Here are pictures of our puppies...we don't have them anymore because we gave them all away Saturday. We had nine, but I only got pictures of a few.

 (Mom's puppy Teddy)

 My puppy Piper (He is SO cute!)

 I don't remember what his name was

Piper and Bear

I wish I would've gotten a pic of Aussie and Leia

 Me and Court @ Bethany-Anne's birthday party

 Courtney

 Me and Court again

 Me

Faith took those pics....she's a really good photographer isn't she?

 Faith

 Me and Leslie 

 Me and Faith

 Me and Faith

 I like this one!

 ~*Fly Away*~

Faith

That was a LOT of pictures.

Emily

If you could change your name, what would it be? Alyssa, but I like my name

2. What's your favorite animal? Horse, dolphin, and tiger

3. What room are you in? My bedroom at AH's house

4. Do you have any magazine subscriptions? Clubhouse

5. What's your dream job? Veteranarian or Biochemist 

6. What color are your bedroom walls? At home: pink, here: Tan

7. How many much longer until your birthday?  5 months and 20 days

8. What did you have for lunch yesterday? Ham sandwhich

9. If you could live anywhere, where would it be? In the country somewhere, or close to the beach

10. What's your favorite song? As If and Soldier on His Knees by Gloryland Girls

11. What color is your shirt? Blue and White

12. How old will you be in 12 years? Ha! Not telling

13. What's the last thing you read? The Bible, but the last FICTION book I read was "I Promise"

14. Is this tag weird? No, I like it!

15. Who will you tag? Twizzlergirl, TNT, and the 2nd person to comment

4. What is your favorite website? youtube or HSB 

 Do  you know   how to do the hula? no

What your favorite color? Aqua and Pink

your favorite scripture? I have a lot!

. What was the last movie you saw? Well, if it means any movie, The Perfect Stranger, if it means in the Theater, then Casa Blanca

10. Do you floss or brush your teeth first? Brush

11. Which shoe do you put on first? Left

12. Ketchup or mustard? Ketchup.

13. Who did you talk to last?  Court

 What's your favorite season? Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring.

15. What's the weather like out side? Hot

16. Soup or Salad? Salad

17. Chair or Booth? Booth

18. What do your pajamas look like? I'm not wearing them right now, but currently, Jeans and a T-shirt. Read the post before the other tag to find out more.

19. What time is it right now?4:51pm

20. What did you have for breakfast? Cereal

21. Look left and what do you see? Wall

How many windows are there in your house? 11 or more I think

Do   you wear glasses or contacts or neither?  neither

24. Flip-flops or gym shoes? Flip-flops I guess

25. Favorite place to take vacation? Not really sure...the beach maybe?

26. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be? Either Paris, Australia, Alaska, Calafornia or New York

27.  Do you like this tag? yeah, it's cool!

28. How old will you be next leap year? I'm not telling

29. Who are u tagging...Whoever is reading this! HAH!

Well, got to go!

Emily

How City Are You?

[] I've drunk Starbucks more than once in my life. (I drink Starbucks at least twice a week)

[ x] Sometimes I link arms when I walk with someone
[ ] I shop at AE, A&F, or HCO
[x] I own 4 or more dress shirts/dresses

[ ] I will never be caught without my cell phone( Unfortunatly I don't have one............ yet)

[ ] I blow dry/straighten my hair on a daily basis

[] I will wear flip flops no matter what the weather

[] I own an over sized pair of sunglasses( I did, but I lost them)

[] I own 1 or more pairs of ripped jeans

[ x] I layer my shirts

[ ] I have/had a "Myspace mirror pic"

Okay, My title is called YT, or Youth Trip. So, if you see YT, just know that it means Youth Trip.

Well, our church Youth group went to play putt-putt and lazer tag yesterday for our first YT. It was a lot of fun, but I was HORRIBLE at both! I made 63 on 18 holes I think, and I only got 1 hole-in-one. It took me 5 hits before I got it in the first hole....and it only took Taylor once, Lauren twice, and Destiny 3 times. I don't remember how many times it took Donny and Bro. Matt. Matison, she's six did better than me. She made a 53!!! I was horrible, like I already said, but it was fun. Since Taylor got a hole-in-one, he was like, "Who Rocks?" I said, "You". He made me say it louder, and spell it out. When I got a hole-in-one, it took him 3 times to get it in so I was like, "Who rocks now?" He told me to zip it, and then told Lauren he thought he would never have to say that to me because I hardly ever talk. Lauren forgot to leave her purse in the church van, so when she would take her turn, she would hand me her purse. You're probably thinking, that information was REALLY necessary....just wait. Anyways, I was after Lauren, so when I had to go, I would turn around and give her purse to the person behind me...which was Taylor most of the time. He was sweet and funny about it....He just took it and put it on like he always carries a purse around. We all laughed and said we needed a picture of that. When I asked Bro. Matt to hold it, in a girl voice, he said, "Oh, sure! I'd be GLAD to hold your purse for you."

