Update- Prescott,Az Pt1

Hey yeah so I don't kow if Blogging if my thing anymore. I dont feel motivated to put up posts and stuff, just lost motivation. Anywho, as requested by my Bffe Toria I will put up one post and see if I revive my posting ability and motivation.

Back in April me and my family took a trip to Central Arizona to a town called Prescott. We had such a blast! We went to museums and art gallery's (which is a first for us) and we just had a fun time away from the stress of life. We went to this beautiful Musuem that is dedicated to a woman by the name of Sharlot Hall. This museum was set back in the 1800's and everything, including the people, took us back in time, which was really fun. We got to see the early Indian Settlements and what would be the future settlement of Prescott.  Here is a slideshow of that Musuem. Pt 1 and Pt2.

We also went to another museum called the Phippen Museum. It was a museum dedicated to Cowboys and Indians. I loved it. I felt sooooooo inspired when I was walking around that museum staring at all the beautiful paintings and Indian Murals.

We also enjoyed out time at an animal park. Now when I say enjoyed I mean ENJOYED! :p it was 45 degrees out and pouring down raining and hailing. I had fun at leats especially in the snake habitat. I saw a mohave rattler and its heat sensing pits targeted my hand near the glass and I got it following my finger. I felt just a tinge of uneasiness when I saw how zoned in it was on my finger. But I got over it :) Heres a slideshow and a video of the black bear who was just fun to watch!

Im putting this post as Update-Prescott Pt 1 cause I have a whole bunch more to add but your eyes are probably glazing over now so I'll end it!

-Julia

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Keepers of the Wild 2009!

A few weeks ago I went to a small Wildlife Sanctuary outside our town with my Aunt and Grandmother. The place was called Keepers of the Wild. I did a brief review of my first visit there in my  2008 New Years post last year. Theres the link! ;) Anyway, I really enjoy going to Keepers, because it is soooooooooooooo neat to see all these animals that were rescued from evil people. Anyway, here are pictures and videos :) Enjoy

 

Heres some videos!!!!

Listen to these wolves howling it's amazing!!

This tiger was the owners first rescue tiger, she is talking because she likes company ;)

If you have any questions about the videos just ask!

LoveJulia

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Oh How Sweet the sound......

Of a new post!!!!!!!!!!!! Isn't it lovely?? :)

OK so first off let me update y'all on the wonderful life of Julia. Remember the strung-out-beyond-reality-high girl I rang up a purchase for at my work back in September? Remember Loretta N? The police never took my statement, never contacted me about anything. I figure it was over and she was in jail. Well to my surprise, it is not over. I was informed 3 weeks ago my MOD that day, Jacque, received a SUBPOENA to appear in court to testify against Loretta, well actually against Nicole, Loretta is the name of the ID she stole apparently. Anyway, I felt bad for Jacque and was kind of glad I didn't have to go. I figured the court just needed the manager at the time.  About a week passed and again to my surprise I received a letter in the mail from the court. Then inside the envelope, was a bright green piece of paper, I opened it up and in big, black, bold letters it said 'SUBPOENA'. I just about burst out laughing. I got a subpoena?! Must be a mistake. Nope, no mistake. My name was right under the 'Must appear in court...' sigh............ So this Thursday, The 8th, I have to go to court and testify against her. SIGH! I will probably have to meet the prosecuting attorney and then have to sit on the stand and tell my side of the story. I will have to do the whole 'Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth....' stuff...  Sigh........ I will have to do an updated after the trial to tell you how it goes down...... BIG SIGH!

Lately I have not been able to add to my four books I am attempting to write. I was able to work on them a lot last year though. I go through phases, I want to write, and I don't, and so forth. I would really like to finish these books because I want to send copies to my family. I have written a few short stories though. I was able to write a story for Toria's contest back in Nov-Dec '08 which made me win my division :) Here is that short story:

It's hot, humid, my hair is clining to my head, bugs are crawling on my arms and legs, in my shoes, I am crouched to the ground like a tiger about to pounce, I even take refuge behind bushes, can it get any worse? Possibly. But I see her, the one thing I have been looking for these past three months. Just through the small forest of savannah trees she sit's calmly on a rock. Her long tail swaying back and forth in the hot wind.

I cannot imagine getting any closer for she will hear me, and attack for her young cubs are near. Twins. They roll around in the savannah grass, one takes a bite out of the grass, the crinkling of disgust soon follows and the cub spits it out just as the other cub pounces on it's twin. I pull out my camera and snap a few photo's. I see another set of bushes a far off, I could hide behind and gets some better shots. But I can't stand up, and scare them off. I guess I will crawl over.

Mud squishes through my hands as I crawl through more bushes and more mud piles. Piles? Mud doesn't pile up, it lays flat. Right? I realized the mud I just crawled through stinks. Really bad. 'oh man.' I think. 'I knew it could get worse'. But it doesn't matter, I want that photo, I am craving for the photo. I would crawl through a thorn bush to get my photo. I probably should have thought of the thornbush for sitting in front of me is a thornush. Around it are more thorn bushes. 'Joy'. I bite my lip and crawl through a narrow opening in the bush, holding back either screams of pain or laughter of stupidity, I am not sure which. I want that photo.

