2012

Only 1 post in 2011, that's pretty weak. I decided to look at my blog (which I've forgotten about for the past year) and make all the changes and updates to it.

Let's start with Levi (:

How cute is he?! That first one is my FAVORITE (: Let's see....Levi. He is 2 years old. He is obsessed with Despicable Me, Otter Pops, and toy cars. He loves to line the cars up, but if you take one out of line, you're gonna wish you hadn't. He certainly knows how to throw a tantrum.

Next to Finley...

Like I said, I've missed a lot of stuff. Last time I updated my blog, Finley wasn't even born yet. Now she's 6 months old. Um...she likes to eat. And sleep. And eat some more. I don't really know what else to say.

There's still a lot of baseball. I guess my mom prefers not to show Lincoln's face in these pictures. (:



Well, 7th grade has been pretty busy. I have pretty good teachers over all (could be better). I have a new obsession : ONE DIRECTION. I LOVE them <3!! And, um....we're doing a Civil War reanactment tomorrow at school. It's supposedly the biggest one in the state of Nevada?? Anyway, 6 hours of training (under the hot sun, of course) followed by 6 more hours of battle. There are real slingshot cannon things that fire water balloons. It should be ok, as long as we don't have to wear the uniforms. They're hot, itchy, and stinky :/. I can't believe 7th grade is already over. I'm ready for summer, though. I hope 8th grade turns out good...it doesn't really matter, because we're all gonna die this year anyway (: HAPPY 2012!!

A lot to catch up on.....

5 months. Wow. I haven't posted for 5 MONTHS! That's crazy! It would have been a lot longer if a certain friend (you know who you are) hadn't told me she checks my blog everyday for new posts!! YIKES! Anyway, I had a birthday. Levi had a birthday (1) and Brooklyn just had her birthday (7). I actually just got back from her birthday party. Well....let's see....school is still the same. Boring. I can just never seem to find anything to look forward to about it. I'm not really sure what happened to Volleyball Club....no one announced anything about it (if they did I didn't know). Last time a friend went to Volleyball Club and NO ONE WAS THERE. Well I guess volleyball is over for good then. I am just going to post some pictures that I missed the past 5 MONTHS...

Levi. He is so happy.......

Oh yeah....I got braces a month ago...:P but

the only picture is me really mad about them..

......I'm not posting that.

and there were baseball games...
Lots of baseball games!!
Yep....so that's pretty much how everything's been lately. I will try to post more often
(not really, I just feel like I'm supposed to say that) and.....well, yeah. That's about it.

Birthday

It's almost my birthday!! I'm sooo excited! It's this Tuesday, November 16. I hope we have lots of fun....LOTS of fun! Well I don't really know what else to say about it maybe I will post about it after my birthday actually HAPPENS..so anyway HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!! (and my mom her birthday was last Sunday :)

School

I haven't posted in like 2 months, but I hope to be able to more often. So, school has been OK the past couple of weeks.... I like it a lot better than elementary school, that's for sure! The food is way better, and we get more time of lunch and to talk in between classes. I signed up for Volleyball club, and our first practice is tomorrow!! SUPER EXCITED :D!! I don't have as much work as I thought I would.... but then again, it is only the beginning of the second month. I'm the fastest in my computers class, my top words per minute being 101!! CRAZY, RIGHT?! Well, that's just COMPUTERS. I still have math and reading and science and english and my elective, choir. At first I was really bummed when I got choir cuz I wanted Spanish/Drama, but now choir isn't that bad. You get to go to Disneyland in a few years :) I know the first day of school was a while ago but I kinda wanted pictures for this post, and I only have some from the first day. So here I am before I started my walk to school...

Yup..... that's me. Well, I don't really have anything else to say.... I hope I'll have to post more... maybe some more pictures.......... I don't know. Maybe :D

Summer

I know I said my next post would be about the 4th of July, but I'll just talk about it real quick. We did fireworks. We had fun. Ok, now to everything else. Well, I'm FINALLY out of school now, and so far - loving it!! I can't believe I'm a 6th grader now and I'm off to middle school! Anyway, I don't really have much planned for the summer, so we're just gonna do whatever we can, I guess. On Thursday we went to the YMCA with my cousins. It was pretty fun. Levi had lots of fun in the kiddy pool with my mom. And about a week ago we went camping up in Utah. My dad and 2 of my sisters slept in the tent by the car, and we slept across the road in a bigger tent by the creek! It was cool, but sometimes it got kinda scary at night by all the rushing water. We had tons of fun. The worst part for me? The BUGS. Ugh. I never knew how annoying they were until we went on that trip. So, pretty much besides the usual, I don't think we're gonna do much more this summer. I don't know. I hope this summer ROCKS!