This is going to be a LONG entry! Anyway, on to Lazer tag. I was horrible at that too. Bro. Matt put the girls on one team, and the boys on another. Now, this is the FIRST time I've EVER played it. So, I fired 113 times, shot 11 of my opponents, but here's the HORRIBLE part! I was shot 47 times! The guys were GREAT at it. Donny was only shot 3 time! I don't know about Taylor because he threw his paper away since he got 2% accuracy and he was embarrased. I got 9% accuracy. He said he would've gotten better accuracy if he wouldn't been just shooting everywhere...He fired like 400-something times. It seemed like EVERY time I would turn around, I would get shot by someone! One time I turned around and Donny and Taylor both were there shooting me.

I'm here at my Aunt's house for a week again. I should be back either September 6 or 7. Daddy drove me half way here, and then AH (Aunt Helen) and UK (Uncle Kirby) drove me the rest the the way here. We left right after Sunday School this morning. I felt like I was going to cry because, for some reason, I feel like my youth group isn't going to be there when I get back home. I have NOOO idea why! They were still there last time, so why wouldn't they be there this time? I guess I'm just weird like that. I wanted to stay for the whole church service, but I couldn't. I think I'll e-mail Lauren sometime while I'm here, Maybe tonight, and ask her to tell everyone I said hey! I miss them all SOOO much. That was the FIRST thing I thought when I walked in the door. I won't be there Wednesday or Sunday, but I'm sure the time will go by fast. I also get to talk to Courtney, so that's a big help. I'm hoping Faith will be on Yahoo Messenger sometime while I'm here. I LOVE having friends to talk to while I'm away from home. No, I NEED friends to talk to while I'm not home. Well, I'll try to stay posted. I'll probably be posting a lot while I'm here because the internet is my comfort. So is music, and I brought my Mp3 player, but I accedentally left my cd's at home! *SNIFF* I'm so sad about that! Also, being the crazy me, since I was in a hurry packing last night after the YT, I forgot my pj's....so I'm going to have to sleep in jeans and a t-shirt! Oh well, My jeans are pretty comfortable. I'll have to be better prepared next time. I mean, it WAS 11 pm, so I was tired. I didn't get dropped off til 10:30, and I was SOOO excited from our YT that I was thinking about what happened, not thinking about what to pack. And it's a LITTLE hard to pack when your little sister is crying and saying "You can't do this to me!!! You can't leave me for a whole week! EM!!! You can't do this to me!" Jenalee is SOOO sweet, but I think she distracted me JUST a little!

Well, I need to get back to Im-ing Court....if you read this whole post, your Awesome!

Emily

Tuesday after piano lessons Bethany and I spent the night w/ Courtney. We swam in her pool after lunch, played the wii, Aggravation, watched part of Star Wars III, got back in the pool at 10 pm (It was kind of cold), talked, did pretty much whatever...I think we stayed up til 5, and got up at 8 or 9. Whe had a lot of fun in the pool at night...I showed Courtney some videos of Donny, from our youth group, on youtube, of him jumping from a trampoline into a tree, and the tree looked a LOT like the tree beside Courtney's pool, so since it was dark out side, we were feeling a little weird anyway, so we started making jokes about Donny jumping out of the tree into the pool. It was pretty funny. Courtney also let me borrow the Christy Miller series. I haven't been able to put them down...well, acctually I have, but I REALLY didn't want to. Their really good books. Reading them has me wanting to move to CA, or someplace that I could go surfing or body surfing or what ever.

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Well, that's about it for now! If I spelled something wrong, it's because it's 11:47, and I'm starting to get tired.

~*Emily*~

Well, I just did something really dumb...I had written a LONG entry, and then went to a different page, forgetting that I would lose my whole entry, and I did......So because I just got done typing a script, and my fingers are tired from that, this will be short. Well, I HAD written that we are doing a play about Esther that we called "Wipe Out" because Haman wanted to wipe out all the Jews. Anyway we are combining us as actresses/actors with puppets and stuffed animals. Oh, I know this is straying from the subject, but the reason that I am on the internet is because Momma decided to leave my laptop here for us to use. Well, back to the play. We made invitations, and are going to hand deliver them soon. I just got done typing the script that we edited....I know I already said that, but I just felt like saying it again. : ) We are performing the play for the kids in Aunt Helen's neighborhood.  Well, here are the pictures:

This is a Ground Hog that I saw when I went walking a few weeks ago. I didn't know that Ground Hogs could climb trees, but obviously they can! LOL!

