Plus, Mom said that we would get to go out for breakfast. (I really love going out for breakfast but I don't know why.) And then, we will probably get to eat out at Quinceys for lunch so that will be great. Birthdays are great aren't they? Not to mention.........

I GET TO SEE KAYLA!!!!!!!!!! :)

Daisy... Again

2005-12-03T12:17:00.000-08:00

I know, I know, I always make posts about Daisy. But, I mean, what else do I do? True, we are going to decorate the tree today, but I was already planning on taking the pictures, and then posting about it tomorrow. (don't hold me accountable if I forget to do it then)
So anyway, Daisy is doing pretty good now. She is already jumpy again, so we have to try to settle her down. Sometimes she seems like she's in pain though, so we give her one of the pills that the vet gave us for her to relieve the pain. But then of course she falls asleep in like 30 minutes and she looks drugged. But I guess it makes her feel better which is good. And I forgot to tell anyone who was wondering that her ears are doing fine. The vet hasn't even said anything about them lately. So, I think she's looking like a very cute, healthy puppy. :)

Long Day

2005-11-30T16:35:00.000-08:00

Well, once again I have no pictures. This morning we took Daisy to the vet because she had to get spayed. After that I went to preschool. :) Then I came home and started real school. However, that part seemed to take FOREVER!! Plus, I'm really not into all that homework they give out...... Then of course I had more preschool as well as lunch, which meant I had to come back home to *more* school, and still no Daisy. Well, we finally finished all of the school for today, and then we were to go and pick Daisy up at four 'oclock. Not only did she have to get spayed today, but since her baby teeth were supposed to already be out and they weren't, they had to pull them. Poor little Daisy. Even though she was incredibly tired, even the vet was surprized at how excited she was to see us. I was glad. But for Daisy, she was still moving very slowly, which was kind of sad. Besides that, they said we need to keep her kind of settled down for the next few days just to make sure the stitches stay the way they are supposed to...... Yeah. I don't know how many of you know Daisy, but if you do, you know that she does NOT settle down. Even if she is tired, she will *make* herself jump up on her cabin and bridge the gap between it and the safety gate so that she can more easily watch us and whatever we are doing. So I guess we'll see how that goes. :) For right now, she is just sitting in a chair trying to get some sleep. I don't blame her. She's probably in a fair bit of pain. Well, I guess I'll let you know how she's doing after a while!

Fun, Fun, Fun!

2005-11-27T14:05:00.000-08:00

We had a great time in Phoenix. The pictures above were taken the night we went to look at zoo lights. (The porcupine was one of our favorite things) It was really great. I even bought a souvenir! It's a little zebra with magnetic hands and feet. He's cute. I bought the zebra because we actually got to see some zebras! There was a little baby one too. He was so cute. Anyway, it was great to see the family again. We're hoping that Aunt Carey's family will be able to come visit us eventually. But for right now, I can't wait to see Kayla!!!!!!!! :)

No Pictures Today

2005-11-24T07:34:00.000-08:00

I know! Usually I at least have one picture. But today we are in Phoenix with the Grand Parents!! So I don't have easy access to our iphoto like normal. But hey, at least I'm posting right?
Yesterday we took the (now relatively short) drive to Phoenix. It went pretty well I thought. We didn't get stuck in too much traffic. And we got to shop for a short while at the Galleria mall! Then, we got to eat Quinceys for lunch and Burger King for supper. :) I love Quinceys. Today, we will be seeing a lot of family which will be awesome, as well as eating lots of food. I'm excited!
Even though we are having (and will have) tons of fun, I still miss Daisy. Yesterday we brought her by Mrs. Meeks house and said good bye before leaving for AZ. She was actually really nervous. I'd like to think it was because she didn't want us to leave, but Mom says that all beagles do that. So, what can I say. I printed out a picture of us (Daisy and me) before we left so that I can have it with me and look at it when I miss her. It's so crazy to see Charley!! She's tiny compared to Daisy! I was thinking that they would be about the same size since Daisy isn't quite full grown yet, but they sure aren't! However, we must keep in mind that Charley is a wonderful inside dog, whereas Daisy is a wonderful outside dog. (Secretly Daisy and I know that she belongs inside, we just can't tell anyone.)
Well, I guess that's all for today. Happy Thanksgiving!!

