The blog of a 14 year old homeschooled, horse crazed, christian girl http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:27:00 -0500 Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:27:00 -0500 Hey! Sorry I havn't been on! I went to Ottawa with Jenna to visit her Grandparents. I left last Thursday. Anyways! So we went to Ottawa! The first day we just settled in. We went on a canoe ride (Just Jenna and I)  We saw some muskrat, a few otters, and a beaver. We went on a canoeride every night. Here is a list of the wildlife was saw! Muskrat (We saw up to 6 of these a night) Otter (We saw up to 3 of these a night) Beaver (There was a beaver couple) Turtles Frogs Osprey (There was a nest) Kingfishers great blue heron Perigrine  falcon So yeah. We saw alot. Anyways I bought for cds. I bought Relient K (self title) , DC Talk (supernatural), Stellar Kart (All gas, no brake) and Kutless (hearts of the innocent) Chris, have you heard Kutless? You'd probably like them. I bought a new swimsuit. I wanted a tankini, but they shortend them this year, and I don't like them this way. We went to the Parliment Hill Canada Day celebration. There were 350,000 people there! The snowbirds flew over, and Eva Avila sang some songs. There was this awful throat singer there. Throat singers make a sound in there throats and it sounded like she was gonna throw up! It made Jenna's mom (Joyce) feel sick. I have a movie of it, but I can't post it now because I'm at my aunts house. We ate dinner at the keg, and then went around to look at the jewlery shops. Joyce bought us some earrings. The fireworks were awsome! They had some that were shaped like Hearts, flowers, and spirals! they were so cool!  I'll post some pictures when I get home. I'll get home tomorrow. My Family is house sitting my Aunts house. Anyways I G2G! Talk yo ya later! ~Robyn   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/352084/ Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:27:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/352084/ Graduation went awsome! I'm gonna post the pictures. My Mom and Dad gave me my great grandmothers wedding ring. Mom said that a while ago my Great Grandma lost the ring in her garden and thought it was long gone. She found it a few years later and gave it to Mom to give to me when I was old enough. Its beautiful. Its so thin because she wore it down so much. I love it though. At the graduation us girls went to Fiona's house to have pictures and dinner. Picture took forever! We got some really good ones though!  Leah's Dad Brian and Sarah's Dad Chip served us dinner. Brian talked in a funny french accent. We had "Champagne" (A.K.A. white grape juice and club soda!)  The Parents came at 8:30 for the ceremony. My Mom read one of the cards I gave her for her birthday a few years back. And Dad told me how proud he was of me.  After that we had a sleepover! It was the funnest grad ever!  On Saturday I baby-sat for my Aunt. It was fun because we played Mario Party 3 and I took them to the park and stuff like that. They live an hour away so I don't get to see them often. On Saturday night I went out to the conservation area and went camping with the youth group. Their church had a church service. campfire. It was so much fun!  Some of the youth guys started dancing around the fire, so then one by one all the youth was. It was soooooo funny! We did all sorts of weird dances!  We were all walking back to the tents when we saw a skunk only a few feet away! Its back end was facing us. We just slowly backed away and it ran right to our tent! When we finally got in the tent we could here it walking around outside! It was freaky! On the 19th It was Leah's birthday and we went to the beach! I also got bucked off of Honey that day. That horse is a brat! It was my first time falling off. It wasn't so bad. Anyways I G2G now! TTYL! ~Robyn This is Margallo Its me in the middle Brianne, Kalista, Me, Breah, Sarah, Leah, Jenna Brianne, Kalista, Me, Breah, Sarah, Leah, Jenna jumping Me and Leah This is what my hair looked like   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/348172/ Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:01:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/348172/ I just can't seem to make a habit of coming on everyday, especially now that summer is coming up! I've got july pretty much full of things to do and the rest of June is pretty much full too! Anyways moving on Co-op is almost over which makes me really really sad! We went horse back riding in May. That was fun...except for when joyce's horse Roxy (Roxy is a Belgian and they are I belive the biggest breed of horse. If they are not the biggest breed then they are One of the biggest breeds. Anyways they are big!) So where was I? Oh