Here's another one.

 This WAS my bedroom in the process of re-painting. I forgot to take a picture of it BEFORE we did anything to the room, but you can still see a little of the original color. I'll take and post a picture of my room painted pink when I get home.

 Another one of my bedroom.

 This is the bed spread that I want.

Emily

Today after I teach Nick piano, we are leaving to go to Aunt Helen's house. Bethany, Elijah, Jenalee and I are staying with her for a week, so I MIGHT not be able to get on for awhile.....unless I can use her computer. 

I really can't think of anything to say, and I know it's a really short entry, but I guess that's all. Oh, we finished my room....it looks really good. I just want to get a new bed spread. Momma said that she can get that for me for Christmas, so I'll wait until then. Sometime I'll post a picture of the bed spread that I want, but I don't have time right now.

Has anyone watched the Nancy Drew movie? I want to watch it, but Momma will have to watch it first, so I don't know if it's good or not.

Well, here's some pictures that I found on photobucket.

I don't have time for anymore, so I guess I'll go now.

Emily

Guess WHAT?!?!? We're re-doing my room!!! I've been wanting to re-paint my room for a long time, and we're acctually doing it! Well, so far we have just stripped off the border (we did that yesterday...it took FOREVER!) and now we're priming. So, my room looks strange because the walls are going from Burgandy and tan, to WHITE. Plus, my room is a HUGE mess because we had to move all the furniture to the middle of the room, so there's this area that has only furniture, and the rest is an area of walking space. All of my shelf items are in boxes in my closet, and my bed is piled with magazines and books, so I had to pull my feet close to me when I was sleeping last night. This is my attire for today: A Gray Nike Shirt and Tommy Hilfigure Jeans. I call this combination:     Painter's Clothing. Anyway, I picked out two colors of pale pink, and, because I share a room with Jenalee, I let her pick between those. So my room color is called Ballerina. Let me see if I can find a text color close to it......Okay it's about like this: Ballerina. I would like to have a darker pink, but Momma wanted something light. I can't find a text color that is about the color I want, but anyway, that doesn't really matter.

Well, I've got to go. Momma wants me to make supper tonight and I need to look for a recipe.

Emily

Okay, we just got back from our 2nd family reunion. We left Friday at 12:15 and then drove all day till we got there. We got at Aunt Marilyn's house, where everyone was supposed to meet for supper that night, at about 5:30, or 6. Anyway, I had a lot of fun that night, although I mostly stayed with Kyle, my 26 yr. old cousin. Saturday was our main day, we went to a children's museum, had a picnic lunch, went swimming, and then came back to Aunt Marilyn's house for supper. After supper, Mark played the piano while people sang. I played with the Wyatt most of the night, and then some of the other kids wanted to play with us. Wyatt is SOO cute and sweet. He's 3 yrs. old, so he thought it was a lot of fun to play a game where I would throw a bouncy ball into a bucket that he was holding, and then he would throw it for me to catch. Sometimes he would throw the ball and it would hit me, and I would chase him around they yard because he hit me.

Anyway, Thursday we went to town and the van wouldn't start, so we were stranded...but, guess where we were????

We got stranded at the MALL!!! That is probably the BEST place to be stranded.

Well, Daddy came and got it to start, and then we finished doing what we needed to do in town.

Well, that was pretty much my week and weekend. I'm really tired from staying up late Friday and Saturday, so I guess that will be all for now.

~*Emily*~

Well, today Bethany-Anne and I went to Grandmother's and Grandaddy's house and they took us shopping for shoes. We went to buy flip flops, but I don't think Grandaddy liked that idea, and I don't think he even knew that we got flip flops because Grandmother was the one that paid for them. Anyway, my flip flops are black and white...I know it doesn't sound all that colorful, but hey, at least it will match with almost everything. Bethany's are brown with blue polka dots. Sounds like they're a lot cuter huh? Well, I'm waiting to buy some flip flops that I REALLY like, but I have wait until we can go to the mall. Well, I stole this tag from Shootingstar...not really, she said that anyone who wanted to do the tag could do it, so I'm doing it because I'm bored.

