Welllll.... haha guess what day it is?? I'm so excited! I know it's just an age, but still, being sixteen is a big deal. You can do things you never did before... like drive cars, date, audition for American Idol... lol among other things.

  Today was a good day. I woke up early in my newly clean room (it feels great to have it clean again!) and lay in bed for a good half hour, reading. Then I decided to go up and make breakfast for the family- mm, pancakes!- and did some studying until about lunch time. 

Haha okay, so my mom was making my cake, which is an amazing concoction of cocoa powder, sugar, and cinnamon, among other things, haha. I was up in the shower and suddenly heard both my mom and my sister scream! So I dried off as quickly as I could, put on my robe, and came running to see what was wrong... As soon as I turned the corner, I almost choked on the cocoa powder still floating in the air! Mom was trying to open the stubborn container, pulled a bit too hard.... and bang! It exploded EVERYWHERE!!! Just when we thought we had cleaned it up, we would move something... and there was more cocoa! haha it's hilarious looking back at it but wasn't so funny at the time.. oh gosh! lolololol.

After lunch, Em and I went to show off our dancing skills for the ladies at the Pregnancy center. They're holding a Mother-Daughter abstinance rally the weekend after next, and wanted to see me dance. I dragged Em along to dance this Israeli Folk Dance with me that we both knew and they loved it so much that they've recruited us to dance a different one at the beginning of the Rally. I'm sooo excited! Yay!!!

Ooh, ooh, in other news... I'm going to camp!!!!!! WHOOHOO!!!!! haha. Not for REAL for real, but still. It's camp. I'm gonna be a junior staffer.. working in the kitchens... cleaning rooms... etc. Basically whatever I'm told to do. I and like seven other junior staffers will be doin it together... I'm excited:) It's gonna be great! I'll be gone from Friday to Saturday, so I'll be sure and tell you how it goes.

Lol anywho. After smelling the roast cook all day and that wonderful cake bake, I was RAVENOUS. So we literally stuffed ourselves at dinner... and then the best part of birthdays- the presents!!

I got a skein of yarn, a new notebook and pen, the book Breaking Dawn, AND Fiddler on the Roof! Awesome!!!

Haha okay so my dad's giving me the evil eye, so I gotta get off. But I'll write again soon! Sorry for neglecting so badly!!         

Tchau!!!

~Lyssa~