yeah. Roxy took off and began cantering up a Muddy Hill, Joyce screamed, and two other horses (Mine being one of them) took off and we went cantering around the field. I was freaked out because I had no idea where I was going! Anyways after that exciting thrill, we left. Leah came in the van with me and we ate McFlurries! Mmmm! Has anyone ever been to a drive it? Anyways I went and saw Spiderman 3 (It was Awsome!) and Shrek 3 (It was ok) I want to also see POTC 3. I hear its really good! Anyone seen it? This week we found a Canary in our garden. The poor little fellow had obviously escaped from his cage and wasn't doing so well. We brought him inside, gave him food and water, and within a hour he looked beautiful! We think he has been living in the wild for quite a while. He's Yellow, and extremly cute! If we can't find his owners Dad said we can keep him. I wanted to name him Buddy or Sunny, but Devin go to name him. The birds name is Margallo ( The bird from stuart Little 3)  I'm not to crazy about that name,but oh well.  So we found Him a cage and I spent 20$ on food, pirches, toys, vitamins, annd other things like that. Tommorrow for co-op we're having a Graduation. Even though I graduated this year I'm going to participate in it because last year hardly anyone I knew that was homeschooled graduated. So I bought a dress. Its Navy Blue with a halter top and it is floor length. I Love it It soooo pretty. I got it at a second hand store for $12.95!  What a deal! So yeah thats gonna be fun! But anyways I gotta go! ~Robyn http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/345240/ Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:28:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/345240/ Right now I'm eating a bacon and cheese sandwhich. It is very good. Anyways Madie is doing alot better (Read entry below if you have no idea who Mandie is) So thats good. I had a blast in Niagara falls and will post pictures later.  Me, Leah and Erika got our own hotel room. We got a tour of the Adam Beck power station #2, which was kinda...um...informative and we went to this awsome board walk along the rapids and that was cool. We went to the Hersey's store and I spent almost 20 dollars! I bought a bag of hugs, two bags of jolly ranchers and some rainbow twizzlers. we also did alot of other fun things. And then this weekend I went to my Aunts flower shop and worked all weekend for mothers day, and then yesterday I went riding and I got to ride Smokey and I also get to go on a trail ride on friday and another riding lesson on Saturday! Yea-ya! So yeah. Today I'm going with my friend Emily to go see a movie called amazing grace. Last night there was a wicked thunder storm! I was at Leahs house and the wind picked up, and the sky turned a grayish greenish colour! A huge branch on her cherry tree snapped off and her tree in the front yard looked like the branches were touching the ground! I called my Dad to see if I could stay the night and I saw a blinding bolt of lightning, followed by thunder so loud that Leah fell off the sofa, her mom jumped and I screamed (Into my Dads ear while I was calling him) Then all of a sudden the wind died down and the sun came out (and I still got to sleep over!) There was a tornado in a near by town.  there are trees and branches all over the place now! It looks like we'll get another storm today too. Me and Leah were in a random mood last night and we got out window writers and drew a car road on her floor and played traffic jam with her brothers old cars. Random eh? Anyways g2g! ~Robyn  http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/329285/ Wed, 16 May 2007 11:23:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/329285/   Yes I know! I've done it again! I keep saying I'm going to keep coming on and then I don't! But this time I have a good reason (Don't I always?) any ways what happened is first my computer disc drive was broken so my dad took it to work and kept forgetting to bring it home. This was Easter morning that it broke! Then he forgot to bring it home. The disc drive still isn't fixed which sucks because me and Jeremy saved up for the computer game zoo tycoon: zoo keeper edition which is zoo tycoon 2, zoo tycoon safari adventure, and zoo tycoon: endangered species all in one. AND THEN for Easter we got zoo tycoon 2 : marine Mania (With zoo tycoon 2 you can build zoo's and then take a 3d look and walk through you zoo. You can feed your animals, train the dolphins to do tricks and it’s really fun!) Well anyways to make a long story short me and Jeremy still haven’t got to play our new games! Whaaaa! So ya! Then I had to clean my room so I couldn't come on I have drama with my co-op on Fridays and the youth group and then to top it off this week my dog got seriously sick and we thought we'd have to put her down. Her names Mandie and she'll be 10 in June. Anyways she stopped eating, was constantly throwing up, and when she went to the bathroom all that came out was blood. So we took her to the vets and they took some tests and guessed she was sick with something that I don't know how to spell.  