A Full Geo-Cacheing with Daisy Day

2005-11-20T14:20:00.000-08:00

Lots 'O pics. This way I don't have to write much. :) It was fun Cacheing.

The first cache of the day.

Gotta rest in between!

Lunch time!!
So much fun for little Daisy.

Cool view huh?

This one's actually from when we raked
up the leaves in the from yard. I think
it's cute.

Be sure to read the last one!

2005-11-14T19:27:00.000-08:00

(I already made one post today, so don't forget to read the last one!)

Daisy's Bath

We've given Daisy a few baths since she got
here, but this is the first time that we put her in the actually bathtub! It was fun, mostly for Caleb and I. :)

She had actually been sleeping when we were ready for the bath. So it made her less likely to try to get out. (which was good!) But she couldn't quite decide what to do at first so she just kind of one by one lifted her paws out of the water and then she was pretty awake by then.

Here's another good picture.

And then the last one of her drying off. Isn't she cute? Of course we had to clean the whole tub after we finished, but it was still fun. We gave her treats and toys and stuff and then played with her afterwards. That way she'll hopefully think it was fun, and then she'll want to take a bath next time. Well, I thought it was great!!!

Hair Sticks

2005-11-14T19:09:00.000-08:00

Well, I was saying how I bought these new hair sticks and then I didn't know if everybody knew what I was talking about so I thought I would show them what I was talking about. This is the view from the from the front.

And then here's the view from the back! I actually didn't use both of them that time. I've been having a hard time making it work lately, so I was afraid that if I tried to put the other one in, it wouldn't look as good. And I had a lot of loose hair, so I just put it in a clippy. Anyway, that's how it works! I bought some just recently while I was with Katie, but then they both broke! So we decided that I must have gotten a crummy set. But then Katie got me another set to replace them. So I'm really looking forward to getting them!!! Thanks Katie. = )

Fun stuff

2005-11-12T17:31:00.000-08:00

Well, today we got to go into Las Vegas so we could go to a Target and a Quiznos. It was fun. Especially fun because I got a new jean skirt from Target!! Isn't it cute? Well, I like it anyway. And, last night I put curlers in my hair again, so that's the reason for the curliness. But, I actually put half of it up so it wouldn't feel so poofy on the sides. I though it turned out pretty nice. Plus, I was thinking that probably not everyone has seen my Colorado shirt. It was my souvenir from Ouray. I like it too.
Well, I guess that's all I have to say now. Until next time!!

Is it Time?

2005-11-11T16:50:00.000-08:00

Has it been long enough since I last made a post about Daisy? Well, I still think she's great. However, just as I was about to start on this post Mom asked us to go over to the church playground to put away the balls that the kids threw in our yard. So, we decided to take Daisy. But I didn't really think about how she would go around and find all the trash from the kids' lunches and eat it. Caleb got most of it away from her before she ate it, but I think she swallowed a piece of gum. To say the least,

we spent a lot of time chasing her around to get things away from her so that she won't get sick by eating it. Sometimes we see her throwing up because she's eaten the trash some little kid gave her, and just from eating EVERYTHING else! (She's not very good at coming when you call her.) So, we got a little frustrated with her for all that. But you know, I think that probably happens with all true family members.
As you can see, she does pretty well with the "sit" command. I thought that was a cute one to put on here. Plus, I think it's very important to make sure every one can see how big she's getting. :) Kayla, I can't wait for you to come see
her (and us)!!

The Last Belly

2005-11-09T17:03:00.000-08:00

I have two friends who are oh so nice, as to send (or bring) some of my favorite candies: Very Cherry Jelly Bellys. (is that supposed to be "Bellies" or "Bellys"?) Thank you Kayla and Chuck!!! Y'all are great. Anyway, Yesterday I finished off all but the last one. The reason they sent them to me is because they are sort of hard to come by here is the gross state of Nevada. However, I am once again, without my favorite kind of bean. It's alright though, I've had a pretty good supply lately so I should be good for another..... Oh, I don't know really, maybe another month or two. :)
Well, I don't have much to talk about, but since Caleb was getting on my case about not posting, I figured I had better get on the stick!
I'll try to post again soon. Hasta La Vista!