I see a clearing and exit the horrid bush snagging a few branches to my shirt and hair, just to enter into a pile of leaves, that seem to have a weird three leaf to a stalk pattern. Interesting, I'll come back later to investigate the strange leaf's. I see the bush I was heading for, I get behind it and point my camera through the thick bush to the rock. I get ready to take that picture I craved for, when I noticed the rock is empty, nothing sits on or below it. She is gone, with her cubs also. Frustrated I jump up and hit my head on a tree branch, knocking a snake out of the tree and onto my head. I quickly remove the snake, only to find it wasn't actually a snake, but a vine instead. Hah.

I start to walk back north toward my camp, so discouraged and sad I didn't get my photo. I am covered in "stinky mud", I have a few thorny branches attached to my clothing and long hair, there are probably bugs in my shoes and elsewhere. All that, and I didn't get my shot. As I am walking I spot something over a ridge, I can't make out the figure but I know it's an animal. I move closer to see her once again sitting on a rock near the river, her and her cubs. The cubs drink from the river as she watches her surrounding's intently. The wind is blowing again giving her a beautiful calm look. Here's my chance. I pull out my camera, aim, and click! I got my shot! I got the shot of rare King Cheetah. She is looking at me, not moving, just staring. It's almost as if she is saying 'Happy now?'. I nod and smile. Her and her cubs walk away from the river and head off into the horizon. I thank her as she moves off. I thank her.

So that’s one story I have written. I am working on another and I was going to post it but since this post turned out so long I decided to spare you J.


-Julia

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Shooting/ Scrapbooking/ (and just for the S theme) Sign Language

EDIT: We went shooting again! -11/18- Here are the videos and pictures of that! Last weeks shooting is below today's shooting.

 Here are the videos. The first one is of me shooting the shotgun for the very first time.. It was awesome!!!!


This one is of Brandon shooting his first time. Turn the volume on low, me and mom starting cheering, it's kinda loud :D

 

Last Weeks Shooting!

First off several weeks ago Me, My Mom, Mike, and Brandon went out in the middle of the desert with a few boxes, a globe, and a milk carton and played target practice! It was rather fun. My mom has two guns. a 3.80 and a .38, if you don't know what those types of guns look like go see my friend Google. Anyway, we went shooting and I hit the target a few times, and other times I just sent dirt flying. It is very hard to aim and shoot, especially with a gun with a fairly good kick. Mom took a ton of pictures and then there are two videos of me shooting and my mom.

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Scarpbooking- The art putting random pictures on a piece of paper and making it look half way decent.

Ok so that was my definition of Scrapbooking. I haven't been scrapbook for long and I am not clever or artistic in any way possible. I don't have a "knack" for anything. I just enjoy scrapbooking as a hobby. I wanted to share my scrapbooks and my ideas that I put in those scrap books.. And of course with everything else I post about I have pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My random scrapbooks, I have finished 5 of them...


What I do when I don't really have stickers or something to go with the pictures, I just place pictures in some kind of weird order and just write or draw something on the page:

One of the first scrapbooks I did was redoing Brandon's baby book, which was falling apart, so every picture that was in the album went in a 20 page scrapbook. I quickly ran out of room so I decided to glue a envelope on the page and put random pictures in the envelope, that way it was with the rest of the pictures (like in the album) and it looks kinda cool.

Of course everyone wants pictures of mom, daddy, and baby so I just put this page together with some scrapbook stickers (so fun!):

Now I collected every magazine that had anything to do with Steve Irwin after his death, intervuews with Terri,etc... I had so many magazines my drawer was breaking so I eventually put all the stories together under on cover and made my own magazine, but I wanted to protect them and read them whenever I wanted to, so I put them in a scrapbook! :)

I also collected High price fashion magazines. so put some collage together:




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I have been learning American Sign Language for the past 3 months and I have really been enjoying it. I am learning signs that I can sometimes put to christian music. I now know the basic sign language for "How Great Thou Art" and I have been really enjoying it.. *oh did I say that already?* Well whatever! If anyone else knows sign please let me know and maybe we can enxchange videos of us signing to each other :D Anyway, I have found a great sign language website. Now there are some inappropriate things on the website but otherwise they have a whole bunch of religious signs and etc...... It's called:

ASLPro

Edit: I got to talk to a deaf man yesterday! It was so nerveracking and exciting, we actually were able to understand each other and "talk". He told me all about his family and I told him about mine, and we talked about church and God,etc. During sign class he said to my teacher (in sign) 'She is a very good signer', talking about me. I was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited to have him say that about me cause it gives me hope that I can learn more!!!!! :)

Check it out!
-Julia

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Croc Toria's Contest

I entered Croc Toria's Write About Animals contest. Please Join her on the 17th to announce the winner of the really awesome prizes or enter yourself! Like I said awesome prizes!!!! :)

-Julia

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