Anyhow they gave her some medicine and it didn't help so we took her back to the vets (Ahhh they are SOOO expensive! It was 93 dollars for the check up alone! With all the tests and stuff it turned out to cost $247 dollars! So the vets said this time that she may have beaver fever from drinking contaminated water. So she’s been giving some medication and that seems to help. So hopefully she'll get better. I've been so upset this week though about it. I mean I've had this dog since I was probably 5 so I'm pretty attached to her! Anyways this weekend I'm going to Niagara Falls with my pathfinder group and that’s going to be so much fun! We get to stay at a hotel and where gonna do all these fun things so I'm looking forward to that! And Tomorrow I'm going to co-op and we get to do drama! Yeah! It’s SOOOO MUCH FUN!  Where doing some skits for the parents in a little while so we are rehearsing them tomorrow. And so right now I can't think of anything else to say. So are you guys doing anything on the weekend? 7 fave books: The young left behind series, golden filly series, the Bible, the Narnia series, the thoroughbred seris, chicken soup for the horselovers soul, and ummm other books!  7 fave movies: National velvet, Narnia, Pirates of the carribean, night in the museum, lord of the rings, Flicka, black beauty 7 fave foods: Tacos, Pizza, burgers, nachos, pasta, hamburger helper!, and...pancakes! 7 fave drinks: Sprite, Milk, Smoothies, slushies, juice, and water, oh and vanilla coke 7 people to tag: Whoever wants to do it can do it!   ~Robyn http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/323105/ Thu, 3 May 2007 08:59:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/323105/ Well I just wanted to say that so now that thats out of my system I can continue on blogging! well ok actually something HAS happend but anyways yeah! Whats happend you ask? I joined Sarah's youth group and I've been having soooo much fun! It was so fun because on Friday we did some worship and prayer and then we went and ate fudge cake and then we played kick the can in the dark for like ...a long time! So that was fun. Then on Saturday I slept over at Sarah's house and this other girl Kristen came over and a few other people from the youth were there and we played kick the can again and then the guys started watching The newest Rocky movie and me, Sarah and Kristen went upstairs and talked for a long time! The next morining we ate yummy egg Mcmuffins and then I went to Sarahs church which was cool and then all the youth went to a coffee shop for a party for one of the youth leaders who is stepping down from being head youth leader (Because God's calling her to other things) and then we went into a sports store and the pet shop and then I went to my lesson and I was on Smokey and I cantered right and go to canter all along the long side of the arena 3 times and then...yeah! That was all so fun! Anyways this week I've been doing school alot and its not the funnist but hey, its school! Anyways g2g now! I'll try to get on soon! Gotta go make dinner! Bye! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/309493/ Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:58:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/309493/ Whoooo! camp was sososososososo much fun! Whoot! get ready to hear about my weekend. The car ride was fun. It was just me Sarah, Kalista and Kristen just having fun. We sang songs and did funny things into the walkie talkie. We ate a whole wack of junk nd got to camp 2 and a half hours late! Yup. that was pretty much the ride. When we arrived at camp we were told to go into the "Hub" What was a Hub? The Hub was our meeting place where we could hang out and hold our worship sessions. There were two cabins attached to the hub. One was for boys and the other for girls. Our Cabin was called Kilimanjaro. The hub had a big fireplace in it and the cabins had small ones. Everything smelled like pine. The cabins looked new. There where 5 bunks in our cabing and each bunk bed had a small area seperated by a divider. Each Area had a dresser and a light switch (And the bed!) We put our things away and then played group games. They were fun. We went into the HUGE bathroom. It had nice new showers and was really nice for a camp bathroom! Anyways we went to bed around 1:30. Before we went to bed we watched the boys jump over chairs. They were crazy! Sometimes they would jump over a stack of seven chairs and then they'd jump over three chairs side by side and 3 chair ontop! It was crazy! On of the guys crashed into the chairs! Ouch!  