Eye Color- Brown

Hair Color-Brunette

Favorite color(s)- Pink, blue, purple and green

Your style- Umm...I kind of like the Preppy style...I don't ACT preppy though...just to let you know

Write with both hands- a little, but my left's really sloppy

Whistle- Yes

Blow a bubble- yeah

Roll you tongue in a circle- Yep

Cross your eyes- Yes, but it hurts a little

Touch your tongue to your nose- YES!!! Lauren showed me how

Dance- I think so

Stay up the whole night without sleep- Yeah, but I've only done it a couple times.

Speak a different language- Yeah, I speak spanish a little

Impersonate someone- NOPE

Prank call people- NEVER...and I'm NOT being sarcastic

Make a card pyramid- I don't know what that is, so I can't really answer that, but I'm thinking NO

Cook anything- Of COURSE!!!

I will tag TNT, Littlemissleigh, and whoever wants to do the tag!

Well, that's all for today. Oh, I forgot! I did do something that entertained me for a while. I just sat outside at Grandmother's house and listened and looked around me. I like to just sit and listen and watch nature. Oh, and I also played "Color cars" with Bethany because we got really bored. "Color cars" is a game we used to play with Grandmother. We would pick a color we think would be the color of the next car to come by, but you can't pick the same color as someone else. It used to be really fun when I was like 5 or 6, but now, for some strange reason, it's not as fun. LOL!! I wonder why!?!?! But, it's a pretty good game to play when your bored.

Well, NOW that's all!

Emily

Okay, so here are some VBS pictures. GUESS WHAT!?!?!? I'm talking to Faith on the phone. I don't do that very often, so it's a treat to me. I tried to call Courtney, but the answering machine picked up. I've already uploaded a few pictures...so when the rest upload, I'll post them on here....well, I'm waiting. Hurry up! I don't think I'll post all of them on here because that would be a LOT.

Okay, they're uploaded...Finally!!!!

 Bro. Dan, missionary, gave a presentation to the kids on the last night.

11+ class. Left to right: Ashlynn, Candice, Larray, Mark, Bro. Stephen

Kimberly

 Bro. Matt, our Youth Leader

 The poster from 11+ class

Breanna and Shannon

Bethany-Anne and Julianne

The craft class (The class Momma taught, and Marisa, Lauren and I helped.)

 Marisa teaching the class, and Lauren and I standing there for support. Note: I look horrible in this picture!!!

Jenalee doing the potatoe sack race

 6-8 yr. class in music

Snack time: Me, Lauren, and Bro. Matt

 Potatoe sack race Note: Mark is the one falling.

 Pledges: Matison, American flag, Jenalee, Bible

Pledges

VBS assembly

Okay, now this is a REALLY weird picture!!!

 From Left to right: Lauren, Marisa, and Me

Lauren, Marisa, and Me

Me and Lauren

Okay, that's all for now, and that was a lot of pictures!

Emily

Well, VBS started last night. Our theme is the Olympics, so it's called The Good News Games. The only teachers that decorated their class room was Bro. Michael and Bro. Stephen. They went ALL OUT with decorations. Momma went in their room last night before they got there and drew a 1st place ribbon on their board and wrote "Best decorated Classroom VBS 2008". I would like to know what they thought about it, but I never heard. We checked to see if they left it on the board, or if they erased it, and they had colored in the ribbon.

Well, I'm thinking that I might change my template, but I'm not sure.

Well, That's all I have for now, even though it's not a long entry. But still, it's an entry.

Emily

Okay, I have a question...Well, maybe TWO questions.

Question # 1: Should I change my template? I could change it to a summer template, or a horse template, or pretty much anything. I could even change it to an indigo bunting template.

Question # 2: Did I do an okay job on FollowTheRainbow's template? Here's a link: www.homeschoolblogger.com/FollowTheRainbow. If it doesn't work, just copy and paste it.

Anyway, we went swimming at the river Saturday. I thought it would be cold, but it wasn't really that cold. EVERYONE from the neighborhood was there. 

Well, that's all for now!!!

Here's the Tag from Girl02:

Okay, so my title might not make sense...it's the title of the book I am currently reading by Eugenia Price. To See Your Face Again is the second book in the Savannah Series. I finished reading the 590 page book titled Savannah Monday...Oh, wait, today is Monday. So, I finished a week ago. That's why I haven't been posting much lately. It's not easy to finish a 590 page book in 3 weeks when your doing a lot of other things. But, I finished it in 3 weeks. To See Your Face Again is the first book that I ALMOST cried on. I didn't cry, but I was pretty close to it. Why did I almost cry? Because Osmund Kott...Wait, let me back up a bit, and tell you a little about Osmund, and Natlie.

