Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Lately, my summer had been kinda boring, but next week my sisters and I have a babysitting job from Tuesday - Friday with some lunch breaks included, also at the end of the job we are getting paid $100 each. Chico is doing good, but he might have Ring Worm but we aren't sure yet, so please pray for him. Anyways, here's a picture of Chico. Enjoy!

Chico!

Well, Cya

  Katie 

On Saturday, my dad took me to Petsmark and I bought a new pet Chinchilla. He is the cutest! I named him Chico, and he is very friendly and smart. Last night he was on my bed and he jump off of the corner of it and it took about 10 minutes to catch him, he is very clever. When I get a picture of him I'll poste it so you guys can see him. Oh, and on saturday I also let him run around in my dad's walk in closet, and it took me another 10 minutes to catch him ( he bounces off the walls and hops really fast).

 Well, C'ya

  Katie

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Lots of new stuff is going on. On friday I have a dog- sitting job for 6 days. I'm baby sitting the neighbor's dogs, there are two of them, a German Shepherd and a Bishon. Kiera, the German Shepherd is so cute, and she knows her commands very well. Neiko, the Bishon is also very cute but he had a problem with his leg so he doesn't get walks.

And the coolest thing is happening on Saturday. On Saturday my dad is taking me to get a Chinchilla, but I have to use my own money for the supplies and the Chinchilla. So for the last hour or so I've been researching Chinchilla care. I was also researching on tuesday.

Oh, and I'm going to be doing riding lessons this summer and if I like it I will be doing it for PE in school, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to love it.

Oh, and yesterday my little sister and I went with our youth to Playland and just before we were leaving I went on the "Crazy Beach Party" ride and my hat flew off. So one of the youth leaders ( Behn) and I went to one of the buildings and told them. They said they wouldn't be able to get it till later that night, so I had to leave with out my hat. It was one of the coolest hats too, and my favorite. But my mom said I could get a new one, but I know it won't be the same as the other one.

Well, That's all For Now!

  C'ya

  Katie

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I glad I'm home now. My other teacher from TLA came and now I'm completely finished school for the summer, except there is a piano recital on June 29th. I saw Camp Rock last night, it was awsome! The Jonas Brothers rock! Anyways, how do you guys like my new blog theme (Camp Rock)? Last night my sister had two of her friends over and we watch Camp Rock, it was pretty fun, except afterwards I was kinda tired.

While we were away, Starfield came back to Abbotsford. My sister's friends said it was a great concert. I REALLY wish I could have gone. Anyways, one of my sister's friends said that Ryan's brother got to sing with Tim Neufeld. I think my sister said that they also dedicated the song "From The Corners Of The Earth" to our Church (Central Heights).

Well, Cy'a

  Katie

   P.S. I made a slideshow of some of the pictures from our vacation, I just haven't posted the pictures from the Electric Parade yet.

Sorry it took me so long to poste some pictures of our vacation. Here are some of them, but there are still lots more.

This is from the left my younger sister Mady, me, my mom, my older sister Sarah, and in front of us is my little brother William

 This is from the left me, my mom, my dad, Sarah, William, and in the front is Mady at Canon Beach

This is a picture of some sea lions on our way to the sea lion caves

This is Mady and I at the Rainforest Cafe

This is Peter Pan, my siblings and I

This is Mady and William with Buzlightyear

This is Mady and William with Pluto

This is my siblings and I with Tigger

This is my siblings and I with Goofy

  This is my siblings and I feeding the friendly wild  squirrels, they are so cute!

Right now I am in Redding, but I'm not really sure where that is, hehe. We started the drive back home, we have already started to drive two days ago ( including today). I'm pretty excited to go back home, I am not really a traveling person, I'm more of a home girl.

My family and I went to the San Diego Zoo a few days ago. We were so tired afterwards. We saw lots of cute animals. My favorite one was the merrcats, they were so cute! My sister got some pictures of them. There are going to lots of pictures to poste when I get back. We should be back home by Sunday night.

Yesterday, we went to Hollywood. It was not at all what I expected. It wasn't at all pretty, and there are lots of drug atticks and homeless people. But the cool thing was that when we were there the red carpet was out! So there were celebraties coming out of limos every few minutes. But we could not see them very well because we were on the other side of the street and we could only see the backs of them. We went to the famous "Pinks'" hot dog place, the hot dogs are great.

Yesterday we didn't get to a hotel till after midnight so we were all very tired and I slept like a log.