They next morning we headed to the cafe and got hot chocolate. We had bacon and eggs for breakfast. Mmmmm! we had our worship session after and boy was it good! We praised God for a long time and then we talked about things and parised God some more! I love Sarahs church! When their church band saw we were getting into the songs they just kept playing and eventually there'd be no music and people were just singing their own words. We sang some songs for like 20 minutes! The first session was the pursuit of happiness. We talked about money and how it wouldn't bring you happiness and we talked about what happiness really is. The pastor gave us each a piece of play-doh to remind us that God is the Potter and we are the clay. After the session we ate lunch which was chicken nuggets and fries. That was good. Our group went to the highropes course. Me being terribly afraid of hieghts just watched and took pictures with Sarahs camera. After we went over to the zipline. Sarahs sister Katie whos 9 convinced me to go. It was a double zipline so two people could go at a time. I was shanking like a leaf. Katie was all excited. We got hooked up and I looked down below me. There was a huge drop. I couldn't believe that I was going to  go across the frozen lake about 80 feet above the ground on a thin wire. We were just about to go and katie said "I don't wanna go any more" I didn't end up doing the zipline. Your probly thinking "Robyn! You coward!" but however I did do something exciting. I climbed part of the icewall. The ice wall was really big and I think I climbed a quarter of it. I wasn't worried about hieght or anything it was just that it hurt so much to climb! My arms still hurt from holding on! It was fun though! We had ham and potatos and bread for supper and chocolate pie for dessert. We had our second session and did the same things except we talked about "How to change the world" Then after we could go up to the front of the hub and talk to one of the youth leaders about what was bothering us. I talked to Fiona and she prayed for me and we cried together. At the end of the service everyone was crying and hugging and singing. it was amazing. After we played capture the flag except it was capture the yeti! (Aka a plastic gorilla and a rubber rat!) Anyways our team (Team Sunshine) won! LoL We watched the incredibles and went to bed. Our last day at medeba was sad but fun. We had our session which was fun and then all the girls prayed together. We had waffles and sausages for brekkie and Then packed up and went tubing. Me and Katie were going down on our tube. At the veryend of the hill if you go fast enough you go up this small bumpy hill (Kills the Bum!) Then go down into a small pot hole (OHHH! Ouch) and then go up another big hill. Now scence me and Katie were so light we went down the hill faster then anyone had seen. All the group was watching from the bottom of the hill Heres what happend. Me and katie wacked the first bump, hit the groun in the little pot hole and then flew out of the tube while going up the hill. In result I ran over katie and then whamed into someone else. That hurt! Anyways after we ate pizza for lunch and then went home! Doesn't that sound fun? ~Robyn   p.s. I tried to add some maps that I made of the camp and a diagram of my tubing wipe out but photo buckets being slow now so I'll do it later!   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/292055/ Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:15:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/292055/ Awwww! There going nuts! Every time I even look at devin her screams "Don't look at me!" A few days ago I was looking at something in his hand and he screams "Don't look at my hand" And then Jeremys just being so stubborn and annoying! He just decided to take back the flat nosed plyers he let me borrow for making jewelry. He said "There mine and you can't have them! I want them!" so I gave then back and yeah. Its been like that all day! Grrrr! It was a relief to go do my papers. The past three days we've had spring like weather (mostly yesterday) It was so odd because yesterday all this show melted and the this morning we got more and then it rained and then it hailed (Of course while doing papers it hailed) and then the snow started melting again! Strange eh? Oh yes I told you I'd tell you what a double double is! In Canada instead of having starbucks we have tim hortons (Or timmies) and a double double is a tea or coffee with two sugars and 2 milk. People have thier double doubles in many different ways! For instance my aunts likes a lrg tea