Merry Christmas!

Christmas is almost here and I can hardly wait. It's Christmas Eve Eve! We are so close. I have so many Christmas movies to watch and so little time. The funny thing is, most of the movies are VHS. HA HA!

P.S. just thought I would tell you about a little winter friend of mine. Burt's Bees! Their products may be a little expensive but when it is on sale, it's a DEAL! My personal favorite is the Lip Balm.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

I am going to try something new guys. Well, sort of...... A few posts down I listed some good reads (books) for the month of October. I plan on doing that for every month. I will try to read at least 2-3 books each month then tell you guys what I think. So, I will be posting soon!

BAZINGA!!!

Lock and Key

"...I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on. Maybe it had seen places you never had, been rerouted and passed through so many strange hands, but still somehow found its way back to you..." -Ruby from "Lock and Key" by Sarah Dessen

Scapino

I tried out for the play at school and I got a (small) part. I really didn't care what part I got, I just really wanted to be in this play. The play is"Scapino" and it is my first play ever to perform in. I was a waitress in a dinner theatre, but I knew I could do better than that. I AM SOOO EXCITED!!!!! I will have to tell you guys how everything turns out.

My Turtles

I love all of my turtle very much! I have had them for 5 years and they are suppose to live for decades, so they aren't going any where any time soon. I have four of them and they each have their own personalities. When I first got them, they each were the size of a quarter. Now Samantha is bigger than your hand, and the others are catching up.

This is Ben. Such a good boy, looking at the camera. He is a yellow belly turtle.

This is Samantha. She is humongo!! Samantha is a red eared turtle. OH MY GOODNESS she really is HUGE!!!

Dicken here is the sweetest. I LOVE him. When I first got him he was Noname because I did not know what to name him. Then I read the Secret Garden which has a character named Dicken. So, there you go. He is the smallest and a yellow belly.

These last two pictures are of Scraper. He was really afraid of the camera. I don't know why. He is weird. I named him Scraper because I brought him home in a brown bag and he scraped a hole in it. HAHAHAHA! He is also the reason why I have Ben and Samantha. Scraper escaped and was gone for eight days. If an aqua turtle if out of the water for more than 3-5 days, well you know.I got the yellow bellies so Samantha wouldn't be lonely, then I found Scraper. That is why I have four turtles. Scraper is a red eared turtle.

Good Books for the Month of October!

"The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore"
By: Joan Lowery Nixon
Winner EDGAR AWARD Best Young Adult Mystery

Back Cover- Kidnapping victim?
Or criminal mastermind?
Christina spots the masked man in the dark, lonely parking lot-but too late. She's grabbed, drugged, and whisked off to a dingy basement, where she struggles to stay alive.
When her family pays the kidnappers' ransom, Christina thinks her ordeal is over.... but then discovers that her family thinks she orchestrated her own kidnapping! Christina is desperate. How far will she go to prove her innocence?

"Exciting and fast-paced"- Publishers weekly

"Readers are kept in suspense right up to the final pages."- School Library Journal



"CRANK"

By: Ellen Hopkins
The New York Times bestseller

Back Cover- Kristina is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. Then she meets the monster: crank. An what begins as a wild ride turns into a struggle for her mind, her soul- her life.




"Night"
By: Elie Wiesel
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Back Cover- Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.....

"A slim volume of terrifying power."- The New York Times

"Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art"- Curt Leviant, Saturday Review

"As human document, Night is almost unbearably painful, and certainly beyond criticism."- A. Alvarez, Commentary

It is amazing how many memories a stuffed animal can hold.

"Yep. I'm Good."

Lately, I have been trying to live the theory that it is easier to laugh than to cry. Then someone told me that sometimes you have to cry. I agreed with her. But, when it comes to little things, it is easier to laugh than to cry. Let me give you an example....... (This is for you, Melissa)

Once upon a time I was in geometry class. It was almost time to leave when the the people at my table ask me to give our homework to the teacher. So, being the oh so kind person I am, I grabbed the papers and started toward the teacher. Next thing I know I was on the ground. BWHAAAAAAA!!! I was laughing and the entire class was laughing(I even think my teacher was laughing). After laying there for a sec to take it all in and with hair all in my face, I got up and handed the homework papers to the teacher. He asked me if I was O.K., "Yep. I'm good." As I was still laughing and the rest of the class was laughing hysterically, I slowly and carefully made my way back to my seat. I sat down and realized that the three people at my table were laughing so hard that their faces were red. One girl kept telling me she was so sorry that she was laughing. I told her that it was fine because I was laughing just as hard as she was. And I live happily ever after with a bruised shin and a carpet burn.

After class, people were telling me that I had made there day. That made me feel really good. One girl told me that first I was vertical, then horizontal in the air, then lying on the ground. I thought that was funny. You see, my point is that, in this case, it was easy to laugh then to cry. Plus, I have a really good story to tell now!

P.S. I later found out that my foot got caught in these computer cords. That's how I fell. I hope I didn't mess up the computer! :D

A VERY BIG Birthday Surprise!

Today is my youth pastor's birthday!! My friend and I are going to give him a pretty big surprise. Between big church and youth we are going to go to his house and put a big happy birthday sing on the garage door. We'll find some time to have people sign it. Then, in his house, we are going to blow up some balloons and cover his chair that he always sits in with them. We even made a Certificate of Old Age for him. It's really cool looking. We will sign that then frame it and put it on the kitchen table. My friend and I got ribbon and rapping paper and we are going to rap his bedroom door and the bathroom door if we have time to. Once we are done inside we will go outside and decorate the driveway and sidewalk with chalk. Today will be a very interesting day, so wish us luck!!

All You Need Is A Bat And A Few Soda Cans (who needs a ball?)

Last night my youth group did something I never thought I would ever do. We got ten billion(mabe not that many) soda cans and we took turns hitting them with bats. This one guy shook up the cans then tossed them up. All you could do was wish that you hit it and wish that you didn't get sprayed. I got lucky and both of those wishes came true for me. We each got to hit three cans. The first one I hit didn't even pop, it just flew. The second one I hit pop alittle bit, but nothing sprayed on me. It sprayed all over the guy who was tossing the cans. I started laughing(don't worry, I was laughing with him). The third one I hit went really far, but nothing else happend. Some people took a few tries before they hit the cans and others hit the cans the first time. Some cans looked like they had exploded. The field we were in is probably covered in ants by now. The grass was really sticky and it smelt like grapes.

Over all I had a lot of fun!! I wish I will do it again sometime.