Well, Cya

  Katie

Right now I'm in San Diego. Yesterday, we did LOTS of shopping and we did about 2 hours of driving. On our way here we stopped at the side of the high way and there were lots of very friendly squirrels, they were so cute. They took apple right out of our hands and ate it, it was so cool!

Today, my family and I went to SeaWorld, it was awsome there. I got to feed the dolphins, and pet them, it was so cool! We also saw the Shamu ( the Orca) show, it was amazing!

On Thursday, my family and I stayed at a motel for 4 days in L.A., we went to Disney Land. I got some autographs from some of the Disney characters. I also went on the California Scream'in, it was ok, but it was a little to much for me. We also saw a couple of parades, one of them was the electric parade, it was amazing. I got some pictures of the parades, but I won't be able to poste them till I get home, sorry.

Well, Cya

  Katie

Last night we finally got to San Francisco. It was a long drive but we got there, we crossed the Golden Gate Bridge! Anyways, this morning we got up early and went shopping around San Francisco, I bought A new hoody, and I got a pair of sun glasses, we also had a tour of a submarean. After we drove for about 7 and a half hours, and we are now finally in Santa Barbara. The motel room is DISCUSTING! Also my family is separated into two different motel rooms. So right now my dad is going to call around to see if we could stay at a different hotel! Tomorrow we are traveling to Anahein (Disney Land) and we are going to be staying there for about I think 4 days!

I better go now, we got a new hotel.

  Cya

  Katie

We finally got to Crescent City! Yesterday was pretty good, for meals we had some kind of gross hotel food, I had chicken strips and chips (fries)at a sea food place, and last but not least we went to taco bell. We weren't able to go on the "Boon Buggie rides" because it was raining and also because we wouldn't have made it anyways. Instead, we went to the "Sea Lion Caves", it was beautiful there, there we saw lots of different breeds of birds, lots of Sead Lions and their caves we amazing, after I bought a mood ring! We also went to "Riplie's Believe It Or Not", it was pretty cool there ( the mummy scared us a bit), my favorite room was the star room ( it was awsome!) There was a gift shop at the end of it and I bought a hawiian looking bead necklace. We didn't get to Crescent City till about 10:30 P.M., so we all were pretty tired.

Today we are going to be traveling to San Francisco, I can't wait to shop there! Sometime soon I'm will poste some pictures of some of the places we were, that is when my sister and my dad load them on the computer.

I better go now, Cya

  Katie

We made it to Lincoln City. We made a couple of bathroom and water stop at some gas stations, along the way to Lincoln City we also stopped a beautiful beach called Cannon Beach it was so nice there. It took us over 12 hours to get here! For meals yesterday we had Denny's, McDonalds, and Mcmenamin's ( a bar).

Today we got up at about 8:00 A.M. and we had breakfast except it wasn't very good. Today we are going to be heading to Crescent City which should be fun ( the dive is way shorter). We are also going to be riding on a "Doon Buggie", and we are also going to "Riplies Believe it or not". This all should be really fun, except I kind of miss everybody at home such as our Church, all of my sister's friends, my youth paster, and expecially Starfield. Starfield is performing in Abbotsford this Saturday, and I'm kind of sad about that because I really wanted to see them perform again. But other then that everything is great, we still have about two weeks left.

 I better go and get ready because we are getting ready to head out on the road again to Crescent City.

Cya!

  Katie

This Sunday my family and I are leaving for Disney Land and we are going to be gone for 2 whole weeks, and we are going to be driving down the Orgen Coast, so that should be fun. This is my last week of school till the summer (yay!!!) , so when we get back from Disney Land I'm going to try to volinteer at the BC SCPA.

Oh, and what sucks big time is that Starfield is coming back to do the concert they cancelled at the Seven Oaks Church on June 7th, but I'm going to be gone that week . I REALLY hope Starfield comes back to do another concert at Central Heights!

Tonight is youth and we are having a "year end party with Rock Out". Rock Out is the Lifeline band. Anyways, this is going to be my last day in Lifeline before I'm going to Velocity, except there are still summer events for Lifeline so it isn't exactly my last day. I'm very excited for Velocity, but I'm really going to miss the youth leaders .

Well, C'ya

  Katie

School is going pretty well for me. How about you? I am working on a book summary and I'm almost finished it, I just have 3 more to do(Yay!!! ). But I still have to have my mom edit them.

Anyways, next Sunday my family and I are leaving for California, so that will be fun, but the only sad thing is that we won't be able to go to Church on Saturday or Sunday because on Saturday my sisters have a dance recital during Church and we are going to be leaving really early on Sunday. My mom said she wants to leave by 6:00A.M., so that means we will have to get up at about 5:30ish, .