dubl dubl bg in w/ cream or in other words a large tea double double bag in with cream! So yea. We love our double doubles so much that the word double double is in the Canadian dictonary! Weird Eh? Oh my this is another one of my wacky entries. Unfortunatly I didn't get together with Leah today because I had to babysit meaning I still have tons of bottled up energy....which will probly explode tomorrow! Don't forget I'm leaving for camp! I'm tired of calling it camp, but I can't say the name of the place (Safety reasons) So I'm giving it a name. It is now Camp Helouga (Pronouced He-Lou-Gah) yep so tomorrow I'm leaving for camp Helouga and I won't be back until the 25th. ANYWAYS I g2g now because I have to go to pathfinders soon and pack for tomorrow (Still havn't packed!) so anyways I'll be seeing you soon! Stay safe! ~Robyn http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/289414/ Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:18:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/289414/ Well I'm sitting here drinking my Neo Citrine, and I'm really sad because when I get better I won't beable to drink it anymore. Its become one of my greatest moments of the day! I can just sit back and relax while drinking this lovely sour lemon tea! Well as you can probly tell once again I did nothing today! I had another weird dream last night. I don't remember the details, but I do remember that there was a fairy...and she was helping me do my paper route and then she had to go, but she told me that if I gave her a birthday She'd come and see me on that day. But there was on condition. I had to make a new best friend!?! so I ditched all my old friends and made a new one so that the fairy could visit me!? strange eh? does anyone know what a double double is? Try to guess and I'll tell ya the answer tomorrow. And NO Leah your NOT allowed to guess! Another thing I must tell you. I will be away from the 23rd to the 25th. I am going on a youth retreat. so I won't be here (Duh!) Today I planned this movie out. You see I like to create movies and me and my brother are going to make "Rabbit Zilla" its like godzilla only with a rabbit. yea I'm going insane. My hope is that me and Leah can get together tomorrow so I can burn off some of my bottled up friend energy. The last time I got together with a friend was friday and the time before that was...febuary 10th so I need to see my friends! Oh yea and for thoughs who don't know I have a rabbit. Shes a three year old dwarf/checker giant and shes white with black ears, black eye patches and nose, and three spots on her rump. I'll post a picture sometime. Shes a rather regal rabbit. You'll see when I post a picture. She had "Airs" and she can sometimes act quite snotty! Truly a royal Go I must, late it is! Yoda I speak like!my goodness oh! Goodbye and sorry for boring you with things...interesting post! ~Robyn P.S. If you want to see a movie of her go here Here   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/288967/ Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:36:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/288967/ Do you know how important today is? Today is Shrove Tuesday, and do you know what shrove tuesday is? ITS PANCAKE TUESDAY! Yippi! Anyways....enough of my excitment. I am feeling remarkably better today and did not have any...ummm interesting dreams last night, however I will hopefully have one soon because I enjoy telling people my strange dreams. Here is another reason why today is important. LEAHS BACK! Hello Leah and Welcome back! Hopefully we can get together soon. Ok enough of the Leahs back stuff. I am in a rather...ummm....restless mood right now because it is 9:43 and I need to go to bed soon and I get to drink my Neo Citrine! YEAHHHH! Oh My Gosh! What kind of a person gets excited about drinking medicated lemon tea? Oh well. I guess I do! So I made some jewlery for my order today and it looks soooo pretty and.... my rabbit is running free around the living room. Ok so I admit! mY dAY Was BOrING! But oh well. So now that I had spent around 2 minutes of your time, I will go now and get ready for bed so that I can type you a new entry with some meaning tomorrow! Oh! And Here is some things you should know! Loonie: This is what we call our Canadian $1 coin! Toonie: This is a two dollar Canadian coin! Fact: We canadians spell alot of things with u's like Colour and ...uh other words! And we say "Eh" alot just like my American blogger pals say "Ya'll" so with that being said Ya'll have a great day! EH? Oh my gosh I'm going insane! ~Robyn http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/288432/ Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:38:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tingrin/288432/