Osmund Kott grew up in a poor orphanage, and never knew what it was like to love someone, or be loved by someone...Until he met Natalie. At the end of Savannah, Natalie has a special bond with Osmund even though she's only three years old. At the begining of To See Your Face Again, Natalie is 16, and has a one-of-a-kind relationship with 72 year-old Osmund Kott, or "Kottie" as she calls him. Natalie claims that they have relationship greater than she has with her parents because Kottie understands her better than anyone else. Natalie is to travel by steamboat with Virginia Mackay and her two children Delia and Willam Jr. and Osmund Kott as their protector. On their first night at sea, eleven o'clock at night, the boilers exploded, causing everyone to panic. In Natalie's stateroom she shares with the Mackay family, the berth slid in front of the door, causing Kott to break his shoulder trying to burst through to get to Natalie. Now, I forget how they got out of the room...I believe they climb out of the window or something, but I can't exactly remember. Anyway, out of the room, they are called on deck to help balance the boat. Reaching the deck, Osmund Kott helps Natalie, Virginia and the children into the lifeboat. Okay, so THIS is the part where I almost cried. I will copy the paragraph from the book. Wait while I try to find it....*Searching*......Okay, I found it. I think I read this paragraph so many times that it almost just opens up to the exact page.

        Kott Tried to smile as he waved his good arm at Natalie, who was struggling against a strange man's arms, screaming that she did not want to be saved without Kottie. And then, without warning, heavy planks and steel beams began to tear as the steamer rered and ripped apart the severed ends lifting into the  air. Within seconds, men, women and children were sliding , in shocked, frozen silence, down the steeply slanting deck and into the black water. The last sound Osmund Kott heard as his own body slammed against the sea was Natalie calling his name.

It might not seem very sad to you, but after you've read the first part of the book, you realize how much they loved each other, so then, that makes it VERY depressing and sad. So, that is why I almost cried. Hey...Smiley...I said I ALMOST cried, I didn't cry. No, my heart didn't get broken!That's better! Sorry...My smileys weren't wanting to work with me. ANYWAY,the book is still good.

Anyway, that's all I have to say about that book. So, now I'll talk about Jenalee's 6th Birthday. This is going to be a PRETTY long entry. Well, I made and decorated Jenalee's birthday cake. It was a blue, pink and yellow castle cake. I did okay with it, but it wasn't as good as Momma would have done. We invited Bro. Matt and Mrs. Starla, but Mrs. Starla couldn't come. Bro. Matt brought his guitar, and Daddy told me to get mine, so we played for awhile, and then the men went fishing. Jenalee got the Cinderella movie so we watched that after we got our showers.

Well, that's about all for now!

~*Emily*~

Heyllo,

I don't know why I said Heyllo, I just thought it would be neat to combine "Hey" and "Hello" together. It's been a while since I've written. I've just been reading a lot lately. I have to finish reading a book that has 590 pages to return to the Library. I'm on page 319 right now, and I think I checked it out 2 weeks ago.

Anyway, our Border Collie mix had puppies three weeks ago. They are starting to walk around now, but they still sleep most of the time. She had 5 puppies, and they all look a lot alike except for one that is black with a little white. The rest are white with black spots. One looks like a dalmation, but he's not...at least I don't think he is. We are pretty sure that their dad is a Pointer. The puppies are really cute. I will try to post pictures of them soon. Momma and Daddy said we couldn't keep any, but I'm okay with that. I already have the dog I want, and that's Cessna. Cessna is a Australian Shepherd. Since I don't have pictures of her or the puppies, I'll just post some pictures of Australian Shepherds that I found on Photobucket.

I think Australian Shepherds are so beautiful!

 These puppies aren't mine, but I wish they were. I think their really cute.

Got to go!

Hello!!!

Hey Everyone!

We are staying at a hotel in Indiana, although we really came up here to do stuff in Kentucky. The hotel has internet, and it's a LOT faster than dial-up, so that's why my title is called "I could get used to this". I brought my diary, so I wrote in it yesterday. I'll post what I wrote in my diary when I get home, that way you know a little about what happened. I took some pictures, and I'll post some now I guess.

 Those were some things we passed on the way.

 This was the sunrise at our house. I have a few more, but I don't know if I'll have time to post them.

I've got to go now, bye!

Emily

Hey! I just wanted to post a few pictures.

Okay, so I changed my blog template again. I just had the one before this one so I could change it from Winter, and I couldn't think of anything else. I'm not sure if I want to change the colors or not. I thought I would, but when I put it all together, I thought it looked pretty good together.

Here are some pictures from when it snowed sometime in January. Sorry it took me so long to get them on here.

Okay got to go!