When we get back from California, I'm wanting to volinteer at the BC SPCA for the summer ( I really hope I can!).

I'm still not sure what I would like to change my blog theme to. Do you guys have any ideas? If you could give me an idea that would be awsome, thanks!

When I was look for a picture for one of my summaries I found this really cute picture of a boy and his dog praying. Here it is.

Well, I think That's all For Now!

 C'ya

  Katie

So it was a long weekend, and we had Church at our real Church on Saturday because now there are three services every week. It was pretty cool I guess, it was just different then what we are used to because they did it in the old sancuary known as Nikkle Hall, but they painted it and everything looks way better then before. But it was still pretty cool, as usual I sat in the back with my sister and her insanely COOL friends. It was also very hot that day so some people brought in cups of water to give out. 

On Friday-Sorry I'm kind of going backwards- was my sister's friend's birthday party and my sister and I went a couple of hours before it ended, it was pretty fun. At 10:00 P.M, my sister, Olivia, Teanna, her sister, and I went to see "Prince Caspian" it was really good, but they did change some parts but other then that it was really good, I think it's way better then "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe". The movie ended at about 12:30 P.M. and my sister and I didn't get home till about 1:30 P.M. so it was really late.

On Sunday, at 3:30ish some friends came over and stayed till about I think 9 something. It was pretty fun.

On Monday, at 11:30 A.M. my sister and I went for sushi with her friends, but it wasn't as much fun as I thought it would be, there was alot of food I didn't like such as the dinomite rolls, Ryan ordered 30 of them, and also they ordered lots of the same things. Also some of my sister's friends went to see "Prince Caspian", and also some of her other friends went to the mall, but I guess that was fine because my sister said her friend said it wasn't very much fun anyways. My sister said I could go to another one of her hang out day with her and her friends since it wasn't very much fun for neither her or I. What we did after sushi was we dropped my younger sister off at her friend's house, and my parents took my sister, my brother, and I to Walmart and we got some new clothes. I got 2 new pairs of plad shorts, 1 pair of boy surfing shorts, and two new tank tops, and after we went to the video store and got some movies. We barrowed "Cloverfield" and "27 dresses".

Also do you guys have any idea what I should change my blog theme too? If you could give me an idea that would be awsome, thanks!

 Well, C'ya

  Katie

On Wednesday I went to youth at Rotary Statium ( the track) and we did Ice Blocking. Ice Blocking is when we get a huge block of ice and we sit on it and go down a grass hill, I only did it once because it was kind of painful, hehe. After Ice Blocking, we played a game called E-ball, I love that game! E-ball is game kind of like soccer except you use exercise balls instead, and the boys aren't allowed to tackle or hurt the girls and also you are allowed to pick up the balls, it's so much FUN! Afterwards I was so tired out! Half an hour before youth was over, my sister and I walk over with her friend to her house and we had tea and brownies, and we got cleaned up ( it was raining all day before youth so we got very wet and dirty). As were drinking our tea and eating our brownies we were reading jokes out of a joke book. Before we left their house to home, I was just finishing my tea and some of my tea went down my face and I had browny and tea in my mouth and my sister's friend said "don't laugh" and then I started laughing and I sprayed it into my cup and some of it went on the table and my sister and her friend burst out laughing for about a minute. I was so funny!

Now after the game of E-ball, my muscles are so sore ( that was the most exercise I had in months).

Well, C'ya

  Katie

On Saturday I had my formal theory exam, I am so glad it's over! Anyways, I think I did pretty good on it, I prayed before I went into the building and during the morning. But I'm not going to get my mark for about 6 weeks. So please pray I did good! Before we started the exam we had a lecture about cheating , she said it's like having a criminal record and you have to sit beside the examiner while doing the exam if you ever did cheat, and there is a whole lot of other stuff. After we finished our exams we had to lick the envalope after we put the exam in it, it tasted HORRIBLE! But the good thing that came out of the day was that after the exam my mom took my sister and I out to McDonalds. But at about 4:30ish we went to this chinese restraunt with some family members from my dad's side of the family. There were lots of different kinds of food, I had some jelly fish ( I was crunchy, spicy and gross) but I also had fish, prauns, chicken and some other kinds of chinese food.

Central Heights Church is doing ok, the whole is still there and it won't be repaired anytime soon, maybe in a couple of months. I need you guys to pray for our Church because now someone is sueing it . There are also three people still in the hospital, one lady is paralyzed, another lady has something wrong with her eyes, and a boy has something wrong with his hand ( I don't remember what it was though). Also one of my mom's friend's daughter was in a VERY bad car accident so please pray for her.