School :P

So, most of you are all ready out of school. NOT ME. I am still in school, because I have year round. Lucky me, right?.......But, July 8 is my last day of school. FINALLY! I can't wait 'till I get out. So many projects and reports, assignments and essays, I'm DONE with school, okay? I don't really know why I posted, I guess because I haven't posted in a while,......IDK. It's probably because I'm soooo bored. Anyway, I hope school will pass quickly. Then I'm off to middle school. Yay!! Yet, at the same time, No!!! So, I predict my next post won't be until the 4th of July. We'll see!!

SeaCamp!!!

I've been waiting for SeaCamp for 3 YEARS and it just happened!! Last Friday-Sunday I was in San Diego with a bunch of my friends. The counselors were sooo nice. So here's what happened while we were there....



Friday:

I woke up at 6:00 and got my suitcase/beach bag. I had breakfast and my mom drove me to the school. I saw a bunch of my friends there and we waited excitedly for the bus. Finally, the bus got here and I said goodbye and got on. I sat next to Lindsey the first half of the ride (they figured out the seating at home) and then we stopped in Barstow for lunch. After that, I sat next to Loren and we drove some more until we got to the aquarium we were going to. We looked around and did a scavenger hunt....took some pictures.....messed around a little....stuff like that. When we were all done there we got on the bus and drove to SEACAMP!!! When we got there we went into our dorms, found bunks and put our stuff down. Then we ate dinner outside (BBQ) and got ready for our first class. My group (group A) went to the invertebrate lab first. We licked things, held things, and learned a lot. At the end of the class we got to dissect a squid!! After that we drew ink mustaches on our faces with the squid ink :) Then we went to bed.

Saturday:

We woke up. Ate breakfast. Then my group headed straight for the fish lab. We learned about lots of fish, and we looked around and did another scavenger hunt. We got to go into the "Staff Only" room and pet a Horn Shark!! We went back into the lab and dissected a fish....(very gross). Then we got in the SeaCamp vans and drove to Mission Point Bay, where we would be snorkeling. First we ate lunch, and then we got wetsuits on. Group A split into 2 groups (I know, more groups!) One would be snorkeling first and the other would be seining first. We chose snorkeling and we got on our masks, hoods, snorkels, etc. Soon we went snorkeling in the bay. We saw some fish, snails, Sea Sponge, but my favorite was a Brittle Star. They are really cool. After that we went to the beach to do seining, where we got a net and tried to get fish. We only got a couple, though. We went back to camp, took quick showers, and went on a boat. We saw Sea Lions and Sea Otters in the water. About halfway through the trip we threw a net down to follow us and see what we got. The first time we didn't catch a lot, and it was hard to see with the big crowd of kids. We only caught like 3 lobsters and some fish. The second time, I was smart to line up first because I was able to see some really cool things we caught!! We caught some more lobsters (of course) but then we caught 2 stingrays!! One was dead, though. But the coolest thing we caught that night was....an octopus!! I can't believe we caught an octopus. They took it back to SeaCamp to keep in the lab for the other groups. So then we went back to get off the boat. But right as we were getting off, we saw a dolphin!! (One of my favorite animals). It was very cool. Then of course we went back to camp and went to bed. (After seeing SeaWorld's fireworks from the SeaCamp gate!)

Sunday:

We woke up and packed the things we would need for the day/some of the stuff in our suitcase. We ate breakfast and we went to La Jolla Beach (La-Hoy-A) for boogie boarding. I was kinda scared because there were stingrays our there, but boogie boarding turned out to be my favorite part. It was super fun. Then we had lunch, and went tidepooling where we found a very gross fish head (it was big, too.) that had it's eye poked out, which is how we held it, we poked a stick through it's eye, and it's skeleton was still attached, and then the tail was too. So it was a normal fish, but it was missing an eye and a....middle. After that we went back, finished packing, and got on the bus, where I sat by Loren, because we both slept the first half. When I woke up we were about an hour away from Barstow where we would eat dinner, so I just watched the movie until we got there. I went with the group that was going to Subway, and it was gooooood. We were the first group back to the bus, so we had to wait for the kids from Panda Express and In-N-Out groups to get back, which took 45 minutes, cause all the Panda Express kids wanted milkshakes. Eventually we got on the bus and went home. Sea Camp was so much FUN!!!

So, I know this was a long post, but I really wanted to tell what I did at SeaCamp. I hope all my friends who went had a great time, too!