Well, C'ya

Thanks For Praying!

  Katie

Lately I have just been pretty busy with school. Even though a couple of subjects are finished.

Lately, I have been really into Starfield's music, their AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also I have been watching lots of their videos on You Tube.

Tomorrow is the formal Theory Exam, I'm a tiny bit nervous, but I know I will do great because for the last 5 months I have been doing the practise exams. Please pray I will to great! I'll let you guys know what I got on it when I get it or whenever I get a chance too. Do you guys have any ideas about what I should write about? Lately I have know ideas, as you can see I write about pretty much the same things, hehe, sorry about that!

Well, I Guess Thats All For Now!

  Katie

On Saturday was the Hang out/ party day when some of my sister's friends came over, it was a blast. The thing that sucked about it is that two of her friends Josiah and Josh weren't able to come. Also her other friends Ryan and Tyler, they had to work so Tyler was only here for about an hour and Ryan he was here for about half an hour, but he came back later and Ryan and some of my sister's other friends who are girls stayed for another 3 hours, we had soooo much fun! Food wise, we had burgers, hot dogs, a veggie platter, fruit platter, a huge chocolate cake, and two different kinds of ice cream. Oh, and my sister got caked, it was so funny, she got on her face and she even got it in her hair! Also Ryan show us this really cool thing with chairs, you get four chairs and put them so they are shaped like a square, then get four people but they have to be pretty tall, and get them to sit down and lie back so their head is on the other persons legs and take away the chairs and they stay in that possision, it was awsome. We also played some games which was pretty fun too.

Today my siblings, my mom, and I did Bible and she got us to read the whole chapter of Psalms 139 and think about it and write my thoughts about it and I did and the verses are great, you should read the chapter. Here are some thoughts I had about it so far (we are suppose to think about it and write down thoughts about it for a week, so I will probably have more at the end of the week).

• God is hear know matter what happens.
• I love the words The Bible uses for Psalm 139:9 " If I rise on the wings of dawn, if I settle on the fair side of the sea".
• God knows me, knows my thoughts, and He knows my every move.
• I cannot flee from Him, know matter where I am His hands will guide me.
• even if it's dark the darkness won't be dark to Him, "the night will shine like the day".
• He created me and we should praise Him for creating us so wonderfully.

Lots of the of these are similar to what it says in the Bible (I didn't rewrite the Bible).

Well, I Think That's All For Now!

  Katie

This week I haven't really done any school because my family and I have been pretty busy. I did lots of reading though. On Monday, I went to the counceling session. On Tuesday was the only day I actually did some school. On Wednesday I didn't do any school because it was my sister's birthday, so we were out all day, and we also went to our Church to visit the Pastors and they let us see the HUGE hole in the floor again. On Thursday my family and I, not including my dad, went to our Grandparent's house and we were there all day. But, I don't have much school to do anyways, because I have finished most of it for the summer. Oh, and next Saturday I have the real Theory Exam, so please pray that I will to well on it.

Tomorrow, my sister is have about 8 of her friends coming over, so that will be really fun (all her friends are insanely COOL), we are also having a BBQ when then they come.

Well, I Think That's All For Now

  Have a Great Week, and Thanks again for Praying

   Katie

Last night's counceling session went really good, it didn't help very much but it did give me some advise and that loss of appatite and other things like that are normal while going the that kind of trauma. I also hung out with my sister and her friends last night, which was awsome! After the counceling, they let us see the HUGE whole in the sanctuary, I was a bit nervous but when I saw it was really huge and I thought about the scene of everyone falling in after a few minutes when I saw it. I'm getting over it, but the counceler said it may a month or less to get over it. Keep praying for the people injured and in hospital, please. Thanks again for praying I really appreciate it!

Well, Have a Great Week!

  Katie

Ever since the accident at our Church I have kind of lost my appetite towards food, but I have been eating. Now, that we can't have Church at our Church we are going to be using the CBC gym for a while because I have know idea when we are going to be able to go back to our real Church. Tonight my mom, sister and I are going to our Church ( on the other side of the Church) because they are having a counciling session for people who need counciling about the accident on friday so, we are going to that. Oh, and keep praying, please for the people who are injured. Thanks again for praying! Oh, and on Wednesday is my sister's birthday and she got an early birthday present which is a Digital Camera! And also on either this Saturday or Sunday my sister is having 5 or 6 of her friends over and we are going to have a BBQ! That will be awsome!

Well, I think that's all for now.

Thanks again!

  Katie